Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Gou Kawakami

Takashi Kawashimo

Asami Aso

Toshihiko Yoshida

Kazuma Kawahara

Yoichi Murayama

In a communication method, a processor activates an application program; acquires identification information of an external wireless device from the external wireless device; reads, from a memory, function restriction information indicative of presence/absence of restriction of a function of the application program associated with the acquired identification information; and sets an executable function of the application program in accordance with the read function restriction information.

Communication apparatus capable of restricting execution of application function based on identification information of external wireless device, and corresponding communication method and recording medium

According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a Bluetooth (trademark) controller which is wirelessly connected to a mobile information terminal, and a CPU configured to acquire a radio-wave intensity of wireless connection to the wirelessly connected mobile information terminal, to selectively read an application program from a program memory, based on the acquired radio-wave intensity, and to execute the application program.

Communication apparatus and computer readable medium for executing application programs based on radio-wave intensity

A communication device includes a reception unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The reception unit receives broadcast information broadcasted through first communication of a first communication system. The detection unit detects a radio field intensity of the received broadcast information. The control unit controls second communication of a second communication system based on the detected radio field intensity, thereby activating or deactivating the second communication.

Communication device for controlling communication through second communication system based on field intensity of received information of communication through first communication system and storage medium

An information output apparatus for displaying information such as advertisements increases viewers' attention. A plurality of advertisement videos (id=1, 2, . . . ) stored in an advertisement video storage areaare projected onto a display unitfrom a projection deviceand reproduced, according to the definition of advertisement video reproduction order stored in an advertisement video reproduction definition storage area. Upon switching the reproduction of each advertisement video, from among a plurality of switching effect images EP . . . (ID=1, 2, . . . ) that are assigned ID numbers in descending order of noticeability against the surrounding environment, i.e. in descending order of the complementary color ratio, and stored in a switching effect image storage area, an image ID associated with higher noticeability is set when the non-operation time (the time during which no person is detected around the apparatus body) from the advertisement video reproduction start is longer. This non-operation time is measured and stored in a non-operation time storage area. The switching effect image EP corresponding to the image ID is then reproduced.

Information output apparatus and computer readable medium

An image capturing apparatus including a location information acquiring unit, an image capturing unit, a storage control unit, a predictable location calculation unitthat predicts, in a case of failure to acquire location information at a time of image capturing, a range of locations predictable at the time of image capturing based on the location information acquired earlier than the time of image capturing, a display control unitthat displays a predictable range of locations on a display unit based on the acquired earlier location information and the range of locations thus predicted, a designation reception unitthat receives a location designated by a user from within the predictable range of locations, and a captured location setting unitthat sets location information of the received location as the location information at the time of image capturing.

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Fussa, Japan

Gou Kawakami