Abstract: A display control apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first setting unit configured to set, in response to a user instruction, a processing parameter used for predetermined image processing; a processing unit configured to generate processed image data by performing the predetermined image processing on input image data using the processing parameter set by the first setting unit; a second setting unit configured to set a display mode specified by a user from among a plurality of display modes for displaying an image based on the processed image data on a display unit in a brightness range that differs from a brightness range of the input image data; and a recording unit configured to record, in a storage medium, information relating to the display mode set by the second setting unit together with the processing parameter set by the first setting unit.

Abstract: A video processing apparatus according to the present invention acquires a change rate per unit time of a parallax amount that is a shift amount in a direction of an interpupillary distance between a frame-image for left-eye and a frame-image for right-eye of one set. Then, the video processing apparatus determines, based on the change rate, a display parallax amount for displaying an object to be stereoscopically viewed by a user as approaching him at the change rate that is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold. At that time, the display parallax amount is determined such that the object is stereoscopically viewed by the user as approaching him at a change rate smaller than the acquired change rate.

Abstract: A wireless communication device for effecting wireless communication using a short-range wireless communication method having a ranging function, which carries out wireless connection establishment/disconnection control using ranging information. For example, the wireless communication device determines the range to another wireless communication device within wireless communication range, and if it finds a wireless communication device present within a predetermined range establishes a wireless connection with that wireless communication device, and disconnects the connection if the wireless communication device with which the device is in wireless connection passes beyond a predetermined range.

Abstract: A peripheral device acquires the processing load of a display apparatus to which the peripheral device is connected via an interface. In accordance with the processing load acquired, the peripheral device generates a data command for adjusting the load of processing for rendering display data. The display apparatus alters the display data based upon the data command, renders the display data after the alteration thereof and displays the rendered data. As a result, when the peripheral device instructs the display apparatus to subject the display data to rendering process, an increase in length of time it takes to obtain the result of rendering is reduced.

Abstract: A wireless communication device for effecting wireless communication using a short-range wireless communication method having a ranging function, which carries out wireless connection establishment/disconnection control using ranging information. For example, the wireless communication device determines the range to another wireless communication device within wireless communication range, and if it finds a wireless communication device present within a predetermined range establishes a wireless connection with that wireless communication device, and disconnects the connection if the wireless communication device with which the device is in wireless connection passes beyond a predetermined range.

Abstract: A wireless communication device for effecting wireless communication using a short-range wireless communication method having a ranging function, which carries out wireless connection establishment/disconnection control using ranging information. For example, the wireless communication device determines the range to another wireless communication device within wireless communication range, and if it finds a wireless communication device present within a predetermined range establishes a wireless connection with that wireless communication device, and disconnects the connection if the wireless communication device with which the device is in wireless connection passes beyond a predetermined range.

Abstract: By connecting to or mounting a first storage medium that stores image data as a retrieval object (e.g. first memory card 121) and a second storage medium that stores a retrieve condition (e.g. non-volatile memory 111 or second memory card 122), an imaging apparatus 100 can store image data as a retrieval object and a retrieve condition on different storage medium. By replacing the first storage medium with a third storage medium, image retrieval can be executed for a plurality of storage medium using the same retrieve condition.

Abstract: A video processing apparatus according to the present invention acquires a change rate per unit time of a parallax amount that is a shift amount in a direction of an interpupillary distance between a frame-image for left-eye and a frame-image for right-eye of one set. Then, the video processing apparatus determines, based on the change rate, a display parallax amount for displaying an object to be stereoscopically viewed by a user as approaching him at the change rate that is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold. At that time, the display parallax amount is determined such that the object is stereoscopically viewed by the user as approaching him at a change rate smaller than the acquired change rate.

Abstract: By connecting to or mounting a first storage medium that stores image data as a retrieval object (e.g. first memory card 121) and a second storage medium that stores a retrieve condition (e.g. non-volatile memory 111 or second memory card 122), an imaging apparatus 100 can store image data as a retrieval object and a retrieve condition on different storage medium. By replacing the first storage medium with a third storage medium, image retrieval can be executed for a plurality of storage medium using the same retrieve condition.

Abstract: By connecting to or mounting a first storage medium that stores image data as a retrieval object (e.g. first memory card 121) and a second storage medium that stores a retrieve condition (e.g. non-volatile memory 111 or second memory card 122), an imaging apparatus 100 can store image data as a retrieval object and a retrieve condition on different storage medium. By replacing the first storage medium with a third storage medium, image retrieval can be executed for a plurality of storage medium using the same retrieve condition.

Abstract: An apparatus to which an electronic device can be connected, and that acquires a program distributed by the digital broadcast signal and that runs on the electronic device, comprising an extracting unit extracting, from the digital broadcast signal, distribution schedule information pertaining to the program; a unit holding the program; an updating unit executing update processing for updating an existing program in the electronic device with the acquired program, and including a first mode in which an update processing screen is displayed on a display unit and a second mode in which an update processing screen is displayed on a display unit of the electronic device; and a unit controlling the updating unit to execute the update processing in the second mode if an image is being displayed by the displaying unit, and to execute the update processing in the first mode if an image is not being displayed.

Abstract: By connecting to or mounting a first storage medium that stores image data as a retrieval object (e.g. first memory card 121) and a second storage medium that stores a retrieve condition (e.g. non-volatile memory 111 or second memory card 122), an imaging apparatus 100 can store image data as a retrieval object and a retrieve condition on different storage medium. By replacing the first storage medium with a third storage medium, image retrieval can be executed for a plurality of storage medium using the same retrieve condition.

Abstract: A peripheral device acquires the processing load of a display apparatus to which the peripheral device is connected via an interface. In accordance with the processing load acquired, the peripheral device generates a data command for adjusting the load of processing for rendering display data. The display apparatus alters the display data based upon the data command, renders the display data after the alteration thereof and displays the rendered data. As a result, when the peripheral device instructs the display apparatus to subject the display data to rendering process, an increase in length of time it takes to obtain the result of rendering is reduced.

Abstract: A wireless communication device for effecting wireless communication using a short-range wireless communication method having a ranging function, which carries out wireless connection establishment/disconnection control using ranging information. For example, the wireless communication device determines the range to another wireless communication device within wireless communication range, and if it finds a wireless communication device present within a predetermined range establishes a wireless connection with that wireless communication device, and disconnects the connection if the wireless communication device with which the device is in wireless connection passes beyond a predetermined range.

Abstract: In a mobile communication apparatus having a codec which codes first voice data into second voice data and decodes the second voice data into the first voice data, a memory in which the second voice data should be recorded and a silent data generating unit which generates silent data, the second voice data is successively recorded in the memory. While the second data is being recorded, the silent data is recorded in the memory as a substitute for the second voice data which is in a first state. The first state is a state in which the second voice data may be noise data.