Abstract: A community evaluation system includes: effect model construction units and that construct, based on activity information data, history data, and communication history data, an effect model indicating a process in which a specific activity of a first community is reflected in communication in a network community and the communication in the network community is reflected in an activity of a second community; and an effect model evaluation unit that calculates an evaluation value of the process in the effect model, based on a size and a delay of a connection between the specific activity of the first community and the communication in the network community, and a size and a delay of a connection between the communication in the network community and the activity of the second community.

Abstract: A transportation service improvement for a user by reflects the degree of dissatisfaction of the user on the operation of a vehicle. In a transport service system that provides a service of operating a transport resource to transport a user, a third management device acquires a numerical value representing dissatisfaction of the user, a first management device gives a point corresponding to the dissatisfaction and stores a point for each of users in a first database, the point being usable for executing a request for the operation of the transport resource, and the third management device receives a request from the user and changes a plan of the operation of the transport resource based on the request and the status of the operation of the transport resource that is managed by a second database in exchange for the point given to the user that is managed by the first database.

Abstract: Profits of respective stakeholders related to business by mobile shop vehicles are efficiently adjusted, and preferable schedules for the mobile shops can be created. A schedule mediation system includes: an in-vehicle server configured to hold inventory information, receive request information containing various information about merchandise etc. for which a customer asks from a user terminal, create an initial schedule for mobile sales based on a purchase place and a purchase date and time shown by purchase conditions and send it to a mediation server, receive an after-correction schedule corrected according to a mediation result in the server and, in response to this, correct the request information and sends it to the user terminal; and a schedule mediation server configured to perform mediation processing for settling a competing situation between the initial schedules shown by the mediation request, correct the initial schedule, and send an after-correction schedule to the in-vehicle server.

Abstract: Supply and demand of resources are controlled while satisfying both a resource providing condition and a resource use condition. A resource mediation server 1 predicts an arrival clock time in a case of no occurrence of a railway car accident P3, an arrival clock time after recovery from the railway car accident P3, and an arrival clock time in a case of using a special bus on the basis of a damage scale due to the railway car accident P3, delivers prediction information to each passenger, delivers a special bus service plan to a bus company, provides a condition for using the special bus to the passenger and the bus company on the basis of the prediction information about the arrival clock time, and conducts mediation of the number of special buses and a fare of each special bus between the passenger and the bus company.

Abstract: An action-value function initializing unit inputs search information including a history of a solution, a constraint equation, and an initial state of a selectable domain of a decision variable, sets a decision variable selected in each step and a value of the decision variable as a policy, and initializes an action-value function including the policy, a selectable domain of a decision variable before policy decision, and a selectable domain of a decision variable after the policy decision as parameters. A search unit receives information of the action-value function initialized by the action-value function initializing unit, obtains a value of a corresponding action-value function from the policy, the domain of the decision variable before the policy decision, and a domain of the action-value function after the policy decision, searches for a policy in which the action-value function is largest, and searches for an optimum solution for the problem information.

Abstract: A schedule arbitration server is configured to obtain a first scheduling constraint and first schedule information from a first server, and obtain a second scheduling constraint and second schedule information from a second server; detect a discrepancy between the first schedule information and the second schedule information, based on the first scheduling constraint, the first schedule information, the second scheduling constraint, and the second schedule information, and on overall optimization constraint information; recreate a schedule when a discrepancy is detected, by creating third and fourth schedule information through modification of the first schedule information and the second schedule information; calculate a first credit for the first server and a second credit for the second server, based on degrees of modification; and send the third schedule information and the first credit to the first server, and send the fourth schedule information and the second credit to the second server.

Abstract: An onboard control device that is installed at a vehicle acquires land mark information including position information of a landmark which can be recognized on a road in which the vehicle is estimated to travel by a camera, a landmark image for recognition, a recognition evaluation value that represents ease of the recognition successfully performed and so on, and selects a landmark to be a subject for recognition based on the recognition evaluation value included in the landmark information. The onboard control device further evaluates the recognition results of the landmark to be a subject for recognition, and transmits the recognition results to the server with the landmark image recognized by the camera. The server aggregates the recognition evaluation results of the landmark and the recognized images and reflects them in the recognition evaluation values for the landmark information and landmark images to be transmitted to the onboard control device.

Abstract: An onboard control device that is installed at a vehicle acquires land mark information including position information of a landmark which can be recognized on a road in which the vehicle is estimated to travel by a camera, a landmark image for recognition, a recognition evaluation value that represents ease of the recognition successfully performed and so on, and selects a landmark to be a subject for recognition based on the recognition evaluation value included in the landmark information. The onboard control device further evaluates the recognition results of the landmark to be a subject for recognition, and transmits the recognition results to the server with the landmark image recognized by the camera. The server aggregates the recognition evaluation results of the landmark and the recognized images and reflects them in the recognition evaluation values for the landmark information and landmark images to be transmitted to the onboard control device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transmitter comprising: a plurality of antennas; and a radio transmitting part transmitting from each of the antennas a positional information signal containing the same positional information, the positional information being transmitted from the antennas through channels which are different between the antennas. The transmitter enables prevention of the positioning error and the positioning time from increasing by solving problems of null points and signal interferences, problems relating to a positional information transmitter disposed indoors, in a positioning system for acquiring a current position both indoors and outdoors.

Abstract: A monitoring camera control terminal and a monitoring camera apparatus respectively correspond to a plurality of protocols defining messages instructing a variety of settings and operations between the monitoring camera control terminal and the monitoring camera apparatus, and the monitoring camera control terminal uses a first protocol to request the monitoring camera apparatus for information related to the monitoring camera apparatus, receives the requested information from the monitoring camera apparatus, and if the requested information does not match the setting or operation information recorded in a storage part of the monitoring camera control terminal, changes the first protocol to a second protocol.

Abstract: A packet relay apparatus having one or more communication interfaces coupled to a network, a processor coupled to the one or more communication interfaces, and a memory coupled to the processor, said packet relay apparatus holds path information including a plurality of combinations of a final destination and a next transfer destination of a packet, and conditions for applying individual combinations of the path information; determining, on the basis of information included in a received packet, whether or not the received packet satisfies the condition for applying each combination of the path information; and transferring the received packet to one or more next transfer destinations of one or more combinations of the path information associated with the condition determined to be satisfied and including a final destination identical to final destination information included in the received packet.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positional information transmitter, a positional information receiver and a position measuring system capable of measuring a position under moving circumstances. The positional information transmitter transmits positional information for specifying the current position.

Abstract: A monitoring camera control terminal and a monitoring camera apparatus respectively correspond to a plurality of protocols defining messages instructing a variety of settings and operations between the monitoring camera control terminal and the monitoring camera apparatus, and the monitoring camera control terminal uses a first protocol to request the monitoring camera apparatus for information related to the monitoring camera apparatus, receives the requested information from the monitoring camera apparatus, and if the requested information does not match the setting or operation information recorded in a storage part of the monitoring camera control terminal, changes the first protocol to a second protocol.

Abstract: A GPS signal transmitter configured with a reduced number of components and achieving low cost, space saving, and low power is provided. A GPS signal transmitter of the present invention includes: a crystal oscillator; a carrier wave generator that outputs a first carrier wave and a second carrier wave whose phase is inverted to the phase of the first carrier wave, using a clock output by the crystal oscillator; a microcomputer that is driven with the clock output by the crystal oscillator and outputs a control signal based on a C/A code which is a pseudo random code; a switch that switches over between the first carrier wave and the second carrier wave according to the control signal from the microcomputer and generates a modulation wave; and an antenna that transmits the modulation wave by radio.

Abstract: A position information transmitter including: a digital processing device including a CPU and a position information database storing position information of the position information transmitter and information of channels used by other position information transmitters; and a radio transmitting device executing a signal modulation, wherein the digital processing device generates spread spectrum signals from the position information of the position information transmitter and information of channels used by other position information transmitters, by using the C/A code, and the radio transmitting device modulates the spread spectrum signals and transmits modulated signals as a radio signals.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transmitter comprising: a plurality of antennas; and a radio transmitting part transmitting from each of the antennas a positional information signal containing the same positional information, the positional information being transmitted from the antennas through channels which are different between the antennas. The transmitter enables prevention of the positioning error and the positioning time from increasing by solving problems of null points and signal interferences, problems relating to a positional information transmitter disposed indoors, in a positioning system for acquiring a current position both indoors and outdoors.

Abstract: One objective of the present invention is to determine a location for a relay terminal in a radio network, without preparatory surveying a radio status, and to arrange the relay terminal at the location. Another objective is to provide a method for retrieving the arranged relay terminal. When a relay terminal is to be arranged, the relay terminal transmits a survey packet to examine the quality of communication with a communication terminal or other relay terminal. Where a location is appropriate, the relay terminal gives a notice. The arranged terminal relays communication. Further, when the relay terminal is to be retrieved, the relay terminal carried by a user transmits a retrieval packet to the arranged relay terminal, which notifies the user of its presence by light, sounds, or returning a packet. In this manner, a single relay terminal provides functions of arrangement, relay and retrieval.

Abstract: A position information transmitter including: a digital processing device including a CPU and a position information database storing position information of the position information transmitter and information of channels used by other position information transmitters; and a radio transmitting device executing a signal modulation, wherein the digital processing device generates spread spectrum signals from the position information of the position information transmitter and information of channels used by other position information transmitters, by using the C/A code, and the radio transmitting device modulates the spread spectrum signals and transmits modulated signals as a radio signals.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positional information transmitter, a positional information receiver and a position measuring system capable of measuring a position under moving circumstances. The positional information transmitter transmits positional information for specifying the current position.

Abstract: In a positioning system comprising a position information transmitter that transmits a position information signal containing position information indicative of a position as a signal compatible with a satellite positioning signal transmitted from an artificial satellite and a communication terminal that when receiving the satellite positioning signal, finds a current position of the communication terminal by finding a position of the artificial satellite and that when receiving the position information signal, finds a current position of the communication terminal based on the position information, the position information transmitter transmits the position information signal containing a boundary flag that determines which of the satellite positioning signal or the position information signal each of correlators of the communication terminal is to receive, and the communication terminal sets which of the satellite positioning signal or the position information signal each of the correlators is to receive ba