Patent ID: 7810128

Claim:
An information management system comprising: a center processing apparatus for performing user-information analysis; and a plurality of information processing apparatuses for storing user information; wherein: said center processing apparatus comprises: acquiring means for acquiring user information collected from each of the information processing apparatuses, the user information including operation information from a user for setting parameters for resolution and noise suppression; analyzing means for analyzing the operation information that reflects new products and new functions and obtaining user preference information indicating the new products and the new functions that the user prefers; user-information recording means for recording, in a database, user preference information obtained by the analysis by said analyzing means; selecting means for selecting, based on the user preference information obtained by the analysis by said analyzing means, optimal procedures about image quality and sound quality for users of the information processing apparatuses; providing means for providing the users with the new product or a circuit board having the new function of the optimal procedures about image quality and sound quality selected by said selecting means to update an existing product or circuit board having a corresponding function; and each of said information processing apparatuses comprises: operation-information accepting means for accepting operation information from the user; signal processing means for processing an input signal, based on the operation information accepted by said operation-information accepting means; and storage means for storing, as the user information, the operation information and information concerning the input signal.