Sony Corporation

Seiya Amatatsu

Nobutatsu Takahashi

Yoshihisa Tsuchida

Tomohiro Tsumura

Toshio Takeshita

Atsushi Takahashi

Yoichi Miyajima

Yoshihiro Konno

Shoichi Shintani

Michihito Kobayashi

Hideki Hagiwara

Kiyoshi Miyamori

Naoto Hosoya

Masanori Nagai

Tsugio Sameshima

Kazuhiro Kitagawa

Shigekazu Inaba

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a database configured to store position data indicating a current position of at least one search target person, the position data being received from a communication apparatus of the at least one search target person, an information providing unit configured to provide the position data of the at least one search target person to a terminal apparatus of a searcher in response to an information request from the terminal apparatus of the searcher, and a communication mediation unit configured to receive, from the terminal apparatus, a communication request for requesting communication with a search target person who is selected by the searcher based on the provided position data, and to transmit a communication message to a communication apparatus of the selected search target person.

Information processing apparatus to provide position based services

A battery and an electronic apparatus are disclosed by which it can be discriminated with a simple configuration whether or not the battery is of a thin type. The battery is configured such that a wall portion for discrimination of a battery characteristic which is swollen in a lengthwise direction and connects to a connector section is formed at a location of one of end faces positioned rather near to an end portion in a widthwise direction of a case of the battery.

Battery and electronic apparatus

An electronic apparatus includes: a case body having a battery storing portion formed of a concave portion whose shape is approximately corresponding to an external shape of a battery unit and a sliding member slidably supported on a surface of the case body on the opposite side to the battery storing portion. The battery storing portion has a width corresponding to that of the battery unit, a length corresponding to a length of the battery unit, and a body-side connection terminal connected to a connection terminal of the battery unit. The sliding member includes one or more engagement claws penetrating through the case body, projecting to the inside of the battery storing portion, capable of being engaged with engagement convex portions provided in the battery unit, and a biasing member causing the claws to be biased away from the body-side connection terminal and engaged with the engagement convex portions.

Electronic apparatus

A camera apparatus comprising a disc compartment portion in which a DVD-R is accommodated so as to be loaded and unloaded, a disc rotating apparatus provided within the disc compartment portion and rotating the DVD-R which can be detachably loaded thereon, a lens apparatus for passing light from an object, a CCD for forming an image from light passed through the lens apparatus and outputting an image signal corresponding to the image, an optical pickup apparatus capable of recording image information on the DVD-R based on the image signal outputted from the CCD and a radiation plate provided within the disc compartment portion. The radiation plate and the CCD are constructed so as to transmit heat therebetween so that heat can be radiated from the CCD through the radiation plate to the disc compartment portion.

Camera apparatus

A waterproof type electronic device is composed of a disc lidcapable of opening and closing an opening portion () of a camera apparatus body (), a buckle () capable of detachably fastening the disc lid () to the camera apparatus body () and a sealing member () provided on at least one of the buckle () and the camera apparatus body () to hermetically seal the buckleand the camera apparatus body (). When the disc lid () is fastened to the camera apparatus body () by the buckle (), the camera apparatus body () is hermetically sealed at least at its part of the portion covered with the buckle (). In this kind of related-art waterproof type electronic device, operation buttons are not formed so as to have waterproof structures and water and water component can therefore enter this waterproof type electronic device relatively easily. If the operation buttons are formed so as to have waterproof structures, then such waterproof structures are increased in space from a structure standpoint and hence the overall arrangement of the apparatus may not be made compact in size.

Waterproof type electronic device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Seiya Amatatsu