Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a user evaluation value table and a display controller portion. In the user evaluation value table, user evaluation values each corresponding to the number of processes of the respective content are stored on a basis of the respective content. When performing display changing of a respective content intended for display on a display portion, the controller portion detects from the user evaluation value table a user evaluation value of a content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion. Then, the controller portion performs change control to change a display time period for the content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion in accordance with the detected user evaluation value.

Abstract: There is provided a mobile communication terminal including an information storage unit having registered therein a plurality of registration names and position specification information data with which at least a position can be specified which are correlated respectively; an instruction input unit for acquiring instruction input from a user; an information extraction unit for extracting position specification information required for receiving a desired information service; an information communication unit for transmitting the position specification information extracted by the information extraction unit to an information service provider side; an information presentation unit for presenting information in a form which can be recognized by the user; and a received information presentation control unit for causing the information presentation unit to present the information returned from the information service provider side and received by the information reception unit.

Abstract: Predistortion effective for a power amplifier with the memory effect is provided. An A/D converter digitizes a signal voltage value after quadrature modulation, and the result is supplied to a subtractor. A lookup table outputs voltage value data in accordance with an output of the subtractor. The output of the lookup table is used as address data for accessing respective lookup tables. The lookup tables output an accumulation adding value derived from multiplying, by impulse responses, the signal voltage value after quadrature modulation and supplies it to the subtractor. The voltage value data outputted from the lookup table is converted by a D/A converter to output it as a predistortion signal for amplitude component for the power amplifier.

Abstract: A memory management method for managing a non-volatile memory into which writing is performed in units of blocks includes the steps of assigning a plurality of blocks of the non-volatile memory to a management area formed of at least one block for storing management information, to a code area formed of a plurality of blocks into which program code is written, to a substitution area formed of a plurality of blocks for substituting for a defective block, and to an interference area formed of at least one block; storing at least correspondence information between the blocks of the substitution area and a defective block of a substitution target as management information within the management area; and using the block of the substitution area in place of the defective block on the basis of the correspondence information when the defective block is to be used.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit conducting a videophone call, a memory storing a telephone directory which registers at least each individual telephone number and is capable of registering a portrait image associated with the each individual telephone number, a portrait image registration determination unit determining whether or not a portrait image of calling party is registered in the telephone directory by referring to the telephone directory based on the telephone number of the calling party when sending and receiving data according to the videophone call, a portrait image capturing unit capturing a portrait image received from the calling party as a calling party portrait image if the portrait image registration determination unit determines that the portrait image of the calling party is not registered in the telephone directory, and a portrait image automatic registration unit registering automatically the portrait image captured in the portrait image capturing unit as t

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for controlling transmission electric power capable of minimizing a decrease in the amount of maximum transmission electric power without degrading an adjacent channel leakage power ratio when code-multiplexing additional control information with data and main control information. A mobile device checks values of gain factors ?d and ?c when performing code multiplexing to transmit signals from channels DPDCH to transmit data, DPCCH to transmit main control information, and HS-DPCCH to transmit additional control information. A maximum transmission electric power is decreased at a plurality of levels based on the check result and a ratio (?hs) between the gain factors ?c and ?hs. It may be preferable to check the presence or absence of transmission data instead of the gain factor ?d. In this case, when no transmission data is available, the maximum transmission electric power is decreased at a plurality of levels based on ?hs.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a 3D(three dimensional)-matrix arranging portion and a luminance/transmittance display controller portion. When a plurality of contents are list-displayed, the 3D-matrix arranging portion arranges the plurality of contents in a 3D-matrix-like form (“3D-matrix,” hereinbelow) in accordance with predetermined three axes. The 3D matrix includes a plurality of planes each containing a group of contents of the plurality of contents. The luminance/transmittance display controller portion displays on a display portion the respective groups of contents of the plurality of contents arranged in the 3D matrix, in a manner that luminance is gradually reduced in a direction from contents on a front-most plane of the plurality of planes to contents on a rear-most plane, and transmittance is gradually increased in the direction from the contents on the front-most plane to the contents on the rear-most plane.

Abstract: The present invention provides a contactless communication circuit having both a contactless communication card function and a contactless communication reader/writer function, which includes a capacitor section that forms a parallel-resonant circuit with a contactless communication antenna; and a capacitance switching section that makes a capacitance of the capacitor section effective in a mode of the contactless communication card function, and reduces the capacitance of the capacitor section in a mode of the contactless communication reader/writer function.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing information, includes a memory storing a plurality of content items different in type and metadata containing time information of the content items, a cache processor for fetching from the memory the content item and the metadata of the content item to be displayed on a display and storing the fetched content item and the metadata thereof on a cache memory, a display controller for displaying on the display the metadata of the content items from the cache memory arranged in accordance with the time information and a selection operator selecting metadata corresponding to a content item desired to be processed, out of the metadata displayed, and a content processor for fetching from the cache memory a content item corresponding to the metadata selected by the selection operator by referencing the cache memory in response to the selected metadata, and for performing a process responsive to the fetched content item.

Abstract: A mobile communication terminal apparatus includes a non-contact communication section configured to perform non-contact communication with an external terminal apparatus. The non-contact communication section includes a main unit having a controller configured to control communication with the external terminal apparatus and a main antenna, and a sub-unit having a sub-antenna having a coil whose number of windings is smaller than the number of windings of a coil of the main antenna and an adjuster configured to adjust a resonance frequency.

Abstract: Disclosed is a distortion compensating and power amplifying apparatus including: a transistor to power amplifies an input signal; a branch circuit to branch the input signal into two signals; distortion compensation means for generating a second harmonic of a fundamental wave for one of branched signals and adding the generated second harmonic to the other branch signal from said branch circuit for input to an input terminal of said transistor; and a termination circuit connected to an output terminal of said transistor and grounding the second harmonic.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a face image extractor portion, a matching image detector portion, a linking processing portion, a communication address information acquiring portion, and a controller portion. The face image extractor portion extracts a face image of a person in a still image content. The matching image detector portion detects from a memory containing or storing face images and communication address information of respective users the matching face image matching with the extracted face image, which has been extracted by the face image extractor portion. When the matching face image matching with the extracted face image, which has been extracted by the face image extractor portion, is detected by the matching image detector, the linking processing portion performs a linking process to link the extracted face image and communication address information corresponding to the extracted face image and stored in the memory.

Abstract: A wireless communication terminal that performs wireless communication with a predetermined base station includes: a storage unit, an operation unit, a control unit and a display unit. The storage unit is configured to store information indicating correspondence between applications handling a numeric string including at least one numeral as an input value, and formats and units of the numeric string. The operation unit is configured to input the numeral. The control unit is configured to determine whether the numeral input with the operation unit corresponds to any of the formats of the numeric string stored in the storage unit, and to retrieve the corresponding application, based on the above-described information stored in the storage unit, in the case where it is determined that the input numeral corresponds to the format. The display unit is configured to display the application retrieved by the control unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a content detector portion and a controller portion. The content detector portion detects contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information. The controller portion collects the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected by the content detector portion and that graphically displays on a display portion along a time series, graphical information related to the contents of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a content detector portion, a display controller portion, an operation state detector portion, and a popup display controller portion. The content detector portion detects contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information. The display controller portion collects the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected by the content detector portion. In addition, the display controller portion then displays, on a display portion along a time series, content-related graphical information of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents, and displays on the display portion a selector serving to select a desired content from among respective contents displayed through the content-related graphical information.

Abstract: A communication terminal of the present invention includes a first communication unit used for communication including at least a voice call, an operation input unit for acquiring instruction input from a user, a second communication unit for performing communication with a predetermined object apparatus equipped with a function capable of receiving access via at least an external network, and a control unit that, when a voice call channel is established to another communication terminal, and an access permission instruction is inputted by the user, performs setting with respect to the object apparatus to permit the access from the another communication terminal via the external network, and transmits, to the another communication terminal, access information for performing the access to the object apparatus via the external network.

Abstract: A subscriber identity module (SIM) for subscriber identification configured so as to be detachably loaded on a mobile communication terminal device has a application section for storing an externally downloaded application program, a processing section (or a SAT function section) for executing this application program, a storage section for storing file administrative description, file description, and file data, and file administration section for administering these information and data. The processing section, after the downloading of the application program, executes the downloaded application program to control the file administration section. Consequently, access to the data stored in the subscriber identity module is prevented, thereby preventing the third party to access the data stored in the subscriber identity module of the lost or stolen mobile communication terminal.

Abstract: Receiving sensitivity deterioration in wireless communication due to a spurious radiation wave generated from a card reader/writer is suppressed in a case where a mobile phone terminal is provided with a contactless IC card reader/writer or a contactless IC card. The mobile phone terminal provided with the contactless IC card reader/writer performs measurement of a wireless status upon reception (step S1) and transmission power wetting (step S2), and when an instruction to start a reader/writer function is inputted from a user (step S3), wireless status deterioration due to spurious radiation from the reader/writer is predicted (step S4). Then, the mobile phone terminal judges whether control to reduce the transmission speed is necessary or not, on the basis of a value of the deterioration predicted wireless status (step S5), and when judged necessary, the transmission speed is reduced (step S6).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display section provided with a screen capable of displaying a content of an application; a user-input processing section for acquiring an instruction input from a user; and a screen-hierarchy control section for managing a screen hierarchical order of each application when contents of a plurality of started applications are displayed in the display section. When one of at least two applications of a plurality out of the applications is set to be a master application and the other of the applications is set to be a slave application, the screen-hierarchy control section disposes and links the slave application at an immediately lower level than that of the master application in the screen hierarchy, and performs screen-hierarchy control such that the master application and the slave application are moved in the screen hierarchy in a state being linked at the time of updating the screen hierarchy.

Abstract: A variable capacitance circuit capable of switching on and off a variable capacitance function, includes variable capacitance means formed such that variable capacitance elements whose capacitance values change according to a voltage value of a supplied capacitance control voltage are connected so as to be paired and a plurality pairs of variable capacitance elements are connected in parallel forming multiple stages; bias voltage generation means for generating bias voltages of different voltage values based on a constant voltage from a constant voltage source; and an on-off switch for the variable capacitance function, in which the variable capacitance function of the variable capacitance means is turned on by supplying the bias voltage to the variable capacitance element of each stage of the variable capacitance means and turned off by grounding the bias voltage of each voltage value.