Abstract: Provided is a portable electronic device including a signal processing unit, a controller that supplies a control signal to the signal processing unit, and a power generation unit that generates an electrical signal as power and supplies the generated electrical signal to the signal processing unit.

Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit, a power generation unit configured to have one or more power generation mechanisms and to generate electric power necessary for re-writing information displayed on the display unit, and a housing configured to have a substantial flat plate shape as a whole and to accommodate the display unit and the power generation unit. Generation of electric power by at least one power generation mechanism among the one or more power generation mechanisms is associated with an input operation performed by a user.

Abstract: An information processing device, method, program, and electronic apparatus are provided for operating an information processing device without a sense of discomfort regardless of a distance between the information processing device and a user. The information processing device, method, program, and electronic apparatus detect a subject from an image and extract a feature point from the subject. The feature point is converted into a coordinate point based on a movement distance of the subject and an image distance. The image distance being a distance between the subject and where the image is captured.

Abstract: Provided is a portable electronic device including a signal processing unit, a controller that supplies a control signal to the signal processing unit, and a power generation unit that generates an electrical signal as power and supplies the generated electrical signal to the signal processing unit.

Abstract: An information processing device, method, program, and electronic apparatus are provided for operating an information processing device without a sense of discomfort regardless of a distance between the information processing device and a user. The information processing device, method, program, and electronic apparatus detect a subject from an image and extract a feature point from the subject. The feature point is converted into a coordinate point based on a movement distance of the subject and an image distance. The image distance being a distance between the subject and where the image is captured.

Abstract: A head positioning control apparatus and method which compensates for positional deviation of a magnetic head with respect to the positioning of the head on a particular track of a disc recording medium via a tracking control. Additionally, during a seek mode of the apparatus, a head that was positioned as a result of the tracking control is moved to a neighboring track of the disc recording medium. The seek mode uses the information obtained during the tracking mode to correct any disturbance frequencies occurring in synchronism with the rotational frequency of the disc recording medium, even if the head travels over a large distance.

Abstract: A head positioning control apparatus and a method therefor are capable of significantly improving the head positioning accuracy in a simple configuration. Head moving means moves a head from a first target track on a disc recording medium, on which the head is now positioned as a result of a tracking control, to a neighboring position of the next second target track based on frequency correction coefficients derived from frequency correcting means when the tracking control was performed based on a position error signal, so that a disturbance frequency occurring in synchronism with the rotational frequency of the disc recording medium can be corrected even in an operation in which the head moving means causes the head to travel over a large amount, thereby making it possible to realize a head positioning control apparatus and a method therefor which are capable of significantly improving the head positioning accuracy in a simple configuration.

Abstract: A magnetic disk drive device that includes a disk-shaped medium with a magnetic film formed on a surface for recording or reproducing information, and a magnetic head for recording on and reproducing information from the disk-shaped medium. The disk-shaped medium has a data recording region and a control signal recording region. The data recording region is impressed to have convex recording regions for recording data and concave guard bands for separating adjacent recording regions. The control signal recording region has impressed concavities and convexities representing tracking marks (for effecting tracking control of the magnetic head), track number indicating marks and track numbers (for identifying the tracks), and clock marks dividing one circumference into equal intervals along a path of angular movement of the magnetic head.

Abstract: A data for measuring deviation between a recording head and a playback head easily for correctly reproducing data despite such deviation. A playback signal amplitude detection circuit 23 detects the amplitude of playback signals of test data from a playback amplifier 15, while adders 51, 52 cumulatively sum the amplitude values of playback signals in a pre-set group of sectors and those in another pre-set sector of groups on a magnetic disc 21 supplied from the playback signal amplitude detection circuit 23. A subtractor 50 computes a difference between a first sum value from the adder 51 and a second sum value from the adder 52 and routes the difference to a controller 11. The controller detects deviation between the recording head and the playback head from the difference value. When recording or reproducing actual data, the controller 11 causes the position of the recording head or the playback head to be corrected on the basis of the detected deviation.

Abstract: A data for measuring deviation between a recording head and a playback head easily for correctly reproducing data despite such deviation. A playback signal amplitude detection circuit 23 detects the amplitude of playback signals of test data from a playback amplifier 15, while adders 51, 52 cumulatively sum the amplitude values of playback signals in a pre-set group of sectors and those in another pre-set sector of groups on a magnetic disc 21 supplied from the playback signal amplitude detection circuit 23. A subtractor 50 computes a difference between a first sum value from the adder 51 and a second sum value from the adder 52 and routes the difference to a controller 11. The controller detects deviation between the recording head and the playback head from the difference value. When recording or reproducing actual data, the controller 11 causes the position of the recording head or the playback head to be corrected on the basis of the detected deviation.

Abstract: A magnetic disk drive device that includes a disk-shaped medium with a magnetic film formed on a surface for recording or reproducing information, and a magnetic head for recording on and reproducing information from the disk-shaped medium. The disk-shaped medium has a data recording region and a control signal recording region. The data recording region is impressed to have convex recording regions for recording data and concave guard bands for separating adjacent recording regions. The control signal recording region has impressed concavities and convexities representing tracking marks (for effecting tracking control of the magnetic head), track number indicating marks and track numbers (for identifying the tracks), and clock marks dividing one circumference into equal intervals along a path of angular movement of the magnetic head.

Abstract: A magnetic or optical disc device which can correctly follow the eccentricity of an eccentrically chucked disk and which can immediately follow the eccentricity of the new disk face when there is a changeover of the disc being accessed operates with a disc having data tracks provided with uniformly spaced clock marks for providing a timing standard and includes a reproduction circuit for reproducing data from the disc, a clock sampling circuit for extracting a first clock signal output by the reproduction circuit, an eccentricity magnitude memory section for storing a signal corresponding to the eccentricity of the data tracks with respect to the axis of rotation of the disc; a clock correction section.

Abstract: A communication system which is capable of proper cipher communications with many and unspecific parties and of making all the entities share a common key and which does not require the change of its own secret information even if the public information is altered for the security purposes. In the communication system, a shared cipher key is changeable with only the change of a control variable of a server without the change of code figures of clients. Accordingly, the system operation to change the shared cipher key is possible at a short-time internal, which significantly improve the security of the cipher system. In addition, with the server control variable being set to a specific value, a client group belonging to a server can share the same cipher key. Thus, an in-group cipher is decipherable with only the server control in particular situations such as urgent situations.

Abstract: A magnetic or optical disc device that can correctly follow the eccentricity of an eccentrically chucked disc operates with a disc having data tracks provided with uniformly spaced clock marks for providing a timing standard and includes a reproduction head mounted on a turnable arm arranged for movement relative to the disc and a head traveling radial position detector attached to the arm that detects the rotational angle and produces a head position signal. A home index signal is detected and used along with the radial position signal and a derived clock signal to measure eccentricity magnitude that is stored in a memory and subsequently accessed for use in generating a control signal for a phase lock loop that provides an eccentricity adjusted clock signal.

Abstract: A magnetic or optical disc device which can correctly follow the eccentricity of an eccentrically chucked disk and which can immediately follow the eccentricity of the new disk face when there is a changeover of the disc being accessed operates with a disc having data tracks provided with uniformly spaced clock marks for providing a timing standard and includes a reproduction circuit for reproducing data from the disc, a clock sampling circuit for extracting a first clock signal output by the reproduction circuit, an eccentricity magnitude memory section for storing a signal corresponding to the eccentricity of the data tracks with respect to the axis of rotation of the disc; a clock correction section.

Abstract: A disc recording/reproducing apparatus includes a tracking servo system in which a recording/reproducing head is moved based upon a target position signal indicating its pre-set target position on a disc-shaped recording medium and in which the recording/reproducing head is controlled in its position by a driving unit which employs an output of a controller which is supplied with a position signal obtained by subtracting a deviation from a pre-set target position from the target position signal. The apparatus also includes an eccentricity data storage unit for storing eccentricity data indicating the tracking position of the recording/reproducing head which depends upon eccentricity of the disc-shaped recording medium. The eccentricity data from the eccentricity data storage unit is summed to the target position signal for controlling the position of the recording/reproducing head.

Abstract: A magnetic or optical disc device which can correctly follow the eccentricity of an eccentrically chucked disk and Which can immediately follow the eccentricity of the new disk face when there is a changeover of the disc being accessed operates with a disc having data tracks provided with uniformly spaced clock marks for providing a timing standard and includes a reproduction circuit for reproducing data from the disc, a clock sampling circuit for extracting a first clock signal output by the reproduciton circuit, an eccentricity magnitude memory section for storing a signal corresponding to the eccentricity of the data tracks with respect to the axis of rotation of the disc; a clock correction section.

Abstract: In an apparatus for timer reservation recording, previously inputted reservations for a program are recorded in a habit database together with a degree of certainty which is reviewed according to the frequency of reservation inputting for the program. When a timer reservation is made, reservations are found in the habit database and displayed in order according to their probability of being for the same program for which a reservation is being made, thereby assisting the user to easily and positively make a timer reservation for a desired program.