Abstract: A LAN control unit receives print data from a client device or the like. An input job storage unit registered on a hard disk a series of PDL commands included in the print data received. An input job queue management unit registers print job specifying information specifying a print job represented by the print data received to the end of an input job queue. A PDL interpretation/execution unit successively executes from the head of the series of PDL commands stored on the hard disk device. When it is determined that the PDL command that has been executed is a re-execution unnecessary command, the PDL interpretation/execution unit overwrites the PDL command stored on the hard disk with a NOP command.

Abstract: The radio wave receiver includes the antenna. The device body and the closing member are coupled to each other by making the screw portion of the fixation screw being inserted through the through-hole of the metallic closing member engage with the screw portion of the device body. The coupling resin member having electrically insulating property is coupled to the irregularities of a nanometer size formed on a metal surface of the closing member, a through-hole is formed in the coupling resin member, and thereby electrical insulation between the metallic device body and the metallic closing member which are screwed together with the fixation screw is ensured so as to improve receiving sensitivity of the antenna.

Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit, a light guiding device, a display device, a projection side optical system, and a projector control unit. The light source unit includes a light source which emits laser light in the wavelength band of blue, a light emitting wheel disposed on an optical axis of the light source, and a wheel motor for driving to rotate the light emitting wheel. The light emitting wheel is formed of a circular substrate having a diffusion layer on a predetermined surface thereof, the diffusion layer being made up of minute irregularities which are formed directly on a surface of the circular substrate.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication section to wirelessly communicate with an external device; a first section to make the communication section establish a wireless connection with the external device; a detective section to detect whether the electronic device is in a used condition or an unused condition; a second section to shift to a power-saving mode when the unused condition is detected for a while; and a third section to cancel the power-saving mode when the used condition is detected during the power-saving mode, wherein the second section cuts off the connection if the connection is still alive when shifting to the power-saving mode; and the third section changes a connection processing for making the first section establish the connection after the power-saving mode was canceled, based on a connecting condition from a time of detecting the last used condition to a time of shifting to the power-saving mode.

Abstract: A watch band with a buckle which does not slip off from a band body thereof even when it gets a great shock, for example from collision with an object due to dropping thereof, and a wristwatch with such band. The band body has a pair of spaced attaching parts provided at an end thereof. An engaging member has a connection part connected through a connection pipe to between these attaching parts. A buckle has a pair of arms which hold these attaching parts therebetween. A pair of screws have a thread portion screwed into a screw hole in the end portion of an associated arm of the buckle and a shank part inserted in a nearer end portion of the connection pipe to attach the buckle to the band body so as not to slip off from the connection pipe even when the buckle gets a great shock.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic device including a display device configured to detect a contact position, a storage in which data is stored, a touch manipulation mode and operational processing being correlated with each other in the data, and a processor that causes the display device to display a mathematical formula, determines the touch manipulation mode detected by the display device, reads the operational processing corresponding to the determined touch manipulation mode from the storage, performs the operational processing on the mathematical formula displayed on the display device, and causes the display device to display a mathematical formula of result of the performed operational processing.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus whose primary transfer roller is structured in a way as to move from a transfer position along a locus of a rotational motion of a radius r about a rotational center of a photosensitive drum as a rotational axis so that the transfer position is set to a position shifted downstream in a belt moving direction from a position of contact between the photosensitive drum and an intermediate transfer belt by a shift amount f. Accordingly, even when there is an error the upward/downward movement of the primary transfer roller to shift the position of contact, the distance of the primary transfer roller from the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum is constant, so that the shift amount f which is the tangent of the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum and the circumferential surface of the primary transfer roller is always set constant.

Abstract: A performance apparatus 11 extends in its longitudinal direction to be held by a player with his or her hand. The performance apparatus is provided with a geomagnetic sensor 22 and an acceleration sensor 23 in its extending portion. CPU 21 gives an instruction to an electronic musical instrument 19 to generate a musical tone of a tone color at a timing when a position of the performance apparatus obtained by the geomagnetic sensor and acceleration sensor passes through a sound generation area defined in space, wherein the tone color of the musical tone corresponds to the sound generation area. The sound generation areas and corresponding tone colors are stored in an area/tone color table in RAM 26. Upon receipt of an instruction, the electronic musical instrument generates a musical tone having a tone color corresponding to the sound generation area.

Abstract: An image data imaged consecutively is divided into three groups in time series. As for a first group imaged most newly, all imaged image data are held in buffers. The image data of a second group is divided again into subgroups at every 2N images. In the second group, the number of pieces of image data to be recorded in a certain subgroup is twice the number of pieces of image data held in the buffer in the subgroup imaged in the past adjoining the certain subgroup. In a third group, the image data having been held in the buffer included in the subgroup imaged in the earliest in the second group will be all held in the buffer.

Abstract: A musical score extracting unit specifies areas of each of measures and the measure number of each measure on a musical score based on positions of musical-score composing elements such as part lines, staffs and bar lines. A music-data dividing unit divides music-data file based on time information in the music-data file to generate plural unit music-data files containing pitch information and time information for one measure. The music-data dividing unit specifies measures where repeat marks are placed based on sorts and positions of the repeat marks and positions of the part lines, staffs and bar lines on the musical score, thereby removing unit music-data file to repeat as instructed by the repeat marks from the plural music-data files to obtain a final unit music-data files associated with the respective measure numbers.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to pick up a subject image; and a central processing section to perform processing of arbitrarily setting at least one automatic photographing condition among a plurality of kinds of automatic photographing conditions, judging whether “the set automatic photographing condition” is satisfied or not, and instructing the image pickup section to pick up a recording subject image when “the set automatic photographing condition” is judged to be satisfied.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic timepiece, comprising: hands which indicate time to display the time; a stepping motor which performs a stepping drive of the hands; a drive control section which supplies the stepping motor with drive pulses; a hand movement examining section which examines whether the hands are moving or not; and awaiting control section which temporarily interrupts a supply of the drive pulses by the drive control section to be in a waiting state, when the hand movement examining section judges that the hands are stopped, wherein the supply of the drive pulses by the drive control section and an examination of whether the hands are moving or not by the hand movement examining section are respectively restarted, after the waiting control section has released the waiting state.

Abstract: A shock absorbing member for a wristwatch including a wristwatch case whose side portions are provided with a pair of bands and an operation member positioned avoiding the pair of bands, and back surface has a case back attached thereto. This shock absorbing member is made of a flexible resin, and includes a peripheral side portion that surrounds the wristwatch case and projects further outward than a top surface of the wristwatch case, and a bottom portion to which the case back is attached. In addition, the peripheral side portion is provided with band holes into which the pair of bands are inserted and an operation hole corresponding to the operation member.

Abstract: In an interpolation image generation apparatus, an input unit acquires photographed images obtained from viewpoints and imaging setting information thereof, the EPI generation unit generates an EPI from the images, an angle estimation unit estimates an angle of a straight line to which each EPI actual pixel corresponds on the EPI, an interpolation image setting unit places an interpolation image on the EPI, a correspondence detection unit detects correspondence between an actual pixel and a pixel of the interpolation image (interpolation pixel), and the correspondence detection unit evaluates likelihood of correspondence relationship between the actual pixel and the interpolation pixel, and a pixel value addition unit adds a pixel value of the interpolation pixel on the basis of the likelihood of the correspondence relationship, thereby generating an interpolation image.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel in which coordinate detection electrodes are formed on a first substrate and protruding contact portions are formed on a second substrate as a touch panel function includes a conversion circuit formed therein. The conversion circuit subjects information indicative of whether the protruding contact portions are in contact with the coordinate detection electrodes to parallel/serial conversion to output the converted information to the coordinate detection circuit.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided with a user-data storing unit 4 and a radio signal receiving unit 6-11. The user-data storing unit stores plural pieces of usage-environment information in combination respectively with plural pieces of place (location) information, wherein the usage-environment information represents an environment under which the electronic apparatus is used at a place (location) and the place information combined with the usage-environment information indicates the place (location) where the electronic apparatus is used. The radio signal receiving unit obtains present usage-environment information representing an environment, under which the apparatus is used at present.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first group of pixel electrodes having a first parasitic capacitance, a second group of pixel electrodes having a second parasitic capacitance, a common electrode, liquid crystal interposed between the common electrode and the first and second groups of pixel electrodes, respectively, and a driver circuit determining a first common voltage in accordance with the first parasitic capacitance and supplying the first common voltage to the common electrode during a writing period of the first group of pixel electrodes so as to substantially offset a voltage drop in the second group of pixel electrodes due to the first parasitic capacitance, the driver circuit determining a second common voltage in accordance with the second parasitic capacitance and supplying the second common voltage to the common electrode during a writing period of the second group of pixel electrodes so as to substantially offset a voltage drop in the second group of pixel electrodes due to the sec

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing unit capturing an image of an object; an image capture controller that causes the image capturing unit to capture first color component images having a first color component by multi-shot exposure, and causes the image capturing unit to capture second and third color component images, a displacement information acquiring unit that acquires displacement information; an image adding unit that aligns and adds the first color component images based on the displacement information to generate an added image; a calculator that calculates a first point spread function based on the displacement information; a first correcting unit that corrects the second and third color component images using the first point spread function; and a combining unit that combines the added image with the corrected second and third color component images.

Abstract: An object detection device includes: an obtaining unit successively obtaining frame images; a first determination unit determining whether a first similarity between a reference image and a first image region in one of the obtained frame images is less than a first threshold value; a second determination unit determining whether a second similarity between the reference image and a second image region, included in a frame image obtained before the one of the frame images and corresponding to the first image region, is less than a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value, when the first determination unit determines that the first similarity is not less than the first threshold value; and a detection unit detecting the first image region as a region of a particular object image when the second determination unit determines that the second similarity is not less than the second threshold value.

Abstract: In an electronic device, a speaker attaching section 17 which is vertically open with respect to a circuit board 10 and into which a speaker 16 is press-fitted is integrally formed on a contact sheet 13 arranged on the circuit board 10 provided inside an upper case 8. Therefore, the speaker 16 can be easily attached in a manner that sound therefrom does not leak, simply by the speaker 16 being press-fitted into the speaker attaching section 17 of the contact sheet 13. Accordingly, in the present invention, the structure of the speaker section 6 is simple and the number of its components is small, whereby the thickness of the speaker section 6 can be reduced. In addition, sound generated by the speaker can be favorably and reliably emitted from the speaker attaching section 17 to the outside of the upper case 8, without chattering noise being generated.