Abstract: A character input apparatus includes a liquid crystal monitor 104 which overlappingly displays a character selection screen 101a that displays character selection information for accepting a character input from a user, and a character display area 101b that displays a character selected from the character selection screen 101a; an eye-gaze tracker 201 for detecting a finger of the user by tracking the eye-gaze of the user; and a controller 202 for controlling the liquid crystal monitor 104 so as to display the character display area 101b in a location that accords with the location of the finger detected by the eye-gaze tracker 201.

Abstract: This lens barrel includes a lens-receiving surface that extends in an intersection direction intersecting the central axis; a side frame portion that is arranged further outward than the lens-receiving surface in the intersection direction and that protrudes in the direction of the central axis from the lens-receiving surface; and a plurality of caulking portions that are formed at a tip portion of the side frame portion in the protruding direction and are deformed by external pressure to caulk and fix a lens between the caulking portions and the lens-receiving surface. The lens-receiving surface is formed so as to be axisymmetrical to the central axis.

Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing light control particles usable for a light control material comprising: a resin matrix made from a polymeric medium that is cured by irradiating with an energy beam; and a light control suspension comprising: a dispersing medium; and the light control particles that are dispersed in the dispersing medium so as to be in a flowing state, the method comprising the step of granulating after mixing elemental molecular iodine (A), an alkaline earth metal iodide (B), and a heterocyclic compound (C) with each other in a medium, wherein in the step of granulating, reaction is carried out in the presence of methanol in an amount of not less than 50 parts by mass but not more than 110 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the whole of components (A), (B) and (C).

Abstract: A terminal device is mounted on and used in a movable body such as a vehicle. The terminal device includes an image capturing unit, an image generating unit and a display unit. The image generating unit corrects the captured image captured by the image capturing unit based on the deviation of the image capturing direction of the image capturing unit with respect to the traveling direction of the movable body, and generates a display image. Thus, based on the deviation angle of the image capturing direction with respect to the traveling direction of the movable body, the captured image can be appropriately corrected to generate the display image.

Abstract: The terminal holding device includes an attaching unit to be attached to a vehicle, a holding unit which removably holds a terminal device in such a manner that a display unit of the terminal device is exposed and which includes a contact surface to be contact with the terminal device, an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration in a direction from a side of the contact surface to a side opposite to the contact surface, and a supplying unit which supplies a detection signal of the acceleration sensor to the terminal device.

Abstract: A weight measuring apparatus, in which a load platform is supported by a plurality of load sensor sections and the weight of a measurement target object placed on the load platform is measured based on a load value detected by each of the plurality of load sensor sections, is supported by a support section. Thereafter, the weight applying section applies a predetermined load to each of the plurality of load sensor sections included in the supported weight measuring apparatus.

Abstract: A non-limiting example system includes at least one sender, and a beacon signal sent from the sender is received by a portable terminal. In accordance with a sender ID included in the beacon signal, the portable terminal displays on an LCD a map image and a current position of the portable terminal or a user having the portable terminal, and displays on the LCD a guide image as for events or exhibition items in a predetermined place. Furthermore, the portable terminal stores state information included in the beacon signal for each sender (sender ID), and transmits or moves the state information to a central terminal at a predetermined timing.

Abstract: An example game apparatus generates and outputs a predetermined test image to a television. A terminal device has its image pickup section acquire a pickup image of a screen of the television, and transmits the pickup image acquired by the image pickup section to the game apparatus. The game apparatus determines whether or not the pickup image includes the test image. When the pickup image is determined to include the test image, an image delay time is calculated on the basis of the time of the determination, the time of the output of the test image by the game apparatus, and a processing time between the acquisition of the pickup image and the determination. The game apparatus uses the image delay time to achieve synchronization between the terminal device and the television and also between image display and sound output of the television.

Abstract: A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 is lower alkyl, cycloalkyl or aromatic hydrocarbon ring, each of which is optionally substituted with one or more substituents; R2 is hydrogen atom, halogen atom, lower alkyl, halo(lower)alkyl or lower alkoxy; and R3 is (1) a group represented by the formula: wherein R4 is lower alkyl, etc.; (2) a group represented by the formula: wherein R5 is lower alkyl, etc.; (3) a group represented by the formula: wherein R6 is lower alkyl, etc.; or (4) a group selected from halogen atom, carboxy, hydroxy and lower alkoxy, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A plurality of positional information transmitters 100, each of which transmits positional information to which a plurality of unit spaces are each uniquely assigned, are disposed on a ceiling. A mobile terminal 10 receives the positional information transmitted from each of the positional information transmitters 100 and changes a terminal-side image in accordance with the received positional information. Furthermore, the mobile terminal 10 transmits to a server 300 current positional information and operation information indicating an instruction inputted by a user. The server 300 changes, in accordance with the current positional information and the operation information received by the mobile terminal 10, a floor image displayed on a plurality of floor displays 200 disposed on a floor. Thus, it becomes possible to provide a highly interesting and novel position detecting system.

Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.

Abstract: A plurality of positional information transmitters 100, each of which transmits positional information to which a plurality of unit spaces are each uniquely assigned, are disposed on a ceiling. A mobile terminal 10 receives the positional information transmitted from each of the positional information transmitters 100 and changes a terminal-side image in accordance with the received positional information. Furthermore, the mobile terminal 10 transmits to a server 300 current positional information and operation information indicating an instruction inputted by a user. The server 300 changes, in accordance with the current positional information and the operation information received by the mobile terminal 10, a floor image displayed on a plurality of floor displays 200 disposed on a floor. Thus, it becomes possible to provide a highly interesting and novel position detecting system.

Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a light control film, comprising: two transparent electroconductive resin substrates; and a light control layer sandwiched by the two transparent electroconductive resin substrates, wherein the light control layer contains a resin matrix and a light control suspension dispersed in the resin matrix, and the thickness of the transparent electroconductive resin substrates is from 130 to 500 ?m.

Abstract: In a magnetic chip package including a metal thin film, which is constituted of a metal material containing a magnetic body and is disposed on a surface of a plastic substrate opposite to the side a sensor chip is fixed, a demagnetizing field is generated in the metal thin film in a direction orthogonal to the direction of a magnetic field detected by a magnetic sensor. Specifically, the metal thin film is formed of plural metal thin sub-films, each metal thin sub-film having a rectangular shape with a length orthogonal to the direction of the magnetic field detected by the magnetic sensor larger than a width parallel to the direction of the magnetic field, and each metal thin sub-films are aligned at predetermined intervals in a direction parallel to the direction of the detected magnetic field.

Abstract: A processor determines whether a prescribed period of time has elapsed or not. When the processor has determined that the prescribed period of time has elapsed, the processor determines whether a mode 0 is set or not. When it is determined that the mode 0 is set, a wireless packet including remote controller button data, remote controller acceleration data and remote controller DPD data is generated. Then, the generated wireless packet is transmitted to a game device. When the processor has determined that a mode 1 is set, a wireless packet including remote controller information including the remote controller button data and the remote controller acceleration data and biological information including previous pulse wave data, present pulse wave data and light reception level data, instead of the remote controller DPD data, is generated.

Abstract: A game controller including multiple sensors for detecting a pressure load of a user for use as an input device of a game apparatus. The game controller includes a load platform adapted to receive the pressure load of the user; a plurality of load sensors arranged in the load platform for detecting the pressure load of the user, each load sensor generating an independent detected load signal; and a connector to operationally connect the plurality of load sensors to the game apparatus for transmitting a transmission signal to the game apparatus to facilitate gameplay. The transmission signal includes the independent detected load signal of at least one load sensor such that the transmission signal includes at least one independent detected load signal corresponding to at least one load sensor of the plurality of load sensors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a light control film, comprising: two transparent electroconductive resin substrates; and a light control layer sandwiched by the two transparent electroconductive resin substrates, wherein the light control layer contains a resin matrix and a light control suspension dispersed in the resin matrix, and the thickness of the transparent electroconductive resin substrates is from 10 to 80 ?m.

Abstract: A game apparatus is capable of controlling infrared radiation emitters for radiating infrared light. The game apparatus executes game processing using imaging information on the infrared light obtained from an input device. The input device takes an image of the infrared light radiated by the infrared radiation emitters, and also receives an input from a user. The game apparatus comprises pattern storage means; selection means; and radiation control means. The pattern storage means stores at least one signal pattern of an infrared signal usable by a control target device. The selection means selects at least one of the at least one signal pattern stored by the pattern storage means, using the input received by the input device. The radiation control means causes the infrared radiation emitters to output an infrared signal of the signal pattern selected by the selection means.