Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090249942 | MUSIC PIECE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MUSIC PIECE REPRODUCING METHOD - A music piece reproducing apparatus has: a sound collecting unit collecting noise data of an ambient environment; an analyzing unit performing a frequency analysis to the noise data collected by the sound collecting unit and extracting a feature amount showing a feature of the noise data; a noise parameter database classifying the noise data every environment; and a reproducing unit reproducing music piece data which has been recorded in a recording medium and classified every category, wherein the analyzing unit classifies the noise data with reference to the noise parameter database on the basis of the extracted feature amount of the noise data, selects the previously-corresponded category of music pieces in accordance with a classification result of the noise data, and selects predetermined music piece data from music piece data classified into the selected category. | 10-08-2009 |
20090310799 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a band spreading unit configured to perform a band spreading process for generating components in a specific frequency band and adding the components to audio data, and a control unit configured to control the band spreading unit to execute the band spreading process using a band spreading method determined among a plurality of different band spreading methods, the band spreading method being defined in advance for a musical class determined using a feature of the audio data. | 12-17-2009 |
20100005953 | VOLUME ADJUSTING APPARATUS AND VOLUME ADJUSTING METHOD - A volume adjusting apparatus includes a sound collecting unit configured to collect noise data of a surrounding environment, an analyzing unit configured to extract a feature value indicating a feature of the noise data collected by the sound collecting unit and a feature value indicating a feature of supplied musical tune data, and a control unit configured to generate volume adjustment information for adjusting playback volume of the musical tune data based on the feature value of the noise data and the feature value of the musical tune data and adjusts the playback volume of the musical tune data based on the volume adjustment information. | 01-14-2010 |
20100011024 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - A playback apparatus is able to present song categories to the user that are suited to the current environmental noise. An audio pickup picks up noise data of the surrounding environment. A noise analyzer analyzes the noise data, and then extracts characteristic quantities expressing the characteristics of the noise data. A noise categorizer categorizes the noise data on the basis of the extracted noise data characteristic quantities. A content category database stores content data recorded onto a recording medium in association with categories based on characteristic quantities of the content data. A content category selector cross-references the noise data categorization result with the content category database, and on the basis thereof, selects a plurality of content data categories from among the categorized content data recorded onto the recording medium. A display unit then displays the selected plurality of content data categories. | 01-14-2010 |
20100246807 | Headphone Device - A headphone device includes: two output units for outputting playback audio which has been played back; a contact determination unit determining the occurrence of contact with respect to a telephone device; a first audio-collecting unit for collecting call voice generated from the telephone device; a second audio-collecting unit for collecting ambient external sound; and an output audio control unit performing control so that the call voice is outputted from one output unit of the two output units and the external sound is outputted from the other output unit when it is determined that contact has occurred by the contact determination unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100295678 | MOBILE APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a notice apparatus including: a plurality of notice signal generation units which generate notice signals; a reference signal output unit which outputs a reference signal used to determine an environmental situation; a reference signal detection unit which detects the reference signal output from the reference signal output unit and generates the detected reference signal as a detection signal; and a notice controller which controls one of the notice signal generation units to generate the notice signal based on the detection signal generated by the reference signal detection unit. | 11-25-2010 |
20110200210 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: an output device configured to perform notification to a user by outputting ringing sound; a sound pickup device configured to pick up surrounding sound as ambient sound; an adaptive filtering process device configured to perform an adaptive filtering process using the picked-up ambient sound and the ringing sound output from the output device, to thereby extract, from the ambient sound, estimated environmental sound from which the ringing sound picked up by the sound pickup device has been removed; and a control device configured to control, on the basis of the feature quantity of a predetermined feature extracted from the estimated environmental sound, the adjustment of at least one of the sound volume and the sound quality of the ringing sound. | 08-18-2011 |
20120288105 | ACOUSTIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETECTING ABNORMAL SOUND - An earplug unit includes a signal processing unit. The earplug unit is inserted into an external auditory canal and then used. In the earplug unit, a speaker is arranged at an eardrum side, and a microphone is arranged at a side opposite to the eardrum side. The microphone collects a sound in which a user's head shape or auricle characteristic is reflected. An output signal of the microphone is amplification-processed by a volume adjusting unit and then supplied to the speaker. An amplified sound is output from the speaker. A frequency characteristic is smoothed in a band larger than at least an audible frequency band in a system from the microphone to the speaker. | 11-15-2012 |
20130162904 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A signal processing device includes: a feature amount calculation unit calculating the respective feature amount of a first audio signal obtained through a first communication pathway and a second audio signal obtained through a second communication pathway corresponding to the first audio signal; an audio synchronization processing unit generating synchronization information of the first audio signal and the second audio signal based on the feature amounts calculated by the feature amount calculation unit; and an audio synthesis unit synthesizing the first audio signal with the second audio signal based on the synchronization information generated by the audio synchronization processing unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162905 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing device includes a feature amount calculating unit configured to obtain an audio feature amount of audio included in a content including audio; a synchronization information generating unit configured to generate synchronization information for synchronizing a plurality of content including the same or similar audio signal components, based on the audio feature amount obtained by the feature amount calculating unit; and a compositing unit configured to generate composited content, where a plurality of contents have been synchronized and composited using the synchronization information generated at the synchronization information generating unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130202131 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM,SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a provision control unit that provides choices expressed subjectively and associated with control for an acoustic signal, and an output unit that outputs a predetermined choice selected from the provided choices. | 08-08-2013 |
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20090231637 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCANNING/ACCUMULATING IMAGE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image scanning/accumulating system including an information issuing unit that acquires image data; and an information managing unit that includes an image-data database for storing therein the image data acquired by the information issuing unit, and manages the image data. The information managing unit includes a task-information database, and manages task information stored in the task-information database. The information issuing unit includes an image pickup unit that scans a paper-based document thereby obtaining image data, and registers the image data in the image-data database; an information display unit that acquires task information from the task-information database to be associated with the image data obtained by the image pickup unit, and displays acquired task information on a task-information setting screen; and a notifying unit that notifies a contact address included in the task information that the image data associated with the task information is registered in the image-data database. | 09-17-2009 |
20130147736 | ELECTRONIC INFORMATION BOARD APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC INFORMATION BOARD SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION BOARD - An electronic information board apparatus includes an extraction part configured to extract an operation area from an image input to the electronic information board; a display part configured to reconfigure the extracted operation area and display the reconfigured operation area at a predetermined position of a display screen; a correlation part configured to correlate the coordinates of the operation area and the coordinates of the reconfigured operation area; and a conversion part configured to convert an operation on the coordinates of the reconfigured operation area into an operation on the coordinates of the operation area. | 06-13-2013 |
20130257905 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes a synthesizing unit which synthesizes a drawn image drawn on a displayed image on a display device with the displayed image; a content data receiving unit which receives content data; a content data conversion unit which converts the received content data to image data; an external snapshot generation unit which generates an external snapshot to be displayed on the display unit based on the converted image data and stores the external snapshot in a storage unit; and a display control unit which displays the synthesized image by the synthesizing unit on the display device and also displays an object corresponding to the external snapshot in a selectable manner so that the external snapshot is displayed on the display device when the object is selected. | 10-03-2013 |
20130283198 | DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS - A display controlling apparatus includes: a state information initializing section to initialize state information of an application to be displayed for a user; a state information registering section to receive an operation event triggered by an operation of the user for registering a record of the state information into a database to be displayed corresponding to the received operation event; a state information display controlling section to monitor the record of the state information registered in the database for determining the record of the state information to be displayed; and a state information displaying section to display the determined record of the state information on a display screen. The display controlling apparatus has at least one record of the state information to be displayed on the display screen at a predetermined timing. | 10-24-2013 |
20140247463 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a first display unit that displays a video input on an operation and display unit, a second display unit that displays an input image that is superimposed on the video input displayed on the operation and display unit, and a captured image recording unit that records a captured image of the video input and the input image that are displayed on the operation and display unit. The second display unit erases the input image that is recorded when the captured image recording unit records the captured image of the input image. | 09-04-2014 |
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20090123203 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE HEATING ROTATIONAL BODY TO BE MOUNTED ON THE IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - According to embodiments, a heating member or a sliding member arranged in contact with the surface of a fusing roller is moved in an intersecting direction with the rotational direction of the fusing roller in a contact state with the heating member or the sliding member so as to prevent a scratch from being generated on the surface of the fusing roller or to repair the scratch. | 05-14-2009 |
20090208262 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - In an image heating apparatus, outer peripheral surfaces of two endless belts are held in contact with each other to form a nip portion, and a recording material bearing a toner image is heated at the nip portion while being pinched and conveyed. In the image heating apparatus, the nip portion has a pre-nip portion formed by regions of the endless belts with no backup by pressure members, and a pressure nip portion where one endless belt with backup by the pressure members is held in contact with another endless belt. The image heating apparatus is capable of securing a large nip width compatible with an increase in speed and free from “pressure-absence” leading to image abnormality such as misregistration, thus enabling an image having a sufficient gloss to be obtained. | 08-20-2009 |
20100135706 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable member; a heater contactable to a surface of the rotatable member to heat the rotatable member; and a back-up member cooperative with the rotatable member to form a nip for nipping and feeding a recording material carrying an image, wherein a position of a peak in a pressure distribution with respect to a rotational direction of the rotatable member is in an upstream, with respect to the rotational direction, of a central portion of a contact region between the rotatable member and the heater with respect to the rotational direction. | 06-03-2010 |
20100172677 | FIXING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus for heat-fixing a toner image formed on a sheet, includes a roller; an endless belt contacted to the roller; a pressing member contacted to an inner surface of the endless belt and cooperating with the roller to nip the endless belt, wherein the sheet on which the unfixed toner image is formed is heated while being nipped and fed by a nip between the roller and the endless belt, wherein such a surface of the pressing member as is opposed to the inner surface of the endless belt is curved substantially in the same direction as a curved surface of the roller, wherein the nip includes a first nip region in which the belt is not pressed by the pressing member and the endless belt is contacted to the roller by an elastic force of the endless belt which is in a slack state, and a second nip region in which the endless belt is contacted to the roller by pressing of the pressing member, wherein the nip starts with the first nip region with respect to a feeding direction of the sheet, wherein the second nip region is continuous with the first nip region. | 07-08-2010 |
20110318036 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station for forming a toner image on a recording material; and a fixing portion including a heating rotatable member, a heating element for heating the heating rotatable member using heat generation by electric power supply, a pressing rotatable member for contacting the heating rotatable member to form a nip for nipping and feeding the recording material, a pressure changing member for changing a pressure to the nip, wherein the fixing portion fixes the toner image on the recording material while nipping and feeding the recording material carrying the toner image by the nip, and fixing portion is capable of changing a glossiness of the toner image by changing the pressure to the nip by operation of the pressure changing member, wherein the image forming apparatus is operable in a glossy mode in which the glossiness of the toner image is switchable, wherein a MD-1 hardness of a surface layer of the heating rotatable member contactable with the toner image is 20-70, and when the glossy mode is selected so as to raise the glossiness at the time of heating and fixing of the toner image, the pressure changing member operates so as to lower the pressure to the nip. | 12-29-2011 |
20130089349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording material and a fixing unit, wherein, in a case where an image is formed by using the toners of the plurality of colors, when a specific gravity of the toners is ρ (g/cm | 04-11-2013 |
20130170849 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When an unfixed toner image is formed on a recording material, a toner amount per unit area satisfying: A<(ρΠL)/30√3 when a specific gravity of a toner is ρ (g/cm | 07-04-2013 |
20130251429 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE HEATING ROTATIONAL BODY TO BE MOUNTED ON THE IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - According to embodiments, a heating member or a sliding member arranged in contact with the surface of a fusing roller is moved in an intersecting direction with the rotational direction of the fusing roller in a contact state with the heating member or the sliding member so as to prevent a scratch from being generated on the surface of the fusing roller or to repair the scratch. | 09-26-2013 |
20130336671 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming portion of an image forming apparatus is configured to form a toner image on a recording medium such that a relationship of M≦ρπL/(30√3) is satisfied, where a volume average particle size of toner is L(μm), density of the toners is ρ (g/cm | 12-19-2013 |
20140169848 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE HEATING ROTATIONAL BODY TO BE MOUNTED ON THE IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - According to embodiments, a heating member or a sliding member arranged in contact with the surface of a fusing roller is moved in an intersecting direction with the rotational direction of the fusing roller in a contact state with the heating member or the sliding member so as to prevent a scratch from being generated on the surface of the fusing roller or to repair the scratch. | 06-19-2014 |
20140199101 | FIXING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus includes a back-up member contacting an inner surface of a cylindrical belt; a roller having an elastic layer and contacting an outer surface of the belt, the roller being cooperative with the back-up member to form a fixing nip between the belt and the roller. A sheet carrying a toner image is nipped and fed through the fixing nip, during which the unfixed toner image is heat-fixed thereon by the fixing nip. The back-up member includes a portion contactable with the inner surface and having such a configuration that the belt forms a first curved surface convex toward the roller in an upstream region in the fixing nip with respect to a moving direction of the belt and that the belt forms a second curved surface convex toward the back-up member in a downstream region in the fixing nip with respect to the moving direction. | 07-17-2014 |
20140205330 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is configured to form a toner image by a toner image forming portion on an intermediate transfer belt, to transfer the toner image to a transfer and fixing belt, and to form a toner film by heating and pressurizing the toner image on the transfer and fixing belt. The transfer and fixing belt includes an elastic layer and when the toner film is pressurized to a recording medium in a body at a toner film transfer portion, the toner film is pressed to the recording medium while following surficial ruggedness of the recording medium. Because the toner image is formed by using toner particles containing a thermoplastic elastomer having crystallinity, the toner film formed of this toner image is fully resilient. | 07-24-2014 |