Abstract: A portable terminal charging device adopts a configuration in which a large diameter detection coil (43) arranged between a charging coil (8) and a portable terminal (15) and a detection coil (44) that is arranged inward of the large diameter detection coil (43) and that has a smaller diameter than the large diameter detection coil (43) detect a state of a foreign metal object (50) by finding out a decrease in the magnetic flux of an inward section of the charging coil (8) and conversely finding out an increase in the magnetic flux of an outward section thereof, if the foreign metal object (50) is present between a portable terminal installation unit of a support plate (6) and the portable terminal (15).

Abstract: A portable apparatus includes a determination unit, a first notification unit, a second notification unit, and a control unit. The determination unit determines whether there occurs an event which is to be notified to a user. The first notification unit notifies the event to the user by a first method that gives a tactile sensation to an operation element via an input surface. The second notification unit notifies the event to the user in accordance with a second method that is different from the first method. The control unit causes a notification unit to give a notification. Where the input surface is in a contact state when the event occurs, the control unit performs control to cause the first notification unit to give a notification. Where the input surface is in a not-touched state when the event occurs, the control unit causes the second notification unit to give a notification.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a moving image display unit configured to control a display apparatus to display a moving image thereon, a reading unit configured to read animation information including a plurality of frame images, a detection unit configured to detect touch on the display apparatus, and a display control unit configured to control the display apparatus to display a first frame image of the animation information thereon if touch on a specific position of the display apparatus is detected by the detection unit when the moving image is being displayed on the display aparatus, and to start a transition display of frame images of the animation information if the touch on the display apparatus becomes undetected by the detection unit.

Abstract: When rendering a graphic according to the locus of an input position, it is determined whether a region which has been preset for the graphic to be rendered, and has the start position of the continuous input as a reference overlaps a region preset for an already rendered graphic by a predetermined amount or more. If it is determined that the regions do not overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, a graphic is rendered according to the locus of the input position. Alternatively, if it is determined that the regions overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, control is switched to remove the already rendered graphic according to the locus of the input position.

Abstract: A display unit that moves into a first position and a second position with respect to a main body portion includes setting, where the display unit is in the first position, any of a plurality of settings including a first setting, with which a normal image of an image is displayed, and a second setting, with which a mirror image of an image is displayed, and displaying, where the display unit is in the second position with the first setting, an image that has an orientation opposite to that of the image displayed when the display unit is in the first position with the first setting, and when the display unit is in the second position with the second setting, an image is displayed with the same orientation as the image displayed when the display unit is in the first position with the second setting.

Abstract: An information terminal has: a gaze determination unit 13 for determining whether user's gaze detected by a gaze detection unit is directed toward a display; and a touch input control unit for performing such control that when the gaze is directed toward the display, an input operation on the touch panel is made acceptable and that when the gaze is not directed toward the display, the input operation on the touch panel is made unacceptable. By this, acceptance/unacceptance of input can be readily controlled, without need for a user's special operation or a lapse of a fixed period of time.

Abstract: When an autorotation function is ON and an object is photographed by holding a main body in an inverse attitude, rotation units rotate a camera image by 360 degrees in total and a rotation unit rotates display OSD data by 180 degrees. A combine unit combines outputs of the rotation units and writes panel-output image data into a VRAM. A combine unit combines recording OSD data drawn by a touch drawing function to the camera image rotated by 180 degrees in the rotation unit and writes into a recording VRAM. The image data in the recording VRAM is encoded and recorded as a moving image file into a recording medium.

Abstract: In a case where a dripproof case is not used, a CPU changes a position of a touch icon which is displayed to an LCD panel in accordance with a detection result of an attitude detection unit. In a case where the dripproof case in which a touch panel can be operated from the outside is used and a case mode is ON, a CPU fixes a display position of the touch icon to a position corresponding to an operation unit of the dripproof case irrespective of the detection result of the attitude detection unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for retrieving and displaying image data related to an object included in image data, and a method of controlling the apparatus, whereby the image processing apparatus obtains image data, extracts feature data of an object in the image data, retrieves, from image data stored in a storage medium, image data having feature data similar to the extracted feature data, selects image data to be displayed from a plurality of items of retrieved image data, based on additional data of each of the plurality of retrieved image data, and displays the selected image data together with the obtained image data.

Abstract: A reproducing unit reproduces/displays moving image data; a drawing unit enables a user to draw a freehand image on a displayed moving image while reproducing the moving image; a recording unit records freehand image data for reconstructing the freehand image drawn by the drawing unit in synchronism with a timing of reproducing the moving image data; an instruction unit causes reproduction of the moving image to start from an arbitrary point in the middle of the moving image; and a control unit reads out the freehand image before the instructed point by the instruction to start reproduction of the moving image from a point in the middle of a drawing operation of the freehand image, and displays the readout freehand image superimposed on a displayed moving image when the reproduction starts.

Abstract: A contactless power supply system is provided with an electric appliance, which includes a secondary coil of a power reception device, and a contactless power supply device including a setting surface, which is formed by a plurality of adjacent power supply areas, and a primary coil, which is arranged in each power supply area. The contactless power supply device excites the primary coil to supply secondary power to the secondary coil of the electric appliance that is set on the setting surface. The secondary coil has a larger coil contour than the primary coil.

Abstract: A transformer includes: a core assembly 1 composed of a pair of E-shaped cores 11, 12 each having two side leg portions 1a, 1b and a central leg portion 1c therebetween, end surfaces of the central leg portions 1c and end surfaces of the side leg portions 1a, 1b of the E-shaped cores 11, 12 oppose each other, respectively, and a gap G is provided between at least the end surfaces of the central leg portions 1c; a primary coil N1 formed by winding round wire around a perimeter of the central leg portion 1c; and a secondary coil N2 formed by winding rectangular wire around a perimeter of the central leg portion 1c by edgewise winding, wherein a space for reducing leakage flux from the gap G that acts on the secondary coil N2 is provided between the secondary coil N2 and the gap G.

Abstract: A reproducing unit reproduces/displays moving image data; a drawing unit enables a user to draw a freehand image on a displayed moving image while reproducing the moving image; a recording unit records freehand image data for reconstructing the freehand image drawn by the drawing unit in synchronism with a timing of reproducing the moving image data; an instruction unit causes reproduction of the moving image to start from an arbitrary point in the middle of the moving image; and a control unit reads out the freehand image before the instructed point by the instruction to start reproduction of the moving image from a point in the middle of a drawing operation of the freehand image, and displays the readout freehand image superimposed on a displayed moving image when the reproduction starts.

Abstract: A plane coil which reduces an increase of an effective resistance in a high-frequency area and is made thinner is provided. The plane coil is equipped with plural conductive wires which are parallel to each other, wherein the conductive wires are arranged in a plane and spirally wound, and coil ends of the respective conductive wires are electrically connected to each other at coil lead-out portions and thus are connected in parallel. The conductive wires are arranged in plane, so that a coil thickness does not increase, and the coil is made thinner. Moreover, the plural conductive wires are connected in parallel, an increase of an effective resistance due to an influence of a skin effect in a high-frequency area is reduced.

Abstract: A transformer includes: a core assembly 1 composed of a pair of E-shaped cores 11, 12 each having two side leg portions 1a, 1b and a central leg portion 1c therebetween, end surfaces of the central leg portions 1c and end surfaces of the side leg portions 1a, 1b of the E-shaped cores 11, 12 oppose each other, respectively, and a gap G is provided between at least the end surfaces of the central leg portions 1c; a primary coil N1 formed by winding round wire around a perimeter of the central leg portion 1c; and a secondary coil N2 formed by winding rectangular wire around a perimeter of the central leg portion 1c by edgewise winding, wherein a space for reducing leakage flux from the gap G that acts on the secondary coil N2 is provided between the secondary coil N2 and the gap G.

Abstract: Power saving is promoted by oscillating only power transmission coil contributing to contactless charging without using any communication means.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to execute a predetermined process, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a progress situation of the predetermined process executed by the processing unit, and a display control unit configured to display a progress situation display area for indicating the progress situation of the predetermined process on an area which lies along a plurality of adjacent sides of the display area on a display apparatus, and control a display state of the progress situation display area based on the progress situation acquired by the acquisition unit so that the display state changes from a state indicating that processing is yet to be performed to a state indicating that processing has been performed, progressively from one end to another end of the progress situation display area at a different rate based on a length of the sides along which the progress situation display area lies.

Abstract: When rendering a graphic according to the locus of an input position, it is determined whether a region which has been preset for the graphic to be rendered, and has the start position of the continuous input as a reference overlaps a region preset for an already rendered graphic by a predetermined amount or more. If it is determined that the regions do not overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, a graphic is rendered according to the locus of the input position. Alternatively, if it is determined that the regions overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, control is switched to remove the already rendered graphic according to the locus of the input position.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is arranged so that when a special effect to be applied to an input image is selected, an image showing the behavior of the special effect is displayed during the selection, comprising an image input unit for inputting an image; a selecting unit for selecting a special effect to be applied to the input unit; an effect applying unit for applying the selected special effect to the input unit; a special effect image display unit for displaying an image showing behavior of the selected special effect during the selection by the selecting unit; and a display unit for displaying the image to which the effect applying unit has applied the special effect.

Abstract: A display control apparatus, comprises a display unit including a touch panel type display device and is movably connected to a body; a drawing unit for drawing a display object based on coordinates touched in freehand drawing as a touch operation for the display device; a detection unit for detecting a positional relationship of the display unit with respect to the body; and a control unit for controlling, when the detection unit detects that the display unit has been moved to have a given positional relationship such that a display surface of the display device is arranged at a touchable position and the body supports the display unit not to be moved by a force acting on the display surface in a direction substantially perpendicular to the display surface, to display a display item for receiving the freehand drawing on the display device.