Abstract: An apparatus for providing a position information service includes a position acquisition section for acquiring first position information of a current position; an input section for inputting search information related to a destination; an acquire section for acquiring, on the basis of the search information, destination alternative information including at least an alternative destination related to the destination and a second position information of the at least the alternative destination; an output section for outputting first screen information including the destination alternative information and position relation information between the at least the alternative destination and the current position, and, when one of the at least the alternative destination is selected, second screen information including the position relation information between the selected alternative information and the current position; and a display for displaying the first screen information and the second screen information.

Abstract: A steam cooker 1 has: a steam generation heater 52 generating steam; and a steam heating heater 41 heating the steam generated by the steam generation heater 52 to generate overheated steam and heating steam in a heating chamber 20 through circulation, an-article-to-be-heated F being cooked by use of steam fed into the heating chamber 20. The steam cooker 1 has: a first cooking step in which the article-to-be-heated F is cooked with supply of electric power to the steam generation heater 52 being larger than that to the steam heating heater 41; and a second cooking step in which the article-to-be-heated F is cooked with supply of electric power to the steam generation heater 52 being smaller than that to the steam heating heater 41. When the temperature of the article-to-be-heated F exceeds the fat melting temperature zone but is less than or equal to 100° C., the first cooking step is switched to the second cooking step.

Abstract: Midway along an outer circulation passage provided outside a heating chamber, a steam generating device is arranged, and, through the outer circulation passage, steam is fed to the heating chamber. A control device controls a steam generating heater arranged inside the steam generating device and a vapor heating heater provided in a space through which an air stream flowing through the outer circulation passage is returned to the heating chamber, and forms a cooking sequence by using, singly or in combination, a first heating mode that uses superheated steam obtained as a result of the steam being heated with the vapor heating heater and a second heating mode that uses hot air or radiation heat obtained by making the vapor heating heater produce heat without supply of steam.

Abstract: To provide a technology for making it possible to control enable/disable of an IC card function provided in a mobile device. A mobile device including an IC card unit for executing an IC card function, and a communication unit for carrying out communication through a radio telephone line detects a voltage of a battery unit for supplying an electric power to each of the IC card unit and the communication unit, judges whether or not the IC card function can be used in accordance with the detected voltage value, and issues an enable/disable instruction to the IC card unit in accordance with the Judgment results.

Abstract: A steam cooking apparatus having a steam generating device that generates steam to be fed to a heating chamber and a vapor heating heater that heats the steam generated by the steam generating device to provide superheated steam. The steam cooking apparatus includes a first heating mode using the superheated steam obtained from the vapor heating heater and a second heating mode using hot air or radiation heat obtained by using the vapor heating heater without use of the steam generating device so that the second heating mode produces heat without a supply of steam.

Abstract: After a preheating operation is performed to raise an inner temperature of a heating chamber to a target preheating temperature (first specified temperature) by a first steam superheater of a steam temperature-raising device, a cooking operation is performed to raise, by the first steam superheater of the temperature-raising device, a temperature of steam obtained by heating of water in a steam generator by heaters 42A, 42B of the steam generator and then supply the steam to the heating chamber. In this process, when inner temperature of the heating chamber detected by an inner temperature sensor 81 during the preheating operation has come to or beyond a steam generation start temperature (second specified temperature) which is lower than a target preheating temperature, a control unit 80 decides that a steam generation start condition has been satisfied, and heats water in the steam generator by the heaters of the steam generator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus having a displaying function in a housing unit thereof that is rotatable or can be opened/closed, and facilitates effective use of the displaying capacity in the lateral direction that the horizontally oriented screen elongated in the horizontal direction has. An electronic apparatus (a portable terminal apparatus 2) having a displaying function in a housing unit thereof that can be opened/closed or is rotatable, including a displaying unit 18 that displays a vertically oriented screen or a horizontally oriented screen 176, and a controlling unit (a CPU 90) that, when text information or information including a text is displayed in the displaying unit, sets a displaying column (a text displaying column 178) in the full lateral width that the horizontally oriented screen has and can be displayed, in the horizontally oriented screen 176 set on the displaying unit, and causes the information to be displayed in the displaying column.

Abstract: A plurality of screen aspects is acquired; each screen layout is optimized; switching of the screen aspects is supported; and visibility and functionality of the display screen are improved. An electronic device (portable terminal apparatus) including a display function in a rotatable and/or openable/closable case includes a displaying unit that displays a vertically elongated vertical screen or a horizontally elongated horizontal screen and a controlling unit (CPU) that changes screen layouts correspondingly to the vertical screen or the horizontal screen displayed on the displaying unit. The change in the screen layout corresponding to the vertical screen or the horizontal screen includes a change in arrangement of icons.

Abstract: With regard to an electronic device including a display function in a rotatable housing, operations necessary for function calling and determining processes are facilitated. An electronic device (portable terminal apparatus) including a display function in a rotatable housing includes a displaying unit that displays a first screen (e.g., vertical screen) or a second screen (e.g., horizontal screen) in accordance with rotation, and a controlling unit (CPU) that launches a function by rotating the displaying unit and switching the first screen to the second screen and that determines an selected item from the switched second screen by rotating and returning the displaying unit from the second screen to the first screen.

Abstract: A call-termination operation control device that controls the volume of a call termination sound or the magnitude of vibration of a vibrator for the purpose of informing a user of a mobile communication equipment of the fact that a call has been terminated includes a moving state and receiving operation pattern registration unit in which combinations of positioning detection patterns and vibration detection patterns detected by a positioning sensor and a vibration sensor are recorded, moving states associated with the combinations are registered, and receiving operation patterns associated with the moving states are registered; a moving state decision unit that decides the moving state on the basis of the positioning detection pattern and vibration detection pattern which are detected at the time of call termination; a receiving operation pattern selection unit that selects a receiving operation pattern associated with the moving state according to the result of the decision; and a volume of call termination

Abstract: Midway along an outer circulation passage provided outside a heating chamber, a steam generating device is arranged, and, through the outer circulation passage, steam is fed to the heating chamber. A control device controls a steam generating heater arranged inside the steam generating device and a vapor heating heater provided in a space through which an air stream flowing through the outer circulation passage is returned to the heating chamber, and forms a cooking sequence by using, singly or in combination, a first heating mode that uses superheated steam obtained as a result of the steam being heated with the vapor heating heater and a second heating mode that uses hot air or radiation heat obtained by making the vapor heating heater produce heat without supply of steam.

Abstract: A method of processing wood in which a wooden piece is compressed into a predetermined three-dimensional shape, includes compressing a portion of the wooden piece at a compression rate of at least 0.75 in a thickness direction of the portion of the wooden piece.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device capable of operating multiple functions simultaneously, and enables to operate another function on which operational restriction has been put, with no decline in security features, even while operating a particular function. The electronic device is an electronic device (e.g., mobile terminal device 2) capable of operating another function while operating one function and capable of setting operational restriction for each function, comprising a control part (processor 6) that accepts said another function calling while operating said one function, and that releases the operational restriction based on the judgment of the authentication information in the case where the operational restriction has been set to said another function being called.

Abstract: The present invention is made with the aim of performing time correction appropriately, regarding an electronic device that corrects its device side time with a time correction information supplied from outside the device. This is achieved by the electronic device (mobile terminal device 2) that corrects its device side time with a time correction information supplied from outside the device, comprising a reception section (wireless reception section 8) that receives the time correction information; and a time correction section (processor 6) that judges whether the information is received during any correction inhibiting periods of the device side time, then either discards the time correction information if it is received during the correction inhibiting periods, or corrects the device side time with the time correction information if it is received other than the correction inhibiting periods.

Abstract: In a state in which a fingerprint authentication mode is set, a fingerprint authentication unit authenticates a fingerprint input in accordance with an input instruction, performs unlocking if the authentication is successful, instructs another fingerprint input if the authentication fails, and determines unauthorized use and switches the mode to a PIN code authentication mode if the fingerprint authentication sequentially fails for a predetermined number of times. In a state of the PIN code authentication mode, a PIN code authentication unit authenticates a PIN code input in accordance with an input instruction, performs unlocking if the authentication is successful, instructs another PIN code input if the authentication fails, and determines unauthorized use and turns off the power source if the authentication sequentially fails for a predetermined number of times.

Abstract: To provide a technology for making it possible to control enable/disable of an IC card function provided in a mobile device. A mobile device including an IC card unit for executing an IC card function, and a communication unit for carrying out communication through a radio telephone line detects a voltage of a battery unit for supplying an electric power to each of the IC card unit and the communication unit, judges whether or not the IC card function can be used in accordance with the detected voltage value, and issues an enable/disable instruction to the IC card unit in accordance with the Judgment results.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrochromic display element having an electrochromic material layer and an ion-conductive material layer being in contact therewith, characterized in that said electrochromic layer comprises a transition metal oxide and said ion-conductive material layer comprises a light-transmissive organic polymeric resin and an inorganic ion-conductive material.