Abstract: To provide an operation input device (100) including an operating knob (11) to be operated by a user; a guide unit (12) having vertices and formed in different directions with respect to each of the vertices being base points, the guide unit (12) indicating an operating area for the operating knob; first sensors (23) each for detecting whether the operating knob (11) is present at a corresponding one of the vertices; and a calculating unit (2) for calculating a set value on the basis of input information received from each of the first sensors (23), by which the user can accurately perform an input operation scale by scale even without looking at the operation input device (100).

Abstract: In a mobile interaction robot, a plurality of self-propelled robots is connected to each other by a long object.

Abstract: A virtual camera control device includes: a gaze point determining unit to determine, as a gaze point, any one point of a traveling object or a browsing object that is disposed in a virtual 3D space and is a virtual 3D object; and a virtual camera traveling unit to move a virtual camera while keeping a photographing direction of a virtual camera that photographs an inside of the virtual 3D space and is disposed in the virtual 3D space in a direction from the virtual camera toward the gaze point determined by the gaze point determining unit and keeping a distance from the virtual camera to the traveling object at a fixed distance.

Abstract: In an operation input device, an operation plate is supported by a support unit in such a way as to allow the operation plate to be tilted, and the orientation of an operation target of a target apparatus is set to the orientation corresponding to a tilt position of the operation plate.

Abstract: An event managing unit (8) is provided, which, when an event detected by the event detecting unit (7) is an event accompanied by notification of haptic feedback, determines whether or not to permit the notification of haptic feedback, on the basis of a reason for the notification of haptic feedback as a result of the event detected by the event detecting unit (7), and when a determination result from the event managing unit (8) indicates permission of the notification, a feedback notifying unit (11) provides the notification of haptic feedback.

Abstract: To provide an operation input device (100) including an operating knob (11) to be operated by a user; a guide unit (12) having vertices and formed in different directions with respect to each of the vertices being base points, the guide unit (12) indicating an operating area for the operating knob; first sensors (23) each for detecting whether the operating knob (11) is present at a corresponding one of the vertices; and a calculating unit (2) for calculating a set value on the basis of input information received from each of the first sensors (23), by which the user can accurately perform an input operation scale by scale even without looking at the operation input device (100).

Abstract: An event managing unit (8) is provided, which, when an event detected by the event detecting unit (7) is an event accompanied by notification of haptic feedback, determines whether or not to permit the notification of haptic feedback, on the basis of a reason for the notification of haptic feedback as a result of the event detected by the event detecting unit (7), and when a determination result from the event managing unit (8) indicates permission of the notification, a feedback notifying unit (11) provides the notification of haptic feedback.

Abstract: A moving position correcting section is provided which determines a seeming moving direction of an animation from positional relationships between positions before movement of a plurality of images composing the animation and moving positions of the plurality of images calculated by a moving position calculation section, and if the seeming moving direction disagrees with the moving direction determined by the moving position calculation section, the moving position correcting section corrects the moving positions of the plurality of images in such a manner that the seeming moving direction agrees with the moving direction determined by the moving position calculation section. An image display displays the plurality of images at the moving positions corrected by the moving position correcting section.

Abstract: A moving position correcting section is provided which determines a seeming moving direction of an animation from positional relationships between positions before movement of a plurality of images composing the animation and moving positions of the plurality of images calculated by a moving position calculation section, and if the seeming moving direction disagrees with the moving direction determined by the moving position calculation section, the moving position correcting section corrects the moving positions of the plurality of images in such a manner that the seeming moving direction agrees with the moving direction determined by the moving position calculation section. An image display displays the plurality of images at the moving positions corrected by the moving position correcting section.

Abstract: A reference point determinator determines, as a reference point, the center of each pixel where a sloped line is located. A candidate line generator generates candidate lines each connecting between a point in a pixel having the start point of the sloped line extracted by an endpoint extractor, and a point in a pixel having the end point of the sloped line. A candidate line selector selects a candidate line having the smallest sum total of distances between the candidate line and the reference points from the candidate lines generated by the candidate line generator. A data corrector corrects the sloped line to the candidate line selected by the candidate line selector.

Abstract: Herein included are: an image display unit that displays hierarchical display images of an application constituted by software having one or more functions; a display information preserving unit in which settings of images to be displayed on the image display unit are preserved; and a display controlling unit that, when the hierarchical display images of the application preserved in the display information preserving unit are displayed, controls a pop-up image that corresponds to said application but is other than the display images, to be displayed on the front side of the hierarchical display images of the application.

Abstract: A reference point determinator determines, as a reference point, the center of each pixel where a sloped line is located. A candidate line generator generates candidate lines each connecting between a point in a pixel having the start point of the sloped line extracted by an endpoint extractor, and a point in a pixel having the end point of the sloped line. A candidate line selector selects a candidate line having the smallest sum total of distances between the candidate line and the reference points from the candidate lines generated by the candidate line generator. A data corrector corrects the sloped line to the candidate line selected by the candidate line selector.

Abstract: A map display device includes a map polygonization unit 5 for converting a map to be displayed before display switching and another map to be displayed after the display switching into polygons having the same phase structure as each other, a triangulation unit 6 for dividing each of these polygons into triangles which make corresponding points between the map to be displayed before the display switching and the other map to be displayed after the display switching have an equal connection relation, and a morphing unit 7 for, when morphing a map display to perform the display switching, creating map data about an intermediate map having the same phase structure as each of the map to be displayed before display switching and the other map to be displayed after display switching.