Pioneer Corporation

Pioneer Design Corporation

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Naofumi Hirayama

Mizuki Tomono

Yoshinori Nakatsuka

Katsumi Kobayashi

Mikiko Arakawa

Takeshi Igarashi

Tatsufumi Funayama

Mineki Miyasaka

Yohei Nakajima

Daisuke Suma

To safely and easily provide information that an operator needs, when a mobile body has started to move, a first acquiring unit and a second acquiring unit respectively acquire corresponding image information. Using the acquired image information and map information, an extracting unit extracts map information identical to the image information of the scenery around the mobile body. A selecting unit selects, from the extracted map information, an object that coincides with the position of the point viewed by the operator in the image information of the scenery around the mobile body. An output unit outputs information concerning the selected object.

Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and computer product

A portable information terminalincludes a primary terminaland a secondary terminalwhich are combinable and separable from each other, and individually have displaysA,Ba, operation keysB,Aa, RAMs, antennas, and CPUs. The RAMsof the respective terminalsstore application programs and the CPUsindividually control to operate a required function and display an image on the displaysA,Ba. The CPUsare connected through communication between the antennasto systematically share an operation for a required function and to display images associated with each other on the respective displaysA andBa.

Portable information terminal

A multi-functional portable information terminal is equipped with a display and makes it possible to reuse the information held by a given function for another function. The portable information terminal comprises image range specifying part for specifying a given selected object within a given application windows displayed on a display panel. The terminal also comprises a copy part for copying the image of the selected object to display the copied image in floating on the display panel. The terminal further comprises a pasting part for pasting the selected object displayed in a floating manner onto another application window changed by the operation of a spectrum dial on the display panel.

A portable telephone, equipped with an opening/closing cover, which houses an operating part. An operating panel is mounted to a main casing in a manner enabling movement between a position at the front face side and a position at the inner side of the main casing, and a compression spring, which urges this operating panel in the direction of the position at the front face side of the main casing is equipped. When the opening/closing cover is at the closed position, the operating panel is positioned at the position at the inner side of the main casing, and when the opening/closing cover is opened, the operating panel is moved to the position at the front face side by the compression spring so that it is positioned at a position at which the operating surface is substantially flush with the back face of the opening/closing cover that is positioned at the opened position. With another aspect of this invention, an opened/closed condition detection sensor is provided, and in response to the opening and closing of the opening/closing cover, an image is displayed on the display panel in accordance with a signal processed image signal.

Portable telephone

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Tokyo, Japan

Naofumi Hirayama