Sony Corporation

Yoshitaka Narukawa

Michitomo Koda

Yasufumi Suzuki

Hidenobu Takemura

Tatsunobu Koike

Hidenori Yamaji

Noriaki Nakagawa

Soichi Sato

Kenichi Agata

Mikio Sakemoto

Kazumi Yoshimoto

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Takashi Yoshida

Kenichi Ono

Masataka Suzuki

Takanori Nishimura

Shinji Nakajima

Tomohiro Tsuyuhara

Kaoru Hayashi

Osamu Gomibuchi

Daisuke Kanehira

Naoko Tobata

Junichiro Wachi

Nobumasa Takahashi

There is provided a display control apparatus including an external memory accommodating unit for accommodating a removable external memory; a database recognizing unit for recognizing a database stored in the external memory, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other; a display method setting unit for setting either display method of a stored first display method or a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database based on a recognition result of the database recognizing unit; and a display controlling unit for displaying the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the set display method.

Display control apparatus, display control method, and program

An image processing device includes an operation reception portion which receives an instruction operation for displaying a desired image from a plane image or a stereoscopic image that is stored in a recording medium; an information output portion that is connected to a display device which displays the plane image or the stereoscopic image to output image information for displaying the image stored in the recording medium on the display device; and a control portion.

Image processing device, image processing method and program

Notification is sent to an upper layer via a control device(a device for managing operation buttons) provided between operation buttons 'A-', 'A-' and the like and devices for operation input &#x201c;Device A&#x201d;, &#x201c;Device B&#x201d; and the like such as a pointing device for executing application processing. Function assignment and the like are put under management by the control device, so that any modification or change is not required in the OS, drivers, and applications in association with change in key assignment, which is advantageous and effective for reduction of cost and time for product development.

Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to make a transition to one of a plurality of modes each defining processing to be executed and execute the one of a plurality of modes to which a transition has been made, which may include first selection means; second selection means; communication controlling means; determination means; and mode transition control means.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

Disclosed herein is an image-taking apparatus for taking an image of a subject, which may include: image taking means for taking an image of the subject; communication means for communicating, via a network, with a mate of communication that is another image-taking apparatus; image acquire means for acquiring, via the network, an image taken by a mate of communication; and display means for displaying an image taken by the image taking means and an image taken by a mate of communication onto one screen in a sequence of image taken.

Image taking apparatus and method with display and image storage communication with other image taking apparatus

An embodiment of the invention provides an image pick-up apparatus having a function of setting an exposure correction value, which may include a control portion and a display portion. The control portion may perform control for generating or acquiring reference images having a plurality of images having a plurality of different exposure correction values applied thereto. The display portion may display the reference images in accordance with the control made by the control portion. The control portion may execute processing for receiving as its input selection information selected by a user for the reference images displayed on the display portion, and setting the exposure correction value corresponding to the reference image selected by the user as an exposure correction value to be applied to a photographed image.

Image pick-up apparatus with exposure setting method

An information processing apparatus having a system body, a body operation unit provided on the system body, and a remote operation unit configured to perform a remote operation of the system body. The information processing apparatus performs processing according to operational information obtained by the body operation unit or the remote operation unit. The information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit to detect the operation performed by the body operation unit and the remote operation performed by the remote operation unit. Power control of each device in the system body is performed according to either a second set state in which power consumption is lower than in a first set state.

Information processing apparatus and control method

A new-type user interface for providing a hotkey is disclosed, which has high operability and which can also be used to provide the hotkey in a conventional manner. In information processing apparatus has a hierarchical structure including a keyboard as one of hardware parts in a bottom layer, a built-in controller as one of hardware parts in a layer higher than the keyboard, and an operating system and an application program as software part in a layer higher than the built-in controller, wherein the operating system and the application program are connected to the built-in controller via a bus. In this information processing apparatus, in response to an input operation on a hotkey using an Fn key, information indicating that the key has been pressed or released is supplied to a utility, which is a higher-level system, via an SPIC which is logically different from the keyboard controller.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A power control unit that can perform preventing a secondary battery from generating heat and preventing power supply from being suddenly shut off. Supply of power from a secondary battery to a system unit is controlled by a power control unit. At this time, the power control unit successively monitors a cell temperature of the secondary battery, and requests the system unit to switch to a power saving mode when the cell temperature exceeds a predetermined alarming temperature which is preset.

Power controller, power control method, information processor, and power control program

Executing a desired processing immediately by a simple operation using a jog dial for example. The display unit () has a jog dial () (a first operating means) and a back button () (second operating means) provided vertically at the right upper corner thereof. The jog dial () can be rotated and pushed. The back button () is to undo an operation having been made by pushing the jog dial (), and it is located near the jog dial ().

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Saitama, Japan

Yoshitaka Narukawa