Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160142638 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Problem: To simplify an operation for causing an apparatus to perform desired control. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142592 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS HAVING FUNCTION OF GENERATING FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL AT CONSTANT CYCLE - An image capture apparatus including a timing generator that generates a frame synchronization signal with a constant cycle receives a reference signal generated at a predetermined interval based on a predetermined reference cycle, compares generation timing of the reference signal received with generation timing of the frame synchronization signal generated by the timing generator, and adjusts a generation cycle of the frame synchronization signal generated by the timing generator based on a result of the comparison. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140430 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF DISPLAYING TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - An electronic device includes: a display unit which displays data and a two-dimensional code; and a processor. The processor performs: an encoding process of encoding the data displayed on the display unit into the two-dimensional code; a two-dimensional code displaying process of performing a first masking operation to the two-dimensional code with a first mask pattern and displaying the code having been subjected to the first masking operation on the display unit; and a two-dimensional code changing process of performing a second masking operation to the two-dimensional code with a second mask pattern, and displaying the code having been subjected to the second masking operation instead of the code having been subjected to the first masking operation on the display unit, when a user operation is executed while the two-dimensional code having been subjected to the first masking operation is displayed on the display unit. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140428 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF DISPLAYING CODE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device including: a display unit which displays a code generated based on tabular data; and a processor, wherein the processor performs: a compressing process of compressing numerical data having a plurality of digits and contained in the tabular data by reducing the number of digits of the numerical data; an encoding process of encoding the tabular data containing the numerical data compressed through the compressing process; and a code displaying process of displaying a code obtained by the encoding process on the display unit. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140411 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING IMAGE IN CHARACTERISTIC REGION OF ORIGINAL IMAGE INTO IMAGE OF BRUSHSTROKE PATTERNS - An object of the present invention is to obtain an image that is more similar to a real ink-wash painting. An ink-wash painting conversion unit converts data of an original image into data of a painterly image. A characteristic region detection unit detects a characteristic region of the original image from the data of the original image. A conversion unit executes gradation processing of gradating the characteristic region detected by the characteristic region detection unit, and margin setting processing of setting a margin region to be added to the painterly image, as image processing of further converting the data of the painterly image that was converted by the ink-wash painting conversion unit. | 05-19-2016 |
20160133011 | DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD IN THE SAME APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAME METHOD - The invention provides an image processing method in a diagnostic apparatus of diagnosing a disease using a captured image of an affected area, comprising the steps of: (i) separating the captured image memorized into a brightness component and a color information component (Step S | 05-12-2016 |
20160133010 | DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD IN THE SAME APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAME METHOD - The invention provides a method of processing an image in a diagnostic apparatus | 05-12-2016 |
20160133009 | DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD IN THE SAME APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAME METHOD - The invention provides a method of processing an image in a diagnostic apparatus | 05-12-2016 |
20160132438 | PROCESSING DEVICE, PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A processing device includes: a plurality of processing units that perform processes in accordance with data items read from a memory; a bus that connects the memory to the plurality of processing units; and a traffic monitor that monitors traffic on the bus with respect to the plurality of processing units, and when the traffic for one of the processing units that has been assigned access rights to the memory exceeds or reaches a prescribed upper limit, outputs a signal to the one of the processing units so as to reduce or suspend the traffic for the one of the processing units. | 05-12-2016 |
20160125770 | Display Apparatus And Computer Readable Medium - A display apparatus includes a screen, a setting unit and a processor. The setting unit is for setting a product and is provided at the screen. The processor controls display on the screen on a basis of the product which is set at the setting unit. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125273 | MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE AND CLASSIFICATION DEVICE FOR ACCURATELY CLASSIFYING INTO CATEGORY TO WHICH CONTENT BELONGS - An image acquisition unit of a machine learning device acquires n learning images assigned with labels to be used for categorization (n is a natural number larger than or equal to 2). A feature vector acquisition unit acquires a feature vector representing a feature from each of the n learning images. A vector conversion unit converts the feature vector for each of the n learning images to a similarity feature vector based on a similarity degree between the learning images. A classification condition learning unit learns a classification condition for categorizing the n learning images, based on the similarity feature vector converted by the vector conversion unit and the label assigned to each of the n learning images. A classification unit categorizes unlabeled testing images in accordance with the classification condition learned by the classification condition learning unit. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124390 | WRISTWATCH - A wristwatch including a case including a band attachment section having an attachment hole, a band including a coupling hole in one end portion located coaxially with the attachment hole of the band attachment section, a coupling member inserted into the coupling hole of the band and the attachment hole of the band attachment section and coupling the band with the band attachment section, and a fixing member fixing the coupling member to the attachment hole of the band attachment section or the coupling hole of the band. | 05-05-2016 |
20160119542 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING COMPOSITE IMAGE USING DIRECTIONAL INDICATOR IMAGE, AND METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN FOR THE SAME - An imaging apparatus includes a display section, a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle, a capturing control section which performs a plurality of capturing operations by the capturing section, a generation section which generates a composite image reproducing an image captured at a second viewing angle that is wider than the first viewing angle by combining a plurality of images acquired by the plurality of capturing operations by the capturing control section, and a display control section which displays the composite image generated by the generation section on the display section. | 04-28-2016 |
20160097970 | DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING IMAGE PROJECTING UNIT AND SCREEN UNIT - A display apparatus including: an image projecting unit for emitting projection light of an image; and a screen unit including: a Fresnel lens disposed correspondingly to the projection light; and a transmitting diffuser which includes a first display section disposed on a light-emitting side corresponding to a first area of the Fresnel lens and a second display section disposed on a light-emitting side corresponding to a second area different from the first area of the Fresnel lens, a part of the second display section being separated from the Fresnel lens for a predetermined distance. | 04-07-2016 |
20160093453 | SWITCH DEVICE AND TIMEPIECE - A switch device including a case having a through hole, a cylindrical member including a first cylindrical section having a small diameter arranged in the through hole of the case and a second cylindrical section having a large diameter arranged on an outer portion of the case, an operation member including a shaft section slidably inserted into the first cylindrical section and a head section slidably arranged in the second cylindrical section, a waterproof member provided between an inner peripheral surface of the second cylindrical section and an outer peripheral surface of the head section, and a vent passage that allows air inside the second cylindrical section and air outside the case to pass through a vent hole provided in the cylindrical member and a gap between an outer surface of the cylindrical member and an outer surface of the case for ventilation. | 03-31-2016 |
20160088918 | NAIL PRINTING APPARATUS, A CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE NAIL PRINTING APPARATUS AND A COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A nail printing apparatus is provided with a controlling unit for acquiring an end position on a tip side of a nail of a finger based on image data of an image of the finger, wherein the finger includes the nail having a nail tip portion and a nail back portion whose color is darker than a color of the nail tip portion. The controlling unit acquires luminance difference values which are difference in two of luminance values adjacent to each other in the image data, acquires a reference position where the luminance difference values represent a extreme value corresponding to a difference value between color of the nail tip portion and the nail back portion, and acquires the end position of the nail based on a position where the luminance difference values represent extreme value on the tip side from the reference position. | 03-31-2016 |
20160088917 | NAIL DESIGN DEVICE, NAIL PRINTING APPARATUS, NAIL DESIGN METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING NAIL DESIGN PROGRAM - A nail design device which allows a user to more easily select one of a plurality of nail designs that fits the shape of a nail, a nail printing apparatus which includes the nail design device and performs drawing on a nail, a nail design method, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a nail design program are provided. | 03-31-2016 |
20160088562 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING COMMUNICATION FUNCTION - An information processing apparatus includes: a communication unit that performs wireless communication with an external apparatus; a first control unit that switches between a normal state and a low electric power consumption state that suppresses electric power consumption to less than the normal state; and a second control unit that operates at lower electric power consumption than the first control unit, in which the information processing apparatus controls a connection state of the communication unit with the first control unit and the second control unit, based on a state of the information processing apparatus. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088219 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS WHICH CONTROLS FRAME RATE BASED ON MOTION OF OBJECT, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURE CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image capture apparatus | 03-24-2016 |
20160088210 | PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL APPARATUS THAT CONTROLS SYNCHRONOUS PHOTOGRAPHING BY PLURALITY OF IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - It is possible to perform synchronous photographing promptly and reliably using a plurality of image capture apparatuses. The synchronous communication start processing unit or the test shutter processing unit causes a plurality of image capture apparatuses to perform a rehearsal operation of the synchronous photographing to acquire result information relating to a result from the rehearsal operation from each of the plurality of the image capture apparatuses. The live shutter processing unit determines a photographing condition when performing an actual operation of synchronous photographing, based on the result information acquired from each of the image capture apparatuses by way of the synchronous communication start processing unit or the test shutter processing unit. The live shutter processing unit causes the plurality of the image capture apparatuses to perform the synchronous photographing based on the photographing condition determined by the live shutter processing unit. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088209 | SYNCHRONOUS PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM THAT CONTROLS SYNCHRONOUS PHOTOGRAPHING BY PLURALTIY OF IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - A synchronous photographing system includes an operation terminal that performs a photographing operation; and a plurality of image capture apparatuses that performs synchronous photographing in response to an instruction from the operation terminal, in which, among the plurality of image capture apparatuses, one of a plurality of image capture apparatuses participating in synchronous photographing is set as a main image capture apparatus and other image capture apparatuses are set as sub image capture apparatuses, the main image capture apparatus performs control to perform synchronization of a photographing timing among the plurality of image capture apparatuses participating in synchronous photographing, and the operation terminal performs control to instruct the plurality of image capture apparatuses to perform instruction contents from a user. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088197 | NAIL INFORMATION DETECTION DEVICE, DRAWING APPARATUS, AND NAIL INFORMATION DETECTION METHOD - A nail information detection device includes: a placement surface on which a finger having a nail is placed; an imaging unit which images the nail from one direction and acquires a image data; a moving unit which moves the imaging unit while keeping a distance between a measurement plane which is in contact with a peak position of the nail and parallel to the placement surface and the imaging unit constant; and a control unit configured to detect nail information including a first edge position and a second edge position on a shape of the nail. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086590 | MUSICAL SOUND CONTROL DEVICE, MUSICAL SOUND CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A piezo pickup which detects a key depression vibration occurred by a key depression operation is provided on the center of the lower surface of a key switch board where key switches of a keyboard are arranged. A CPU acquires the key number of a depressed key and a distance between the key switch of this key number and the piezo pickup in response to the key depression operation, and controls the sound volume and the tone color of a musical sound at a pitch corresponding to the key number based on control data acquired by correcting the detection output level (piezo input envelope waveform) of the piezo pickup in accordance with the acquired distance. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086589 | MUSICAL SOUND CONTROL APPARATUS, MUSICAL SOUND CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A musical sound control apparatus ( | 03-24-2016 |
20160086578 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CODE DISPLAY METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device includes a display unit, a memory and a processor. The display unit displays at least one of a first display representing a code display and a second display representing a display other than the code display. The processor performs a first display process and a second display process. The first display process controls the display unit such that the display unit performs the first display with contrast ratio of the display unit, based on a contrast data item for first display stored in the memory. The second display process controls the display unit such that the display unit performs the second display with contrast ratio of the display unit, based on a contrast data item for second display stored in the memory. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086568 | Display Device, Control Method For The Same, And Storage Medium Having Control Program Stored Thereon - A display device including a first display panel having a first display area, a second display panel having a second display area, an arithmetic circuit which controls a display status of the first display panel and a display status of the second display panel, and a sensor which detects a spatial movement of the display device, in which the arithmetic circuit changes a display mode of images displayed by the first display panel and the second display panel based on a detection result by the sensor. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086554 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH A BACKLIGHT, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING CONTROL PROGRAM STORED THEREON - An electronic device including a first processor, a second processor, and a light source section, in which the first processor is shifted from a control state of controlling the light source section to a non-control state of not controlling the light source section and the second processor is shifted from the non-control state of not controlling the light source section to the control state of controlling the light source section, along with a shift of the first processor from an operating state to a non-operating state. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086519 | LABEL SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LABEL AND LABEL SUBSTRATE - A label making apparatus of the present disclosure transfers and fuses a label forming toner to a label substrate, in a desired shape. The label substrate includes a release sheet, an adhesive layer formed by applying an adhesive on the release sheet, and a coat layer formed on the adhesive layer. The coat layer is formed from at least one or a combination of a monomer or an oligomer of polyester resin and a monomer or an oligomer of an acrylic resin. The coat layer has a thickness of from 1 to 5 μm. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086513 | SERVER APPARATUS, DATA INTEGRATION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A server apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform: calculation target data receiving processing, group ID receiving processing, data registering processing and integrated calculation result transmitting processing. The calculation target data receiving processing receives calculation target data which is to be output from an information display device. The group ID receiving processing receives a group ID. The data registering processing registers the calculation target data received in the calculation target data receiving processing in association with the group ID received in the group ID receiving processing. The integrated calculation result transmitting processing integrates each calculation target data registered in association with the group ID in the data registering processing for each group ID and transmits a calculating result based on the integrated data. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086512 | SERVER APPARATUS, METHOD OF AGGREGATING CALCULATION TARGET DATA, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CALCULATION DATA AGGREGATION PROGRAM - A server apparatus has a transmission/reception unit and a processor that is configured to transmit a group ID to the communication device by using the transmission/reception unit, receive a plurality of calculation data of calculators from the communication device by using the transmission/reception unit, wherein corresponding images of the plurality of calculation data of calculators were displayed in display devices of calculators, and the plurality of calculation data of calculators of the corresponding images were acquired by the communication device, and output aggregated calculation data acquired by aggregating the received plurality of calculation data of calculators in association with the group ID. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086362 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DATA OUTPUT METHOD IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SERVER DEVICE - According to an embodiment, an electronic device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform: formula input process of inputting a plurality of pieces of formula data in association with respective formula numbers through a user operation; a formula setting process of setting formula data in the pieces of formula data input by the formula input process as an output target by the user operation; cited formula extraction process of extracting another formula data in the pieces of formula data when the formula data set by the formula setting process cites a formula number of the another formula data; and a data output process of outputting the set formula data with the extracted another formula data. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086347 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WHICH IDENTIFIES CHARACTERISTIC TIME POINTS FROM VARIATIONS OF PIXEL VALUES IN IMAGES, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image capture apparatus capable of identifying desired time points without using a special device is provided. The image capture apparatus | 03-24-2016 |
20160086149 | MERCHANDISE ITEM REGISTRATION APPARATUS - A merchandise item registration apparatus includes: an item code acquiring unit configured to read a merchandise item code associated with an object to be identified; an image information acquiring unit configured to acquire image information about the object to be identified by imaging the object to be identified at a time of sales registration; and an identifying unit configured to identify a merchandise type of the object to be identified based on the read merchandise item code when the merchandise item code is successfully read by the item code acquiring unit, and associate the image information acquired by the image information acquiring unit with the identified merchandise type, the image information being accumulated as a piece of a plurality of pieces of reference image information to be referred to at a time of merchandise type identification based on object recognition. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086148 | MERCHANDISE ITEM REGISTRATION APPARATUS, AND MERCHANDISE ITEM REGISTRATION METHOD - A merchandise item registration apparatus includes: a left photoelectric sensor that senses an object in a first area located on one side of a recognition area for merchandise items in a merchandise item identification device; a right photoelectric sensor that senses the object in a second area located on the other side of the recognition area; and a camera that captures an image of the recognition area. A merchandise item is identified by sensing the object from the image of the recognition area captured by the camera, and a POS terminal is made to perform a merchandise item registration process or a provisional registration cancellation process in accordance with the temporal sequence of results of the sensing performed by the camera in the respective areas. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085845 | SERVER APPARATUS, DATA AGGREGATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a server apparatus includes: a processor configured to perform: receiving a group ID and a plurality of calculation data corresponding to the group ID from a communication device; registering the plurality of received calculation data correlated with the received group ID; and transmitting image data acquired by aggregating the plurality of registered calculation data for the group ID. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085757 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information display device includes a communication unit which communicates with another device; a display unit; a memory; and a processor which performs a transmitting process to transmit a search history of the information display device to the another device via the communication unit, a receiving process to receive a search history of the another device via the communication unit, and a control process to display, as a candidate to be searched for on the display unit, a word and/or phrase included in the search history received by the receiving process. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085717 | CALCULATOR, RECORDING MEDIUM AND COMPUTE SERVER - A calculator includes an input unit and a processor. The processor is configured to perform following processes: receiving a selection of a calculation function type according to a user's operation; receiving an input of calculation object data according to the selected calculation function type, according to a user's operation; and outputting at least one of the calculation object data and calculation result data obtained by a calculation based on the input calculation object data, as external data. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085716 | EXPRESSION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTE SERVER AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING EXPRESSION PROCESSING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - An expression processing device of the present invention includes an input unit, a display and a processor. The processor is configured to perform following processes: inputting an expression in response to a user's operation on the input unit; detecting a plurality of variables included in the expression input by the input unit, among the plurality of variables which are usable in expressions; and outputting the input expression and variable values associated with the detected variables. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085362 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH PANEL, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display device includes a display, a touch panel and a controller. The display includes a plurality of display panels laminated on one another. The touch panel is provided on a screen of the display and accepts touch operation. The controller determines with respect to which display panel among the plurality of display panels the touch operation is carried out, and carries out a process corresponding to operation content of the touch operation on the determined display panel. | 03-24-2016 |
20160084652 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SENSOR CALIBRATION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic device includes a magnetic sensor which detects a magnetic field around the electronic device and outputs magnetic data in accordance with the magnetic field detected by the magnetic sensor, a position acquiring section which acquires position information regarding a geographic position of the electronic device, and a processing unit. The processing unit acquires, from the position acquiring section, specific position information for a specific position of the electronic device when an output vector of the magnetic data is oriented to a magnetic pole direction of the earth, derives a geomagnetic vector at the specific position based on the specific position information, and acquires an offset value based on a comparison between the geomagnetic vector and the output vector. | 03-24-2016 |
20160082754 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus is provided that minimizes trouble of preparation of printing and management burden on the user. The printing apparatus includes a controller that determines an aspect ratio of a printing pattern on a basis of data of an expansion and contraction rate of a continuous print medium to be expandable or contractible after printing, the expansion and contraction rate including a first expansion and contraction rate in a longitudinal direction and a second expansion and contraction rate in a width direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and a printing unit that prints the printing pattern of the aspect ratio determined by the controller, on the print medium before expansion or contraction. | 03-24-2016 |
20160081612 | EXERCISE SUPPORT DEVICE, EXERCISE SUPPORT METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An exercise support device includes a motion sensor that is worn on a user's body and outputs data regarding the motion status of the user's body when the user is performing a moving exercise, and a control section which acquires exercise information regarding the user's exercise status. The control section selects a specific exercise index having relatively strong correlation with a moving speed from exercise indexes acquired from the data outputted when the user moves on a movement section plural times at moving speeds different from each other, acquires a coefficient that is used in an approximate expression which represents the specific exercise index and is a linear function including the moving speed as a variable and the coefficient, and acquires the exercise information based on the specific exercise index and the coefficient when the user moves by the moving exercise. | 03-24-2016 |
20160081086 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information output device includes an acquisition unit (control unit) and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from a communication terminal, information on a use period of the communication terminal through communication therewith. The output unit outputs information based on the acquired information on the use period. An information output method includes a step of acquiring, from a communication terminal, information on a use period of the communication terminal through communication therewith and a step of outputting information based on the information on the use period. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program according to an embodiment of the present invention executes a function to acquire, from a communication terminal, information on a use period of the communication terminal through communication therewith and a function to output information based on the information on the use period. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080912 | RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication terminal receives position information showing a position of another radio communication terminal. The radio communication terminal obtains, from the position information, a terminal ID of the radio communication terminal, and a beacon ID for identifying the predetermined location nearest to the radio communication terminal. The radio communication terminal accepts the predetermined location designated by a user. The radio communication terminal determines as a communication partner terminal, the other radio communication terminal that is nearest to the accepted predetermined location based on the terminal ID and the beacon ID. The radio communication terminal performs communication with the determined communication partner terminal. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080656 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CAPTURING A SUBJECT TO BE RECORDED WITH INTENDED TIMING - An image capturing apparatus ( | 03-17-2016 |
20160080606 | PAGE IMAGE CORRECTION DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A page image correction device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a page image of each page of a plurality of pages from a book, the book being successively imaged in a thickness direction thereof; and a processor configured to: derive, in accordance with a page image of a first prescribed page and a page image of a second prescribed page differing from the first prescribed page, an amount of change in a thickness of the book when the book is opened to the first prescribed page as compared to when the book is opened to the second prescribed page; and correct, in accordance with the amount of change in the thickness of the book, page images of pages between the first prescribed page and the second prescribed page. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080597 | IMAGING DEVICE FOR IMAGING PAGES OF BOOK, METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that captures page images; an operation unit configured to receives a command from outside to select a left page imaging mode whereby left page images among the page images are sequentially captured in accordance with page turning, and a command from outside to select a right page imaging mode whereby right page images among the page images are sequentially captured in accordance with page turning; a control unit that causes the imaging unit to perform imaging of the page images that correspond to the imaging mode selected via the operation unit; and an output unit that outputs the page images captured by the imaging unit. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078055 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS USING CALCULATION OF HISTOGRAM INTERSECTION - In a histogram intersection calculating apparatus, a histogram intersection calculating unit calculates a histogram intersection to compare histograms of query data and target data to obtain a score value of the histogram intersection. A calculation controlling unit makes the histogram intersection calculating unit calculate the histogram intersection in descending order of bin number of the histogram of the query data from the bin number having the maximum frequency value by using frequency values in the bin numbers of the query data and frequency values in the bin numbers of the target data to obtain a score value of the histogram intersection. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078000 | TABLE GENERATING APPARATUS, TABLE GENERATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAM - A table generating apparatus includes a display unit and a processor which performs the following processes of: receiving an input of a function expression; receiving an input for setting a table range; generating a table representing a relation between a plurality of values in the range and their corresponding values determined by the function expression based on the table range, displaying the generated table on the display unit; receiving an input of an additional value while the table is displayed; adding the received additional value and its corresponding value determined by the function expression to the displayed table; and expanding the table by adding values obtained by subsequently changing the additional value and their corresponding values determined by the function expression to the displayed table, after the table addition function adds the additional value and its corresponding value to the table, each time an operation input is received. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077725 | FIGURE DISPLAY APPARATUS, FIGURE DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING FIGURE DISPLAY PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a figure display apparatus includes a display, a touch panel, and a processor. The processor is configured to: cause the display to display a first figure; cause the display to display an operation display element for changing, in accordance with a user operation, a set value for determining the displayed first figure; cause the display to display a second figure being changed from the displayed first figure in accordance with a user operation of the displayed operation display element; and change a variation range of the set value by the operation display element in accordance with a user's multi-touch operation. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077418 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT HAVING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENTS AND PROJECTOR HAVING SAME LIGHT SOURCE UNIT - There is provided a light source unit having an excitation light shining device in which a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements are arranged in rows and columns so that in the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements, the direction of a major axis of an elliptic cross section of a light beam emitted from one semiconductor light emitting element is normal to the directions of major axes of elliptic cross sections of light beams emitted from adjacent light emitting elements. | 03-17-2016 |
20160075083 | HEATING APPARATUS, HEATING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A heating apparatus for emitting thermal energy, includes a heater which emits the thermal energy directed at a thermal expansion sheet that expands according to a heating amount absorbed, a relative mover which causes the heater and the thermal expansion sheet to move relatively in a predetermined direction, and a controller which changes one of a speed of the relative movement by the relative mover and a heat generation amount by the heater, according to the relative movement of the heater and the thermal expansion sheet, so that the heating amount received by the thermal expansion sheet is close to uniform regardless of the position in the predetermined direction while the thermal energy is emitted by the heater. | 03-17-2016 |
20160073068 | LUMINESCENT WHEEL, LIGHT SOURCE UNIT HAVING LUMINESCENT WHEEL DEVICE INCLUDING SAME LUMINESCENT WHEEL, AND PROJECTOR - There is provided a luminescent wheel including a reflecting plate on which a diffuse plate and a luminescent material layer are provided in an end-to-end relationship with each other in a circumferential direction, a first supporting plate which is provided on one surface of the reflecting plate to support part of the diffuse plate, and a second supporting plate which is provided on the other surface of the reflecting plate to support part of the diffuse plate, and the luminescent material layer is formed on the reflecting plate. | 03-10-2016 |
20160073004 | DETECTION OF OBJECT IN DIGITAL IMAGE - A detection apparatus for detecting a subject in a digital image, including: an input section to which a word for identifying the subject is input; and a processor configured to: receive the word for identifying the subject from the input section; determine an attribute that is specified by the word for identifying the subject; select a method of detection in accordance with the determined attribute; and apply the selected method of detection to the digital image to detect the subject in the digital image. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071542 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information output device includes an output unit, a recognition unit and a control unit. The output unit outputs a content. The recognition unit recognizes a user. The control unit (i) determines whether the content currently being output by the output unit is suitable for the recognized user, thereby producing a determination result and (ii) changes, on the basis of the determination result, the current output content to a content having the same substance as the current output content but a different playback time from the current output content. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071498 | KEYBOARD DEVICE AND KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - A keyboard device including a plurality of transmission members which are provided corresponding to a plurality of keys arranged in parallel and each of which makes a rotating motion in response to a depression operation on a corresponding key, a plurality of hammer members which are provided corresponding to the plurality of keys and each of which makes a rotating motion in response to the rotating motion of the transmission member and thereby provides an action load to the key, and a plurality of interlock control sections each of which controls the rotating motion of the hammer member made in response to the rotating motion of the transmission member by a relative motion of an interlock projecting section of the transmission member with respect to a guide hole provided in the hammer member. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070959 | Display System With Imaging Unit, Display Apparatus And Display Method - According to one embodiment, a display system includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a predetermined area; a determination unit configured to determine a number of persons existing in the area, based on the image captured by the imaging unit; and a selection unit configured to select, in accordance with a determination result in the determination unit, corresponding content data from among a plurality of content data. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070240 | RADIO CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A radio controlled timepiece includes a GPS reception processing unit that searches for and captures a signal included in radio waves from a positioning satellite, demodulates and decodes the captured signal to acquire the data corresponding to acquisition target information in data transmitted from the positioning satellite, acquires the acquisition target information using the acquired data, holds a failure history related to acquisition of the data with respect to each captured signal, suspends acquisition of the data from a signal having a reception level determined to be at least equal to a predetermined reference level based on the failure history, and ends acquisition of the data when the number of signals from which the data is to be acquired after search for the signal is ended under a predetermined condition becomes smaller than the number of signals necessary in acquiring the acquisition target information. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070160 | PROJECTION APPARATUS, PROJECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a projection apparatus including: a first screen; a projection unit configured to project an image on a projection area including the first screen; a second screen configured to be capable of being disposed at a position within the projection area of projection by the projection unit and away from the first screen; a shifting mechanism configured to shift the second screen; and a screen controller configured to shift the second screen by the shifting mechanism in accordance with an image which is projected by the projection unit. | 03-10-2016 |
20160064874 | BOARD CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A board connection structure including a wiring board having a contact point section provided at one end portion and opposed to a switch button, and a holding member to which the wiring board is attached with flat surfaces of the contact point section and the connection section on the same surface intersecting with each other by the folding of the wiring board. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063674 | GRAPH DISPLAY APPARATUS, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A graph display apparatus includes a display unit and a processor. The display unit includes a touch panel. The processor performs the following processes: controlling the display unit to display a graph on a graph display area in a coordinate range, the graph corresponding to an expression; acquiring a position designated by a touch of a user on the graph display area; and when a drag operation is detected after the touch of the user ends, changing the coordinate range with the designated position fixed in response to the drag operation, thereby reducing or enlarging the graph, and controlling the display unit to display the reduced or enlarged graph. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063664 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH MULTI-PROCESSOR, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING CONTROL PROGRAM STORED THEREON - A display device including a first processor, a second processor, a frame memory which is overwritten by and stores first image data generated by the first processor and second image data generated by the second processor, and a display on which a predetermined image is displayed based on the first image data and the second image data stored in the frame memory, in which the first processor or the second processor sets the first processor in a power saving state when the first processor is not overwriting the first image data in the frame memory. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063601 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a first extracting unit and a creating unit. The first extracting unit compares a first list of a product or service created for a customer before purchase and a second list of a product or service purchased by the customer, and guesses and extracts a product or service which the customer has a potential desire to purchase. The creating unit creates a third list including the extracted product or service. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062316 | TIMEPIECE - A timepiece provided with a metal case having a fitting section which is annularly provided in a lower portion of the inner circumferential surface, a metal lid body having a lid main body section which is arranged on a lower end of the case and covers a lower portion of the case and a cylindrical section which is arranged in the fitting section of the case, and a synthetic resin gasket having a gasket main body section which is arranged between the fitting section of the case and the cylindrical section of the lid body and a spacer section which forms a space between a lower end surface of the case and an upper surface of the lid main body section. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062222 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR USING THE SAME - An excitation light source is configured to emit excitation light. A fluorescent substance plate is configured to be excited by the excitation light and to emit fluorescent substance light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the excitation light. A condensing optical system is configured to condense the excitation light emitted from the excitation light source to an excitation light irradiation region that is smaller than the fluorescent substance plate, to apply the excitation light to the fluorescent substance plate, and to take in fluorescent substance emission light from the excitation light irradiation region. The excitation light is applied to the fluorescent substance plate such that the excitation light irradiation region is eccentric to the fluorescent substance plate. | 03-03-2016 |
20160061960 | RADIO RECEIVER AND ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - A radio receiver receives transmitted radio waves from positioning satellites, and includes: a signal amplification unit configured to amplify a received signal; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a satellite signal from the amplified signal; and a control unit configured to obtain predetermined information from the acquired satellite signal, determine a reception condition of transmitted radio waves based on the processing condition of at least one of the obtainment and the acquisition unit, and performs operation setting of a gain of the signal amplification unit according to the determined reception condition, wherein the control unit performs the operation setting so that the gain set in the operation setting when the reception condition is determined to be a first reception condition is smaller than the gain set in the operation setting when the reception condition is determined to be a second reception condition inferior to the first reception condition. | 03-03-2016 |
20160061859 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM STORED THEREON - A measurement apparatus including: a first sensor which continuously acquires a vertical direction acceleration generated in accordance with a traveling movement of a user, a second sensor which continuously acquires a travel direction acceleration generated in accordance with the traveling movement, a first determination unit which determines, based on a continuous change of the vertical direction acceleration and the travel direction acceleration, a plurality of landing points of time each being a point of time when a foot of the user lands, and a first acquiring unit which acquires, based on the plurality of landing points of time, a period required for one step of the user in the traveling movement. | 03-03-2016 |
20160057695 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, MASTER DEVICE, AND SLAVE DEVICE - An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a wireless communication device that is capable of efficiently searching another wireless communication device that is capable of providing a required service. A master device, when the master device receives an advertisement from a slave device, transmits, to the slave device, a scan request that includes information on a requested service that the master device requires. The slave device, which has received the scan request, decides whether or not the slave device itself is capable of providing the requested services, and transmits, to the master device, a scan response that includes a result of the decision. When the decision result included in the scan response indicates that the slave device is capable of providing the requested service, the master device establishes a connection to the slave device. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057397 | COLLIMATOR LENS, LIGHT SOURCE UNIT INCLUDING SAME COLLIMATOR LENS, AND PROJECTOR - A collimator lens has an entrance portion having an elongated recess portion which incident light enters, which is formed into a recess curved inwards towards an exit direction of the incident light, with the direction of a first axis intersecting an axis of the incident light at right angles defined as a longitudinal direction and in which a recessed edge in a cross section intersecting the first axis at right angles is formed into an arc, and an exit portion from which the incident light entering the entrance portion exits and which is formed so that a curvature of an arc-shaped edge in the cross section intersecting the first axis at right angles differs from a curvature of an arc-shaped edge in a cross section intersecting at right angles a second axis intersecting the axis of the incident light and the first axis at right angles. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055763 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, PRONUNCIATION LEARNING SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display and a processor. The processor executes a process of displaying on the display a word which a user is prompted to pronounce; acquiring speech which the user uttered by pronouncing the displayed word; and analyzing a pronunciation of the acquired speech, determining a part of the word, with respect to which a pronunciation relating to the word is incorrect, acquiring, as a word for practice, word which includes the part of the incorrect pronunciation and is shorter than the displayed word, and displaying on the display the word which is acquired as the word for practice. | 02-25-2016 |
20160054701 | WASTE TONER COLLECTION CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A waste toner collection container includes a housing main body, a detection chamber with an opening and a waste toner introduction inhibition member. The housing main body collects waste toner therein. The detection chamber engages with the housing main body and enables a sensor to determine whether the waste toner reaches a predetermined amount, by interrupting a light path of the sensor. The opening opens toward the housing main body. The waste toner introduction inhibition member seals the opening to inhibit the waste toner in the housing main body from being introduced into the detection chamber before the waste toner in the housing main body reaches the predetermined amount, and is fractured by a pressing force of the waste toner to permit the waste toner to be introduced into the detection chamber as the waste toner in the housing main body reaches the predetermined amount. | 02-25-2016 |
20160050357 | IMAGING DEVICE SHOOTING A COMMON SUBJECT IN SYNCHRONIZATION WITH OTHER IMAGING DEVICES - An imaging device shoots a common subject in synchronization with other imaging devices. The imaging device includes a processor. The processor receives states of the other imaging devices, compare an own state of the imaging device with the received states of the other imaging devices, and determine whether the imaging device functions as a main device or a subordinate device for setting an imaging condition. When the processor determines that the imaging device functions as the main device, the processor sends imaging information acquired or determined by the imaging device for shooting the common subject to the subordinate devices. When the processor determines that the imaging device functions as the subordinate device, the processor sets the imaging condition in the imaging device based on the imaging information received from the main device. | 02-18-2016 |
20160044222 | DETECTING APPARATUS, DETECTING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM FOR DETECTING STATE IN PREDETERMINED AREA WITHIN IMAGES - An imaging apparatus of an embodiment of the present invention includes a detecting unit | 02-11-2016 |
20160042728 | Touch Detecting Device, Electronic Musical Instrument, Touch Detecting Method and Storage Medium - First and third counters count an ON time between first and second contact nodes of a key and an ON time between the second contact node and a third contact node, respectively. A second counter counts a time after counting of the first counter is completed. A counter memory stores velocity counter values representing count times of the first and third counters, and a correction time counter value representing the count time of the second counter. An arrival comparator circuit compares an arrival time value and the correction time counter value. In a case that the velocity count value of the first counter is larger than a threshold value, when the arrival comparator circuit detects that the arrival time value coincides with the correction time counter value, a controller outputs a sound generation instruction including touch information according to the velocity counter value loaded from the counter memory. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042231 | DETECTION APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MOVEMENT OF OBJECT, DETECTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The average value calculation section acquires luminance information and color information, from captured images continuously captured in frame as a unit by an image capture unit. The detection method determination section determines either one or both among the luminance information and color information to use in order to detect movement of the predetermined object, based on the luminance information and color information acquired. The motion detection section detects movement of the predetermined object using either one or both among the luminance information and color information based on the result determined. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041944 | GRAPH DISPLAY APPARATUS, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A graph display apparatus includes a display unit and a processor. The display unit includes a display screen. The processor performs following processes of: determining an expression as a graph display object according to positions on the display screen, the positions being designated by a user; generating an operation receiver for changing a numerical value of a coefficient included in the determined expression, according to an operation of the user; displaying the graph of the determined expression and the generated operation receiver on the display screen; and changing the graph displayed on the display screen, according to the operation of the user on the displayed operation receiver. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041530 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - An electronic timepiece includes: a timer unit configured to count date and time; a current position acquiring unit configured to acquire a current position; an associated position selecting unit configured to select an associated position preset according to a current position when the current position is acquired; a local time calculating unit configured to calculate local time at the current position and local time at the associated position based on the date and time counted by the timer unit, time difference information of the current position and time difference information of the associated position on differences in time from a predetermined reference position; and a display part configured to display the calculated local times simultaneously or by selectively switching therebetween. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041515 | ROLL SHEET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A roll sheet image forming apparatus includes an introduction opening and a guide plate. Instead of a continuous sheet held in an apparatus main body, a continuous sheet for option feeding provided at an outside is introduced into the apparatus main body through the introduction opening. The guide plate is for splicing a lead sheet and a continuous sheet. When feeding the continuous sheet, a feeding unit is pulled out from the apparatus main body, a lead sheet is set to be conveyable towards an image forming unit, the feeding unit is again accommodated in the apparatus main body, a front end of the continuous sheet is placed on the guide plate, a rear end of the lead sheet is placed on the guide plate through the introduction opening, the rear end and the front end are spliced by a bonding member and then the feeding unit operates. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041456 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes the following. A camera unit; a remote control unit which controls the camera unit; a detachable mechanism which detachably connects the camera unit and the remote control unit; and a shaped portion provided on the detachable mechanism to fix the camera unit in a predetermined location. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041303 | OBSERVATION DEVICE AND OBSERVATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An observation device includes a handle having on a lower end side thereof an end portion including a tapered rod portion. The handle includes a protruding portion that protrudes outwardly from a side of the handle with respect to the tapered rod portion. The handle is formed so as to be held by a user to stick the rod portion into soil in a state that an index finger is applied on the handle from underneath and that a finger pad of a thumb presses against an upper end surface of the handle. | 02-11-2016 |
20160037256 | MICROPHONE - When external pressure extremely increases, a waterproof vibration membrane tends to be resiliently deformed extremely toward the inside. However, an inward resilient deformation inhibiting member provided on the inner side of the waterproof vibration membrane with a space therebetween inhibits this extreme inward resilient deformation of the waterproof vibration membrane, whereby the waterproof vibration membrane is prevented from being ruptured or plastically deformed. On the other hand, when the internal pressure extremely increases, the waterproof vibration membrane tends to be resiliently deformed extremely toward the outside. However, an outward resilient deformation inhibiting member provided on the outer side of the waterproof vibration membrane with a space therebetween inhibits this extreme outward resilient deformation of the waterproof vibration membrane, whereby the waterproof vibration membrane is prevented from being ruptured or plastically deformed. | 02-04-2016 |
20160037226 | IMAGE STORING APPARATUS, IMAGE MANAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM THEREON - In the case of receiving a request for list display of a plurality of images from a communication apparatus, an imaging apparatus acquires image data of a plurality of images recorded in a recording medium and analyzes a shooting mode or a relationship of each of the plurality of images with one or more other images referring to supplementary information such as Exif tag information of the image. In the case of determining that there are images taken in a continuous shooting mode or processed images acquired by performing copy or special processing, the imaging apparatus transmits an icon image for thumbnail for distinguishing the images to the communication apparatus via a predetermined wireless communication line. The communication apparatus receives image data of icon images for thumbnail transmitted by the imaging apparatus and list displays the received image data. | 02-04-2016 |
20160037075 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - In a smartphone, the imaging mode of an imager or the display mode of a display is changed from a normal mode when an image of an optical communication region is captured. More specifically, a process of lowering the contrast of the entire image (frame), a process of superimposing an icon image on the candidate region, a masking process for lowering the contrast of the candidate region, a process of reducing the count of display frames by image averaging or thinning, or a zoom limiting process of limiting the upper limit of the zoom ratio of the imager or the upper limit of the enlarged display magnification on the display is performed. | 02-04-2016 |
20160025864 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information communication apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with an external apparatus connected thereto through a communication network, a first acquiring unit which acquires predetermined information not through the communication unit, and a second acquiring unit which acquires the predetermined information which the external apparatus has obtained from said external apparatus through the communication unit. In addition, the information communication apparatus includes a judging unit which judges whether the communication unit has been connected with the external apparatus to communicate with each other, and a controlling unit which controls the second acquiring unit so as to perform an acquiring process, when the judging unit determines that the communication unit has been connected with the external apparatus. | 01-28-2016 |
20160021501 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DATE AND TIME SETTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A timer unit to counts a current date and time, a current position acquisition unit to acquire a current position, a determination unit to determine a time zone in which the acquired current position is included, and a local time acquisition unit to calculate local time corresponding to a time difference of the time zone determined by the determination unit are included. When a boundary line of the time zone is along a coastline, the determination unit changes the boundary line from the coastline to a side of a sea in a predetermined distance range and determines a time zone. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019875 | MUSICAL SOUND CONTROL APPARATUS, ELECTRIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, MUSICAL SOUND CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A musical sound control apparatus includes: an operator which as an index portion and changes values of a plurality of kinds of parameters by moving a position of the index portion; and a parameter control unit which executes processing of changing the values of the plurality of kinds of parameters according to an operated position as a position at which the index portion was moved from a standard position by an operation and processing of, when changing an assignment to the operator from a first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to a second parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters in a state in which the index portion is positioned at a position other than the standard position, setting a value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019024 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A playback device includes a first buffer and a second buffer, each having storage regions, and a processing unit. The processing unit performs: a storage process that causes input audio data to be stored in the storage regions of the first buffer in order; a first playback process that causes the stored audio data to be played back in the order in which the audio data was stored; a designation process that designates, in response to a user input, at least one of the plurality of storage regions of the first buffer in which the audio data is stored; a copy process that causes the audio data stored in the designated storage region of the first buffer to be copied to the second buffer; and a second playback process that causes the audio data copied to the second buffer to be repeatedly played back. | 01-21-2016 |
20160018792 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - An electronic timepiece including: a clocking unit which counts current date and time; a summer time application unit which applies summer time information corresponding to positional information to the date and time counted by the clocking unit; a radio wave reception unit which receives radio waves including summer time implementation information of a predetermined area; a summer time information acquisition unit which acquires the summer time implementation information from the received radio waves; a storage unit in which a summer time implementation rule of each area in the world is stored in advance; and an information selection unit which selects, as the summer time information, one of the summer time implementation information and the summer time implementation rule corresponding to a current position on the basis of the current position and the summer time implementation information. | 01-21-2016 |
20160018789 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - An electronic timepiece including: a clocking unit; a storage unit; a setting selection unit which selects, as summer time implementation information, the summer time implementation rule or user setting that specifies whether to implement summer time; and a local time acquisition unit which acquires local time at a predetermined point, wherein the local time acquisition unit includes: a movement determination unit which determines, when the setting selection unit selects the user setting, whether a previous point and a new point belong to a predetermined range in which local time counted at the previous point is equal to local time counted at the new point; and a summer time implementation information switching unit which acquires local time on the basis of the summer time implementation rule when the previous point and the new point do not belong to the predetermined range. | 01-21-2016 |
20160000204 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE DRAWING APPARATUS - A drawing apparatus comprises a controlling unit which adjusts a size of a design image formed by a image data, the image data includes position information of a key point which is predetermined set, without changing an aspect ratio of the design image and the relative position of the key point, generates an adjusted design image, and fits the adjusted design image to a drawing region of a nail; and a drawing unit for drawing the adjusted design image on the drawing region. | 01-07-2016 |
20150382135 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM THEREON - An embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless communication apparatus which can automatically switch to an operation mode corresponding to a communication target. The wireless communication apparatus detects a communication target near to the wireless communication apparatus. It determines whether or not the detected communication target is capable of P2P communication with the wireless communication apparatus. In the case of determining that the communication target is capable of P2P communication, the wireless communication apparatus determines that the communication target is a mobile terminal and switches the operation mode to a P2P mode to establish P2P communication with the mobile terminal. In the case of determining that the communication target is not capable of P2P communication, the wireless communication apparatus determines that the communication target is a contactless IC card and switches the operation mode to a reader/writer mode to read/write information from/to the contactless IC card. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381899 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING PLURALITY OF IMAGES - An image processing apparatus | 12-31-2015 |
20150381886 | Camera Controlling Apparatus For Controlling Camera Operation - A camera apparatus on an imaging terminal side detects the installation state (imaging state) of its own camera based on sensor information obtained by an imaging state sensor of the camera, and specifies the state as an imaging condition thereof. Then, the camera apparatus refers to a task table and thereby specifies a camera task associated with the installation state (imaging state) which is the imaging condition as a task of its own camera. | 12-31-2015 |
20150380855 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a device body having a installation section provided on the outer surface and an internal circuit provided therein, and a connector section which can be attached to the installation section and can be removed from the installation section. The connector section has at least one functional section for connection to an external device and a first terminal electrically connected to the functional section. The device body has a second terminal electrically connected to the internal circuit and exposed on the inner surface of the installation section. The second terminal is arranged at a position where the second terminal is connected to the first terminal when the connector section is attached to the installation section. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379754 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ANIMATION CREATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - According to an image processing apparatus, a control unit creates an animation that sets initial positions of parts of an image, such as the head, lips, and eyelids, and moves the parts of the image with positions of the parts of the image in the first frame as their set initial positions, and moves the parts of the image in such a manner as that positions of the parts of the image in the last frame coincide with the set initial positions. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379753 | MOVEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVEMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - In order to allow main parts of a face to move more naturally, a movement processing apparatus includes a face main part detection unit configured to detect a main part forming a face from an acquired face image, a shape specifying unit configured to specify a shape type of the detected main part, and a movement condition setting unit configured to set a control condition for moving the main part, based on the specified shape type of the main part. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379749 | OBJECT DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, OBJECT DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING OBJECT DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, an object display control apparatus includes a display and a processor. The processor executes a process of displaying on the display at least one object comprising a plurality of object parts, wherein the plurality of object parts include first object parts having variable values; setting one of the first object parts displayed on the display as a change target for changing the value of the one of the first object parts; and displaying a list of the first object parts, the one of the first object parts set as the change target being distinguishably displayed from the other of the first object parts in the list. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379748 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING PROGRAM FOR GENERATING NEW IMAGE BY SYNTHESIZING A PLURALITY OF IMAGES - An imaging apparatus includes an image acquiring unit, an image setting unit, an image selecting unit, and an image generating unit. The image acquiring unit acquires a plurality of images belonging to different groups. The image setting unit determines the number of images to be used for generation of a new image. The image selecting unit selects images of the number determined by the image setting unit from the plurality of images based on supplementary information of a plurality of images belonging to each of the different groups acquired by the image acquiring unit. The image generating unit generates a new image from the images selected by the image selecting unit. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379329 | MOVEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVEMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - In order to allow main parts of a face to move more naturally, a movement processing apparatus includes a face feature detection unit configured to detect features related to a face from an acquired image including the face, an object feature specifying unit configured to specify features of an object having the face included in the image, based on the detection result of the features related to the face, and a movement condition setting unit configured to set control conditions for moving the main parts forming the face included in the image, based on the specified features of the object. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378319 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE INCLUDING LIGHT EMITTING SECTION - An electronic timepiece, including: a display section which displays time information; a light emitting section which illuminates a display surface of the display section by emitting light; and a light emitting control section which performs control to turn on the light emitting section by gradually increasing a light emitting amount of the light emitting section to a peak value in a predetermined brightening time according to a predetermined light emitting condition. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378313 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a solar panel, a secondary battery, an antenna and a circuit board. The solar panel receives light to generate electric power. The secondary battery stores electric power generated by the solar panel. The antenna is disposed near the solar panel and receives electric waves with a predetermined frequency. The circuit board electrically connects the solar panel and the secondary battery. On a wiring route which is formed on the circuit board so as to electrically connect the solar panel and the secondary battery, at least one circuit element is provided so as to have high electric resistance with respect to electric waves which are received by the antenna while having low electric resistance with respect to a generated current from the solar panel. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378310 | TYPESETTING FIXING METHOD, DISPLAY PLATE AND TIMEPIECE - A typesetting fixing method includes: disposing a typesetting member on a front surface of a dial plate, the dial plate being made of a transparent or semitransparent resin and the typesetting member being made of an opaque or semitransparent resin having a laser absorbing property; irradiating the dial plate with a laser beam from a rear side of the dial plate while the dial plate is uniformly applied a pressure by a heat-resistant jig; and welding the typesetting member on the dial plate by absorbing the laser beam at an interface of the typesetting member and by melting at least one of the typesetting member and the dial plate by heat. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378027 | POSITIONING SYSTEM, POSITIONING APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS, AND POSITIONING METHOD - Provided is a positioning system including: a storage apparatus configured to store orbit information indicating the position of a positioning satellite; and a positioning apparatus configured to perform a positioning process based on the orbit information, wherein the positioning apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire state-related information related to the state of the positioning apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the storage apparatus, the state-related information acquired by the acquisition unit, and the storage apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive the state-related information transmitted from the transmission unit, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the content of the orbit information to be transmitted to the positioning apparatus, based on the state-related information received by the receiving unit. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378026 | POSITIONING APPARATUS, POSITIONING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a positioning apparatus for determining positions including: a distance acquisition unit configured to acquire pseudo-range information pieces indicating pseudo-ranges from the positioning apparatus to three positioning satellites; an altitude acquisition unit configured to acquire the altitude of the position of the positioning apparatus based on map information; a setting unit configured to set the altitude acquired by the altitude acquisition unit as a tentative altitude at the position of the positioning apparatus; and a positioning unit configured to perform a positioning process in a two-dimensional positioning method based on the pseudo-range information acquired by the distance acquisition unit, and the tentative altitude. | 12-31-2015 |
20150377633 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ARRIVAL DETERMINATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device configured to detect arrival at a specified location, includes: a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire current location of the electronic device; a detection range setting unit configured to set detection ranges for detecting arrival of the electronic device at specified locations given the order; and a detection range control unit configured to change the detection ranges according to location status of the electronic device based on relationship between the current location and the specified locations. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375557 | PAGE-TURNING APPARATUS FOR OPEN BOOK AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM FOR BOOK PAGES - An apparatus for turning pages of an open book includes a mechanism and a roller. The mechanism turns a page held at a departure position to a destination position. The roller conveys the page from a middle point of turning operation by the mechanism to the destination position while rotating to roll up the page. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375548 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND DRAWING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A drawing apparatus, including: a drawing data generation unit which, as a fitting process, fits a design image to a drawing region of a drawing target, and generates drawing data of the design image fitted to the drawing region; and a drawing unit which performs drawing of the design element on the drawing region on the basis of the drawing data, wherein the drawing region is curved along a width direction of the drawing region, the design image includes at least one design element, and the drawing data generation unit performs fitting the design element to a region excluding at least one edge portion from the drawing region, the edge portion being set on one side in a width direction of the drawing region. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375546 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A VALUE OF DENSITY OF A HEAT ABSORBING AGENT, METHOD OF FORMING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT, APPARATUS FOR FORMING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING A VALUE OF DENSITY OF A HEAT ABSORBING AGENT, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR FORMING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT - A method of determining a value of density of a heat absorbing agent to be applied to a target pixel on a medium, wherein the medium is distended, when heated, the value of density of the heat absorbing agent is a density value of the heat absorbing agent that is applied to the medium before heated, and density values of the heat absorbing agent are set for plural pixels on the medium, the method comprising, calculating a first average density value of first plural pixels in the vicinity of the target pixel among the plural pixels, calculating a second average density value of second plural pixels in the vicinity of the target pixel, and determining a density value of the heat absorbing agent based on the calculated first average density value and second average density value, when a density value applied to the target pixel satisfies a first prescribed condition. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375526 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DRAWING IN DRAWING APPARATUS - A drawing apparatus detects, as base coat information, a contour of a base coat region which is formed on a surface of a drawing object by applying a first ink used for a base coat on the surface of the drawing object with a drawing tool so as to fill in a design region surrounded with a contour of a design image, before the design image is printed on the surface of the drawing object, and adjusts a size of the design image and generates an adjusted design image which has a size sufficient to cover a whole area of the base coat region, based on the detected base coat information. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375525 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND DRAWING METHOD OF DRAWING APPARATUS - A drawing apparatus and drawing method to perform drawing on a drawing target region are shown. The drawing apparatus includes a drawing unit and a control unit. The drawing target region is a surface of a plurality of nails and the nails include unit regions in contact with each other to be drawn with ink in different colors. The control unit includes a nail specifying unit which judges whether each of the unit regions is a dried unit region, a non-dried unit region, and a non-drawn unit region. Then, the nail specifying unit extracts the non-drawn unit region which is not in contact with the non-dried unit region as a specific unit region. The control unit also includes a drawing control unit which controls the drawing unit to perform the drawing on the specific unit region. | 12-31-2015 |
20150374092 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF DRAWING APPARATUS - A drawing apparatus to perform drawing on a drawing target surface which is a surface of a fingernail or toenail having a curved shape includes a drawing tool holder which holds a drawing tool in such a way that the drawing tool is movable toward and away from the drawing target surface; and a drawing tool pressing mechanism which presses the drawing tool with a pressing force toward the drawing target surface when the drawing tool performs drawing. The drawing tool pressing mechanism changes the pressing force in accordance with a change in height of a position to be touched by the drawing tool on the drawing target surface according to the curved shape due to a change in position where the drawing tool touches the drawing target surface, to reduce a change in pressure on the drawing target surface from the drawing tool. | 12-31-2015 |
20150366317 | DRAWING APPARATUS - A drawing apparatus includes a mounting section having a mounting surface for mounting thereon a drawing target object having a drawing target surface, a carriage for attaching thereto a drawing tool having a tip portion at one end, and a drawing tool pressing mechanism for bringing the tip portion of the drawing tool attached to the carriage into contact with the drawing target surface of the drawing target object mounted on the mounting surface. | 12-24-2015 |
20150362851 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER USING BIOPLASTIC AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - An electrophotographic toner which is excellent in grindability, fixing property and durability by being obtained via a step of melt-kneading a mixture containing an amorphous bioplastic having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 55000 to 120000, a terpene phenol resin, and a styrene acrylic resin having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 85500 to 118000 so as to obtain a kneaded mixture, and a step of grinding the kneaded mixture after hardening. | 12-17-2015 |
20150356884 | LEARNING SUPPORT APPARATUS, DATA OUTPUT METHOD IN LEARNING SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a learning support apparatus includes a display unit and a processor. The processor executes a process of reading out map data of a designated age from a plurality of map data corresponding to a plurality of ages, and outputting the read-out map data; and reading out, if a position on a map is designated on the output map data, historical information relating to the designated position and the designated age of the map from historical dictionary data, and outputting the read-out historical information. | 12-10-2015 |
20150348525 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SOUND GENERATION, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic musical instrument is provided with a voice sensor for detecting a voice uttered by a user, when the user blows into the musical instrument with a voice, a breath sensor for detecting at least one of a blow pressure and a blow volume in a body of the musical instrument, when the user blows into the musical instrument with a voice, and a musical tone controlling unit for controlling generation of a musical tone based on at least one of outputs of the voice sensor and the breath sensor. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348115 | CONTENT OUTPUT APPARATUS, CONTENT OUTPUT METHOD, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A content output system for outputting content to digital signage makes customers continuously feel interactivity with content to maintain their interest. A content output system | 12-03-2015 |
20150346695 | SOLAR PANEL AND TIMEPIECE INCLUDING SOLAR PANEL - A solar panel, above which a pointer mounted on a pointer shaft inserted in a through hole in a center portion of the solar panel moves, includes a plurality of solar cells arranged in a substantially circular shape, and these solar cells have been divisionally formed into a substantially spiral shape so that the pointer is positioned over two of the plurality of solar cells. Accordingly, the pointer can always be positioned over two of the plurality of solar cells, and therefore a decrease of light-receiving area due to the pointer can be distributed between the two solar cells. As a result, a decrease in the output current of the plurality of solar cells over which the pointer is positioned can be suppressed, and the output current of the entire plurality of solar cells can be improved. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346593 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT INCLUDING LUMINESCENT PLATE ON TO WHICH EXCITATION LIGHT FROM EXCITATION LIGHT SOURCE IS SHONE AND PROJECTOR INCLUDING THE LIGHT SOURCE UNIT - To provide a light source unit which can execute a projection with less consumed power and noise and a projector including this light source unit, a light source unit is provided which includes an excitation light source and a luminescent plate which includes a first luminescent light emitting area on which a resin mixed luminescent material layer containing a resin binder is provided and a second luminescent light emitting area on which a luminescent material containing no resin binder is provided, on to which first luminescent light emitting area and second luminescent light emitting area excitation light from the excitation light source is shone. | 12-03-2015 |
20150341556 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CAPTURING PANORAMIC IMAGE - A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an image composition unit, and a display control unit. The image capturing unit captures frames at predetermined time intervals. The image composition unit sequentially combines at least a part of image data from image data of a plurality of frames sequentially captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals. The display control unit performs control to sequentially display image data combined by the image composition unit while the image data of the frames are captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339529 | DETECTION APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MOVEMENT OF OBJECT, DETECTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The average value calculation section acquires luminance information and color information, from captured images continuously captured in frame as a unit by an image capture unit. The detection method determination section determines either one or both among the luminance information and color information to use in order to detect movement of the predetermined object, based on the luminance information and color information acquired. The motion detection section detects movement of the predetermined object using either one or both among the luminance information and color information based on the result determined. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338725 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM - There is provided a light source unit including a first light source, a second light source, a first heat sink for the first light source which is disposed to a side of the first light source, a second heat sink for the second light source which is disposed to a side of the second light source, and a first cooling fan which is disposed between the first heat sink and the second heat sink, wherein the first light source and the first heat sink are connected together by a first heat pipe via a bulkhead, and wherein the second light source and the second heat sink are connected together by a second heat pipe via the bulkhead. | 11-26-2015 |
20150331500 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that is openable by a first case and a second case being unfolded, and includes an imaging section which is provided in the second case and opposed to the first case where a read target medium is placed, a recognition section which, when a predetermined indicator on the first case side is photographed by the imaging section, recognizes the predetermined indicator by analyzing a photographed image, a judgment section which judges whether or not the first case and the second case have been closed into a predetermined state, based on a result of recognition of the indicator by the recognition section, and a determination section which determines the photographed image taken by the imaging section as a storage target, when the judgment section judges that the first case and the second case have been closed into the predetermined state. | 11-19-2015 |
20150326758 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus having first and second cases ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150326747 | Information Reading Apparatus and Computer-Readable Storage Medium - An image control apparatus which stores in a storage section an image captured in an imaging section, comprising a comparing section which, after changing from a first static image in which an imaging subject is not in motion into a dynamic image in which the imaging subject is in motion and at a time when changing from the dynamic image into a second static image in which an imaging subject is not in motion, compares the first static image and the second static image; and a storage controlling section which controls whether or not to store the second static image in the storage section, in accordance with a comparison result of the comparing section. | 11-12-2015 |
20150310843 | SAMPLING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention receives sound wave data from a sound inputted into a microphone and samples the sound wave data received using a CPU to obtain sampled data as a digitized tone data, which is then stored in a sampling memory. The CPU performs auto-play of a sound using the digitized tone data sampled by the sampling and stored in the sampling memory. Thus, a result of the sampling is automatically provided to the user after the sampling takes place and the user can intuitively understand what can be done through sampling. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310646 | GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A graph display control apparatus includes a processor. The processor operations including: storing a function equation in a memory; displaying a graph corresponding to the stored function equation on a coordinate system of a display; designating a plurality of points on the displayed graph in response to user's operations; obtaining a slope value of a tangent to the displayed graph at each coordinate corresponding to each of the plurality of designated points; plotting the corresponding slope values as one value of a coordinate on the coordinate system; performing regression calculation based on the plurality of plotted points to obtain a regression function equation of a graph corresponding to the plurality of plotted points; and displaying a graph corresponding to the regression function equation obtained by the regression calculation on the display. | 10-29-2015 |
20150304574 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CAMERA UNIT, DISPLAY UNIT, IMAGE-TAKING METHOD, DISPLAY METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM THEREON - A CPU of a camera unit controls a communication section to transmit live view images captured by an imaging section to a remote control unit. Further, in the case of receiving a rotation angle of the remote control unit (an angle with respect to the horizontal direction of a display surface of a display section of the remote control unit) transmitted from the remote control unit, the CPU sets a trimming frame for an image captured by the imaging section based on the rotation angle. In the case of receiving an image-taking instruction from the remote control unit, the CPU crops the image along a trimming frame at that point of time and stores the cropped image in a recording medium. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301493 | PRINT TARGET MEDIUM SUPPORT MEMBER AND PRINT TARGET MEDIUM TRANSFER APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A print target medium support member, which is used in an image forming apparatus having a print target medium placement table where a print target medium is placed and a transfer section which transfers the print target medium placed thereon, including a print target medium rear-end engaging section which engages a rear end of the print target medium such that it is oriented downward and a print target medium intermediate engaging section which engages an intermediate portion between the tip and the rear end of the print target medium, with a first portion from the tip toward rear forming a first curved portion curved such that a surface side forms a convex shape, and with a second portion of the print target medium at the rear of the first curved portion forming a second curved portion curved such that the opposite surface side forms a convex shape. | 10-22-2015 |
20150286598 | CONTENT OUTPUT DEVICE FOR OUTPUTTING CONTENT - In order to perform processing corresponding to an instruction or a reaction at appropriate timing when a predetermined instruction is given or a reaction by a user is made while content is being outputted, a CPU detects instruction timing when a predetermined user instruction is given for data outputted while pieces of data constituting content are being sequentially outputted; stores the detected instruction timing in an instruction information memory; specifies predetermined timing that comes later than the instruction timing stored in the instruction information memory as timing for performing processing in accordance with the user's instruction; and performs the processing. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286119 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTION APPARATUS - A light source unit includes a red light source, a first blue-light source, a fluorescent material, a second blue light source and an optical system. The red light source emits light in red wavelength range. The first blue-light source emits light in a first blue-wavelength range. The fluorescent material receives the light in the first blue-wavelength range and emits light in a green wavelength range. The second blue-light source emits light in a second blue-wavelength range whose wavelengths are longer than those in the first blue-wavelength range. An optical system guides the light emitted from the red light source, the light emitted from the second blue-light source, and the light emitted from the fluorescent material, along a unique optical path. | 10-08-2015 |
20150281569 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION DEVICE, AND WEARABLE INFORMATION DEVICE - A wearable information device is configured to store device identifying information used for identifying the information device registered in advance, to confirm whether or not a taken image, in which an object in a direction of line of vision of a user is taken, shows the information, by image analysis based on the stored device identifying information, and to notify the information device of a result of the confirmation. The information device is configured to execute a predetermined function on the basis of the result of the confirmation of the information device notified from the wearable information device. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277389 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH SOLAR PANEL - Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including a dial plate having light transparency, a module including an antenna for receiving circularly polarized waves which is disposed below the dial plate, the antenna having a radiation electrode, and a solar panel disposed between the dial plate and the module, wherein the solar panel includes a common substrate, a plurality of solar cells disposed on the common substrate, and an inactive segment disposed on the common substrate at a place corresponding to the place of the radiation electrode. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277387 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - An electronic timepiece including: an operating unit which performs an operation including at least one of transmission, reception and generation of electromagnetic waves of a predetermined strength or more; a display unit which displays information; a reception unit which receives a predetermined operation for switching a display content by the display unit between display contents according to a plurality of functions; an output control unit which sets the display content to be a basic display according to a predetermined basic function when the reception unit continuously receives the predetermined operation for a first predetermined time; and a setting unit which switches on/off of the operation of the operating unit between an operation allowed state and an operation prohibited state when the reception unit continuously receives the predetermined operation for a second predetermined time longer than the first predetermined time. | 10-01-2015 |
20150276784 | User's Motion Specifying Apparatus - A specifying apparatus is provided, which has an acceleration obtaining unit and a face specifying unit. The acceleration obtaining unit obtains information of an acceleration of a tool in a direction of a first axis, wherein the acceleration changes in response to motion of a user using the tool. The face specifying unit specifies a used face of the tool based on the information of an acceleration obtained by the acceleration obtaining unit. | 10-01-2015 |
20150271825 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, SLAVE DEVICE, AND MASTER DEVICE - When executing a predetermined application in which radio communication with a slave device is necessary, a master device scans an advertisement from the slave device by using previously-set one channel among three channels for advertising. When transmitting the advertisement to the master device executing the predetermined application, the slave device transmits the advertisement by using previously-set one channel among three channels for advertising. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271819 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, SLAVE DEVICE, AND MASTER DEVICE | 09-24-2015 |
20150271753 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An electronic device system of the present invention includes a first terminal device having a first wireless communicating section which performs wireless communication and a second terminal device having a second wireless communicating section which performs wireless communication and being configured to enter a sleep mode where an operation of part of circuits of the second wireless communicating section is stopped. The first wireless communicating section of the first terminal device generates and transmits a start notification signal which is not a modulated signal wave for releasing the sleep mode of the second terminal device. The second wireless communicating section of the second terminal device in the first sleep mode receives the start notification signal transmitted from the first wireless communicating section of the first terminal device and releases the sleep mode of the second terminal device depending on the value of the electric power of the start notification signal. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271407 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING INTERVAL SHOOTING - The present invention provides an imaging apparatus configured to perform interval shooting for taking shots sequentially at a set shooting interval. The imaging apparatus includes a shooting parameter setting unit and the shooting parameter setting limiting unit. The shooting parameter setting unit sets time-related shooting parameters including a shooting interval of the interval shooting. Further, the shooting parameter setting unit determines the shooting situation or shooting setting. The shooting parameter setting limiting unit limits a settable range of a time-related shooting parameter to be set by the shooting parameter setting unit to a different range according to the shooting situation or the shooting setting determined by the shooting parameter setting unit. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271394 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING SELF-TIMER SHOOTING - The present invention provides an imaging apparatus which can take shots sequentially by self-timer. The imaging apparatus includes an output unit, an imaging unit, and an imaging control unit. The output unit plays back a first voice file including a voice of a predetermined playback time period for guidance to prepare for shooting. The imaging unit performs shooting one time after playback of the first voice file by the output unit is ended. The imaging control unit repeats playback by the output unit and shooting by the imaging unit a predetermined number of times. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271305 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device of the present invention includes a first flat section which is positioned on a back surface side of a flat-type device body, a second flat section which openably and closably covers a front surface of the device body, and a coupling section which couples the first flat section and the second flat section together such that the first flat section and the second flat section are foldable. The first flat section has a first folding section provided in parallel with the coupling section, and the second flat section has a second folding section provided in parallel with the coupling section. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271278 | DISPLAY DEVICE CONNECTED TO NETWORK, DISPLAY SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display device includes: a storage unit, a reception unit, a comparison unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores preregistered position information. The reception unit receives position information sent from a terminal device. The comparison unit compares the received position information with the stored position information. The control unit displays display information on a display unit on the basis of a result of the comparison made by the comparison unit. | 09-24-2015 |
20150270848 | D/A CONVERSION APPARATUS, D/A CONVERSION METHOD AND ELECTRIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - In the present embodiment, quantizer output values including variation values corresponding to duty errors of pulse width data (PWM output signals) occurring by the difference of the pull-down/pull-up drive characteristics (drive capabilities) of a buffer are stored in advance in a feedback value memory in a quantizer as feedback values FBV | 09-24-2015 |
20150269916 | KEYBOARD APPARATUS AND KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - A keyboard apparatus is provided, which is provided with plural keys | 09-24-2015 |
20150269915 | KEYBOARD APPARATUS AND KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - A keyboard apparatus is provided, which is provided with plural keys | 09-24-2015 |
20150269914 | KEYBOARD DEVICE AND KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - A keyboard device including a plurality of wippens that respectively rotate in the vertical direction in response to the respective depressions of the plurality of keys aligned alongside each other, a plurality of hammers that swing in response to the respective rotation of the plurality of wippens and then respectively add an action load to the plurality of keys, and a wippen holding member having a plurality of wippen flanges that are integrally formed along a direction in which the keys are aligned and that rotatably hold the respective plurality of wippens. Therefore, the plurality of wippen flanges do not need to be individually manufactured and assembled, and thus the plurality of wippen flanges can be easily disposed at once by just installing the wippen holding member. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269704 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display device includes: a storage unit, a communication unit and a control unit. In the storage unit, preregistered path information indicating a network path is stored. The communication unit receives path information indicating a network path sent from a terminal device. The control unit (i) compares the received path information with the stored path information so as to determine whether or not the received path information and the stored path information indicate approximately the same path and (ii) displays display information on a display unit when determining that the received path information and the stored path information indicate approximately the same path. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269115 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WHICH STORES MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION CONTROL PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, an electronic device including: a display unit; and a processor configured to: accept an input of numerical expression data comprising an input field-equipped function data with one or plural input fields; cause the display unit to display the numerical expression data and a cursor; move, upon accepting a first user operation, the cursor from one element to a next or previous element, the element being a constituent of numerical expression data; and move, upon accepting a second user operation when the cursor is present in the input fields, the cursor to an outside of the input field-equipped function data with the input fields. | 09-24-2015 |
20150269114 | Electronic Device, Method For Controlling Display Of Variable, And Recording Medium Recording Variable Display Controlling Program - An electronic device includes: a memory; and a processor. The processor causes a display section to display variables and variable values stored in the memory in a list form, causes the display section to display a first variable specified by a user operation as a first part of an expression, causes the display section to display the variables and the variable values after the first variable is displayed, causes the display section to display a second variable specified by a user operation as a second part of the expression, together with the first part, and calculates the expression based on the first part and the second part by referring to a variable value of the first variable and a variable value of the second variable to obtain a calculation result. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268845 | GRAPHIC DRAWING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING GRAPHIC DRAWING PROGRAM - A graphic drawing device includes a display unit and a processor. The processor executes a process includes: displaying on the display unit, a measurement item corresponding to at least one graphic part drawn on the display unit; displaying on the display unit, a slider identifier for setting a slider in a case that the displayed measurement item is a type capable of setting a slider for changing a value of the displayed measurement item; and displaying on the display unit, a slider for changing the value of the displayed measurement item according to an operation by a user with respect to the displayed slider identifier. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268640 | TIMER AND WATCH - A timer includes: a case body made of synthetic resin; an outer case made of synthetic resin, located above the case body and extending to a portion of an upper face of a watch glass; a reinforcement member made of metal embedded in the case body to prevent deformation of the case body when the watch glass is fit thereto and ensure airtightness; and an antenna arranged inside the case body and beneath the reinforcement member, wherein the reinforcement member is embedded in the case body in no electrical continuity with a ground potential. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268639 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a dial, a module and a solar panel. The module is arranged under the dial and including a circular polarization antenna which includes a power feed point and a radiating electrode. The solar panel is arranged between the dial and the module and has an area corresponding to an area of the dial in a face direction thereof. The solar panel is constituted by a plurality of solar cells including a solar cell that has a light receiving surface arranged at a position corresponding to the radiating electrode. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268638 | ANALOG ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE AND HAND MOVEMENT CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An analog electronic timepiece including: a radiowave receiver that receives radiowaves from positioning satellites, acquires preassigned target data from the received radiowaves and outputs the acquired target data; a hand that is provided to be rotatable; a time calculator that calculates a turnaround time from input of a reception command for the radiowaves to the radiowave receiver to output of the acquired target data; and a notification controller that instructs the hand to carry out a predetermined notification movement during reception of the radiowaves and finish the notification movement at a timing when the turnaround time elapses. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268636 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND WRISTWATCH - The present invention includes a wristwatch case provided with a watch glass, a dial plate provided in the wristwatch case, and a timepiece module arranged below the dial plate, and the timepiece module has a first antenna arranged in its one end portion so as to receive a high-frequency radio wave for GPS and a second antenna arranged in the other end portion opposing the first antenna so as to receive a standard time radio wave whose frequency differs from that of a radio wave to be received by the first antenna. Accordingly, radio waves for GPS can be received by the first antenna and standard time radio waves can be received by the second antenna arranged opposing the first antenna. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268575 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER USING BIOPLASTIC AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An electrophotographic toner having good grindability, a wide fixing temperature range and excellent durability, and a method of producing the same are provided. The electrophotographic toner includes, as a binder resin, an amorphous bioplastic having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 5,000 to 40,000, a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 20,000 to 60,000, and a ratio of Mw/Mn of 1.4 or more. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268544 | DRIVING APPARATUS, LIGHT SOURCE DRIVING APPARATUS, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, PROJECTION APPARATUS, AND DRIVING METHOD, SUITABLE FOR DRIVING LOAD IN WHICH VALUE OF PHYSICAL QUANTITY AS CONTROLLED OBJECT PERIODICALLY CHANGES - A driving apparatus drives a load so as to periodically change a physical quantity as a controlled object. The apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a deviation between the targeted value and a detection value detected by the detection unit, a storage unit configured to store past deviations calculated by the calculation unit, a determination unit configured to determine a manipulative variable corresponding to the physical quantity, by referring to a past deviation before a predetermined period, which has been stored in the storage unit, and a driving unit configured to drive the load, based on the manipulative variable determined by the determination unit. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268351 | POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The positioning device includes: a GPS processing unit configured to receive a signal from a GPS satellite and measure a position where the positioning device is located; a data storage unit configured to register a planned positioning point where a position is measured; and a GPS control unit configured to control timing to start up the GPS processing unit such that the GPS processing unit be ready in time for measurement at the registered planned positioning point. | 09-24-2015 |
20150264727 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, PERIPHERAL APPARATUS, AND CENTRAL APPARATUS - The accuracy of a connection is improved by avoiding unnecessary communication. A peripheral obtains an address from a central and saves the address. The peripheral transmits an advertisement including an address of a central which is a connection target. The central stores a history of its own addresses. The central receives the advertisement transmitted from the peripheral. The central determines whether the received advertisement includes any address in the history. If the central determines that the advertisement includes any address in the history, the central transmits to the peripheral a connection request signal for making a connection request. | 09-17-2015 |
20150263437 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An antenna device of the present invention includes, in one aspect: a patch antenna having a resonant frequency at a first frequency; and a loop antenna having a resonant frequency at a second frequency that is different from the first frequency. A loop length of the loop antenna is such that standing waves are generated in the loop antenna when the loop antenna receives radio waves of the first frequency, and the patch antenna is disposed so as to magnetically couple with the loop antenna. | 09-17-2015 |
20150262379 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF TRACKING A SUBJECT IN THE IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus for tracking a subject is provided. The An imaging apparatus has an imaging unit which images a subject to obtain an image, an area detecting unit which detects in the image obtained by the imaging unit a light changing area, in which light changes in a time-series manner, a position detecting unit which detects a position of the light changing area detected by the area detecting unit in the image obtained by the imaging unit, a local area searching unit which searches for a local area within a prescribed region defined on the basis of the position of the light changing area detected by the position detecting unit, wherein the local area shows a large feature value in an image processing, and a tracking unit which tracks movement of the local area found by the local area searching unit. | 09-17-2015 |
20150261194 | RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A radio-controlled timepiece is shown including the following. A receiving unit receives a transmitting radio wave including date/time information from a positioning satellite. A date/time information obtaining unit obtains a week number and elapsed time within a week as the date/time information. An operating unit receives operation. A term obtaining unit obtains a value of a 10 year digit of a present date and time. A first term setting unit sets a first date/time specified range including 10 years corresponding to the obtained value of the 10 year digit and a term adjacent to the 10 years with a predetermined length. A first date/time calculating unit calculates the present date and time within the set first date/time specified range. A date/time correcting unit corrects the date and time of a timekeeping unit based on the present date and time. | 09-17-2015 |
20150261109 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER USING BIOPLASTIC AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An electrophotographic toner having good grindability, and excellent fixability and durability, and a method of producing the same are provided. The electrophotographic toner includes an amorphous bioplastic having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 30,000 to 100,000, and at least one of a phenol resin and a terpene phenol resin as a grinding aid. | 09-17-2015 |
20150261077 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT HAVING OPTICAL DEVICE HAVING DIFFUSING LAYER AND DICHROIC LAYER, PROJECTOR, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - There is provided a light source unit comprising a first light source having a solid light emitting device, a second light source having a luminescent material layer which emits light in a wavelength range which is different from light in a wavelength range which is emitted from the first light source by using the light emitted from the first light source as an excitation light source, and an optical device which is disposed between the first light source and the second light source, wherein the optical device has a dichroic layer which transmits a pencil of light emitted by the first light source and reflects a pencil of light emitted by the second light source, and a diffusing layer which diffuses the pencil of light emitted from the first light source. | 09-17-2015 |
20150255060 | VOICE SEARCH DEVICE, VOICE SEARCH METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A search word acquiring unit acquires a search word. A converting unit converts the search word into a phoneme sequence. An output probability acquiring unit acquires, for each frame, an output probability of a feature quantity of a target voice signal being output from each phoneme included in the phoneme sequence. A relative calculating unit executes relative calculation of the output probability acquired from each phoneme by the output probability acquirer, based on an output probability acquired from another phoneme included in the phoneme sequence. A zone designating unit successively designates a likelihood acquisition zones. A likelihood calculating unit acquires a likelihood indicating how likely a likelihood acquisition zone designated by the zone designator is a zone in which voice corresponding to the search word is spoken. An identifying unit identifies from the target voice signal an estimated zone for which the voice corresponding to the search word is estimated to be spoken, based on the likelihood acquired by the likelihood acquiring unit. | 09-10-2015 |
20150255059 | VOICE SEARCH DEVICE, VOICE SEARCH METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A search string acquiring unit acquires a search string. A converting unit converts the search string into a phoneme sequence. A time length deriving unit derives the spoken time length of the voice corresponding to the search string. A zone designating unit designates a likelihood acquisition zone in a target voice signal. A likelihood acquiring device acquires a likelihood indicating how likely the likelihood acquisition interval is an interval in which voice corresponding to the search string is spoken. A repeating unit changes the likelihood acquisition zone designated by the zone designating unit, and repeats the process of the zone designating unit and the likelihood acquiring device. An identifying unit identifies, from the target voice signal, estimated intervals for which the voice corresponding to the search string is estimated to be spoken, on the basis of the likelihoods acquired for each of the likelihood acquisition zones. | 09-10-2015 |
20150252978 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT HAVING WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MEMBER AND PROJECTOR - There is provided a light source unit which includes an excitation light source configured to emit light in a first wavelength range, a wavelength conversion member on which the light in the first wavelength range is incident from an incident side thereof and which is made up of a member formed to include a luminescent material mixed therein which emits light in a second wavelength range having its wavelength peak on a longer wavelength side than a wavelength peak of the light in the first wavelength range, and a first optical filter which is provided at an output side of the wavelength conversion member which lies opposite to the incident side and which transmits a light component of the light in the second wavelength range which has a wavelength shorter than a third wavelength lying in a wavelength range of the light in the second wavelength range. | 09-10-2015 |
20150244968 | PROJECTION DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an input unit that receives an image signal; a projection system to that forms an optical image corresponding to the image signal received by the input unit and causes said optical image to be projected on an object via a projection lens unit, the optical image being formed by a micromirror device having a plurality of micromirrors; an optical sensor unit that detects, via the projection lens unit and the micromirror device, external light for a point command superimposed on the object; and a CPU that recognizes a location where the point command occurred on the object in accordance with the external light detected by the optical sensor unit. | 08-27-2015 |
20150239277 | PAGE-TURNING DEVICE AND DOCUMENT CAMERA SYSTEM - A page-turning device turning a page of a book includes a sticking part, an arm part and a drive unit. The sticking part sticks to the page of the book being opened. The arm part is provided with the sticking part on a top end and swings such that the sticking part sticks to the page at a departure position of the page and separates from the page at a destination position of the page while the sticking part goes to and fro between the departure position and the destination position over the page of the book. The drive unit swings the arm part around a drive shaft of the drive unit. The drive shaft is inclined with respect to a seam of the opened book and/or a plane on which the book is disposed. | 08-27-2015 |
20150234264 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT INCLUDING LASER DIODES AS LIGHT SOURCES AND MICROLENS ARRAY AND PROJECTOR - A projector includes a light source unit comprising a microlens array having a first area and a second area having a wider interval than that of the first area, a first light source configured to emit light to be incident on the first area, and a second light source configured to emit light to be incident on the first area and the second area, wherein the microlens array diffuses the lights emitted from the first light source and the second light source by microlenses thereof, a collective lens collecting diffuse lights diffused by the microlens array, a display device on which the diffuse lights collected by the collective lens are shone to produce projected light, a projection optical system guiding the projected light produced by the display device, and a control unit controlling the display device and the light source unit. | 08-20-2015 |
20150228270 | AUTOMATIC KEY ADJUSTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM - An automatic key adjusting apparatus is provided, which determines keys on an input melody in real time and adjusts the determined keys in non real time to obtain accurate keys, thereby enhancing accuracy of placement of chords. The automatic key adjusting apparatus is provided with a keyboard for playing a melody of a musical piece. CPU judges keys on the melody in real time based on a history of pitches of the played melody of the musical piece, and adjusts the result of the key judgment in non real time after the melody of the musical piece is played. | 08-13-2015 |
20150215537 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM FOR GENERATING TIME-LAPSE MOVING IMAGE - The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a shooting scene setting unit, a component image acquiring unit, and a time-lapse moving image generating unit. The shooting scene setting unit sets a shooting interval according to shooting situations or shooting setting and selects one of different methods for generating a time-lapse moving image from a plurality of images obtained at the set shooting interval according to shooting situations or shooting setting. The component image acquiring unit obtains a plurality of component images forming a time-lapse moving image based on the time-lapse moving image generating method set by the shooting scene setting unit. The time-lapse moving image generating unit generates a time-lapse moving image by using the plurality of component images obtained by the component image acquiring unit based on the set time-lapse moving image generating method. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215533 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS PERFORMING INTERVAL SHOOTING, IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD - An image capture apparatus includes an interval shooting processing unit and an operation management control unit. It controls interval shooting to repeatedly execute photography processing that is set at a photographing interval that is set. The operation management control unit causes the contents of the power savings processing operation to change depending on the time required in photography processing, or the time required in recovery to a photography capable state. The image capture apparatus can thereby perform proper power savings control irrespective of the photography method of interval shooting. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215520 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS PERFORMING INTERVAL SHOOTING, IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capture apparatus that performs interval shooting to acquire a plurality of captured images photographed with a predetermined photographing interval includes: an image capture unit; an image capture condition determination unit; and an interval shooting processing unit. The image capture unit is configured so as to be able to control focus. The image capture condition determination unit determines a photographing condition of an apparatus. The interval shooting processing unit controls focus of the image capture unit so as to change a focus control method for each photography in the interval shooting according to a photographing condition of the apparatus determined by the image capture condition determination unit. | 07-30-2015 |
20150207993 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present invention, in interval shooting, a CPU of an imaging apparatus controls to repeatedly record images sequentially captured by an imaging section as a moving image at predetermined timing. This CPU controls to select to record an image captured by the imaging section as a still image or to select to record images sequentially captured by the imaging section as a moving image, in accordance with the movement of the imaging apparatus based on a detection result of an acceleration sensor or the movement of a photographic subject from images captured by the imaging section or a detection result of an infrared sensor. That is, when there is a possibility of motion blur or camera shake, moving image capturing is switched to still image photographing and a still image is recorded. | 07-23-2015 |
20150207992 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present invention, when a user operation (shutter button depression) for instructing to start still image recording or a user operation (REC button depression) for instructing to start moving image recording is performed and detected at recording timing in interval shooting, a CPU records a still image or a moving image by an imaging section based on the user operation, without temporarily stopping the recording for the interval shooting. In addition, the CPU stores, in an external memory, a still image or a moving image recorded by the interval shooting and the still image or the moving image recorded by the detection of the user's instruction operation such that they can be managed to be usable as material for the interval shooting. | 07-23-2015 |
20150205365 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD FOR DESIGNATING DISPLAYED ITEMS AND FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION BY DETECTING MOVEMENT - An electronic apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a displaying unit for displaying plural items, the items prepared for giving instructions of performing different operations respectively, a detecting unit for detecting movement, and a controlling unit for, when an item is designated from among the plural items, performing an operation corresponding to the designated item. Further, on the assumption that any of the plural items is designated on the displaying unit and the detecting unit detects movement, the controlling unit changes an indication of the designated item or an indication relating to designated item, displayed on the displaying unit, and on the assumption that other item is designated on the displaying unit and the detecting unit detects movement, changes an indication of the designated other item or an indication relating to designated other item, displayed on the displaying unit. | 07-23-2015 |
20150201734 | Drawing Apparatus and Drawing Control Method Thereof - A drawing apparatus, including a placement section including a placement surface on which a printing target object having a printing target surface that curved along one direction is placed, a drawing head in which at least one drawing tool having a tip portion at one end thereof is loaded and performs drawing by making the tip portion contact with a drawing position of the printing target surface, the tip portion having a shape including a first axis as a central axis; and a control unit which tilts the first axis of the tip portion to one of a first tilt direction and a second tilt direction selectively according to the drawing position of the printing target surface. | 07-23-2015 |
20150199111 | GUI SYSTEM, DISPLAY PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INPUT PROCESSING DEVICE - A GUI system includes a display processing device that has a display unit, a first processing unit configured to cause the display unit to display a screen including an icon, and a gaze direction detection unit configured to detect a gaze direction of a user, and an input processing device that has a second processing unit capable of communicating with the first processing unit, the second processing unit being configured to identify an operation, and an operation transmission unit configured to transmit the operation identified by the second processing unit to the first processing unit. The first processing unit controls the display processing device based on a location identified by the gaze direction detection unit and the operation transmitted by the operation transmission unit. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198928 | Radio-Controlled Timepiece - A radio-controlled timepiece is shown including the following. A timekeeping unit keeps date and time. A date/time obtaining unit obtains date/time information from outside to correct the date and time of the timekeeping unit. A preliminary notice information obtaining unit obtains from outside preliminary notice information regarding whether leap second adjustment in which a leap second is inserted or deleted is executed. A date/time obtaining necessity setting unit sets whether the date/time information needs to be obtained based on history of obtaining the date/time information. The date/time obtaining necessity setting unit sets that the date/time information needs to be obtained when the preliminary notice information is not obtained by the adjustment possible date/time or the leap second adjustment is executed at the adjustment possible date/time, and does not change setting when the preliminary notice information is obtained and the leap second adjustment is not executed. | 07-16-2015 |
20150193292 | MICROCONTROLLER DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD PERFORMED THEREIN - In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a microcontroller device that has, in one chip: a central processing unit; a plurality of peripheral circuits configured to execute respective prescribed processes in response to corresponding trigger signals; and a peripheral control unit that controls respective activations of the plurality of peripheral circuits, wherein at least one of the peripheral circuits is configured to: control operation of an external device; determine whether or not the operation of the external device has ended without an error; enter a standby mode to accept a next trigger signal when the operation of the external device ended without an error; and generate an interrupt signal to interrupt the central processing unit when the operation of the external device ended with an error. | 07-09-2015 |
20150189045 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA UPLOAD METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - According to a tablet terminal, a CPU uploads data specified as an upload target by an operating unit to a server apparatus at a specified timing if a parent account has been selected as an account to use, and automatically uploads predetermined data to the server apparatus at a predetermined timing if a child account has been selected as an account to use. | 07-02-2015 |
20150187368 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION CONTROL DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A content reproduction control device, content reproduction control method and program thereof can cause text voice and images to be freely combined and reproduce the voice and images in synchronous to a viewer. The content reproduction control device includes text inputter for inputting text content to be reproduced as voice sound, image inputter for inputting images of a subject being caused to vocalize the text content, converter for converting the text content into voice data, generator for generating video data in which a corresponding portion relating to vocalization including the mouth of the subject has been changed, and reproduction controller causing synchronous reproduction of the voice data and the generated video data. | 07-02-2015 |
20150187106 | GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL PROCESS PROGRAM - A graph display control apparatus displays a first operation display element for varying, within a preset range, a value of a coefficient included in a function expression; displays a graph image corresponding to the function expression based on the value of the coefficient which is varied in accordance with a user operation of the first operation display element; designates, in accordance with a user operation, a partial variation range of the set variation range of the value of the coefficient; displays a second operation display element for varying the value of the coefficient within the designated partial variation range of the value of the coefficient; and re-displays the graph image displayed based on the value of the coefficient which is varied in accordance with a user operation of the second operation display element. | 07-02-2015 |
20150187105 | GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDING GRAPH DISPLAY CONTROL PROCESSING PROGRAM - A graph display control device includes a formula display control unit, a graph display control unit and an operation-display-element display control unit. The formula display control unit displays a plurality of function formulas containing parameters on a display unit. The graph display control unit displays a graph image corresponding to one of the plurality of function formulas displayed by the formula display control unit, on the display unit so as to be discriminable according to the plurality of function formulas. The operation-display-element display control unit discriminately displays an operation display element for designating a numerical value of a parameter contained in at least one of the plurality of function formulas, on the display unit in correspondence to the graph images respectively displayed discriminately in relation to the function formulas by the graph display control unit. | 07-02-2015 |
20150186741 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to the imaging device, the control unit divides the subject in the photographed image into a plurality of regions, corrects the sizes of the respective regions such that a ratio of vertical width to horizontal width of the respective divided regions and ratios of sizes between the respective reaches match prescribed target ratios. The control unit then generates a region-optimized image by connecting the plurality of corrected regions. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185706 | RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A radio-controlled timepiece includes the following. A timekeeping unit keeps date and time. A satellite radio wave receiving unit receives a transmitting radio wave of a positioning satellite. A receiving term setting unit sets a receiving term with the satellite radio wave receiving unit. A date/time obtaining unit obtains date/time information from the transmitting radio wave received by the satellite radio wave receiving unit. An elapsed time counting unit counts elapsed time from when the date and time is obtained by the date/time obtaining unit. A first judging unit judges whether the elapsed time is less than a first reference time determined based on a timekeeping error of the timekeeping unit and a format of a signal transmitted from the positioning satellite. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185705 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND DATE AND TIME INFORMATION OBTAINING METHOD - An electronic device, including: a clocking unit; a receiving unit; a reception control unit; and a date and time obtaining unit, wherein among first date and time information of a first time unit transmitted from the positioning satellite and second date and time information of a second time unit which has a unit width larger than a unit width of the first time unit, the reception control unit makes the receiving unit receive only the first date and time information, and the date and time obtaining unit includes: a date and time calculation unit; and a date and time correction unit. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185013 | ESTIMATION APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF ONE OBJECT COMING INTO CONTACT WITH THE OTHER OBJECT - A state estimation apparatus has a three-axis angular velocity sensor and a state estimation unit. The three-axis angular velocity sensor obtains a value of an angular velocity around a predetermined axis in a tennis racket when a tennis ball and the tennis racket come into contact. The state estimation unit estimates a contact position of the tennis ball on the tennis racket based on the obtained value of the angular velocity. | 07-02-2015 |
20150181179 | PROJECTOR HAVING LIGHT SOURCE INCLUDING LASER DIODES - There is provided a projector including a plurality of laser diodes and a rectangular display device on to which light emitted from the plurality of laser diodes is shone, wherein the display device is disposed so that a direction of a major axis of an elliptic section of light emitted from each of the plurality of laser diodes becomes substantially parallel to a direction of longer sides of the display device. | 06-25-2015 |
20150180270 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL - An electronic device of the present invention has a secondary battery as a power source, and has a first interface arranged in one surface of the electronic device that includes a first communicating section which performs data communication with a first external device by near field communication and a power receiving section which is capable of receiving electric power from the first external device without being in direct contact and charging the secondary battery, and a second interface arranged in another surface of the electronic device that includes a second communicating section which performs data communication with a second external device by near field communication and a power transmitting section which is capable of transmitting electric power received from the secondary battery to the second external device without being in direct contact, and a control section which controls the operations of the first interface and the second interface. | 06-25-2015 |
20150179151 | KEYBOARD LID OPENING AND CLOSING APPARATUS AND KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - The present invention includes a keyboard lid which is constituted by a front lid and a rear lid whose lengths in the front-rear direction of a keyboard section provided in an instrument case are different from each other being foldably connected to each other by a coupling member, and openably and closably covers the keyboard section; a rotary fulcrum section which supports the rear end portion of the rear lid such that the rear lid is rotatable with respect to the instrument case, and by which the keyboard lid is mountain-folded and the front lid is held upright above the rear portion of the keyboard section when the keyboard lid exposes the keyboard section; and a guide section which guides the front end portion of the front lid in the front-rear direction of the keyboard section. Accordingly, the keyboard lid can be stably and smoothly opened or closed. | 06-25-2015 |
20150179144 | CONTENT OUTPUT SYSTEM, CONTENT OUTPUT APPARATUS, CONTENT OUTPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A commercial product configured to detect operation to the commercial product and to transmit the detected result, and a digital signage including a signage board configured to output visual content, a content storing unit which stores visual content corresponding to each of a plurality of kinds of operation of the commercial product, a communication unit configured to receive a result of detection from a transmission unit of a detection apparatus, a CPU configured to read corresponding visual content from the storing unit based on the received result of the detection and to make the signage board output the read visual content are included. | 06-25-2015 |
20150178903 | IMAGE CORRECTION APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING DISTORTION OF AN IMAGE - An image correction apparatus for correcting distortion of an image, the image being obtained by photographing a subject, which is provided with a specifying unit for specifying a relationship in position between points on the subject in a three-dimensional space based on both a relationship in position between the points on the subject in the image in a two-dimensional space and a photographing angle relative to a surface of the subject, an obtaining unit for obtaining information of distortion of the image that is reflected by the relationship in position between the points on the subject in the three-dimensional space, specified by the specifying unit, and a correcting unit for correcting the distortion of the image based on the information of distortion of the image obtained by the obtaining unit. | 06-25-2015 |
20150178888 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display device, including: a storage unit in which page image data including a figure or a photograph and figure photo information are stored so as to be associated with each other for each page, the figure photo information corresponding to a figure or a photograph included in a page, being information for individually displaying the figure or the photograph and including area information which indicates an area occupied by the figure or the photograph in page image data corresponding to the page; a display unit; an operation unit; an identification unit; and a display control unit. | 06-25-2015 |
20150177668 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing system comprising:
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20150177666 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing apparatus prints an image on a recording medium unwound by an unwinder. The recording medium is wound around a first winding shaft in order from a beginning edge to an ending edge of the recording medium. The wound recording medium is rewound, and the rewound recording medium is wound around a second winding shaft in order from the ending edge to the beginning edge of the recording medium. | 06-25-2015 |
20150174942 | PAGE-TURNING DEVICE AND DOCUMENT CAMERA SYSTEM - A page-turning device turning a page of a book includes a turning unit and a blower. The turning unit holds the page at a departure position of the page of the book being opened and releases the holding of the page at a destination position of the page. The blower sends air above the page at the departure position to blow against the page at the destination position. | 06-25-2015 |
20150174925 | PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PRINTING PROGRAM - A printing method includes the steps of: printing a predetermined pattern on a distendable sheet before distending; distending the distendable sheet printed the predetermined pattern; calculating a displacement amount of the predetermined pattern between before and after the distending of the distendable sheet; deforming an original image by a deformation amount determined based on the calculated displacement amount; and printing the deformed original image as an image for printing on the distendable sheet. | 06-25-2015 |
20150174914 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR DRAWING WITH DRAWING APPARATUS - A drawing apparatus includes a drawing head and a stirring unit. At least one drawing tool is held by the drawing head. The drawing tool includes a fluid material container to contain a fluid material and performs drawing on a drawing target with the fluid material. The stirring unit performs a stirring operation to stir the fluid material in the fluid material container of the drawing tool held by the drawing head by changing a tilt angle of the drawing tool. | 06-25-2015 |
20150163526 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CAPTURING A PANORAMIC IMAGE - A digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an angular velocity sensor, an image determination unit, and an image composition unit. The angular velocity sensor acquires a displacement amount in a field of view of image data when the image data is captured at predetermined time intervals. The image determination unit sets a determination criterion for determining whether the image data thus captured is to be combined or not based on the displacement amount in the field of view acquired by the angular velocity sensor. Also, the image determination unit determines whether or not the image data thus captured is valid as a composition target based on the determination criterion thus set. The image composition unit combines image data determined by the image determination unit as being valid as a composition target. | 06-11-2015 |
20150160541 | PROJECTION APPARATUS INCLUDING LIGHT SOURCES AND HEAT RADIATING MEMBERS - A projection apparatus includes: a housing which includes an intake vent formed in one side surface, and an exhaust vent formed in the other side surface; a first light source; a first heat radiating member which includes fins; a heat transfer pipe which connects the first light source and the first heat radiating member; a second light source; a second heat radiating member which includes fins; and a heat transfer pipe which connects the second light source and the second heat radiating member, wherein the first light source, first heat radiating member, first heat transfer pipe, second light source, second heat radiating member and second heat transfer pipe are housed in the housing, and the first heat radiating member and the second heat radiating member are disposed on a gas flow path substantially linearly connecting the intake vent and the exhaust vent. | 06-11-2015 |