Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080259745 | Document Recording Medium, Recording Apparatus, Recording Method, Data Output Apparatus, Data Output Method and Data Delivery/Distribution System - It is made possible to appreciate a material such as a single musical composition, a single video, and the like in various states. There is provided an optical head | 10-23-2008 |
20090003802 | Content Playback Method and Content Playback Apparatus - By allowing the movement of a user to affect the playback of content, the entertainment characteristic or uplifting spirits derived from content playback itself can be enhanced. The timing at which the user places his/her foot on the ground while walking or the timing at which the user shakes or changes from swinging in one direction to swinging to another direction is detected. Then, content, such as a music piece or moving pictures, is played back by allowing the timing of beats or bars of the music piece or the timing of scene changes or cut changes of the moving pictures to be synchronized with the timing of the movement of the user. | 01-01-2009 |
20090024233 | AUDIO REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AUDIO REPRODUCING METHOD, AND AUDIO REPRODUCING PROCESSING PROGRAM - An easy-to-use and user-friendly apparatus is provided that displays motivation for exercise to a user to allow the user to continue comfortably exercising. An audio signal output processor reproduces audio data and a music sound is thus emitted from a loudspeaker. The user practices exercise, such as walking or jogging, in synchronization with the tempo of the music sound. At the start of exercise, an exercise information analyzer calculates an amount of exercise of the user based on personal profile information relating to the body of the user, including the body weight, the body height, age and sex of the user received via a keyboard, and characteristic information, such as play time and tempo of reproduced music data acquired via a communication I/F and a controller. The controller outputs the amount of exercise to a display to notify the user of the amount of exercise. | 01-22-2009 |
20090046991 | Contents Replay Apparatus and Contents Replay Method - To enable a lot of audio data and image data such as a still image and a moving image to be effectively and efficiently used. When audio data accumulated in a material database | 02-19-2009 |
20090131071 | Data Communication Apparatus, Data Communication Method, and Data Communication Packet - A data communication apparatus capable of creating a new type of communication is provided. Motion information obtaining means | 05-21-2009 |
20090198661 | TIME-SHIFT IMAGE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, TIME-SHIFT IMAGE DISTRIBUTION METHOD, TIME-SHIFT IMAGE REQUESTING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE SERVER - A time-shift image distribution system includes an image server and a time-shift image requesting apparatus. The image server includes a first communication unit configured to carry out communications with the time-shift image requesting apparatus, an image database configured to store image data of captured images in association with meta information for image data of a captured image matching search-condition information, and an image providing unit configured to provide the image data of the captured image detected by the searching unit to the time-shift image requesting apparatus. The time-shift image requesting apparatus includes a second communication unit configured to carry out communications with the image server, and a unit configured to send a search request including information representing an imaging time and information for identifying a subject image as search-condition information to the image server via the second communication unit. | 08-06-2009 |
20090205482 | AUDIO REPRODUCING DEVICE, AUDIO REPRODUCING METHOD, AND AUDIO REPRODUCING PROGRAM - Provided is a device for playing audio with improved convenience, wherein music can be played such that oneness with the actions of the user can be obtained at all times, without giving the user any unnaturalness whatsoever such as unpleasant sensations. After starting playing of music data through such as an audio signal output processing unit | 08-20-2009 |
20090230767 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, MULTIPLE DWELLING, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A power supply system for supplying power to a plurality of loads includes a plurality of fuel cells for generating and supplying power to be supplied to the respectively corresponding loads, wherein the fuel cells are provided to correspond to the plurality of loads, a power network for receiving surplus power, which is generated ‘by the fuel cells except power to be supplied to the loads corresponding to the fuel cells, and supplying the surplus power to the loads short of power, wherein the power network is coupled to the plurality of fuel cells, and a control unit for stopping power generation of a first fuel cell among the fuel cells corresponding to a first load among the loads and controlling a second fuel cell among the fuel cells to generate power to be supplied to the first load as the surplus power if an amount of power to be supplied to the first load is less than a predetermined first threshold. | 09-17-2009 |
20090235811 | CONTENTS REPRODUCER AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - Content is selected on the basis of changes of a walking tempo. The walking tempo is detected (S | 09-24-2009 |
20090271496 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM BASED ON BIOMETRIC INFORMATION - State information of a user is detected via a biometric information sensor ( | 10-29-2009 |
20100042359 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM, SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS AND SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD - A portable electronic apparatus includes an acceleration detection unit, an evaluation-signal generation unit, and a control unit. The acceleration detection unit is configured to detect an acceleration generated in the portable electronic apparatus. The evaluation-signal generation unit is configured to carry out a predetermined process based on the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection unit in order to generate an evaluation signal representing the amplitude and positive or negative polarity of the acceleration. The control unit is configured to produce a result of determination as to whether or not the portable electronic apparatus has been driven to make a predetermined movement on the basis of the evaluation signal and carrying out a predetermined operation on the basis of the result of determination. | 02-18-2010 |
20100168154 | 1-SUBSTITUTED TETRAHYDROISOQUINOLINE COMPOUND - Provided is a compound useful as an N-type Ca | 07-01-2010 |
20100168879 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Music contents assigned to play lists are reproduced so as to correspond to user's preference. A music content database | 07-01-2010 |
20100265361 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - A imaging device includes an imaging element; a memory unit configured to temporarily store pieces of image data captured individually at predetermined timings via the imaging element; a comparator configured to compare the image data recorded in the memory unit to detect whether an image change greater than or equal to a first threshold has occurred; a determining unit configured to determine whether the image change has converged to an amount less than or equal to a second threshold by comparing the image data recorded in the memory unit when an image change greater than or equal to the first threshold has been detected; and a controller configured to exercise control so that image data captured via the imaging element is recorded on a predetermined recording medium when it is determined that the image change has converged to an amount less than or equal to the second threshold. | 10-21-2010 |
20100287202 | USER TERMINAL AND CONTENT SEARCHING AND PRESENTATION METHOD - A content searching and presentation method in a terminal of an original user having a playlist includes the steps of accessing a playlist of a different user from the terminal and obtaining the playlist of the different user; computing a similarity between the obtained playlist of the different user and the playlist of the original user, which is a playlist owned by the terminal, in accordance with a predetermined computation equation; and presenting, as a searched result, content that is contained in the playlist of the different user and that is not contained in the playlist owned by the terminal when the computed similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold value. | 11-11-2010 |
20110022594 | CONTENTS REPRODUCING DEVICE, CONTENTS REPRODUCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Music content are reproduced in the order of the newest time information that has been registered. A music content database | 01-27-2011 |
20120066354 | PLAYER DEVICE - A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data. | 03-15-2012 |
20120155832 | CONTENTS REPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTENTS REPLAY METHOD - To enable a lot of audio data and image data such as a still image and a moving image to be effectively and efficiently used. When audio data accumulated in a material database | 06-21-2012 |
20120254359 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONNECTING METHOD - A communication terminal includes a communication unit configured to carry out communications with a communication terminal of an intended counterparty; a detector configured to detect information reflecting a status of a user of the own communication terminal; a condition checker configured to check whether a predetermined condition is satisfied by comparing information reflecting a status of a user of the communication terminal of the counterparty, received via the communication unit, with the information detected by the detector; and a controller configured to exercise control so that a communication circuit is established with the communication terminal of the counterparty via the communication unit when it is determined by the condition checker that the condition is satisfied. | 10-04-2012 |
20120311086 | PLAYLIST SHARING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data. | 12-06-2012 |
20140179695 | CHROMANE COMPOUNDS - The present invention provides a compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with and/or mediated by β-secretase activity, hydrolysis of a β-secretase site of a β-amyloid precursor protein, and/or β-amyloid protein accumulation, including a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) or Alzheimer's disease, especially, Alzheimer's disease. | 06-26-2014 |
20140337480 | PLAYLIST SHARING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data. | 11-13-2014 |
20140364070 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Electrodes are formed of a nonmagnetic metal in high-frequency electronic components that conduct high frequency electric current having a frequency included in any of a first frequency band for transmitting and a third frequency band for receiving, both assigned to a first transmitting/receiving unit for data communication, and a second frequency band for transmitting and a fourth frequency band for receiving, both assigned to a second transmitting/receiving unit for telephone communication. The high-frequency electronic components also restrict the frequency of the conducted electric current. | 12-11-2014 |
20140369522 | SOUND-OUTPUT-CONTROL DEVICE, SOUND-OUTPUT-CONTROL METHOD, AND SOUND-OUTPUT-CONTROL PROGRAM - A sound-output-control device including an acquisition unit which acquires an anaerobic threshold, a reception unit which receives an input about exercise intensity, a calculation unit which calculates a value indicating a target heart rate of a user on the basis of the acquired anaerobic threshold and the received exercise-intensity input, a detection unit which detects a value indicating the current tempo of a physical exercise done by the user, and a control unit that controls a sound output on the basis of a result of a comparison of the target heart-rate value calculated by the calculation unit and the current physical-exercise-tempo value detected by the detection unit, so as to lead a heart rate of the user so that the heart rate of the user attains the target heart rate is provided. | 12-18-2014 |