Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080288363 | Recording medium, information processing system and information processing method - An information processing system processes commodity order acceptance information generated in an online store. The system includes: a recording medium for a charging process for settling a charge imposed on purchase or lending of a commodity from an online store; a recording apparatus for recording delivery destination information indicative of a delivery destination of the commodity into the recording medium; a reading apparatus for reading the delivery destination information from the recording medium; and an information processing apparatus for commodity order acceptance connected to the reading apparatus, accepting an order or selection of the commodity, generating commodity order acceptance information. The information processing apparatus notifies an information processing apparatus for commodity order acceptance and delivery of commodity order acceptance information by which the delivery destination information read by the reading apparatus and commodity selection information obtained by order acceptance or commodity selection are associated with each other. | 11-20-2008 |
20090147150 | REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a remote control apparatus for performing wireless communication with an electronic device, the remote control apparatus including: a reader/writer configured to read and/or write information from or to an information storage medium; and a transmission/reception section configured to transmit and receiving a signal to or from the electronic device via the wireless communication, wherein the transmission/reception section uses the same wireless communication system for both transmission of an operation instruction to the electronic device and transmission of information read from the information storage medium and reception from the electronic device of information to be written to the information storage medium. | 06-11-2009 |
20090147151 | REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS - A remote control apparatus for remotely operating an electronic device. The remote control apparatus including: an operation section having a plurality of operation keys; and a reader/writer configured to read and/or write information from or to an information storage medium, wherein in said operation section, at least one of the plurality of operation keys is arranged so as to overlap a read/write portion of said reader/writer, the read/write portion being used for the reading and/or writing of the information from or to the information storage medium. | 06-11-2009 |
20090184161 | REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A remote control apparatus for communicating with an electric apparatus by radio communication is provided. The remote control apparatus includes a reader/writer for carrying out reading out and writing of information from and into an information recording medium; a transmission/reception section configured to transfer a signal to and from the electric apparatus by the radio communication; and a control section having a power control function for controlling the power of the reader/writer; the control section controlling the reader/writer to the low power consumption state when the power supply to the remote control apparatus is made available. | 07-23-2009 |
20090185081 | REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a remote control apparatus for communicating with an electric apparatus by radio communication, including: a plurality of operation keys; a transmission/reception section for transferring a signal to and from the electric apparatus by the radio communication; and a control section having at least a power control function for controlling the power of the remote control apparatus; the control section controlling the transmission/reception section to a normal power state until a predetermined period of time elapses after a signal is inputted thereto by an input of any of the operation keys to enable transfer of a signal from the electric apparatus by the transmission/reception section, the control section controlling the transmission/reception section to a low power consumption state after the predetermined period of time elapses. | 07-23-2009 |
20100079261 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A communication device includes: a first communication processing unit performing contactless communication operations in a first communication rate in which waveform distortion hardly become a problem; a second communication processing unit performing contactless communication operations in a second communication rate in which waveform shaping by adaptive equalization is necessary; and a control unit controlling communication processing by the first and second communication processing units, wherein the first communication processing unit stores the contents of a packet received in the first communication rate, and the second communication processing unit, when receiving the packet of the same contents in the second communication rate, performs adaptive equalization processing by using the stored contents of the packet. | 04-01-2010 |
20100283917 | REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS, ELECTRIC APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is provided which implements more comfortable user operation where an electric apparatus which is remotely controlled by a remote controller (remote control apparatus) carries out processing operation in which an information recording medium is used. Remote controller data, remote controller controlling commands and reader/writer commands are placed into and transmitted by command data cmdDATA in packets of the same format. Further, reader/writer command data rwDATA and a reader/writer communication footer (parity for an error check and so forth) rwFT which have a longer data length are divided and placed divisionally into and transmitted together with the command data cmdDATA in communication packets. The transmitted data are received and merged. | 11-11-2010 |
20100306837 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NON-CONTACT COMMUNICATION DEVICE, NETWORK CONNECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication apparatus includes: a wireless communication unit connecting to a network via another apparatus by wireless communication; a settlement processing unit executing settlement processing of connection fees to the network by controlling a non-contact communication unit capable of reading out information stored in a non-contact communication device via non-contact communication, and writing information to the non-contact communication device via non-contact communication so as to update monetary information stored in the non-contact communication device; an authentication information recording unit controlling the non-contact communication unit to write authentication information, provided from the other apparatus when settlement processing by the settlement processing device is completed, to the non-contact communication device; and an authentication processing unit controlling the non-contact communication unit to read the authentication information from the non-contact communication device, and executing authentication processing as to the other apparatus using the authentication information, thereby establishing network connection by the wireless communication unit. | 12-02-2010 |
20110310009 | POINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD - A pointing system including: a pointing device including an operation portion and a light-emitting portion that emits light according to an operation to the operation portion; and a control device including an image pickup portion that picks up light from the light-emitting portion when the light-emitting portion emits light and outputs an image including information on a light spot of the light, a display portion that includes a screen and displays a pointer on the screen, and a control portion that judges, as well as judge a movement of the light spot based on the information on the light spot in the image and move the pointer on the screen based on the movement of the light spot, whether the light spot is turned off based on the information on the light spot in the image and executes processing related to a click when the light spot is turned off. | 12-22-2011 |
20110312272 | REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, REMOTE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A remote control device including a near field radio communication unit capable of performing communication in accordance with a near field radio communication method, two or more control communication units each capable of performing communication in accordance with a communication method having a wider communication range than the near field radio communication method, a learning unit that receives learning data to be used for remotely controlling an apparatus to be controlled via the near field radio communication unit, and stores the received learning data into a storage medium, and a remote control unit that transmits a control signal for remotely controlling the apparatus to be controlled via one of the two or more control communication units on the basis of the learning data stored in the storage medium. | 12-22-2011 |
20120011932 | INPUT APPARATUS - An input apparatus includes: an input apparatus main body that is used to make an input for operating an operation target; a grip detection portion configured to detect that a user has gripped the input apparatus main body with a predetermined force or more; a motion detection portion configured to detect a movement of the input apparatus main body and output a movement detection value corresponding to the movement of the input apparatus main body; a controller configured to execute, while/after the grip of the input apparatus main body is being detected by the grip detection portion, processing for controlling the operation target based on the movement detection value; and a first response portion configured to return, when at least the grip of the input apparatus main body is detected by the grip detection portion, a first response to the user irrespective of the control of the controller. | 01-19-2012 |
20120017702 | CONTACT-PRESSURE DETECTING APPARATUS AND INPUT APPARATUS - There is provided a contact-pressure detecting apparatus including a base, at least three pressure-sensitive sensors, and a plurality of plates. The base has an arbitrary shape. The at least three pressure-sensitive sensors are provided on different vertex positions of a polygon having at least three corners, respectively, the polygon being set on each of a plurality of areas partitioning at least part of an area on a surface of the base. The plurality of plates are arranged corresponding to the areas of the base, respectively, the plurality of plates covering the surface of the base by sandwiching the at least three pressure-sensitive sensors with the base. | 01-26-2012 |
20120069343 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD - A measurement device includes a light sensing element on which light from a measurement target region placing a measurement target thereon forms an image, and a plurality of light emitting elements that are disposed around the light sensing element and radiate light to the measurement target region, wherein the plurality of light emitting elements are disposed to be tilted with respect to the normal line of the measurement target region such that the central line of radiated emission from each of the light emitting elements passes through a substantial center of the measurement target region. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069584 | FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE, MOUNTING METHOD OF FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE, AND LIGHTING SYSTEM - A flexible substrate includes a stripe-shaped substrate main body portion; a comb-like portion composed of a plurality of protrusions that extends from one end in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the substrate main body portion, in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and electronic devices that are arranged on the plurality of protrusions, respectively, in which the substrate main body portion and the comb-like portion are bendable. | 03-22-2012 |
20120092332 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM - An input device includes a housing having a two dimensional detection surface, a first detection unit detecting a position coordinate of a detection object that travels on the detection surface and outputting a first signal to calculate a travel direction and an amount of travel of the detection object, a second detection unit detecting gradient of the detection surface relative to one reference plane in a spatial coordinate system to which a screen belongs and outputting a second signal to calculate a tilt angle of the detection surface relative to the reference plane, and a control unit generating a control signal to three dimensionally control a display of an image displayed on the screen based on the first signal and the second signal. | 04-19-2012 |
20120139944 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a generation unit generating object information including at least information for displaying an object to rotate at a velocity corresponding to a rotation velocity, which is detected by a rotation sensor installed in an operation device operated by a user, within a screen based on the rotation velocity; and a changing unit changing the object information generated by the generation unit based on a pressure detected by a pressure sensor installed in the operation device. | 06-07-2012 |
20120154387 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an acquisition unit which acquires information of acceleration, angular velocity, and magnetic intensity of an operation device, a coordinate conversion unit which converts the angular velocity acquired by the acquisition unit into global angular velocity in a global coordinate system using information of posture angles of the operation device, an initial posture angle calculation unit which calculates a posture angle of the operation device in the initial stage in the global coordinate system based on the information of the acceleration and the magnetic intensity, an updating unit which updates the posture angle of the operation device in the global coordinate system based on information of the global angular velocity, and a control unit which causes the coordinate conversion unit to convert the first angular velocity into the global angular velocity and to convert a second angular velocity into the global angular velocity. | 06-21-2012 |
20120179408 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: an operation unit configured to calculate, based on information on an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor included in an operation device that is operated by a user, movement information as information on one of a velocity and a movement distance of the operation device; and a correction unit configured to correct, based on information obtained by the acceleration sensor within an acceleration period as a period between an acceleration start time and an acceleration end time of the operation device, the movement information of the operation device within a period between the acceleration end time of the operation device and a movement end time at which the movement ends, that is calculated by the operation unit. | 07-12-2012 |
20120256739 | OPERATION APPARATUS - An operation apparatus includes a base, a sensing unit, a plurality of plates, and a drive mechanism. The base has a surface. The sensing unit includes at least three pressure-sensitive detection regions that are provided at different vertex positions of a polygon having at least three corners set in each of a plurality of regions obtained by partitioning at least a part of the surface of the base. The plurality of plates are provided to correspond to the plurality of regions and cover the at least a part of the surface. The drive mechanism is configured to drive the plurality of plates on the basis of a signal generated by detection of the sensing unit. | 10-11-2012 |
20130027294 | INPUT APPARATUS, INPUT METHOD, AND CONTROL SYSTEM - There is provided an apparatus including an input apparatus including an input apparatus main body with which input manipulation is performed to manipulate a manipulation target object, a first manipulation detection unit that detects a first manipulation on the input apparatus main body, a second manipulation detection unit that detects a second manipulation on the input apparatus main body after the first manipulation is detected, and a first processing unit that performs first processing for manipulation on the manipulation target object or a first response of the input apparatus, based on a movement detection value corresponding to movement of the input apparatus main body according to the first manipulation or a detection value of the first manipulation. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027295 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit acquiring data on at least one of an acceleration or an angular velocity of a controller operated by a user, and a determination unit determining at least one of a velocity of the controller or a trajectory of the controller based on the acquired data on the at least one of the acceleration or the angular velocity. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027299 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INPUT APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a determination unit. The calculation unit has a two-dimensional calculation mode configured to perform, when an operation device is placed on an operation surface and a user operates the operation device, calculation based on a detection value of a motion sensor corresponding to two-dimensional motion of the operation device, and has a three-dimensional calculation mode configured to perform, when the user operates the operation device in a three-dimensional space, calculation based on a detection value of the motion sensor corresponding to three-dimensional motion of the operation device. The determination unit is configured to determine which of the two-dimensional calculation mode and the three-dimensional calculation mode is used to perform the calculation with the calculation unit, based on the detection value of the motion sensor and at least one of information other than the detection value of the motion sensor. | 01-31-2013 |
20130035568 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a judgment unit for using measurement data in relation to reflectance of light obtained by irradiating a surface of a living body of a subject with light of a predetermined wavelength to judge a condition of a blood vessel and/or a condition of blood flow of the living body in accordance with a color phase corresponding to the reflectance of light. | 02-07-2013 |
20130088421 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is a display control device including a communication unit that performs communication with an external device, a detecting unit that detects a direction of an operation device based on detection information representing motion of the operation device, and a display control unit that generates an imaging control command used to control an imaging operation based on the detected direction of the operation device, and controls display of an image obtained through an imaging operation by causing the communication unit to transmit the imaging control command to the external device. | 04-11-2013 |
20130150697 | INPUT DEVICE AND CALIBRATION METHOD - There is provided an input device including a plurality of electrodes that are arranged on a surface of a body in a direction crossing a muscular fiber group of the body at a right angle, and detect electromyogram signals generated from the muscular fiber group according to a motion performed by the body; a switch unit that switches an electrode acquiring an electromyogram signal between the plurality of electrodes; and a control unit that selects an electrode detecting an electromyogram signal for identifying the motion from among the plurality of electrodes. | 06-13-2013 |
20130181888 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - A head-mounted display includes a display portion, a support portion, and an input operation unit. The display portion is configured to present an image to a user. The support portion is configured to support the display portion and be mountable on a head of the user. The input operation unit serves to control the image and includes a touch sensor provided to the display portion. | 07-18-2013 |
20130265330 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing apparatus, including: an image-taking unit configured to take an image of real scenery to thereby obtain real image; a marker-detecting unit configured to extract a marker image from the real image, the marker image being an image of marker projection light, the marker projection light being projected by a projection device to the real scenery in order to provide spatial first information, the first information being necessary to display virtual information such that the virtual information is superimposed on the real scenery, second information being added to the marker projection light; and an extracting unit configured to extract the second information added to the extracted marker image. | 10-10-2013 |
20130300760 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus includes a see-through display, an image mask generator, an image generator, and an image display unit. The see-through display is located before an eye of a user. The image mask generator is configured to generate an image mask. The image generator is configured to generate a display image with the image mask being overlapped with an original image. The image display unit is configured to display the display image on the see-through display. | 11-14-2013 |
20140062841 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - A head-mounted display includes a main body, an operation unit, and a controller. The main body includes a display unit capable of displaying an image in front of an eye of a user. The operation unit includes a buffer that is connected to the main body and deformable with respect to the main body, and a first detector configured to output a detection signal depending on the deformation. The controller is configured to generate an image signal for generating an image based on the detection signal and to output the image signal to the display unit. | 03-06-2014 |
20140204062 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND INPUT APPARATUS - A head-mounted display includes a main body and an input operation unit. The main body includes a display unit configured to be capable of presenting an image to a user, and is configured to be mountable on a head of the user. The input operation unit includes an operating element having a longitudinal direction in a direction of a first axis, is configured to be capable of electrostatically detecting a first operation on the operating element along the direction of the first axis and detecting a second operation on the operating element along a direction of a second axis orthogonal to the direction of the first axis, and is provided to the main body. | 07-24-2014 |
20140303505 | MEASURING APPARATUS, MEASURING METHOD, AND PARAMETER SETTING METHOD - There is provided a measuring apparatus, including a light receiving element, provided at a position facing a measurement object region on which is placed a measurement object, which forms an image with light from the measurement object region, light emitting elements, arranged surrounding the light receiving element, which emit light for measuring the measurement object, and reflective optical elements, provided above the light emitting elements, which guide, to the measurement object region, emission light radiated from the light emitting elements. A light receiving surface of the light receiving element and light emission surfaces of the light emitting elements are positioned mutually on a same plane. The emission light radiated from the light emitting elements is reflected by the reflective optical elements, and center lines of the emission light radiated from each of the light emitting elements pass through an approximate center of the measurement object region. | 10-09-2014 |
20140320383 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY AND INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A head-mountable display device is provided including an image display device configured to be communicable with an input device and to display an operation image and an auxiliary image overlaid upon the operation image. The auxiliary image indicates three-dimensional positional information of a target object relative to an input operation surface of the input device. | 10-30-2014 |
20150042563 | CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a control method, including: outputting a displacement value depending on a displacement amount of an input device in a case where operation is input in the input device, the operation being for a control target displayed on a display apparatus, the position of the display apparatus being specified by a first coordinate system, the position of the input device being specified by a second coordinate system; calculating a displacement amount of the input device in the second coordinate system based on the displacement value; and displaying the control target, the control target being moved to a position corresponding to a displacement amount in the first coordinate system by using a transformation matrix, the transformation matrix transforming a displacement amount of the input device in the second coordinate system into a displacement amount in the first coordinate system. | 02-12-2015 |
20150070389 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The present disclosure is generally directed to an information processing apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to execute instructions to generate a superimposition parameter corresponding to superimposing virtual information on a real space based on a spatial position of a marker projected on the real space by an input apparatus, and cause a display section to display the virtual information superimposed on the real space according to the spatial position relationship while the marker is detectable and continue the display of the virtual information superimposed on the real space after the marker is undetectable according to a last detected spatial position of the marker. | 03-12-2015 |