Sony Corporation

Drnc Holdings, Inc.

Ryoji Amemiya

Shinichi Ogasawara

Yohei Kuroda

Kenji Waku

Nobutaka Yagi

Osamu Ishioka

Hiroshi Nagatani

Ikuya Sano

Junichiro Sakata

Takashi Sonehara

Hideki Hanamura

Tatsuya Isoda

Shigemi Yamada

There is provided an information processing device comprising a housing, a display screen, a touch panel arranged on the display screen, an icon, which is displayed on the display screen and manipulated through the touch panel, a state detection unit for detecting a state change of the housing, a state determination unit for determining the state change of the housing detected by the state detection unit, and a display control unit for displaying the icon in a desired position on the display screen in response to a determination result of the state determination unit.

Information processing device and program

Provided is an electronic device including a secondary battery, a charging section which charges the secondary battery with power supplied from an external power supply section with a set charging current, a measurement section which measures an amount of charge accumulated in the secondary battery, a time information acquisition section which acquires time information, a storage section which stores charging history information indicating a time period in which a user performs charging, and a control section which has a chargeable time estimation section that estimates chargeable time based on the charging history information and the time information, and a charging current setting section that calculates a restricted charging current which enables the secondary battery to be charged up to a charging capacity within the chargeable time, based on the amount of charge acquired from the measurement section, and sets the restricted charging current in the charging section.

Electronic device, method of charging electronic device, program, charging control apparatus, and charging control method

An input assisting apparatus that is detachable from an electronic apparatus including a touch sensor panel including a plurality of first input areas assigned with input information includes: a main body having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface facing the touch sensor panel when the input assisting apparatus is attached to the electronic apparatus, the second surface being on an opposite side of the first surface; one or more elastically-deformable bulge portions that respectively correspond to one or more first input areas of the plurality of first input areas of the touch sensor panel and are provided to bulge from the second surface of the main body; and opening portions that are provided to the one or more bulge portions and expose at least a part of the one or more first input areas corresponding to the one or more bulge portions.

Input assisting apparatus and electronic apparatus

An information processing apparatus for providing controls to have contents recorded in a recording medium for recording one or more broadcast programs aired in the past as data displayed on a specified display device, includes: an acquiring section to acquire program information for one or more broadcast programs recorded in the recording medium; a program table generating section to generate a first table in which columns in one orthogonal direction are allocated to broadcast stations and the other are to time zones, generate a first program table by allocating program columns for the broadcast program on each of one or more areas identified with the one or more program information acquired by the acquiring section in the entire area constituting the first table, and outputting the first program table as first image data; and a display control section to control, while the control is executed, a background image for second image data displayed on the specified display device, data constituting each of the one or more program columns of the first image data is synthesized on corresponding data in the second image data with a first transmission percentage, the remaining data is synthesized on corresponding data in the second image data with a second transmission rate higher than the first transmission rate, and an image corresponding to the resultant synthesized image data is displayed on the specified display device.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program for the same

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus includes: a display control section which controls to generate a table with days of the week allocated in one of first and second directions and time zones of a day in the other direction and displays the table on a specified display device for showing setting status of recording reservation on a specified tuner; an acquiring section which acquires first information, second information, and third information, respectively indicating a specified broadcast station, a specified day of the week, a specified time zone of a day, inputted by a user; and an setting section which makes reservation for recording the contents that the broadcasted contents specified with the first to third information acquired by the acquiring section are received by the specified tuner and the received contents are recorded as data in a specified recording medium. When the recording reservation is set by the setting section, of all areas constituting the table displayed on the display device, the display control section controls to display the area identified with the contents, reserved to be recorded, by the setting section on the display device with a display format different from that of other areas.

The present invention can realize an information processing apparatus and a method therefor which can prevent a degraded visibility even if the posture of the information processing apparatus is changed in order to provide better portability or to prevent surrounding persons from snooping in the middle of a travel by displaying image information on a display surface and changing the display orientation by rotating the image information as required based on an angular component in a change of the posture of the display surface. Also, a medium causes an information processing apparatus to execute a program having a first step of displaying image information on a display surface, a second step of detecting an angular component in a change in the posture of the display surface, and a third step of changing the display orientation by rotating the image information based on the angular component, so that a degraded visibility can be prevented even if the posture of the information processing apparatus is changed in order to provide better portability or to prevent surrounding persons from snooping in the middle of a travel, thereby making it possible to readily use the information processing apparatus even in the middle of a travel.

Information processing apparatus and method therefor, and medium

To provide an information processing apparatus having an antenna with a high sensitivity. There are provided a display unithaving a display panel whose rear surface is covered with a metallic panelB, an antenna memberwhich is disposed in a notchformed in a part of the above described metallic panel, and coversandof non-metallic members disposed in the above described notch so as to cover the above described antenna member.

Information processing apparatus

To provide an information processing apparatus having an antenna with a high sensitivity. There are provided a display unit having a display panel whose rear surface is covered with a metallic panel B, an antenna member which is disposed in a notch formed in a part of the above described metallic panel, and covers and of non-metallic members disposed in the above described notch so as to cover the above described antenna member.

Information processing device

An information processing unit and batteries which can be carried with ease even if the batteries have been attached. Includes a main body division for executing given information processing; a first battery division which is attached to the first surface on the rear side of the main body division and is standing out from a second surface adjoining the first surface of the main body division; and a second battery division which is held onto an edge portion on the side of the first battery division which the edge portion stands out from the second surface, such that it can rotate freely in a direction to approach the main body division and also in the reverse direction to depart from the main body division, and one surface of the second battery hits the second surface when rotated in the direction to approach the main body division. Therefore, at the time of carrying the main body division, the first and the second battery divisions can be caused to lie along the first and second surfaces of the main body division so that the first and the second battery divisions can be integrated with the main body division.

Information processing unit and batteries

Module for computer

The invention provides an information processing apparatus which can input various kinds of information simply with reliability without increasing the scale thereof. An LCD is disposed on the back of a touch pad, and when a function button is operated, a menu for allowing selection of a function is displayed on the LCD. When a user operates the touch pad to select, for example, ten keys from within the menu, ten keys are displayed on the LCD. Desired operation can be performed by operating the ten keys.

Information processing apparatus, controlling method and program medium

An information processing device has a pair of projections joined to a display unit and angularly movable about an axis which is disposed in a position vertically spaced a predetermined distance from a display panel of the display unit, and a pair of supports. The projections are angularly movably supported by the supports such that the axis is positioned within the main unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ryoji Amemiya