Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Kabushikikaisha Equos Research

Hiroaki Kondo

Hidehei Kageyama

Takaaki Nakata

Tadao Odaka

Takeshi Wakayama

Glenn N Dickins

John Paul Griffin

Tomoki Kubota

Koji Hori

Kazuhide Adachi

Tadashi Hirano

Kyoumi Morimoto

Masahiro Suetsugu

Lori L Solomon

Matthew A Tullis

Manabu Matsuda

Aya Itokawa

Mechanical pencil

Writing instrument

In a game, multiple players are communicatively coupled with a network. A progression of game action states is tracked. The action states relate to events that occur during the game and a situation of each of the players that corresponds to the events. Upon reaching a first action state, in which a player is expected to utter a first vociferation based on that player's situation with respect to a game event that occurs in association with the first action state, it is detected whether the vociferation is uttered. The first vociferation is captured. The vociferation may be sent to the other players asynchronously with respect to its capture where it may be rendered locally.

Asynchronous audio for networked games

Apparatus for collecting information pertaining to a driver of the vehicle includes a unit for determining if the current load on the driver is a 'low-load' in terms of satisfaction of one or more specific conditions. Driver information is stored and supplemented by answers to question scenarios communicated to the driver only when a 'low-load' state is determined. A question information storage unit contains various question scenarios correlated with different items of driver information and from which a question scenario, corresponding to driver information not yet obtained, is retrieved for output when a &#x201c;low load&#x201d; is determined.

Agent apparatus

Goals desired by a user are searched based on the search reference data that serve as reference for searching the goals, the order of priority of the goals is determined from a relationship between the data of goals and the data of a reference position, and the data of the thus determined order of priority are indicated. Even when the car is running, therefore, the user is allowed to easily select within a short time the goals that conform to his desire with reference to the order of priority. Accordingly, the user can devote himself to driving. When the goals are to be indicated, a map scale is so determined that the goals are indicated in a predetermined number or in a number not less than the predetermined number, and the goals are indicated on the map of this scale. Therefore, the scale of the map picture indicating the goals is automatically so adjusted, and can be easily discerned by the user. Therefore, the user is liberated from the need to manually adjust the reduced scale.

Navigation device

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroaki Kondo