Sony Corporation

Kyocera Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Atsushi Miura

Tadashi Suzuki

Yoshiaki Hirano

Takuya Oshima

Hideki Akashika

Toyokazu Ota

Jun Ogishima

Masaru Tomabechi

Shuuji Ishikawa

Yasumasa Sekigami

A panhead capable of achieving cost reduction and miniaturization is provided. The panhead including a fixed portion and a movable portion that is equipped with an image pickup unit and is movable together with the image pickup unit with respect to the fixed portion includes a first communication section configured to include a first moving-rotationally portion that communicably connects the fixed portion side and the movable portion side and, when the movable portion moves, is able to move rotationally, and a second communication section configured to include a second moving-rotationally portion that communicably connects the fixed portion side and the movable portion side in a non-contact state and, when the movable portion moves, is able to move rotationally around the same axis as the first moving-rotationally portion. The second moving-rotationally portion includes a hollow portion in which at least a portion of the first moving-rotationally portion is disposed.

Panhead and image pickup apparatus that are capable of achieving cost reduction and miniaturization

A client (such as a PC, portable telephone, PDA, electrical appliances), to which a device such as a IC card is connected, starts a handshake protocol to request a server to start communication. When communication is established via the handshake protocol, the initiative of communication is transferred to the server, and the state changes into a neutral state. In this neutral state, a control packet including a particular number of messages and a finished message is transmitted from the server to the client. If the client receives the control packet, the client performs a process according to the messages included in the control packet. This makes it possible to remotely control a device via a network in a highly reliable and efficient manner.

Control system and control method, method and apparatus for processing information, information processing terminal and method thereof, storage medium, and program

A communication device is provided which can smoothly perform communication using a video phone function by suppressing the video phone function depending on whether the video phone function is in an effective condition. When an incoming call using the video phone function is occurred or when an outgoing call using the video phone function is performed, a control unit determines whether the video phone function is in the effective condition. Only when it is determined that the video phone function is in the effective condition, the control unit starts communication using the video phone function. When it is determined that the video phone function is not in the effective condition, the control unitexecutes control to perform only audio communication without performing the communication using the video phone function.

Communication device

A communication device for managing a key necessary for secure near field communication includes an IC card function executing unit, a reader/writer function executing unit, a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a function execution controlling unit. The IC card function executing unit executes a function of an IC card. The reader/writer function executing unit executes a function of a reader/writer. The receiving unit receives a command. The determining unit determines whether the receiving command is intended for the IC card function or the reader/writer function. The function execution controlling unit controls the IC card function executing unit to execute the IC card function or the reader/writer function executing unit to execute the reader/writer function according to a result determined by the determining unit.

Communication device, commnunication method, and program

Provided is portable electronic equipment capable of mutually converting character information and simplified character information. The portable electronic equipment is equipped with a display unit; a character information acquisition unit that acquires character information; a trigger signal detection unit that detects a prescribed trigger signal; a character information conversion unit that simplifies character information by extracting sentence elements from the character information and rearranging the sentence elements into a prescribed order or simplifies the character information by replacing prescribed words in the character information with symbols pertaining to said words, when the trigger signal is detected by the trigger signal detection unit; and a display control unit that displays on the display unit the character information simplified by the character information conversion unit.

Portable electronic equipment and character information conversion system

Communication device, communication method, and program

An information providing system and method and a storage medium which provide information services to each client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, through the cooperation with the operation of the object. A server apparatus has a view server for providing content to the browser, a communication server for making communication with the object, and an application sever for making the view server and the application server cooperate with each other. When a read operation from the object is performed, the communication server notifies the application server of a result of the read operation, thereby providing synchronization between the communication server and the view server.

Information providing system and method and storage medium

An IC card chip performs payment processing in response to item purchase in accordance with a command generated and encrypted by a secure application module. The IC card chip decrypts the encrypted command, and reads information corresponding to the command. The IC card chip appropriately encrypts the read information in accordance with key information managed together with the secure application module, and sends the encrypted information to the secure application module via a cellular telephone or the like. The secure application module generates a command for controlling the IC card chip of the cellular telephone in accordance with a request from a content server. The secure application module appropriately encrypts the generated command in accordance with the key information managed together with the IC card chip, and supplies the encrypted command to the IC card chip. The IC card chip operates in accordance with the supplied command.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Atsushi Miura