Abstract: A smart keyless entry system having an on-vehicle apparatus installed in a vehicle and a portable device configured to communicate with the on-vehicle apparatus includes a location calculating unit configured to calculate a location of the portable device through communication between the on-vehicle apparatus and the portable device, and a vertical-position calculating unit configured to calculate a vertical position of the portable device, wherein the on-vehicle apparatus and the portable device communicate with each other under conditions adjusted in response to the calculated vertical position of the portable device, and wherein control is performed based on the calculated location of the portable device.

Abstract: A position detection system performs first through third processes to measure, using high-frequency signals, a position of a slave device in a measurement area surrounded by parent devices. The first process measures distances between the slave device and each of the master devices a plurality of times, to obtain a minimum value of each of the distances. The second process obtains a position of an intersection point of two arcs among arcs respectively having the minimum value of each of the distances as a radius from respective centers of the master devices when a number of intersection points of the two arcs within the measurement area is one. The third process regards a center of gravity of the intersection points as a true position of the slave device when the intersection points are densely arranged.

Abstract: In a position detection system that has a plurality of transmitters/receivers placed at least three positions: processing is executed to measure distances among the plurality of transmitters/receivers, each distance being measured a plurality of times, and obtain a minimum value for each distance; processing is executed to obtain an angle between each two adjacent straight lines, each of which is one of straight lines that mutually connect the plurality of transmitters/receivers, by using minimum values, each of which is the minimum value for each distance; and if the absolute value of the difference between 180 degrees and the sum of angles, each of which is the angle between each two adjacent straight lines, inside a triangle formed by straight lines that interconnect three of the plurality of transmitters/receivers is smaller than a predetermined value, processing is executed to take the minimum values as the true values of the distances.

Abstract: A controller identifies, when a contact position of a finger is detected by a detector, an object on a screen of a display device designated by the contact made on an input surface, on the basis of the contact position detected by the detector. When the object on the screen is identified, the control unit selects the object as an object to be moved, according to pressing force detected by the detector. When the contact position detected by the detector moves, with the object on the screen kept selected as the object to be moved, the controller moves such object to be moved on the screen, according to the movement of the contact position.

Abstract: An input device includes an operating surface at which touch operations relating to changing a display form of a display object are performed, a contact sensor configured to detect touch operations as to the operating surface, a pressure sensor configured to detect pressing operations as to the operating surface, a tactile feedback presentation element configured to present tactile feedback corresponding to operations detected by the touch sensor, and a tactile feedback controller configured to control the tactile feedback presented by the tactile feedback presentation element. In a case where an operation detected by the touch sensor is a specified operation specified beforehand out of the contact operations relating to changing the display form, the tactile feedback controller causes the tactile feedback presentation element to present tactile feedback corresponding to that specified operation.

Abstract: Included are an operating surface, a touch sensor configured to detect touch operations of an operating member as to the operating surface, a pressure sensor configured to detect a pressing operation on the operating surface by the operating member, a tactile feedback presenting element configured to present tactile feedback, and a tactile feedback controller configured to control tactile feedback that the tactile feedback presenting element presents. When the touch sensor detects that a position indicated on a display screen by an operation as to the operating surface is an object on the display screen or a specified region of the display screen, and further the pressure sensor detects that a predetermined pressing operation has been performed as to an object region, the tactile feedback controller causes the tactile feedback presenting element to present tactile feedback corresponding to a double-clicking operation.

Abstract: A detectable region having a large area is provided in an input panel below a surface panel. An input operation region is provided in part of the detectable region, and the position and the area of the input operation region can be changed within the detectable region. An input processing apparatus is provided with a responding force generator, and the responding force generator is set to different operation states between when a digit touches the input operation region and when a digit touches a non-operation region that is around the input operation region.

Abstract: A position detection system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of fixed stations 20; and a sensor unit 10 including an inertial sensor that detects movement history of a mobile body 51 and a distance sensor that detects separation distances between the mobile body 51 and the fixed stations 20. A position of the mobile body 51 is determined by detecting a first arrival position P1 obtained based on the movement history, a second arrival position P2 obtained based on the separation distances, and a relative distance L1 between the first arrival position P1 and the second arrival position P2, and by comparing a range value R1 obtained based on the movement history with the relative distance L1. The range value R1 is changed based on the movement history.

Abstract: Accelerations (Ax, Ay, Az) in directions along (X?, Y?, Z?) detected by an acceleration sensor 10 are converted, based on a correction angle ?, which is an angle between a first detection axis X? and a first posture axis X, into accelerations (Bx By, Bz) in directions along three posture axes (X, Y, Z). A pitch angle ? and a roll angle ß, which indicate a posture of a portion to which the wearable device is attached, are calculated based on the accelerations (Bx By, Bz) obtained by the conversion based on the correction angle ?.

Abstract: A tactile sensation reproduction apparatus, includes an input device; and a control unit, wherein the input device includes a plurality of operation bodies that protrude in an opposite direction from the case, a position detection device that detects a protruded position of each of the operation bodies from the case, and a motor that provides a force to each of the operation bodies, wherein when it is detected that one of the operation bodies is moved toward the case earlier than the other of the operation bodies based on the detection signal from the position detection device, the control unit drives the motor such that the other of the operation bodies is also moved toward the case.

Abstract: A tactile-sensation-reproducing apparatus includes input devices. In each of the input devices, two first operation members and one second operation member project from the case. The input device is operated with the second operation member held with a thumb and the first operation members held with index and middle fingers, respectively, as if an object were held. A control signal is transmitted from a control unit to a motor provided in the case, and reaction forces exerted by the first operation members and the second operation member are applied to the fingers, respectively. The reaction forces applied to the fingers are simulated as a sensation of hardness, softness, or elasticity of the object.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a substrate that is flexible and thermally deformable, and a composite piezoelectric body disposed on the substrate. Output in accordance with deformation of the composite piezoelectric body is obtained. The composite piezoelectric body includes a piezoelectric layer containing an organic binder containing piezoelectric particles, a first electrode layer stacked on a first surface side of the piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode stacked on a second surface side of the piezoelectric layer. The substrate is insert molded and integrated with a molded resin body having a curved shape.

Abstract: A system for printing on a three-dimensional object includes: a recording head; a three-dimensional object supporting device supporting a three-dimensional object rotatively with a shaft member as a center; a print control section causing the recording head to print an image on the three-dimensional object while rotating the three-dimensional object by the three-dimensional object supporting device, and causing the three-dimensional object supporting device to support the three-dimensional object at a designated angle, for each of designated angles, and causing the recording head to print divided images on the three-dimensional object, the divided images being set with respect to the designated angles; an image accepting section that receives the print image; and an image dividing section that divides the print image received by the image accepting section in association with the designated angles to set the divided images to the designated angles.

Abstract: A system for printing on a three-dimensional object includes: a recording head; a three-dimensional object supporting device supporting a three-dimensional object rotatively with a shaft member as a center; a print control section causing the recording head to print an image on the three-dimensional object while rotating the three-dimensional object by the three-dimensional object supporting device, and causing the three-dimensional object supporting device to support the three-dimensional object at a designated angle, for each of designated angles, and causing the recording head to print divided images on the three-dimensional object, the divided images being set with respect to the designated angles; an image accepting section that receives the print image; and an image dividing section that divides the print image received by the image accepting section in association with the designated angles to set the divided images to the designated angles.

Abstract: A socket for electronic components configured to connect each electrode terminal of an electronic component to a wiring of a wiring board with a shield member having electrical conductivity and multiple openings being disposed on the wiring board, with a contact unit configured to electrically conduct the electrode terminal of the electronic component and the wiring of the wiring board PB being disposed in the openings, and with the contact unit including a ground contacting portion configured to electrically conduct with the shield member, and when the contact unit is for grounding, grounding is performed by the ground contacting portion and the shield member being brought into contact and electrically conducting.

Abstract: In an authentication method between communication devices, the authentication method being used for identifying a communication device to serve as a target of communication among a plurality of communication devices including a first communication device and a second communication device and establishing a connection for communication, the first communication device receives a signal the second communication device transmits, detects first displacement information relating to the positional change of the second communication device, from a change in the intensity of the received signal and a change in the phase thereof, performs first determination by comparing the first displacement information with first held information preliminarily set, and identifies the second communication device as a target of communication on the basis of the result of the first determination.

Abstract: A socket for electronic components configured to connect each electrode terminal of an electronic component to a wiring of a wiring board with a shield member having electrical conductivity and multiple openings being disposed on the wiring board, with a contact unit configured to electrically conduct the electrode terminal of the electronic component and the wiring of the wiring board PB being disposed in the openings, and with the contact unit including a ground contacting portion configured to electrically conduct with the shield member, and when the contact unit is for grounding, grounding is performed by the ground contacting portion and the shield member being brought into contact and electrically conducting.

Abstract: An electronic component socket includes a housing having a housing portion surrounded with a side wall and a bottom wall; multiple terminals to be disposed so as to pass through the bottom wall of the housing; and a metal plate configured to form at least a portion of the bottom wall of the housing, having multiple through-holes containable with the multiple terminals; with the plurality of terminals including a contact portion contactable with an electrode of an electronic component containable with the housing, and a connection portion connectable with a round of a substrate allocatable on the opposite side of the housing of the bottom wall; and with the metal plate being embedded in the housing so that a portion thereof is exposed.

Abstract: When the mode is switched to a motion detection mode, using a changeover switch, the mode is switched to the motion detection mode by pressing the changeover switch. In this mode, motion detection is performed by moving a hand in an area to be operated. When the mode is switched from the motion detection mode to a normal mode, the hand is moved away from the area to be operated, or the changeover switch is again pressed. Moreover, when the hand is distant from a capacitive sensor, it is determined that a motion input operation is being performed. When the hand is close to the capacitive sensor, it is determined that no motion input operation is being performed, and thus the motion detection mode is changed.

Abstract: A contact structure for electroconductively connecting between an electronic part and a board includes a contact member, which is provided between the electronic part and the board, having a leg portion for electroconductively connecting between the electronic part and the board. The leg portion of the contact member can be bent and deformed in a simple and reliable manner by utilizing internal stress even if the contact member is formed very fine corresponding to forming the electronic part very fine, and thus, the leg portion of the contact member can appropriately serve as an elastic contact member The contact member can absorb distortion due to thermal expansion coefficient differences between the electronic part and the board, thereby ensuring electroconductive connection between the electronic part and the board.