Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an information processing unit that determines whether or not a button indicated by an operation is a button which is not expected to be directly indicated, based on button related information which is formed by correlating information related to each button displayed on a screen with each button and is recorded on a necessary recording medium, and operation input information from an operation unit where an operation for directly indicating a display region of each button can be performed, in relation to the button displayed in a predetermined display region on the screen based on the button related information recorded on the recording medium, and does not execute a command correlated with the button related information of the indicated button if the indicated button is the button which is not expected to be directly indicated as a result of the determination.

Abstract: An information processor includes: a content acquisition section adapted to acquire linked content that includes a plurality of scenarios, each made up of content data and control information used to control the reproduction of the content data; a control information acquisition section adapted to acquire the control information; and a reproduction control section adapted to control the reproduction of the linked content by reproducing the content data according to the control information, wherein the control information acquisition section acquires, as an event adapted to allow a move from the current scenario to another scenario, the control information including an absolute time-of-day event that occurs at a specific date and time on the scenario time axis, and the reproduction control section allows a move from the current scenario to another scenario if the absolute time-of-day event occurs.

Abstract: A data processing device includes a state value calculation unit which calculates a state value of which the value increases as much as a state with a high transition probability for each state of the state transition model, an action value calculation unit which calculates an action value, of which the value increases as a transition probability increases for each state of the state transition model and each action that the agent can perform, a target state setting unit which sets a state with great unevenness in the action value among states of the state transition model to a target state that is the target to reach by action performed by the agent, and an action selection unit which selects an action of the agent so as to move toward the target state.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a range of activity information acquisition unit which acquires information of the range of activity that is an area that a user who contributes contribution information on a facility visits, and a reliability level evaluation unit which evaluates the level of reliability for the contribution information based on the information of the range of activity.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a content supplying apparatus for supplying a video content to a content reproduction apparatus, including: a production section adapted to produce a video switch command for causing the content reproduction apparatus to execute a process regarding changeover of a video content to be reproduced; a broadcasting section adapted to broadcast a video content, in which the produced video switch command is embedded, through a broadcasting network; and a delivery section adapted to deliver the video content through the Internet.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for automatically estimating the tilting angle in tilted images enables level correction of the images. A preferred orientation of objects in an image and the deviation of the current orientation from the preferred orientation is determined by tilt image analysis without object recognition. Tilt image analysis includes several steps such as gradient feature computation, line segment tracking, line segment estimation and orientation deviation estimation. Once the tilt angle is determined, the image can be corrected so that an object or scene is not tilted or is tilted by only the appropriate amount.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to notify an observer who is wearing shutter glasses of information related to the remaining battery capacity or the like of the shutter glasses, through display of a stereoscopic image. To that end, shutter glasses (20) transmit internal information such as the remaining capacity of a battery (22) to a display apparatus (10). On the display apparatus (10) side, notification or warning of the remaining capacity is displayed on the screen by a display section (11). Of course, this notification or warning can be also presented as a time-division stereoscopic image. In such a case, the observer can check a state such as exhaustion of the battery (22) while keeping wearing the shutter glasses (20), that is, while viewing a stereoscopic image.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a main body unit that includes an imaging lens; a display unit that displays an image picked up through the imaging lens; a hinge frame that includes a first side fixed to the main body unit so as to be rotatable around a first rotation axis, a second side facing the first side, and a combination unit, which has a notch between both end portions of the second side other than a center portion and both ends of the first side, disposed between the first side and the second side; and a rotary hinge unit that connects the second side of the hinge frame and one side of the display unit and rotates the display unit around a second rotation axis extending along the second side and a third rotation axis extending in a direction perpendicular to the second rotation axis.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for annotating text displayed by an electronic reader application. In one embodiment a method includes detecting user selection of a graphical representation of text displayed by a device, displaying a window based on the user selection, the window including a selectable element for the user to annotate displayed text associated with the user selection. The method may further include detecting a user selection of a selectable element to record audio data based on the window, initiating audio recording based on the user selection to record audio data, and storing recorded audio data by the device as an annotation to the user selected text.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wave plate including: a first quartz plate configured to have a crystal optical axis inclined to a major surface; and a second quartz plate configured to have a crystal optical axis inclined to a major surface, the major surface of the second quartz plate being superimposed on the major surface of the first quartz plate, wherein an angle formed by the optical axis of the first quartz plate and the optical axis of the second quartz plate is 45 degrees in a front view seen from direction perpendicular to the major surface, and the optical axis of the first quartz plate is parallel to the optical axis of the second quartz plate in a top view seen from direction parallel to the major surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception block configured to receive broadcast content broadcast via a broadcasting network; an acquisition block configured to acquire inserted content that is inserted in the broadcast content during the reception thereof; an output block configured to output at least one of the broadcast content and the inserted content; a switch block configured to switch between the broadcast content and the inserted content outputted from the output block; and a buffer configured to sequentially store data of the received broadcast content when the broadcast content is switched to the inserted content; wherein, if the inserted content is switched to the broadcast content, the output block outputs the broadcast content from the buffer while the inserted content is outputted.

Abstract: In a zoom lens, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having the positive refractive power are disposed from an object side to an image side; and in a phase of variable magnification from a wide-angle end to a telescopic end, the first lens group is moved and the second lens group is moved to the object side such that an air interval between the first lens group and the second lens group is decreased and an air interval between the second lens group and the third lens group is increased.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes a light source, a plurality of light modulating elements that respectively modulate different color components of light emitted from the light source, a plurality of light diffusing elements that are disposed on sides near the light source with reference to the respective light modulating elements, a light integrating element that integrates the different color components modulated by the light modulating elements, and a projection optical element that projects light resulting from the different color components integrated by the light integrating element.

Abstract: System and method for embedding and concealing data within a video signal such that the embedded data is displayed within an unused portion of a video display area such that the embedded data is not visually offensive. In one embodiment the encoding of metadata may be executed by translating or adjusting pixel values of the video signal within the secondary image area, such that the pixel values are repurposed to contain the metadata and wherein the metadata is visually imperceptible.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An image input unit receives a long-time exposure image and a short-time exposure image. An image analysis unit detects a brightness-change pixel in which a brightness change has occurred during a photographic period on the basis of analysis of pixel values in the long-time exposure image and the short-time exposure image. A pixel value correction unit corrects a pixel value of the detected brightness-change pixel. In the pixel value correction unit, a combined image generator selectively combines pixel values in the long-time exposure image and pixel values in the short-time exposure image to generate a combined image; an intermediate image generator generates a blurred image of the combined image; and an output image generator determines a pixel value of the detected brightness-change pixel using a pixel value of a corresponding pixel in each of the combined image and the blurred image.

Abstract: A restored image is reconstructed from a thinned image to which no motion vector is incident.

Abstract: A terminal device improved with a digraph generation method in a key distribution method of various types of broadcast encryption systems is provided. The terminal device includes an acquiring unit for acquiring information related to a set, which is selected from a plurality of sets representing a combination of a plurality of terminal devices, and which represents some or all of the plurality of terminal devices; an extracting unit for extracting the set contained in the information and to which it belongs; and a digraph generation unit for generating a directional branch for generating a key corresponding to the extracted set in a predetermined digraph formed by a plurality of directional branches.

Abstract: A hologram recording and reproduction method is configured such that the number of values which can be implemented per one pixel is increased from two according to a conventional method to three or more to achieve increase of the data recording capacity. While two values are conventionally represented by two different values of “0” and “1” of the amplitude, for example, phases “0” and “?” are combined with the amplitudes “0” and “1” thereby to make it possible to represent three values of “0,” “1” and “?1” (amplitude “1”×phase “?”). In particular, a two-value data train of “0” and “1” is converted into another data train of three values of “0,” “1” and “?1” in accordance with a rule for encoding determined in advance, and the amplitude “0” is allocated to pixels of the value “0”; the amplitude “1” (phase “0”) is allocated to pixels of the value “1”; and the amplitude “1” and the phase “?” are allocated to pixels of the value “?1,” to carry out recording.

Abstract: A radiation level reducing device, including: a metal plate for covering surface of an electromagnetic wave generation source for radiating an electromagnetic wave; a cover region, set within a plane of the metal plate, for covering the surface; and a plurality of slits formed to a band-shape in the cover region, and spaced apart from each other, wherein each of the plurality of slits includes, a drawing slit extending towards a central part of the cover region from an intense electric field position where an electric field generated in between the electromagnetic wave generation source by the electromagnetic wave is stronger than other positions at an outer periphery of the cover region, and a coupling slit extending so as to line in parallel to another slit from an end in the central part direction of the cover region in the drawing slit.