220 results about "Information media" patented technology

In a non-contact IC (integrated circuit) module having an IC chip and a coil, the non-contact IC module communicates with a terminal via a booster unit. A communication system extends a communication distance of data modulated by using a carrier frequency (sub-carrier frequency). A communication auxiliary apparatus is used in a communication between a non-contact information medium and an external appliance.

The present invention features an enterprise media distribution system or network-based in-store media broadcasting system comprising one or more, and preferably, a plurality of business chains, each business chain comprising a plurality of business locations; a media distribution platform or framework comprising one or more client player devices placed at each business location, each of the client player devices being independently supported and in communication with an internal audio/visual system installed and existing within in the respective business locations; independent customizable media broadcasts supported on each of the client player devices and comprising audio, visual, and/or informational media content thereon that may be specific to each of the particular business locations in which the client player device(s) is/are located; a chain network having at least one chain server, such as updating and caching servers, for servicing each respective business chain, said chain server in communication with each client player device in the respective business chain; a central server system comprising one or more central servers in communication with each of the chain servers in each business chain; a network configuration connecting each client player device to the chain servers to provide an exchange of information between the two; and a network configuration connecting the chain servers to the central server system to provide an exchange of information between the two.

An information medium device having an expansible function module, more particularly, an information medium device such as a USB flash disk or a MP3 player having an expansible function module such as a radio module disposed on an external lid, so that when the external lid is covered onto the USB flash disk or the MP3 player, the expanded radio function can be operated.

An electronic hand-held device and method for inputting and sending requests and for receiving and outputting responses to the requests. The electronic hand-held device is a coupled to a telecommunications link over which requests are sent and responses are received. The electronic hand-held device can input request data in any number of different information media, including audio tones and voice signals, mechanical input to a keypad, printed bar codes, magnetic data stored in credit cards, and electronic data stored in electronic smart cards. The electronic hand-held device can output responses through an audio speaker, a visual LCD display device, and, optionally, through other output devices including printers. The electronic hand-held device is especially well suited for order entry and acquisition of product information.

An information input/output unit according to the present invention includes a receiving cavity capable of accommodating therein two different species of noncontact information media having shapes differing from each other and an antenna part capable of performing communication by radio with the noncontact information media. The unit can communicate with a close-fit-type noncontact information medium without fail and preferably with predetermined degree of freedom for the shapes of the media.

The invention relates to a cardiovascular healthcare management system which as an infomediary site with databases having information relating to cardiovascular disease risk factors such as age, blood pressure, LDL, HDL and subfractions thereof and cardiovascular disease management such as diet, exercise, drugs and cardiovascular educational materials. The physician can communicate electronically with the infomediary site to obtain patient test results and formulate a patient treatment plan from the diet, exercise and drug data. The physician can electronically communicate treatment plans to the patient through a record in the infomediary site. The patient can electronically communicate compliance information to the physician through the patient record. The infomediary site may also provide a case manager to provide initial draft treatment plans to the physician, gather patient history data and/or patient treatment plan compliance data.

A method of forming a multimedia package is provided. The method obtains a media stream having media segments where the media segments include metadata associated with content in the media segments. The method indexes the media segments in accordance with the metadata. Furthermore, the method obtains preferred information and searches the indexed media segments for preferred information media segments where metadata of the preferred information media segments includes information corresponding to the preferred information. The method also forms the multimedia package with the preferred information media segments and delivers the multimedia package.

Disclosed herein are a personal video broadcast system and service method using the Internet. The system utilizes a terminal for viewing that connects to a web site and allows the user to watch personal video broadcasts and Video On Demand (VOD) in real time. Wired and wireless Internet operates to connect the user's viewing terminal to a web server that provides channel, live broadcast, and VOD information through the web pages of the web site in real time. A media server operates in conjunction with the web server, and performs real time video encoding and conversion of the channel, live broadcast, and VOD information into a format viewable in the environment of the terminal. A user's terminal for broadcasting operates in conjunction with the media server which transmits the video information. A video device also connects to the user's terminal for broadcasting which captures video images.

A cooperative robot system includes a takeover determining section which determines whether or not another robot takes over an executed task, a communication section which transmits a takeover information to the another robot when the takeover determining section determines to take over the executed task, a media converting section which converts the takeover information into at least one of linguistic expression and non-linguistic expression, a media generating section which generates control information which represents a converted result of the media converting section in the linguistic or non-linguistic expression, and a media setting section which exhibits a takeover content of the takeover information represented in at least one the linguistic expression and the non-linguistic expression.

An enhanced media item playlist on which a media item identifier for a media item and presence information of a recommender of the media item, and, optionally, a media item annotation from a media item recommendation message, may be stored is disclosed. The playlist may be any accessible and/or manageable format, for example a database, for storing or containing the media item identifier, the presence information, the media item annotation, and/or the media item. The presence information and, if present, the media item annotation are stored on the playlist in a manner associated with the media item identifier. In this manner, the recipient of the media item recommendation message may store, manage, and access the presence information and, if present, the media item annotation, and not only render and/or transfer the media item recommended, but also the presence information and the media item annotation.

The invention discloses an imaging system for producing double exposure composite images and application method therefor. This system includes a cartridge-clip camera and a cartridge-clip film. The cartridge-clip camera can achieve a conversion between a full-frame transmission and a half-frame transmission by a fixed-frame wheel, and can also provide a single-sheet-film card. The film may be a kind of information medium, on which there are various pre-exposed picture-and-word information latent images. When the cartridge-clip camera uses the cartridge-clip film, it can employ a positioning means for locating to make the cartridge clip provided with the film to be conveniently and accurately located in the cartridge-clip camera, and can produce accurately located double exposure composite images, thereby overcoming the drawback of known art, using conveniently and avoiding waste. In the use of the imaging system, the invention can independent package and sale the film,

An optical pickup apparatus comprises a first light source for emitting a first light flux having first wavelength λ1 (430 nm>λ1>380 nm), a second light source for emitting a second light flux having second wavelength λ2 (λ2>λ1), an objective optical system having phase structure thereon, and at least one moving optical element for guiding the light flux into the objective optical system, the moving optical element being moved in a direction parallel to an optical axis corresponding to the first light wavelength λ1 and the second light wavelength λ2, wherein the objective optical system has phase structure and satisfies M1=M2=0, where, M1 and M2 denote a first and second magnifications of the objective optical system for recording and/or reproducing the information on or from the first and second optical information media.

A method and system for sharing information between users while reproducing media in a media reproducing system, the method including: reproducing the media in the media reproducing system; capturing a part of the media in the media reproducing system; and registering a media related question including the captured part of the media in an information sharing server through a return channel of the media reproducing system. Accordingly, the users can share information in real time by generating the media related question by directly capturing the media in the media reproducing system, registering the media related question in the information sharing server, and displaying on the media reproducing system of another user that such media related question is registered. Also, since a question can be directly registered while reproducing the media, information can be conveniently shared without interrupting the media reproduction.

Information is provided a user of a mobile device. Media content is sensed by the mobile device and sent to an information processing server. The information processing server also obtains media content from another source and associates at least a portion of the obtained media content with a product or service offer. The sensed media content is correlated to the obtained media content such that an associated buy or service offer is selected. The buy or service offer is sent to the mobile device for display to the user.

The invention discloses an intelligent car washing device. A central control device, an information media device, a mechanical car washing device, a sewage circulation device, an automobile detecting device and a safety detecting device are arranged in a main body mobile device; the safety detecting device is respectively connected with the mechanical car washing device, the sewage circulation device and the automobile detecting device; the central control device is respectively connected with the mechanical car washing device, the information media device, the sewage circulation device, the automobile detecting device and the safety detecting device; a remote management device is respectively connected with the central control device, the information media device, the main body mobile device, the mechanical car washing device, the sewage circulation device, the automobile detecting device and the safety detecting device; an autonomous control device is respectively connected with the central control device and the remote management device. The intelligent car washing device disclosed by the invention is a whole set car washing device, which is unmanned, does not need to open windows of a car, and moves and is installed conveniently.

Library system having a structure with improved response. A library for storing multiple optical information media, and a unit installed with a read/write drive for storing multiple optical record media, and the optical record media inside the cassette in the unit is conveyed to the read/write drive, in which a plurality of units are installed in the library system, and the system contain a conveyance means between the library and the unit to convey optical record media stored in the library to the cassette inside the unit.

A personal information management apparatus includes an imaging device having an imaging device for photo-taking a subject in which a person and an information medium containing character information about the person are a set with one photo-taking; an image extraction device extracting face image data and information medium image data among the subject image data generated by the photo-taking of the imaging device; a personal information file creation device creating a personal information file in such a manner that the face image data and the information medium image data are associated with each other; and a storage device storing one or more personal information files.

The invention relates to a session control entity, method and a computer program product for determining a first media type indicated for a session associated with a dialogue and determining a second media type indicated for an early media associated with the dialogue, comparing if the first media type and the second media type are the same, and transmitting to a policy control entity, parameters relating to the early media in the same session information media component than parameters relating to the session, if the first media type and the second media type are the same.

The invention provides a watermark display method, a device and a system and relates to the technical field of information media. The method comprises the following steps of determining the to-be-added watermark information; acquiring a preset coding mode, wherein the preset coding mode comprises the display conversion relation between different characters and dot-shaped coded graphs; according tothe preset coding mode, converting each character of the watermark information into a discrete point-shaped coded graph and displaying the discrete point-shaped coded graph in a transparent floatingwindow. The transparent floating window is a floating window which is arranged on a display screen in advance. The technical problem that the data safety is low due to poor invisibility of an existingwatermark technology is solved.

Techniques for determining the position of a mobile device using almanac data are provided as are techniques for providing almanac data to the mobile device from a location server. The almanac data can be provided to the mobile device based on coarse location information provided by the mobile device. The almanac data can include information Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of one or more wireless access points and most recently used channel identification. The almanac data can also be binned by location by the location server and a subset of the almanac data can be selected to be provided to the mobile device based on the coarse location of the mobile device and on positioning effectiveness criteria associated with the wireless access points included in the almanac data.

The present invention discloses an interactive media multi-person touch control system. The interactivity of the interactive media multi-person touch control system is a creation in the technical field and the information media field. The purpose of the system is to realize the function (i.e. opening a plurality of windows or executing a plurality of tasks synchronously) that 10 or more people obtain information synchronously within an area of 70 inches or larger. In order to achieve the function and the purpose, creations and inventions are carried out in different aspects. A display system and a touch control system are integrated into a whole, which can be arranged on a tabletop or a wallsurface according to needs. A visitor is capable of browsing information and images by touching and clicking. A program control system obtains signals by the touch of the visitor and sends information and images in time, and feeds back to the visitor with the assistance of the display system. The system has the characteristics that the display area is large, the system is capable of synchronously receiving the touch information of a plurality people and feeding back to the visitor one by one by programmed distribution, and truly realizes that visitors do not disturb each other when browsing information.

A system and method is disclosed for detecting the presence and level of wireless communications activity within a predetermined area, without disclosing the identity of the wireless users, and for generating a message to certain information and communications devices in response to the detection of a predetermined level of wireless communications activity within the predetermined area. The information detected also may include information relating to the general direction and rate of movement of detected wireless devices. The message generated in response to the detection of wireless communications activity may include wireless messages, including Short Message Service (SMS) messages, to persons desiring or needing to receive such information; messages to public officials and other interested persons; and automatic signals to devices such as computers, computer networks (including the internet and wireless networks), facsimile machines, signs, lights, loudspeakers, and other devices providing information through other communication and information media.