Abstract: In an object information provision system, at least one matching data is transmitted from an object information provision device to a terminal, and a result of image analysis based on the matching data is transmitted from the terminal to the object information provision device, and the amount of information of matching data is adjusted based on the image processing result. The success or failure of extraction of a valid physical object represented by the matching data in the terminal is thereby reflected on the amount of information of matching data.

Abstract: A mobile equipment includes an alternative display searching part sending an alternative display list request including current position information indicating the current position of the mobile equipment to a server, receiving from the server an alternative display list representing a list of display devices located near the current position, and selecting an alternative destination display device from the alternative display list on the basis of an inter-device distance between each of the display device and the mobile equipment, an ME short-distance radio communication part sending a distance measuring signal request signal to the display devices by short-distance radio communication and estimating the inter-device distance on the basis of the field strength of a distance measuring signal sent from the display devices, and an ME network connection part sending event information of the mobile equipment to the alternative destination display device.

Abstract: A server enabling mobile equipment on a mobile communication network to synchronously receive data sent from two or more mobile equipment, including: a terminal manager receiving synchronizing terminal information from each mobile equipment specifying a group to which it belongs and participation in the group as a session terminal or an audience terminal; a transmission time measuring part measuring transmission time from each mobile equipment to the server; a route establishing part determining whether to change a route from each session terminal of the same group to an alternative route based on whether the transmission times from the session terminals are practically equal, and establishing and sending a route to the session terminal; a synchronous data receiver receiving data sent through the established route; and a synchronous data sending part sending the received data to the audience terminal in the same group as the mobile equipment that sent the data.

Abstract: An object display device includes an image capturing unit for acquiring an image in real space, an image feature extraction unit for extracting a predetermined feature about an image either in a plurality of feature regions detected from the image in real space or in the entire image in real space, an image processing unit for performing correction processing on an image of an object based on the predetermined feature about the image, and a display unit for displaying an overlaid image in which the image of the object subjected to correction processing is overlaid on the image in real space. With this configuration, the feature of the image in real space is appropriately reflected in the image of the object in the overlaid image.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is suppressing a mail transmission loop between the communication terminals.

Abstract: A mobile information terminal that can acquire an optimum placement area for a controllable object, regardless of variability in user's gripping features among individuals. A pressure sensor array acquires a gripping pressure distribution; a gripping pressure logger records time-series changes in gripping pressure at each pressure sensor forming the pressure sensor array; a gripping pressure change point detection unit includes a gripping pressure change amount calculation section that acquires time-series changes in gripping pressure at each pressure sensor and determines whether the change in gripping pressure per unit time exceeds a predetermined value at any pressure sensor; and a placement area acquisition section specifies, when the change in gripping pressure per unit time exceeds the predetermined value at any pressure sensor, an optimum placement area for a controllable object with reference to a position where the change in gripping pressure per unit time exceeds the predetermined value.

Abstract: A mobile information terminal to determine whether a user's operation state is one-handed operation or two-handed operation. The mobile information terminal includes a pressure sensor array that acquires a gripping pressure distribution; a gripping pressure logger that records time-series changes in gripping pressure at each pressure sensor forming the pressure sensor array; a gripping pressure change point detection unit that includes a gripping pressure change amount calculation section that acquires time-series changes in gripping pressure at each pressure sensor and determines whether the amount of change in gripping pressure per unit time exceeds a predetermined value at any pressure sensor; and an operation state determination section that determines the operation state of the user of the mobile information terminal is one-handed operation when the amount of change in gripping pressure per unit time exceeds the predetermined value at any pressure sensor.

Abstract: A mobile information terminal including a gripping-feature sample acquisition unit to acquire a gripping-feature sample, one or more environmental sensors outputting an environmental signal, a terminal status detector to acquire the environmental signal and detect a terminal status, a template selection unit to select a user authentication template fitting the detected terminal status, a user authentication unit collating the acquired gripping-feature sample with the selected user authentication template and outputting a user authentication result, a user authenticity level monitor that outputs a sensor power source OFF signal when the user authenticity level exceeds a threshold value and outputs a sensor power source ON signal when the user authenticity level falls below the threshold value, and a power source control unit halting energization to a sensor when acquiring the sensor power source OFF signal, and energizing a sensor when acquiring the sensor power source ON signal.

Abstract: A mobile information terminal that can authenticate an authorized user by using behavioral features acquired when the user makes small movements in a limited movable range. The mobile information terminal includes a gripping feature sensor that acquires gripping features; a behavioral feature sample acquisition section that acquires time-series data of gripping features in a fiddling session as samples of behavioral features; a switch that puts the mobile information terminal into either a learning mode or an authentication mode; a template learning section that learns an authentication template by using the samples of behavioral features when in the learning mode; an authentication section that authenticates the user by comparing the samples of behavioral features with the learned authentication template when in the authentication mode; and an unlock section that unlocks all or some of the functions of the mobile information terminal when the authentication succeeds.

Abstract: A mobile information terminal includes a sample acquisition unit configured to acquire a sample, a sample transmission unit configured to transmit the sample and a user ID, an other's sample reception unit configured to receive other's samples, a user authentication template learning unit configured to learn a user authentication template and an authentication determination threshold value by using the other's samples and samples of the authentic user, and a template storage unit configured to store the user authentication template and the authentication determination threshold value, and a server includes a sample reception unit configured to receive a sample and a user ID, a clustering unit configured to classify the sample that is received into a feature cluster, a sample storage unit configured to store the sample that is classified, in association with the user ID, a feature cluster extraction unit configured to extract all samples which belong to a feature cluster identical to a feature cluster correspo

Abstract: In a communication terminal, an extraction section extracts predetermined keyword data from text data input for an e-mail, an acquiring section acquires predetermined associated data associated with the keyword data extracted by the extraction section from an internal memory (such as a RAM or a storage device) of the communication terminal or from predetermined external equipment through a communication device, based on storage location reference data that indicates the storage location of the associated data and is stored in the internal memory, and an inserting section inserts the associated data acquired by the acquiring section into the text data in place of the keyword data. With this communication terminal, an input operation necessary to create an e-mail can be performed efficiently.

Abstract: A mobile information terminal includes a mode acquisition section adapted to acquire the mode of the mobile information terminal; a sample filling section adapted to, when the number of gripping feature samples acquired in a mode is insufficient, fill in lacking gripping feature samples with gripping feature samples acquired in another mode; a gripping-feature sample acquisition section adapted to acquire gripping feature samples; a switch adapted to switch the mobile information terminal between a learning state and an authentication state; a template learning section adapted to learn an authentication template in each mode using the gripping feature samples when the mobile information terminal is in the learning state; an authentication section adapted to compare the learned authentication template with gripping feature samples in each mode to perform authentication; and a locking section adapted to lock some or all of functions of the mobile information terminal when the authentication fails.

Abstract: A gripping-feature learning authentication system preventing impersonation. A mobile information terminal includes a trigger monitor outputting a gripping-feature acquisition signal, a gripping-feature sample acquisition part acquiring a gripping-feature sample, a template learning part learning a user authentication template, a template sending part sending the user authentication template, an authentication request part sending and receiving an authentication request, an authentication data sending part sending a terminal identification number or gripping-feature sample, and a determination result receiver receiving a determination result.

Abstract: A mobile information terminal is provided that can obstruct operations by a third party without obstructing operations by an authorized user when shaking or tilting occurs.

Abstract: An object display device calculates a setting value including the focal length for acquiring an image in real space with a camera setting value determination unit based on the distance to a virtual object calculated by a virtual object distance calculation unit, and acquires the image in real space with an imaging unit using the calculated focal length. Thus, an image that is in focus in a position where the virtual object is superimposed and becomes more out of focus as the distance increases from the position where the virtual object is superimposed is acquired. Since the virtual object is superimposed on the image in real space acquired in this manner, the virtual object that is the subject of attention for a user is emphasized, and a sense of incongruity in the superimposed image is reduced.

Abstract: An object display device includes a virtual object process unit that processes an object based on imaging information that an imaging unit references upon acquisition of an image in real space, an image synthesis unit that superimposes the processed object on the image in real space, and a display unit that displays a superimposed image. Accordingly, the feature of the image in real space is reflected in the object superimposed. Thus, a sense of incongruity upon superimposing and displaying the object on the image in real space is reduced.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a display apparatus communicatively connected to a distribution apparatus, comprising: an information storage unit configured to store one or more information contents of external information distributed from the distribution apparatus and/or internal information of the display apparatus, an icon associated with each of the information contents and a placement area for placing the icon; a template storage unit configured to store one or more templates having one or more placement areas for placing icons; a display icon determination unit configured to determine which of the information contents and the icons from the information storage unit are to be displayed and select from the template storage unit a template where the determined information contents and icons are displayable; and an image generation and display unit configured to generate and display an image to be displayed by embedding the determined icon in a placement area of the selected template corres

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a former-template storage that stores an old authentication template used for authentication in a portable terminal used in the past, as a former template; a sensor-position storage that stores the positions of sensors in the portable terminal currently being used; a sensor-position correcting section that acquires the former template and the positions of the sensors and applies interpolation to the former template according to the positions of the sensors to generate an interpolated template; a gripping-feature sample acquisition section that acquires a gripping feature sample from a sensor array; a template comparison section that compares the interpolated template with the acquired gripping feature sample and calculates an inter-vector distance therebetween; and a template storage that stores the interpolated template as an authentication template when the inter-vector distance between the interpolated template and the acquired gripping feature sample is equal to or shorter tha

Abstract: In an object display device, a pattern extraction unit extracts a region where an object is easily visually recognized when the object is overlaid and displayed in an image in real space, from the image in real space, based on information about the size and color of the object and information about the color of the image in real space that are acquired by an image analysis unit, and a display position correction unit corrects the display position of the object to this region. This facilitates visual recognition of the object and enhances various effects, such as informativeness, brought about by the displaying of the object in the image in real space.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a gripping-feature sample acquisition section that acquires a gripping feature sample from a sensor array; a former-template storage that stores an old authentication template in a portable terminal used in the past, as a former template; a feature-segment extracting section that extracts a feature segment from the former template and calculates a distance between the former template and the gripping feature sample in each feature segment; a segment-position correcting section that applies deformation correction to the former template in a feature segment in which the distance calculated by the feature-segment extracting section is longer than a predetermined value, to generate a corrected template; a template comparison section that compares the corrected template with the acquired gripping feature sample and calculates an inter-vector distance therebetween; and a template storage that stores the corrected template as an authentication template when the inter-vector distance is e