Abstract: An information providing unit of a server reads a menu table in accordance with a request sent from a customer terminal. The customer terminal presents menu items together with their nutritive values to a customer in accordance with data sent from the server. A selection process unit of the server specifies a dish to be ordered from a cooking service provider in accordance with an instruction sent from the customer terminal. An order process unit of the server searches a cooking material database in order to specify a cooking material necessary for making the dish. A monetary matter process unit of the server performs a process for collecting a charge for the provided service from the cooking service provider or from a cooking material provider.

Abstract: A dish provider provides a user with dishes, through a dish-providing assisting server, in cooperation with one or a plurality of dish makers. An ingredient information DB stores date information representing dates before that ingredients should be best used. In response to an order for dishes from the user, the dish maker having ingredients for the dishes in stock searches the ingredient information DB for the date information, and sends an order for a set of dishes to the dish maker. An order for those ingredients used for the ordered dishes is sent to a client device of an ingredient seller.

Abstract: An information providing unit of a server reads a menu table in accordance with a request sent from a customer terminal. The customer terminal presents menu items together with their nutritive values to a customer in accordance with data sent from the server. A selection process unit of the server specifies a dish to be ordered from a cooking service provider in accordance with an instruction sent from the customer terminal. An order process unit of the server searches a cooking material database in order to specify a cooking material necessary for making the dish. A monetary matter process unit of the server performs a process for collecting a charge for the provided service from the cooking service provider or from a cooking material provider.

Abstract: An input device of a multimedia board inputs lecturer-written information that a lecturer writes on a display page. An information processor sends the lecturer-written information input by the input device to a plurality of information terminals. A reader/writer of each of the plurality of information terminals reads out textbook information from a recording medium recording the textbook information representing contents of a textbook. A display device displays the read textbook information and the lecturer-written information supplied from the information processor, which are superimposed one on top of the other. The reader/writer records the textbook information and lecturer-written information, which are displayed by the display device, as a single file on the recording medium.

Abstract: When an optical recording device of a recording apparatus that is for executing optical recording of information on an optical disk records data on an optical disk, it obtains information by which the content of the data optically recorded can be guessed from the data recorded or from data of the recording apparatus. An image representing the obtained information by which the content of the data can be guessed is formed on a thermosensitive medium provided on the optical disk.

Abstract: A recoding apparatus includes an optical recording device that optically records information on an optical disk and an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a thermosensitive medium provided on the optical disk. When a moving image of a TV broadcast program is recorded on the optical disk by the optical recording device, it is possible to obtain information of TV broadcast such as a TV broadcast itself, an electronic program guide and the like, information held by the present recording apparatus or information relating to the program recorded by the optical recording device from information recorded on the optical disk. Then, the obtained information is image-formed on the thermosensitive medium provided on the optical disk by the image forming device.

Abstract: A console section having an operation unit is connected to a console moving mechanism. When an upward and downward sliding unit of the console moving mechanism moves upon a guide rail of a support pillar, the console section moves upward or downward. When a lateral direction sliding unit moves upon a guide rail of the upward and downward sliding unit, the console section moves in the lateral direction. When a frontward and backward sliding unit moves upon a guide rail of the lateral direction sliding unit, the console section moves frontward or backward. When a rotational moving unit rotates, the console section rotates. Due to these movements, a user can operate the operation unit by moving the console section to a position at which he/she can easily use the operation unit.

Abstract: A server 100 of a program creation company presents program plan information representing a program plan displayed in a form of a list, to a terminal 200 through Internet 10. A user of the terminal 200 browses the program plan information. In a case where there is a program plan that the user desires to invest, the user informs the server 100 of information representing that the user desires to invest and representing a desired investment amount. The server 100 accepts subscription for investment from the terminal 200 for a predetermined period of time. The server 100 compares the total amount of investment and the estimated creation cost, and determines whether or not the program can be created. In a case where the program can be created, a predetermined billing process for an investor is carried out. The program creation company creates the program using the collected investment, and distributes the program to the terminal 200 through the Internet 10 from the server 100.

Abstract: An input device of a multimedia board inputs lecturer-written information that a lecturer writes on a display page. An information processor sends the lecturer-written information input by the input device to a plurality of information terminals. A reader/writer of each of the plurality of information terminals reads out textbook information from a recording medium recording the textbook information representing contents of a textbook. A display device displays the read textbook information and the lecturer-written information supplied from the information processor, which are superimposed one on top of the other. The reader/writer records the textbook information and lecturer-written information, which are displayed by the display device, as a single file on the recording medium.

Abstract: A dish provider provides a user with dishes, through a dish-providing assisting server, in cooperation with one or a plurality of dish makers. An ingredient information DB stores date information representing dates before that ingredients should be best used. In response to an order for dishes from the user, the dish maker having ingredients for the dishes in stock searches the ingredient information DB for the date information, and sends an order for a set of dishes to the dish maker. An order for those ingredients used for the ordered dishes is sent to a client device of an ingredient seller.

Abstract: An information providing unit of a server reads a menu table in accordance with a request sent from a customer terminal. The customer terminal presents menu items together with their nutritive values to a customer in accordance with data sent from the server. A selection process unit of the server specifies a dish to be ordered from a cooking service provider in accordance with an instruction sent from the customer terminal. An order process unit of the server searches a cooking material database in order to specify a cooking material necessary for making the dish. A monetary matter process unit of the server performs a process for collecting a charge for the provided service from the cooking service provider or from a cooking material provider.