Abstract: A movement supporting method includes the following steps: detecting a movement tempo of a user; determining whether a movement tempo detection value is within a target range; and outputting a warning when the movement tempo detection value is out of the target range.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for calculating the emotion of a human being, the emotion of a user of the apparatus is calculated from the pressure acting on an object. A pressure sensor is provided in a mobile phone and detects the pressure with which the user grips the mobile phone and the pressure exerted by the user in key inputting. An emotion calculating unit calculates emotional data of the user based on the pressures detected by the pressure sensor. The emotion data is a value pertinent to affect-induction as one dimension of an emotional model. The mobile phone feeds the emotion calculated to a user or to a counterpart party of the user or to a counterpart party of a communication with the user.

Abstract: A sound, a video and/or other environments are proposed in tune with the physical condition of a user and a peripheral environmental condition such that it becomes possible for users to feel comfortable and to be satisfied with their sensibility. It is designed to produce an objective sound, video and/or other environments by inputting bio-information of a user such as breathing, pulse-beats and heartbeats or environment information such as weather, date and hour and ambient temperature, by comparing information with the accumulated information utilized in the past, or by setting a condition that the user desires.

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: 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: 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: A body movement detecting apparatus includes a measuring section which outputs, as at least one time-series signal, at least one result of measurement obtained by measuring body movement, a detecting section in which, after slicing off a part of the time-series signal output from the measuring section to generate a reference signal having a predetermined interval length from a predetermined position in the time-series signal, the detecting section detects the intensity of correlation between the reference signal and each different part of the time-series signal in the vicinity of the reference signal, the different part having the predetermined interval length, and a determining section which, on the basis of the detected intensity of correlation detected by the detecting section, performs one or both of determining whether or not the body movement is periodic, and determining the period of the body movement.

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 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 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.