Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.

Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.

Abstract: A five-axis control machine tool stores rotation-axis data indicating the inclination or runouts of each of a rotation axis A of a tilting table and a rotation axis C of a rotating table in association with rotation angles determined based on NC data, and calculates a correction rotation angle of each of the rotation angles A and C to correct the erroneous attitude of a tool. Five-axis control is performed based on the NC data by rotating the tilting table and the rotating table about the rotation axes A and C at the correction rotation angles, so that a workpiece is machined while eliminating the erroneous attitude of the tool.

Abstract: A thin and lightweight polarized lens has a laminated structure having a polarized film provided in a sandwiched manner. A glass lens is provided on a front side of the polarized film and a resin lens is provided on a back side of the polarized film, and the resin lens on the back side has a thickness of a range from 0.05 mm to 0.50 mm.

Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.

Abstract: Light receiving elements of a back connection type including first and second electrodes on their back sides are connected by an inter-element connecting body including a tabular main body section and an inter-element connecting section to form a light receiving element module. The main body section is selectively directly connected to the first electrode and arranged on the second electrode via an insulating layer. The main body section covers substantially the entire back side of each of the light receiving elements excluding a part of the second electrode. The second electrode is connected to the inter-element connecting section of an adjacent light receiving element. The main body section forms a reflecting section between the main body section and the light receiving element to enable reflected light to be made incident on the light receiving element from a gap between the first and second electrodes.

Abstract: Music contents assigned to play lists are reproduced so as to correspond to user's preference. A music content database 7 has stored a plurality of music contents. A CPU 3 creates genre ranks such that music contents that have been more frequently, for example, reproduced are more highly ranked. In addition, the CPU 3 creates play lists corresponding, for example, to tempos and stores the created play lists in a play list database 8. The CPU 3 selects a play list corresponding to a moving tempo obtained from a tempo detection section 9 and selects music content categorized as a highly ranked genre in the genre ranks from those corresponding to the selected play list. The selected music content is supplied to a decoder and amplifier section 12 and then reproduced from a head phone 14.

Abstract: A heat processing apparatus includes a heating plate configured to heat the substrate; a cover configured to surround a space above the heating plate; an exhaust gas flow forming mechanism configured to exhaust gas inside the cover to form exhaust gas flows within the space above the heating plate; a downflow forming mechanism configured to form downflows uniformly supplied onto an upper surface of the substrate placed on the heating plate; and a control mechanism configured to execute mode switching control between a mode arranged to heat the substrate while forming the downflows by the downflow forming mechanism and a mode arranged to heat the substrate while forming the exhaust gas flows by the exhaust gas flow forming mechanism.

Abstract: A thin and lightweight polarized lens is disclosed. The polarized lens has a laminated structure having a polarized film provided in a sandwiched manner, a glass lens is provided on a front side and a resin lens is provided on a back side, and the resin lens on the back side has a thickness of a range from 0.05 mm to 0.50 mm.

Abstract: A heating device includes a substrate in a form of a face plate that is positioned above a base plate, on which a wafer is placed, and to which a film heater for heating wafer is provided, columns that are vertically provided between the base plate and the face plate and support the face plate, and tension members that pull the face plate toward the base plate. The columns and the tension members are positioned to support or pull at least a part of the face plate corresponding to a placement region of the wafer. Each of the tension members includes a shaft having an upper end locked by the face plate and a lower end penetrating the base plate and a coil spring that is positioned on the base plate and biases the lower end of the shaft downward.

Abstract: A heating device includes a base plate and a face plate that is provided above the base plate and on which a wafer is placed. The face plate includes an aluminum substrate, a film heater that is provided to the aluminum substrate and heats the wafer, and a gap ball that is disposed on the aluminum substrate and interposed between the aluminum substrate and the wafer. The aluminum substrate is provided with a second attachment hole into which the gap ball is press-fitted. The gap ball is held only by an inner wall of the second attachment hole by being press-fitted.

Abstract: In a health exercise assist system, a portable music playback apparatus acquires a preset exercise plan, a history of exercise information, and a music playback history and stores them. An information processing apparatus produces a service request including at least one of the preset exercise plan, the history of exercise information, and the music playback history acquired from the portable music playback apparatus, and transmits it to a service information providing apparatus. In accordance with the service request received from the information processing apparatus, the service information providing apparatus produces service information and returns the produced service information to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus provides the received service information to a user of the audio playback apparatus.

Abstract: A stable address operation is performed also when a plasma display panel having a high definition and large screen is driven. For this purpose, a driving method of a plasma display panel is provided. The panel is driven by forming one field using a plurality of subfields each of which has an address period and a sustain period in which sustain pulses varying from a base potential to a voltage at which a sustain discharge is caused in the discharge cell having undergone the address discharge are applied to the display electrode pairs. In the driving method, after generation of the final sustain pulse in the sustain period, an up-ramp waveform voltage which increases from the base potential to a predetermined voltage is applied to the scan electrodes. The predetermined voltage is set lower than the voltage of the sustain pulses.

Abstract: A content using apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain delimiter information for content data recorded on a recording medium; an accepting unit configured to accept input of an instruction by a user; and a generating unit configured to generate content data from content data subject to processing to allow playback of content in a new manner, on the basis of the delimiter information obtained by the obtaining unit and the instruction accepted by the accepting unit.

Abstract: In a plasma display apparatus displaying a stereoscopic image, crosstalk is reduced and an address discharge is caused stably. For this purpose, in the plasma display apparatus displaying a stereoscopic image, each field has a plurality of subfields, each having a sustain period where an up-ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrodes after all the sustain pulses are generated. The luminance weights of the respective subfields are set such that the subfield having the lightest luminance weight is generated first in each field, the subfield having the heaviest luminance weight is generated second, and the third subfield and those thereafter have luminance weights sequentially decreasing. The up-ramp waveform voltage in the sustain period of the first subfield in each field is generated so as to have a gradient gentler than that of the up-ramp waveform voltage in the sustain periods of the subfields generated second and thereafter.

Abstract: The present invention allows a plasma display apparatus having a high-luminance panel to decrease initializing bright points that easily occur just after power-on of the apparatus, enhancing the quality of display image. The panel has discharge cells, each of which including a data electrode, and a display electrode pair formed of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode. In the driving method of the panel, one field period is formed of subfields, each of which including an initializing period for generating initializing discharge in the discharge cells, an address period for applying scan pulses to the scan electrodes and applying address pulses to the data electrodes, and a sustain period for applying sustain pulses to the data electrode pairs. In the structure above, a predetermined period after power-off of the apparatus has no generation of the address pulses, the scan pulses, and the sustain pulses.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided which is capable of easily reconstructing (arranging) a piece of music depending on, for example, a feeling of a user listening to the piece of music. First acquisition means acquires data of a specific music content to be played back, from a music content data storage unit in which data of a plurality of music contents are stored. Second acquisition means acquires attribute information associated with the music content in units of music constituent elements from an attribute information storage unit. Third acquisition means acquires arrangement information associated with the music content and associated with the music construction information. In accordance with an arrangement request command issued by the user, the data of the music content being output as audio playback output data is reconstructed on the basis of the music construction information acquired by the second acquisition means and the arrangement information acquired by the third acquisition means.

Abstract: An encryption device, comprising: detection portion for detecting a TS header, a PES header, a sequence header, a GOP header, and a sequence end code for a transport stream not encrypted; and encryption portion for encrypting the transport stream except the TS header, the PES header, the sequence header, the GOP header, and the sequence end code. An editing device, comprising: detection portion for detecting a TS header, a PES header, a sequence header, a GOP header, and a sequence end code in a transport stream; and editing portion for editing the encrypted transport stream without decryption in units of TS packets ranging from a TS packet where the GOP header is detected to a TS packet previous to a TS packet where a subsequent GOP header is detected out of TS packets having an identical PID.

Abstract: A five-axis control machine tool stores rotation-axis data indicating the inclination or runouts of each of a rotation axis A of a tilting table and a rotation axis C of a rotating table in association with rotation angles determined based on NC data, and calculates a correction rotation angle of each of the rotation angles A and C to correct the erroneous attitude of a tool. Five-axis control is performed based on the NC data by rotating the tilting table and the rotating table about the rotation axes A and C at the correction rotation angles, so that a workpiece is machined while eliminating the erroneous attitude of the tool.

Abstract: A heat treating apparatus utilizes a straightening plate provided in its central part with a gas exhaust opening and disposed under a heating plate. A temperature-reducing purge ring is disposed between the face plate and the straightening plate, and is provided in its inner circumference with plural gas jetting holes. A thin gap is formed between the temperature-reducing purge ring and the face plate. When a cooling gas is jetted radially inward through the gas jetting holes, a vacuum is created between the lower surface of the face plate and the upper surface of the temperature-reducing purge ring. Air is sucked into the space between the face plate and the straightening plate and flows together with the cooling gas to rapidly cool the face plate.