Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Hideyuki Yoshino

Mitsuru Satou

Takashi Ishihara

Yasuyuki Hirouchi

An imaging device includes: an imaging portion; a memory capable of storing images imaged by the imaging portion; a display portion; and a touch panel arranged to overlap with the display portion and capable of detecting a distance to an indicator. When the distance is equal to or less than a first distance and more than a second distance less than the first distance, the memory stores the images at predetermined time intervals. Then, when the distance becomes equal to or less than the second distance and equal to or more than 0, the display portion displays the image that is stored in the memory before the distance becomes equal to or less than the second distance and equal to or more than 0.

Imaging device

A portable cellular phone including the ability to customize a ring signal. The device accepts a spoken voice signal entered via a microphone and converts that signal into a digital audio signal. The device then obtains musical scale information from the digital audio signal by extracting frequency components. The device uses those frequency components to generate an audio output signal based on the extracted musical scale frequency components. This output signal can then be used as the ring signal, or for other purposes. Thus, a user can input a desired musical scale using the user's voice to customize the ring signal without relying solely on keypad operations.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hideyuki Yoshino