Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic timepiece includes a cylindrical exterior case, a bezel and a windshield member. In the exterior case, a circuit board is housed. The bezel is formed of a metal material to be ring-shaped, includes an inward flange part that projects from an inner side surface toward a center of the ring-shaped bezel, is arranged on an outer upper side of the exterior case and is electrically connected with the circuit board. The windshield member is formed of a transparent dielectric substance, arranged in the bezel and supported by the inward flange part. The bezel is configured to resonate with a radio wave having a desired frequency by adjustment of at least one of (i) a relative permittivity of the dielectric substance and (ii) an area of an overlap region where the inward flange part and the windshield member overlap each other.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes an exterior case, one or more circuits housed in the exterior case, wherein the one or more circuits are configured to process a signal in a radio wave having a predetermined frequency, and a bezel disposed on an outer side of the exterior case, wherein the bezel comprises a metal portion configured to resonate with the radio wave, and wherein the metal portion of the bezel is electrically connected to the one or more circuits to transmit the signal in the radio wave received by the metal portion of the bezel to the one or more circuits. A method for assembling the electronic timepiece is further provided.

Abstract: In the case where a ticking timing of a clock unit changes, a CPU of an electronic timepiece outputs a synchronization request signal to a CPU of a display module at the next ticking timing after the change so as to request resynchronization. Each time a timer circuit counts a prescribed number of pulses in a clock signal generated by a clock generation circuit on the basis of the ticking timing, the CPU of the display module instructs a liquid crystal driver circuit to invert the polarity of an AC voltage to be applied to a liquid crystal panel. Moreover, upon receiving the synchronization request signal from the CPU of the electronic timepiece, the CPU of the display module sets the timer circuit to start a new count of the clock.

Abstract: An attendance registration device including a processor that executes: a reception process of receiving input according to a first method or input according to a second method of identification information corresponding to a target person whose attendance needs to be registered; and a registration process of registering attendance by associating the identification information received in the reception process with an attendance type input at a predetermined timing, wherein in the registration process, an attendance type input prior to the input of the identification information is subjected to attendance registration in association with the identification information when an input method of the identification information whose input has been received in the reception process is the first method, and an attendance type input after the input of the identification information is subjected to attendance registration in association with the identification information when the input method of the identification

Abstract: An antenna device including an antenna which is made of metal and receives radio wave, a substrate on which a first electrode and a second electrode are arranged such that one of the first electrode and the second electrode is plurally arranged, and are positioned on circumference of a circle centering on center of the antenna, and a connection section which connects a connection target first electrode to the antenna and connects a connection target second electrode to the antenna.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquirer which acquires a face image and a controller. The controller generates an image depicted by at least one of multiple kinds of parameter making up a color space on a basis of the face image acquired by the acquirer, detects a particular image region in the generated image by setting multiple sizes, and sets the detected image region as a region on which a designated processing is to be performed.

Abstract: An insert molding component includes a primary molding section with a concave portion formed on one surface thereof, an insert component disposed on a bottom side of the concave portion of the primary molding section, a heat-insulating component disposed in the concave portion of the primary molding section and disposed on a top of the insert component, and a secondary molding section disposed in contact with the one surface of the primary molding section.

Abstract: An insert molding includes a lithium-ion battery, temperature measurement element and a pressure measurement element disposed close to the lithium-ion battery to sense temperature and pressure around the lithium-ion battery during insert molding; and a molding resin that covers the lithium-ion battery, the temperature measurement element, the pressure measurement element and a cover member.

Abstract: A satellite radiowave receiving device includes a receiver receiving radiowaves transmitted from a positioning satellite; and a processor performing a positioning operation using the radiowaves received by the receiver. If the receiver starts receiving radiowaves for the positioning operation, the processor obtains date and time information based on radiowaves received from a single positioning satellite after the receiver starts receiving radiowaves. The processor preforms a positioning calculation using the obtained date and time information and preliminarily retained positional information on the positioning satellite.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51 and an image processing unit 53. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires a face image. The image processing unit 53 acquires a face image which has been acquired by the acquisition unit 51 and has been adjusted by at least one type of adjustment and synthesizes a plurality of face images including the adjusted face image, using map data in which a predetermined region of a face has been set as a transparent region on the basis of a three-dimensional shape of the face.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51 and an image processing unit 53. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires a face image. The image processing unit 53 adjusts the brightness of the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit 51. The image processing unit 53 combines the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit 51 with the adjusted image, using map data (map) in which a predetermined region of the face is set as a transparent region on the basis of a three dimensional shape of the face.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51, an image processing unit 53, a mask image creation processing unit 54, and a processed image creation processing unit 55. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires a face image. The image processing unit 53 adjusts the brightness of the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit 51. The image processing unit 53 combines the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit 51 with the processed face image, using map data in which a predetermined region of a face is set as a transparent region on the basis of the reflection state of light emitted to the face.

Abstract: An antenna device including a case main body made of synthetic resin, an antenna made of metal and provided on an upper portion of the case main body so as to receive radio waves, an electronic component provided on a side portion of the case main body, and a protective connection member which includes a protection section which protects the electronic component and a connection section which is connected to the antenna.

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a communicator and a processor. The communicator wirelessly communicates with another wireless communication device. The processor controls the communicator to send an advertisement to the another wireless communication device at a predetermined time interval. The advertisement includes identification information identifying the wireless communication device. The processor changes sending settings on the basis of elapsed time from a start of the sending of the identification information.

Abstract: A casing is constituted by four constituent surfaces. When a page-turner is to be accommodated, a holding table for holding a book in an opened state and a page-turning main body section which turns pages of the book are accommodated in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped area formed by the four constituent surfaces. Here, in consideration of workability at the time of use, the page turner is accommodated such that the page-turning main body section is positioned on the upper side and two holding plates constituting the holding table are positioned on the lower side with the casing standing upright. The page-turning main body section is supported from below by one holding plate and the other holding plate positioned diagonally to the page-turning main body section without a special supporting means being provided.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores, before performance of a musical piece on the electronic musical instrument by a performer begins, pitch variation data that represents differences between fundamental tone frequencies of notes in a melody of the musical piece and fundamental tone frequencies of notes in prescribed singing voice waveform data; and a sound source that outputs a pitch-adjusted carrier signal to be received by a waveform synthesizing device that generates synthesized waveform data based on the pitch-adjusted carrier signal, the pitch-adjusted carrier signal being generated on the basis of the pitch variation data acquired from the memory and performance instruction pitch data that represent pitches specified by the performer during the performance of the musical piece on the electronic musical instrument, the pitch-adjusted carrier signal being generated even when the performer does not sing after performance of the musical piece begins.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic musical instrument, comprising: a plurality of keys; a memory that stores each pattern data showing a combination of a plurality of pitches that comprises a consonance; a speaker; and a processor that executes the following: determining processing for determining whether a combination of the operated keys matches any of the pattern data stored in the memory, first outputting processing for outputting a first sound, when the combination of the operated keys matches any of the pattern data, and second outputting processing for outputting a second sound, when the combination of the operated keys does not match any of the pattern data.

Abstract: A user performing a water sport is appropriately supported. A wrist terminal includes an LCD and an output control unit. The output control unit measures a time from when a swell of a wave occurs or passes until the swell breaks. In addition, the output control unit causes the LCD to display time information of the measured time.

Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter performs a ?? computation process to start the ?? computation based upon the second clock signal with respect to the digital data of music sound if the ?? computation is not under execution when the control signal is outputted by the signal output process, a control process to inhibit the ?? computation based upon the second clock signal from being started with respect to the digital data of music sound until the ?? computation is not under execution when the ?? computation is under execution, and an output process to convert a computation result of the ?? computation process into an analog signal and output the analog signal.

Abstract: A printing device includes a print head that prints an image on a print medium while moving relatively to the print medium, a sensor that detects an amount of movement and a moving direction of a body of the printing device that are relative to the print medium, and a processor, wherein the processor causes the print head to execute printing of a first image according to the amount of movement when the moving direction that is detected by the sensor is a first direction, determines whether the body is separated from the print medium based on a detection result of the sensor after printing of the first image is finished, and causes the print head to execute printing of a second image according to the amount of movement when, after separation is determined, the sensor detects movement in a second direction that is a direction different from the first direction.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a first memory storing a plurality of waveform data; and a second memory having a plurality of waveform buffer regions that respectively function as ring buffers, wherein one of a processor or a sound source executes the following: setting a plurality of threshold margin values respectively for the plurality of waveform buffer regions, at least some of the threshold margin values are different from each other; identifying, at a prescribed timing, among the plurality of waveform buffer regions, a waveform buffer region in which a waveform read margin calculated for said waveform buffer region reaches the threshold margin value set and assigned to said waveform buffer region; and stopping a sound that has been generated from the waveform data read from the waveform buffer region that is identified by the identified process.

Abstract: Processor displays avatar to move from a starting coordinate to first movement destination coordinates in accordance with each instruction in first instruction set. Processor records coordinates after movement by instructions in the first instruction set, as first group, in accordance with instruction included in the first instruction set. Processor returns avatar to the before starting movement coordinates and displays avatar. Processor displays avatar to move from the before starting movement coordinates to second movement destination coordinates in accordance with each instruction in second instruction set. Processor records coordinates after movement by instructions in the second instruction set.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a display, a driver that drives the display, and a CPU that controls the driver. The CPU inverts, in a time less than or equal to a reference inversion time and at an inversion timing of a constant polarity inversion cycle, a polarity of a voltage to be applied to the display. Additionally, the CPU outputs image data to the driver at an image update timing of a cycle that is synchronized with the inversion cycle and that is equivalent to a reference cycle equal to the inversion cycle multiplied by an inverse of an integer. The image update timing is a time when a reference adjustment time elapses after a timing of the reference cycle. The reference adjustment time is less than a time of the reference cycle and greater than or equal to the reference inversion time.

Abstract: It is possible to provide map information beyond a range held in a map information providing apparatus in advance even in an environment in which connection to the mobile communication network is difficult or impossible. A map information providing system S includes a map server 3 that is an external apparatus holding first map information of a relatively wide map range, a portable map transmitting apparatus 2 that downloads third map information within the range of the first map information from the map server 3 and holds the third map information, and a wrist terminal 1 that is a map information providing apparatus for providing a user with map information on the basis of second map information held in the wrist terminal.

Abstract: A stand installation plate that is a mounting plate for fixing an imaging apparatus stand at a predetermined angle is attached to a constituent surface corresponding to a back portion of a casing with a screw. This stand installation plate is horizontally rotatable with the screw as a rotation axis. At a predetermined position on the stand installation plate, a male screw that is a fixing section is provided. When using a page turner, a user installs the imaging apparatus stand on the stand installation plate such that the male screw is inserted into a hole formed in a bottom plate of a leg section. Then, by screwing a cap provided with a female screw into the male screw, the user fixed the imaging apparatus stand on the stand installation plate.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a memory which stores a program and a processor which executes the program stored in the memory to acquire a plurality of picked-up images picked up by a plurality of image pickup systems, calculate a white balance of each of the plurality of acquired picked-up images, set a white balance of a joint of the plurality of picked-up images, individually calculate interpolated values between the calculated white balances and the set white balance of the joint by an interpolation function, individually and continuously vary the white balances in the plurality of picked-up images based on the calculated interpolated values to correct the white balances, individually adjust the plurality of picked-up images based on the calculated white balance of each of the plurality of picked-up images, the white balance of the joint, and the corrected white balances, and synthesize the plurality of adjusted picked-up images to generate a wide angle image.

Abstract: A timepiece including a GPS receiver that receives a radio wave from a positioning satellite, a time counter that performs a time count operation, and a processor, the processor being configured to: corrects a time count of the time counter in accordance with time and date information included in the radio wave from the positioning satellite received by the GPS receiver; acquires a temperature in the timepiece; acquires a voltage of a battery; and controls a receive operation at the GPS receiver in accordance with the temperature and the voltage.

Abstract: A casing has a guide sheet attached or printed on the inner side thereof which has a written guide such as an illustration for informing a user of an installation position of a page-turning main body section and an installation position of an imaging apparatus stand for each book size. This guide sheet has written thereon markers each representing a placement position on a holding table for each book size and symbols each representing an installation position of the page-turning main body section adapted to a book size with the holding table on the casing as a reference for each of the markers. Also, on the guide sheet, installation positions of the page-turning main body section are written corresponding to the symbols.

Abstract: A display control method executed by a client terminal, includes: accepting a first and second formulas; displaying a first coordinate system having a first coordinate range corresponding to the first formula, in a first area, and a second coordinate system having a second coordinate range corresponding to the second formula, in a second area, on a display screen of a display; accepting a user operation of moving one area of first and second areas to overlap at least a part of the one area onto the other area of the first and second areas; and in response to the user operation, displaying, on the display screen, an integrated coordinate system having a coordinate range for integration determined based on the first and second coordinate ranges, and drawing first and second graphs representing the first and second formulas, at the integrated coordinate system.

Abstract: A wheel train device including a dial plate having a display area provided between a central portion and an outer peripheral portion, a wheel train section having a pointer wheel to which a pointer that moves above the display area is attached, a supporting member which supports the wheel train section in an area corresponding to the display area, and a plurality of shaft attachment holes which are provided in a plurality of positions of the supporting member and to which the pointer wheel is selectively attached in one of the plurality of positions.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic musical instrument that allows a player to learn a certain range covering a key of correct pitch and to feel as if he or she were playing the music. The instrument includes a controller to perform a pitches determination process of, based upon first timing and first pitch included in music data, determining pitches within a fixed range from the first pitch, which is allowed to be designated in accordance with the first timing, a display process of displaying an identifier to identify the pitches determined, and an automatic playing process of advancing automatic playing of the music data by producing sound corresponding to the first pitch from a sound producing unit when one of the pitches identified by the identifier displayed by the display process is designated.

Abstract: A printing device includes a housing having at a bottom surface thereof a print head in which printing elements are arrayed linearly in a main scanning direction, a detector configured to detect a movement distance of the housing in a sub-scanning direction, an inputter configured to input an instruction to start printing, an indicator disposed on an edge portion of the housing and configured to indicate a planned print position on a printing medium, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether the housing has been moved in the sub-scanning direction by a standard distance between the indicator and the print head in the sub-scanning direction after inputting by the inputter of the instruction to start printing, and cause the print head to start printing at a start printing position that is a position to which the housing has been moved in the sub-scanning direction by the standard distance.

Abstract: An imaging device having an imaging lens system includes: an outermost cover member of the imaging lens system; a light source arranged inside the cover member; and a heat dissipation member is configured to dissipate heat of the light source to the cover member, thereby defogging the cover member by heat of the heat dissipation member.

Abstract: A portable electronic timepiece includes a display unit which displays an image, and a processor which is operative to display, on the display unit, route information on a traveling route of a user, switch a scale of the route information displayed on the display unit, and in a case where a given point set in association with the route information of a predetermined scale cannot be displayed within a display range of the display unit, change a display mode of the display unit to a display mode that is different from the display mode of displaying the route information.

Abstract: A graph drawing system includes an electronic device and a calculation server. A first processor of the electronic device transmits calculation inquiry data including information on a function entered by a user operation to the calculation server. A second processor of the calculation server calculates drawing information including coordinates of a plurality of drawing points represented by the function and plotted in a graph drawing area of the display, and continuity/discontinuity information indicating whether or not adjacent points of the drawing points should be connected to each other, based on the calculation inquiry data and transmits the drawing information to the electronic device. The first processor causes the display to display a graph corresponding to the function, based on the drawing information.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a storage that stores specific-region DST application rule information and local time information that includes, in association with each other, DST application rules for each region and standard-wave transmitting station information indicating each station transmitting standard waves receivable in the region; a processor that controls clock time to be kept by a clock circuit and displays time to be displayed on a display; and a standard wave receiver that receives standard waves and obtains time information. The processor calibrates the clock time based on the time information indicated by the standard waves received by the standard wave receiver, and controls the display time based on whether the specific-region DST application rule information and the DST application rule information associated with the standard-wave transmitting station information indicating a station transmitting the received standard waves satisfy a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A printing device includes a printing head configured to print an image on a printing medium while moving relative to the printing medium; a detector configured to detect a relative moving amount of the printing head with respect to the printing medium for each sampling cycle; and a processor configured to perform a first control to cause the printing head to perform printing when a moving speed of the printing head based on the moving amount detected by the detector and the sampling cycle is equal to or higher than a first moving speed at which the moving amount for each the sampling cycle becomes a reference distance corresponding to a print resolution of the printing head, the printing being performed at a timing that is set in accordance with the moving speed.

Abstract: When a page turner is to be accommodated, a holding table is folded, and an air blowing section is rotated and moved toward a side surface of an accommodation case where a page-turning mechanism can be accommodated, whereby the upper surface of the accommodation case and the air blowing port of the air blowing section are substantially flush with each other. Also, an expansion unit is removed from the holding table, and a casing is closed to cover a page-turning main body section constituted by the accommodation case and the air blowing section and the holding table. As a result, the entire page turner is accommodated in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape whose vertical and horizontal size is equal to a vertical and horizontal size of a predetermined book. Finally, the page turner is inserted between a pair of side plates constituting leg sections in an image pickup apparatus stand.

Abstract: A satellite radiowave receiving device includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver acquires and receives radiowaves from a positioning satellite. The processor performing a positioning operation based on the radiowaves received by the receiver to obtain a current position of the satellite radiowave receiving device. The processor causes the receiver to stop an acquiring operation of radiowaves from a new positioning satellite under a predetermined condition while radiowaves are being acquired from a required number of positioning satellite for the positioning operation. If an error range of the obtained current position no longer satisfies a predetermined accuracy standard during a stop of the acquiring operation, the processor causes the receiver to resume the acquiring operation.

Abstract: A data processing method includes: selecting one or more contents from a plurality of contents each of which includes a first plurality of terms, based on a history of search terms and browsing states of the plurality of contents, the search terms having been searched for in a database storing a second plurality of terms and related information of each of the second plurality of terms; and outputting information representing the selected one or more contents.

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a wireless communicator and a processor. The wireless communicator wirelessly communicates with another wireless communication device. The processor controls the wireless communicator to broadcast connection information when reconnection to the other wireless communication device or wireless communication after reconnection with the other wireless communication device fails after termination of a connection with the other wireless communication device. The connection information is information related to the connection.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication device and a processor. The processor receives sensor kind information via the communication device from one of at least one sensor or an electronic measurement instrument to which the at least one sensor is connected, transmits the received sensor kind information to a database storing a combination of a sensor kind and a measurement mode in which measurement contents are defined, acquires, from the database, the measurement mode in accordance with the transmitted sensor kind information, and sets the acquired measurement mode corresponding to one of the at least one sensor or the at least one sensor connected to the electronic measurement instrument.

Abstract: A satellite radiowave receiving device includes a receiver performing a receiving operation of radiowaves transmitted from a positioning satellite and a processor controlling a positioning operation. The processor performs the positioning operation within at least a predetermined maximum positioning interval from a last positioning operation using preliminarily obtained date and time information and valid positional information on the positioning satellite to obtain a current position of the satellite radiowave receiving device and date and time information. The processor causes the receiver to perform the receiving operation within at least a predetermined date and time updating interval shorter than the predetermined maximum positioning interval from a last time when date and time information is obtained from radiowaves transmitted from a positioning satellite to obtain date and time information without the positioning operation.

Abstract: A nail contour detecting device including a processor, wherein the processor obtains first feature point data of a first nail contour which is a nail contour detected from a first nail image obtained by imaging a nail of a finger or a toe, and second feature point data of a second nail contour which is a nail contour detected from a second nail image obtained by imaging a nail of the same finger or toe as the first nail image; and the processor obtains one nail contour based on the first feature point data and the second feature point data.

Abstract: A data acquisition device including a processor which performs processing of eliminating some of a plurality of position data indicating mutually different positions of a moving object, in accordance with a mode signal from an information processing device, and a communication circuit which transmits the position data subjected to elimination processing by the processor to the information processing device.

Abstract: A conversion-to-note apparatus includes: a key which is operated by a user; and a processor. The processor obtains, from a memory, first information and second information. The first information is information to associate a key operation on the key with an open/close state of a tone hole or virtual tone hole. The second information is information to associate the open/close state of the tone hole or virtual tone hole with a note. Further, the processor identifies, based on the first information, the open/close state of the tone hole or virtual tone hole for the key operation detected. Further, the processor determines, based on the second information, the note for the identified open/close state of the tone hole or virtual tone hole.

Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes a plurality of key blocks, and an instrument case. Each key block includes, a plurality of key main bodies, an area of the top surface abutting one edge side of the key main body in a longitudinal direction is pressed by a user; a plurality of connecting sections, the connecting section is deformed in response to be pressed by the user; and a supporting section which supports the plurality of key main bodies as one key block through the plurality of connecting sections. The plurality of supporting sections included in the plurality of key blocks are piled up in a direction intersecting with the longitudinal direction in the instrument case. The plurality of connecting sections included in one key block and the plurality of connecting sections included in another key block are overlapped each other in the instrument case.

Abstract: Measurement accuracy in sports is improved. A wrist terminal includes a measurement information acquiring unit, a reference atmospheric pressure setting unit, and a state determining unit. The reference atmospheric pressure setting unit sets a reference atmospheric pressure. The state determining unit determines that the wrist terminal is located over water when a difference between the reference atmospheric pressure and a current atmospheric pressure after starting sports is within a predetermined atmospheric pressure range and the wrist terminal is located under water when the difference is outside the predetermined atmospheric pressure range. The measurement information acquiring unit 51 performs predetermined measurement on the basis of the determination result from the state determining unit 54.

Abstract: A printing device includes a print head that prints on a print medium image data of a print target and a decorative image and a processor that controls the print head to print image data of the decorative image on the print medium while the printing device that is held by a user moves on the print medium in a first movement, wherein the processor causes the print head to print the image data of the print target in a range that is indicated by the printed decorative image while the held printing device moves on the print medium in a second movement after the image data of the decorative image is printed.

Abstract: A data processing method includes receiving input data for designating a function expression and at least one type of operation to be executed using the function expression without receiving a request for sharing a result of operation corresponding to the received operation, executing the operation, and transmitting the result of the executed operation without storing the result, re-receiving the input data, and receiving the request for sharing the result of the operation corresponding to the re-received operation along with the input data, re-executing the operation corresponding to the re-received operation, and storing a result of the re-executed operation and at least one pointer corresponding to the result of the operation one-to-one so that the result of the re-executed operation is associated with the pointer.