Abstract: By providing bio-information and/or environment information between a pair of users, it becomes possible for the users to understand the situation or the feeling of each other more deeply and earlier. A communication system for exchanging the situations and the feelings of both the users is provided without performing optional communication operations, such as a telephone call and an e-mail. The condition or the situation on the transmitter side is to be judged and to be notified to the receiver side by inputting bio-information such as breathing, pulse-beats and heartbeats or environment information such as weather, date and hour, ambient temperature, or alternatively, by comparing, synchronizing and/or relating the bio-information and/or the environment information at present with respect to the bio-information and/or the environment information in the past. With respect to the situation of the receiver side, it is also notified similarly to the transmitter side.

Abstract: A sound-output-control device including an acquisition unit which acquires an anaerobic threshold, a reception unit which receives an input about exercise intensity, a calculation unit which calculates a value indicating a target heart rate of a user on the basis of the acquired anaerobic threshold and the received exercise-intensity input, a detection unit which detects a value indicating the current tempo of a physical exercise done by the user, and a control unit that controls a sound output on the basis of a result of a comparison of the target heart-rate value calculated by the calculation unit and the current physical-exercise-tempo value detected by the detection unit, so as to lead a heart rate of the user so that the heart rate of the user attains the target heart rate is provided.

Abstract: An audio-signal generation device includes a generation circuit which generates track data and an input unit which receives information input by a user. The generation circuit generates the track data on the basis of information about the user's body, information about an exercise to be done, and information about a characteristic of a track to which the user listens during the exercise that are input via the input unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus having its operation controlled electronically responsive to the wax and the wane of the moon. The electronic apparatus includes a moon age calendar (4) for storage of the age of the moon, a timer (3) for timing the current date and time, and an image database (5) for storage of moon images. A display controller (6) retrieves the age of the moon, consistent with the current date of time, from the moon age calendar (4), and reads out a moon image of the moon phase consistent with the age of the moon from the image database (5). An operating panel (9) includes a display area for demonstrating the operating state of the electronic apparatus and another display area for demonstrating the wax and the wane of the moon. The display controller (6) causes the moon image to be read out from an image database (5) and demonstrated in the display area for demonstrating the wane of the moon.

Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of content data each of the plurality of pieces of content data having metadata attached thereto, the metadata including information regarding a status at a time of generation of the piece of content data; a value calculator configured to calculate a recollection value of each of the plurality of pieces of content data using the metadata associated with the piece of content data; a selector configured to select a piece of content data that is to be output, on the basis of the recollection values of the individual pieces of content data calculated by the value calculator; and an output unit configured to output the piece of content data selected by the selector.

Abstract: A walking sensor is attached to a shoe of the user and cooperates with an input device including a detection section detecting a movement of a user's leg, a signal conversion section converting a detection result of the detection section into a control signal, and an output section outputting the control signal to an external device.

Abstract: A processing control method for a portable music playback apparatus includes the steps of determining whether a motion mode of the music playback apparatus is a steady-motion mode that is associated with motion of a user or an unsteady-motion mode that is not associated with the motion of the user by analyzing an output of a motion sensor installed in the music playback apparatus; and switching processing of the music playback apparatus in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determining step.

Abstract: A content searching method includes the steps of: detecting movements of a user as movement information; detecting a movement pattern of the user as key information from the movement information; and searching for a piece of content having a content pattern according to the key information among a plurality of pieces of content.

Abstract: In an image display system that displays the condition of a person under measurement in a visible form, the person carries a PDA (10). The PDA (10) includes a bio-sensor (11) to detect bio-information on the person and an environmental information sensor (12) to acquire information on the environment around the person. The PDA (10) sends the acquired information to an image display device (20) which is connected to the PDA (10) via a network (100). The image display device (20) includes a CPU (29) that judges the condition of the person on the basis of bio-information and environmental information, generates an image representing the condition of the person and displays the image on a display unit (23).

Abstract: By providing bio-information and/or environment information between a pair of users, it becomes possible for the users to understand the situation or the feeling of each other more deeply and earlier. A communication system for exchanging the situations and the feelings of both users is provided without performing optional communication operations, such as a telephone call and an e-mail. The condition or the situation on the transmitter side is to be judged and to be notified to the receiver side by inputting bio-information such as breathing, pulse-beats and heartbeats or environment information such as weather, date and hour, ambient temperature, or alternatively, by comparing, synchronizing and/or relating the bio-information and/or the environment information at present with respect to the bio-information and/or the environment information in the past. With respect to the situation of the receiver side, it is also notified similarly to the transmitter side.

Abstract: Location information obtained from a positioning system 4 and environmental information such as time, temperature, air pressure and the like measured by an environmental information sensor 6 are associated with the reproduction history of music and are recorded in a history storage RAM 14, and music reproduced in the past at the same location as the present location is automatically selected and the music suitable for the location is automatically selected and reproduced based on the location information.

Abstract: A bio-information presenting method and a bio-information presenting device, for presenting to a user bio-information, indicating a movement of a physical organ of the user. The movement of a bodily organ of the user, controlled voluntarily or involuntarily, is fed back to the user, and a background image is stored in a storage unit for subsequent image data for composition. An image processing unit compounds an image of the user, captured by a camera, with a background image. In compounding the images, the image of the user is subjected to fade-in and fade-out in association with an output of a breathing sensor. The user is apprized of the inhalation period, exhalation period and the depth of breathing, based on an image on a display unit. The change in the display image surface represents certain changes in the user's breathing.

Abstract: A capacity control valve is inserted in a flow path connecting a discharge chamber and a crank chamber of a variable capacity compressor and provided with a valve unit and a drive unit. The valve unit has a valve element for opening/closing the flow path or a valve passage of the valve unit. The drive unit has a movable core or plunger for driving the valve element and a communicating path that is formed in the plunger and connects chambers located in both sides of the plunger.

Abstract: A bio-information processing apparatus includes a bio-information sensor for measuring the bio-information of a subject in a non-contact manner and in a nonrestricted manner; and a circuit for estimating the psychological state of the subject and the intensity thereof on the basis of the measured value of the bio-information measured using the bio-information sensor and on the basis of an initial value or a standard value of the measured value.

Abstract: A plasma display device such that fluctuation of discharge start voltage and lowering of luminance would not easily occur, the burning phenomenon of the screen is suppressed, and excellent reliability and long life can be secured, and a method of producing the same, are disclosed. The plasma display device comprises a first panel (10) provided with discharge sustaining electrodes (12) and a dielectric layer (14) on the inside thereof, and a second panel (20) laminated on the first panel (10) so that discharge spaces (4) are formed on the inside of the first panel (10), and the trap density and/or the movable metallic ion density in the dielectric layer (14) is not more than 1×1018 pieces/cm3, preferably not more than 1×1017 pieces/cm3.

Abstract: A bio-information processing apparatus includes a single bio-information sensor for outputting a biological signal including a plurality of measured bio-information values of a subject, an analyzing circuit for analyzing the biological signal separating the bio-information values, and a circuit for estimating the psychological state and intensity of the psychological state of the subject from measured bio-information values included in a plurality of biological signals and from one of initial bio-information values and reference bio-information values.

Abstract: A bio-information processing apparatus includes a plurality of bio-information sensors for obtaining a plurality of measured bio-information values of a subject and outputting the plurality of measured bio-information values as a plurality of biological signals, and a circuit for estimating the psychological state and intensity of the psychological state of a subject from the plurality of biological signals and from one of initial bio-information values and reference bio-information values.

Abstract: A data reproduction apparatus includes a reproduction section that reproduces content, an identification information acquisition section that acquires information to identify the content, and a transmission section that transmits the information acquired in the identification information acquisition section and information unique to the data reproduction apparatus to an information distribution server on a network. A reception section receives information that the information distribution server has selected based on the information to identify the content and information unique to the data reproduction apparatus, and a control section presents the information received by the reception section in sync with the content to be reproduced by the reproduction section.

Abstract: A communication terminal communicating with another terminal via a communication network includes a content selector for selecting content presented in accordance with at least one piece of reference information from information representing a send/receive time by the communication terminal, information representing the content of a sending/receiving operation, information representing an environment of the communication terminal or the other terminal, and information representing a biological condition of a user of the communication terminal or the other terminal; a content data acquisition unit for acquiring data of the selected content by reading the data from a storage device provided in the communication terminal or a recording medium installed in the communication terminal or by receiving the data from an external apparatus; and a content presentation unit for processing the acquired content data and presenting the content using an output unit provided in the communication terminal or using an external

Abstract: A biological sensor device includes a sensor-mounting element worn on part of a user's face from a front surface to a side surface and further includes a number of biological sensors installed on the sensor-mounting element that measure different types of biological conditions of the user.