Abstract: A method includes generating virtual space data defining a virtual space including a self-avatar, a first object capable of exerting a predetermined effect on the self-avatar, and a second object. The method includes identifying a visual field based on a detected movement of a head-mounted display. The method includes generating a visual-field image for display on the head-mount display. The method includes identifying a relative positional relationship between the first object and the self-avatar in response to a determination that the self-avatar is likely to receive the predetermined effect from the first object. The method includes setting a position of the second object based on the identified relative positional relationship. The method includes outputting predetermined sound data based on the set position of the second object. The method includes outputting a sound corresponding to the predetermined sound data from a sound outputting unit.

Abstract: A display control method includes generating virtual space data representing a virtual space in which a virtual camera is arranged. The method further includes moving a visual field of the virtual camera along with movement of a head-mounted display (HMD). The method further includes generating visual-field image data based on the visual field of the virtual camera and the virtual space data. The method further includes displaying a visual-field image on the HMD based on the visual-field image data. The method further includes identifying a relative position relationship between the HDM and a user's hand. The method further includes determining whether or not a detected movement of the hand satisfies a first condition. The method further includes displaying a menu object in the visual field of the virtual camera based on the relative position relationship when the detected movement of the hand satisfies the first condition.

Abstract: A method of providing a virtual experience according to at least one embodiment of this disclosure includes defining space including a virtual viewpoint, an operation object, and an item. The method further includes detecting a motion of a head of a user. The method further includes controlling a field of view in the virtual space from the virtual viewpoint in accordance with. the motion of the head. The method further includes detecting a motion of a part of a body other than the head of the user. The method further includes moving the operation object in the virtual space in accordance with the motion of the part of the body. The method further includes detecting that the operation object has moved to an outside of the field of view. The method further includes defining a first state of the item. The method further includes defining a second state of the item, wherein the second state is different from the first state.

Abstract: An information processing method includes generating virtual space data for defining a virtual space. The virtual space includes a first object for displaying a menu; a second object capable of operating the menu; and an operation object. The method further includes detecting a movement of a head-mounted device and a movement of a part of a body other than a head of a user. The method further includes displaying a visual-field image based on the virtual space data corresponding to the detected movement of the head-mounted device on a display unit of the head-mounted device. The method further includes causing the operation object to act in accordance with the detected movement of the part of the body of the user. The method further includes operating the menu based on an input operation performed on the second object by the operation object.

Abstract: A method includes generating virtual space data defining a virtual space including a self-avatar, a first object capable of exerting a predetermined effect on the self-avatar, and a second object. The method includes identifying a visual field based on a detected movement of a head-mounted display. The method includes generating a visual-field image for display on the head-mount display. The method includes identifying a relative positional relationship between the first object and the self-avatar in response to a determination that the self-avatar is likely to receive the predetermined effect from the first object. The method includes setting a position of the second object based on the identified relative positional relationship. The method includes outputting predetermined sound data based on the set position of the second object. The method includes outputting a sound corresponding to the predetermined sound data from a sound outputting unit.

Abstract: A method to be executed by a computer. The method includes defining a virtual space. The method further includes displaying in the virtual space an operation object. The method further includes detecting a motion of a part of a body of the user. The method further includes moving the operation object in synchronization with the detected motion. The method further includes monitoring a monitoring target and changing a display mode of the operation object or an accompanying object accompanying the operation object in accordance with a change in the monitoring target.

Abstract: An information processing method includes generating virtual space data for defining a virtual space that includes a virtual camera, an operation object, and a target object. The method further includes generating visual-field image data based on a visual field of the virtual camera and the virtual space data. The method further includes displaying a visual-field image on a head-mounted display (HMD). The method further includes moving the operation object in accordance with a detected movement of a part of a body of a user. The method further includes identifying a relative relationship between the HMD and the part of the body of the user. The method further includes setting a collision effect. The collision effect defines an effect exerted by the operation object on the target object. The collision effect is set based on the identified relative relationship.

Abstract: A display control method includes generating virtual space data representing a virtual space in which a virtual camera is arranged. The method further includes moving a visual field of the virtual camera along with movement of a head-mounted display (HMD). The method further includes generating visual-field image data based on the visual field of the virtual camera and the virtual space data. The method further includes displaying a visual-field image on the HMD based on the visual-field image data. The method further includes identifying a relative position relationship between the HDM and a user's hand. The method further includes determining whether or not a detected movement of the hand satisfies a first condition. The method further includes displaying a menu object in the visual field of the virtual camera based on the relative position relationship when the detected movement of the hand satisfies the first condition.

Abstract: A first bar code that is reproduced by linearly polarized red light (first read light) parallel to a short-side direction and a second bar code that is reproduced by linearly polarized green light (second read light) parallel to a long-side direction are recorded on a birefringence label. A probe is a reading device that reads the first and second bar codes from the birefringence label and includes first and second light sources and an imaging unit. The first light source emits the first read light to the birefringence label. The second light source emits the second read light to the birefringence label at a time different from that of the first read light. The imaging unit captures the birefringence label through a polarizing plate having a transmission axis aligned with the short-side direction of the birefringence label, and acquires reproduced images of the first and second bar codes.

Abstract: An interior of the package box is partitioned by an intermediate partition plate into a first accommodation portion and a second accommodation portion. A small partition plate is folded into the package box to form a third accommodation portion. An instruction manual and a device body are accommodated in the first accommodation portion and the second accommodation portion, and a small article and the like are accommodated in the third accommodation portion. The small partition plate is prevented from unfolding open by an edge side of the first connection piece. Therefore, the small article and the like accommodated in the third accommodation portion do not move into the first accommodation portion. The third accommodation portion can be formed by a simple operation (inserting operation is unnecessary) only by folding the small partition plate into the package box.

Abstract: A training apparatus comprises a seat 32 mounted on an apparatus body, a training mechanism disposed in front of the seat 32 and provided with a mechanism adapted to exercise legs of a user, a load-applying unit adapted to apply a braking force to a movement of the training mechanism in an electrically adjustable manner, and a tilt adjustment unit adapted to tiltingly move a front end of the seat in a vertical direction. The training apparatus of the present invention allows a user, even an elderly person or a person who requires assistance to readily sit on the seat without an unnatural or forced physical posture.

Abstract: Disclosed is a training apparatus, which comprises a seat unit 30 including a seat 35 allowing a user M to sit thereon, a foot plate 42 adapted to allow the user M sitting on the seat 35 to keep his/her feet bottoms in contact therewith, a displacement mechanism unit 38 adapted to apply to the user M a load against a straining force generated when the user M sitting on the seat 35 while keeping the feet bottoms in contact with the foot plate 42 strains his/her legs, and a base board 20 mounting thereon the above components. The foot plate 42 is adapted to be changed in posture between a horizontal posture T1 where it protrudes approximately horizontally and outwardly from a pair of footrest frames 41 mounted on the base board 20, and a vertical posture T2 where it protrudes approximately vertically and upward from the footrest frames 41 at approximately the same height level as a that of the seat 35.

Abstract: A telescopic system with a display in a visual field is provided. In the telescopic system, a microcomputer is mounted on the circuit board of a display device and is configured so that the short-time pressing of an ENT key is detected. When the short-time pressing of the ENT key is detected, the orientation data on a liquid crystal display unit is set into a fixed display state in which the orientation data is fixed to the orientation data obtained at the time. At the same time, the display state of the liquid crystal display unit is switched to a blinking state or a state in which the color of the backlight unit is switched to a lighting color different from the lighting color in a real-time display state in which the orientation data being changed is displayed directly, by the microcomputer via a lighting drive circuit, whereby the distinction between the fixed display and the real-time display can be performed easily.

Abstract: In a game system 1, instruction marks corresponding to sounds constituting part of a music number are displayed on a monitor 3, and a game player plays a game by operating a signal generating device 5 by at least one of a hitting motion and a swinging motion at specified timings based on the displayed instruction marks. The game system 1 is provided with a display means for successively renewably displaying the instruction marks on a display screen of the monitor 3, a signal generator provided in the signal generating device 5 for generating a signal when the signal generating device is operated by the above motion, an evaluating means for evaluating a game result based on a generation timing of the signal, and a sound generating means for outputting at least the background sounds.

Abstract: An interior of the package box is partitioned by an intermediate partition plate into a first accommodation portion and a second accommodation portion. A small partition plate is folded into the package box to form a third accommodation portion. An instruction manual and a device body are accommodated in the first accommodation portion and the second accommodation portion, and a small article and the like are accommodated in the third accommodation portion. The small partition plate is prevented from unfolding open by an edge side of the first connection piece. Therefore, the small article and the like accommodated in the third accommodation portion do not move into the first accommodation portion. The third accommodation portion can be formed by a simple operation (inserting operation is unnecessary) only by folding the small partition plate into the package box.

Abstract: A game system is provided with a converting means including a voice input member, such as a microphone, for allowing the game player or his/her friend to input voices and for converting the inputted voices into electrical signal data, a sound data storage for storing the electrical signal data obtained by the conversion together with predetermined sound-relating data corresponding to contents of instructions, a sound generator for generating voices from the corresponding electrical signal data when a game player makes a motion in response to the content of instruction, and a device for evaluating a game result based on the content of instruction. Accordingly, a sound output type game system which can provide more interesting and enjoyable games can be realized.

Abstract: A message-creating game machine includes at least one storage unit among a first storage unit for storing a plurality of images displaying character strings constituting sentences, a second storage unit for storing a plurality of images displaying character strings constituting words, and a third storage unit for storing a plurality of monosyllabic character images. The game machine also includes a display unit for displaying characters, a character-image-display control unit for displaying the character images stored in the storage unit on the display unit, a selecting unit for selecting at least one character image from among the character images displayed on the display unit, and a message-synthesizing unit for synthesizing a message from the selected character image.

Abstract: When program data is distributed to users across an open network, such as the Internet, a licensing agreement concluded between a server for the program data and a manager is maintained and the unauthorized copying of program data is prevented. Therefore, to fulfill such the situation, a program data distribution system includes an open network; a file server, connected to the open network, for distributing encrypted program data; a key server, connected to the open network, for distributing a decryption key used to decode the encrypted program data; and a terminal, connected to the open network, for processing program data, the terminal employing the decryption key distributed by the key server to decode the encrypted program data obtained from the file server.

Abstract: A plurality of questions and a plurality of alternative answers to each of the questions are stored in a ROM, and outputted to a display monitor for display. A psychological game player selects and inputs one of the alternative answers to each of the questions using operation switches. Depending on the selected answers, one of a plurality of scenarios stored in the ROM is selected by a scenario selector, and video data corresponding to the selected scenario are displayed on the display monitor. Audio data relative to the selected scenario are also outputted to headphones. A character type determined depending on the selected answers is also displayed on the display monitor.

Abstract: Low aerodynamic noise type current collection equipment is provided for reducing variations in aerodynamic force applied to a current collector during train operation. A central region (2a) of a current collector (1) having a collector head (2) with a top surface in which a contact strip (3) is embedded is rectangular in cross-section, and each side region is shaped convex in cross-section in the front and rear directions, with e.g. an elliptical shape. The rectangular shape has characteristics such that the magnitude of the aerodynamic lift force would be kept substantially constant even if the inclination angle against the aerial flow would be changed.