41results about How to "Easy for users to understand" patented technology

There is provided a power management apparatus including an authentication processing unit that carries out an authentication process on each individual electronic appliance that is to be managed, a consumption amount acquiring unit that acquires information on power consumption from the electronic appliance, and an information display unit that displays an authentication state or an authentication result obtained from the authentication processing unit, together with the information on power consumption acquired by the consumption amount acquiring unit.

An order management system enables a customer to use a terminal device to order food, but can respond rapidly to changes and additions to the menu. When this system starts up, it transmits an operating program and image data from main management equipment to each of a number of order-taking terminal devices. Each order-taking terminal device stores the thus received operating program and image data and displays a menu screen on a display screen on the basis of the thus stored operating program and image data.

A navigation apparatus includes: a basic frame generating unit for generating a basic frame two-dimensionally configured based on a search item axis and a search result display axis; a three-dimensional (3-D) search result listing image generating unit for generating a 3-D search result listing image in which a plurality of search result cards show as if they are stereoscopically arranged in a domino-like configuration along the search item axis and the search result display axis of the basic frame, the search result cards having titles of search results thereon; and a control unit for outputting the 3-D search result listing image to a predetermined display unit with a predetermined display angle, thereby displaying the 3-D search result listing image at the display angle.

A portable terminal with the function of walking navigation. The portable terminal displays information on its narrow screen so as to make it easy for the user (walker) to understand and realize an interface that enables the user to understand inputs of retrieving conditions intuitively, thereby saving the input labor.

Assume now that a user (walker) 10 is lost while walking towards a destination 11. In such a case, the present invention enables necessary information to be compressed, for example, so as to display both direction and distance to the destination from a present place with an orientation and a length of an arrow on a small screen and further so as to match the orientation of the arrow with the direction of the destination in the actual space. If the user (walker) 10 specifies a compressed information item 12, 13, or 14 for inquiry, the present invention controls so that the arrow always points the direction of the destination corresponding to each of those compressed information items 12, 13, and 14. The condition of retrieval can also be set by turning, for example, the tip of the portable terminal directly in the desired direction h12, 13, or 14.

This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing connected devices and associated network connections. In certain embodiments, trust, privacy, safety, and/or security of information communicated between connected devices may be established in part through use of security associations and/or shared group tokens. In some embodiments, these security associations may be used to form an explicit private network associated with the user. A user may add and/or manage devices included in the explicit private network through management of various security associations associated with the network's constituent devices.

Hybrid methods for classifying defects in semiconductor manufacturing are provided. The methods include applying a flexible sequence of rules for defects to inspection data. The sequence of rules includes deterministic rules, statistical rules, hybrid rules, or some combination thereof. The rules included in the sequence may be selected by a user using a graphical interface The method also includes classifying the defects based on results of applying the sequence of rules to the inspection data.

Enables a fitting system for sporting equipment using an application that executes on a mobile phone for example to prompt and accept motion inputs from a given motion capture sensor to measure a user's size, range of motion, speed and then utilizes that same sensor to capture motion data from a piece of equipment, for example to further optimize the fit of, or suggest purchase of a particular piece of sporting equipment. Utilizes correlation or other data mining of motion data for size, range of motion, speed of other users to maximize the fit of a piece of equipment for the user based on other user's performance with particular equipment. For example, this enables a user of a similar size, range of motion and speed to data mine for the best performance equipment, e.g., longest drive, lowest putt scores, highest winning percentage, etc., associated with other users having similar characteristics.

A control system comprising: a detection unit for detecting services provided by devices connected to a network; a data input unit for inputting data from a first device detected by the detection unit and providing the service of inputting data; a conversion unit for converting a data format of the data input by the data input unit into a data format processable by a second device detected by the detection unit and providing the service of outputting data; and a service request unit for requesting the second device for a service for the data converted by the conversion unit.

When classifying pictures, to enable classification having high robustness by generating indexes for classification, dynamically changing processing areas within the picture based on a video content.

A picture classifying unit (104) in a video scene classifying device (100) classifies obtained plural pictures into plural clusters based on a classification index which indicates a feature of the pictures. A cluster selecting unit (106) selects at least one cluster among the classified clusters. An index generating unit (108) assigns the index to at least one picture among the pictures which constitute the selected cluster. Thus, when selecting a cluster, among classified clusters, which is suitable to index assignment, by selecting an indexing rule based on relatively simple information, such as the number of clusters, time distribution, and the EPG information, and generating an index accordingly, a clear and stable chapter can be generated.

A method and system for capturing a Finite State Machine (FSM) description of the desired behavior of a device, and converting that description into a program that is executable by the device. In the preferred embodiment, the device is a programmable robot toy. The user enters an FSM description of the desired behavior of the robot toy using a graphical user interface running on a personal computer. When requested, the preferred embodiment compiles the FSM description into a program executable by a virtual machine running on a micro-controller inside the robot toy. This program is sent to the toy via an infrared transmitter and infrared receiver, and stored in the toy's memory. Then, when the robot toy is used, the virtual machine executes the stored program so that the toy behaves as specified by the FSM description.

A safety harness for a hunter is provided having two primary straps which wrap around the legs and shoulders of the user. A safety tether may be attached to the primary straps to provide support to the user and prevent falls. A climbing strap is attached to each primary strap, and provides support for the user while climbing a tree or other vertical structure. Loops are provided on the sides of the safety harness for attachment thereto of any variety of climbing ropes or supports.

A composite image forming system includes a color reduction unit, operable to form a background image which is a raster image by reducing a color gamut of a user image which is a raster image and is stored in a recording medium; an order form printing control unit, operable to cause a printing unit to print a figurative element which indicates a rectangular handwriting region whose long side is parallel to a long side of a paper, and an order form in which the background image is allocated to the handwriting region in a position in which a row or a column is parallel to the long side of the handwriting region; a scanning control unit, operable to cause a scanning unit to read an image in a region corresponding to the handwriting region from an order sheet on which a user has handwritten the figurative element in the handwriting region of the order form; a synthesizing unit, operable to form a composite image which is a raster image by using a color gamut of the background image to divide a handwritten element region corresponding to the figurative element handwritten by the user from the region corresponding to the handwriting region, and synthesizing the user image with an image in the handwritten element region; and a synthesizing printing control unit, operable to cause the printing unit to print the composite image allocated in a position in which the composite image is to be printed in the same direction as a direction in which the background image has been printed by the order form printing control unit.

An information processing apparatus includes a storage section storing subsequent data subsequently acquired or generated as data corresponding to a medium stored content, a control section executing a management process of managing subsequent data with respect to the storage section, the control section being configured to execute, as the management process of the subsequent data, a process of generating and recording subsequent data descriptive information including medium identification information corresponding to subsequent data and title identification information at a time of executing a process of recording subsequent data in the storage section, a process of generating display data based on the subsequent data descriptive information, and a process of reproducing or deleting subsequent data based on user designation information for the display data based on the subsequent data descriptive information.

A programmable user interaction control interface for household appliances such as ovens. The user interface comprises a display for displaying text and icons. The user interface further comprises control and selection buttons for navigation in a two dimensional menu structure. LED technology is used in order to lit up buttons as well as indicators.

A navigation device is provided, which at a junction such as an intersection point, and the like, offers to a driver an appropriate image of the vicinity of the junction which is required in turning right or left, and the like.

A route search section (102) searches for a route leading to a set destination. An imaging regulation setting section (107) determines an imaging regulation of an imaging section (109) at a junction which exists on the searched route. A distance calculation section (104) calculates a distance between a position of a vehicle and the junction. A control section (108) changes an image to be shown in an output device according to the calculated distance based on the determined imaging regulation.

Navigation systems, methods, and programs acquire deviated point information regarding a deviated point where a vehicle traveling a set route has deviated the route, and acquire post-deviation travel history information regarding a travel history after a deviated vehicle has deviated the route at the deviated point. The systems, methods, and programs determine based on the post-deviation travel history information for each of the deviated vehicles whether the deviated vehicle has traveled along a reroute set after deviating the route at the deviated point, and judges whether a rate of the deviated vehicles which were determined as having traveled along the reroute is a first predetermined value or more. If the rate of the deviated vehicles which were determined as having traveled along the reroute is the first predetermined value or more, the systems, methods, and programs determine that guidance of the route is not appropriate.

A document analyzer and presenter is capable of automatically analyzing and formatting unformatted documents and presenting them to the user. The document analyzer and presenter may be implemented on a single computer or over a plurality of electronic devices connected to each other by a network. Formatted documents are presented to the user in a viewing window. Key sections and terms are hyperlinked to each other and the user's history of actions are tracked and displayed to the user.

A power supply device which performs power supply from an outside to a vehicle includes: a power source section for performing the power supply to the vehicle; and a control device that performs control of the power source section. The control device obtains information about power reception efficiency of the vehicle as an object of the power supply and determines a power reception efficiency range and a fee that correspond to the obtained information from a plurality of power reception efficiency ranges and plurality of fees that are set corresponding to the plurality of power reception efficiency ranges. The power supply device preferably further includes a power transmission section for receiving the power from the power source section and contactlessly performing power transmission to the vehicle.

An electrophoretic display is mounted on the surface of the housing of a notebook type personal computer. When an event that requires the user to operate a member occurs, the member and operation information corresponding to that event are searched for, and the searched-for operation information is displayed in a region of the electrophoretic display in the vicinity of the searched-for member. For example, when a termination switch is in a corner of the exterior surface of the cover, for a system termination event, information indicating that the termination switch should be operated is displayed in a region of the electrophoretic display in the vicinity of the termination switch.

A projector includes a light source, an optical modulation device to form an optical image, a projection optical device, and a projection position adjusting device to adjust the projection position. The projection position adjusting device includes a fixed member, a moving member a dial knob, a drive mechanism that transmit rotation of the dial knob, and a reference position detecting mechanism. The reference position detecting mechanism includes a spiral rail guiding section having a groove shape provided to a side face of the dial knob adjacent to the fixed member, along the rotational direction of the dial knob, a sliding section that slides in the guiding section with the rotation of the dial knob, and an engaging section provided to the guiding section, and engages with the sliding section upon the projection position of the projection optical device reaching the projection reference position.