Abstract: A game device includes an input position acquiring unit and a first game control unit. The input position acquiring unit acquires a position of an entry provided by a player to a touch panel, which can concurrently detect entries at multiple points. The first game control unit displays objects and a sequence in which the objects should be erased on a screen image, and, in case that a position of an entry acquired is at a position corresponding to a position where an object to be erased next is displayed, erases the object from the screen image. The first game control unit includes: a single tap input control unit that, when an input on one object is acknowledged, erases the object; and a multiple-graphic-symbol-tap input control unit that, when inputs on multiple objects are acknowledged concurrently, erases those objects.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: grouping temporarily consecutive data into a plurality of groups based on a reference defined in advance and storing the grouped data; reading, in response to an access request from an external apparatus, target data to be a target of the request from a first group including the target data and outputting the read target data to the external apparatus; and reading, in response to the reading of the target data, at least part of data from a second group different from the first group as read-ahead target data.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a communication unit configured to conduct close proximity wireless communication with another communication apparatus, and a controller configured to apply control to alternately set transmit rights for transmitting data to a communication peer by the close proximity wireless communication between the communication apparatus and the other communication apparatus by adjusting the transmit start timing for data to be transmitted to the other communication apparatus.

Abstract: A cluster value identifying unit identifies a value of a parameter representing a level of a ground swell of interest related to provided information, which is determined in accordance with registration of information related to the provided information. A period identifying unit identifies, based on the value of the parameter, a period in which the ground swell of interest related to the provided information grows with a lapse of time. A user feature identifying unit identifies, based on the identified period, a feature of a user who registers the related information. Accordingly, the feature of the user may be identified based on the registration of the information related to the provided information.

Abstract: A display includes: a first light-emitting device disposed in a first region on a substrate and including a transfer organic layer; a second light-emitting device disposed in a second region adjacent to the first region on the substrate and not including a transfer organic layer; and a level difference provided between the first region and the second region, and being large enough to inhibit transfer of the transfer organic layer to the second region when the transfer organic layer is formed in the first region.

Abstract: An information processing device for allowing a user to immediately understand that a beginning or end element object is displayed on a screen is provided. The device includes a display unit for displaying a portion of a display object, in which a plurality of element objects are arranged, in a display area, a first scrolling unit for scrolling the display object in a first direction in response to an operation of a user, a second scrolling unit for scrolling the display object in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, and a determination unit for determining whether or not to scroll the display object in the second direction based on a position of the display area and a position corresponding to the plurality of element objects.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a correction unit that corrects at least position coordinates used to specify a position of an enlarged-image group generated in accordance with a scanning method of a microscope that scans a sample in vertical, horizontal, and depth directions and generates an image data group corresponding to the enlarged-image group of the sample, and a stereoscopic image generation unit that generates a stereoscopic image of the enlarged-image group by giving parallax to the corrected image data group.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a receiver configured to receive a request to perform processing related to a task, from a first information processing apparatus which functions as a client on a network; a scheduler configured to, when a rank of a priority of the scheduler of the information processing apparatus among information processing apparatuses on the network is a first predetermined rank or higher, assign the task to one or a plurality of second information processing apparatuses which function as nodes on the network; and a transmitter configured to transmit a request to execute processing related to the task assigned to the one or the plurality of second information processing apparatuses.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an integrated circuit including: a timing signal distribution circuit configured to distribute a timing signal that indicates predetermined timing; a synchronous operation circuit configured to operate in synchronization with the distributed timing signal; a logic circuit configured to perform predetermined logical operation based on an operation result of the synchronous operation circuit; and a power supply section configured to supply a voltage lower than a timing signal distribution circuit drive voltage to drive the timing signal distribution circuit as a logic circuit drive voltage to the logic circuit.

Abstract: A circuit board includes a board having a hole formed therein, and an imager that is bonded to a first region including at least a portion of the hole in a front surface of the board.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel array unit that includes photoelectric conversion elements and in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in rows and columns that output, as pixel signals, electrical signals obtained by photoelectric conversion performed by amplifier elements to which pixel power supply voltage is supplied and that drive signal lines, a pixel power supply unit that generates the pixel power supply voltage from power supply voltage, the pixel power supply voltage being lower than the power supply voltage, and that supplies the pixel power supply voltage to the amplifier elements in the plurality of pixels, and a pixel signal read unit that reads pixel signals from the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic device including a geomagnetism detection part acquiring magnetic direction data corresponding to geomagnetism every predetermined period of time, a change amount calculation part calculating a change amount of the magnetic direction data, a storage part storing the magnetic direction data, an angular velocity integration part calculating angle data obtained by integration of angular velocity obtained by an angular velocity detection part, and a direction output part.

Abstract: A communication apparatus may include at least one connection terminal configured to connect with at least one external power line coupled to an external apparatus, at least one internal power line configured to carry power and a communication signal to the at least one connection terminal, and a wireless communication circuit connected to the at least one internal power line. The wireless communication circuit may have an input configured to receive the power and the communication signal from the at least one internal power line, and may be configured to separate the communication signal from the power, and to wirelessly transmit the communication signal to the external apparatus. A communication method may include transmitting power and a communication signal via a power line, separating the communication signal from the power via a circuit connected to the power line, and wirelessly transmitting the separated communication signal via a communication antenna.

Abstract: The present invention is related to an information processing system that simultaneously shares content data in private virtual spaces. A home server is arranged at a user's home. A portable user terminal can access the home server and a virtual home DB server supplies the layout information about virtual home to the portable user terminal. An authentication server executes authentication processing on the portable user terminal. An inter-user-terminal communication relay server executes the processing associated with the communication between a plurality of users. A user information holding server stores the personal data of each user and the content data, which are shared with other users. This system thus realizes realtime communication via the Internet.

Abstract: A game device, which is an example of a display control device is provided. The game device includes: a rendering unit that renders by perspective projection an object disposed in a three-dimensional space and displays the object on a display device; and a position adjusting unit that adjusts the position for disposing the object in the three-dimensional space so that the object is displayed at a position where the object should be displayed on a screen image of the display device.

Abstract: An electronic unit includes: a plate-shaped support member having an insulating surface and a conductive surface that are opposed to each other; a cut-and-raised section provided in the support member, and having a contact that is bent to protrude toward the conductive surface, and a pair of through holes provided at side faces of the cut-and-raised section; and a substrate inserted into the pair of through holes, and with which the contact is in elastic and electric contact.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a cursor position acquisition section which acquires a position of a cursor on a display screen where an image is displayed, and a representative color acquisition section for performing a color reduction process which acquires a region including the position of the cursor acquired by the cursor position acquisition section as a color reduction processing region, and acquires a prescribed number of colors as representative colors, from colors included in the color reduction processing region.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including an edge strength calculation section which respectively calculates edge strengths for all pixels of an image represented by image data set as an object to be processed, a cursor position acquisition section which successively acquires positions of a cursor on a display screen on which the image is displayed, and a cursor speed setting section which sets a moving speed of the cursor based on a variation of the edge strength in a current position of the cursor, calculated based on the positions of the cursor successively acquired by the cursor position acquisition section and the edge strengths calculated by the edge strength calculation section.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first sealing member, a second sealing member, and a main body. The first sealing member has conductivity. The second sealing member is formed of an elastic material. The main body includes a first conductive casing, a second conductive casing, and a joining portion. The joining portion is configured to join the first casing and the second casing to each other. The joining portion includes a first attachment portion, a second attachment portion, and an anticorrosive protective layer. To the first attachment portion, the first sealing member is attached. The second attachment portion is formed on an outside air side of the first attachment portion. To the second attachment portion, the second sealing member is attached. The anticorrosive protective layer is formed on the outside air side of a contact portion of the second attachment portion and the second sealing member.

Abstract: An electric-power supplying apparatus may include a power supply configured to supply electric power to an electric device via a power supply line, and at least one processor programmed to perform acts including transmitting a command signal to the electric device via the power supply line, receiving a response signal from the electric device via load modulation on the power supply line, and registering setting information for establishing wireless communication between the electric device and the apparatus based on the received response signal. An electric apparatus may include a power plug configured to receive electric power and a command signal from an external device, and an IC chip configured to use load modulation to transmit a response signal, in response to the command signal, to the external device via the power plug.