Sony Corporation

Tatsuya Isoda

Kiyoshi Omori

Ryoji Amemiya

Koji Natsubori

Hiroyuki Fukuchi

Takashi Ootsuka

Tsuyoshi Abiko

Manabu Yoshii

Shigemi Yamada

Yoko Maruyama

Kunitaka Nerome

A disc drive apparatus is adapted to be driven when incorporated into a host appliance provided with a see-through section and comprises a disc receiving section for receiving a disc-shaped recording medium, a disc rotary drive mechanism for driving the disc-shaped recording medium to rotate, a recording and/or reproduction mechanism for recording information signals on and/or reproducing information signals from the disc-shaped recording medium and an apparatus main body arranged in correspondence to the see-through section formed in the host appliance and provided with a see-through hole exposing part of the disc-shaped recording medium placed on the disc receiving section to the outside of the host appliance by way of the see-through section.

Disc drive apparatus and electronic appliance

The invention provides an information processing apparatus which can input various kinds of information simply with reliability without increasing the scale thereof. An LCD is disposed on the back of a touch pad, and when a function button is operated, a menu for allowing selection of a function is displayed on the LCD. When a user operates the touch pad to select, for example, ten keys from within the menu, ten keys are displayed on the LCD. Desired operation can be performed by operating the ten keys.

Information processing apparatus, controlling method and program medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Isoda