Abstract: An information display apparatus with proximity detection performance contains a display device that displays image information, a sensor constituted of plural detection electrodes, and an adjusting device of detection resolution that adjusts the detection resolution to be detected based on a distance between the sensor and an object that is contacted to any one of the detection electrodes.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image pickup part; a display part; a position detecting part for detecting a position of a target relative to the display part; a face detecting part for detecting a face from a taken image; an attribute obtaining part for obtaining attribute information of the target; a group determining part for determining a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the detected target; a content determining part for determining a content to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information of the target and the attribute information of the target; and a display processing part for displaying content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a sensor unit that detects the three-dimensional position of an object according to variations of electrostatic capacitances; and a control unit that performs display dependent on the detected three-dimensional position at a position on a display unit determined with positions in directions orthogonal to a direction of separation in which the object and the sensor unit are located at a distance from each other.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a key operation section that has one or more operation keys arranged planarly, and outputs a key operation output corresponding to an operation of an operation key; a sensor that outputs a detection output corresponding to a distance of a detection target, spatially separated from a layout surface of the operation key, from the layout surface; a detection section that detects the distance of the detection target from the layout surface from the detection output from the sensor; and a control section that validates only the key operation output corresponding to the operation of the operation key and invalidates the detection output of the sensor when the detected distance is less than a predetermined distance, and executes a control function according to the distance detected by the detection section when the detected distance is equal to or greater than the predetermined distance.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sensor for generating a sensor output signal responsive to the three-dimensional coordinate position of a detection target in a monitor space by detecting a capacitance in the monitor space, and outputting the sensor output signal, a position detector for detecting the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space from the sensor output signal of the sensor, a storage unit for storing coordinate information identifying a three-dimensional space region set in the monitor space, a determining unit for determining whether the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space is contained in the three-dimensional set space region, based on the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target detected by the position detector and the coordinate information stored on the storage, and an output unit for outputting determination results of the determining unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: sensor means for detecting a distance to a detection target spatially separated therefrom; storage means for storing information on boundary values of a plurality of layers to which different functions are respectively assigned, and which are set according to different distances; determination means for determining in which one of the plurality of layers the detection target is positioned, from the boundary values of the plurality of layers in the storage means and an output signal of the sensor means; and control means for executing a process about the function assigned to that layer where the detection target is positioned, based on a determination result from the determination means.

Abstract: An information display apparatus with proximity detection performance contains a display device that displays image information, a sensor constituted of plural detection electrodes, and an adjusting device of detection resolution that adjusts the detection resolution to be detected based on a distance between the sensor and an object that is contacted to any one of the detection electrodes.

Abstract: A contactless power transmitting system includes a power transmitting circuit and a power receiving circuit that are coupled by a transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil. The power transmitting circuit includes a switching power supply having a predetermined frequency. The power receiving circuit includes a capacitor that is connected to the secondary coil and that constitutes a resonating circuit in cooperation with the leakage inductance of the secondary coil and a flyback rectifier circuit. The capacitance of the capacitor is set so that the resonant frequency of the resonating circuit is substantially equal to the predetermined frequency of the switching power supply.

Abstract: A contactless power transmitting system includes a power transmitting circuit and a power receiving circuit which are coupled by a transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil. The power transmitting circuit includes a switching power supply having a predetermined frequency. The power receiving circuit includes a capacitor which is connected to the secondary coil and which constitutes a resonating circuit in cooperation with the leakage inductance of the secondary coil; and a flyback rectifier circuit. The capacitance of the capacitor is set such that the resonant frequency of the resonating circuit is substantially equal to the predetermined frequency of the switching power supply.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for producing an original plate for optical discs, which is allowed to produce original plates for a plurality of kinds of optical discs satisfying various standards. The apparatus includes a laser light generator for generating laser light; a diaphragm mechanism for limiting laser light generated by the laser light generator; and an objective lens for refracting the laser light limited by the diaphragm mechanism in such a manner that the laser light is focussed on a photosensitive layer or a surface layer formed on the original plate; wherein a spot diameter of a beam of the laser light is changed by varying a diaphragm diameter of the diaphragm mechanism.