Pioneer Corporation

Rhythm Watch Co., Ltd.

Toshiyuki Murata

Hitoshi Sato

Yukari Mizumura

Rie Yamashita

Hidetsugu Kubota

Takamasa Yamaguchi

Kenji Morita

Hideo Watanabe

Kiyokazu Nishi

Hidetoshi Yamaguchi

Clock movement

A broadcast receiver has a GPS reception section for clocking, a TV tuner for receiving a broadcast wave of TV broadcast, and a display for displaying video information of a program transmitted by a broadcast wave, and displays video information of a plurality of programs received on a single screen of the display at the same time every hour on the hour. Accordingly, the user (viewer) can check the program contents of channels that can be received at the time of day.

Broadcast receiver for displaying video information of a program transmitted by broadcast waves

In a digital acoustic reproducing apparatusfor selecting and outputting one sound information from a sound information sourcehaving plural kinds of sound information with at least the number of channels or different data formats, there are provided sound information readout memberfor reading sound information out of the sound information sourceinformation acquisition memberfor acquiring information about data formats capable of decoding by a decoderto which the sound information read out is supplied or information about the number of speakersto which the sound information decoded by the decoderis supplied, and sound information selection memberfor selecting sound information to be outputted to the decoderbased on the acquired information.

Digital acoustic reproducing apparatus, acoustic apparatus and acoustic reproducing system

A display control apparatus has a display panel, which is placed in its inactive state through a user's operation when not being used, on the one hand, and is placed in is active state when being used, on the other hand. After completing the display of video, the display panel is received automatically, thus ensuring protection of the display panel. It also prevents a beginning part of video from being hidden for a user. All video can be displayed on the display panel that stands up in its prescribed active state. In the display control apparatus, a rotary motor driver and a slider motor driver are used for placing the display panel received in a receiver. An encoder detects whether or not the display panel is placed in its prescribed active state. When the active state of the display panel is detected, an output controller outputs a video signal to the display panel for display.

Display control apparatus, display control method and information recording medium

An image processing apparatus which is capable of displaying moving images with more actions for longer period of time. The apparatus is equipped with: an image data ROMwhich stores a plurality of static image information and moving image information that includes a plurality of element static image information each of which has less amount of information than that of an static image information; and a graphic devicethat reads static and moving image information from the image data ROMand performs image processing.

Method and apparatus for processing both static and moving images

A drive controller for controlling to change the orientation of a display surface of a display in accordance with the seating position of occupants aboard a vehicle. A display unit is rotatably mounted on a vehicle. A controller automatically rotates the display unit to a first position where the display surface is oriented toward a driver seat, when an occupant is seated solely in the driver seat. The controller rotates the display unit to a third position where the display surface is oriented toward a front passenger seat, when an occupant is seated solely in the front passenger seat. The controller rotates the display unit to a second position where the display surface is oriented toward the middle point between the driver seat and the front passenger seat, on detecting both of the occupants are seated respectively in the driver seat and the front passenger seat.

Drive controller and control method

A display controller for controlling display on a display surface of a display unit mounted on a vehicle. The display unit is rotatably mounted on the vehicle. A CPU of a controller recognizing that the vehicle is traveling, that a display surface of a display unit is oriented toward the driver's seat, and that a moving picture is displayed on the display surface, inhibits display of the moving picture on the display unit. The CPU of the controller, recognizing that the vehicle is traveling, that the display surface of the display unit is oriented toward the driver's seat, and that a moving picture is displayed on the display surface rotates the display unit to a position where an occupant of the driver's seat cannot watch the moving picture.

Display controller, display control method, drive controller and drive control method

An information playback apparatus which can perform scan playback capable of being performed with finer settings. When a unit cycle B and a playback time A within the unit cycle B are specified and the start of the scan playback of playback data recorded in a DVD is specified, playback control data having address information and information of the playback order appended to each piece of data in the smallest basic units of the playback data is read out from the DVD, whereby the scan playback of the playback data is performed by managing the playback time A in every unit cycle B. Also, when access-inhibited data is present within the playback data, the scan playback of playback data is performed except the access-inhibited data.

Information playback apparatus for playing back data recorded in an information recording medium

A panel member such as a display panel is rotated with a predetermined shaft as a center of the rotation. The rotation controlling apparatus for controlling the rotation of the panel member is provided with: a signal generating device for generating a position detection signal indicative of an angular position of the panel member around the shaft in response to a rotation of the panel member around the shaft; and a controller for controlling the rotation of the panel member in accordance with the position detection signal generated by the signal generating device, so as to stop the rotation of the panel member by using as a standard a generation timing of the position detection signal, which has a predetermined signal value based on a stop position signal value implying a value of the position detection signal indicative of a stop position at which the rotation of the panel member should be stopped.

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Saitama, Japan

Toshiyuki Murata