Patent application number | Description | Published |
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20090304345 | VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE, VIDEO RECORDING METHOD, VIDEO RECORDING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A video recording apparatus that prevents screen malfunctions due to playback of incomplete frame image data, even when a power failure has occurred while recording frame image data received via a network to a recording medium, and incomplete frame image data has been recorded. The video recording apparatus includes a reception unit | 12-10-2009 |
20100272416 | PLURAL DRIVE DEVICE DELAY COUNTERMEASURE AND RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE PERFORMING POWER SAVING CONTROL - The present invention is equipped with a plurality of low-cost middle-capacity hard disks that are combined together to realize a large capacity at the same level as a large-capacity hard disk, and performs power-saving management to minimize the power consumption by the hard disks. At the same time, the present invention eliminates delays for accessing the separate hard disks. For this purpose, the present invention puts any of a plurality of drive devices other than a current access-target drive into a power-saving state, and puts the next access-target drive into a stand-by state from the power-saving state during the access to the current access-target drive, by calculating a remaining time until completion of the access to the current access-target drive. | 10-28-2010 |
20100283586 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device that can simplify various settings of a display device, such as a TV, that provides information regarding an object (communication device) is provided. An image capturing device ( | 11-11-2010 |
20110007901 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110082744 | OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A playback device has a function of playing back, at the time of playing back a playlist from an optical disc, a playitem that is different from a playitem representing an advertisement and embedded in the playlist. In the playback device, a supplying unit holds a desired playitem therein and supplies a requested one of the desired playitem and a playitem that is contained in a playlist stored on an optical disc. A playback unit plays back the playitem supplied from the supplying unit. A judging unit reads playlist information from the optical disc and judges whether or not the playlist information includes a playitem representing an advertisement. If such a playitem is included, a playback path replacing unit rewrites the playlist information to replace the playitem representing the advertisement with playitem representing the desired playitem. A playback target request unit selects a playitem to be played back according to the replaced playlist information and requests the supplying unit to supply the selected playitem. | 04-07-2011 |
20110156879 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Setting and operation of a TV, a mobile terminal, and the like are extremely complex to an ordinary user. Even when part of the setting and operation is automatically done, still a change needs to be performed so as to meet the needs of the user according to a use status. In view of this, a RFID tag ( | 06-30-2011 |
20110312278 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication device ( | 12-22-2011 |
20110321137 | ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An access control device for use in a system for providing users with a content access service, the access control device obtaining a content including one or more pieces of personal information, storing a plurality of pieces of personal information in correspondence with a plurality of pieces of first user information each of which indicates one of (i) a user who is permitted by a person related to a corresponding piece of personal information to access a content including the corresponding piece of personal information, and (ii) a user who is not permitted by the person related to the corresponding piece of personal information to access the content, and determining whether or not to give permission to access the content obtained by the obtaining unit, in accordance with a piece of first user information stored in the storage unit in correspondence with the piece of personal information included in the content. | 12-29-2011 |
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 |
20120057802 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing device ( | 03-08-2012 |
20120127066 | CONTENT OUTPUT DEVICE, CONTENT OUTPUT METHOD, PROGRAM, PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CONTENT OUTPUT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A content output device for outputting contents to be displayed to users, including: a storage unit storing a plurality of contents, each being associated with its attribute; a first output control unit for outputting a predetermined content among the contents to a screen; a related content identifying unit for identifying, among the contents stored in the storage unit, a set of related contents whose attributes are related to an attribute of the predetermined content; a user preference identifying unit for identifying, among the contents stored in the storage unit, contents that match the preference of the user; and a second output control unit for outputting, to the screen, one or more contents that belong to both the set of related contents and the contents identified by the user preference identifying unit, thereby outputting images that are most likely to be desired by thy user. | 05-24-2012 |
20120164944 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal apparatus (M | 06-28-2012 |
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 |
20120182248 | TEXT DISPLAY DEVICE, TEXT DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND TEXT DISPLAY METHOD THAT PROVIDE TACTILE SENSATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH DISPLAYED TEXT - The text display device includes: a display control section that displays, on a display device, a text containing a predetermined feature position; an input section that receives an operation performed by a finger of the operator on an input device, and detects a presence of a contact with the finger and XY-coordinates corresponding to a finger position; a calculation section that, when a contact with the finger is detected, associates the detected XY-coordinates with an emphasis display position in the displayed text, calculates a relative distance between the emphasis display position and the feature position, and calculates coordinate values corresponding to the feature position based on the relative distance and the detected XY-coordinates; and a tactile sensation presentation section that provides the operator with a tactile sensation of a protrusion or a depression at a position in the input area indicated by the calculated coordinate values. | 07-19-2012 |
20130038634 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - An information display device includes: an image display unit that displays an image according to an orientation of a display screen; a terminal posture detection unit that detects a posture of the device using an acceleration sensor, an angular velocity sensor, and a geomagnetic sensor; and a display direction determination unit that determines whether or not the posture of the device changes, and determines the orientation of the display screen. In the case where the display screen is substantially horizontal and the posture of the device changes, the orientation of the display screen is determined so that, when the device moves by a predetermined angle or more with respect to the orientation (reference orientation) of the display screen before the determination of the posture change, a side of the device at the predetermined angle or more from the reference orientation corresponds to the top of the display screen. | 02-14-2013 |
20130069988 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF SWITCHING DISPLAY DIRECTION - A portable display device comprises: a tilt detection unit detecting an angle of rotation, measured between a vertical plane component of a tilt vector of a predetermined reference line in the display and a gravitational vector, as a display tilt; a facial orientation specification unit recognizing a face of a person facing the display and specifying an upright orientation of the face; a terminal orientation determination unit establishing a plurality of angle ranges, and determining whether the display tilt newly detected by the tilt detection unit exceeds a given angle range and enters another angle range, the given angle range including the angle detected by the tilt detection unit upon updating a previous display orientation; and a control unit causing the facial orientation specification unit to begin the specification when the terminal orientation determination unit makes an affirmative determination, and updating the display orientation according to the specified upright orientation. | 03-21-2013 |
20130196591 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device including an image capturing device having a RF-ID unit for performing proximity wireless communication with a RF-ID reader/writer connected via an infrared communication path to a TV. The image capturing device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication; a data receiving unit receiving an input signal from the RF-ID reader/writer; a nonvolatile second memory storing at least UID and an execution program; and a data transmission unit transmitting the UID and the execution program to the RF-ID reader/writer via the antenna according to the input signal. The UID is used to identify the communication device, and the execution program is executed by the TV with reference to the UID. The transmitted UID and execution program are transferred to the TV via the RF-ID reader/writer. | 08-01-2013 |
20130219212 | ARRAY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ARRAY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - To provide an array management device that changes criterion for judging whether to execute re-redundancy in accordance with configuration type of communication path. An array management device that executes redundancy on storage devices, and controls access to each storage device includes: a judgment unit judging whether access to each storage device has succeeded or failed; a holding unit holding therein configuration type of communication path to each storage device; a derivation unit, for each storage device, deriving a waiting period in accordance with the configuration type, the waiting period being from failure of access to the storage device to start of redundancy; and a redundancy processing unit, when access to a given storage device is judged to have failed, and then access to the given storage device is not judged to have succeeded within the waiting period, executing redundancy on the storage devices other than the given storage device. | 08-22-2013 |
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 |