Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a fatigue determining portion determining whether an operator is tired or not by referring to fatigue information on the operator's fatigue, and a processing control portion causing a first display for recovering the operator to be shown on a display portion together with a working display on which the operator is working, when the fatigue determining portion determines that the operator is tired.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a direction guiding apparatus for indicating a guidance direction to a user. The direction guiding apparatus includes an operation device having an operations part movable on an operation plane, and a control part for transmitting control data to the operation device for controlling the movement of the operations part. The guidance direction is distinguishable by the movement of the operations part.

Abstract: An input system executes an input to an information processing apparatus depending on the hand motion. Plural myoelectric sensors are provided on an area between a wrist of the person and bases of a second finger to a fifth finger, and detect myoelectric signals depending on the hand motion. A setting portion outputs at least one command to make the person execute at least one particular motion in a state where the myoelectric sensors are worn on the hand, and associates the detected myoelectric signals after the output of the command with the particular motion corresponding to the command. An input portion identifies the hand motion from myoelectric signals detected based on the hand motion after the termination of the association and the association result of the setting portion, and executes the input to the information processing apparatus depending on the identified hand motion.

Abstract: A brain wave detecting apparatus includes a plurality of brain wave detecting portions that are arranged on a side surface of a head and detect brain waves of the head, a selecting portion selecting one of the plurality of brain wave detecting portions on the basis of brain wave signals transmitted from the plurality of brain wave detecting portions, and a transmitting portion transmitting information about the brain wave signal transmitted from said one of the plurality of brain wave detecting portions.

Abstract: A disclosed device operating system controls an operation target device by generating a command for the operation target device. The device operating system includes an operating unit configured to send an instruction to the operation target device by being moved; a movement trace detecting unit configured to detect a movement trace of the operating unit; and a control unit configured to control the operation target device with the command based on the movement trace detected by the movement trace detecting unit.

Abstract: A signal transmission and reception device is disclosed that can be made compact and has wide-band band-pass characteristics. The signal transmission and reception device includes a first filtering unit that is composed of a distributed constant circuit and is capable of eliminating a first frequency component or a second frequency component. The second frequency is higher than the first frequency, and a second filtering unit that attenuates components of frequencies lower than the first frequency or components of frequencies higher than the second frequency.

Abstract: A direction indicator system includes: an electromagnetic drive actuator that has a moving part that can slide back and forth, side to side, and diagonally; and a drive controlling unit that controls the sliding direction of the moving part, based on direction indicating information that is supplied from the outside.

Abstract: A pointing device includes a movable member, a guide mechanism, an operation member, a press board and a switch. The guide mechanism guides the movable member in a first axis direction and in a second axis direction so that the movable member is movable, the first axis and the second axis being at right angles to each other. The operation member moves with the movable member and is movable in a pressing direction. The press board deforms elastically when engaged with the operation member being pressed. The switch having an electrical contact state is changed when the switch is pressed by the press board deformed elastically.

Abstract: A coordinate detection device is provided, which device includes an input unit which has a surface thereof to which a coordinate value is input by an input means, a calculation unit which calculates a difference between previous and current coordinate values input by the input unit, and a setting unit which sets, in the calculation unit, a coordinate value input last before the input means is detached from the surface of said input unit as the previous coordinate value to a coordinate value input first after the input means is detached from the surface of the input unit.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is disclosed. The antenna apparatus is structured by a ground plate that is shaped like a plate, and a feeding unit that is formed by a plate-like member, the feeding unit extending from the ground plate generally perpendicular to the ground plate at a predetermined angle to the ground plate for a predetermined length.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is disclosed. The antenna apparatus is structured by a ground plate that is shaped like a plate, and a feeding unit that is formed by a plate-like member, the feeding unit extending from the ground plate generally perpendicular to the ground plate at a predetermined angle to the ground plate for a predetermined length.

Abstract: A non-contact IC card reader/writer device includes antennas that perform carrier wave transmission and reception with a non-contact IC card, an A/D converter that detects the voltage level of each carrier wave received from the non-contact IC card through the antennas, and a control unit that calculates the location of the non-contact IC card from the voltage levels detected by the A/D converter.

Abstract: An input device includes an operation portion, a holding portion, a detection portion and at least a switch. The holding portion holds the operation portion so that the operation portion is rotatable around a given axis. The detection portion detects a rotational position of the operation portion with respect to the holding portion. A condition of the switch changes according to an external force exerted to the operation portion.

Abstract: An operation device includes: an operated boy; an operation signal producing part that produces an operation signal based on an operation on the operated body; and a tactile information presenting part that presents tactile information through the operated body. The operation device may be applied to an electronic book device for flipping of pages.

Abstract: A disclosed antenna device includes a ground plate, a feeding unit that extends from the ground plate at a predetermined angle for a predetermined length, the feeding unit being prepared perpendicular to the ground plate, and a non-conductive section formed in the ground plate. The shape of the non-conductive section is adjusted according to a desired frequency characteristic.

Abstract: A distance measuring device includes: an impulse generator that generates an impulse; a transmission antenna that transmits the impulse generated by the impulse generator; a reception antenna that receives a reflected signal of the impulse transmitted from the transmission antenna and reflected by the object, and a leakage signal of the impulse transmitted from the transmission antenna; and a distance calculator that calculates the distance to the object, based on the time difference between the reflected signal and the leakage signal received by the reception antenna.

Abstract: There is provided a transmitter that transmits data in a spread spectrum communications system including a spread modulation portion spreading transmitting data with a spread code, an RZ conversion portion converting the transmitting data spread to an RZ signal, and an impulse sequence conversion portion multiplying the RZ signal by an impulse sequence to convert the RZ signal to an impulse radio signal.

Abstract: A disclosed antenna device includes a plate-like ground plate, and a feeding unit that extends from the ground plate for a predetermined length at a predetermined angle. The feeding unit is constituted by a half-body, which is a body, such as a circular cone, halved by a plane perpendicular to the ground plate, and the feeding unit is prepared perpendicular to the ground plate.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is disclosed. The antenna apparatus is structured by a ground plate that is shaped like a plate, and a feeding unit that is formed by a plate-like member, the feeding unit extending from the ground plate generally perpendicular to the ground plate at a predetermined angle to the ground plate for a predetermined length.

Abstract: An impulse communication apparatus includes an impulse train generating part generating an impulse train from one modulated pulse by on-off keying, and an impulse train sending part sending the impulse train generated by the impulse train generating part.