Abstract: A portable terminal device has enclosures with a movable portion, a display section that displays visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user's finger, or the like. A shape detection section detects a change in the shape of the enclosure; an input operation management section manages a position detected by the touch sensor and an operation target area of each of pieces of visible information displayed on the display section in an associated manner; and a display control section automatically makes a change to at least display positions of the respective pieces of visible information about the operation target displayed on the display section in accordance with a change in shape of the enclosure detected by the shape detection section.

Abstract: A portable terminal device has enclosures with a movable portion, a display section that displays visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user's finger, or the like. A shape detection section detects a change in the shape of the enclosure; an input operation management section manages a position detected by the touch sensor and an operation target area of each of pieces of visible information displayed on the display section in an associated manner; and a display control section automatically makes a change to at least display positions of the respective pieces of visible information about the operation target displayed on the display section in accordance with a change in shape of the enclosure detected by the shape detection section.

Abstract: A portable terminal device has enclosures with a movable portion, a display section that displays visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user's finger, or the like. A shape detection section detects a change in the shape of the enclosure; an input operation management section manages a position detected by the touch sensor and an operation target area of each of pieces of visible information displayed on the display section in an associated manner; and a display control section automatically makes a change to at least display positions of the respective pieces of visible information about the operation target displayed on the display section in accordance with a change in shape of the enclosure detected by the shape detection section.

Abstract: A soot glass deposit body is manufactured by placing a starting rod and a burner 22 for producing glass particulates in a reaction container, introducing a source material gas to the burner 22 through a supplying pipe 26, producing glass particulates by a pyrolytic oxidation reaction of the source material gas in a flame formed by the burner 22, and depositing the produced glass particulates on the starting rod. At the time, the source material gas to be supplied to the burner 22 is a siloxane, the burner 22 is heated so that temperature of the burner 22 falls within the range of from ?30° C. to +30° C. relative to the boiling point of the siloxane, and also temperature of the supplying pipe is controlled within the range of from the boiling point of the siloxane to the boiling point plus 30° C.

Abstract: In the method for manufacturing a glass-fine-particle-deposited body according to the present invention, at least a part of a gas supplying pipe 25 from a temperature controlled booth 24 to a burner 18 for cladding is temperature-controlled so that the temperature at the burner side becomes high and temperature gradient becomes 5° C./m or more. The temperature control is performed so that the temperature gradient becomes preferably 15° C./m or more, more preferably 25° C./m or more. Specifically, the part is controlled to the predetermined temperature gradient by winding a tape heater 26 that is a heating element on the outer circumference of the gas supplying pipe 25 from the temperature controlled booth 24 to the burner 18 for cladding and temperature-controlling the tape heater 26.

Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel; a coordinate detection unit which detects coordinates of input to the touch panel; and a coordinate processing unit which performs a correction processing for detected input coordinates. In the correction processing, the coordinate processing unit corrects first coordinates input to a correction region formed on an inner side of an end portion of the touch panel to second coordinates in an input disabled region formed within the end portion of the touch panel or in the correction region, based on a distance between the input disabled region and the first coordinates.

Abstract: The service providing device transmits a registration screen to the information processing device upon receipt of a registration request of an image forming device from the information processing device, transmits a command for causing the information processing device to search the image forming device and to respond to the service providing device with a search result upon receipt of an instruction from the information processing device via a registration instruction unit displayed on a registration screen, registers the image forming device depending on information included in the search result responded according to the command, and initiates communication with the registered image forming device.

Abstract: A problem is to provide a connection support apparatus and a gateway apparatus in which management of information is easy and remote access from a user terminal to the gateway apparatus can be performed easily and securely, and the problem is solved by including a control unit configured to perform control on a gateway apparatus to which a user apparatus connects so as to permit connection from the user apparatus for which authentication succeeds; and a communication unit configured to provide the user terminal with connection information used for connecting to the gateway apparatus.

Abstract: A portable terminal device has enclosures with a movable portion, a display section that displays visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user's finger, or the like. A shape detection section detects a change in the shape of the enclosure; an input operation management section manages a position detected by the touch sensor and an operation target area of each of pieces of visible information displayed on the display section in an associated manner; and a display control section automatically makes a change to at least display positions of the respective pieces of visible information about the operation target displayed on the display section in accordance with a change in shape of the enclosure detected by the shape detection section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a glass preform capable of improving the deposition efficiency of produced glass fine particles to a starting rod or a glass soot body. The method for manufacturing a glass preform includes controlling the temperature of SiCl4 used as a source gas to 100° C. or more, producing glass fine particles having an average outer diameter of 90 nm or more in a flame of a burner for producing glass fine particles, and depositing the glass fine particles on a starting glass rod 13.

Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal device that enables a user to operate all buttons to be operated by moving only one finger of one hand carrying the terminal when operating the terminal equipped with both a touch panel and a stationary operation section and that exhibits superior operability. The portable terminal device has enclosures 11, 12 with a movable portion, a display section 17 capable of displaying visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor 13 that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user's finger, or the like.

Abstract: A glass base material producing method produces a glass base material through fixing, deposition, pullout, consolidation, and collapse steps in sequence, while the fixing step inserts and fixes a starting bar 11 into a seed rod pipe 12 such that a leading end part 11a of the starting bar 11 projects from one end 12a of the seed rod pipe 12, thereby making a starting rod 10. The starting rod 10 made in the fixing step Si yields a level difference of at least 0.1 mm but not exceeding 0.5 mm at the one end 12a of the seed rod pipe 12. Fine glass particles are deposited on the seed rod pipe in the deposition step in an axial range of at least 50 mm from a position where the level difference exists.

Abstract: An arrangement that reduces the burden on a user for transferring image data to one or more server apparatuses. An image processing system includes a first server which stores image data transferred via an information processing apparatus, and a second server which stores image data to be transferred to the first server. The first server provides an access script to the apparatus, for use in accessing the second server. The second server provides a list of stored image data items and a transfer script for use in transferring image data to the first server, to the apparatus. When requested to provide image data selected from the list, the second server provides the requested image data to the apparatus. The apparatus transfer the image data provided by the second server to the first server.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing glass preforms which is suitable for making an optical fiber having a less transmission loss in the wavelength band of 1.38 ?m. The glass-preform manufacturing method of the present invention enables making a glass preform through a fixing step, a deposition step, an extraction step, a vitrification step, and a collapsing step in the named order. At the vitrification step, a glass soot body 13 with an integral tubular handle 12 is put in a heating furnace 22 in which He gas and Cl2 gas are introduced, so that it is heated with a heater 23. Thus, a consolidated glass pipe 14 is produced. A dry gas is introduced in the heating furnace 22 upon production of the consolidated glass pipe 14, and the consolidated glass pipe 14 is cooled under the conditions where the humidity of atmosphere around the outer circumference of the consolidated glass pipe 14 is maintained at 0.1% or less.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing glass preforms with high yield. In the glass-preform manufacturing method according to the present invention, a glass preform is produced through a fixing step, a deposition step, an extraction step, a vitrification step, and a collapsing step in the enumerated order. At the deposition step, the mean density of the glass soot body deposited on the circumference of the tubular handle 12 is made higher than the mean density of the glass soot body deposited on the circumference of the starting mandrel 11. It is preferable that the longitudinal variation in the mean density of a glass soot body deposited from the start of deposition to the tenth layer of glass particles within the range of ±50 mm from the boundary position between the starting mandrel and the tubular handle be 0.01 g/cc/mm or less.

Abstract: In a portable terminal that is provided with a plurality of touch panels, it is possible to provide operation methods that are new until now, and compatible with two kinds of operations, including the contact operation which is performed by contacting a touch panel directly with a finger or the like, and the spatial operation which is performed without contacting the touch panel.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a method of manufacturing a glass preform, including: obtaining a glass-fine-particle deposit by a VAD process; and heating the obtained glass-fine-particle deposit at a high temperature, thereby manufacturing a transparent glass preform, wherein, while depositing glass fine particles, in addition to monitoring a deposition shape of the glass-fine-particle deposit and controlling a pull-up rate of the glass-fine-particle deposit, there is controlled at least any of: flow rates of glass starting gases to be charged into glass-fine-particle producing burners; flow rates of flame forming gases to be charged into the glass-fine-particle producing burners; and positions of the glass-fine-particle producing burners relative to the glass-fine-particle deposit, so that the deposition shape may become a target shape, and wherein the deposition of the glass fine particles is stopped in a case where the deposition shape deviates from the target shape.

Abstract: Provided is a communication device capable of efficiently performing a power supply control when reducing power consumption by reducing the time during which the power is supplied. In the device, a CPU power saving control unit (301) switches between a normal mode in which the power is supplied to a CPU (302) and a low power consumption mode in which the power supply is stopped at predetermined timing. A session management table (321) stores transmission intervals before and after conversion. An information conversion section (322) converts the transmission intervals of session maintenance messages according to a predetermined rule so that the transmission intervals of the session maintenance messages of respective protocols are mutually synchronized between the protocols.

Abstract: A data relaying apparatus disposed on the preceding stage of a registry server centrally managing meta-information extracts meta-information from a content retrieval result transmitted from the registry server to a client terminal and retains and correlates the meta-information with URI information included in the meta-information. On the other hand, a data relaying apparatus disposed on the preceding stage of a repository server retaining contents receives a content acquisition request transmitted from the client terminal to the repository server to extract URI information from the content acquisition request and transmits the URI information to the data relaying apparatus to acquire meta-information. The meta-information is added to contents transmitted to the client terminal before the contents are relayed.

Abstract: A communication device collects encrypted packet data passing through the communication device. The communication device extracts parameters required to generate a decryption key used when the collected packet data is decrypted. The communication device notifies a key managing device of the extracted parameters. The communication device acquires the decryption key, generated by the key managing device using the parameters of which notification has been given, from the key managing device. The communication device decrypts the collected packet data using the acquired decryption key and analyzes the decrypted packet data. The communication device extracts profile information from the analyzed packet data. The communication device transmits the extracted profile information and network information related to a network through which the encrypted packet data passes to a communication log device as a communication log.