Sony Corporation

Shuichi Chihara

Junichiro Misawa

Yasushi Tsuji

Shingo Harada

Hitoshi Kubota

Yasunori Kimura

Masahiro Kobori

Akihito Kinoshita

Ryuta Kanno

Hidekazu Kamon

Akitoshi Okuma

Shingo Shimada

Michiya Mehara

Yijun Liu

Qing Pan

A portable wireless device includes a wireless communication unit, a position information acquisition unit, an operation unit, and a control unit, in which a rescue request and state information are generated by operation of the operation unit, and the generated information is transmitted from the wireless communication unit together with position information acquired by a position acquisition unit.

Portable wireless device, communication method, and server

There is provided a keyboard device including a plurality of key tops that include magnets and are depressible, an opposing member which is provided to face the plurality of key tops and in which signal lines are wired, and a plurality of openings that is formed corresponding to positions of the magnets when the key tops are pressed in the opposing member. The signal lines are wired while avoiding the openings.

Keyboard device

There is provided a magnetic circuit including a first magnetic body configured to include a magnet and a yoke plate, and a second magnetic body. The yoke plate forms an opening space at a position facing the second magnetic body. The magnet is disposed in the opening space or at a position sandwiched between the yoke plates.

Magnetic circuit and key input device

There is provided a key input device including a supporting member including groove portions inclined with respect to a horizontal direction, a plurality of keytops each including a sliding portion which is fitted in a corresponding groove portion of the groove portions and slides along the groove portion, and a control member configured to cause two or more keytops of the plurality of keytops to slide obliquely downward along the groove portions.

Key input device

Computer

There is provided an information processing apparatus including microphones, a parameter setting unit, and an audio signal processing unit. At least one pair of the microphones are provided, and the microphone picks up external audio to convert the external audio into an audio signal. The parameter setting unit sets a processing parameter specifying at least the sensitivity of the microphone according to at least an instruction from a user. Based on the processing parameter, the audio signal processing unit applies processing, including beamforming processing, to the audio signal input from the microphone.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of rapidly and appropriately setting a format of an audio signal to be output to a display apparatus. When a monitor apparatusis connected to an image processing apparatusvia an HDMI cable, the image processing apparatusdisplays an audio format setup screen on the basis of EDID acquired from the monitor apparatus. Only the setup items of the audio signal, which the monitor apparatuscan receive, are enabled in the audio format setup screen. A user selects a format of the audio signal to be supplied from the image processing apparatusto the monitor apparatuson the audio format setup screen. The present invention is applicable to, for example, an information processing apparatus outputting an audio signal to a monitor.

Apparatus and method of processing information and program

When a video tape recorder or the like is programmed to record a desired TV program, the programming information is stored in a programming memory. If the remaining storage capacity of the programming memory becomes insufficient to store all programming information, a part of the programming information is transferred to a server via a telephone line and is stored in the program information database of the server. When the video tape recorder has completed a recording operation of a certain TV program, the programming information is sent back from the program information database of the server to the programming memory of the video tape recorder and is stored therein.

Electronic device, method and apparatus for controlling an electronic device, and electronic device control system

A holding structure for a displaying apparatus for a socalled wrap top type electronic apparatus includes a first holding portion and a second holding portion on each lateral side of the displaying apparatus. The first holding portion is turnably connected to one end of a holding member having its other end turnably carried by the main body of an electronic apparatus, whilst the second holding portion is slidably held by a slide guide member provided on the main body of the electronic apparatus for extending in its for and aft direction. A frictional unit is provided at least at one of the swinging portions between the first holding portion and a holding member, between a second holding portion and a slide guide member and between the holding member and the main body of the electronic apparatus for turnably holding the displaying apparaus with respect to the main body of the apparatus while enabling the pivot point of turning of the displaying apparatus with respect to the main body of the electronic apparatus to be moved back and forth with the opening and closure of the displaying apparatus and reducing the amount of shift of the center of gravity of the displaying apparatus to enlarge the size of the displaying apparatus.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shuichi Chihara