Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

International Business Machines Corporation

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Other

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kyocera Corporation

Sony Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Central Glass Company, Limited

Kansai Paint Company, Ltd.

Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Director-general of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Itoh

Shinya Tanaka

Satoshi Shimizu

Atsuhiko Nitta

Hideo Kamio

Toshihiko Takaki

Takashi Abe

Tomio Tanaka

Toshimi Nakagawa

Fusanobu Nakamura

Takao Kawamura

Masahiro Morisada

Jun Luo

Kenji Tsuboi

Hitoshi Yamashita

Mitsuhiro Yamazaki

Shigeaki Ono

Yasuo Nishiguchi

Tomoyuki Iwanaga

Motoya Takai

Masaru Tanabe

Shoko Oyanagi

Naoki Isobe

Hirokazu Ishii

Satoshi Takano

Yoshio Ozawa

Tomohiro Miyahira

Susumu Shimotono

Yasuhiro Nakahara

Tadatoshi Honda

Kazuyoshi Yoshida

Chikara Hashimoto

Yasuyuki Numajiri

Toshiaki Okumura

Ryohta Nomura

Akio Kutsuwada

Makoto Shinohara

Hiroyoshi Watanabe

Kenichi Nakamura

Naooki Miyamoto

Atsushi Nagashima

Hitoshi Takemura

Toshiki Oyanagi

Yuko Hayama

Yukio Ikeda

Hideyuki Ooban

Masayuki Yanagi

Takatoshi Mitsuishi

Katsuhiro Yoshioka

Kunio Nakata

Hideaki Takazawa

Tadashi Asazuma

Hiroshi Fukuoka

Toshihiro Yoshimura

Jun Saitoh

Takeshi Hisanaga

Takao Takebayashi

Hajime Nakajima

Nobushige Korenaga

Seiichi Kawano

Tsuneo Kusunoki

Katsutoshi Ohno

Kazuhiro Kosugi

Yoshikazu Nakayama

Sadao Kobayashi

Haruji Mizuishi

Hiroaki Takeishi

Atsushi Ohta

Itaru Matsuda

Koji Kawakita

Kazuki Abe

Takeshi Kobayashi

ZhePeng Wang

Yasushi Tsukamoto

Naoki Kawamata

Yoichi Kubota

Kazuaki Umekawa

Masahiro Sakamoto

Akihiko Mizutani

Norihiro Tateyama

Kouji Ohkoshi

Wataru Sakagawa

Satoru Okinishi

Shinji Iijima

Naotaka Kato

Kunihiko Miwa

Kunihiro Ichimura

Tsugio Matsubara

Takamitsu Iida

Atsushi Utsunomiya

Kenzo Seita

Hirotoshi Doki

Koki Inada

Ryohta Kawase

Yasuko Ono

Katsutoshi Nagai

Kazuo Ishida

Katsuhiro Fujii

Susumu Oyama

Takashi Yodoya

A portable information device is disclosed. The portable information device includes a first chassis having a first display, a second chassis having a second display, and a hinge mechanism rotatably couples the first chassis to the second chassis. The hinge mechanism includes a set of hinge shafts with axial directions provided along an aligning direction of the first and second chassis, a slide support part supported by the first chassis to be slidable along the aligning direction to support a first one of the hinge shafts closest to the first chassis in a manner to be relatively rotatable, and a fixed support part fixed to the second chassis to support a second one of the hinge shafts closest to the second chassis in a manner to be relatively rotatable.

Portable information device

A keyboard input mode switching apparatus includes a processor for an information handling device and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to determine an operational state of a keyboard and, in response to detecting a particular operational state, switch an input mode of a portion of the keyboard.

Keyboard input mode switching apparatus, systems, and methods

Respective actions are taken by two electronic devices based upon information captured by cameras of the devices. An image of a subject is captured with a first camera equipped in the first electronic device with a second camera equipped in the second electronic device. Form feature information of the subject is then recognized from the captured images. The first electronic device performs a first operation and the second electronic device performs a second operation responsive to recognizing the form feature of the subject.

Method apparatus and program product for enabling two or more electronic devices to perform operations based on a common subject

An electronic apparatus equipped with a camera includes a shutter mechanism which includes: a plate that is installed so as to be able to move between a first position shielding a lens of a camera from light and a second position not shielding the lens of the camera from light; and a control unit that controls electric power from a power unit that causes a first wire or a second wire to thermally shrink. The plate is moved from the first position to the second position by the first operation lever, and, when the plate is in the second position, causes the second wire to thermally shrink to thereby drive a second operation lever, so that the plate is moved from the second position to the first position by a biasing force of a first spring.

Electronic apparatus

Methods for inputting commands to portable computing devices are disclosed. One method includes detecting a sound, analyzing attenuation of the detected sound in a predetermined frequency, and inputting a command to a portable computing device based on analysis of the detected sound. Apparatus and computer program products implementing the methods are also disclosed.

Portable computing devices and command input methods for the portable computing devices

An information processing apparatus, a control method, and a program can more accurately distinguish a vibration added to a chassis from the detected vibration. The information processing apparatus includes a first chassis in which at least one first vibration detecting unit is provided; a second chassis in which at least one second vibration detecting unit is provided, a face of the second chassis overlapping with a face of the first chassis; and a controller. The controller determines a contact state of the first chassis based on relative characteristics of a first vibration that is a vibration detected by the first vibration detecting unit with respect to a second vibration that is a vibration detected by the second vibration detecting unit.

Information processing apparatus, control method, and program

An apparatus, method and computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus includes: an operation timing detection unit to detect when an input operation is made; a typing determination unit to determine whether the touch operation is a character input operation; and a key input process unit to perform a character input process if the touch operation is a character input operation. The method includes detecting a timing when an input operation is made, determining whether the touch operation is a character input operation, and performing a character input process if the touch operation is a character input operation. The computer program product includes code to detect a timing when a touch operation is made, determine whether the touch operation is a character input operation, and perform a character input process if the touch operation is a character input operation.

Apparatus, method and computer program product for information processing and input determination

An apparatus, method and computer program product for information processing and keyboard display are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a touch operation detection unit to detect a touch operation; a determination unit to determine whether the touch operation is a touch operation in a home position; and a control unit that changes a key change area to a correction key if the touch operation is a touch operation in the home position. The method includes: determining a simultaneous touch operation of at least two points in a sensing area; and displaying a correction key in a preset display change area. The computer program product includes software keyboard display processing for: determining a simultaneous touch operation of at least two points in a sensing area, and displaying a correction key in a present display change area.

Apparatus, method and computer program product for information processing and keyboard display

For indirect determination of digit movement, apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed. The apparatus for indirect determination of finger movement includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The processor obtains frequency data corresponding to movement of a user's limb, extracts frequency data having a predetermined feature value from the measured frequency data; and determines from the extracted frequency data whether the movement of the limb corresponds to a predetermined digit motion.

Determining digit movement from frequency data

Apparatus, methods, and computer program products that can reduce false inputs to an information handling device are disclosed. Various embodiments of an apparatus include a processor of an information handling device and memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code can cause the processor to determine when a user is operating one of a keyboard and a touch pad and, in response to the user operating the one of the keyboard and the touch pad, modify an area of a valid operating region of the touch pad. A method and program product can also perform the functions of the apparatus.

False input reduction systems, apparatus, and methods for an information processing device

An embodiment provides a method, including: displaying, on a touch sensitive display, a data structure composed of a plurality of keys in a keyboard window; determining, using a processor, at least one key to display in the keyboard window; receiving, at an input device, user input; changing, based on user input, the keys to be displayed in the keyboard window; and selecting a key based on user input, using the touch sensitive display screen, from the keys displayed in the keyboard window. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Size reduction and utilization of software keyboards

A wearable computer includes a body temperature power generation device that generates electric power using a body temperature of a wearer, a vibration power generation device, and a control section. The control section includes a determination unit that determines whether the wearer is sleeping or not, and an operation mode selecting unit that selects an operation mode from a high power consumption mode and a low power consumption mode. The operation mode selecting unit selects the low power consumption mode at least in a period in which the determination unit determines that the wearer is sleeping. The body temperature power generation device generates electric power in at least the period in which the determination unit determines that the wearer is sleeping. The vibration power generation device generates electric power in at least a period in which the determination unit determines that the wearer is not sleeping.

Wearable computer with power generation

The embodiments provide facilitate storage of content from a terminal device in a cloud environment. Storage servers, a front server, and terminal devices are connected to a network. Each terminal device carries out an operation to the front server to store created content. The front server acquires the account of each of the storage servers in advance. The front server splits received content into split files, and stores the split files on different storage servers, respectively. The terminal device requests the front server to download the stored content. The front server acquires the split files from the storage servers, restores the content, and sends the restored content back to the terminal device. The front server encrypts and stores, with a public key of the terminal device, meta information for decrypting the content from the split files.

Information processing apparatus for storing data in cloud environment, terminal device, and storage method

A system for controlling an operation of feeding recording media from a plurality of physical medium containers of an output apparatus includes at least one memory to store output-related media/container information including logical information, property information of the recording media, and information of the plurality of physical medium containers by associating the logical information and the property information of the recording media, and associating the logical information and the information of the plurality of physical medium containers, and circuitry configured to generate an output instruction including logical information, extract the logical information from the output instruction, and identify one or more physical medium containers each containing a specific recording medium to be used in performing an image forming operation by referring the property information of the recording media and the information of the plurality of physical medium containers each associated with the extracted logical information in the memory.

System for controlling operation of feeding recording media, and method for controlling operation of feeding recording media, and storage medium

An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures an image of a subject's eye is provided. The apparatus includes a focusing unit configured to focus light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of a first wavelength, onto an imaging unit, and a moving unit configured to move the focusing unit based on an optical path length difference between the light of the first wavelength and the light of a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength when light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of the second wavelength is focused onto the imaging unit.

Ophthalmologic imaging apparatus and ophthalmologic imaging method

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroshi Itoh