Abstract: A voltage regulator includes an output transistor, a voltage division circuit, an error amplifier, a phase compensation circuit connected between the output terminal and the output terminal of the voltage division circuit, and an auxiliary transistor having a source connected to the input terminal, a drain connected to the phase compensation circuit, and a gate connected to the output terminal of the error amplifier through an offset voltage source.

Abstract: A voltage regulator includes an output transistor, a voltage division circuit, an error amplifier, a phase compensation circuit connected between the output terminal and the output terminal of the voltage division circuit, and an auxiliary transistor having a source connected to the input terminal, a drain connected to the phase compensation circuit, and a gate connected to the output terminal of the error amplifier through an offset voltage source.

Abstract: Provided is an overheat detection circuit having a small circuit scale, low cost, and low electric power consumption. The overheat detection circuit implemented in a CMOS semiconductor device includes: a reference voltage circuit connected between a base and an emitter of a parasitic bipolar transistor; and a current detection circuit connected to the emitter of the parasitic bipolar transistor, in which the current detection circuit is configured to detect a flow of a current through the parasitic bipolar transistor to output an overheat detection signal.

Abstract: A motion detection method includes: acquiring, from a terminal device, number of steps and a trembling number based on detection values of an acceleration sensor, and a time period in which the number of steps and the trembling number are detected, by a processor; determining whether the trembling number occurring in a time period with the number of steps of a predetermined number or less exceeds a threshold, out of a time period with the number of steps exceeding the predetermined number, and the time period with the number of steps of the predetermined number or less, by the processor; generating information based on the trembling number when the trembling number exceeds the threshold as a result of the determining, by the processor; and notifying the terminal device of the generated information, by the processor.

Abstract: Provided is an overheat detection circuit having a small circuit scale, low cost, and low electric power consumption. The overheat detection circuit implemented in a CMOS semiconductor device includes: a reference voltage circuit connected between a base and an emitter of a parasitic bipolar transistor; and a current detection circuit connected to the emitter of the parasitic bipolar transistor, in which the current detection circuit is configured to detect a flow of a current through the parasitic bipolar transistor to output an overheat detection signal.

Abstract: A mobile electronic apparatus includes a memory that stores a search range of an object and a processor that executes a process. The process includes acquiring a moving speed of the mobile electronic apparatus, determining the search range of the object on a basis of the moving speed, detecting the object existing within the search range, detecting whether a display unit of the mobile electronic apparatus is in an active state, and notifying that the object is detected when the display unit is detected to be in the active state and the object existing within the search range is detected.

Abstract: A portable information processing apparatus includes a replay processing unit that replays content data, a synchronous display unit that selects a piece of associated information corresponding to a replayed portion of the content data, and instructs to display the associated information thus selected, and an output controlling unit that displays the associated information that is selected by the synchronous display unit in an associated information display area arranged in a display unit. The synchronous display unit selects the associated information other than the one corresponding to the replayed portion and instructs the output controlling unit to display the information, upon accepting an operation requesting to display associated information other than the one corresponding to the replayed portion.

Abstract: A mobile communication apparatus may receive a first direction from a reference target to an external apparatus and a first distance from the reference target to a position of the external apparatus. A direction acquiring unit acquires a second direction from the reference target to the position, and a distance acquiring unit acquires a second distance between the reference target and the position. A computing unit computes a direction and a distance from the position to the external apparatus based on the first direction, the first distance, the second direction and the second distance, in order to output a computation result from an output unit.

Abstract: An information terminal device is disclosed that performs communication via a communication network. The information terminal device includes a short-range wireless communication unit that performs short-range wireless communication with an electronic device, a storing unit that stores information about communication via the communication network while the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is disconnected, and a control unit that causes, upon restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, the short-range wireless communication unit to transmit to the electronic device the information about the communication via the communication network if the information about the communication via the communication network is stored in the storing unit.

Abstract: A mobile electronic apparatus includes a memory that stores a search range of an object and a processor that executes a process. The process includes acquiring a moving speed of the mobile electronic apparatus, determining the search range of the object on a basis of the moving speed, detecting the object existing within the search range, detecting whether a display unit of the mobile electronic apparatus is in an active state, and notifying that the object is detected when the display unit is detected to be in the active state and the object existing within the search range is detected.

Abstract: A mobile communication apparatus may receive a first direction from a reference target to an external apparatus and a first distance from the reference target to a position of the external apparatus. A direction acquiring unit acquires a second direction from the reference target to the position, and a distance acquiring unit acquires a second distance between the reference target and the position. A computing unit computes a direction and a distance from the position to the external apparatus based on the first direction, the first distance, the second direction and the second distance, in order to output a computation result from an output unit.

Abstract: The present invention is comprised of a communication unit (short-range wireless communication unit 10) for transmitting/receiving a short-range wireless signal to/from one or more devices (devices 61 to 6N) with a short-range wireless communication function, a registration unit (database 18) for adding priorities to the plurality of the devices and registering a prioritization list representing one or more devices sorted by the priorities, and a control unit (processor 8) for dynamically selecting one or more devices based on the prioritization list and controlling connection through the communication unit with the selected one or more devices.

Abstract: A portable information processing apparatus includes a replay processing unit that replays content data, a synchronous display unit that selects a piece of associated information corresponding to a replayed portion of the content data, and instructs to display the associated information thus selected, and an output controlling unit that displays the associated information that is selected by the synchronous display unit in an associated information display area arranged in a display unit. The synchronous display unit selects the associated information other than the one corresponding to the replayed portion and instructs the output controlling unit to display the information, upon accepting an operation requesting to display associated information other than the one corresponding to the replayed portion.

Abstract: A link processing unit links the music data and the lyric data acquired by a data acquiring unit with each other. If corresponding data is not present, the link processing unit causes the data acquiring unit to acquire the corresponding data and store it in a storage unit so as to link the music data with the lyric data. If a replay processing unit replays the music data, a synchronous display unit reads the corresponding lyric data and displays the lyrics in accordance with the progression of replay.

Abstract: An information terminal device is disclosed that performs communication via a communication network. The information terminal device includes a short-range wireless communication unit that performs short-range wireless communication with an electronic device, a storing unit that stores information about communication via the communication network while the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device is disconnected, and a control unit that causes, upon restoration of the short-range wireless communication with the electronic device, the short-range wireless communication unit to transmit to the electronic device the information about the communication via the communication network if the information about the communication via the communication network is stored in the storing unit.

Abstract: There is provided a real-time processing apparatus capable of controlling power consumption without performing complex arithmetic processing and requiring a special memory resource. The real-time processing apparatus includes a first audio encoder 104 that performs a signal processing in real time on an audio signal, a second audio encoder 111 that performs the signal processing with a smaller throughput in real time on the audio, an audio execution step number notification unit 114 that measures step number showing a level of the throughput in the signal processing by operating the first audio encoder 104 or second audio encoder 111, and an audio visual system control unit 117 that executes control so that the first audio encoder 104 operates when the measured step number is less than a threshold value provided beforehand and the second audio encoder 111 operates when the step number is equal to or greater than the threshold value.

Abstract: The present invention is comprised of a communication unit (short-range wireless communication unit 10) for transmitting/receiving a short-range wireless signal to/from one or more devices (devices 61 to 6N) with a short-range wireless communication function, a registration unit (database 18) for adding priorities to the plurality of the devices and registering a prioritization list representing one or more devices sorted by the priorities, and a control unit (processor 8) for dynamically selecting one or more devices based on the prioritization list and controlling connection through the communication unit with the selected one or more devices.

Abstract: There is provided such a communication terminal that a caller can determine whether forwarding is to be allowed. A telephone terminal according to the invention forwards telephone communication that has income via a call processing signal input device, to a forwarding destination previously set in a substitute communication destination storage area. The telephone terminal receives a forwarding start or prohibition order signal from a sending source of telephone communication via the call processing signal input device, and starts or prohibits forwarding of the telephone communication. In addition, when the telephone terminal has received a call of telephone communication via the call processing signal input device, the telephone terminal transmits information stored in a forwarding information storage area to the sending source before the telephone communication shifts to a talking state, and executes forwarding of the communication after the notice has been transmitted.

Abstract: A wise variety of drinks and foods, such as fruit wine, herb tea, yogurt, fermented soybeans and hot-spring eggs, are produced by heating the raw materials to a temperature of about 60.degree. C. to 100.degree. C. in a vessel, and holding that temperature for a specific length of time, i.e., 3-24 hours for maturation. When producing drinks, it is effective to subject them to a weak vibration, wave motion, forced convection, or stirring force. The method enables the quick production of any desired food or drink in any desired quantity without causing any appreciable reduction in the alcoholic content of, for example, fruit wine.

Abstract: A humidifier is provided for a closed defrosting cabinet for containing frozen food to be defrosted in a compartment thereof. A fan for circulating air is disposed in the defrosting cabinet. The defrosting chamber is humidified with humidified air circulated by the fan. The defrosting chamber is partitioned into a plurality of areas by a slidable partition wall consisting of at least two sections. The defrosting cabinet can maintain the temperature and the humidity constant, defrost the food rapidly, and prevent the surface of the food from drying and changing in color.