Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image capture device which captures an image of an article, an electronic tag reader which reads electronic tag information from an electronic tag, and a writing device. When the image of the article is captured by the image capture device, the electronic tag reader reads electronic tag information from the electronic tag, and the writing device writes the image of the article captured by the image capture device into the electronic tag.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus comprises an image capture device (21) which captures an image of an article, an electronic tag reader (38) which reads electronic tag information from an electronic tag, and a writing device, when the image of the article is captured by the image capture device, which causes the electronic tag reader to read electronic tag information and writes the image of the article captured by the image capture device into the electronic tag.

Abstract: In a navigation apparatus, when a user starts to walk along a walking course, the user instructs the navigation apparatus to commence the navigation operation as to this walk course which has been formed/registered thereinto based upon positional information, walking pattern information, and temporal information. The navigation apparatus sequentially compares a present walking speed with another walking speed which was acquired at the same position in the past by executing a walking-speed comparing process operation, and then notifies such an information related to a present walking pace of this user based upon the comparison result with respect to the user.

Abstract: In a navigation apparatus, when a user starts to walk along a walking course, the user instructs the navigation apparatus to commence the navigation operation as to this walk course which has been formed/registered thereinto based upon positional information, walking pattern information, and temporal information. The navigation apparatus sequentially compares a present walking speed with another walking speed which was acquired at the same position in the past by executing a walking-speed comparing process operation, and then notifies such an information related to a present walking pace of this user based upon the comparison result with respect to the user.

Abstract: A data transmission device is provided which can transmit data directed to a specific individual to a terminal in the vicinity of the specific individual. When a transmission event of data occurs, position data table of terminals, which the specific individual has a possibility to use, on a network is searched to extract the position data which coincides with or is the closest to the position of the specific individual at a present time or at an arbitrary time point in a given time period including the present time. The data is transmitted to a terminal corresponding to the extracted position data. Therefore, data can be transmitted to a terminal which is located in the vicinity of a specific individual and immediate accessibility of data transmission can thereby be improved.

Abstract: A user of a portable terminal writes sentences to be transmitted as an e-mail, a mail address, and information indicating that service a host device is requested to provide is “mail transmission” on paper as a memo. By using an image input unit installed in the portable terminal, the paper or the like is imaged. The portable terminal transmits the image data thus taken in to the host device. The host device analyzes received image data by using an image recognition unit. Upon recognizing by characters that the service requested by the portable terminal is “mail transmission”, the host device starts a mail transmitting/receiving unit. The mail transmitting/receiving unit transmits the content of the written memo included in the image data to a terminal specified by the mail address included in the image data.

Abstract: This invention has as its object to assign a link destination address to each word in a designated document. A word to be linked is selected from those in the designated document, and information of a search result including a corresponding link destination address and comment is received from a search site upon inquiry about the word. The similarity between the comment included in the information and the contents of the designated document is calculated to select information of a search result with a higher similarity. Then, an entry which registers the link destination address of the selected information, and the currently processed word name is registered in a link destination table. At the same time, a pointer to that entry is stored in correspondence with the currently processed word in the designated document, and that word is highlighted.

Abstract: The action of a user who is carrying a movable terminal is analyzed in a host terminal. The portable terminal detects the time and position where the portable terminal is present at a predetermined time interval and supplies the pieces of information to the host terminal. The host terminal analyzes the time-serially detected information to recognize the moving locus and the moving speed of the user who is carrying the movable terminal. The host terminal has position information of railway lines and roads as line patterns. By matching processing between the moving locus and the line patterns, the transport facility used by the user for movement is estimated. This invention is to provide a system capable of analyzing/recording a daily action without performing any cumbersome operation.

Abstract: A voice data storage system includes a network connected to a portable portable terminal, and a voice data storage computer for, when voice data fetched by a microphone of the portable terminal is received through the network, storing the voice data together with a keyword in correspondence with the portable terminal which has fetched the voice data. To read out the stored voice data, a keyword is input from the portable terminal to request, through the network, the voice data storage computer to retrieve the voice data. The voice data storage computer retrieves the voice data on the basis of the keyword and transmits the corresponding voice data to the portable terminal.

Abstract: A speech signal input from the microphone of a mobile terminal having a PHS function in a communication or off-line state is sent from a PHS network to a speech control host unit connected to a LAN in a specific speech service provider through the Internet and recognized. The contents of the recognition result are automatically determined and shaped into text data of a format type designated from the mobile terminal, and more particularly, into E-mail text data or FAX text data. The formatted text data is returned to the mobile terminal in real time and edited on the mobile terminal as needed. Thereafter, the E-mail text data or FAX text data is transferred to the speech control host unit and transmitted. In this system, the mobile terminal does not require any advanced speech recognition environment and can have a speech recognition function having a practical accuracy at a low cost.

Abstract: An electronic cash register, which is so constructed as to print particular dates such as those of "off" days (i.e., business holidays) and bargain days of the store on the receipt to be issued. The particular dates to be printed on the receipt are previously memorized in a memory, and at the time of the issuance of the receipt, specific dates to be printed on the receipt are determined from the memorized particular dates and the current date.

Abstract: An electronic cash register provides printing data printed on a recording sheet in the form of a receipt or a journal. The electronic cash register is provided with a single printer to print printing data on a recording sheet to issue a receipt, and memory means for temporarily storing the printing data for a journal inputted with the receipt issuings. The printing data is read out from the memory means by operating a specified key and the read-out data is printed on a recording sheet to thereby issue a journal with the same single printer.