Sony Corporation

Bunichi Obana

Nobuyuki Yokosawa

Hiroki Oka

Kenichi Kanazawa

Hideki Fujita

Hideaki Tachino

Modular unit

A lighting apparatus includes a power supply circuit, a light-emitting unit, a mounting unit, and a lighting-side controller. The light-emitting unit is configured to drive light emission based on a power supply voltage generated by the power supply circuit. The mounting unit is configured to detachably mount an electronic apparatus including an apparatus-side controller and an apparatus function unit controlled by the apparatus-side controller. The lighting-side controller is configured to perform control to supply an operating voltage based on the power supply voltage to the apparatus-side controller of the electronic apparatus mounted to the mounting unit to perform authentication processing with the apparatus-side controller, and perform, based on a result of the authentication processing, control to supply the operating voltage based on the power supply voltage to the apparatus function unit.

Lighting apparatus, lighting system, and control method

An FM communication device employs a logarithmic amplifier which performs logarithmic conversion of a frequency modulated signal. The beat component level of the output signal of the logarithmic amplifier is checked with a reference level for detecting interference. With the construction set forth above, the FM communication device, according to the invention, detects the ripple of the received FM signal caused by interference of another FM signal by means of the logarithmic amplifier which converts the received FM signal logarithmically and the detection circuit which AM-detects the output signal of the logarithmic amplifier, so that the interference can be detected via the output signal of the detection circuit. In the preferred construction set forth above, the logarithmic amplifier which is often utilized in a detection system for reception magnitude is sufficient as an amplifier circuit required for detecting the interference, and no high-gain and high-performance amplifier is required.

FM communication device with avoidance of interference by substantially

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Kanagawa, Japan

Bunichi Obana