Abstract: A light source system according to an aspect of the invention comprises a light source unit, an optical path switching device configured to selectively switch a direction of light from the light source unit between a plurality of directions, and a heat dissipating unit positioned in one of the plurality of directions and isolated from the optical path switching device via a light transmitting member.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a counter; a display section; a first processor; a second processor; and a power supply section which supplies electric power to each section from a battery, wherein when an output voltage from the power supply section decreases to less than a predetermined first reference voltage, the first processor stops a display operation by the display section, when the time information is acquired by the processing operation of the second processor, the first processor corrects the time counted by the counter based on the acquired time information and causes the display section to display the corrected time, and when the output voltage decreases to less than the first reference voltage following an acquisition operation of the time information by the second processor, the first processor does not stop a time display operation during a predetermined pending period.

Abstract: A timepiece wrist terminal includes: a setting processing unit; a location information acquisition unit; a related information acquisition unit; a time difference calculation processing unit; and an output control unit. The setting processing unit acquires a first location. The location information acquisition unit acquires a second location that is different from the first location. The related information acquisition unit acquires information related to the first location. The related information acquisition unit also acquires information related to the second location. The time difference calculation processing unit generates differential information in accordance with the information related to the first location and the information related to the second location.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material of titanium or titanium alloy, and at a surface of the base material, a hardened layer formed by diffusion of oxygen into the surface. The method includes: a heating step of heating the titanium or titanium alloy base material of the member to a predetermined temperature under an inert gas atmosphere; a hardening step of introducing (i) a mixed gas including an inert gas, and (ii) oxygen gas as a hardening treatment gas, to perform hardening treatment of the surface of the base material; and a cooling step of cooling the base material down to room temperature under the inert gas atmosphere.

Abstract: A method includes creating information indicating a first content in response to an operation on a first client terminal, assigning a unique first address on a network to the first content, permitting access to the first address from a second client terminal, which is anonymous, and on which an authentication process with an ID is not performed, editing the first content assigned with the first address, in response to an operation on the second client terminal, storing, in a storage, information on a second content corresponding to the second client terminal as and obtained based on the edited first content, and creating a unique second address on the network to the second content.

Abstract: A display control apparatus, including a processor and a storage storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, controls the processor to determine whether input of one or more first operations which are correlated to any position within a screen of a display is accepted, in a case where it is determined that the input of one or more first operations is accepted, specify one first position corresponding to the any position within the screen of the display, newly create one first-kind display area according to the one or more first operations, and display the newly created one first-kind display area on the specified one first position within the screen of the display, determine whether input of one or more second operations which are correlated to the displayed one first-kind display area is accepted, and in a case where it is determined that the input of the one or more second operations is accepted, specify one second position within the screen of the display, newly create one second-kind displa

Abstract: A method executed by a graph drawing system includes specifying minimum and maximum values of a drawing area in a first axis and a display pixel width along the first axis, determining a step width of a numerical value of the first axis based on a coordinate width along the first axis and the specified display pixel width, the coordinate width being obtained based on the specified minimum and maximum values, changing the minimum or maximum value based on the determined step width and the minimum or maximum value, and determining, based on at least the changed minimum or maximum value, the determined step width and a mathematical expression, coordinates of plot points of the graph, the coordinates including numerical values of variables.

Abstract: An information processing method includes causing an electronic apparatus to display an arithmetic setting frame in a screen of a display of the electronic apparatus. The method further includes causing the electronic apparatus to send, to outside of the electronic apparatus, mathematical expression data on a mathematical expression formed in the arithmetic setting frame by at least a part of coordinate icons being selected by a user operation. The method further includes executing an arithmetic operation based on the mathematical expression data sent from the electronic apparatus, and sending, to the electronic apparatus, arithmetic result data of the mathematical expression as a result of the arithmetic operation. The method further includes causing the electronic apparatus to display an arithmetic result of the mathematical expression based on the arithmetic result data in the screen.

Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium records a program that causes a computer to execute a process of causing a display to display, in response to one or more input operations accepted via an input device, one first mathematical expression display area including one first mathematical expression, one first graph display area associated with the one first mathematical expression display area, one first slider display area associated with the one first graph display area, one second mathematical expression display area including one second mathematical expression, one second graph display area which is associated with the one second mathematical expression display area and is an area different from the one first graph display area, and one second slider display area which is associated with the one second graph display area and is an area different from the one first slider display area.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory, a display, and a processor. The processor obtains an instruction on a figure-related process. If a type of a figure indicated by the instruction is a type unable to be drawn with function data stored in the memory, the processor: sends relevant data to at least one server; receives, from the server, drawing data generated by the server executing, based on the relevant data, an arithmetic operation required for the figure-related process; and performs the process on the display in accordance with the drawing data. If the type is a type able to be drawn with the function data, the processor executes an arithmetic operation required for the figure-related process using the function data without requesting the server to execute the arithmetic operation, and performs the process on the display in accordance with drawing data generated as a result of the arithmetic operation.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory, a display, and a processor. If a display style when a point is specified in an image is a first display style, the processor obtains coordinates of the point in the first display style based on first drawing data stored in the memory without requesting a server to calculate the coordinates, and displays the coordinates on the display. If the display style is a second display style, the processor sends, to the server, relevant data including the coordinates of the point and information indicating that the display style is the second display style; receives second-display-style coordinate data which is (a) second drawing data including the coordinates in the second display style generated by the server based on the relevant data or (b) data including an address of the second drawing data; and displays, on the display, the coordinates based on the second-display-style coordinate data.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes a keyboard, a processor and a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes together with associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played at the first and second timings, respectively, wherein if while a digitally synthesized first signing voice corresponding to the first note is being output, a user specifies, via keyboard, a third pitch that is different from the first and second notes prior to the arrival of the second timing, the at least one processor synthesizes a modified first singing voice having the third pitch in accordance with the data of the first lyric part, and causes the digitally synthesized modified first singing voice to be audibly output at the third timing.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes; a plurality of operation elements to be performed by a user for respectively specifying different pitches; a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least a first note with a first pitch and an associated first lyric part that are to be played at a first timing; and at least one processor, wherein if the user does not operate any of the plurality of operation elements in accordance with the first timing, the at least one processor digitally synthesizes a default first singing voice that includes the first lyric part and that has the first pitch in accordance with data of the first note stored in the memory, and causes the digitally synthesized default first singing voice to be audibly output at the first timing.

Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a drawing head and a control device. If a drawing target surface has a first region acclivitous and declivitous respectively in first and second directions different from one another, the drawing head draws first pixels to be drawn on the first region while performing first and second scans in which the drawing head moves respectively in the first and second directions. The control device controls a ratio of a drawing amount of a first scan drawing pixel to be drawn in a line of the first region during the first scan to a drawing amount required for pixels in the line among the first pixels to be higher than a ratio of a drawing amount of a second scan drawing pixel to be drawn in the line during the second scan to the drawing amount required for the pixels in the line.

Abstract: In an image generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, the reference image selecting unit selects an image as a reference image. The image extracting unit extracts at least one related image related to the reference image. The image generating unit generates a new composite image by using the reference image and the at least one related image according to a layout including a definition of at least one kind of information selected from a group including a background image, the number of images to be used, a size of each image to be used, and positional relation among images to be used. The basic control unit issues an instruction to make the reference image selecting unit select an image being displayed as the reference image and make the image generating unit generate the new composite image based on the reference image.

Abstract: A selection display apparatus includes a display controller which makes a window area in which an item key(s) for selecting an item is(are) displayed according to categories, a window selection key area in which window selection keys for selecting a category of items to be displayed in the window area are displayed, and a specific category selecting key for selecting a specific category among the categories be displayed in a display; a first key controller which, when one window selection key among window selection keys displayed in the window selection key area is operated, makes the item key corresponding to a category indicated be displayed by the window selection key in the window area; and a second key controller which, when the specific category selecting key is operated, makes the item key corresponding to the category indicated by the specific category selecting key be displayed in the window area.

Abstract: A control unit 21 of a main device 20 is configured to recognize a predetermined subject (face of person) included in a wide-angle image taken by an imaging device 10 and to correct distortion of an image (face image of the person) of a part of the subject, and to associate a part of the wide-angle image with the corrected image of the part of the subject, e.g., to display a part of the wide-angle image with the corrected image of the part of the subject on a reproduction screen.

Abstract: A communication device transmits a plurality of types of data to an external device, and the communication device includes: a wireless communication unit 15 configured to communicate with the external device; a near field communication unit 16 configured to communicate with the external device and consuming less power; and a CPU 11 configured to set priority to a plurality of types of data and let the near field communication unit 16 with reduced power consumption transmit the data having predetermined priority to the external device.

Abstract: A projector apparatus includes a projection unit that projects an image, a projection direction variable unit configured to mechanically change a direction of the image to be projected by the projection unit, an acquiring unit that acquires the image projected by the projection unit onto a target of projection, and a control unit that determines a direction of projection to be changed by the projection direction variable unit, based on information on a plurality of projection images acquired by the acquiring unit.

Abstract: A singing practice device includes a memory having stored thereon a musical piece data of a musical piece that includes an accompaniment and a vocal part to be sung by a user and at least one processor, wherein when a first segment of the vocal part to be sung by the user during a first time interval arrives while the accompaniment is being played back, the at least one processor determines whether an utterance is input by the user through an audio input device during the first time interval and causes the accompaniment to continue being played back until a point in time immediately before the next time interval only when the utterance was input by the user during the first time interval.