A service system includes a mobile terminal and an information processing device capable of communication via a network. The mobile terminal includes a first transmission unit that transmits spherical images taken in respective imaging locations and positional information about the imaging locations to the information processing device. The information processing device includes a reception unit that receives the spherical images transmitted by the first transmission unit; a map data obtaining unit that obtains map data from a map data storage, the map data including the imaging locations of the spherical images; a path information creation unit that creates information about a path made by connecting the imaging locations in the map data obtained by the map data obtaining unit; and a content providing unit that makes content available for a request through the network, the content including the map data, the information about the path, and the spherical images.

An image output method includes capturing an image of code pattern including device information specifying an image output device, obtaining the device information from the image of code pattern, obtaining user information specifying a user, and outputting the device information and the user information to an external device, by an information processing device; authenticating the user based on the user information, by a processor; executing image output processing instructed by the user authenticated based on the user information, by the image output device specified based on the device information; transmitting a result of the image output processing by the image output device to the information processing device, by the image output device; and displaying the result of the image output processing by the information processing device.

A communication device configured to notify an external control device of information managed in the communication device, the communication device including: a communication circuitry configured to perform data communication with the control device; and a control circuitry configured to generate notification data in response to an event and control the communication circuitry to transmit the notification data to the control device, the event indicating that a state in the communication device changes, wherein the notification data includes: an event identification region to identify a target event to be notified, a data storage region to store state data indicating a state changed in the target event, and a necessity identification region to indicate whether the control device requires acquiring additional information regarding the target event.

Methods, devices, and computer-readable storage media for providing a user with augmented guidance to capture images of products placed on a store shelving unit, the method including using an image sensor of a mobile device to capture and display in real-time a video stream depicting a store shelving unit, augmenting the video stream with a marking identifying an area of the store shelving unit and receiving an image including an area outside the marked area. A plurality of images captured by the image sensor and associated with a discontinuous first area of the store shelving unit with at least two non-overlapping regions and having image resolution higher than an image resolution of the video stream are used to mark the area of the video stream representing discontinuous first area and a second area outside the discontinuous first area. The received image overlaps the discontinuous first area and second area.

This disclosure describes a distributed reader architecture for a mobile computing device such as cellular telephone handset. One claim recites a portable computing device including: memory for storing a library of processing components, the library including a signal detector component and an audio fingerprinting component; a microphone for capturing ambient audio; one or more processors configured for: invoking the audio fingerprinting component for processing captured audio to produce an audio fingerprint, wherein the audio fingerprinting component comprises a filtering process, in which the filtering process produces components of the captured audio that are used to produce the audio fingerprint; and invoking the signal detector component, in which the signal detector component comprises a fast detect process for analyzing the captured audio to determine the presence of an auxiliary signal within the captured audio, and when the presence of the auxiliary signal is detected, controlling the signal detector component for detecting the auxiliary signal to yield a detected auxiliary signal. The device further includes a communications output for communicating the audio fingerprint and the detected auxiliary signal to a remotely located server. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided as well.

Provided is an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image that includes a target a user is paying attention to, an access information acquisition unit for acquiring access information assigned with a time-limited access right to public information that is associated with the target in the image, a public information acquisition unit for acquiring the public information using the access information, and a display control unit for controlling display of the public information.

A terminal device performs operations includes: a file information receiving process to receive M pieces of file information for identifying M image files from a printer storing M image files; a specific signal receiving process to receive a specific signal from the printer; a determination process to determine whether an inter-device distance is equal to or less than a predetermined distance by using a received radio field intensity of the specific signal; a selection process to select N pieces of file information, which is a part of the M pieces of file information when it is determined in the determination process that the inter-device distance is equal to or less than the predetermined distance; and a print instruction transmission process to not transmit the print instruction to the printer when it is determined that the inter-device distance is not equal to or less than the predetermined distance.

An information transmitting apparatus includes a search unit and an information transmitting unit. The search unit searches for at least one destination linked with authentication information using a character string corresponding to the authentication information as a keyword. The information transmitting unit transmits information using a search result obtained by the search unit.

An information transmission system includes a unit configured to cause an authentication unit to perform authentication based on authentication information, a unit configured to cause a search unit to search for at least one transmission destination associated with the authentication information by using a text string corresponding to the authentication information as a keyword, and an information transmission unit configured to transmit information using a result of the search performed by the search unit. The authentication unit and the search unit are disposed in an external apparatus connected to the information transmission apparatus via a network.

A data processing apparatus includes a recording control unit configured to perform control so that a plurality of contents is recorded in a recording medium, a first communication unit configured to connect to an external device via a first communication, and receive via the first communication a communication parameter for connecting via a second communication different from the first communication to the external device and information to be used to sort the plurality of contents, a second communication unit configured to connect to the external device via the second communication based on the communication parameter received via the first communication unit, and a control unit configured to perform control so that the plurality of contents is sorted based on the information to be used to sort the plurality of contents that is received from the external device via the first communication unit.