Abstract: An operating device includes a lock mechanism unit that regulates relative movement of an operating unit with respect to a supporting member, and a controller that releases locking of the lock mechanism unit when input of an operator is detected by an operation detector. When contact of a finger with a surface panel is detected by a first detection member, locking of the operating unit by the lock mechanism unit is released. In addition, when a pressing operation to the operating unit is detected by a second detection member, control is performed so that a response force providing mechanism operates.

Abstract: A plurality of infrared LEDs, e.g., four, and a plurality of photodiodes, e.g., two, are arranged side by side in interleaved fashion in the order of an LED1, a PD1, an LED2, an LED3, a PD2, and an LED4, and are arranged slightly ouside a side of the display surface. A threshold value Th is set so as to become small as max(Ei)/max(Aj) calculated from a detection signal of the PD1 when the LED1 emits light, a detection signal of the PD1 when the LED2 emits light, a detection signal of the PD2 when the LED3 emits light, a detection signal of the PD2 when the LED4 emits light, a detection signal of the PD2 when the LED1 emits light, and a detection signal of the PD1 when the LED4 emits light, and the approach of the hand of the user is detected when max(Aj) exceeds the threshold value.

Abstract: A facial feature detecting apparatus includes a feature sensor configured to acquire information on facial features of a subject; a feature detecting unit configured to detect the facial features of the subject from the information acquired by the feature sensor; a three-dimensional coordinates calculating unit configured to calculate three-dimensional coordinates of the facial features of the subject; and a feature position estimating unit configured to estimate first three-dimensional coordinates of a first facial feature from second three-dimensional coordinates of a second facial feature of the detected facial features, on a basis that the first facial feature and the second facial feature are located at bilaterally symmetrical positions.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a BS-ITO provided on a display surface side to prevent noise from being emitted from a display element to the outside; a touch ITO provided outside the BS-ITO to perform position detection; a hover signal generation unit that generates a detection signal to be input to the touch ITO and the BS-ITO for detection of an indicator approaching the display surface; a VCOM-ITO that applies a common voltage to derive the display element; a cancellation signal generation unit that generates a cancellation signal which cancels a signal component leaking from the BS-ITO to the VCOM-ITO; and a voltage addition unit that superimposes a cancellation signal on the common voltage.

Abstract: A proximity detection device detects the proximity of an object using a light emitting element and a light receiving element that receives reflected light of irradiation light from the light emitting element reflected by the object. A mirror is provided near the light emitting element to reflect part of the irradiation light emitted from the light emitting element toward an area at which the irradiation light from the light emitting element does not sufficiently arrive, and a mirror is provided near the light receiving element to enable reception of the reflected light from the light emitting element in a wide range.

Abstract: Two subsystems, each including a microphone, a speaker, a canceling sound-generating adder, an error-computing adder, and two adaptive filters and two auxiliary filters that accept two noises as input, are provided in correspondence with two cancellation positions. Each canceling sound-generating adder adds together the outputs from the adaptive filters and outputs the result to the speaker of each subsystem. Each error-computing adder adds together the output from the microphone of the subsystem and the output from the auxiliary filter of the subsystem, and the result is treated as the error of the adaptive filters of each subsystem. A transfer function is learned in advance and set in each auxiliary filter such that each error computed by each error-computing adder becomes zero (0) when a transfer function in which each noise is canceled at each cancellation position in a predetermined standard acoustic environment is set in each adaptive filter.

Abstract: A display device has a first elastic member and a second elastic member between an outer support member and an extension portion outside an image display area of a front panel. The second elastic member is disposed at the position closest to an operation portion provided on the front panel in three directions. An elastic member pressing area is provided on a lower support plate of the outer support member. The second elastic member has a high compression ratio in the front-back direction, so the second elastic member acts as a pressure resistive portion. When the front panel is pressed with a finger in the operation portion, the strain of the front panel can be suppressed to a minimum due to a pressure resistive force.

Abstract: In determining a definitive value, if a measured value detected at one timing changes by an amount less than a reference amount from a definitive value generated at a timing one cycle before the one timing, a definitive-value determination unit of a press detection apparatus determines the measured value detected at the one timing as a definitive value at the one timing, and if the measured value detected at the one timing has changed by an amount equal to or more than the reference amount from the definitive value at the preceding timing, the definitive-value determination unit determines a value obtained by adding the reference amount to the definitive value at the preceding timing as a definitive value at the one timing. This allows a value in which the influence of vibration is limited to be used in a determination of a pressing operation.

Abstract: In a first state before a first event is detected, a determination unit of a press detection apparatus prevents a definitive value from increasing steeply when the pressing force has increased steeply, and decreases the definitive value steeply when the pressing force has decreased steeply. In a second state after the first event is detected and before a second event is detected, the determination unit prevents the definitive value from increasing steeply when the pressing force has increased steeply, and prevents the definitive value from decreasing steeply when the pressing force has decreased steeply. This reduces the possibility that the definitive value increases steeply in the first state and increases and decreases steeply in the second state even under vibration.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an imaging device configured to generate image data; a receiving unit configured to receive movement of a display area in a vertical direction or in a horizontal direction within the image data, the display area being displayed on a display device, and also receive rotation of the image data; an image processing unit configured to rotate the image data in accordance with an amount of rotation, and, in a case where the movement of the display area in the vertical direction or in the horizontal direction is received with respect to the rotated image data, move the display area in the vertical direction or in the horizontal direction within the rotated image data; an image cutting unit configured to cut the display area from the image data; and an outputting unit configured to display the display area on the display device.

Abstract: An electronic device performs an emergency call operation using a secondary battery as a power source, and includes a temperature sensor which detects a temperature of the secondary battery, an intermittent emergency call processing unit which performs the emergency call operation intermittently when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is in a low-temperature state lower than a predetermined value, and a continuous emergency call processing unit which performs the emergency call operation continuously when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is higher than the predetermined value.

Abstract: Method and devices for processing audio signals based on sound profiles are provided. A sound profile can include data related to haptic movement of the audio data which is specific to a left ear or a right ear, demographic information, ethnicity information, age information, location information, social media information, intensity score of the audio data, previous usage information, or device information. A sound profile can be customized for individual user to include the inaudible frequency range at high frequency end and low frequency end. Audio data within the inaudible frequency range can be compensated by haptic movement corresponding to the inaudible frequency range. A sound profile can further include an audio frequency range and its lowest audible volume for a user. A sound profile can be provided to a user without any action from the user's part.

Abstract: An input detection device performs a transition to a special mode in a case where application of a pressing force to a pressing detectable area is detected before a contact on a contact detectable area is detected, monitors whether or not a predetermined condition set in the special mode is satisfied in a case where a contact is detected after the transition to the special mode, and validates the detected contact when the predetermined condition is satisfied. Therefore, the input detection device does not validate the contact unless an intentional operation in which the contact is continuously made until the predetermined condition is satisfied is performed in a case where the contact is detected in a state in which application of a pressing force is detected.

Abstract: A device base which is part of a device main body includes a support fixing portion having a support member fixed thereto and the base main body portion which is the other portion of the support fixing portion. A preferential rupture portion is formed between the support fixing portion and the base main body portion. The rupture fixed portion having the support fixing portion fixed to the support member has a hook member attached thereto, which is formed with a metal plate having elasticity. A hooking portion at the front end of the hook member faces an inner side portion of the base main body portion. If the preferential rupture portion ruptures due to an impact force, the hooking portion is hooked to the inner side portion, and the device main body is prevented from falling down from the rupture fixed portion.

Abstract: An acoustic characteristic measurement device includes a speaker configured to output an acoustic signal in which a watermark signal is embedded; a microphone configured to perform sound collection with respect to the acoustic signal output from the speaker in a predetermined listening position; and an acoustic characteristic measurement unit configured to determine an acoustic characteristic of an acoustic space from the speaker to the listening position, on the basis of the watermark signal embedded in the acoustic signal which is subjected to the sound collection by the microphone.

Abstract: An electronic unit includes an electrolytic capacitor, a covering resin layer, and electronic components. The electrolytic capacitor is on an upper surface of an insulating substrate. The covering resin layer covers the upper surface of the insulating substrate and the electronic components. Part of the covering resin layer serves as an electrolytic capacitor covering portion. The electrolytic capacitor covering portion includes an outer peripheral covering portion that covers an outer peripheral surface of the electrolytic capacitor and a top covering portion that covers a top portion of the electrolytic capacitor. A thin wall groove is formed in the top covering portion. The outer peripheral covering portion extends upward beyond the top covering portion by a height h. The top covering portion easily breaks at the thin wall groove so that an explosion-proof valve easily operates. A region corresponding to the height h creates an operating space of the explosion-proof valve.

Abstract: The wireless communication device includes an RF front end, a base band processing unit which transfer data of two lines, a communication priority storage unit which stores priority information indicating priorities of transmission and reception of each data type to be transmitted, a priority comparison unit which compares a priority of the data type of a transmission target with a priority of the data type of a reception target on the basis of the priority information in a case where data is transmitted through one line and data is received through the other line at the same time, and a transmission restriction unit which restricts a communication volume of data transmission in one line when the priority comparison unit obtains a comparison result that the priority of the data type of the reception target is high.

Abstract: An LCD controller that controls display of an input image on an LCD provides a horizontal cycle to interrupt an update operation of a display line of the LCD during vertical effective scanning periods between vertical blanking periods of an output image to the LCD by making a horizontal cycle of the output image to the LCD shorter than a horizontal cycle of the input image while maintaining a frame cycle of the output image to the LCD equal to a frame cycle of the input image. In addition, the LCD controller causes a touch panel controller to execute a scanning operation of a touch panel during the vertical blanking periods of the output image to the LCD and the horizontal cycle in which the update operation of the display line of the LCD is interrupted.

Abstract: An operating device makes it possible to efficiently apply a response force to an operating unit from a response force applying mechanism. In a supporting mechanical section provided between the operating unit and a supporting member, a connecting shaft section is provided at one of the operating unit and the supporting member and a connecting receiving section is provided at the other of the operating unit and the supporting member, the connecting shaft section is supported by the connecting receiving section so as to be movable in a first direction, and a restoring member that causes the operating unit to be restored forward is provided. The connecting receiving section includes a first elastic member that continues supporting the connecting shaft section from both sides thereof in a second direction intersecting the first direction while the connecting shaft section moves in the first direction that is a front-rear direction.