Sony Corporation

Shinsaku Inada

Eiji Ohshima

Masayoshi Morikawa

Hideaki Io

Akira Sakamoto

Hiromitsu Baba

Toyoaki Kishimoto

Tomotaka Yamazaki

A vehicle boarding environment controlling apparatus having a communicating element communicating with a communication device that detects a detection target object for personal authentication; a registration storing element for storing registration of setting status information denoting a predetermined boarding environment of a vehicle in association with each person to be authenticated; a door lock controlling element for unlocking doors of the vehicle when a person is authenticated; and a setting status controlling element which, if any person is authenticated, changes the boarding environment setting status of the vehicle in accordance with the setting status information associated with the authenticated person.

Boarding environment controlling system, boarding environment controlling apparatus, and boarding environment controlling method

Disclosed is an information-processing apparatus comprising: storage means for storing application programs and data files; calculating means for activating an application program stored in the storage means to carry out predetermined processing; media drive means for recording and playing back information into and from an external recording medium; and control means which controls the media-drive means and the storage means when the external recording medium for recording an application program is mounted on the media drive means so that: when the storage means includes a remaining free storage area with a size large enough for accommodating the application program recorded in the external recording medium, the application program recorded in the external recording medium is installed in the storage means; but when the storage means includes a remaining free storage area with a size not large enough for accommodating the application program recorded in the external recording medium, on the other hand, an application program or a data file stored in the storage means is saved to the external recording medium in order to allocate a free storage area in the storage means and then the application program recorded in the external recording medium is installed in the storage means.

Information-processing apparatus and information-processing method

A combination video tape recorder and camera includes a main body having a video tape recorder and a television camera, and a separable hand grip secureable to a side wall of the main body. The hand grip carries a view finder for the camera and a battery for supplying operational power to the video tape recorder and the television camera.

Video tape recorder having built-in camera detachable hand grip member

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinsaku Inada