Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090251339 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An information communication apparatus includes: an electrostatic panel unit that is at least provided with an electrostatically chargeable panel surface; a capacitance detection unit that detects a capacitance variation of the panel surface to detect a location at which an object substantially contacts the panel surface; an electric field communication unit that uses the panel surface as an electrostatic field antenna to carry out electrostatic field communication; a connection switching unit that selectively connects any one of the capacitance detection unit and the electric field communication unit to the electrostatic panel unit; and a control unit that controls the connection switching unit to connect the electrostatic panel unit to the capacitance detection unit at the time of detecting a location at which an object contacts the panel surface and to connect the electrostatic panel unit to the electric field communication unit at the time of the electrostatic field communication. | 10-08-2009 |
20090253372 | ELECTRIC FIELD COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, ELECTRIC FIELD COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRIC FIELD COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An electric field communication apparatus includes: a plurality of electric field communication antennas for carrying out electric field communication; a detecting unit that detects the electric field communication antenna in connected state where at least electric field communication may be carried out with an electric field communication antenna of another electric field communication apparatus, from among the plurality of electric field communication antennas; and a control unit that controls an operation of the host electric field communication apparatus in response to the result detected by the detecting unit. | 10-08-2009 |
20100228755 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A communication terminal includes a first storage section configured to store address information for performing connection to a communication terminal of a communication partner and an address book containing information about the communication partner, a second storage section configured to store first data files, a search section configured to search through the second storage section for first data files corresponding to information about the communication partner linked to the communication terminal of the communication partner selected on the basis of the address book, a compiling section configured to compile the retrieved first data files into a predetermined unit to generate a second data file, and a communication section configured to perform communication between the present communication terminal and the communication terminal of the communication partner and transmit the second data file to the communication terminal of the communication partner. | 09-09-2010 |
20100304248 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING REMAINING CAPACITY OF FUEL CELL - A mobile terminal includes a fuel accommodation section that accommodates a fuel within a body, at least one face of the fuel accommodation section being formed by a transparent or translucent member, a fuel cell section that generates electricity on the basis of the fuel accommodated in the fuel accommodation section, a body orientation detection section that detects an orientation of the body, a storage section that stores scale display information concerning a plurality of orientations of the fuel accommodation section, a display section disposed on the face of the fuel accommodation section formed by the transparent or translucent member, and a control section that obtains the scale display information corresponding to the orientation detected by the body orientation detection section from the scale display information stored in the storage section, and displays the obtained scale display information on the display section. | 12-02-2010 |
20110134004 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An antenna device includes: a line-shaped antenna conductor with a predetermined length; an actuator member that directly supports the line-shaped antenna or supports the line-shaped antenna via an auxiliary member and is displaceable integrally with the antenna conductor, where the actuator member is displaced to change a position of the antenna conductor in a space; and an attaching member that attaches the actuator member and the antenna member in one longitudinal end of the antenna conductor to a communication apparatus. The actuator member performs displacement control in which one longitudinal end of the antenna conductor serves as a fixed support and the other end thereof serves as a free end to be displaceable depending on the control voltage. | 06-09-2011 |
20120190299 | CONNECTION METHOD FOR NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION - A host side wireless communication terminal and guest side wireless communication terminals are stacked together, for example. The wireless communication terminals each generate an access point list within a range wherein near field wireless communication can be performed. The host side wireless communication terminal stores the data of the vibratory waveform by the user tapping a finger or the like on the casing, as reference data. The guest side wireless communication terminals detect the vibratory waveforms propagated through the casing or the like of the host side device, set the vibratory waveform data as key data, and transmits this to the host side by near field wireless communication. Upon the key data and reference data matching, the host side wireless communication device performs near field wireless communication pairing between the wireless communication devices that have transmitted the key data thereof. | 07-26-2012 |
20130335587 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - An information processing apparatus that acquires image data captured by an image capturing device; detects whether a hand exists in the image data; and controls a state of an image capturing operation performed by the image capturing device in accordance with a command corresponding to at least one of a shape and a gesture of a hand detected in the image data. | 12-19-2013 |
20140062842 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An information processing apparatus including a communication interface configured to be connected to an external posture detecting device to be worn by a user; a display configured to rotatably display a display image; and circuitry configured to control a rotation angle of the image displayed by the display based on posture information received from the external posture detecting device. | 03-06-2014 |
20140072154 | AUDIO REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus that reproduces left and right audio signals based on data acquired from a sound source; acquires left and right surrounding sounds collected by left and right microphones included in a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus; combines a sound corresponding to at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds with at least one of the left and right audio signals; and outputs the left and right audio signals combined with the sound corresponding to the at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds to left and right earphones of the headphone unit. | 03-13-2014 |
20140086438 | CONTROL METHOD OF MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS - A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093088 | Method of checking earphone wearing state - An information processing apparatus that detects an output from a 3-axis acceleration sensor included in an earphone unit worn by a user while the user is in a still state; monitors the output of the 3-axis acceleration sensor while a nodding gesture is performed by the user; detects a time when an angle of the nodding gesture reaches a maximum; and determines an earphone wearing state based on the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor in the still state and the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor at the time of detecting the maximum nodding angle. | 04-03-2014 |
20140320542 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF INFORMATION TRANSFER - Discussed herein is a method to transfer information from an output side terminal of a first device to an input side terminal of a second device. Information is enclosed in a predetermined region on the display panel of the device and is transmitted by changing the brightness (luminance) or the RGB color of the image with respect to time. A sensor positioned within the predetermined region detects the modulated luminance value of the information and demodulates the detected luminance to acquire the information. After performing the demodulation process, the acquired information is displayed on a display panel. | 10-30-2014 |
20140355819 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING DATA BASED ON AN ARRANGEMENT OF ELEMENTS IN AN IMAGE - A host device may include an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a guest device, and a communication unit configured to communicate with the guest device. The host device may include circuitry configured to identify, in the image of the guest device, identification information corresponding to the guest device, the identification information being displayed on a screen included on the guest device. The circuitry may calculate, based on the identification of the identification information in the image, an arrangement position of the guest device. The circuitry may assign, based on the calculated arrangement position, assigned data to the guest device. The circuitry may transmit one or more of the calculated arrangement position and information associated with the assigned data to the guest device. | 12-04-2014 |