Abstract: A mobile terminal has a sound obtaining unit configured to obtain a sound signal; a voice recognition unit configured to recognize the sound signal and convert the sound signal into a text data; a display unit configured to display the text data divided in a plurality of units; a selection unit configured to receive a selection of one of the units from the text data divided in the plurality of the units displayed on the display unit; and a control unit configured to perform a predetermined process corresponding to each of the units selected by the selection unit.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus and method that can store image information by thinning out latest image information at a low thinning-out ratio and thinning out old image information at a high thinning-out ratio. The image recording apparatus includes a recording unit that records plural pieces of image information received from the image pickup unit in a storage area together with recording date and time information of the respective pieces of image information; and a deleting unit that compares the present date and time and the recording date and time information recorded by the recording unit to calculate elapsed time of the respective pieces of image information and deletes the image information with the longer elapsed time at a thinning-out ratio higher than that of the image information with the shorter elapsed time.

Abstract: A mobile terminal has a sound obtaining unit configured to obtain a sound signal; a voice recognition unit configured to recognize the sound signal and convert the sound signal into a text data; a display unit configured to display the text data divided in a plurality of units; a selection unit configured to receive a selection of one of the units from the text data divided in the plurality of the units displayed on the display unit; and a control unit configured to perform a predetermined process corresponding to each of the units selected by the selection unit.

Abstract: A microcomputer detects tracing on a touch panel, detects the traced pattern and controls each unit to execute advancing/backing or deleting the image according to the detected pattern. The microcomputer also changes the display mode from standard play mode to magnify mode or thumbnail display mode.

Abstract: There is disclosed a digital still camera in which a direction and speed of a tracing operation by user's fingertips on a touch panel are judged and a dynamic image reproduction process is executed in accordance with the direction and speed. For example, fast forward/rewind reproduction of a dynamic image is executed in response to a long and fast tracing operation to the right from the left or to the left from the right.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image pickup apparatus has an image pickup unit which picks up a picture as an image and outputs a picture signal, an amplifier unit which amplifies the picture signal at an amplification rate L according to a magnitude of the picture signal from the image pickup unit and outputs the amplified picture signal, and a motion detector unit which decides a threshold value Th for motion detection in accordance with a magnitude of the amplification rate, detects a change in the amplified picture signal from the amplifier unit, and in the case where the change quantity exceeds the threshold value, determining that a motion has occurred, and outputs a motion detection signal V.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus and method that can store image information by thinning out latest image information at a low thinning-out ratio and thinning out old image information at a high thinning-out ratio. The image recording apparatus includes a recording unit that records plural pieces of image information received from the image pickup unit in a storage area together with recording date and time information of the respective pieces of image information; and a deleting unit that compares the present date and time and the recording date and time information recorded by the recording unit to calculate elapsed time of the respective pieces of image information and deletes the image information with the longer elapsed time at a thinning-out ratio higher than that of the image information with the shorter elapsed time.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having image pickup sections which output a detection signal to which an exposure adjustment corresponding to a predetermined exposure signal is carried out with respect to incident light at the time of receiving the predetermined exposure signal, communication sections which communicate with the exterior, and a processing section which adds an exposure photometric range in a screen in accordance with a coordinate signal provided by a mouse or the like, and outputs it, and further generates a predetermined exposure signal corresponding to an image signal value within the exposure photometric range, and supplies it to the image pickup section, and outputs an image signal.

Abstract: An image pickup device has an image pickup portion for picking up an image, a communication portion for making communication via a local area network N, and a router portion connected to the communication portion to transmit image information picked up by the image pickup portion via either of the local area network and a wide area network W, wherein connection can be easily made to the Internet, and a communication function using the router portion can be improved.

Abstract: An image pickup device has an image pickup portion which picks up an image, a communication portion which makes communication with a plurality of external devices on a network, a setting portion which receives a signal from each of the plurality of external devices via the communication portion and sets a segment region of image information to be transmitted to the each external device and priority items of process parameters when the image information is transmitted, and a control portion which, upon determining process parameters in accordance with the priority items of the process parameters, transmits image information in the segment region, which is set in units of the each external device from the image information of the image picked up by the image pickup portion, to the each device on the network via the communication portion in correspondence to the determined process parameters.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus has an image pickup section which picks up an image and outputs image information, a determining section which makes a determination whether to execute a pixel addition process for the image information in accordance with a result of optical measurement executed from the image information, a pixel addition section which executes the pixel addition process for the image information when the determining section makes a determination for execution of the pixel addition process, and a transmitting section which transmits to the outside the image information to which the pixel addition section has executed pixel addition process. In the event of underexposure, the he image pickup apparatus automatically executes the pixel addition process without requiring a user to make a determination and make an instruction operation each time.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus has an image pickup section which photographs an image and outputs its image information, a determining section which determines whether or not the image information should undergo a pixel addition processing according to a result of beam measurement, a pixel adding section which, when it is determined that the pixel addition processing should be executed, executes the pixel addition processing upon the image information, and a transmitting section for transmitting the image information which pixels are added to an external unit, wherein, when exposure becomes short, the pixel addition processing is automatically executed even unless user gives any instruction about the pixel addition processing under his determination for each time.

Abstract: A network-connected camera comprising a retrieval message sending unit configured to send a retrieval message that contains the position information of the camera itself over a network at regular intervals, a return message sending unit configured to, upon detecting a retrieval message sent over the network, send a return message containing the position information of the camera itself over the network, and a position information recording unit configured to, upon detecting a retrieval message and a return message sent over the network, record the position information contained in the retrieval message and the return message.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup section which picks up an image, a communication section which transmits the image to an external device, and which receives control information from the external device, and a processing section which, in a state in which the image is displayed on a display screen of the external device, when a predetermined region on the display screen is designated, transmits regional information to the external device via the communication section in order to indicate the predetermined region within the image, and carries out masking processing for the image which is picked up at the image pickup section on the basis of the predetermined region, and setting of the masking processing is easily carried out on a screen of a PC 26 or the like, on a network.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having an image pickup section which picks up an image, a communication section which transmits the image to an external device, and which receives control information from the external device, and a processing section which, in a state in which the image is displayed on a display screen of the external device, when a predetermined region on the display screen is designated, transmits regional information to the external device via the communication section in order to display the predetermined region within the image, and carries out movement detection of the image which is picked up at the image pickup section on the basis of the predetermined region, and regional setting of movement detection is easily possible on a screen of a PC 26, or the like, on a network.

Abstract: A microcomputer detects tracing on a touch panel, detects the traced pattern and controls each unit to execute advancing/backing or deleting the image according to the detected pattern. The microcomputer also changes the display mode from standard play mode to magnify mode or thumbnail display mode.

Abstract: There is disclosed a digital still camera in which a direction and speed of a tracing operation by user's fingertips on a touch panel are judged and a dynamic image reproduction process is executed in accordance with the direction and speed. For example, fast forward/rewind reproduction of a dynamic image is executed in response to a long and fast tracing operation to the right from the left or to the left from the right.

Abstract: A digital still camera having a camera body, an LCD provided on the back of the camera body, and a touch panel covering the LCD. Icons are printed on the touch panel, at positions located on the left side of the LCD. The user may touch the icons to select any one of the functions of the digital still camera.