Abstract: In an example of a system, in a virtual space, a player camera that follows each player in a multiplay game, a bird's-eye camera that views the virtual space from a bird's-eye view, and an object camera that follows a predetermined object are set. A watcher watches the game by switching the player camera, the bird's-eye camera, and the object camera. In accordance with an operation of the watcher, the bird's-eye camera moves in the virtual space, and a height of the bird's-eye camera is determined in advance in accordance with a position. When virtual cameras are switched by the watcher, a game image from the virtual cameras during the switching is displayed.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a gas humidity regulating method and a regulator that can regulate a temperature during humidity control and improve humidity-control efficiency. In an air humidity regulating method for gas subjected to treatment, a first medium 22 is caused to flow onto a heat exchanging pipe 17 of a gas-liquid contact part 18 in a dehumidifier 11; meanwhile, a second medium 24 is passed through the heat exchanging pipe 17. In this state, air is fed into a gas-liquid contact case 13 from an inlet port 14 and gas-liquid contact is made by the first medium 22 on the gas-liquid contact part 18 so as to absorb water content from the air into the first medium 22. The first medium 22 contains an ionic liquid having high absorbency. The temperature of the first medium 22 is regulated by the second medium 24. After that, treated air is discharged from an outlet port 15 of the gas-liquid contact case 13.

Abstract: In an example of a system, in a virtual space, a player camera that follows each player in a multiplay game, a bird's-eye camera that views the virtual space from a bird's-eye view, and an object camera that follows a predetermined object are set. A watcher watches the game by switching the player camera, the bird's-eye camera, and the object camera. In accordance with an operation of the watcher, the bird's-eye camera moves in the virtual space, and a height of the bird's-eye camera is determined in advance in accordance with a position. When virtual cameras are switched by the watcher, a game image from the virtual cameras during the switching is displayed.

Abstract: A transmission parameter control apparatus that improves transmission quality of real-time media in a transmission route that includes a wireless section in at least a part of the transmission route. The transmission parameter control apparatus is connected to a terminal via a network and is connected to a mobile terminal via a wireless link. The apparatus includes: an obtaining part for obtaining a quality parameter indicating transmission quality corresponding to the wireless link from signals of downlink and uplink transmission routes; and an adjustment part for adjusting a value of a transmission parameter determining a transmission scheme in the wireless link according to the quality parameter.

Abstract: Client is supplied in advance with a storage medium that has stored therein a pseudo display program, identical or similar to at least a portion of a display program of a Web site for selling or distributing products or information, along with URL information. The client opens or displays a pseudo Web site using the previously-supplied pseudo display program, without intervention of a network. When a desired product or information to be purchased by or distributed to a user is selected on the displayed pseudo Web site, a hyperlink connects the client to the real Web site via a network, after which the client goes forward with proceedings for purchase or distribution of the desired product or information by communicating with the real Web site.

Abstract: Load sharing rates of an internal combustion engine and an electric motor of a hybrid powered vehicle are definitely controlled to improve fuel efficiency of the vehicle during an auxiliary running with using power of the electric motor together with power of the internal combustion engine when a pressing amount of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle is small. In response to a pressing amount information of the accelerator pedal inputted to a hybrid control circuit, the hybrid control circuit calculates the load sharing rates of the internal combustion engine and the electric motor by referring to a preliminarily set control map and controls the motor according to its load sharing rate. The hybrid control circuit sends an electric signal corresponding to the load sharing rate of the internal combustion engine to the internal combustion engine control circuit, instead of the pressing amount information of the accelerator pedal.

Abstract: Various items are sold through the Internet 10 which contains a site computer 20, vendor computers 30a, 30b, factory computers 40a, 40b, dealer computers 50a, 50b, and user computers 60a, 60b, 60c. General users access to the site computer 20 to purchase items dealt in by vendors belonging to various countries using the user computers 60a, 60b, 60c connected to the Internet 10. When the site computer 20 accepts an instruction of purchasing physical items, the site computer 20 instructs the vendor computers 30a, 30b in various countries to send out the physical items to the general users. Download items which can be downloaded are downloaded from the site computer 20 to the user computers 60a, 60b, 60c. When the vendor does not have the physical items in stock, the site computer 20 instructs the factory computers 40a, 40b to make and send out the items. The site computer 20 can be accessed from a dealer computer for purchasing items.

Abstract: Various items are sold through the Internet 10 which contains a site computer 20, vendor computers 30a, 30b, factory computers 40a, 40b, dealer computers 50a, 50b, and user computers 60a, 60b, 60c. General users access to the site computer 20 to purchase items dealt in by vendors belonging to various countries using the user computers 60a, 60b, 60c connected to the Internet 10. When the site computer 20 accepts an instruction of purchasing physical items, the site computer 20 instructs the vendor computers 30a, 30b in various countries to send out the physical items to the general users. Download items which can be downloaded are downloaded from the site computer 20 to the user computers 60a, 60b, 60c. When the vendor does not have the physical items in stock, the site computer 20 instructs the factory computers 40a, 40b to make and send out the items. The site computer 20 can be accessed from a dealer computer for purchasing items.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission parameter control apparatus that can improve transmission quality of real-time media in a transmission route that includes a wireless section in at least a part of the transmission route. According to the present invention, a transmission parameter control apparatus 200 that is connected to a terminal 104 via a network 102 and that is connected to a mobile terminal 108 via a wireless link, is provided. The apparatus includes: an obtaining part 210 for obtaining a quality parameter indicating transmission quality corresponding to the wireless link from signals of downlink and uplink transmission routes; and an adjustment part 220 for adjusting a value of a transmission parameter determining a transmission scheme in the wireless link according to the quality parameter.

Abstract: A first control unit reads out both specific frequencies and gain data corresponding to these specific frequencies, which have been stored into a first storage unit, and approximates gain data corresponding to an arbitrary frequency by way of a linear function to calculate the gain data by executing a formula. A D/A converter converts this gain data into a gain control signal, and supplies the gain control signal to a variable gain amplifier. The variable gain amplifier amplifies a transmission signal by a gain defined in response to a transmission frequency based upon the gain control signal.

Abstract: Load sharing rates of an internal combustion engine and an electric motor of a hybrid powered vehicle are definitely controlled to improve fuel efficiency of the vehicle during an auxiliary running with using power of the electric motor together with power of the internal combustion engine when a pressing amount of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle is small. In response to a pressing amount information of the accelerator pedal inputted to a hybrid control circuit, the hybrid control circuit calculates the load sharing rates of the internal combustion engine and the electric motor by referring to a preliminarily set control map and controls the motor according to its load sharing rate. The hybrid control circuit sends an electric signal corresponding to the load sharing rate of the internal combustion engine to the internal combustion engine control circuit, instead of the pressing amount information of the accelerator pedal.

Abstract: A first control unit reads out both specific frequencies and gain data corresponding to these specific frequencies, which have been stored into a first storage unit, and approximates gain data corresponding to an arbitrary frequency by way of a linear function to calculate the gain data by executing a formula. A D/A converter converts this gain data into a gain control signal, and supplies the gain control signal to a variable gain amplifier. The variable gain amplifier amplifies a transmission signal by a gain defined in response to a transmission frequency based upon the gain control signal.

Abstract: Various items are sold through the Internet 10 which contains a site computer 20, vendor computers 30a, 30b, factory computers 40a, 40b, dealer computers 50a, 50b, and user computers 60a, 60b, 60c. General users access to the site computer 20 to purchase items dealt in by vendors belonging to various countries using the user computers 60a, 60b, 60c connected to the Internet 10. When the site computer 20 accepts an instruction of purchasing physical items, the site computer 20 instructs the vendor computers 30a, 30b in various countries to send out the physical items to the general users. Download items which can be downloaded are downloaded from the site computer 20 to the user computers 60a, 60b, 60c. When the vendor does not have the physical items in stock, the site computer 20 instructs the factory computers 40a, 40b to make and send out the items. The site computer 20 can be accessed from a dealer computer for purchasing items.

Abstract: Client is supplied in advance with a storage medium that has stored therein a pseudo display program, identical or similar to at least a portion of a display program of a Web site for selling or distributing products or information, along with URL information. The client opens or displays a pseudo Web site using the previously-supplied pseudo display program, without intervention of a network. When a desired product or information to be purchased by or distributed to a user is selected on the displayed pseudo Web site, a hyperlink connects the client to the real Web site via a network, after which the client goes forward with proceedings for purchase or distribution of the desired product or information by communicating with the real Web site.

Abstract: A multiband mobile unit communication apparatus is disclosed which comprises: an antenna for receiving L FRQ bands of M radio wave SIGs modulated by N modulating methods, M>L, M>N, N≧L; a frequency synthesizer for generating a LO SIG; an IF SIG generation CKT for generating M IF SIGs using the LO SIG, the FRQ synthesizer generating the LO SIG such that the M IF SIGs have the same intermediate FRQ; a SW CKT for selectively outputting N IF SIGs modulated by the N modulating methods respectively out of the M IF SIGs; N filters for filtering outputs of N IF SIGs from the SW CKT and outputting N filtered IF SIGs respectively; a SW responsive to a SW CONT signal for selectively outputting one of the N filtered IF SIGs; and a quadrature demodulator for quadrature-demodulating one of N filtered IF SIGs and outputting baseband SIG. Different frequency bands of received signals are converted into IF SIGs having the same intermediate frequency.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus is designed for a plurality of different radio communication formats, one of which can be selected. The radio communication apparatus includes a fixed-gain IF amplifier and a variable-gain IF amplifier. One is selected out of the fixed-gain IF amplifier and the variable-gain IF amplifier as an effectively used IF amplifier in response to which of the radio communication formats is selected. The fixed-gain IF amplifier is selected as an effectively used IF amplifier when a narrow-band radio communication format is selected. The variable-gain IF amplifier is selected as an effectively used IF amplifier when a wide-band radio communication format is selected.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus is designed for at least first and second radio communication formats which prescribe first and second desired IF pass bandwidths respectively. The first desired IF pass bandwidth is greater than the second desired IF pass bandwidth. The radio communication apparatus includes an IF band-pass filter processing a first IF signal into a second IF signal and having a predetermined pass bandwidth corresponding to the first desired IF pass bandwidth. A demodulator recovers a first baseband signal from the second IF signal generated by the IF band-pass filter. A baseband filter processes the first baseband signal generated by the demodulator into a second baseband signal. The first baseband signal generated by the demodulator is selected as a final output signal when the first IF signal is of the first radio communication format.

Abstract: A receiving mixer device for a mobile radio transceiver which operates with multiple modulation modes and within multiple frequency bands. The receiving mixer includes a plurality of mixers each for converting a received radio frequency signal to an intermediate frequency, a common connection part to which output terminals of the mixers are connected in common, a plurality of impedance conversion circuits connected to the common connection part, and output terminals for the impedance conversion circuits. The number of mixers is equal to the number of frequency bands of the received radio frequency signal. The number of the intermediate frequencies is equal to the number of modulation modes of the received radio frequency signal. The number of the impedance conversion circuits is equal to the number of intermediate frequencies, and each of the impedance conversion circuits passes only a single predetermined frequency of the intermediate frequencies used by the device.

Abstract: A frequency synthesizer consists of a voltage-controlled oscillator and a frequency division and distribution section. The frequency division and distribution section, which splits an oscillation signal of the voltage-controlled oscillator into a transmission modulation local oscillation signal and a reception second local oscillation signal while frequency-dividing the oscillation signal of the voltage-controlled oscillator, includes two pairs of frequency dividers and two switches. The frequency division numbers of the two pairs of frequency dividers are so set as to accommodate all the combinations of mobile communications systems and the transmission modulation local oscillation signal/reception second local oscillation signal. The two switches are switched in accordance with a mobile communications system for which a mobile transceiver is operating. The two local oscillation signals are input to a quadrature modulator and a quadrature demodulator, respectively.

Abstract: A multiband mobile unit communication apparatus is disclosed which comprises: an antenna for receiving 1st and 2nd bands of radio wave SIGs including quadrature modulation SIGs; a 1st LO CKT for generating a 1st LO SIG; 1st and 2nd receiving CKTs for generating 1st and 2nd IF SIGs from the 1st and 2nd bands of radio wave SIGs using the 1st LO SIG respectively; a switching CKT responsive to a switching control SIG indicative of 1st and 2nd modes for outputting the 1st IF SIG in the 1st mode and outputting the 2nd IF SIG in the 2nd mode; a 2nd LO CKT for generating 2nd and 3rd LO SIGs in the 1st and 2nd modes respectively; and a quadrature demodulation CKT for demodulating and outputting quadrature SIGs from an output from the switching CKT using the 2nd and third LO SIGs in the 1st and 2nd modes respectively.