Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories

About: Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories is a company organization based out in Taipei, Taiwan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Image processing. The organization has 38708 authors who have published 63864 publications receiving 865637 citations.

Noncontact electric power feeding apparatus, noncontact electric power receiving apparatus, noncontact electric power feeding method, noncontact electric power receiving method, and noncontact electric power feeding system

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a noncontact electric power feeding apparatus, including: a resonance element for supplying an alternative current electric power in a noncontact style in accordance with a resonance; an alternative current power source portion configured to generate an alternative current electric power to be supplied to said resonance element; and impedance adjusting portion provided between said alternative current power source portion and said resonance element and configured to variably control an impedance in accordance with a coupling coefficient between said noncontact electric power feeding apparatus and an electric power feeding destination of the alternative current electric power.

Graphical text entry wheel

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a graphical text entry system is provided. The graphical text entry system includes a graphical text entry screen, preferably on a small electronic device, and a graphical text entry wheel displayed on the graphical text entry screen. A plurality of characters are positioned on the graphical text entry wheel. The system also includes a pointing device for rotating the graphical text entry wheel to allow a user to select one of the characters on the graphical text entry wheel to be entered. After selection of one or more characters, the graphical text entry system may provide suggested next characters or words to aid in text entry. A method for entering text into an electronic device using the graphical text entry system of the invention is also provided.

Electric power supplying apparatus and electric power transmitting system using the same

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electric power supplying apparatus, including: a resonance circuit having an inductance and a capacitance; and an electric power synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize electric powers of electric signals composed of a plurality of frequency components in a neighborhood frequency band as a frequency band near a resonance frequency decided by the inductance and the capacitance with one another, and output a resulting electric signal obtained through the electric power synthesis to the resonance circuit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes an image-information obtaining unit (1) configured to obtain first image information (210); an information associating unit configured to generate first related information (211) having certain content related to the first image information and to associate the first related information (211) with the first image information (210); a display processor (5) configured to use function data including second image information and condition information (202) to display an image of the second image information, and to allow display of a representative image representing the first image information on the image of the second image information; a determining unit configured to determine whether the content of the first related information (211) associated with the first image information (210) represented by the representative image satisfies a condition represented by the condition information (202); and a display controller (7) configured to cause the display processor (5) to display the representative image only when the determining unit determines that the condition is satisfied.

Optical device and image display apparatus

Abstract: An optical device includes a light guide plate, and first and second reflective volume hologram diffraction grating members. The first member has interference fringes extending from therewithin towards surfaces thereof and arranged at an equal pitch. Each interference fringe and each surface of the first member form an inclination angle therebetween. The first member has the following conditions. (a) In an outer region positioned farther away from the second member than a minimum inclination angle region having a minimum inclination angle, the inclination angles of the interference fringes increase with increasing distance from the minimum inclination angle region. (b) In an inner region positioned closer to the second member than the minimum inclination angle region, the inclination angles of the interference fringes include a maximum inclination angle in an inner area disposed adjacent to the minimum inclination angle region and decrease with increasing distance from the minimum inclination angle region.