Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit having an image sensor to detect a plurality of pieces of pixel information, the imaging unit being configured to generate an image made up of the plurality of pieces of pixel information detected by the image sensor; an image processor to detect whether a user is present or not in a predetermined detection range, based on an image made up of a plurality of pieces of pixel information detected by the image sensor; and an operation control unit to, when the image processor detects the user in the predetermined range, cancel a standby state where a part of the system functions stops. In the standby state, the imaging unit increases at least one of resolution and a frame rate in a stepwise manner to detect the plurality of pieces of pixel information.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a change from a state where a person is present to a state where the person is absent based on output of a distance sensor which detects an object present within a predetermined detection range, and a captured image covering a predetermined imaging range.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a processing unit which executes system processing; a detection unit which detects an object present within a predetermined detection range; an operation control unit which activates the operation of the processing unit when the object is detected within the predetermined range by the detection unit; and a detection range control unit which sets the predetermined detection range according to the operating state of the system processing.

Abstract: A sensor module includes a sensor module main body having a rectangular board provided with a radio radar sensor function, and a metallic case having a rectangular parallelepiped box shape in which an opening part opened at one face in a thickness direction is formed and a cut-out opening for drawing out a cable connecting the sensor module main body is formed on a side face, the opening part being closed by the board inserted through the opening part with a component disposed on a front face of the board facing toward a bottom part on the inner side, and the cable is inserted into at least a part of the cut-out opening, and the cut-out opening is formed to be symmetrical with respect to a plane passing through the center of the metallic case and perpendicular to a plane of the cut-out opening.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a detection sensor which detects a wave motion coming from an object present within a predetermined range and outputs a detection signal; an object detection unit which detects an object present within the predetermined range based on the detection signal output from the detection sensor; a gesture detection unit which detects a gesture according to the movement of the object based on the detection signal output from the detection sensor; and a detection resolution control unit which sets the detection resolution of the detection sensor to a first resolution when detecting the object present within the predetermined range, and sets the detection resolution of the detection sensor to a second resolution higher in resolution than the first resolution when detecting the gesture.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a detector that detects an object present within a predetermined detection range; and an embedded controller that based on a detection result by the detector determines that the object has left the electronic apparatus when the object is no longer detected within a first detection range of the predetermined detection range after the object has previously been detected within the first detection range, and determines that the object has approached the electronic apparatus after the object is detected within a second detection range in the predetermined detection range wider than the first detection range when no objects were previously detected within the predetermined detection range. While the object determined to have left is detected within the second detection range, the embedded controller determines that the object has re-approached based on a detection position of the object moving toward the first detection range.

Abstract: An apparatus for managed updating of meeting handout data is disclosed. A method and system also perform the functions of the apparatus. An apparatus is disclosed that, in one embodiment, includes an acquisition unit that acquires from a server, meeting information and meeting handout data for a meeting, and stores the acquired meeting information and meeting handout data to a storage area in a memory unit of a meeting device. The apparatus also includes an authentication unit that authenticates a participating terminal to participate in the meeting; and a management unit that, after authenticating the participating terminal, changes a locator for the meeting handout data that the participating terminal acquires from a storage place of the server to the storage area in the memory unit of the meeting device.

Abstract: An apparatus for heat suppression in an initial setting mode includes, in one embodiment, an execution unit of an information processing device that executes an operation related to an initial setting mode of the information processing device, a power supply that supplies power to one or more heat generating components of the execution unit, and a controller that controls at least the power supplied by the power supply to make an amount of heat generation of the execution unit in the initial setting mode lower than the amount of heat generation of the execution unit in an operating mode after termination of the initial setting mode until fulfillment of a predetermined condition. A method and a computer program product also perform functions of the apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus to switch a central processing unit between operational modes includes, in one embodiment, a central processing unit (“CPU”) having at least a first operation mode and a second operation mode, where the second operation mode is a higher performance operation mode than the first operation mode. The apparatus also includes a switching unit that switches a state of the CPU to the second operation mode in response to starting one of an operating system or an application program based on a user operation in a state in which the first operation mode is set, and switches the state of the CPU to the first operation mode in response to a determination that a condition is met.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display panel, and a ToF sensor emitting light through the display panel, in which the display panel includes a glass, and an AF layer (a water-repellent layer) having water-repellency, formed in an area other than a certain area including a passing area of light emitted from the ToF sensor on a surface of the glass opposite to a surface facing the ToF sensor.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit having an image sensor to detect a plurality of pieces of pixel information, the imaging unit being configured to generate an image made up of the plurality of pieces of pixel information detected by the image sensor; an image processor to detect whether a user is present or not in a predetermined detection range, based on an image made up of a plurality of pieces of pixel information detected by the image sensor; and an operation control unit to, when the image processor detects the user in the predetermined range, cancel a standby state where a part of the system functions stops. In the standby state, the imaging unit increases at least one of resolution and a frame rate in a stepwise manner to detect the plurality of pieces of pixel information.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods that control an operating state of an electronic apparatus to a lock state are disclosed. One system includes a signal strength detection unit that detects a signal strength from an external device with which communication is connected wirelessly to an electronic apparatus and an operation control unit that controls an operating state of the electronic apparatus to a lock state based on a comparison between an initial signal strength and a currently detected signal strength. Apparatus and methods include a processor of an information handling device and a memory configured to store code executable by the processor to detect a signal strength from an external device with which communication is connected wirelessly to the information handling device and control an operating state of the information handling device to a lock state based on a comparison between an initial signal strength and a currently detected signal strength.

Abstract: A voice assistant system includes a server apparatus performing voice assistant and a plurality of devices, in which the server apparatus and the devices are communicatively connected to each other. The plurality of devices each records the same user's speech through a microphone, and then transmits recorded data of the same user's speech to the server apparatus. The server apparatus receives the recorded data transmitted from each of the plurality of devices, and then voice-recognizes two or more of the received recorded data in accordance with a predetermined standard to thereby interpret the contents of the user's speech to perform the voice assistant.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a base, an object detecting section, and a chassis that houses the base and the object detecting section. The object detecting section includes a substrate and a detecting element that is provided on a first principal surface of the substrate and is configured to detect a wave coming from an object and output a detection signal. The object detecting section is mounted on the base with the first principal surface facing the base. The base has a long passage hole that allows the wave to pass therethrough toward the detecting element. A longer direction of the passage hole is along a first direction that is a substantially horizontal direction when the chassis adopts a reference posture.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a change from a state where a person is present to a state where the person is absent based on output of a distance sensor which detects an object present within a predetermined detection range, and a captured image covering a predetermined imaging range.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a system processing unit which executes system processing based on a system; a person detection unit which takes a first time to detect a change from a first detection state in which a person is present within a predetermined detection range to a second detection state in which no person is present, and outputs first detection information at timing in the middle of the first time; and an operating state control unit which performs pre-notification processing corresponding to the first detection information based on the first detection information output from the person detection unit, and causes an operating state of the system to make a transition to a first operating state, in which at least part of the system processing is limited, after a second time has elapsed since the start of the pre-notification processing.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a system processing unit configured to execute system processing based on a system; a playback processing unit configured to execute video playback processing; a person detection unit configured to detect a change from a first detection state in which a person is present to a second detection state in which no person is present; an operation control unit configured to cause an operating state of the system to make a transition to a first operating state in which at least part of the system processing is limited, and to activate the operating state of the system when a predetermined condition is satisfied; and a playback control unit configured to start playback of a video with reference to a playback position at the first timing of the first period.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a system processing unit configured to execute system processing based on a system; a person detection unit configured to detect a change from a first detection state in which a person is present within a predetermined detection range to a second detection state in which no person is present; an operation control unit configured to instruct the system processing unit to cause the operating state of the system to make a transition to a first operating state when the change from the first detection state to the second detection state is detected by the person detection unit; and a prohibition control unit configured to instruct the operation control unit to prohibit the transition to the first operating state when the change from the first detection state to the second detection state is detected by the person detection unit.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a system processing unit configured to execute system processing based on a system; a person detection unit configured to detect a change from a first detection state in which a person is present within a predetermined detection range to a second detection state in which no person is present; an operation control unit configured to instruct the system processing unit to cause the operating state of the system to make a transition to a first operating state when the change from the first detection state to the second detection state is detected by the person detection unit; and a prohibition control unit configured to instruct the operation control unit to prohibit the transition to the first operating state when the change from the first detection state to the second detection state is detected by the person detection unit.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a processing unit; a detection sensor which detects the motion from an object within a detection range defined by predetermined detection angle of view and detection distance, and outputs a detection signal; a first detection control unit which outputs first information based on a detection signal corresponding to a first detection angle of view; and a second detection control unit which sets a second detection angle of view different from the first detection angle of view, acquires second information based on a detection signal corresponding to the second detection angle of view, and outputs the second information to the processing unit, wherein the processing unit sets respective detection distances of the first information and the second information to a first detection distance and a second detection distance to make conditions related to the detection distance different between the first information and the second information.