Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporationj

Junpei Ito

Atsushi Asai

Satoshi Suzuno

Hiroki Kato

Natsuo Koda

Takeki Osada

Kenji Kameda

Atsushi Suyama

Shizue Okuda

Hisanori Nagata

Keitaro Taniguchi

A battery pack includes a current detector configured to detect a charging current to secondary battery, a drive circuit configured to drives a charge switch based on the charging current detected by the current detector, a charge controller configured to control operation of the charge switch by the drive circuit, a monitoring unit configured to monitor operation of charge controller, and a judging unit configured to instruct, based on the charge controller and the monitoring unit, the charge switch to be able to or unable to operate.

Battery pack, and abnormality monitoring method for same

An information processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional map data storage unit for storing three-dimensional map data for use in projecting a three-dimensional space on a map onto a plane, a location information storage unit for storing location information including a type of geographical objects at points spaced at predetermined intervals on the map, a present position storage unit for storing a present position on the map, an operation input receiving unit for receiving an operation input, a collision determination unit for determining the possibility of occurrence of collision in a course from the present position to an end point, a correction unit for correcting the end point based on the determined possibility of occurrence of collision and shifting the present position to the corrected end point, and a drawing unit for drawing a three-dimensional image, the three-dimensional image produced by projecting onto the plane the three-dimensional space on the map.

System and apparatus for processing information, image display apparatus, control method and computer program

An information processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional map data storage unit for storing three-dimensional map data for use in projecting a three-dimensional space on a map onto a plane, a location information storage unit for storing location information including a type of geographical objects at points spaced at predetermined intervals on the map represented by the three-dimensional map data with the location information in association with the respective point, a geographical object information storage unit for storing geographical object information, the geographical object information including a position of a geographical object on the map and display information relating to the geographic object, and a placement position setting unit for setting a display information placement position indicating a position of a sign pointing to the display information on the map based on the location information present within a predetermined area of the position of the geographical object indicated by the display information.

Map display systems, map data processing apparatuses, map display apparatuses, and map display methods for general navigation systems are provided. A map data processing section categorizes original three-dimensional map data into scene graph data representing a data structure of a three-dimensional map using a tree structure and rendering data for rendering an object included in the three-dimensional map and processes the scene graph data and the rendering data. A map data display section specifies a display area by referring to the scene graph data and reads and displays the rendering data in accordance with the specified display area.

Map display system, map data processing apparatus, map display apparatus, and map display method

An information display apparatus connected to a display unit for visually presenting information to a user is disclosed. The information display apparatus displays a frame within a display region of the display unit, information to be displayed in the frame, and an operation guide at the outer peripheral edge of the frame, and updates information displayed in the frame.

Information display apparatus

To enable a prompt switching operation by a user. An image processing device connected to an image capturing section has a process execution section for executing any of a plurality of processes, obtains area specification data for specifying an area where the user is shown in the image, based on a difference between the images sequentially captured by the image capturing section images, and switches a process to be carried out by the process execution section, depending on the position of an edge of the area specified by the area specification data obtained.

Image processing device, image processing system, computer control method, and information storage medium

An information processing apparatus generating a three-dimensional map on the basis of three-dimensional map data includes rendering area acquiring means for acquiring a rendering area in which the three-dimensional map is generated with respect to a focal point; identifying means for identifying the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area, among the three-dimensional map data including rendering object data that concerns at least one rendering object and that is hierarchized into multiple groups in accordance with characteristics of the rendering object; rendering object data acquiring means for selecting a group on the basis of the distance from the focal point and acquiring the rendering object data in the selected group from the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area; and three-dimensional map generating means for rendering the rendering object on the basis of the rendering object data to generate the three-dimensional map.

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Tokyo, Japan

Junpei Ito