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Information missing from a database record is automatically identified and retrieved. In an embodiment, after the record is initially populated, a status such as complete, incomplete, missing, or verify is assigned to each field in the record. A request for information associated with the status is automatically generated, for instance asking a client to provide missing information or verify existing information. The request is transmitted to the client and solicits the client's response in any of a number of ways, for instance by email, phone, fax, or mail. The information is used to automatically update the record.

A marketing system capable of improving security of private information in mail order. Terminal equipment of a client retrieves product information from communications equipment of a provider. The terminal equipment of the client starts a program for an order when the client places an order on a display screen displaying the product information. Receiving order information input by the client, the terminal equipment of the client transmits the order information to terminal equipment of a vendor through a communications network other than WAN (wide area network). When the program is not installed in the terminal equipment of the client, it can be transmitted from the communications equipment of the provider to the terminal equipment.

An object of the invention is to provide a solar cell ordering system for planning a photovoltaic power system, making a cost estimate thereof, and placing an order thereof. A solar cell ordering system (50) includes roof shape creating means (1) for creating roof shape data (32) based on inputted roof information (31), module layout means (2) for designing a layout of a solar cell module using the roof shape data (32), and drawing up a list (34) of members of necessity for the photovoltaic power system, estimate creating means (3) for drawing up estimate information (37) using the list (34) of members and unit price information (36), and order information processing means (4) for placing an order for the members using the estimate information (37) and order application information (38).

An image server stores volume data including a plurality of tomographic images. A doctor sends transfer request of volume data through a client terminal to the image server when reading an image. Upon receiving the transfer request, a CPU of the image server refers to a doctor information DB based on a doctor ID included in the transfer request to judge a site allowed to be browsed by the doctor who has requested. Upon judging the site allowed to be browsed, the CPU refers to site information preliminarily recorded on each tomographic image of the requested volume data. Thereafter, it is determined whether the doctor who has requested is allowed to browse each of the tomographic images or not based on the site information and the site allowed to be browsed. After judging, the CPU transfers only tomographic images allowed to be browsed to the client terminal as the requester.

A user-requested command with both visual and hearing information is indicated. Additionally, with a user friendly method, the user understands what content to input. The user-requested command is expressed in the form of a template sentence. Template part in the template sentence is vocalized, and a slot area in the template sentence is expressed using a sound or voice. The user inputs his or her voice to be input to the slot area.

A control system for an image file eliminating saving of an overlapped image data part and saving files in a short time and in a power-saving manner. When a digital camera and a personal computer are connected with each other for data communication, the system compares record unit information to identify an image file that the digital camera has with record unit information to identify an image file that the personal computer has, and transfers to save the image file, which includes the record unit information that the digital camera has and the personal computer does not have, from the digital camera to the personal computer. After completing transfer of the image file from the digital camera to the personal computer, the personal computer generates record unit information newer than the record unit information of the acquired image file and transmits the newer record unit information to the digital camera, which can be recorded in the header of the image file newly photographed by the digital camera.

A method of setting processing data for a computer-assisted laser processing apparatus is disclosed, along with a system for setting a laser processing data. The method comprises a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, a function of generating processing data representing the processing conditions for the object, and a function of visually displaying a two dimensional representation of the processing data on a display screen and a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, wherein it is enabled to set the three-dimensional profile and the processing pattern while displaying the object in two dimensions on the display screen disposed within a processing zone.

In a test case selection apparatus according to the present invention, a parameter setting unit 22 displays a test case selection dialogue 400, etc., on a display screen of a display section 40, and test cases that are tentatively determined to be tested in the current round of testing is selected based on various parameters received from the operator. A simulation executing unit 23 calculates a time period predicted to be required for testing test cases, and displays the prediction result in the form of a graph indicating a temporal change in the number of tests. With this configuration, the user can predict an achieved status of testing based on the prediction result, and repeat suitable changes to the various parameters, thereby suitably selecting test cases to obtain a preferably achieved status of testing.

The present disclosure provides a method for blocking crank calls by using cloud computing and a system thereof. In the method, a client(s) uploads a blacklist to a server; the server makes statistic according to blacklist data uploaded by the client(s) and determines a particular phone number be a crank phone number, generates an anti-crank policy and updates the generated anti-crank policy to the client(s); when receiving a call or a message from the crank phone number, the client executes the anti-crank policy.

A drip pill of breviscapine is prepared from breviscapine and polyethylene glycol (PEG4000). Its advantages are high biological utilization rate and high curative effect.

A dripping pill of breviscapine is prepared from breviscapine and polyethylene glycol (PEG 4000) 5-8 times through conventional process. Its advantages are high curative effect and high biological utilization rate.

A method of spectacle frame fitting over public network, such as Internet, based upon database of product information and digitized user images as acquired via devices connected to computer. Particularly, consumers can take advantage of present method to choose spectacle frames from wide variety of selections, expeditiously by the use of public computer network (Internet). Consumers may use digital cameras, network cameras or scanned photos to submit facial image, and by way of calibration steps such as the gap between two pupils aligned to the marked pupil point of the stored spectacle images, the suitable size of the spectacle frame can then be determined for best fit to the facial image. With the accessibility and availability of the Internet, just a few clicks on the mouse enable the consumers to choose spectacle frames of their preference and in a way that affords wide selections at low costs and easy access.

Private data in an EEPROM (14) is erased in a data erasing procedure when pulling out an SIM card (2) from a mobile telephone (1). Before being erased, the private data is encrypted in an encryption procedure and it is transferred and recorded to an external memory (3). The private data encrypted and recorded to the external memory can be reused when the SIM card is used in another mobile telephone. Furthermore, it is possible to prevent the external memory from being left behind when the SIM card is pulled out by interfacing a lock mechanism of a card mounting section (16) with that of a memory mounting section (17).

A rotary evaporator comprising a motor, a rotary joint movably inserted to a motor rotor of the motor by a sleeve in an axial direction, a collection flask attached to the rotary joint at one end of the joint, with a condenser attached to the other end of the joint. The condenser is adapted to receive a cooling coil from an immersion cooler. The cooling coil is attached to the base unit of the immersion cooler via an insulated hose. The rotary evaporator is adapted to provide various ways to remove heat from the flask in the water bath, whether by mechanically lowering the water bath, dropping fluid from the bath into an underlying reservoir, or raising and lowering the rotary evaporator out of the bath. Where the rotary evaporator is raised and lowered, the immersion cooler can remain in place if the hose connecting the base unit to the cooling coil is sufficiently long, or the condenser includes a flexible portion that accommodates the upward and downward movement.

In this information transmission system, a first user terminal gains access to a business server through a communication network, to transmit a body text of an electronic mail in voice information there. The business server converts the voice information into text information, discriminates the information to be converted into a pictogram, from this information, and further converts it into a pictogram. A user of the first user terminal recognizes a destination from the mail body text and transmits an electronic mail including the pictogram / text mixed body text to, for example, a second user terminal. Also in a TV phone, the voice information is similarly converted into text information and pictogram and combined with an image, and displayed.

The invention discloses a hotel guest room management method and system based on an electronic key management server. The system comprises the electronic key management server, a mobile terminal and a plurality of electronic locks. The electronic key management server is used for generating electronic keys according to the issued requests of the electronic keys of the hotel guest room management system. The mobile terminal is used for downloading the electronic keys from the electronic key management server and generating and displaying two-dimensional code pictures according to the electronic keys. The electronic locks are used for receiving synchronization information, pushed by the electronic key management server, of the electronic keys, judging whether the two-dimensional code pictures are effective according to the synchronization information of the electronic keys, and controlling lock control mechanisms of the electronic locks to execute the unlocking operation to open guest room doors when recorded key information in the two-dimensional code pictures are effective. According to the method and the system, the trouble that a user handles various check-in procedures at a hotel counter can be avoided, and the hotel guest room management efficiency is improved.

An image processing apparatus includes: face detection means for detecting a subject face contained in each of images continuously captured by capturing means and extracting attribute information on each detected face; score determination means for determining a score for each of the continuously captured images on the basis of the attribute information on the detected face extracted by the face detection means; and representative image selection means for selecting a representative image from the continuously captured images on the basis of the score determined by the score determination means.

An audio output apparatus which outputs an audio signal to an audio control apparatus controlling processing of the audio signal, and to which an external device having an external terminal is connectable includes an output terminal, a detecting section, a generating section, and a transmitting section. The output terminal is connected with the external terminal and outputs the audio signal to the external device via the external terminal. The detecting section detects whether or not the external terminal is connected to the output terminal. The generating section generates a control signal based on a result of the detection by the detecting means. The transmitting section transmits the generated control signal to the audio control apparatus in order that the audio control apparatus controls the processing of the audio signal based on the control signal.

The invention discloses a hotel room management method and system based on an electronic key management server. The system comprises the electronic key management server, a mobile terminal and a plurality of electronic door locks, wherein electronic key management server is used for generating an electronic key according to the electronic key issuing request of a hotel room booking service system; the mobile terminal is used for downloading the electronic key from the hotel electronic key management system, and setting the name of master Bluetooth module equipment according to the electronic key; the mobile terminal is further used for searching for a slave Bluetooth module having the same name as the master Bluetooth module equipment, issuing a pairing request to an electronic door lock into which the slave Bluetooth module is embedded in the door locks, and establishing Bluetooth connection with the electronic door lock when pairing is successful; the electronic door locks are used for receiving the electronic key of the mobile terminal through Bluetooth, and controlling a locking mechanism to perform unlocking operation when key recording information in the electronic key is valid key recording information.

A face recognition method includes the step of: receiving feature data acquired by detecting each part of a face of a person included in digital data from a terminal at a server; comparing the feature data received from the terminal with those of persons determined as accessible among all feature data recorded in a feature data database based on face recognition technology, and deciding top n persons with top n degree of similarities among all persons recorded in the feature data database at the server, wherein the feature data recorded in the feature data database include feature data of each part of faces of the persons; and providing the information on the top n persons to the terminal. It may reduce work capacity and processing time by extracting and transmitting to the server feature data of each part of the face such as eyes, nose, mouth, ears and jaws.

An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes a 3D tomographic image data capturing device which captures 3D tomographic image data from a 3D region inside a subject, a region-of-interest setting device which sets a 3D region of interest corresponding to the 3D region in an image memory, a surface image extracting device which extracts data on a surface image, in the 3D region of interest, of a massive tissue included in the 3D region, a stereoscopic display generating device which generates stereoscopic display data, and a display device which displays the stereoscopic display data. The region-of-interest setting device displays a 2D tomographic image of a 2D region including the massive tissue on the display device, allows setting of a marker indicating a periphery of the massive tissue in the 2D tomographic image, and generates the 3D region of interest according to data on the marker's position.

A method of spectacle frame 3-D simulation fitting over public network, such as Internet, based upon database of product information and digitized user images as acquired via devices connected to computer. Particularly, consumers can take advantage of present method to choose spectacle frames from wide variety of selections, expeditiously by the use of public computer network (Internet). Consumers may use digital cameras, network cameras or scanned photos to submit facial image, and by way of calibration steps and additional side-view images of the consumers when test-fitting spectacle frames, simulated 3-D presentation of a consumer wearing the intended spectacle frame can be viewed for purpose of fitting and purchasing over the network. With the accessibility and availability of the Internet, just a few clicks on the mouse enable the consumers to choose spectacle frames of their preference and in a way that affords wide selections at low costs and easy access.

To provide a chip for collecting analyte from a living body. Specifically, the chip includes a thin plate-shaped main body, an analyte inlet portion, and a thin portion. Analyte is introduced into the analyte inlet portion, which is formed within the main body. The thin portion partitions the space forming the analyte inlet portion from the external space. According to the chip of the present invention, it is possible to eliminate the time for collecting analyte from a living body using a hypodermic syringe or the like, and placing the collected analyte into the chip. Also, the chip according to the present invention does not leave analyte remaining at the position from which the analyte was extracted, so after the test the position where the analyte was extracted from the living body is clean.

A wireless tag collective reading device of this invention comprises a rack to store the wireless-tag-equipped articles which are mounted on the wireless-tag-equipped article by printing a chip portion and an antenna portion connected to the chip portion, the chip portion emitting tag information in response to electromagnetic waves, and an antenna unit which applies, to the wireless-tag-equipped articles stored in the rack, electromagnetic waves for the emission of the tag information, and receives electromagnetic waves for the tag information emitted from the wireless tag, wherein the device controls the directivity, intensity, and phase of the electromagnetic waves emitted from the antenna unit to apply the electromagnetic waves to the wireless-tag-equipped article at a given position stored in the rack, controls the relative positions of the antenna unit and the rack, and reads the tag information from a signal received by the antenna unit.

An image taking support device for radiographic long length imaging, the image taking support device providing an image of a subject, the image being longer than a length of a maximum field of view of a radiation detector, by combining a plurality of radiographic images each partially overlapping another at the overlapping parts, the device comprising:a supporting member including a radiotransparent material and supporting the subject;markers including a substance with a large radiation attenuation coefficient, the markers being movably arranged along a surface of the supporting member supporting the subject so that the markers provide marks for combining the images;an irradiated area determination device that determines an area to be irradiated with a radiation;a marker position determining device that determines positions for arranging the markers, based on the determined area to be irradiated; anda marker moving device that moves the markers to the determined positions of the markers.

The document management program of the present invention receives information, such as a destination address, a subject, and a body, in order to create an e-mail. When receiving an instruction for transmitting the e-mail, the document management program stores document data of a specified file under a different name, and stores information including the transmission date and time, the destination address, and the subject into the database, in association with the document data. Then, the document data is attached to the e-mail, and this e-mail is transmitted.

A method of setting processing data for a computer-assisted laser processing apparatus is disclosed, along with a system for setting a laser processing data. The method comprises a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, a function of generating processing data representing the processing conditions for the object, and a function of visually displaying a two dimensional representation of the processing data on a display screen and a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, wherein it is enabled to set the three-dimensional profile and the processing pattern while displaying the object in two dimensions on the display screen disposed within a processing zone.

An image forming apparatus capable of resizing an image, and a method of resizing the image of the image forming apparatus. A scanning unit scans a document to generate an image. A storage unit stores a target file size to be applied during storing of the generated image before the document is scanned. An image processor resizes an initial file size of the image generated by the scanning unit so that the initial file size approaches the target file size. A controller stores the image having the resized file size in at least one of an external memory connected to the image forming apparatus and the storage unit installed in the image forming apparatus. As a result, a scanned image can be resized to a size desired by a user and then stored in the external memory before the scanned image is stored.