Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090325766 | EXERCISE CONDITION DETECTION APPARATUS, EXERCISE CONDITION DETECTION PROGRAM, AND EXERCISE CONDITION DETECTION METHOD - There is provided an exercise condition detection apparatus that detects a physical exercise condition. The exercise condition detection apparatus includes: an exercise intensity calculation section | 12-31-2009 |
20100022352 | Walking exercise supporting device - A device can search for an appropriate walking route with an exercise condition such as of the calorie consumption and the walking speed. When a user enters information at least on the walking time, calorie consumption, walking speed, and distance as the exercise condition, the exercise condition is stored in a data storage unit of the device. When the user enters position information on the walking start point and the walking end point, the position information is also stored in the storage unit of the device. Map information is also previously stored in the data storage unit. A route searching unit of the device searches for the walking route and determines it according to the stored exercise condition, the position information and the map information. The determined walking route is presented to the user through a presenting unit of the device. | 01-28-2010 |
20120113249 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS ON THE BASIS OF SIGNALS FROM SENSORS - An electronic apparatus that receives a signal from a sensor device, the electronic apparatus having: an environmental signal acquiring unit that acquires an environmental signal at specific sampling intervals, the environmental signal being input from the sensor device; an environmental signal storage unit that stores the acquired environmental signal until at least a next sampling interval comes; a differential amount acquiring unit that acquires a differential amount that is a difference between a first environmental signal and a second environmental signal, the first environmental signal being the acquired environmental signal, the second environmental signal being the environmental signal that is acquired before the first environmental signal is acquired by the environmental signal acquiring unit and is stored in the environmental signal storage unit; and an operation selecting unit that selects a to-be-activated operation based on the acquired differential amount. | 05-10-2012 |
20120320086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device that overlaps and displays a visible-light image and a thermal image, comprising: a visible-light image acquiring unit that acquires a visible-light image of an object; a thermal image acquiring unit that acquires a thermal image specifying a temperature distribution of the object; and a display controller that uses the acquired visible-light image and the acquired thermal image and specifies a thermal image of a certain part whose temperature is different from another part surrounding the certain part of the object and controls to display the thermal image of the certain part to be displayed in a display state that is different from other parts of the object. | 12-20-2012 |
20130041619 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MOTION STATE JUDGMENT METHOD - An electronic device includes: a sensor that detects a triaxial direction acceleration; and a processor operable to calculate axial components in the triaxial directions of a gravitational acceleration from detection values of the sensor, to determine a ratio of a magnitude of the gravitational acceleration with respect to the axial components of an axial direction of the triaxial directions, to determine a vertical acceleration magnitude according to the ratio and the detection values of the sensor in the axial direction, and to judge whether or not a motion state is a running state according to the vertical acceleration magnitude. | 02-14-2013 |
20130043987 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a mobile terminal apparatus that includes a vibration source unit configured to generate vibrations, each of vibrations including a frequency corresponding to an electric condition applied to the vibration source unit, a detection value collecting unit configured to collect a plurality of detection values detected by an acceleration sensor included in the mobile terminal apparatus, while the electric condition being varied, and a vibration source control unit configured to determine a specific electronic condition applied to the vibration source unit, the specific electronic condition being determined by using the plurality of detection values and the vibration source control unit configured to apply the specific electric condition to the vibration source unit when an event to be notified to a user is detected. | 02-21-2013 |
20130066590 | MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD - There is provided a measuring device that includes a first measuring unit that measures a distance between a measurement reference point and an intersection of a plane and a line passing through the measurement reference point, a calculator that calculates angles formed by the plane and the intersection; and a second measuring unit that measures an object using data of the distance or the angles. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073563 | ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICE AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An electronic computing device includes a database in which for multiple objects, data combining a first property value and a second property value representative of properties of images of each of the objects is accumulated by respectively changing the first property value and the second property value by given values; an acquirer that acquires image data; and an application processor that searches the database, extracts from the acquired first image data, a combination of the first property value and the second property value, and searches the database based on the extracted combination. | 03-21-2013 |
20130162660 | MOBILE TERMINAL INCLUDING STELLAR BODY WATCHING HOOKUP COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTION - A mobile terminal includes a detecting unit that detects a direction of the mobile terminal turned toward a stellar body existence direction; a display processing unit that acquires an image of a specific stellar body corresponding to the detected direction of the mobile terminal and image identification information thereon from a stellar body watching engine and, when any one of a plurality of kinds of information transfer is selected, that controls to display a rendered effect screen corresponding to the selected information transfer and including the image of the specific stellar body; and a transmitting unit that transmits, when the selected information transfer is carried out in a state in which the rendered effect screen is displayed, at least the image identification information or a URL associated with the image identification information along with a content of the selected information transfer. | 06-27-2013 |
20130245465 | SLEEP DEPTH DETERMINING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an apparatus for determining depth of sleep. The apparatus includes a heart rate sensor configured to detect a heart rate of a subject in a non-contact manner, and a processor. The processor performs determining depth of sleep of the subject from the heart rate detected by the heart rate sensor, estimating a sleep cycle of the subject on the basis of a plurality of times at each of which a change in the depth of sleep occurs, and stopping the heart rate sensor, after completion of acquiring the plurality of times, at least until an anticipated time of a change in the depth of sleep. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245997 | UNDULATION DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD - An undulation detection device includes a two-dimensional sensor configured to emit a sensing wave for distance measurement in a plurality of directions forming different lateral and vertical angles and to measure respective distances to objects from which the sensing wave is reflected, and a processor performs detecting an undulation of the measurement surface or an obstacle placed on the measurement surface from which the sensing wave is reflected, on the basis of a difference among the distances in the different directions, the difference being measured by the two-dimensional sensor, and outputting an undulation detection report, when an in-plane size of the undulation of the measurement surface or the obstacle placed on the measurement surface is equal to or more than a threshold. | 09-19-2013 |
20130285813 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND FALLING PREDICTION METHOD - There is provided a computer-readable medium storing a program causing a processor to execute a procedure. The processor is provided in a portable electronic apparatus. The procedure includes detecting acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction of the portable electronic apparatus, determining whether or not the acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction is a threshold value or less, the threshold value being stored in a determination threshold value table, and raising an alarm for prediction of stumbling of a user when the acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction is the threshold value or less. | 10-31-2013 |
20140039828 | DROP DETERMINING DEVICE AND DROP DETERMINING METHOD - A drop determining device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: detecting acceleration within a predetermined range; calculating acceleration outside the predetermined range, using the acceleration detected at the detecting; and determining whether drop has occurred, using the acceleration calculated at the calculating. | 02-06-2014 |
20140052010 | EXERCISE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An exercise determination method includes: acquiring a detection value from an acceleration sensor; and controlling, by a processor, starting or stopping of a heart rate sensor depending on the acquired detection value. An electronic device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to acquire a detection value from an acceleration sensor, and control starting or stopping of a heart rate sensor depending on the acquired detection value. | 02-20-2014 |
20140159619 | VIBRATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A disclosed vibration device includes a first vibrating motor that causes a first eccentric spindle to be rotated so that an angular velocity changes regularly within a rotation period, and a second vibrating motor that causes a second eccentric spindle to be rotated in the same angular velocity as the angular velocity of the first eccentric spindle in an opposite rotation direction to a rotation direction of the first eccentric spindle. Then, the first vibrating motor and the second vibrating motor are arranged so that a rotating shaft of the first vibrating motor is parallel with a rotating shaft of the second vibrating motor. | 06-12-2014 |
20140222368 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND VELOCITY MEASURING METHOD - An electronic apparatus includes a processor configured to select a type of an object subject to measurement; calculate a first distance to the object, based on output of a first sensor configured to detect passing of the object; calculate a second distance to the object, based on output of a second sensor configured to detect passing of the object; obtain based on the first distance, a first time point at which the object passes the first sensor; obtain based on the second distance, a second time point at which the object passes the second sensor; and calculate based on the first and second time points and a distance between the first and second sensors, a velocity of the object. The processor drives the first and second sensors at measurement time intervals corresponding to the type, and causes the first and the second sensors to detect the passing of the object. | 08-07-2014 |
20140276189 | STATE DETERMINATION DEVICE, STATE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING STATE DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A state determination device includes a myopotential measurement unit configured to measure a myopotential of a surface of the body, a myopotential integrated value calculation unit configured to calculate a myopotential integrated value by integrating, with time, the myopotential measured by the myopotential measurement unit for a measurement period at predetermined measurement intervals, and a fatigue determination unit configured to determine presence/absence of fatigue of the body based on a size of the myopotential integrated value calculated by the myopotential integrated value calculation unit, and a change amount of the myopotential integrated value. | 09-18-2014 |
20140296656 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND WARNING ISSUING METHOD - A storage device of an information processing apparatus holds a first cycle based on transition times of sleep depths for one cycle. A processor activates a heartbeat sensor when the boarding of a user on a conveyance has been detected on the basis of detected acceleration. The processor stops driving of the heartbeat sensor when a transition to a sleep of the user has been detected on the basis of heartbeat measured by the heartbeat sensor and the time of the transition. The processor makes a warning issuing device issue a warning when it has been determined that a distance between a position represented by a position information detected by the position information detection device and a destination is shorter than a prescribed value and that a sleep depth of the user is shallow on the basis of the first cycle and a transition time to the sleep. | 10-02-2014 |
20140323881 | PULSE ESTIMATION DEVICE - A determination unit | 10-30-2014 |
20140350428 | FLUCTUATION DETECTION DEVICE AND FLUCTUATION DETECTION METHOD - A processor of a fluctuation detection device that detects fluctuation of a body of a user, is configured to measure a first distance that is a distance to a still object existing in a first direction and a second distance that is a distance to a still object existing in a second direction different from the first direction, to calculate a first fluctuation amount that is a changing amount of the first distance and a second fluctuation amount that is a changing amount of the second distance, and to remove a changing amount of the first distance caused by breathing of the user from the first fluctuation amount and to remove a changing amount of the second distance caused by the breathing from the second fluctuation amount. | 11-27-2014 |