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20120139815 | PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An information processing device including a plurality of rectangular-shaped casings each including a first principal surface, and a second principal surface opposing the first principal surface and including a display panel having a predetermined aspect ratio. The information processing device including a connecting portion connecting each of the plurality of rectangular-shaped casings in a closed state in which each of the plurality of rectangular-shaped casings are mutually overlaid and a display panel of at least one of the plurality of rectangular-shaped casings is externally exposed, and in an open state in which wall portions of mutually adjacent rectangular-shaped casings abut and the display panels of each of the plurality of rectangular-shaped casings face a similar direction. The information processing device further includes a terminal state detecting unit that detects the closed state and the opened state, and a display control unit that controls display of each of the display panels. | 06-07-2012 |
20120262857 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND HINGE STRUCTURE - A terminal apparatus that includes a first housing, a second housing, and a hinge mechanism that slidably couples the first housing to the second housing in each of an open state and a closed state with respect to the second housing. The hinge mechanism includes a base portion and a movable portion, the movable portion being slidable with respect to the base portion in a direction which the first housing moves away from the second housing when the first housing transitions from the closed state to the open state with respect to the second housing. | 10-18-2012 |
20140321058 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISSIPATING HEAT - An apparatus includes a display. The display may include a frame disposed at a bottom surface of the display. The apparatus may include a semiconductor chip. A heat pipe constructed of a thermally conductive material may be affixed to the frame. A surface of the heat pipe may oppose the semiconductor chip at a predetermined distance from the semiconductor chip. | 10-30-2014 |
20150116917 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a first case and a second case. A connection assembly connects the first case to the second case such that the cases are rotatable about a shaft member disposed in the connection assembly. The connection assembly includes a first link member attached at one end to the first case and at another end to a second link member included in the second case, and a spring assembly attached at one end to the second link member and at another end to the second case. A torque is generated by the connection assembly relative to the shaft member in a direction corresponding to one or more of a closed state and an open state. The torque is generated in the direction corresponding to the closed state when respective front surfaces of the cases are separated by less than a predetermined polar angle. | 04-30-2015 |
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20120306909 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processor, including a display format selection control section that selects, in accordance with a display screen, a display format for displaying at least a part of a feature space prescribed based on a predetermined feature quantity and a set of content data associated with positional information representing a position in the feature space as metadata, and a node selecting section that uses a tree structure, in which the content data are prescribed as leaf nodes and a set of nodes, in which the distance between the nodes in the feature space satisfies predetermined conditions, is prescribed as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined conditions, to select a node which satisfies the predetermined conditions from the nodes included in the tree structure in accordance with the size of a displayed feature space as the feature space displayed on the display screen. | 12-06-2012 |
20120313965 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processor, including a selection section that selects a set of content data satisfying a predetermined condition from a group of content data each associated with a piece of positional information representing a position in a feature space prescribed based on a predetermined feature amount as metadata, and a display format selection control section that selects a display format for displaying at least a part of the feature space and the set of the content data selected by the selection section in accordance with a display screen. The display format selection control section is configured to display an object which includes a direction indicator indicating a direction of existence of the set of the relevant content data within the display screen, and further integrate the relevant plurality of direction indicators into a new direction indicator to display the new direction indicator on the display screen. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317114 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing device, method and computer program product use a candidate attribute area identification portion configured to receive information associated with a cluster including at least one data item. The candidate attribute area identification portion identifies at least one named attribute area for each of the at least one data item. A relatedness assessment portion assesses a relatedness between the cluster and each of the at least one named attribute area. A cluster name generation portion generates a cluster name based on the assessed relatedness, wherein said cluster name includes at least a part of one of the at least one named attribute area. | 12-13-2012 |
20130027424 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a clipping section that clips, from a captured image in which a food is captured as a subject, regions for each food to generate food images, and a grouping section that groups the generated food images for each identical subject. | 01-31-2013 |
20130041889 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a content search unit that searches for related content from compared content; the related content is content related to reference content possessed by a user, and the compared content is content other than the reference content. The information processing apparatus also includes a meta tag assignment unit that sets meta tag information, which is a name of the reference content, according to the related content. | 02-14-2013 |
20130058566 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processor includes a detection unit detecting a photographic subject region of an image, a characteristic amount generation unit generating a characteristic amount including at least positional information of the photographic subject region for each of the detected photographic subject region, a combined characteristic amount generation unit generating a combined characteristic amount corresponding to the image by combining the characteristic amount generated for each of the photographic subject region, and an identification unit identifying a label corresponding to a combination of a photographic subject appearing in the image based on the generated combined characteristic amount. | 03-07-2013 |
20130088499 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION EXTRACTING METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to an illustrative embodiment an information processing system is provided. The system includes a processor for determining one or more candidate tags based on input data, the candidate tags being included within a hierarchical structure; and a display for displaying the candidate tags in a manner indicative of the candidate tags' positions in the hierarchical structure. | 04-11-2013 |
20130300748 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image related information obtaining unit that obtains information relating to a predetermined image as image related information, a keyword generating unit that generates a keyword based on the image related information obtained by the image related information obtaining unit, and a display text string candidate generating unit that generates, as a display text string candidate, a text string serving as a candidate for display, using one or more of the keywords generated by the keyword generating unit. | 11-14-2013 |
20140052763 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing device, method and computer program product use a display controller that causes a display device to display a cluster name having a data item association with a cluster of at least one data item. An operation acquisition portion is configured to acquire information associated with a user operation performed on the cluster. An editing portion edits the cluster name and data item association in accordance with the user operation. As a consequence the associations between data items may easily be formed along with associated cluster names formed. | 02-20-2014 |
20140058703 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates particularly to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which can improve sleep efficiency. The information processing device according to one aspect of the present technique has: an acquisition unit which acquires information which indicates an action schedule of a user; and a first determination unit which determines whether the user needs to wake up or sleep, and determines the degree of necessity of waking up when determining that the user needs to wake up and the degree of necessity of sleeping when determining the user needs to sleep, according to the action schedule of the user. The present technique is applicable to a mobile device such as a mobile telephone, a PDA and a digital camera. | 02-27-2014 |
20150324971 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processor includes a detection unit detecting a photographic subject region of an image, a characteristic amount generation unit generating a characteristic amount including at least positional information of the photographic subject region for each of the detected photographic subject region, a combined characteristic amount generation unit generating a combined characteristic amount corresponding to the image by combining the characteristic amount generated for each of the photographic subject region, and an identification unit identifying a label corresponding to a combination of a photographic subject appearing in the image based on the generated combined characteristic amount. | 11-12-2015 |
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20110150340 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: an extracting unit configured to extract a face from an image; a grouping unit configured to classify the image extracted by the extracting unit into a group; an adding unit configured to add to a group generated by the grouping unit a tag indicating relationship between persons within the group; a closeness calculating unit configured to calculate the closeness of the person of the face from distance between groups generated by the grouping unit; and a person correlation data generating unit configured to generate person correlation data including at least the tag and the closeness. | 06-23-2011 |
20110239163 | DISPLAY SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a tree structure generation unit that generates a tree structure in which a leaf node represents content data associated with position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity, and a set of nodes whose distance in the feature space satisfies a predetermined condition is defined as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined condition, and a node extraction unit that, when any position information is specified, identifies a node in the tree structure to which the specified position information belongs, and extracts, according to a position of the identified node in the tree structure, one or a plurality of nodes, other than the node to which the specified position information belongs, from among the nodes in the tree structure. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246923 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a plurality of objects for setting execution parameters when predetermined processing is performed in a display screen to be adjacent to each other and controls scrolling of the plurality of objects in the display screen in accordance with a user's operation, a parameter setting unit that sets execution conditions for performing the predetermined processing in accordance with a combination of the objects positioned in predetermined positions in the display screen, and a processing execution unit that performs the predetermined processing based on the execution conditions set by the parameter setting unit, wherein the display control unit causes, when one of the objects is operated by the user's operation, the operated object and the object adjacent to the operated object to scroll in the display screen. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246939 | Information Processing Method and Graphical User Interface - There is provided an information processing method including the steps of: generating and displaying, in a display unit, a display screen having a color arrangement selection area in which color arrangement selection objects to select a combination of colors are displayed and a search result display area in which search results of content are displayed; generating color arrangement information in accordance with the combination of the color arrangement selection objects positioned in predetermined positions inside the color arrangement selection area; determining a color arrangement mood provided by the combination of colors represented by the color arrangement information based on the generated color arrangement information; searching for the content from the content associated with the color arrangement mood using the determined color arrangement mood; and displaying search results of the content in the search result display area. | 10-06-2011 |
20110274346 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Program - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit in which a color arrangement database recording correspondences between color arrangement information about a combination of colors and a color arrangement mood concerning an atmosphere provided by the combination of colors is stored and a color arrangement mood analysis unit that analyzes the input color arrangement information based on the color arrangement database to determine the color arrangement mood corresponding to the combination of colors represented by the input color arrangement information. | 11-10-2011 |
20140119614 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a dish image obtained by shooting a single or multiple dishes, and a first dish recognition unit configured to recognize the single or multiple dishes included in the dish image with reference to dish data selected, from dish data registered in advance, based on a condition regarding at least one of a person relating to the dish image, a shooting environment of the dish image, a shooting place of the dish image, and a shooting time of the dish image. | 05-01-2014 |
20140375860 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image including a plurality of objects, and a display control unit configured to, after an operation has been performed on a first object of the plurality of objects, control identification information associated with a second object, the identification information indicating the second object. | 12-25-2014 |
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20120148304 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a heating unit including a rotatable image heating member; an induction heating unit for externally induction heating the image heating member; a nip forming member press-contacting an outer surface of the image heating member to form a nip therewith; a pressing member for pressing the heating unit to the nip forming member; a press releasing member for releasing a pressure of the pressing member to the heating unit; fastening means for fastening the heating unit and the induction heating unit together; and a force receiving portion, provided on the induction heating unit, for contacting the pressing member to move the heating unit away from the nip forming member when the press releasing member releases the heating unit from the pressure of the pressing member. | 06-14-2012 |
20120201558 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a belt member for heating an image on a recording material; a heater means heating the belt member; a supporting portion, provided on an inner surface of the belt member, for detachably supporting the belt member; a temperature detecting member contacted to the inner surface of the belt member and elastically supported by the supporting portion; a controller for controlling energization to the heating means on the basis of an output of the temperature detecting member; and an inclined surface, provided to the temperature detecting member, for guiding the temperature detecting member toward an inside of the belt member in contact with the belt member during a mounting operation of the belt member to the supporting portion. | 08-09-2012 |
20120248097 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a coil; a belt member; a first core and a second core which are provided inside the belt member; a contact member contacting an inner surface of the belt member along a widthwise direction of the belt member; a pressing member for pressing the belt member against the contact member; a core supporting member for supporting the first and second cores; a pressing mechanism for generating pressure for forming a nip; and an adjusting portion, provided on the core supporting member, for adjusting a height of each of the first core and the second core so that a height of a supporting surface for supporting the first core and a height of a supporting surface for supporting the second core and different from each other with respect to a direction perpendicular to the supporting surfaces. | 10-04-2012 |
20140064763 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device causes an eccentric cam to perform a rotation step of 113° to shift from a pressurization releasing mode to a pressurization mode, and causes the eccentric cam to perform a rotation step of 263° to shift from a standby mode to the pressurization mode. A control unit activates a motor by setting a rotational speed of a rotational magnetic field of a stator to 600 rpm in the rotation step of 113° and to 1500 rpm in the rotation step of 263° so as to prevent the eccentric cam from receiving acceleration of a rotational direction from a pressure lever before a rotational speed of a rotor reaches a first rotational speed. Then, the control unit stops the rotational magnetic field of the stator based on an output of a photo interrupter. | 03-06-2014 |