Abstract: There is provided a headphone including: a housing that accommodates a driver unit; a sound guiding tube that protrudes from the housing in a predetermined direction and guides a sound generated from the driver unit to an external auditory canal; and a hanger that rotatably supports the housing via a supporting shaft provided in approximately the same direction as a depth direction of the external auditory canal and in a direction inclined to a protruding direction of the sound guiding tube. According to this structure, by rotating the housing with respect to the hanger via the supporting shaft, the protruding direction of the sound guiding tube with respect to the hanger can be adjusted. Thus, by adjusting the protruding direction of the sound guiding tube according to the inclined angle of the external auditory canal of a user, wearability of a headphone can be improved.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that causes a display unit having a display screen to perform information display; a switching unit that performs switching between a touch input enable state, in which predetermined processing is performed in response to touch input, and a touch input disable state, in which the predetermined processing is not performed even when touch input is detected; and a detector that is disposed at a position different from a position of the touch position detector and that performs predetermined detection. The display unit can be switched between an inactive state and an active state. The switching unit includes a first controller that sets the touch input disable state when the display unit enters the inactive state, and a second controller that performs switching to the touch input enable state in accordance with the result of the predetermined detection.

Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device including a reception unit that receives a radio signal, a measurement unit that measures a field intensity of the radio signal received by the reception unit, a determination unit that determines whether the radio signal received by the reception unit satisfies a predetermined condition for a noise component, and an estimation unit that estimates a distance from a transmission source device of the radio signal based on the field intensity of the radio signal determined by the determination unit to satisfy the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A sophisticated gateway is connectable with at least one device, further sophisticated gateways, and/or a network. The sophisticated gateway includes an emulator proxy module and/or a presenter proxy module. The emulator proxy module receives higher layer data of a higher network layer, and processes the higher layer data thereby generating second intermediate layer data of an intermediate network layer. The processing includes a security function ensuring that the second intermediate layer data conform with a predetermined security level. The presenter proxy module receives and/or processes first intermediate layer data thereby generating the higher layer data. The processing within the presenter proxy module includes a security function ensuring that the higher layer data conform with a predetermined security level.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes display pixels corresponding to at least a color of white or non-coloring and one color different from the color of white or non-coloring. Each of the display pixels corresponding to one color have a transmissive region and a reflective region. Each of the display pixels corresponding to the color of white or non-coloring have only a transmissive region. Colored layers are provided in the display pixels that correspond to one color, and cell-thickness-adjusting layers are included in the reflective region of each of the display pixels corresponding to one color and the transmissive region of each of the display pixels corresponding to the color of white or non-coloring. For the display pixels corresponding to one color, a thickness of a layer crystal layer corresponding to the transmissive region is larger than a thickness of the liquid crystal layer that corresponds to the reflective region.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining confidence in focus direction detection, including the steps of capturing a plurality of images, calculating sets of matching errors and blur difference estimations relating to the images, capturing a plurality of object images; calculating sets of matching errors and blur difference estimations relating to the images, calculating a confidence indicator as a function of either the matching errors or blur difference estimations, and automatically adjusting a focus control element in response to said confidence indicator exceeding a threshold value.

Abstract: Occurrence of mosquito noise of a macro block that contains even a small plain region is suppressed. One macro block is subdivided into sub blocks each of which is composed of four pixels×four lines. The average value of luminance levels of each sub block is calculated. The absolute values of the difference values between the luminance levels and the average value are obtained for each sub block. The minimum value of the average difference values of the 16 sub blocks of one macro block is selected and decided as an activity of the macro block. Corresponding to the decided activity, a quantizer scale of the macro block is decided. With the decided quantizer scale, the macro block is quantized. According to this method, since the size of each sub block is smaller than the size of a conventional sub block of eight pixels×eight lines, the average difference value of each sub block is more emphasized.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus and method are provided. A conversion component outputs a first current having a predetermined phase region, an output component outputs a load voltage, a sense component senses a second current value, and a switch element allows current to flow in a first state and impedes current in a second state. The switch element changes between states based on a drive signal forcing the switch into the second state when the first current is in the predetermined phase region and the second current value exceeds a threshold indicating an overcurrent condition. A region determination circuit determines whether the first current is in the predetermined phase region and produces a phase region signal. An overcurrent detection circuit senses the second current value, determines whether it exceeds an overcurrent condition threshold, and produces an overcurrent signal. A protection circuit causes the drive circuit to switch the drive signal.

Abstract: A mobile device that includes an antenna, an interface, and an application. The antenna is capable of receiving a signal. The interface is capable of receiving a second signal in synchronization with the signal and the application is configured to perform receive diversity processing using the signal and the second signal. Further, is included a mobile device that includes the antenna, the interface, and a second application where the second application is configured to perform multiple input multiple output (MIMO) processing using the signal and the second signal. Increased bandwidth and processing gain is achieved for the received signal by the receive diversity processing and the MIMO processing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of simplifying an interrupt processing and reducing a time necessary to the interrupt processing. An interrupt generation unit 140 generates an interrupt signal. An interrupt status holding unit 142 stores an interrupt status showing a cause of generation of the interrupt signal. An interrupt status supply unit 141 supplies an interrupt status stored by an interrupt status holding unit to a RAM and causes the RAM to store it. A CPU executes a predetermined processing in response to the interrupt status stored to the RAM. The present invention can be applied to, for example, a network card.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including combination generating means for getting a first feature quantity of N dimensions, N being an integer of at least two, from first information prepared for execution of learning and use the first feature quantity of N dimensions to generate at least two of a first feature quantity combination that are not greater than N dimensions of the first feature quantity; and learning processing executing means for computing a correlation coefficient between the plurality of first feature quantity combinations generated by the combination generating means and a learning model feature quantity matching each dimension of the plurality of first feature quantity combinations and, by use of the first correlation coefficient, classify the first information, thereby executing learning processing for classifying predetermined second information.

Abstract: The present application provides a process for the preparation of microbeads, including the steps of: patterning a thin film, which has been formed on a substrate, into microbead regions of at least one predetermined shape by photolithography; immobilizing a predetermined substance on the thus-patterned microbead regions; and stripping off, from the substrate, the thus-patterned microbead regions with the substance immobilized thereon.

Abstract: An electronic device may be operated by providing Bluetooth communication duty cycle information to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) module. A determination is made, based on the Bluetooth communication duty cycle information, if there is sufficient time during a current Bluetooth inactive communication interval to complete a WLAN communication. If it is determined that there is not sufficient time to complete the WLAN communication during the current Bluetooth inactive communication interval, then the WLAN transmission is postponed to a subsequent Bluetooth inactive communication interval.

Abstract: A contact detecting device includes: n driving electrodes that are arranged in a scanning direction; a detection drive scanning unit that selects continuous m (2?m<n) driving electrodes out of the n driving electrodes, simultaneously AC-drives the selected m driving electrodes, and repeats shift operation for changing selection targets of the m driving electrodes in the scanning direction such that one or more driving electrodes common before and after the shift operation performed each time are included in the selection targets; plural detection electrodes that form capacitors, between which and the respective n driving electrodes capacitors are formed; plural detection circuits that are connected to the plural detection electrodes and compare potentials of the detection electrodes corresponding thereto with a predetermined threshold every time the detection drive scanning unit performs the shift operation.

Abstract: A device, and method for manufacturing the same, including a semiconductor package which allows transmission therethrough of a radio signal, a chip which generates the radio signal and a coupler adjacent the chip and effective to radiate the radio signal to outside of the semiconductor package.

Abstract: Available features of each of a group of wireless devices accessible over one of a group of different wireless communication protocol interfaces of a first wireless bridging computing device are registered for sharing. A request for use of an available feature of a first wireless device over a first wireless communication protocol interface is received from a second wireless device over a second wireless communication protocol interface. In response to the request, use of the requested available feature of the first wireless device by the second wireless device is facilitated over the first wireless communication protocol interface and the second wireless communication protocol interface. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a terminal apparatus designed as a self-powered device according to the Universal Serial Bus standard, the terminal apparatus including: a battery; a USB port; and a control section configured to allow relevant components of the terminal apparatus to operate on power from the battery upon power-up, the control section further notifying a host device upon connection thereto through the USB port that the terminal apparatus is a bus-powered device, in order to request a current necessary for the relevant components to operate only on the power supplied from the host device to the bus-powered device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing system, and an information processing program are provided. The present invention can execute distributed processing effectively with certainty among different information processing apparatus connected through a common network. Each of first to fourth information processing apparatus includes a main processor and sub processors. When sub processor programs are to be executed by sub processors in response to an operation of a user, the first apparatus secures a necessary number of free sub processors if this is determined possible. If the necessary number of free sub processors are not available, then the first apparatus successively issues a request to secure sub processors to the other apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, including a preamble detection portion, a sync detection portion, a storage portion, a storage control portion, a delay time imparting portion, a bias computation portion, a half sampling portion, an adaptive equalization portion an equalization performance determination portion that compares equalization errors for each one of the sync portion candidates for which the training equalization has been performed by the adaptive equalization portion, and that sets the candidate position with the least error, and a binary determination portion that decodes the Manchester code into NRZ code by subjecting to binary determination the received signal that has been adaptively equalized by the adaptive equalization portion. The storage control portion reads the received signal from the storage portion based on information about the candidate position with the least error that has been set by the equalization performance determination portion.

Abstract: A reflecting apparatus comprising: an array of reflectors including a first subset of reflectors and a second subset of reflectors, wherein the first subset of reflectors guide light toward a first viewing position and the second subset of reflectors guide light toward a second viewing position that is different from the first viewing position.