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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8001576 | Information providing system, information processing apparatus and information processing method for transmitting sound and image data Disclosed is an information providing system which comprises: an information providing apparatus with elements for receiving a TV program, generating image data and sound data representing a received TV program, and transmitting the image data and sound data; and an... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7770195 | Information processing apparatus and method, information providing apparatus and method, and program thereof Disclosed are an information processing apparatus and an information processing method, an information providing apparatus and an information providing method, and a program thereof. In an information processing apparatus, the apparatus comprises: an acquiring eleme... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7688350 | Digital camera apparatus and printing method of digital camera apparatus A digital camera apparatus and a printing method for printing still and motion image stored in the digital camera. A frame to be printed in motion image data stored in a removable memory is designated. The position information of the designated frame to be printed i... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7346650 | Recording and reproducing system, server apparatus, recording and reproducing method, terminal apparatus, operating method, and program storage medium A recording and reproducing system according to the invention is made up of a server apparatus and its terminals connected over a local area network that is administered independently in a limited area. In the system, any one of the terminals may generate a reproduc... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346692 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Disclosed is an information processing apparatus for switching a first session and a second session in executing processing, the apparatus comprising: storage controlling means which, if a first module belonging to a group is activated in the first session, then sto... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7296055 | Information providing system, information providing apparatus, information providing method, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Disclosed is an information providing system in which the information providing apparatus first receives a connection request from the first information processing apparatus. Upon receipt of the connection request, a check is made to see whether the information prov... | 11/13/2007 |
