Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Tetsuya Handa

Kimiyasu Mizuno

Takehiro Aibara

Hitoshi Amagai

Takayuki Kogane

Naotaka Uehara

Masato Nunokawa

Sumito Shinohara

An apparatus, system, or method for causing a controlled device and a controlling terminal to operate in collaboration with each other, wherein a server apparatus stores in advance a plurality of sets of collaboration information which causes the controlled device and the controlling terminal to operate in collaboration with each other. The plurality of sets of collaboration information is respectively stored in association with a plurality of controlled apparatuses different from one another in type. When the controlling terminal requests the server apparatus to send the collaboration information designating the type of the controlled device, the server apparatus sends to the controlling terminal the collaboration information corresponding to the type of the controlled device. The controlled device and the controlling terminal operate in collaboration with each other using the collaboration information.

Terminal apparatus, control system, and control method for controlling collaboration among a plurality of devices

An object of the exemplary embodiment is to make it possible to easily take a group photo of a plurality of persons including a photographer. In a digital camera, an image a of other photographed persons is taken by a photographer immediately after an instruction of a composite shooting mode is given. Next, the digital camerais handed over to one of the other photographed persons, by whom an image b of the photographer is taken. When predetermined synthesizing conditions are satisfied, a facial image contained in one of the two taken images a and b shot in series is synthesized with the other taken image so that a new composite image c is created. Thus, a group photo in which all the persons have been photographed can be synthesized easily.

Imaging apparatus and image synthesizing method

A display terminal that performs image display processing for displaying in a display section image data recorded in a recording section, which includes a controlling section that performs image sharing processing for providing image data recorded in the recording section to another display terminal over a network, acquiring image data recorded by another display terminal over the network, and displaying the acquired image data in the display section, and sharing control processing for performing control to select image data recorded by another display terminal set up at a location whose distance from the setup location of the display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, as target image data for the image sharing processing.

Display terminal provided with an image data sharing function, image sharing system and method for sharing image data

Provided are a communication apparatus and program which improve the operability for a user before and during data communication. The communication apparatus includes a plurality of communication units that establish electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling with a communication device located within a predetermined distance, a storage unit storing control information indicative of predetermined control contents in association with the respective communication units, a control information acquisition section that acquires, from the storage unit, control information associated with that communication unit which has established the electric field coupling or the magnetic field coupling, and a control unit that controls communication of that of the communication units which has established the electric field coupling or the magnetic field coupling by using the control information acquired by the control information acquisition section.

Communication apparatus and storage medium

It is an object of the present invention to search for image data with an intuitive operation to which active elements are added. A digital photo framesearches a non-volatile data base memoryor a network for image data based on parameters respectively related to a position and a direction in which the digital photo frameis arranged, a distance or a depth from the digital photo frame, and time. The digital photo framedisplays an image expressed by the image data thus searched.

Image display device, method, and program

A wireless communication device includes a communication unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with another wireless communication device by use of a wireless channel selected from wireless channels. The detection unit detects field intensities of first wireless channels. The control unit calculates a field intensity of a second wireless channel based on the field intensities of the first wireless channels, wherein the first wireless channels do not include the second wireless channel.

Wireless communication device and wireless communication method for detecting field intensities of wireless channels

There is provided a display processing apparatus that displays an image represented by image data. The apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store the image data, an obtaining unit configured to obtain surrounding image data representing an image of surroundings in which the display processing apparatus is located, a determination unit configured to determine a color given to a region not smaller than a specific threshold region in a surrounding image represented by the obtained surrounding image data or the type of person determined from a face region of a person included in the surrounding image, a conversion unit configured to convert an image represented by the image data into a specific painting style associated with the determined color or the determine type of person, and a display unit configured to display a converted image represented by the converted image data.

Display processing apparatus

A wireless communication apparatus includes a communication unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The communication unit wirelessly communicates with another wireless communication apparatus using a first wireless channel. The detection unit detects electric field intensities of wireless channels except for the first wireless channel. The control unit calculates an electric field intensity of the first wireless channel based on the electric field intensities of the wireless channels detected by the detection unit.

Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method for detecting electric field intensity of wireless channel

It is an object of the present invention to make an act of viewing an image interactive and further enriched. A microphoneinputs a voice signal of a voice uttered by a viewer who is viewing a display image displayed on a display portion, and causes the voice signal to be stored in a buffer. A voice recognition portionidentifies at least one word from the voice uttered by the viewer based on the voice signal, and acquires them as a keyword. A countercalculates the number of incidences of the keyword. A display drivercauses information including a keyword having a number of incidences that exceeds a threshold value or information derived from the keyword to be displayed together with the display image displayed on the display portion

Image display device for identifying keywords from a voice of a viewer and displaying image and keyword

Disclosed is that when the first wireless communication apparatus is connected to a terminal apparatus such as a wireless access point wirelessly, the second wireless communication apparatus performs the communication with the first wireless communication apparatus by a short distance wireless communication, then the first wireless communication apparatus transmits participation information to participate in the network to the second wireless communication apparatus by the short distance wireless communication, and the second wireless communication apparatus is connected to the network based on the received participation information so as to communicate with the first wireless communication apparatus through the terminal apparatus.

Wireless communication system and wireless communication method to perform handover of communication using different communication systems

A wireless communication apparatus includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit periodically transmits a beacon signal to wireless terminal devices existing in a network using a use channel selected from wireless channels and to detect electric field intensities of the wireless channels. The control unit detects, by the communication unit, the electric field intensities of the wireless channels in a predetermined communication limiting period in a period during which wireless communication with an unspecified wireless terminal device existing in the network is prohibited in a period in which the beacon signal is transmitted.

Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method for detecting electric field intensity of wireless channel, and program storing medium

In a wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses and a relaying apparatus, the relaying apparatus performs a channel search to select a wireless channel in a good communication situation when the relaying apparatus transmits a beacon signal at a constant period, and transmits switching destination information to be used to switch the wireless channel to the selected one in a state of being stored in the beacon signal. When the communication situation of the wireless channel has deteriorated, the relaying apparatus switches the wireless channel being used by the communication section to the selected one based on the switching destination information. When the communication situation of a wireless channel of the wireless terminal apparatus has deteriorated, the wireless terminal apparatus switches the wireless channel to the selected one based on the switching destination information.

Wireless communication system and wireless communication method for switching wireless channels

A wireless communication system includes a terminal device; a first wireless communication device; and a second wireless communication device. When the first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device by wireless LAN communication after a handover and completes prescribed processing to the second wireless communication device, the first wireless communication device sends first disconnection information to the second wireless communication device to disconnect the second wireless communication device. The second wireless communication device stores wireless LAN connection information before communicating with the first wireless communication device by the wireless LAN communication when the second wireless communication device is connected with the terminal device at a time of the handover. The second wireless communication device disconnects the first wireless communication device and connects with the terminal device based on the wireless LAN connection information when the first disconnection information is received.

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Tetsuya Handa