Sony Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Takashi Tsurumoto

Masahiro Nakano

Masatoshi Ueno

Akihiro Kikuchi

Kenichi Kabasawa

Kazumoto Kondo

Yoshinori Satoh

Yasuhisa Nakajima

Shiro Omori

Kazunori Kikuchi

Tatsushi Banba

Akira Katsuyama

Naoki Sugita

Kanahiro Shirota

Yasuaki Yamagishi

Ikuo Yamano

Yusuke Sakai

Haruo Oba

Satoru Inoue

Kazuyoshi Suzuki

Tomoyuki Hanai

Naoki Okamoto

Tamaki Kojima

Eiji Yoshida

Akihiko Ito

Kazuhiro Fukuda

Keiji Yuzawa

Hideki Akashika

Tetsuo Maruyama

Yoshihisa Gonno

Fumihiko Nishio

Takayoshi Yamasaki

Kunio Nagai

Yasuhisa Ikeda

Toshihiko Fushimi

Tetsuya Nakamura

Yoshikazu Ohura

Yukiko Okura

Yukari Fujita

Suzuki Kazuyoshi

There is provided a speaker apparatus that includes a pair of speaker boxes attached on both ends of an attached band having a curved surface, the pair of speaker boxes substantially facing each other, a pair of speaker units attached on one surface of the respective speaker boxes in such a way that an axial direction is directed inward or outward and a sound guiding unit that converts a radiation direction of a sound reproduced from each of the speaker units.

Speaker apparatus and reproduction apparatus

An electronic device includes a first communication unit which performs wireless communication with another electronic device, and a second communication unit which carries out transactions of information, which is necessary for pairing with the other electronic device performed by the first communication, with the other electronic device using near field wireless communication.

Pairing of electronic devices using near field wireless communication

An operational terminal device may include a control unit to control display on a display screen of at least one operation button to control a display control device, based on button information associated with the operation button and received from the display control device.

Operational terminal device, display control device, method of operating terminal device, method of operating display control device, and system

Provided is an image display device provided with an image display unit for displaying a still image or a moving image, an image capturing unit for capturing the image in a direction in which the image display unit displays the image on the image display unit, and a face detection unit for performing, at predetermined intervals, face detection processing for detecting a face included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the predetermined intervals are variable according to whether or not the face of a user is included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, and when the position of the detected face does not change for a predetermined period of time in the face detection processing, the face detection unit does not detect the face as the face of the user.

Image display device, control method and computer program

An information processing apparatus including an audio input unit, an amplifier unit, and a controller. The audio input unit is capable of converting audio into an electric audio signal. The amplifier unit is configured to amplify the audio signal obtained by the audio input unit and capable of performing auto gain control. The controller is configured to turn off the auto gain control of the amplifier unit when an application that uses an audio recognition is executed with respect to the amplified audio signal.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A communication system includes: a remote controller having an input unit inputting user operations and a communication unit performing bidirectional communication, transmitting a remote control code in accordance with the user operation with respect to the input unit from the communication unit; and a host device having a communication unit performing bidirectional communication and a host function unit executing processing corresponding to the remote control code received in the communication unit, wherein the host device transmits a status response from the communication unit in response to a status inquiry transmitted from the communication unit of the remote controller, the remote controller repeatedly executes a status check communication procedure including the transmission of the status inquiry and waiting for receiving the status response after transmitting the remote control code at given time intervals during which the communication unit is in a dormant state.

Communication system and communication device

A calibration device including a communication section which communicates with a display device which displays images on a screen, a light sensor arranged in a position to receive transmitted light of a lens of shutter glasses, a signal processing section which processes an output signal of the light sensor, a processing section which determines a shutter opening/closing timing, and a shutter driving section which operates the opening and closing of shutters of shutter glasses in accordance with the shutter opening/closing timing determined by the processing section, where the communication section receives a standard pulse which shows a timing when images are switched from the display device, and the processing section determines an appropriate correction amount &#x3c4; of the shutter opening/closing timing based on a change in the output of the light sensor when the shutter opening/closing timing is changed with regard to the standard pulse.

Calibration device, image display system and shutter glasses

[Object] To provide an operation apparatus capable of achieving an improvement in operability. [Solving Means] This operation apparatus includes: a casing including two surfaces opposed in front and back directions as a first surface and a second surface; a first operation input unit that is provided in the first surface and includes a detector that performs a detection of an operation of a user with respect to a predetermined coordinate detection space on the first surface; a second operation input unit provided in the second surface; a determination unit that determines an attitude of the casing when an operation of the user with respect to the coordinate detection space of the detector is performed from a side of the second surface; and a converter that converts, when the attitude is determined, information detected by the detector into information of a coordinate system of the coordinate detection space seen through from the side of the second surface.

Operation apparatus, information processing method therefor, and information processing apparatus

An information processing system includes: a physical measurement apparatus measuring the body of a user and radio-transmitting measurement data; and an information processing apparatus receiving the measurement data radio-transmitted from the physical measurement apparatus, displaying information on the measurement data of the user on a screen, and displaying a notice prompting the user to conduct measurement when no measurement data is received by a predetermined time for measurement.

Information processing system and information processing apparatus

Disclosed herein is a remote control apparatus for performing wireless communication with an electronic device, the remote control apparatus including: a reader/writer configured to read and/or write information from or to an information storage medium; and a transmission/reception section configured to transmit and receiving a signal to or from the electronic device via the wireless communication, wherein the transmission/reception section uses the same wireless communication system for both transmission of an operation instruction to the electronic device and transmission of information read from the information storage medium and reception from the electronic device of information to be written to the information storage medium.

Remote control apparatus and communication system

A communication system is provided which implements more comfortable user operation where an electric apparatus which is remotely controlled by a remote controller (remote control apparatus) carries out processing operation in which an information recording medium is used. Remote controller data, remote controller controlling commands and reader/writer commands are placed into and transmitted by command data cmdDATA in packets of the same format. Further, reader/writer command data rwDATA and a reader/writer communication footer (parity for an error check and so forth) rwFT which have a longer data length are divided and placed divisionally into and transmitted together with the command data cmdDATA in communication packets. The transmitted data are received and merged.

Remote control apparatus, electric apparatus and communication system

A remote control apparatus for communicating with an electric apparatus by radio communication is provided. The remote control apparatus includes a reader/writer for carrying out reading out and writing of information from and into an information recording medium; a transmission/reception section configured to transfer a signal to and from the electric apparatus by the radio communication; and a control section having a power control function for controlling the power of the reader/writer; the control section controlling the reader/writer to the low power consumption state when the power supply to the remote control apparatus is made available.

The wireless communication device includes a terminal communication transition unit for sending a transition instruction for transitioning to a state in which communication with a communication terminal is possible, a terminal communication unit that transitions to a state in which the communication with the communication terminal is possible in response to the transition instruction sent by the terminal communication transition unit, a signal generating unit for generating a transition instruction signal corresponding to the transition instruction, a transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting the transition instruction signal generated by the signal generating unit to an information processing device, a reception unit for wirelessly receiving a response from the information processing device to the transition instruction signal transmitted from the transmission unit, and a terminal communication control unit for starting to control information transmission/reception between the communication terminal and the information processing device according to the response received by the reception unit.

Wireless communication device, information processing device, wireless communication method, and information processing system

The risk of a third party able to conduct pairing is reduced, and operation is also made simple. In Sthe radio wave strength of a pairing signal received first is measured and retained. In Sthe message 'Come a little closer' is displayed. In Sit is determined from the radio wave strength whether or not the current distance is within a given range with respect to an instructed distance. In Sit is determined whether or not the number of determinations in which the current distance is determined to be within the given range has reached a set number of determinations. In a second determination the message 'Now move away a little' is displayed. If the second determination becomes positive, S(pairing registration) is performed.

Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method

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Saitama, Japan

Takashi Tsurumoto