Hitachi, Ltd.

Satoko Kojima

Takeshi Hoshino

Atsushi Ishibashi

Koji Suso

Masayuki Ohki

Yukinobu Maruyama

Takashi Yoshimaru

Atsushi Katayama

Youichi Horii

Takeshi Minemoto

Gen Nagai

Yoshitaka Shibata

Keiichi Shimada

A screen in which icons of a plurality of information items are arranged is displayed as a information selecting screen to display information selected from the screen by the user. In the operation, icons of information items of different kinds are horizontally displayed, and a degree of details of the information is changed in the vertical direction and a degree of recommendation of the information to the user is changed in a direction of depth. The user can easily select desired information from a large amount of various contents supplied and the information can be optimally displayed for the user.

Method of displaying, a method of processing, an apparatus for processing, and a system for processing multimedia information

The field of view of a video camera is set to include electric appliances such as a refrigerator, TV set, air conditioner and lamp installed within a room. When the user operates a remote controller to emit a visible laser beam toward a controlable range including these electric appliances set within this field of view, and designate a certain one of the appliances by the resulting pointer within the controlable range, the video camera for extracting only the visible laser beam of a wave length picks up this pointer, and a control box detects the position of the pointer within the controlable range from the output of the camera so that the appliance designated by this pointer can be detected and remotely controlled by use of the remote controller.

Remote control network system for remotely controlling a plurality of electric apparatus such as home appliances

IC card reader and writer

Growing community of inventors

Kokubunji, Japan

Satoko Kojima