Sony Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sumco Corporation

Daichi Yagi

Ryoko Amano

Yasuhiro Yoshioka

Akira Nishiyama

Tomoo Mizukami

Takahiro Abe

Akitaka Kimura

Hidehiro Komatsu

Miyuki Shirakawa

Hiroyuki Kawakami

Akihiro Shimomura

Kazuya Takeuchi

Takeshi Tanigawa

Noribumi Shibayama

Yuka Jingushi

A device includes circuitry configured to acquire detection signals from at least one sensor device corresponding to an input operation and determine one or more input characters based on one or more characteristics of the detection signals. The circuitry is also configured to activate a timer corresponding to the one or more input characters and issue a control signal to at least one camera to perform an image capture operation when an amount of remaining time on the timer is equal to zero.

System, method, and apparatus for controlling timer operations of a camera

Casting polycrystalline silicon includes placing a bottomless cooling crucible divided at least partially in the axis direction into a plurality of parts in the peripheral direction and having an inner surface coated with a release agent containing nitrogen, in an induction coil of a chamber charged with an inert gas; melting a raw material of polycrystalline silicon in the bottomless cooling crucible by electromagnetic induction heating using the induction coil; and pulling out the molten silicon downward while cooling and solidifying it. Pullout of the solidified molten silicon is performed through adjusting the carbon concentration of the molten silicon to 4.0&#xd7;10atoms/cmor more to 6.0&#xd7;10atoms/cmor less, the oxygen concentration thereof to 0.3&#xd7;10atoms/cmor more to 5.0&#xd7;10atoms/cmor less, and the nitrogen concentration to 8.0&#xd7;10atoms/cmor more to 1.0&#xd7;10atoms/cmor less.

Polycrystalline silicon and method of casting the same

Captured or input image data is converted into an image of a size of a specific number of pixels. Then, predetermined plural types of different effects are applied to image data obtained through the conversion. Several types of image data items with the applied effects are arranged and simultaneously displayed.

Terminal device, image display method, and storage medium

To make it possible to significantly reduce a burden on a user at a time of a classification of image files added or updated, for example, and thus facilitate association with other content data. An image detector/register () detects an image file that is unregistered or updated, and structures and manages a list of the image files. A face rectangular detector () detects a face rectangle in the image files detected, associates information on the face rectangle with the image file, and stores the information. A similar face classification section () calculates an amount of feature of the face rectangle, compares the amount of feature calculated with amounts of feature of different face rectangles already calculated and classified into groups, calculates a similarity between the face rectangle and the face rectangles of the different face rectangles in the respective groups, and classifies and manages the face rectangles in accordance with a result of the similarity calculation. A similar face display section () displays at least one image file including the face rectangle classified into the same group on a display screen.

Information terminal, information control method for an information terminal, and information control program

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Daichi Yagi