Sony Corporation

Eagle Industry Co., Ltd.

Sanden Corporation

Thomson Licensing

Katsuya Shirai

Yoichiro Sako

Motoyuki Takai

Toshiro Terauchi

Makoto Inoue

Kenichi Makino

Masamichi Asukai

Yasushi Miyajima

Takatoshi Nakamura

Toru Sasaki

Akane Sano

Yuichi Sakai

Mitsuru Takehara

Susumu Takatsuka

Akihiro Komori

Toshiaki Iwa

Koichi Tanaka

Atsushi Toda

Yoshihiro Ogawa

Hiroshi Ito

Hirofumi Tamori

Akiko Inoue

Masafumi Matsuda

Norio Uemura

Kosei Yamashita

Keigo Shirafuji

Yuichi Abe

Kenji Katori

Shigeru Kojima

Nobuhiko Umezu

Kiyoshi Yamaura

Koichi Tsukihara

Minehisa Imazato

Yoshio Inagaki

Yukihiko Taguchi

Tadashi Ishibashi

Yoshifumi Mori

Isamu Nakao

Koichi Tatsuki

Shin Hotta

Junji Kuyama

Goh Matsunobu

Yumi Sanaka

Nobuhiro Kihara

Akio Yasuda

Masanobu Yamamoto

Takeshi Yamasaki

Keiichi Nito

Takashi Iwamura

Toshiaki Kanemitsu

Toshiharu Suzuki

Nobuaki Sato

Toru Kihira

Shin-Ichiro Tamura

Hirohisa Amago

Yoko Matsuzawa

Go Matsunobu

Ryousuke Cho

Keigo Shirahuji

Sinji Sasaki

Takahiro Maeda

Yoichiro; Sako

Akikoc Inoue

By allowing the movement of a user to affect the playback of content, the entertainment characteristic or uplifting spirits derived from content playback itself can be enhanced. The timing at which the user places his/her foot on the ground while walking or the timing at which the user shakes or changes from swinging in one direction to swinging to another direction is detected. Then, content, such as a music piece or moving pictures, is played back by allowing the timing of beats or bars of the music piece or the timing of scene changes or cut changes of the moving pictures to be synchronized with the timing of the movement of the user.

Content playback method and content playback apparatus

A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.

Communication method and apparatus

A sound-output-control device including an acquisition unit which acquires an anaerobic threshold, a reception unit which receives an input about exercise intensity, a calculation unit which calculates a value indicating a target heart rate of a user on the basis of the acquired anaerobic threshold and the received exercise-intensity input, a detection unit which detects a value indicating the current tempo of a physical exercise done by the user, and a control unit that controls a sound output on the basis of a result of a comparison of the target heart-rate value calculated by the calculation unit and the current physical-exercise-tempo value detected by the detection unit, so as to lead a heart rate of the user so that the heart rate of the user attains the target heart rate is provided.

Sound-output-control device, sound-output-control method, and sound-output-control program

A content reproducing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a sensor; a discrimination circuit configured to discriminate whether a movement of a user is a first movement or a second movement based on a detection output from the sensor; a storage configured to store contents; a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce the contents; and a control circuit configured to supply the reproduction circuit with contents retrieved from the storage in accordance with a discrimination output from the discrimination circuit.

Content reproducing apparatus, audio reproducing apparatus and content reproducing method

A movement supporting method includes the following steps: detecting a movement tempo of a user; determining whether a movement tempo detection value is within a target range; and outputting a warning when the movement tempo detection value is out of the target range.

Movement supporting method and apparatus

A content playback apparatus includes: a display section that displays a plurality of indicators associated with a plurality of pieces of content, and a specifier to be used to specify one of the indicators; a playback section that plays back the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by the specifier; a switch section that switches, in accordance with a user's operation, what the specifier specifies to new the indicator; and a playback control section that controls the playback section such that if the user's operation switches, while the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by the specifier is played, what the specifier specifies to next the indicator and the user's subsequent operation switches, within a predetermined period of time from when the previous switch is completed, what the specifier specifies to subsequent the indicator, the playback section keeps playing back the piece of content.

Content playback apparatus, content playback method and storage medium

Music contents assigned to play lists are reproduced so as to correspond to user's preference. A music content databasehas stored a plurality of music contents. A CPUcreates genre ranks such that music contents that have been more frequently, for example, reproduced are more highly ranked. In addition, the CPUcreates play lists corresponding, for example, to tempos and stores the created play lists in a play list database. The CPUselects a play list corresponding to a moving tempo obtained from a tempo detection sectionand selects music content categorized as a highly ranked genre in the genre ranks from those corresponding to the selected play list. The selected music content is supplied to a decoder and amplifier sectionand then reproduced from a head phone

Content reproducing apparatus, content reproduction method, and program

A bio-information processing apparatus includes a bio-information sensor for measuring the bio-information of a subject in a non-contact manner and in an unrestricted manner; and a circuit for estimating the psychological state of the subject and the intensity thereof on the basis of the measured value of the bio-information measured using the bio-information sensor and on the basis of an initial value or a standard value of the measured value.

Method and apparatus for processing bio-information

In a health exercise assist system, a portable music playback apparatus acquires a preset exercise plan, a history of exercise information, and a music playback history and stores them. An information processing apparatus produces a service request including at least one of the preset exercise plan, the history of exercise information, and the music playback history acquired from the portable music playback apparatus, and transmits it to a service information providing apparatus. In accordance with the service request received from the information processing apparatus, the service information providing apparatus produces service information and returns the produced service information to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus provides the received service information to a user of the audio playback apparatus.

Health exercise assist system, portable music playback apparatus, service information providing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and health exercise assist method

A method for crystallizing a thin film A gate insulating film formed on a substrate so as to cover a gate electrode. A light absorption layer is formed thereon through a buffer layer. Energy lines Lh are applied to the light absorption layer from a continuous-wave laser such as a semiconductor laser. This anneals only a surface side of the light absorption layer Lh and produces a crystalline silicon film obtained by crystallizing the amorphous silicon film using heat generated by thermal conversion of the energy lines Lh at the light absorption layer and heat of the annealing reaction.

Method for crystallizing thin film, method for manufacturing thin film semiconductor device, method for manufacturing electronic apparatus, and method for manufacturing display device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Katsuya Shirai