Sony Corporation

Takaharu Kitada

Akira Shirakura

Hiroshi Ogawa

Koji Ashizaki

Heitaro Nakajima

An information processing system comprises an information providingmedium that storeselectronic parts capable of readinginformation in an electromagnetic or optical manner, theinformation providing mediumpartsbeing attached to an entity in order to provide information associated with the entity; a hand held terminal device having an information read function that reads information from the information providingmediumelectronic partsin an electromagnetic or optical manner and record the information; and an information processing unit forretrievingreading and processingthe information recorded in the hand held terminal device; wherein the information providing medium is inconspicuously attached to the entity. In this manner, the information can be recorded into the hand held terminal for later use by a user.In this way, in a case where an information user attempts to obtain information associated with an entity, such as commodity or advertising material, the information can be electronically recorded momentously and processed.

Information processing system, hand held cellular phone, and information processing method

An information processing system comprises an information providing medium that stores information in an electromagnetic or optical manner, the information providing medium being attached to an entity in order to provide information associated with the entity; a hand held terminal device having an information read function that reads information from the information providing medium in an electromagnetic or optical manner and record the information; and an information processing unit for retrieving the information recorded in the hand held terminal device; wherein the information providing medium is inconspicuously attached to the entity. In this manner, the information can be recorded into the hand held terminal for later use by a user.

A certification system includes a photographing unitwhich generates looks image data LI whose object is an individual person P, a holographic stereogram manufacturing unitwhich makes a holographic stereogram HL in accordance with the looks image data LI, a two dimensional photo printing unitwhich prints the looks image data LI as a two dimensional photograph PIC, an image serverwhich stores the looks image data LI, an information recoding unitwhich records connection information in a recording member RM, and a manufacturing unitwhich integrates the recording member RM, the two dimensional photograph PIC, and the holographic stereogram HL to make a certification card CC.

Authentication system authentication method authentication medium manufacturing device and authentication terminal device

Method and apparatus for preventing data copying from a disk using data

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a plurality of modes of operation, for example, at least recording and reproducing modes of operation, includes a main operating mode selecting device of the non-locked push-button type having push-button actuated switches which are selectively closed momentarily for applying a respective trigger signal to a self-holding operation controlling circuit which thereby assumes a condition corresponding to the selected mode of operation and maintains such condition until another trigger signal is received from the main operating mode selecting device, an auxiliary trigger signal generating circuit operative upon the supplying of electric power therethrough, for example, through a timer-controlled switch, to produce an auxiliary trigger signal, an auxiliary operating mode selecting device, for example, in the form of a manually actuable change-over switch, which is selectively disposable in an inoperative position and in one or more operative positions, for example, corresponding to automatically initiated recording and reproducing operations, and semi-conductor switching elements operative in response to the auxiliary trigger signal when the auxiliary mode selecting device is disposed in one of its operative positions to apply an automatic operation initiating trigger signal to the operation controlling circuit for causing the latter to automatically initiate the operation of the apparatus for which the auxiliary mode selecting device has been set.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takaharu Kitada