Abstract: A slave device includes: a clock unit that is configured by a counter so as to output time information; a clock generation unit that generates clocks for counting up the counter; a message receiving unit that receives messages sent from a master device; a message sending unit that sends messages to the master device; a first calculation unit that calculates a first value necessary for correcting the time on the clock unit; a first correction unit that corrects the time on the clock unit based on the first value calculated by the first calculation unit; a second calculation unit that calculates a second value necessary for correcting a frequency of the clocks generated by the clock generation unit; and a second correction unit that corrects the frequency of the clocks generated by the clock generation unit based on the second value calculated by the second calculation unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display that is unsusceptible to the effect of a pixel potential during writing of data to a memory, allowing a large margin to be provided against variation in characteristics of transistors forming a pixel circuit, and a portable terminal having the liquid crystal display. In a pixel circuit including a memory circuit (25), separate paths are provided for writing image data from a signal line (16-i) to the memory circuit (25) via a data-write switch (24) and for reading image data held in the memory circuit (25) out into a liquid crystal cell unit via a data-read switch (27). Furthermore, image data are read via a data-read buffer (26). Accordingly, when image data is written to the memory, data held in the memory circuit (25) is not affected by a pixel potential. Thus, a large margin can be provided against variation in the characteristics of the transistors forming the pixel circuit, serving to avoid variation in picture quality due to the variation in the transistor characteristics.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electric power supplying apparatus, including: a resonance circuit having an inductance and a capacitance; and an electric power synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize electric powers of electric signals composed of a plurality of frequency components in a neighborhood frequency band as a frequency band near a resonance frequency decided by the inductance and the capacitance with one another, and output a resulting electric signal obtained through the electric power synthesis to the resonance circuit.

Abstract: A method of forming a pattern and a method of producing an electronic element are characterized by including a first step of forming an electrically conductive film (D) by applying a liquid composition onto a first plate (10), and heating the first plate (10); a second step of forming an electrically conductive pattern (D?) on the first plate (10) by pressing a second plate (20) having a projection-and-recess pattern on a surface side thereof onto a surface side of the first plate (10), on which the electrically conductive film (D) is formed, to transfer an unwanted pattern of the electrically conductive film (D) to top faces of projections (20a) of the second plate (20), thereby removing the unwanted pattern; and a third step of transferring the electrically conductive pattern (D?) to a surface of a transfer-receiving substrate (30) by pressing the surface side of the first plate (10), on which the electrically conductive pattern (D?) is formed, onto the surface of the transfer-receiving substrate (30), wher

Abstract: A virtual image display device is provided which displays a two-dimensional image for viewing a virtual image in a magnified form by a virtual optical system. The virtual image display device includes an optical waveguide (13) to guide, by internal total reflection, parallel pencil groups meeting a condition of internal total reflection, a first reflection volume hologram grating (14) to diffract and reflect the parallel pencil groups incident upon the optical waveguide from outside and traveling in different directions as they are so as to meet the condition of internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide and a second reflection volume hologram grating (15) to project the parallel pencil groups guided by internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide as they are from the optical waveguide by diffraction and reflection thereof so as to depart from the condition of internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide.

Abstract: Intended is to inform a player of it through both the visual sense and the auditory sense that an action has been recognized. A velocity vector calculating unit calculates, by using the image of the action of the player taken with a camera (20), the velocity vector of the action, in which an object operated by a player (72) comes toward a contact plane (W). A moving time calculating unit calculates, by using the velocity vector and the distance between the object and the contact plane (W), the moving time period required for the object to reach the contact plane. A delay time acquiring unit acquires a delay time period till the voice uttered by a speaker (42) reaches the player (72). A voice control unit outputs a predetermined voice after lapse of the time period calculated by subtracting the delay time from the moving time period, so that the player (72) may listen to the voice, substantially simultaneously as the object contacts the contact plane.

Abstract: The present invention permits a capacitance value of an electro-optical element such as organic EL element to be arbitrarily set without changing the light extraction efficiency of a pixel. That is, the present invention permits a capacitance value Coled of an organic EL element (21) to be arbitrarily set by adjusting the light emission area of the organic EL element (21) without changing the light extraction efficiency of a pixel (20) in an organic EL display device. The organic EL display device has the pixels (20) arranged in a matrix form. A light extraction opening (56) is formed on the surface of the pixel with a light-shielding film (black matrix) (57). The light extraction opening (56) has an opening area smaller than the light emission area of the organic EL element (21).

Abstract: The present invention has been made to facilitate search or management of video data. The present invention generates a display space defined by display axes determined by feature parameters representing the feature of video data or audio data or associated parameters linked to the video data or audio data, converts feature values designated by the feature parameters or associated values designated by the associated parameters into coordinate parameters corresponding to a position on the display axes on the display space, and displays the video data through a display window on the display space in accordance with the change of the position corresponding to the converted coordinate parameters.

Abstract: A method of driving an ultrashort pulse and ultrahigh power laser diode device having a simple composition and a simple structure is provided. In the method of driving a laser diode device, light is injected from a light injection means into a laser diode device driven by a pulse current having a value 10 or more times as large as a value of a threshold current.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a drive device including an imaging element creating a image signal relating to an object image, a securing body, a displacement body capable of displacement in a predetermined direction in a predetermined plane having a light-receiving surface of the imaging element with respect to the securing body with the imaging element mounted to the displacement body, and a first guide mechanism and a second guide mechanism adapted each to guide displacement of the displacement body in the predetermined direction. The second guide mechanism includes a guide device, and a guided device. The guide device is configured to be positionally changeable in a plane parallel to the predetermined plane. The displacement body is turnably displaced with the first guide mechanism serving as a fulcrum when the guided device is displaced in response to the positional change of the guide device.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that stores content data, a movement instruction unit that provides instructions to move the content data stored in the storage unit in accordance with a user operation, a detection unit that detects characteristic information of the content data in accordance with movement instructions of the content data by the movement instruction unit, a basic interval setting unit that sets one or two or more basic intervals to the content data based on detection points of the characteristic information, and a data generation unit that generates content data for movement made of a plurality of the one or two or more basic intervals set by the basic interval setting unit.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to execute processing to capture an image; a GPS (Global Positioning System) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite; a power-supply control unit configured to control power supply to the GPS device; an apparatus control unit configured to monitor a state of photographing by a user to calculate a frequency of use of the imaging unit per unit time, and to cause the power-supply control unit to intermittently supply power to the GPS device when the calculated use frequency is lower than a predetermined threshold; and a data-recording control unit configured to generate photographed data attribute information in which positional information acquired in the GPS device is set as attribute information of an acquired image in the imaging unit, and to execute processing to store the photographed data attribute information in a storing unit.

Abstract: A user selects a plurality of pieces of music data desired to be reproduced concurrently, at an input unit of an audio processing apparatus, from music data stored in a storage device. A reproducing apparatus reproduces selected music data respectively and generates a plurality of audio signals under the control of a control unit. An audio processing unit performs allocation of frequency band, extraction of a frequency component, time-division, periodic modulation, processing and allocation of a sound image, to respective audio signals under the control of the control unit. Then the audio processing unit attaches segregation information of audio signals and information on the degree of emphasis to respective audio signals. The down mixer mixes a plurality of audio signals and outputs as an audio signal having a predetermined number of channels, then an output unit outputs the signal as sounds.

Abstract: A method of producing a solid-state image pickup apparatus, including the steps of: forming a plurality of light-receiving portions on a substrate; forming a plurality of transfer gates to be connected to the plurality of light-receiving portions formed on the substrate; forming an insulation film on the substrate; exposing a base by etching the insulation film so that the etched part of the insulation film between the adjacent transfer gates tapers away; and injecting an impurity into the exposed part using the insulation film that has remained after the etching as a mask to thus form an impurity injection portion.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a recording apparatus including: an audio signal correction block configured to execute correction for flattening the frequency characteristic of an audio signal supplied from a microphone and/or correction of the level of the audio signal; a correction control block configured to make the audio signal correction block adjust the level of the audio signal attenuate the reference value with time, and, if an audio signal with a level thereof exceeding the reference value is entered, use the absolute value of the level of the audio signal exceeding the reference value as a new reference value; and a recording block configured to record the audio signal to a recording media.

Abstract: In wireless communication with another communication apparatus in a predetermined wireless network, overhead information defined in a media access control layer is divided into a header of information necessary for the common access control and a header of information necessary for each payload. Address information is added to the header of information necessary for the common access control to transmit the generated header attached to the transmission data. For example, in a case of forming a physical burst in which a plurality of data payloads are combined into one, a frame structure is provided without useless repetition of address information.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a detecting section configured to detect a plurality of objects by type from one input image; a generating section configured to generate image data on each of the objects detected by the detecting section as images of respective different picture frames by types of the objects; and a processing section configured to subject the images of the different picture frames, the images of the different picture frames being generated by the generating section, to processing according to one of a setting and a request.

Abstract: A laser device, includes: a fundamental wave generating portion configured to generate a plurality of fundamental waves having wavelengths which are different from each other in at least one set thereof, the fundamental wave generating portion having a semiconductor laser having a plurality of luminous points, and a Bragg reflection structure; and a nonlinear optical element in which a poling structure adapted to pseudophase matching for the wavelengths of the plurality of fundamental waves emitted from the fundamental wave generating portion, respectively, is formed variatively along a propagating direction of the plurality of fundamental waves.

Abstract: A memory element 10 includes a memory layer 4 positioned between a first electrode 2 and a second electrode 6, in which an element selected from Cu, Ag, and Zn is contained in the memory layer 4 or in a layer 3 in contact with the memory layer 4, a resistance of the memory element 10 is changed by a voltage applied to the memory element 10 to perform recording of information, and in an erasing process of changing from a recorded state of low resistance value of the memory element 10 to an erased state of high resistance value of the memory element 10, a fluctuation, which is caused by an increase of the voltage applied to the memory element 10, of the resistance value of the memory element 10 at the end of the erasing process is within ten times at a maximum.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a multiprocessor system including: a plurality of sub-processors operatively coupled to one another over a ring bus, whereby data may be transmitted over one or more paths on the ring bus between pairs of the sub-processors; and a plurality of programmable delay circuits, each associated with at least one of the sub-processors, and each being operable to alter a delay of data transfer at least one of into and out of its associated sub-processor in order to alter one or more latencies associated with the paths on the ring bus between pairs of the sub-processors.