Abstract: An information processor of an electronic apparatus includes a power manager managing power of a secondary battery, and has major functions and a supplementary function. The power manager initiates restriction of the supplementary function, when detected present remaining battery power of the secondary battery is below a threshold. The power manager computes the threshold for the secondary battery or a set operating time for the major functions according to the remaining battery power at the threshold, in accordance with received user input information and power consumption rates corresponding to the major functions. The power manager computes an operating time available for the major functions in accordance with detected remaining battery power of the secondary battery and the power consumption rates corresponding to the major functions.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a DC power source which supplies a first DC supply voltage; a DC voltage converter which is enabled or disabled in response to a first control signal, and which converts the first DC supply voltage into a second DC supply voltage different from the first DC supply voltage, when the DC voltage converter is enabled; a switch which selects and supplies either the first DC supply voltage or the second DC supply voltage as an output in response to a second control signal; a DC voltage regulator which is enabled or disabled in response to a third control signal, and which converts the DC supply voltage selected by the switch into a third supply voltage lower than the selected DC supply voltage when said DC voltage regulator is enabled; a control unit which provides the second control signal to the switch; and a loading which utilizes the third DC supply voltage.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for call control and management stores a first telephone identification and a first IP address of a first IP telephone, a first device identification and a second IP address of a first information processing device associated with the first IP telephone by a first association identification, a second telephone identification and a third IP address of the second IP telephone, and a second device identification and a fourth IP address of a second information processing device associated with the second IP telephone.

Abstract: An information processing unit of an electronic apparatus includes a power manager managing power of a secondary battery, and has major functions and a supplementary function. The power manager initiates restriction of the supplementary functions, when present remaining battery power of the secondary battery as detected by a detector is below a predetermined threshold. The power manager computes one of the predetermined threshold for the secondary battery and a set operating time for the major functions from the remaining battery power at the predetermined threshold, in accordance with the other of the predetermined threshold for the secondary battery and the set operating time for the major functions from the remaining battery power at the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A portable information device, a power saving mode switching method, and a recording medium in which a power saving mode switching program is stored, for efficiently suppressing power generation peaks. In an information device having a component (1) such as a processor and a component (2) such as a magnetic disk device, it is detected whether it is the peak power generation condition or the peak power completion condition on the basis of access information to the component (2), and a power mode change request is given to a power mode changing means (4); and the power mode changing means (4) changes over the component (1) such as the processor from a normal power mode to a power saving mode where the operating voltage is reduced, the clock frequency is reduced, or the like when the peak power generation condition is detected, and changes over it from the power saving mode to the normal power mode when the peak power completion condition is detected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a data accumulation system wherein data storage process is simplified by using a portable communication device such as a notebook type PC as a data storage device. The data accumulation system of the invention comprises a pen scanner 21 as a data output device, a notebook type PC 22 as a data storage device and a portable terminal 23 as a data checking terminal. The pen scanner 21 reads a character string or the like in a document as an image and sends data of the image to the note PC 22. The note PC 22 generates thumbnail image data of the image data and sends the data to the portable terminal 23. When the thumbnail image is displayed on a display of the portable terminal 23, a user watches it and checks whether or not the data are worth storing. If the user decides to store the data, the user input a storage command from the portable terminal 23 to the note PC.

Abstract: An information device system includes a terminal device and a personal computer. The terminal device has a USB interface and a wireless transceiver circuit. The personal computer has a USB controller which can communicate with the USB interface of the terminal device when they are connected with each other, and also a transceiver circuit adapted to wirelessly communicate with the wireless transceiver circuit of the terminal device. A record medium, which can be read by the personal computer, contains a program for judging what communication state the system is in, a cable communication state, a wireless communication state, or a non-communication state, and restricting processing the personal computer can perform in accordance with the result of the judgment. The degree of restriction is lowest when the system is in the cable communication state, intermediate when the system is in the wireless communication state, and highest when the system is in the non-communication state.

Abstract: An information device for speeding up relatively simple processing such as data reference with respect to an information device such as a personal computer, and an information electric home appliance, a control method of the information device, and a storage medium storing a control program. The information device including interface sections 3-1 through 3-n, an input/output device 4, a memory 5, a magnetic disk device (HDD) 6, a display 7 and an audio section 8 connected each other via a processor (CPU) 1 and a chipset 2, the information device having a configuration in which a normal operation mode that executes information processing by making entire functions usable and an exclusive operational mode that executes processing such as data reference by making only a part of functions such as data reference usable is selected in accordance with start-up conditions from either a power-off state or a suspend state.

Abstract: An information device system includes a terminal device and a personal computer. The terminal device has a USB interface and a wireless transceiver circuit. The personal computer has a USB controller which can communicate with the USB interface of the terminal device when they are connected with each other, and also a transceiver circuit adapted to wirelessly communicate with the wireless transceiver circuit of the terminal device. A record medium, which can be read by the personal computer, contains a program for judging what communication state the system is in, a cable communication state, a wireless communication state, or a non-communication state, and restricting processing the personal computer can perform in accordance with the result of the judgment. The degree of restriction is lowest when the system is in the cable communication state, intermediate when the system is in the wireless communication state, and highest when the system is in the non-communication state.

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) has a plurality of electromagnetic interference (EMI) reducing circuits, which reduce electromagnetic waves emitted from the PCB, and a plurality of switching devices, such as MOS transistors, relays and DIP switches, to enable and disable the EMI reducing circuits. The EMI reducing circuits connected between border portions of a voltage and a ground layers in the PCB include at least a capacitor. A combination of the EMI reducing circuits which gives a minimum amount of electromagnetic waves emitted from an apparatus including the PCB is selected as a suitable combination of EMI reducing circuits. An information processing apparatus having the printed circuit boards has means for selecting a combination of the EMI reducing circuits which allow the minimum EMI emitted for the apparatus.

Abstract: A portable information processing device comprises a signal processing unit, a memory, a display unit, an input device and a wireless transceiver. The signal processing unit transmits via the wireless transceiver to another information processing device, a piece of identification data selected by a user from a plurality of pieces of identification data, such as a geographical address, a URL and/or an e-mail address, stored in the memory, to activate an application associated with the piece of identification data. A signal processing unit of the information processing device receives the piece of identification data via a wireless transceiver thereof, activates an application associated with the piece of identification data, and passes the piece of identification data to the activated application.

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) has a plurality of electromagnetic interference (EMI) reducing circuits, which reduce electromagnetic waves emitted from the PCB, and a plurality of switching devices, such as MOS transistors, relays and DIP switches, to enable and disable the EMI reducing circuits. The EMI reducing circuits connected between border portions of a voltage and a ground layers in the PCB include at least a capacitor. A combination of the EMI reducing circuits which gives a minimum amount of electromagnetic waves emitted from an apparatus including the PCB is selected as a suitable combination of EMI reducing circuits. An information processing apparatus having the printed circuit boards has means for selecting a combination of the EMI reducing circuits which allow the minimum EMI emitted for the apparatus.

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) has a plurality of electromagnetic interference (EMI) reducing circuits, which reduce electromagnetic waves emitted from the PCB, and a plurality of switching devices, such as MOS transistors, relays and DIP switches, to enable and disable the EMI reducing circuits. The EMI reducing circuits connected between border portions of a voltage and a ground layers in the PCB include at least a capacitor. A combination of the EMI reducing circuits which gives a minimum amount of electromagnetic waves emitted from an apparatus including the PCB is selected as a suitable combination of EMI reducing circuits. An information processing apparatus having the printed circuit boards has means for selecting a combination of the EMI reducing circuits which allow the minimum EMI emitted for the apparatus.

Abstract: An information device system includes a terminal device and a personal computer. The terminal device has a USB interface and a wireless transceiver circuit. The personal computer has a USB controller which can communicate with the USB interface of the terminal device when they are connected with each other, and also a transceiver circuit adapted to wirelessly communicate with the wireless transceiver circuit of the terminal device. A record medium, which can be read by the personal computer, contains a program for judging what communication state the system is in, a cable communication state, a wireless communication state, or a non-communication state, and restricting processing the personal computer can perform in accordance with the result of the judgment. The degree of restriction is lowest when the system is in the cable communication state, intermediate when the system is in the wireless communication state, and highest when the system is in the non-communication state.

Abstract: An information device for speeding up relatively simple processing such as data reference with respect to an information device such as a personal computer, and an information electric home appliance, a control method of the information device, and a storage medium storing a control program. The information device including interface sections 3-1 through 3-n, an input/output device 4, a memory 5, a magnetic disk device (HDD) 6, a display 7 and an audio section 8 connected each other via a processor (CPU) 1 and a chipset 2, the information device having a configuration in which a normal operation mode that executes information processing by making entire functions usable and an exclusive operational mode that executes processing such as data reference by making only a part of functions such as data reference usable is selected in accordance with start-up conditions from either a power-off state or a suspend state.

Abstract: The present invention provides a data accumulation system wherein data storage process is simplified by using a portable communication device such as a notebook type PC as a data storage device. The data accumulation system of the invention comprises a pen scanner 21 as a data output device, a notebook type PC 22 as a data storage device and a portable terminal 23 as a data checking terminal. The pen scanner 21 reads a character string or the like in a document as an image and sends data of the image to the note PC 22. The note PC 22 generates thumbnail image data of the image data and sends the data to the portable terminal 23. When the thumbnail image is displayed on a display of the portable terminal 23, a user watches it and checks whether or not the data are worth storing. If the user decides to store the data, the user input a storage command from the portable terminal 23 to the note PC.

Abstract: A portable information device, a power saving mode switching method, and a recording medium in which a power saving mode switching program is stored, for efficiently suppressing power generation peaks. In an information device having a component (1) such as a processor and a component (2) such as a magnetic disk device, it is detected whether it is the peak power generation condition or the peak power completion condition on the basis of access information to the component (2), and a power mode change request is given to a power mode changing means (4); and the power mode changing means (4) changes over the component (1) such as the processor from a normal power mode to a power saving mode where the operating voltage is reduced, the clock frequency is reduced, or the like when the peak power generation condition is detected, and changes over it from the power saving mode to the normal power mode when the peak power completion condition is detected.

Abstract: A wave receiving apparatus has a receiver unit for receiving a wave arrived at a predetermined aperture, together with information as to a position inside the aperture. A weighting processing unit performs a weighting process for received signals derived in the receiver unit with a plurality of types of weighting functions where a position inside the aperture is given in the form of a variable. An arithmetic unit performs an operation including an arithmetic operation in which a travelling direction of the wave arriving at the aperture, or a position of a generating source of the wave, is evaluated in accordance with a plurality of weighted receive signals derived through the weighting process of the weighting processing unit.

Abstract: A wave receiving apparatus has: a receiver unit for receiving a wave arrived at a predetermined aperture together with information as to a position inside the aperture; a weighting processing unit for performing a weighting processing for received signals derived in the receiver unit with a plurality of types of weighting functions where a position inside the aperture is given in the form of a variable; and an arithmetic unit for performing an operation including an arithmetic operation in which a travelling direction of the wave arrived at the aperture, or a position of a generating source of the wave is evaluated in accordance with a plurality of weighted received signals derived through the weighting processing of the weighting processing unit.

Abstract: Entered complex data is phase-rotated by the corresponding to the moving velocity of the clutter component. Then clutter component information is eliminated by a real type MTI filter assembly. Thereafter, the output data of the real type MTI filter assembly is reversely phase-rotated.