A method for obtaining download information of an application includes: a first device reading tag data of a second device; a second server receiving a first request that carries identification information of the second device and application supporting capability information of the first device. The identification information is associated with the tag data and the first request is used for obtaining download information of a device management application from the second server.

An information processing device wirelessly communicates with an electronic device via a wireless communication unit and includes a search result acquisition unit, a direction information acquisition unit, and a controller. The search result acquisition unit acquires information of a search result about the electronic device by a search via the wireless communication unit. The direction information acquisition unit acquires direction information representing a direction in which the electronic device exists, by short-range wireless communication with the electronic device via the wireless communication unit. The controller displays, on a display, a list of a plurality of the electronic devices found by the search, based on the information of the search result, and executes processing of deciding a display priority order of the electronic device, based on the direction information, and displaying information of the electronic device on the display, based on information of the display priority order.

The portable device is provided with a photograph unit to acquire, at a first time interval, images with a super wide angle of which a maximum value reaches all peripheral directions around the portable device; a traveling direction calculation unit to calculate a traveling direction of the portable device at a second time interval; an image segmentation unit to segment, as a traveling direction image, an image of a predetermined range where the traveling direction is positioned at a center thereof, from a latest acquired image every time the traveling direction calculation unit calculates the traveling direction; and a display control unit to display the traveling direction image on a predetermined traveling direction display region of a display of the portable device. The display control unit displays a video image designated by a user on a first display region, which is different from the traveling direction display region.

Systems and methods for controlling access to a mobile device. A method for unlocking a mobile device includes detecting a user input comprising two or more user actions performed at one or more physical input buttons of the mobile device when the mobile device is in a lock state. The lock state prevents use of at least one functionality of the mobile device. Each user action corresponds to a code. The method also includes determining whether the detected user input is valid, and changing a state of the mobile device from the lock state to an unlock state to enable the use of the at least one functionality of the mobile device if the detected user input is valid.

An indicia-reading module is capable of integration into the smallest face of thin-profile smart device. The module employs chip-on-board packaging and a customized sensor enclosure to eliminate the stack-up height found in conventional packaging. The module also employs a customized frame to reduce volume by integrating circuit subassembly circuit boards into a unique architecture and by serving as the lenses for the illuminator and the aimer, thereby eliminating the need for any extra lenses or holders.

Provided is a solid-state illumination system for use in a microscopy system utilizing a light sensor of a mobile phone camera module. The system includes a bright-field illumination source with an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The array of LEDs is configured to produce transmission light within a range of view of the light sensor of the mobile phone camera module. The system also includes a dark-field illumination source including a ring of LEDs. The ring of LEDs is configured to produce light outside of the range of collection of the camera module lens. The system also includes a diffuser configured to diffuse the transmission light and a diffusive black material coupled to the diffuser. The diffusive black material is configured to pass through at least some of the transmission light while blocking reflections of the scattering light.

A voice output control device includes a base control unit configured to set, based on information on relative positions between an own base of the base control unit and other bases, a direction of a position where voice to be output to each of the other bases is localized, and set, based on information on relative distances between the own base and the other bases, a height of the position where the voice is localized; and a sound source processor configured to localize voice from the other base to generate a voice signal to be output, based on the position set by the base control unit.

Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that can present more realistic feeling of real existence of an object to be perceived in another space using sound and vibration as main information channels. An information processing apparatus including a control unit that exercises control for acquiring vibration information and sound information sensed in another space, and outputting, from a perceptual presentation area in a space different from the another space, the vibration information and the sound information for causing presence of an object to be perceived in the another space to be perceived by a tactile sense and an auditory sense.

A drawing system that can reserve a large drawing area and that can receive an input of instruction to an instruction input area at appropriately timing to make a drawing corresponding to the input. The drawing system includes a first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus are connected to each other and communicating with each other. A display screen of a display device of the first terminal apparatus is dedicated to a drawing area, and a display screen of a display device of the second terminal apparatus is dedicated to an instruction input area. The first terminal apparatus includes a first position detection sensor, and a drawing is made in the drawing area provided on the display screen of the first display device according to instruction information from the second terminal apparatus and according to a drawing operation input received through the first position detection sensor.

An information processing apparatus including a touch panel and a near field communication interface. The information processing apparatus detects that an input received at the touch panel corresponds to a predetermined input when the information processing apparatus is in a suspended state; and controls the information processing apparatus execute a predetermined function via the near field communication interface and awake from the suspended state upon detecting that the input corresponds to the predetermined input.