Abstract: An information processing device for transmitting information to be provided to a user to a terminal held by the user, including: current position obtaining means for obtaining the current position of the user of the terminal, based on information transmitted from a signal processing device capable of communicating with the terminal, of a signal processing device connected to itself; searching means for searching the information to be provided to the user from the plurality of information that can be read out by itself, based on the current position information obtained by the current position obtaining means; and transmission means for transmitting the information searched with the searching means to the terminal.

Abstract: An information retaining apparatus of the present invention has a storage unit which retains a plurality of information, an input unit which receives an input from a user, and a determination processing unit which extracts at least some of the plurality of information stored in the storage unit so as to display it according to the input from the input unit or the determination information transmitted from an information processing apparatus connected to the information retaining apparatus via a communication medium and process the information based on the expiration dates of the extracted information and attribute information of the information.

Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a reference electrode; a signal electrode which electrostatically couples to a communication medium; a measurement unit for measuring an impedance of a circuit system including between the reference electrode and the signal electrode; and a transmission processing unit for creating a potential difference between the signal electrode and the reference electrode based on a transmission power corresponding to the impedance of the circuit system measured by the measurement unit, and transmitting a signal to another communication apparatus electrostatically coupled to the communication medium.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an antenna configured to generate a magnetic field corresponding to a signal of a first communication method; and a communication unit configured to perform communication via a communication medium by transmitting/receiving a signal of a second communication method by using a potential difference between the communication unit and a predetermined reference point, the communication unit including a transparent conductive film. The antenna and the communication unit are integrated with each other.

Abstract: In accordance with a plurality of processing requests, a SAM chip generates IC card entity data including job execution order data showing an order of execution of a plurality of jobs forming processing in accordance with a processing request and status data showing a state of progress of execution of said plurality of jobs for each of said processing requests. Further, the SAM chip selects one entity data from said plurality of entity data, selects and executes the job to be executed next based on the status data and processing order data of said selected entity data, and updates the status data in accordance with execution of said job.

Abstract: A true person can be verified with ease and a high degree of reliability. An ATM communicates with a server installed in a data center to carry out a true-person verification such as an organism authentication on the basis of an operation carried out by a user prior to a transaction process to be carried out on an account assigned to the user. When the user touches a predetermined contact area provided on an operation panel of the ATM, the ATM communicates with a portable device attached to the body of the user by using the body of the user as a communication medium. The transaction process is carried out only if the true-person verification such as an organism authentication is successful and a communication with the portable device can be performed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic device including: a solar cell configured to be inferior in absorption efficiency for light having a predetermined wavelength; and a reflective display configured to carry out displaying by reflecting light having the predetermined wavelength and allow transmission of light other than light having the predetermined wavelength. In the electronic device, the reflective display is disposed on an outside face of a device package, and the solar cell is disposed on a backside of the reflective display.

Abstract: An information processing method includes the steps of: detecting a magnetic field variation that occurs in the vicinity of a receiving section that receives a magnetic field signal; determining whether or not a detection result satisfies a predetermined condition that is set in advance; connecting a storage section, which stores information included in the magnetic field signal received by the receiving section, to the receiving section if it is determined that the detection result does not satisfy the condition; and connecting the storage section to a reading section that reads information stored on the storage section, if it is determined that the detection result, satisfies the condition.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus installed at a ticket gate for performing a ticket inspection process, includes an authentication unit for authenticating a communication terminal mounted on a passenger passing through the ticket gate by communicating the communication terminal, the communication terminal communicating using as a communication medium a dielectric material including the human body of the passenger, a ticket inspection unit for performing the ticket inspection process on the communication terminal, a registration unit for registering an identification of the communication terminal, an identification determination unit for determining whether the identification of the communication terminal acquired in communication with the communication terminal is registered by the registration unit, an information acquisition unit for acquiring subscription information of a content stored on the communication terminal, and a delivery unit for delivering the content to the communication terminal in accorda

Abstract: An information processing method includes the steps of: detecting a magnetic field variation that occurs in the vicinity of a receiving section that receives a magnetic field signal; determining whether or not a detection result satisfies a predetermined condition that is set in advance; connecting a storage section, which stores information included in the magnetic field signal received by the receiving section, to the receiving section if it is determined that the detection result does not satisfy the condition; and connecting the storage section to a reading section that reads information stored on the storage section, if it is determined that the detection result satisfies the condition.

Abstract: A user operates a selection panel installed in a shop to select contents which the user wants to review. A reception unit identifies the contents based on the user's operation on the selection panel, acquires an ID of a portable device incorporated in headphones worn by the user, and transmits the ID to a management server. The management server transmits data of the contents to a transmission device, which searches for a signal electrode capable of communicating with the portable device of the user among signal electrodes that are embedded in the floor of the shop. The transmission device transmits a signal representative of the contents from the signal electrode that has been searched for, and the portable device receives the signal transmitted from the transmission device. An audio signal of the contents is output from the headphones.

Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.

Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus includes a soft decision data detection section which detects soft decision data from a received digitally modulated signal; an indicator calculation section which calculates an indicator indicating a degree of variation in the soft decision data detected by the soft decision data detection section; and a packet length control section which controls a packet length in accordance with the indicator calculated by the indicator calculation section.

Abstract: An electromagnetic induction type processing apparatus includes a coil and a functional device. The coil is configured to generate electromotive force from a magnetic field supplied from the outside. The functional device is configured to operate with the electromotive force and containing conductive substance having a conductivity with which eddy current to be generated in the conductive substance by the magnetic field supplied from the outside is suppressed such that the lowest electromotive force for operation of the functional device is assured regardless of a magnetic field generated by the eddy current and acting in the opposite direction to that of the magnetic field supplied from the outside.

Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.

Abstract: A communication system equipped with a communication apparatus for transmitting a transmission signal to another communication apparatus via a communication medium, includes: transmission means for transmitting the transmission signal to the other communication apparatus via the communication medium; detection means for detecting a propagation signal propagated through the communication medium each time a predetermined amount of the transmission signal is transmitted from the transmission means; signal collision judgment means for judging from the propagation signal detected by the detection means whether a signal collision occurs on the communication medium between the transmission signal transmitted from the transmission means and another signal transmitted from the other communication apparatus; and control means for controlling transmission of the transmission signal from the transmission means in accordance with a judgment result by the signal collision judgment means.

Abstract: There is provided a transmission system, including a power supplying apparatus that includes an AC signal generation unit that generates an AC signal, a first resonance unit that has an induction component and/or a capacitance component and resonates the AC signal generated by the AC signal generation unit, and a power supplying electrode that externally radiates the resonated AC signal as a potential difference in an electrostatic field, and a power receiving apparatus that includes a power receiving electrode that generates an electric signal by sensing the potential difference in the electrostatic field, a second resonance unit that has an induction component and/or a capacitance component and resonates the electric signal generated by the power receiving electrode, and a rectification unit that rectifies the resonated electric signal.

Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a reference electrode; a signal electrode which electrostatically couples to a communication medium a measurement unit for measuring an impedance of a circuit system including between the reference electrode and the signal electrode; and a transmission processing unit for creating a potential difference between the signal electrode and the reference electrode based on a transmission power corresponding to the impedance of the circuit system measured by the measurement unit, and transmitting a signal to another communication apparatus electrostatically coupled to the communication medium.

Abstract: A communication system for communicating with a communication terminal located on a communication medium. The system includes a plurality of communicators, disposed in contact with or in proximity to the communication medium, for communicating with the communication terminal via the communication medium, a detector for detecting reception levels of a signal transmitted from the communication terminal and received via the plurality of communicators, and an associator for associating the communication terminal with one of the plurality of communicators by comparing reception levels of the signal transmitted and received by each of the communicators.

Abstract: An electronic money system terminates communication to a management center indistinguishably from a case in which the communication to the management center is completed within a predetermined period when it is impossible to complete the communication to the management center within the predetermined period. By switching an operation mode, a predetermined portable terminal is used instead of a communication line to upload and download data. When it is impossible to obtain data required for processing through the communication line, processing is performed based on data possessed up until that time.