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Systems, program products, and methods of curriculum planning are provided. An embodiment of a system includes instructional course instructions, responsive to user input commands, to associate one of several instructional courses with one of several teachers, calendar instructions, responsive to user input commands, to create a calendar schedule and assign the instructional course to a date and time for display on the calendar schedule, lesson-plan assignment instructions, responsive to the calendar schedule and user input commands, to assign one of several lesson-plans to the instructional course at the date and time on the calendar schedule, and lesson-plan indicator instructions, responsive to the calendar schedule and lesson-plan data, indicating whether the instructional course for the date and time has been assigned a completed lesson.

An object of this invention is to provide an autofocus method and apparatus capable of always performing proper focusing operation. To achieve this object, a control device drives a focus lens in accordance with the operation of an operation device, and stores the stop position of the focus lens. While the focus lens is driven within a predetermined range using the stop position as a reference, the control device stores an output from an extraction device in association with the position of the focus lens. The control device determines the focusing state of the focus lens from the output from the extraction device, and when determining from the determination result that the focus lens is incapable of focusing, drives the focus lens to the stop position.

A charging device includes a battery voltage detecting circuit for detecting the voltage of a battery pack; and a microcomputer having RAM for temporarily storing a battery voltage detected by the battery voltage detecting circuit, and a CPU for calculating a battery voltage gradient from the battery voltage detected by the battery voltage detecting circuit and a battery voltage sampled a prescribed time earlier. The charging device determines that the life of the battery has expired when the voltage of the battery pack prior to charging is less than or equal to a prescribed value J and the battery voltage gradient within a prescribed time period after the start of charging is greater than or equal to a first prescribed value K. The charging device also includes a display circuit for notifying the user when the life of the battery pack has deteriorated.

A remote control device in a vehicle is provided in proximity of a driver's seat such that an operation unit of the remote control device is manually rotated and pressed by a hand of a driver in a driver's seat. A case of the remote control device contains vibrators to vibrate left and right sides of the remote control device. A navigation device is connected to a control unit of the remote control device. When a position of the vehicle approaches a specified guidance point during route guidance, the navigation device outputs a guidance signal (left-turn or right-turn instruction) to the control unit. When supplied with the guidance signal, the control unit controls driving of the vibrators to vibrate the remote control device based on the guidance signal.

A document collaborating method among multiple users includes: for each user creating one or more types of message accounts correspondent to a username of the user, wherein each user is able to establish contacts or a collaborative group thereof; allocating a document initial version number to one or more documents which the user shares with the contacts or the collaborative group, saving an initial version of the document and then setting correspondent sharing permission and sharing time limit; and after finishing setting the sharing permission and the sharing time limit, automatically sending notification messages to the correspondent contacts or the correspondent collaborative group for readily notifying by the message account, and regularly reminding the sharing users to notice the time limit according to the sharing time limit by the message accounts of all sharing users of the shared document.

Information distribution systems, methods, and/or programs register a point which meets predetermined registration conditions as a register point; select a predetermined register point as a predicted arrival display point; calculate a predicted arrival time at the predicted arrival display point; and display the predicted arrival on a map screen. Systems, methods, and/or programs obtain map data and traffic congestion information, including a plurality of congestion areas; set a priority for each congestion area; and display congestion detail information for a congestion area on the map screen based on the set priority. Systems, methods, and/or programs determine a priority for a register point; and display the register point on the map screen when the priority of the register point is greater than a predetermined value.

An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit which acquires B-mode image information on an imaging region lying within a subject; a display unit which displays the B-mode image information thereon; a contrast agent inflow start detecting device which detects an inflow timing at which a contrast agent administered to the subject starts to flow in the imaging region, using the B-mode image information; and a post-processing starting device which starts up post-processing conducted after the contrast agent has started to flow in the imaging region, in sync with the inflow timing.

An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit which causes an image sensor to photoelectrically convert an object image to generate an image signal, a display unit which displays the image signal generated by the image capturing unit, a storage unit which stores foreign substance information that is information about at least the position and size of a foreign substance sticking to the surface of an optical element arranged in front of the image sensor, and a control unit which controls the display unit to display the image signal while superimposing, on it, an image which represents presence of the foreign substance and is generated based on the foreign substance information stored in the storage unit during a live view operation of sequentially displaying, on the display unit, image signals sequentially generated by the image capturing unit.

Information updating system and information updating method for transmitting updated information of information about a mobile terminal apparatus and/or user to a receiving-side terminal apparatus to enable the information of a calling-side terminal apparatus to be automatically updated. A calling-side terminal apparatus 1A transmits updated information and address information of a mobile terminal apparatus to a receiving-side terminal apparatus 1B, and the receiving-side terminal apparatus 1B searches an address book for information of the calling-side terminal apparatus 1A based on the address information, and updates the searched information of the calling-side terminal apparatus 1A based on the updated information, or the calling-side terminal apparatus 1A transmits updated information of mobile terminal information to a server apparatus 31, the server apparatus 31 extracts receiving-side terminal apparatuses 1B having the address information of the calling-side terminal apparatus 1A from management information of mobile terminal apparatuses, and distributes the updated information to the extracted receiving-side terminal apparatuses 1B, and the receiving-side terminal apparatuses 1B update information of the calling-side terminal apparatus 1A based on the updated information.

This attempts to improve the user's visibility on the device settings and variety of other conditions of the imaging device and thereby enhancing the usability of the imaging device.

In an imaging device, a modulated light source 119 located below a menu switch 112M is under control of a switch display light modulator 230 to change the color of light emission. A displayed image on a monitor 114 or an external display device is selectable among a camera image taken with a camera head 120, a memory image read from a memory SD, and a PC image input from a personal computer 410 as an image of a currently set image input source. The color of light emission from the modulated light source 119 is changed according to the setting of the image input source. This arrangement improves the user's visibility of a variety of device settings and thereby enhances the usability of the imaging device.

A toner cartridge 40 has a storage element 50 that stores recycling information. A cartridge recycling information apparatus of the invention outputs a recycling request form based on the recycling information stored in the storage element 50 at a specified output timing of the recycling information. This arrangement desirably saves the user's labor and time of searching for the recycling request form and enables the user to be readily notified of the recycling information.

In an injection molding system, an amount of deformation of an elastic member is calculated from image data of the elastic member causing a nozzle to generate a nozzle touch force and a nozzle touch force of the nozzle is calculated by converting the amount of deformation. Accordingly, it becomes possible to detect abnormal conditions such as resin leakage and mold deformation and exercise correct control of the nozzle touch force.

An information processing apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives data indicating a state of a detection object detected by a state detection unit; and an information transmitter that transmits state information to an external apparatus based on the data, the information transmitter transmitting the state information to at least selected one of: a first external apparatus determined to be at a short distance from the detection object; a second external apparatus determined to have been in proximity to the detection object; and a third external apparatus that is preliminarily determined.