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A vehicle management method and system is able to monitor and manage a fleet of vehicles with high efficiency and low cost. The management method includes the steps of providing a radio transmitter connected to a vehicle navigation system in each vehicle, providing a radio transmitter connected to a facility computer in a vehicle management facility, receiving information regarding use of a vehicle by the vehicle navigation system from the facility computer which is transmitted through the radio transmitters, monitoring usage of the vehicle and storing data thereof in a memory, and sending the stored data to the facility computer through the radio transmitters.

A portable monitor used to measure landfill gas and landfill well parameters. The portable monitor includes a control unit and a measuring unit that can communicate wirelessly with one another. The control unit and/or measuring unit can include a heating arrangement to increase the temperature of one or more components in the control unit and/or measuring unit in cold environments.

A three-dimensional (3D) radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and an environment condition recognition system and method using the 3D RFID tag are provided. The tag, system and method are capable of recognizing the orientation of a mounted object as well as its intrinsic characteristics and position, thus presenting a new paradigm in the field of autonomous object sensing, identification, and recognition technology. The environment condition recognition system capable of recognizing position and orientation of the object includes a plurality of RF tags each having a self identifier ID, being independently disposed, and having an orientation with respect to a main axial direction, an RFID antenna activating the tags and initiating connection with the RF tags, a reader connected to the antenna and reading information of the RF tags, and an analysis unit connected to the reader and collecting and analyzing the information of the tags. The tags correspond to the position and orientation of the object they are attached to so as to match the respective axial directions in an orthogonal coordinate system of the object. According to the 3D RFID tag and the environment condition recognition system and method using the 3D RFID tag, information about an object, a human, or the environment can be more easily obtained, and changes in physical characteristics (e.g., position, orientation) of a targeted object as well as information required for identification can be obtained.

Provided herein are collections of matched biological reagents selected from a larger collection of biological reagents, wherein the collection of matched biological reagents relate to a biological element. Also provided are methods for selling an isolated biomolecule or biological research reagent in a collection of matched biological reagents, and methods for selecting an isolated biomolecule or biological research reagent from a collection of biological reagents.

A portable monitor used to measure landfill gas and landfill well parameters. The portable monitor includes a control unit and a measuring unit that can communication wirelessly with one another. The control unit and/or measuring unit can includes a heating arrangement to increase the temperature of one or more components in the control unit and/or measuring unit in cold environments.

A display device or a driving support system which enables a driver to obtain information easily is provided. A display device or a driving support system which is unlikely to impose a burden on a driver is provided. A display device or a driving support system which is suitable for space saving is provided. A display device or a driving support system which is capable of large-area display is provided. A display device or a driving support system which does not impair the aesthetic appearance of the car interior is provided.

The display device includes a display panel which has flexibility and can be transformed between a first form and a second form, and a driving means having a function of reversibly changing the display panel between the first form and the second form. The first form is a form in which a display surface of the display panel is suspended, and the second form is a form in which the display panel is stored upward.

A user has been unable to efficiently acquire desired information from a website even if it is a website that the user has browsed at least once before. There is provided an information processing device, which comprises: a browse history analysis portion which extracts information conforming with a predetermined subject from received data of a first device, and corresponding said information to reference data of said received data to store the corresponded data in a storage portion; and an information retrieval portion which receives an information retrieval request sent from a second device, along with a designation of a field subclassed in said predetermined subject, retrieves said storage portion from the information conforming with said predetermined subject, extracts said reference data corresponding to said information, and transmits same to said second device.

A position information measuring method capable of easily obtaining information on a relative position deviation between two marks by using scatterometry or reflectometry. Marks (25A) are formed on a wafer (W) at a pitch P1, and marks (28A) are formed on an intermediate layer (27) over them at a pitch P2 different from the pitch P1. A detection light (DL) is allowed to vertically enter the wafer (W) and a regular reflection light (22) from two marks (25A, 28A) only is spectrally separated on a wavelength basis for photoelectric converting. Wavelength-based reflectances are obtained from obtained detection signals, a reflectance at a specified wavelength is determined for each position in the measuring direction (X direction) of marks (25A, 28A), the shape of a Moire pattern formed by the overlapping of two marks (25A, 28A) is determined from the obtained reflectance distribution, and the position deviation amount of a mark (28A) is determined from the shape.

A map moving apparatus capable of performing desired map movement by a simple input operation without requiring a continuous operation by a user in moving a map screen display region is disclosed. An operated direction, an operated position, an operated speed and the like are detected from an input operation that a user performs on the map screen display region, and a map screen display region input shape recognizing section recognizes an input shape. A polygon shape identifying section extracts data having substantially the same shape as the recognized input shape from polygon data in map display data by using a matching method. When data having substantially the same shape exists, a type of the polygon is identified. In a movement mode selecting section, the movement of a screen map reverses direction when it reaches an end portion in the case where the polygon type is a linear shape, and the movement circulates to continue movement of the map screen where the type is a ring shape with no end portion. In the case where guidance information is detected during the movement of the map, guidance is provided on a screen or by voice.

In a method for providing information on commodities to a user by using a computer, commodity-comparison information indicating at least one result of at least one comparison between the commodities is acquired and stored. Next, a commodity-comparison map which visually indicates at least one relationship between the commodities is produced by using the commodity-comparison information stored above, in such a manner that at least one coordinate axis of the commodity-comparison map corresponds to at least one evaluation criterion used in evaluation of the commodities, respectively. Then, relative-evaluation information which indicates at least one relative evaluation of the commodities is produced by using the commodity-comparison map. Finally, the relative-evaluation information is provided to the user.

An information providing method comprises the step of detecting a predetermined operation on first information displayed on a client terminal, the step of detecting a predetermined operation on second information displayed on the client terminal, the step of generating comparative information by comparing the first and second information when the second information is judged to he in a predetermined relation with the first information, and the step of providing the comparative information to the client terminal.

A management system of a machine equipped with a driving-power source reads out maintenance conditions from a storage means of maintenance management information when data and conditions, concerned about a maintenance management of a machine, the features of the machine, and so on, including the maintenance conditions, are inputted from the input means. Then, information about predicted maintenance management under a certain operation time of the machine is predicted with reference to the maintenance conditions. Subsequently, the information about the predicted maintenance management is represented on a display means. Furthermore, a maintenance predicted value is previously stored in a data base or the like with respect to the maintenance within an operation time under the contract or within a contract term for each of a plurality of contract ranks. A maintenance actual result value of the machine being entered is accumulatively stored. After a termination of the maintenance contract of the machine, the maintenance predicted value that corresponds to a model and a contract rank of the machine is read out, and simultaneously the maintenance actual result value of the machine is read out, followed by making a judgment whether the maintenance actual result value is larger or smaller than the maintenance contract predicted value.

A head mounted display device includes an image display unit that allows a user to visually recognize an image and through which outside scenery is transmitted and a microphone that detects a voice. In addition, the head mounted display device further includes a data acquisition unit that acquires data and an additional data display control unit that allows the image display unit to display an image based on the voice detected by the microphone and the data acquired by the data acquisition unit when the outside scenery is visually recognized by the user through the image display unit.

A multi-carrier CDMA radio transmitting method replicates each information symbol and disposes thus-obtained information symbols along a frequency axis, multiplies the thus-obtained information symbols with a spreading code along the frequency axis, spreads the information symbols into components of a plurality of sub-carriers having different frequencies. The transmission rate of the information is changed by controlling the amount of information transmitted simultaneously by controlling the number of the information symbols to be used for spreading for the plurality of sub-carrier components for each user to which the information is to be transmitted.

A flexible tactile sensor apparatus is provided. The flexible tactile sensor apparatus may obtain information about an applied force, using a resistance between an upper nano wire array of an upper plate and a lower nano wire array of a lower plate, which may be changed based on a distance, between the upper nano wire array and the lower nano wire array, adjusted in proportion to the force.

The object is to provide a communication system enabling a server to obtain a grasp of the behavior of users on a communications network even when communication is performed between users on the communications network without going through the server. A communication apparatus 3₁ has a user information module containing user attribute information indicating an attribute of a user 4₁. When the communication apparatus 3₁ communicates with a communication apparatus 3₃, the communication apparatus 3₁ sends user attribute information of the user 4₁ to the communication apparatus 3₂ and receives and holds user attribute information of a user 4₂ from a communication apparatus 3₂, and the communication apparatus 3₁ sends said held user attribute information of the user 4₂ to a management apparatus 5.

A social networking platform can provide universal profiles. A universal profile can define a user's account on the social networking platform of the present invention and can include a number of different endpoints by which the user can establish channels with other users. These endpoints can include a phone number endpoint and an email endpoint as well as a number of endpoints pertaining to the user's profiles with other social networking platforms. A user can define which endpoints will be included in his or her universal profile. Then, when other users view the user's universal profile, they will be able to see which endpoints the user has included and will be able to create a channel with the user via any of the endpoints.

An information providing system can include a registration terminal having a guidance information registration database which stores information groups, which are correlated with reference position information. When portable terminal position information for specifying the position of a portable terminal is received together with a transmission request for the guidance information, the guidance information is automatically selected from an information group in accordance with the received transmission request on the basis of the position relationship between the reference position which is specified by the reference position information corresponding to the information group in accordance with the received transmission request, and the position which is specified by the received portable terminal position information, and the selected guidance information is transmitted to the portable terminal.

A graphical menu interface, an implementing method thereof, and an operating method thereof are provided. In the implementing method of the graphical menu interface, m function groups are provided first, and each of the function groups has at least one function. Then, an operating frame related to each function group is obtained and used as the menu icon representing a corresponding function group in the graphical menu interface. Finally, there are n function groups displayed on the screen, and the corresponding operating frames are used as the menu icons of these n function groups in the graphical menu interface. As a result, users can infer the position of each function in the graphical menu interface more intuitively, and thus the convenience in operating the graphical menu is improved.

An apparatus for judging a fatigue level and/or a dozing state of a person by capturing voices uttered at different points of time from a microphone 5M. A computer performs chaos analysis of the digital data of the inputted voices and calculates Lyapunov exponents and judges a fatigue level and/or a dozing state based on the result of the chaos analysis.