Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Yusaku Nishimiya

Hideo Ohkoshi

Tsutomu Nakanishi

Yoshiyuki Hayashi

Narihiro Mita

Yuichi Mizuno

Taketoshi Takashima

Hideaki Ishiba

Yoshimitsu Ikeyama

An information apparatus includes a housing, first and second strain detectors, and first and second stress collectors that transmit distortion applied to a side surface of the housing to the first and the second strain detectors, respectively. Upon having the same amount of distortion is applied to the side surface of the housing, the first and strain detectors outputs different values a processing circuit. This information apparatus has a small size and can be accurately controlled.

Information apparatus

A receiving apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving a broadcast. The apparatus further includes a location detector for detecting the location of the receiving apparatus, a moving direction calculator for calculating a moving direction of the receiving apparatus based on the location detected by the location detector, and a controller for allowing a reproducing section to reproduce a part of or all of the broadcast received by the receiving section selectively based on the moving direction calculated by the moving direction calculator.

Receiving apparatus

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Osaka, Japan

Yusaku Nishimiya