Sony Corporation

Nokia Corporation

Takaharu Fujii

Mikko Aarras

Takuma Higo

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Jaakko Nousiainen

Jukka Rantala

Steven O Dunford

Ramin Vatanparast

Pia Tanskanen

Juhani Lainonen

Tatsuya Yamazaki

Akira Shinada

Nobuo Ozawa

Taichi Yoshio

Ryuichiro Noto

Yoko Kitahara

Fumihisa Mizuochi

Masaru Kataoka

An electronic apparatus includes a main body and a panel unit removable from the main body. The electronic apparatus also includes an attachment unit in the panel unit that indirectly attaches a removable memory device to the main body through the panel unit. The main body includes a control unit that logically disconnects a data line logically connecting the removable memory device to the main body through the attachment unit, upon an operation before a power line electrically connecting the removable memory device to the main body through the attachment unit is physically disconnected.

Electronic apparatus and data corruption prevention method

The present invention is equipped with a USB interfacefor being connected to a portable music player that is an external device, a browser button, a rotary encoder button, a back button, CPUfor acquiring a content list CL from the portable music player, RAMfor storing the content list CL acquired by the CPU, and a LED processing sectionfor changing how the rotary encoder buttonilluminates to encourage the next operation at a time when the browse buttonis operated. Accordingly, when searching pieces of music content stored in the portable music player that is an external device, one can unknowingly understand how to operate, thereby providing good operability even for searching pieces of music content of the external portable music player.

Vehicle-mounted device

Provided herein is a composite layer including an electronically functional structural component adapted to integrate a plurality of electronic functions into a laminate cover, layer, and/or laminate component, for protecting, supporting, and/or forming a complete electronic device (such as a multimedia device). The composite layer includes a plurality of structural and/or protective layers interspersed with electronically functional layers or electronic components in communication with the multimedia device to form a supportive and electronically functional layer, cover, protective layer, and/or electronic device. Thus, the composite layer provided allow for the cost-effective addition of thin and lightweight functional, protective, and/or decorative layers to a multimedia device or other electronic device at a sales location or other customization location.

Composite layer for an electronic device

A method is provided for manufacturing an electronically functional structural component adapted to integrate a plurality of electronic functions into a laminate cover, layer, and/or laminate component, for protecting, supporting, and/or forming a complete electronic device (such as a multimedia device). The method includes laminating a plurality of structural and/or protective layers interspersed with electronically functional layers or electronic components in communication with the multimedia device to form a supportive and electronically functional layer, cover, protective layer, and/or electronic device. Thus, the manufacturing methods provided allow for the cost-effective addition of thin and lightweight functional, protective, and/or decorative layers to a multimedia device or other electronic device at a sales location or other customization location.

Method for manufacturing a composite layer for an electronic device

A sound-volume display unit for use in an audio system has a key for controlling the sound volume, a display device, and a display control device. When the key is not operated, the display control device displays information other than the sound volume on the display device. When the key is operated and when the level of the sound volume corresponding to the key operation is not minimum, the display control device displays the corresponding level of the sound volume on the display device for a predetermined duration. After a lapse of the predetermined duration, the display control device causes the display device to return to the display state used before the level of the sound volume was displayed. On the other hand, when the key is operated and when the level of the sound volume corresponding to the key operation is minimum, the display control device displays the corresponding level of the sound volume on the display device and also maintains the display state even after a lapse of the predetermined duration.

Sound-volume display unit for use in audio system

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takaharu Fujii