Abstract: A cellular phone has an upper casing and a lower casing. The upper casing has a pair of slide grooves defined in a substantially lower half region thereof along respective opposite side faces of said upper casing, and the lower casing has a pair of slide grooves defined in a substantially upper half region thereof along respective opposite side faces of said lower casing. Slide connection members are fastened to the lower casing by screws threaded into respective joint holes in the lower casing through the respective slide grooves of the upper casing, and a bifurcated joint slide connection member and a slide connection member are fastened to a joint bar of the upper casing by screws threaded into respective joint holes in the joint bar through the respective slide grooves of the lower casing. The upper and lower casings are made slidable by the slide connection members, and are stably connected to each other against wobbling movement.

Abstract: A portable information terminal has a first casing, a second casing, a sliding mechanism to maintain a portable state wherein the first casing and second casing are overlapped, and a turning mechanism to modify the from the portable state, via a sliding state wherein the first casing and second casing mutually slide, into a usable state. The sliding mechanism engages with sliding grooves provided on each of the first casing and second casing, and provides axially supported sliding members. The turning mechanism has a member to limit the turning angle of the sliding members, whereby a state can be maintained when usable of the first casing and second casing forming a single face. Thus, a sliding-type portable information terminal is provided with an expanded operating face and output face by doing away with any overlapped portion.

Abstract: When retransmission requests are issued based on the results of error-correction decoding of received data packets to perform data transmission, statistical information indicating whether received data packets have been successfully decoded or have not been decoded is acquired, and based on the rate at which correct decoding has been made or the rate at which correct decoding has not been made, which is obtained from the statistical information, a request is transmitted to the transmission source to change the window size, which is the number of data units handled in a predetermined layer, so that when for example the communication environment is not excellent, processing can be performed at a small window size, and the occurrence of circumstances in which data retransmission and the discarding of received data are repeated can be efficiently prevented.

Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus includes a camera unit and a sliding cover device. The sliding cover device includes a cover slidable with respect to the camera unit, a pair of arm members supporting the cover on both sides from a back surface of the cover and extending along the sides of the cover, a frame member supporting the arm members such that the arm members are slidable along respectively predetermined sliding paths, and a body surface member secured to the frame member and having a surface thereof flush with a surface of the cover at a closed position. The sliding paths are defined such that, when the cover is moved from the closed position to an open position, the arm members slide into a space below the body surface member and the cover rides onto the body surface member.

Abstract: An antenna device includes: an antenna element that transmits or receives wireless signals in a predetermined first frequency band and in a second frequency band higher in frequency than the first frequency band; a feeding terminal portion; a first bandwidth adjustment circuit that includes a first capacitor for widening a bandwidth of the first frequency band to a predetermined bandwidth, the capacitance of the first capacitor being set at a predetermined value in accordance with the predetermined bandwidth; and a second bandwidth adjustment circuit that includes second and third capacitors and a first inductor for widening a bandwidth of the first frequency band to the predetermined bandwidth, the capacitance of each of the second and third capacitors and the inductance of the first inductor being respectively set at predetermined values in accordance with the predetermined bandwidth.

Abstract: A two-axis hinge device includes a first-rotation-axis defining unit which defines a first rotation axis; a rotating arm fixed to a first housing, the rotating arm being provided on the first-rotation-axis defining unit such that the rotating arm is rotatable around the first rotation axis; a second-rotation-axis defining unit fixed to a second housing, the second-rotation-axis defining unit having a substantially cylindrical shape and defining a second rotation axis which is substantially perpendicular to the first rotation axis, the first-rotation-axis defining unit being fixed to and supported by the second-rotation-axis defining unit; and a hole-communicating connector fixed to the second-rotation-axis defining unit, the hole-communicating connector having a substantially cylindrical shape and being provided with a hole which communicates with a hole in the second-rotation-axis defining unit.

Abstract: A contact-sensing device includes a capacitance contact-sensing unit including contact-sensing areas configured to at least detect contact with an external object; a calibration-value setting unit configured to set a calibration value to be used to calibrate capacitances of the contact-sensing areas on the basis of capacitances of the contact-sensing areas excluding the contact-sensing area detected by the contact-sensing unit to be in contact with the external object; a calibration determining unit configured to determine whether or not calibration of the capacitances of the contact-sensing areas is to be carried out on the basis of capacitances of the contact-sensing areas excluding the contact-sensing area detected by the contact-sensing unit to be in contact with the external object; and a capacitance calibrating unit configured to calibrate capacitances of all of the contact-sensing areas using the calibration value set by the calibration-value setting unit when the calibration determining unit determine

Abstract: A speech synthesis apparatus includes a content selection unit that selects a text content item to be converted into speech; a related information selection unit that selects related information which can be at least converted into text and which is related to the text content item selected by the content selection unit; a data addition unit that converts the related information selected by the related information selection unit into text and adds text data of the text to text data of the text content item selected by the content selection unit; a text-to-speech conversion unit that converts the text data supplied from the data addition unit into a speech signal; and a speech output unit that outputs the speech signal supplied from the text-to-speech conversion unit.

Abstract: A display and operation device includes a display unit; a touch panel disposed on a display panel of the display unit; and a control unit for displaying a plurality of icons as an operation screen on the display panel of the display unit, the size of each of the plurality of icons being larger for the icons that are farther from a base point positioned in the vicinity of a periphery of the display panel on the device.

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: Channel quality can be detected accurately in a wireless transmission system such as an HSDPA method. In the case of estimating a channel quality of a signal transmitted by a Code Division Multiple Access method and of estimating the channel quality in a system having a synchronization channel not orthogonal to a channel receiving data, a noise component of a desired channel is estimated; degree of a noise component caused by the synchronization channel is estimated with respect to the estimated noise; and a channel quality of a receiving channel is detected based on the estimated degree of the noise component.

Abstract: A lock mechanism for a sliding object includes a slide arm, a rotating lever, and urging means. When an external pressing force presses the slide arm member in opposition to an urging force imparted by the urging means, the slide arm member is moved along a slide path, thereby causing the rotating lever member to rotate. When the slide arm member is pressed further, the tip of the rotating lever member rides onto and is stopped against the lateral surface of the slide arm member, such that the slide arm member and the rotating lever member remain stopped at the current position even if the pressing force is released.

Abstract: An electric field communication apparatus includes: a plurality of electric field communication antennas for carrying out electric field communication; a detecting unit that detects the electric field communication antenna in connected state where at least electric field communication may be carried out with an electric field communication antenna of another electric field communication apparatus, from among the plurality of electric field communication antennas; and a control unit that controls an operation of the host electric field communication apparatus in response to the result detected by the detecting unit.

Abstract: An information communication apparatus includes: an electrostatic panel unit that is at least provided with an electrostatically chargeable panel surface; a capacitance detection unit that detects a capacitance variation of the panel surface to detect a location at which an object substantially contacts the panel surface; an electric field communication unit that uses the panel surface as an electrostatic field antenna to carry out electrostatic field communication; a connection switching unit that selectively connects any one of the capacitance detection unit and the electric field communication unit to the electrostatic panel unit; and a control unit that controls the connection switching unit to connect the electrostatic panel unit to the capacitance detection unit at the time of detecting a location at which an object contacts the panel surface and to connect the electrostatic panel unit to the electric field communication unit at the time of the electrostatic field communication.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel mobile phone wherein a one-push open/close mechanism slideably intercoupling upper and lower housings causes a tension of a spring member to function for sliding movements of the upper and lower housings along an open direction in an opening event, and inverts the tension of the spring member for the sliding movements of the upper and lower housings along a close direction in a closing event. An elevation mechanism operates in association with the sliding movement of the upper housing to perform ascending control of a key operation section in the opening event, and operates in association with the sliding movement of the upper housing to perform descending control of the key operation section in the closing event. Thereby, the mobile phone can be set by a one-push operation to an open state or closed state. In the opening event, the key operation section automatically ascends; and in the closing event, the key operation section automatically descends to be store in the lower housing.

Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus checks if a user is a proper user based on the operation of the user and, if the result of authentication is negative, uploads predetermined data, which is part of data stored in a memory, to a predetermined server. After the transmission is completed, the mobile terminal apparatus erases the uploaded data from the memory. It is also possible to instruct the mobile terminal apparatus to upload and erase data from an external source using an electronic mail or a telephone tone signal sequence. This may protect data contained in mobile terminal apparatus that has been lost, from a person who improperly attempts to access the data.

Abstract: A mobile terminal device capable of coupling to the Internet and a home network, includes: accompanying information storing means operable to store an image obtained by photographing and accompanying information pertaining to the image and the photographing; search request means operable to request a search server on the Internet to execute a search with the accompanying information as a keyword; search result storing means operable to temporarily store search result obtained from the search server; image composition means operable to create a composite image by combining the search result with the image obtained by the photographing; and transmission means operable to transmit the composite image to a specified output device on the home network.

Abstract: The present invention is related to an information processing system, a service providing apparatus and method, an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program that are intended to control electrical household appliances connected to a home network by use of a GUI having an entertainment-oriented virtual space capability. The virtual space has a mascot 121. Also, the virtual space is arranged with a PC icon 125, which is clicked to control a PC 12 really existing in the home of user A, and a TV set icon 126, which is clicked to control a TV set 13 also really existing in the home of user A. The present invention is applicable to a system controlling electrical household appliances in one's home from the outside in remote control manner, for example.

Abstract: In a cooperative processing system for performing cooperative process between a portable terminal and a television terminal through a service server and a device control server, content and content information separately managed by a content server connected to the television terminal and the service server are searched based on a search condition extracted from the content or the content information reproduced and displayed by the portable terminal, and the search result of the content and the content information is seamlessly displayed on the television terminal. Consequently, the convenience of the user in content usage can be enhanced.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a character input apparatus including: a display section having a screen capable of displaying at least characters; an operation section configured to allow a user to input at least the characters; a first character input processing section configured to perform a first character input process of causing a character string to be displayed on the screen in accordance with a predetermined notation rule; a second character input processing section configured to perform a second character input process of causing a character string to be displayed on the screen not in accordance with the predetermined notation rule; a scene determination section configured to determine a character input scene; and an input process switch control section configured to switch between the first character input process and the second character input process in accordance with the character input scene.