Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120019674 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit ( | 01-26-2012 |
20120164944 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal apparatus (M | 06-28-2012 |
20120171952 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A relay device ( | 07-05-2012 |
20120178367 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An NFC device according to the present invention includes the following units. An antenna unit receives radio waves from a reader/writer by NFC. A first power source unit generates power from the radio waves. A second power source unit is a drive power source. A power-supply state holding unit holds information indicating a power-supply state of the second power source unit. An NFC unit performs NFC via the antenna unit to transmit the information indicating the power-supply state of the second power source unit. A power source switch unit switches the second power source unit to the first power source unit according to the power-supply state of the second power source unit, in order to supply power to activate at least the NFC unit and the power-supply state holding unit. | 07-12-2012 |
20120302166 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal apparatus that communicates with a mobile apparatus includes a near-field communication unit that receives time-of-day information from the mobile apparatus through near-field communication, a use history information generation unit that extracts operation information of the terminal apparatus, and generates use history information on the basis of the time-of-day information received by the near-field communication unit, the use history information including time-of-day information associated with the detected operation information and indicating the time of day at which the corresponding operation was performed, and a main memory that stores the generated use history information. | 11-29-2012 |
20120309311 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A repeater apparatus includes a network communication unit that acquires, from a server through a network, first terminal identification information for identifying a terminal to be controlled and control information for controlling the terminal to be controlled, a near-field communication unit that acquires, by near-field communication from the terminal, second terminal identification information for identifying the terminal and stored in the terminal, and a comparison unit that decides whether the first terminal identification information agrees with the second terminal identification information. The near-field communication unit transmits the control information to the terminal by near-field communication, in the case where the comparison unit decides that the first terminal identification information agrees with the second terminal identification information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120322374 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention provides a communication apparatus and a communication method that can easily indicate the position of the antenna incorporated in the communication apparatus to a user and can align the antenna of the communication apparatus with the antenna of an external device. A portable device ( | 12-20-2012 |
20130063253 | RFID DEVICE, HOST, RFID-EMBEDDED APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RFID DEVICE - A radio frequency identification (RFID) device includes: a contact interface for wired communication with a host; a contactless interface for contactless communication with a reader/writer; a command processing unit that obtains a command from the reader/writer in the contactless communication and process the command, the command instructing a data access; and a memory that holds data. The command processing unit determines a communication mode, and (i) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the memory, when the communication mode is determined as a first communication mode, and (ii) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the host, when the communication mode is determined as a second communication mode. | 03-14-2013 |
20130247117 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile device includes a position sensing unit, a remote control information obtainment unit, and a storage unit. Position information obtained by the position sensing unit is stored in the storage unit in association with remote control information. The mobile device further includes a directional space obtainment unit and an apparatus specification unit. The mobile device recognizes a direction pointed by a user using the mobile device, and enables operation of a terminal apparatus existing in the pointing direction. | 09-19-2013 |