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20090048774 | Route information display device and route information display method - A route information display device is provided which calculates a branch point in routes to a plurality of inputted destinations, and uses the branch point to control information modes. | 02-19-2009 |
20090105934 | DESTINATION PREDICTION DEVICE AND DESTINATION PREDICTION METHOD - To provide a destination prediction device that predicts a destination of a mobile body without being dependent on the availability of a history of the destination. | 04-23-2009 |
20090248284 | TRAVEL SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TRAVEL SUPPORT METHOD - Provided is a travel support system which sufficiently uses notified non-equipped vehicle information, and includes: an equipped-vehicle detecting unit ( | 10-01-2009 |
20090281721 | TRANSIT INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A transit information provision device is provided which provides transit information with an optimal method according to a situation of a user; the transit information provision device including a transit event information acquiring unit ( | 11-12-2009 |
20090312946 | TRAVEL HISTORY EDITING DEVICE - A travel history editing device in the present invention includes: a position information detecting unit ( | 12-17-2009 |
20100036601 | DESTINATION PREDICTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - To provide a destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination more accurately than before. A destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination of a mobile object includes: a stay characteristic accumulating unit ( | 02-11-2010 |
20100042317 | DESTINATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DESTINATION DISPLAY METHOD - A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit ( | 02-18-2010 |
20100094896 | PROGRAM RETRIEVAL SUPPORT DEVICE AND ITS METHOD - The program retrieval support device includes the following units. A program-information-accumulation unit ( | 04-15-2010 |
20100161213 | DESTINATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DESTINATION DISPLAY METHOD - A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit ( | 06-24-2010 |
20100225469 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, NOTIFICATION DEVICE, AND NOTIFICATION METHOD - Conventional notification systems have a poor operability since a notification is transmitted every time a child moves outside a predetermined area. Provided is a notification system comprising: a first position detection unit ( | 09-09-2010 |
20100287275 | OPERATION SUPPORTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING OPERATION - Provided is an operation supporting device that can estimate an apparatus to be supported in operation and support the operation independent of a position relationship between a position of the apparatus to be supported and a position of the user, and of a density of apparatuses. The operation supporting device includes: an operation history collecting unit ( | 11-11-2010 |
20100333022 | OPERATION SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME - The operation support apparatus includes: an operation load calculation unit ( | 12-30-2010 |
20110008020 | RELATED SCENE ADDITION APPARATUS AND RELATED SCENE ADDITION METHOD - The related scene addition apparatus capable of extracting a related scene even when information on a moving image content having no information related to each scene, such as text information, has been retrieved includes: an operation record storage unit ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110016072 | OPERATION SUPPORT APPARATUS AND OPERATION SUPPORT METHOD - An operation support apparatus includes: an operation record storage unit ( | 01-20-2011 |
20110138202 | ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SUPPORT DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SUPPORT METHOD - An electric power control support device ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110313693 | OPERATIONAL STATUS DETERMINATION DEVICE AND OPERATIONAL STATUS DETERMINATION METHOD - An operation status determination device includes: a receiving unit which receives a value, as power consumption data, from which power consumption of an appliance is derivable, the power consumption being measured at predetermined time intervals; a specification unit which specifies operation start times of the appliance, based on the power consumption data received by the receiving unit; and a determination unit which determines whether or not the appliance starts operating automatically, based on each of occurrence frequencies of the operation start times specified by the specification unit. | 12-22-2011 |
20120150463 | UTILIZATION-TIME CHANGING SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING CHANGE IN UTILIZATION TIME - Provided is a utilization-time changing support device including: a household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit storing records of power consumption for each household electrical appliance used in a living space; a power record writing unit receiving information indicating the power consumption of the household electrical appliance from a measuring device that measures the power consumption, and writing, into the household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit, a record of the information as one of the records of the power consumption; a regular use determining unit determining whether or not the household electrical appliance used during a predetermined period is regularly used, based on the records of the power consumption; and a period change possibility determining unit outputting (i) whether or not a utilization period of the household electrical appliance can be changed and (ii) another utilization period as a result of the determination, based on the records of the power consumption. | 06-14-2012 |
20120191000 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - An exemplary electroencephalogram measurement system includes: a frequency analysis section for, analyzing a frequency power of the electroencephalogram signal of a user with respect to each set of a reference electrode and a measurement electrode; an insufficient electrode determination section for, through comparison of the analyzed frequency power against a first threshold value, distinguishing whether a state of attachment of each electrode is sufficient or not; and an insufficiency cause estimation section for determining the number of insufficient electrodes distinguished as insufficiently worn, determining a position at which each insufficient electrode is in contact with the user, and estimating a cause for the insufficient state of attachment of the insufficient electrode or electrodes that corresponds to the determined number of insufficient electrodes and position of each insufficient electrode by referring to insufficiency pattern data. | 07-26-2012 |
20120209439 | UTILIZATION START INTERVAL PREDICTION DEVICE AND UTILIZATION START INTERVAL PREDICTION METHOD - A prediction device for predicting a prediction interval being a time interval predicted with a high possibility of appliance utilization starts includes: an evaluation unit calculating, using utilization interval history data, an evaluation value for determining a prediction scheme for each appliance; a determination unit, based on the evaluation value at least for each appliance, determining at least one of a first and a second prediction scheme as the scheme of the prediction interval for the appliance, the first prediction scheme using a property that the appliance is utilized in a predetermined cycle, and the second prediction scheme using a property that the utilization of a second appliance being the appliance is started in a period from a start or an end of utilization of a first appliance being another appliance to a passage of a predetermined time; a prediction unit predicting a prediction interval according to the determined scheme. | 08-16-2012 |
20120279285 | SAFETY DEVICE AND PREPARATORY MOVEMENT DETERMINATION METHOD - A safety device for a machine having an action part for processing or moving an object includes: a posture obtainment unit configured to obtain a plurality of posture data indicating a posture of at least part of the lower body of a worker; and a preparatory movement determination unit configured to determine that a preparatory movement preceding a dangerous movement which brings at least part of the upper body of the worker closer to a working area of the action part is being performed in the case where a change in the posture indicated by the plurality of posture data shows that the worker is shifting a center of gravity of whole body of the worker in an orientation away from the working area of the action part without changing positions of both feet. | 11-08-2012 |
20130021456 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONVERGENCE PERFORMANCE - Provided is a convergence performance determination device including an eye information acquisition unit configured to acquire eye information which is information on eye movements of a user when viewing a stereoscopic video; a convergence movement calculation unit configured to calculate amounts of convergence movement each indicating a degree of a convergence eye movement of the user, based on the eye information acquired by the eye information acquisition unit; and a determination unit configured to determine convergence eye movement performance of the user by comparing between distribution data indicating a distribution of the amounts of convergence movement calculated by the convergence movement calculation unit in an evaluation interval which is a predetermined playback time interval of the stereoscopic video being viewed by the user and distribution data indicating a distribution of the amounts of convergence movement determined in accordance with depth information on the stereoscopic video in the evaluation interval. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021458 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO - Provided is a stereoscopic video presenting apparatus including: an eye movement measurement unit configured to measure an eye movement of each of users viewing the stereoscopic video; a user count determination unit configured to determine the number of users viewing a same stereoscopic video; and a failure state determination unit configured to compare, when the user count determination unit determines that the number of users viewing the same stereoscopic video is plurality, eye movements of a plurality of users to determine a user whose eye movement is in a failure state among the plurality of users. | 01-24-2013 |
20130039498 | ANNOYANCE JUDGMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An annoyance judgment system includes: a biological signal measurement section configured to measure an electroencephalogram signal of a user; a database retaining a plurality of monosyllabic speech sounds such that, for each speech sound, the speech sound and a reference latency of an electroencephalogram negative component corresponding to the speech sound are retained in association; a presented-speech sound determination section configured to deteremine a monosyllabic speech sound to be presented by referring to the database; and an annoyance judgment section configured to judge annoyance of the output speech sound by comparing a peak latency of a negative component of the electroencephalogram signal in a range from 50 ms to 350 ms from a starting point, the a starting point being a point in time at which the determined speech sound is presented, against the reference latency corresponding to the determined speech sound that is retained in the database. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044291 | VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING DEVICE, VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING METHOD, VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL GLASSES - A visual fatigue level measuring device includes: a video presenting unit which presents 3D video; a test period determining unit which determines two or more time periods each of which is for a test for measuring a level of visual fatigue; an eye movement obtaining unit which obtains data indicating eye movements of left and right eyes of a player with respect to the presented video; an eye movement extracting unit which extracts, from the obtained eye movement data, eye movement data in each of the two or more time periods determined by the test period determining unit; an eye movement comparing unit which compares eye movements in the two or more time periods based on the extracted data; and a fatigue level determining unit which determines the level of visual fatigue of the player based on the comparison result. | 02-21-2013 |
20130070929 | SOUND PRESSURE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A sound pressure assessment system determines sounds to be presented by referring to a database retaining data of sounds, each of which is a pure tone. The system presents the determined sound as a first sound, and in a predetermined time after presenting the first sound, presents as a second sound a sound at least having the same frequency and the same sound pressure level as those of the'first sound to the user. The system extracts an amount of change from an N1 component in response to the first sound to that in response to the second sound. The N1 components are negative components of an user's event-related potential based on points of presenting the first and second sounds as respective starting points. The system determines whether the sound pressure level of the presented sound is excessive to the user, based on the amount of change. | 03-21-2013 |
20130131521 | CONCENTRATION PRESENCE/ABSENCE DETERMINING DEVICE AND CONTENT EVALUATION APPARATUS - A concentration presence/absence determining device includes: a brain blood flow volume obtaining unit configured to obtain a brain blood flow volume of the user; a varying threshold obtaining unit configured to obtain a varying threshold that is a value smaller than the brain blood flow volume of the user at a base time; and an determining unit configured to determine that the user concentrates, when the brain blood flow volume obtained by the brain blood flow volume obtaining unit falls below the varying threshold obtained by the varying threshold obtaining unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138012 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM RECORDING APPARATUS, HEARING AID, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - In an electroencephalogram recording apparatus: a classification section classifies a collected sound into one of categories concerning sound pressure; an accumulation determination section determines whether or not to record an electroencephalogram of a user based on whether a number of times of data accumulation has reached a target value for the category into which the sound is classified; and an accumulation section accumulates an electroencephalogram data and a sound data in association if the electroencephalogram data is determined to be recorded. A first value is designated as a target value for a first category into which sounds of an expected minimum value are classified. A second value is designated as a target value for a second category into which any sound having a sound pressure greater than the minimum value is classified. The accumulation determination section sets the first value to be equal to or greater than the second value. | 05-30-2013 |
20130182860 | UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE DETERMINATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF, HEARING AID ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, AND UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE DETERMINATION APPARATUS - An exemplary uncomfortable sound pressure determination system including: a sound data generator configured to generate sound data concerning sounds consecutively ascending or descending in sound pressure from first to n | 07-18-2013 |
20130229711 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL EYEGLASSES - Provided is an image display system which can assuredly perform collaborative processing such as determination of a fatigue state of a viewer using three-dimensional eyeglasses and an image display apparatus, without increasing system scale, the image display system including: a transmitting and receiving unit included in a three-dimensional display TV which transmits to three-dimensional eyeglasses a specification-designating signal designating a specification which at least includes a data format for a communication signal; a transmitting and receiving unit included in the three-dimensional eyeglasses which receives the specification-designating signal transmitted from the three-dimensional display TV and, according to the specification designated by the received specification-designating signal, converts a biometric signal acquired by a biometric signal sensor into the communication signal, and transmits the communication signal to the three-dimensional display TV. | 09-05-2013 |
20130235169 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY AND POSITION GAP ADJUSTMENT METHOD - An HMD includes: a display which displays a three-dimensional video image; a position obtaining unit which measures a position of an inner corner or tail of an eye of a viewer with respect to the display; a standard position storage unit which obtains and stores, as a standard position relating to the position, the measured position of the inner corner or outer corner of the eye, in calibration for determining the standard position; a position gap detecting unit which detects, as a position gap, a difference between the standard position and a newly measured position of the inner corner or outer corner of the eye of the viewer viewing content with respect to the display; and an image processing unit which performs image processing on the 3D video image to be displayed on the display, to rotated or parallely move the 3D video image according to the detected position gap. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242387 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL EYEGLASSES - Provided is a three-dimensional image display system including: eyeglasses including a type information transmission unit which transmits type information of the eyeglasses and a potential information transmission unit which transmits a biopotential of a viewer as potential information; and a three-dimensional display TV including a type information reception unit which receives the type information, an electrode position determination unit which determines, based on the received type information, a position of an electrode included in the eyeglasses, a potential information reception unit which receives the transmitted potential information, and a wearing conditions determination unit which determines wearing conditions of the viewer wearing the eyeglasses, based on the determined electrode position and the received potential information. | 09-19-2013 |
20130266163 | UNCOMFORTABLENESS THRESHOLD VALUE ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND A PROGRAM THEREOF; HEARING AID ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM; AND UNCOMFORTABLENESS THRESHOLD VALUE PROCESSING CIRCUIT - An exemplary UCL estimation system including: an output section configured to present to a user a first sound, and a second sound after lapse of a first predetermined time from a point of presenting the first sound, the first sound having a sound pressure within a predetermined sound pressure range, and the second sound having a same sound pressure as that of the first sound; a measurement section configured to measure an electroencephalogram signal of the user; an extraction section configured to extract, from an electroencephalogram signal measured within a second predetermined time from a point of presenting the second sound, a characteristic amount of an event-related potential of the signal; and an estimation section configured to estimate, by referring to a predetermined relationship between characteristic amount values of event-related potential and uncomfortableness threshold values, an uncomfortableness threshold value corresponding to the extracted characteristic amount of the potential. | 10-10-2013 |
20130296732 | AUDITORY EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AUDITORY EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - An auditory event-related potential measurement system includes: a video output section configured to present a video to a user; a measurement section configured to measure a user's electroencephalogram signal; a scheduling section configured to schedule a timing of presenting an auditory stimulation so that the auditory stimulation is presented during a period in which the video is being presented to the user; an auditory stimulation output section configured to present the auditory stimulation to the user at the scheduled timing; and a processing section configured to acquire, from the electroencephalogram signal, an event-related potential in a first time range as reckoned from a point in time at which the auditory stimulation is presented. When an amount of video luminance change exceeds a threshold value, the auditory stimulation is not presented during a second time range as reckoned from a point in time at which the threshold value is exceeded. | 11-07-2013 |
20130324880 | AUDITORY EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AUDITORY EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AUDITORY EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - The auditory event-related potential measurement system includes: a size determination section for determining a size of a region within a video to be presented to a user so that the region has a viewing angle between diagonal corners in a range greater than 2 degrees and smaller than 14 degrees; a video output section for presenting to the user a video including a region of the size determined by the size determination section; an auditory stimulation output section for presenting an auditory stimulation to the user during a period in which the video is being presented to the user; a biological signal measurement section for measuring an electroencephalogram signal of the user; and an electroencephalogram processing section for acquiring an event-related potential from the electroencephalogram signal as reckoned from a point in time at which the auditory stimulation is presented. | 12-05-2013 |
20140072127 | UNCOMFORTABLE LOUDNESS LEVEL ESTIMATING SYSTEM, UNCOMFORTABLE LOUDNESS LEVEL ESTIMATING DEVICE, UNCOMFORTABLE LOUDNESS LEVEL ESTIMATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SAME - An uncomfortable sound pressure estimation system includes: a biological signal measurement section for measuring an electroencephalogram signal of a user; a sound stimulation output section for presenting a sound stimulation group to the user, the sound stimulation group including a first sound, a second sound, and a third sound which are pure tones of the same frequency and which consecutively decrease in sound pressure within a predetermined range; an extraction section for, from the electroencephalogram signal in a predetermined zone defined based on a point of presenting at least one of the second sound and the third sound as a starting point, extracting an N1-P2-amplitude related or wavelet-coefficient related characteristic amount of event-related potential of the electroencephalogram signal; and a determination section for determining an uncomfortable sound pressure at the frequency of the sound stimulation group based on the characteristic amount extracted by the extraction section. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072130 | UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE ESTIMATION SYSTEM, UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE ESTIMATION APPARATUS, UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE ESTIMATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - An exemplary uncomfortable sound pressure estimation system includes: a sound stimulation scheduling section configured to determine points in time of outputting a group of sound stimulations so that times of measurement for event-related potentials in response to the second sound and third sound arrive after a predetermined noise-lingering time has elapsed since a next point of occurrence of periodic noise; an event-related potential characteristic amount extraction section configured to receive the points in time of outputting the sound stimulation group, and extract a characteristic amount of an event-related potential of the electroencephalogram signal based on each point of outputting the group of sound stimulations as a starting point; and an uncomfortable sound pressure determination section configured to determine an uncomfortable sound pressure for the frequency of the sound stimulation group. | 03-13-2014 |
20140078252 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A stereoscopic video processing apparatus includes: a switch operation detection unit which detects a switch operation, made by a user, that is an operation to select a channel of a three-dimensional (3D) video or an operation for a fast-forward playback, a rewind playback, skipping, or locating a cue point of a 3D video; a frequency determination unit which determines a detection frequency indicating the number of switch operations per unit of time detected by the switch operation detection unit; and a video processing unit which performs processing to reduce a difference in depth between 3D videos before and after switching of the 3D videos when the detection frequency per unit of time determined by the frequency determination unit is higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081117 | EYE FATIGUE DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND EYE FATIGUE DETERMINATION METHOD - An eye fatigue determination apparatus includes: an electrooculogram obtainment unit that obtains an electrooculogram indicating a potential measured using an electrode placed near an eye of a viewer who is viewing video content, the electrooculogram being measured in a plurality of predetermined time sections during display of the video content; an impedance obtainment unit that obtains an impedance between the electrode and the viewer's skin at a position where the electrode is placed, the impedance being measured in the plurality of predetermined time sections; an electrooculogram correction unit that corrects the electrooculogram measured in the plurality of predetermined time sections and obtained by the electrooculogram obtainment unit, based on the impedance measured in the plurality of predetermined time sections and obtained by the impedance obtainment unit; and a fatigue determination unit that determines fatigue of the viewer's eye, based on the electrooculogram corrected by the electrooculogram correction unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140100484 | FORCE PRESENTATION APPARATUS, FORCE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND FORCE PRESENTATION PROGRAM - Upon insertion of an insertion member into a living body vessel by an operator, a force individually applied to the living body vessel by the insertion member is measured by a force measuring unit, and based upon the force measured by the force measuring unit, information to be presented to an experiencing person is determined by a determination unit so that based upon the determined information, the corresponding force is presented to the experiencing person by a force presentation unit. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105436 | HEARING AID GAIN DETERMINATION SYSTEM, HEARING AID GAIN DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A hearing aid gain determination system includes: a biological signal measurement section for measureing an electroencephalogram signal; a sound group determination section for determining a frequency of a sound group including first, second and third sounds; a sound pressure determination section for determining sound pressures of the first to third sounds so that the respective sound pressures are less than a threshold and that the first to third sounds consecutively decrease; an output section for presenting the first to third sounds at the determined frequency and sound pressures; a characteristic amount extraction section for extracting a characteristic amount concerning time-frequency information of an event-related potential in a time range after presenting the first to third sounds; a gain determination section for determining a hearing aid gain for the frequency of the sound stimulation group against a predetermined criterion based on the characteristic amounts. | 04-17-2014 |
20140153729 | SPEECH-SOUND DISTINGUISHING ABILITY DETERMINATION APPARATUS, SPEECH-SOUND DISTINGUISHING ABILITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM, HEARING AID GAIN DETERMINATION APPARATUS, SPEECH-SOUND DISTINGUISHING ABILITY DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - In a speech discrimination ability determination system, an MMN determination section acquires, with respect to each of the first and second speech sounds, difference information between the event-related potential acquired during its output with the first occurrence frequency and the event-related potential acquired during its output with the second occurrence frequency, and determines whether a negative component exists in the difference information in predetermined time ranges after the first and second speech sounds are output. When the determination result indicates that the negative component exists, a discrimination ability determination section determines that the user discriminates the first and second speech sounds. | 06-05-2014 |
20140171778 | FORCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, FORCE MEASUREMENT METHOD, FORCE MEASUREMENT PROGRAM, FORCE MEASUREMENT INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT, AND MASTER-SLAVE DEVICE - A force measurement apparatus includes a force detection unit that measures a force generated when a forceps is brought into contact with an inside of a body when an operator inserts a forceps or an endoscope into the body and measures a force generated when the forceps acts on a living body from outside the body, a reference information generating unit that generates reference information serving as information of a force acquired by the force detection unit when the forceps is located at a predetermined position, and an individual force calculation unit that individually calculates a force generated when the forceps acts on the living body in the body based on the reference information. | 06-19-2014 |
20140184760 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional (3D) video display apparatus includes: a viewing action detecting unit which detects whether or not a viewing state of a user who views a plurality of 3D video display screens with a viewing target being changed between the 3D video display screens has changed a predetermined number of times or more in a predetermined time period; and a control unit which restricts user's viewing action of viewing a 3D video image displayed by an image display unit when the viewing action detecting unit detects that the viewing state of the user has changed the predetermined number of times or more in the predetermined time period. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195052 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MASTER-SLAVE ROBOT, MASTER-SLAVE ROBOT, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A master-slave device grips an object and performs a task while being in contact with a to-be-treated object. A force detection unit measures force information given to a slave mechanism. A force correction determination unit determines a force correction part serving as information from correction start to end times of force information transmitted to a master mechanism and, as a correcting method to perform correction, a first method determining a gain such that a reduction in absolute value of force information at the force correction part is maintained for a predetermined period of time or a second method determining a gain such that a reduction and an increase in the absolute value are repeated within a range that is not more than a value by reducing the absolute value. A force correction unit corrects information of a type of a force based on the force correction part and the gain. | 07-10-2014 |
20140249438 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An exemplary electronic device is in a housing to be gripped by a right hand and a left hand of a user, and has a plurality of manipulable portions. The electronic device includes: electrodes placed at positions which come in contact with the right hand and left hand of the user gripping the housing; an extractor for extracting an electrocardiographic component of the user from a potential difference between the electrodes; a determination section for determining whether the extracted electrocardiographic component is in a positive direction or a negative direction by referring to a prestored criterion; and a change section for, in accordance with a result of determination by the determination section, changing assignment between each of the plurality of manipulable portions and a manipulation signal generated in response to a manipulation. | 09-04-2014 |
20140285641 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional display device for displaying a three-dimensional image, including: a gaze point obtaining unit which obtains a position of a gaze point of a viewer; a fusional area determination unit which determines a fusional area where binocular fusion is allowed, based on the obtained position of the gaze point; a correction unit which corrects the three-dimensional image so as to suppress display of an object that is included in the three-dimensional image outside the fusional area; and a display unit which displays the corrected three-dimensional image. | 09-25-2014 |
20140309540 | BIOSIGNAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND BIOSIGNAL MEASUREMENT METHOD - A biosignal measurement apparatus includes: a potential difference measurement unit that measures a potential difference between a plurality of electrodes of an electrode unit placed on a user's chest; an ECG analysis unit that obtains an electrocardiogram (ECG) indicating a temporal variation of a cardiac potential of the user, from the potential difference measured by the potential difference measurement unit; an impedance measurement switching unit that determines a start timing of a first period which is a period not including an R wave, using the ECG obtained by the ECG analysis unit; an impedance measurement unit that measures an impedance between the plurality of electrodes in the first period; and a respiratory calculation unit that calculates respiratory information related to respiration of the user, based on a temporal variation of the impedance measured by the impedance measurement unit. | 10-16-2014 |
20140333332 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An exemplary electronic device is in a housing to be gripped by both hands, and measures the potentials of first and second fingers of respectively different hands. The device includes: a first electrode group provided in a position to come in contact with the first finger, including a first main electrode and at least one first auxiliary electrode provided in a position away from the first main electrode; a second electrode group provided in a position to come in contact with the second finger, including a second main electrode and at least one second auxiliary electrode provided in a position away from the second main electrode; a biological signal processor for, from potential values measured at the first and second electrode groups, determining respective contact states concerning the first and second fingers; and a transmission circuit for presenting information concerning a finger contact state based on a result of determination. | 11-13-2014 |
20140336820 | ARM CONTROL APPARATUS, ARM CONTROL METHOD, ARM CONTROL PROGRAM, ROBOT, AND INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT FOR ARM CONTROL - There is provided a display information acquiring unit for acquiring display information on a screen of a touch panel display, a touch pattern estimating unit for estimating a region on the screen likely to be touched by a person and a motion direction of the touch based on the display information, a load estimating unit for estimating a load or a torque to the display based on the estimated region and the motion direction, a stiffness parameter information generating unit for generating information for controlling the arm so that the position and the orientation of the display do not change along the touching direction at the time of touch panel input based on the estimated load or torque, and an arm control unit for controlling a stiffness parameter of the arm based on the generated information. | 11-13-2014 |
20140343729 | ARM CONTROL APPARATUS, ARM CONTROL METHOD, ARM CONTROL PROGRAM, ROBOT, AND INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT FOR ARM CONTROL - In a touch panel display with an arm, a torque calculating unit calculates a torque to be loaded on a touch panel display based on a position acquired by a touch position information acquiring unit and a force acquired by a touch force information acquiring unit, and a stiffness parameter information generating unit generates information about a stiffness parameter for controlling an arm so that the position and the orientation of the touch panel display do not change based on the calculated torque. An arm control unit controls the arm based on the generated information about the stiffness parameter. | 11-20-2014 |
20140347456 | VIEWER WITH VARIFOCAL LENS AND VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM - A viewer includes a varifocal lens and a lens controller that adjusts a focal length of the varifocal lens, and can adjust a focal point in accordance with eye movement of the user. When a 3D image viewing detector detects 3D image viewing by the user, a focal length fixing section instructs a lens controller to fix a focal length of the varifocal lens irrespective of eye movement of the user. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347623 | VIEWER WITH MULTIFOCAL LENS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING FOCAL LENGTH OF VIEWER - A viewer includes a multifocal lens capable of setting one of a plurality of focal lengths. When a measuring section detects a change in gazing point distance, a selection section selects a focal length to be set among the plurality of focal lengths, and a determiner determines a time duration before a focal length of the multifocal lens is changed. A controller changes the focal length of the multifocal lens when a detector detects a blink or saccadic eye movement of the user before the determined time duration elapses. | 11-27-2014 |
20150016618 | UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE EVALUATION SYSTEM, UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE EVALUATION APPARATUS, UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS, UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE EVALUATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - An exemplary uncomfortable sound pressure evaluation system consecutively presents sound stimulation groups to a user. Each sound stimulation group includes a sound stimulation, and the sound stimulation groups differ in frequency from one another. The system includes: an extraction section configured to extract, for each sound stimulation group, information concerning event-related potential relating to the sound stimulation; an estimation section configured to estimate an uncomfortable sound pressure (UCL) of the user from the information concerning event-related potential; and a correction section configured to determine whether the estimated UCL is higher than a predefined maximum UCL or not, and if a proportion of those determination results which indicate the UCL to be higher than the maximum UCL is smaller than predetermined, correcting each UCL determined as higher than the maximum UCL to a sound pressure equal to or less than the maximum UCL. | 01-15-2015 |