Abstract: A portable terminal including a noncontact IC card function unit and capable of being used by inserting a subscriber information card is provided, in which a noncontact IC card use permission list on which numbers of subscribers permitted to use a noncontact IC card function are registered is prepared in advance; the subscriber number recorded on the subscriber information card is compared with the noncontact IC card use permission list to judge whether or not the relevant subscriber number is in the list, and if the relevant subscriber number is not included in the list, only the function of noncontact IC card function unit is stopped. Accordingly an arbitrary third party is prevented from using the noncontact IC card function in a portable terminal incorporating a noncontact IC card function and capable of being used by inserting a subscriber information card such as an SIM card.

Abstract: A mobile terminal having a communication function. The apparatus includes: a nonvolatile memory including a memory area storing a main-unit program including an update engine for updating software and an alternative unit area for a unit area in the memory area; a working memory; and control means for accessing both of the memories. The control means downloads differential data between a version of the main-unit program and a version of a new main-unit program, expands the update engine into the working memory area, executes the update engine, updates the main-unit program for each unit area by the differential data, completes the update processing if the update has been successful, and performs the unit-area update processing on the alternative unit area and replaces the defective unit area by the alternative unit area if a defect of a unit area has been detected at the time of the update.

Abstract: A Doppler frequency is detected with a high degree of accuracy, deterioration of a transmission diversity effect is prevented, and a good reception property is secured. A reception demodulating unit of a portable communication apparatus according to the present invention has a path search and path selection unit for searching and selecting an optimum path, finger processing units for obtaining a phase variation component as a channel estimated value for each path and coherent-detecting by using its channel estimated value and a phase difference measuring unit for measuring a phase difference, a path timing difference measuring unit for measuring a periodical path timing difference, a frequency error detecting unit for detecting a frequency error of a signal by using a path timing difference and a phase difference, and a Doppler frequency detecting unit for detecting a Doppler frequency on the basis of a frequency error.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable terminal apparatus having a novel surface lighting portion which can appeal to user's vision intensively and variously and can effectively make the notification of incoming calls or the like by means of light. The portable terminal apparatus includes a housing, a surface lighting portion provided on the outer surface of the housing, and a panel member detachably mounted on the housing so as to cover the surface lighting portion. At least a part of the panel member is transparent or semitransparent. The surface lighting portion has a flat outer surface, and the panel member is a flat plate like member, wherein the housing has a device for holding the flat plate like member placed on the flat outer surface of the surface lighting portion. The whole of the surface lighting portion is illuminated upon receiving an incoming call, for example, and the panel member is also illuminated according to a pattern formed thereon.

Abstract: A biometric authentication apparatus includes an illumination section, an imaging section, a photographic subject placing section, and an authentication section. The illumination section irradiates at least near infrared light onto a biological portion placed in contact with a housing surface. The imaging section images a near infrared light image of the biological portion. The photographic subject placing section is provided in the vicinity of the illumination section, in which at least a part of the light emanation portion of the illumination section on a side where the imaging section is disposed is covered by the photographic subject when the photographic subject is placed. The authentication section performing biometric authentication by making a comparison between a specific pattern extracted from the near infrared light image of the biological portion imaged by the imaging section and a preliminarily registered specific pattern.

Abstract: One divided signal divided into two by a dividing circuit is inputted to a gate of a source grounded FET through a first matching circuit. In a drain of the FET, a second harmonic having a phase and an amplitude in accordance with an impedance of the first matching circuit is generated and extracted in a band pass filter and then the amplitude is adjusted in an attenuation circuit to input to an addition circuit through a second matching circuit. In the addition circuit, the output of the second matching circuit is added to another divided signal of the dividing circuit and inputted to a power amplifier. The impedance in the first matching circuit affecting the phase of the second harmonic generated from the FET is set so that a distortion component generated in the power amplifier is compensated for by the second harmonic inputted in the addition circuit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a variable gain control circuit for executing automatic-gain-control on a variable gain amplification block composed of a plurality of amplifiers on which discrete gain setting is executed by a programmable-gain-amp method. A baseband amplifier (a variable gain amplifier) is composed of a plurality of amplifiers on which discrete gain setting is executed by a programmable-gain-amp method. A programmable-gain-amp control processing block references a programmable-gain-amp control data table on the basis of a difference between a current receive signal level and a predetermined receive signal level to determine the gain of the baseband amplifier, thereby making a programmable-gain-amp data generator generate programmable-gain-amp data.

Abstract: A signal processing device and method are provided. The signal processing device and method perform maximum-likelihood decoding of data transmitted at an arbitrary data rate among a plurality of predetermined data rates after error detection coding and error correction coding.

Abstract: According to the present invention makes, even if two of mobile communication terminal apparatuses such as a wireless key apparatus and a mobile telephone terminal apparatus or the like are utilized in various possessing states, it is made possible to maintain a stable distance detection accuracy. In a communication apparatus in which A distance to a connection partner terminal is detected according to a certain parameter and in a case when the distance exceeds a predetermined value, a function limitation or notification to a user is carried out, it is identified that the two of the mobile communication terminals lie in a predetermined appropriate distance according to a manual or automatic method and the proper distance identification information and further receiving state and transmission power at that time if they are necessary are communicated mutually and a parameter used for a distance detection is adjusted.

Abstract: A mobile information terminal apparatus including a first case including a display portion, a second case, and a rotary support mechanism for supporting the first case and the second case such that the first case is horizontally rotatable with respect to the second case and the first case takes at least a first position and a second position different from the first position, in which the shapes of the mobile information terminal apparatus at the first position and the second position are substantially identical. Thus key operability, especially that for performing entertainment functions represented by gaming function, is improved and usability of the apparatus is enhanced.

Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus includes: a communication unit performing communication; a storage unit collecting and storing history information on communication; a registration unit registering at least communication address information on communicating parties and image information that represents the communicating parties; a display unit displaying images, which represent the registered communicating parties, on a display screen; and an arrangement position determining unit determining arrangement positions of the images, which represent the communicating parties, based on the history information on communication with the communicating parties.

Abstract: A power amplification apparatus includes, between a first amplification element for amplifying an input signal and a first output terminal, a second amplification element for further amplifying the input signal amplified in the first amplification element to output to the first output terminal, and a first switch element for controlling the second amplification element to be stop condition. Further, between the first amplification element and a second output terminal, a second switch circuit for controlling the supply of an output from the first amplification element to the second output terminal is provided. When outputting a medium power, the operation efficiency of the power amplification apparatus is improved by reducing a power consumption. Thereby, a total operation efficiency of the power amplification apparatus which outputs either the input signal amplified to a large power or the input signal amplified to a medium power by switching is improved.

Abstract: A mobile phone unit is provided in which a characteristic of an antenna is improved and SAR is reduced without lowering an antenna gain during communication. An antenna 26 (electrical length ?/4), an antenna connection conductive member 22 (electrical length ?/4) that is a circuit board connected to the antenna 26, an opposite side conductive member 42 that is a circuit board opposed to the antenna connection conductive member 22, and an electric connection portion 24 that electrically connects an edge portion 222, which is on the opposite side to the antenna 26, of the antenna connection conductive member 22 and an opposite side edge portion 422, which is opposed to the edge portion 222, of the opposite side conductive member 42 (electrical length ?/4) are included. A gain on the opposite side to an LCD side casing 4 becomes large when seen from the antenna 26, and the electric currents are counteracted to be small and consequently a gain becomes small on the side of the LCD side casing 4.

Abstract: Disclosed is a folded dipole antenna device which is of an unbalanced feed type and includes an antenna element of approximately plate-like loop structure, connected to an antenna feed point and an antenna ground provided on a base plate. In the folded dipole antenna device, the antenna element of loop structure includes a pair of first element sections which extend approximately parallel to the base plate, a second element section formed by merging element sections that are folded back from both ends of the first element sections and extend approximately parallel to the first element sections, and a third element section which extends from a folded top part of the second element section toward the first element sections and an end part thereof is close to the first element sections.

Abstract: There are provided, as a low noise amplifier (70) a low noise amplifier (71) with a low gain and a low noise amplifier (72) with a high gain, selectively operable under control of a bias current, and an output from the low noise amplifier (72) and a quadrature demodulator (80) are connected with a serial capacitance (73) and also an output from the low noise amplifier (71) and the quadrature demodulator (80) are serially connected. A control section (66) controls a reception circuit so that the low noise amplifier (71) operates when a reception signal level is high and the low noise amplifier (72) operates when the reception signal level is low. When the low noise amplifier (72) operates, a DC bias current thereof is made flow separately from a DC bias current of the quadrature demodulator (80), and, when the low noise amplifier (71) operates, a DC bias current thereof is shared with the quadrature demodulator.

Abstract: A portable information communication terminal includes an operation unit composed of an integrated combination of a first operation detection device for detecting an operation in a first direction substantially parallel to a predetermined axis direction of a terminal housing and a second operation detection device for detecting an operation in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, a display unit provided with a screen disposed in a direction substantially parallel to the predetermined axis direction and capable of displaying a hierarchical menu structure, and a control unit for sequentially changing and displaying menu hierarchies in descending hierarchical order in the first direction on the screen of the display unit in accordance with an operation in the first direction and for sequentially changing and displaying menu hierarchies in ascending hierarchical order in the second direction on the screen in accordance with an operation in the second direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile terminal having a camera unit that images a subject. The mobile terminal includes a movement determination unit determining the direction and distance in which the body of the mobile terminal moved on the basis of the shift between images sequentially captured through the camera unit in a mouse mode, a short-range wireless communication unit, and a control unit controlling the short-range wireless communication unit to transmit information representing the direction and distance, determined by the movement determination unit, by short-range wireless to an operated apparatus which includes a display unit and controls a pointer displayed on the display unit on the basis of the received information representing the direction and distance.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes history information storing means for storing history information on communication; displaying means for displaying a calendar; means for classifying the history information on the communication of each day into a plurality of patterns; and image storing means for storing beforehand images corresponding to the plurality of patterns, wherein the displaying means displays an image corresponding to a pattern corresponding to the history information on the communication of each day, in correspondence with each day of the calendar, when the calendar is displayed.

Abstract: A channel monitor detects execution data quantities of first and second receiving circuits 3 and 4 which process audio and other line switching data or packet data transmitted from a plurality of base stations. Antenna weight values calculated by an antenna weight calculator 10 and supplied to the receiving circuits 3 and 4 are variably controlled on the basis of the execution data quantities of the receiving circuits. Consequently, it becomes possible to optimize the antenna weight values used for processing the data in the receiving circuits 3 and 4, hence improving the reception quality of a terminal device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a charging apparatus for charging a secondary battery incorporated in a portable electronic device. The charging apparatus includes a contactless IC card reader configured to supply operating power to a contactless IC card unit incorporated in the portable electronic device and have an authentication function of authenticating that an object to be authenticated is a correct one, a charging circuit configured to perform contactless charging of the secondary battery, and a control unit configured to activate the charging circuit if an authentication result is OK after the contactless IC card reader authenticates an object to be authenticated when the object to be authenticated is placed.