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20100090948 | Apparatus, system, method, and program for processing information - An information processing apparatus includes a sensor for generating a sensor output signal responsive to the three-dimensional coordinate position of a detection target in a monitor space by detecting a capacitance in the monitor space, and outputting the sensor output signal, a position detector for detecting the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space from the sensor output signal of the sensor, a storage unit for storing coordinate information identifying a three-dimensional space region set in the monitor space, a determining unit for determining whether the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space is contained in the three-dimensional set space region, based on the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target detected by the position detector and the coordinate information stored on the storage, and an output unit for outputting determination results of the determining unit. | 04-15-2010 |
20100090982 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system and information processing program - An information processing apparatus includes: sensor means for detecting a distance to a detection target spatially separated therefrom; storage means for storing information on boundary values of a plurality of layers to which different functions are respectively assigned, and which are set according to different distances; determination means for determining in which one of the plurality of layers the detection target is positioned, from the boundary values of the plurality of layers in the storage means and an output signal of the sensor means; and control means for executing a process about the function assigned to that layer where the detection target is positioned, based on a determination result from the determination means. | 04-15-2010 |
20100127970 | Information processing system and information processing method - An information processing system includes: a sensor unit that detects the three-dimensional position of an object according to variations of electrostatic capacitances; and a control unit that performs display dependent on the detected three-dimensional position at a position on a display unit determined with positions in directions orthogonal to a direction of separation in which the object and the sensor unit are located at a distance from each other. | 05-27-2010 |
20100127989 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system and information processing program - An information processing apparatus includes: a key operation section that has one or more operation keys arranged planarly, and outputs a key operation output corresponding to an operation of an operation key; a sensor that outputs a detection output corresponding to a distance of a detection target, spatially separated from a layout surface of the operation key, from the layout surface; a detection section that detects the distance of the detection target from the layout surface from the detection output from the sensor; and a control section that validates only the key operation output corresponding to the operation of the operation key and invalidates the detection output of the sensor when the detected distance is less than a predetermined distance, and executes a control function according to the distance detected by the detection section when the detected distance is equal to or greater than the predetermined distance. | 05-27-2010 |
20100208051 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image pickup part; a display part; a position detecting part for detecting a position of a target relative to the display part; a face detecting part for detecting a face from a taken image; an attribute obtaining part for obtaining attribute information of the target; a group determining part for determining a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the detected target; a content determining part for determining a content to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information of the target and the attribute information of the target; and a display processing part for displaying content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target. | 08-19-2010 |
20110298791 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY IMAGE CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed herein is an information display device, including: an image display section adapted to display binocular parallax images; a display image control section adapted to control the binocular parallax images displayed on the image display section; and a position information acquisition section adapted to acquire position information representing the three-dimensional position of a target existing in the three-dimensional space on the display surface of the image display section, wherein the display image control section controls the binocular parallax images displayed on the image display section according to the three-dimensional position of the target represented by the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section. | 12-08-2011 |
20120032905 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a display unit located on a front surface of a case. The information processing apparatus also includes a sensing unit located on a side surface of the case facing away from the display unit. | 02-09-2012 |
20130135252 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing apparatus includes a sensor for generating a sensor output signal responsive to the three-dimensional coordinate position of a detection target in a monitor space by detecting a capacitance in the monitor space, and outputting the sensor output signal, a position detector for detecting the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space from the sensor output signal of the sensor, a storage unit for storing coordinate information identifying a three-dimensional space region set in the monitor space, a determining unit for determining whether the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space is contained in the three-dimensional set space region, based on the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target detected by the position detector and the coordinate information stored on the storage, and an output unit for outputting determination results of the determining unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20140198077 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing apparatus includes a sensor for generating a sensor output signal responsive to the three-dimensional coordinate position of a detection target in a monitor space by detecting a capacitance in the monitor space, and outputting the sensor output signal, a position detector for detecting the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space from the sensor output signal of the sensor, a storage unit for storing coordinate information identifying a three-dimensional space region set in the monitor space, a determining unit for determining whether the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space is contained in the three-dimensional set space region, based on the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target detected by the position detector and the coordinate information stored on the storage, and an output unit for outputting determination results of the determining unit. | 07-17-2014 |
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20100169556 | NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD - A nonvolatile storage device includes a nonvolatile memory configured to store user data and management information used to manage the user data on a file system, and a medium controller configured to determine whether a command input from a host device is used for the user data or the management information, the command describing content of processing performed for the user data or the management information, and switch between control methods used for the nonvolatile memory on the basis of the determination result. | 07-01-2010 |
20100287332 | DATA STORING SYSTEM, DATA STORING METHOD, EXECUTING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A data storing system including: a non-volatile memory configured to have a plurality of memory blocks each capable of independently operating and allow random access to each of addresses; a controller configured to control writing of data to the non-volatile memory; and an executing unit configured to execute a predetermined application, wherein the executing unit decides the number of interleaves indicating the number of memory blocks operated in parallel among the plurality of memory blocks, and the executing unit notifies the controller of the decided number of interleaves. | 11-11-2010 |
20110010580 | Memory apparatus, memory controlling method and program - A memory apparatus includes a memory having a main memory area and a replacement area, and a memory controller having a function of issuing instructions corresponding to commands to carry out transmission and reception of data and reading of status information of the memory. | 01-13-2011 |
20110035646 | NONVOLATILE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY AND NONVOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM - A nonvolatile random access memory includes: a nonvolatile storage area that is randomly accessible and includes a data area to store data and an error-correcting-code area to store an error correcting code, the data area including at least one data area to which a data area unit size is assigned, the error-correcting-code area including at least one error-correcting-code area to which an error-correcting-code-area unit size is assigned; and a nonvolatile storage area controller to set a data size used when the at least one data area is accessed, as the data area unit size. The nonvolatile storage area controller manages the data area and the error-correcting-code area based on the set data area unit size and assigns the at least one error-correcting-code area with the error-correcting-code-area unit size to the at least one data area with the data area unit size based on the data area unit size. | 02-10-2011 |
20110066923 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUS, MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND MEMORY SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a nonvolatile memory apparatus including, a nonvolatile memory section, a standard error correction code processing section, an extended error correction code processing section, and a control section. | 03-17-2011 |
20110087836 | STORAGE UNIT AND MEMORY SYSTEM - A storage unit includes: a random access memory device and a storage device to be accessed using an address in units of word and sector, respectively; and a storage controller controlling accesses to the random access memory device and the storage device according to the addresses designated via a bus. The storage controller includes first and second interface functions for access to data stored on the storage device and the random access memory designated using the sector address and the word address provided via the bus, respectively, a function of using the random access memory device as a first disk cache and determining data to be saved in the random access memory device in response to the access by the first interface function, and functions of transferring the data designated using the sector address by repeating register access and by a bus master function as continuous word-sized data through the bus. | 04-14-2011 |
20110119558 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY AND MEMORY SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a nonvolatile memory, including: a memory area including a data area configured to retain data and an error correction code area configured to retain an error correction code known as ECC; and a control unit configured to control access to the memory area. The control unit includes an error detection and correction function configured to detect an error in the data read from the data area and to correct the detected error, at least one save area configured such that if data at a designated address and ECC corresponding thereto are read from the memory area and if an error is detected, then the save area retaining the address and correct data corresponding thereto, and a validity presentation block configured to indicate whether or not the address and the correct data retained in the save area are valid. | 05-19-2011 |
20120159286 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, AND MEMORY SYSTEM - There is provided a data transmission device including a data information storage area including a plurality of areas for storing a first memory address of the first memory device of a data transmission source, a second memory address of the second memory device of a data transmission destination, an error signal indicating whether or not an error is detected in transmission data, and an validity signal indicating whether or not data stored in the second memory device are valid after completing the error correction; and a control unit that outputs a second memory validity address which is a memory address in which data are valid out of data stored in the second memory device, reads data from the second memory validity address of the second memory device, and transmits an address of the first memory device corresponding to the second memory validity address along with the read data. | 06-21-2012 |
20120198186 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM - A memory device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memories configured to be erased at updating of data, and a memory controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller includes an address conversion table configured to convert a logical address specified by at data writing into a physical address of the nonvolatile memory, an erased physical block managing unit configured to manage an erased physical block address, the nonvolatile memory of the erased physical block address, and an erased physical block count on each nonvolatile memory, an erasable physical block managing unit configured to manage an erasable physical block address, the nonvolatile memory of the erasable physical block address, and an erasable physical block count on each nonvolatile memory, and a memory control unit configured to control writing and erasing on the plurality of nonvolatile memories. | 08-02-2012 |