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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150206512 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL - An information display apparatus includes an operation section, a content-related operation log acquisition section, a display section, and a controller. The operation section performs a content-related operation related to each of a plurality of types of content. The acquisition section acquires a content-related operation log as associated with each content for which the content-related operation is being performed and with a type of each content. The operation log includes a move log having position information on a position of the information display apparatus and time information on time during performance of the content-related operation. The display section displays map information based on the position information and an icon on the displayed map information based on the operation log. The icon represents the type of each content. The controller controls the operation section to perform the content-related operation related to each content when an instruction is given to the displayed icon. | 07-23-2015 |
20150023545 | Speaker Magnetic Circuit - A yoke includes a disk-like base end portion and a columnar center pole protruding from a center portion of the base end portion. An annular magnet is arranged on the base end portion. An annular top plate is arranged on the magnet so that an inner circumferential surface thereof is opposite to an outer circumferential surface of the center pole. A non-magnetic ring member is arranged on an inner circumferential surface side of the magnet, the non-magnetic ring member having a same inner circumferential diameter as an inner circumferential diameter of the top plate. | 01-22-2015 |
20140368923 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A substrate housing portion stores a circuit substrate that outputs an image signal. The optical unit generates and projects an image based on the image signal output from the circuit substrate. The image is projected onto a combiner. The optical unit has an optical unit main body that includes a light source and an image display element, and a projection unit that is attached to the optical unit main body and that determines a projection direction. The projection unit is provided with an intermediate image screen that images an intermediate image and is freely removed from or installed in the optical unit main body. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368621 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes: a three-dimensional model storage unit configured to store a three-dimensional model data, positions of a plurality of devices including a camera disposed in a three-dimensional region as positions in the three-dimensional model, and a plurality of device icons; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a shot image taken at the camera and a shooting direction when shooting; a composing unit configured to determine a view point with respect to the three-dimensional model of the camera position disposed in the three-dimension region, generate a three-dimensional model by disposing the device icons according to the determined view point and the shooting direction, generate a two-dimensional projection image, and generate a composite image by composing the shot image in a predetermined region on the generated two-dimensional projection image; and an output unit configured to output the composite image. | 12-18-2014 |
20140355876 | Image Signal Processing Device and Method - A G interpolation method selector and an R/B interpolation method selector decide between a first case, which is not a monotonous increase or a monotonous decrease of pixel signals of three pixels in reference pixel signals used for producing an interpolation pixel signal, and a second case, which is the monotonous increase or the monotonous decrease. A G interpolation unit produces an interpolation pixel signal of G in such a manner as to change interpolation methods depending on the first case or the second case. An R/B interpolation unit produces an interpolation pixel signal of R or B in such a manner as to change interpolation methods depending on the first case or the second case. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354674 | MULTI-PROJECTOR SYSTEM, PROJECTOR, METHOD FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Provided is a multi-projector system including: projectors; an image outputting apparatus; and an adjusting apparatus to adjust images. Each of the projectors includes: a light-emitting unit to emit the modulated light; and a color adjusting unit to adjust colors of the projected image. The image outputting apparatus includes an outputting unit to output the first adjustment image and the second adjustment image as the input images of the projectors. The adjusting apparatus includes: an imaging unit to take a projected image and to output a captured image; an analyzing unit to analyze an image of the overlapping area from the captured image so as to determine a color component; and a controller for controlling the color adjusting unit of the first projector so that the color of the overlapping area is an achromatic color in accordance with the color component determined as a result of the analysis. | 12-04-2014 |
20140348226 | MOVING IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Provided is a moving image encoding device including an encoding unit which includes: a local decoding image signal generating unit; a filtering unit; and a control unit configured to divide a screen of the local decoding image signal, in a horizontal or a vertical direction, into a first area serving as the overlapping boundary areas, a second area adjacent to the first area, and other areas, to encode the first area of the first small image and the second area of the second small image with a same encoding parameter, to encode the second area of the first small image and the first area of the second small image with a same encoding parameter, and to perform orthogonal transform on the second area of the first small image and the first area of the second small image in the unit of the orthogonal transform block of the second size. | 11-27-2014 |
20140324340 | Information Processing Device, Processing Method, and Medium - While a user carrying a mobile terminal is aboard a vehicle, communication is available between on-vehicle equipment and the mobile terminal by near field communication, and therefore, the mobile terminal stands by and only the location information measured by the on-vehicle equipment is transmitted to a server. After the user gets off the vehicle, radio communication between the on-vehicle equipment and the mobile terminal is cut off, and therefore, the mobile terminal starts measuring the location etc. and only the location information measured by the mobile terminal is transmitted to the server. The server accumulates the location information sent from the on-vehicle equipment or the mobile terminal. Then, the server generates an inquiry image in which figures each representing the movement trajectory of the user are combined on a map based on the accumulated location information and transmits the inquiry image to the on-vehicle equipment. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320482 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY (LCD) DEVICE - A LCD device includes pixels formed of column data lines and row scanning lines. The pixel includes a display element; a first switching unit that performs sampling on each frame data of an input video signal; a first holding unit that configures an SRAM, and holds sub frame data; a second switching unit that causes the sub frame data held in the first holding unit; and a second holding unit that configures a DRAM, and applies output data to the pixel electrode, a pixel control unit that performs an operation of repeating writing the sub frame data in the first holding unit, turning on the second switching units, and rewriting memory content of the second holding units; and a timing control unit. A delay of a certain period of time is sequentially given to a timing at which the pixel control unit turns on the second switching unit. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320477 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device that includes: pixels, a pixel control unit, and a common voltage generation unit. The pixel includes: a display element; a first switching unit configured to sample each frame data; a first holding unit configured to form an SRAM, and to hold sub-frame data sampled; a second switching unit configured to output the sub-frame data; and a second holding unit configured to form a DRAM, and configured of which stored content is rewritten by the sub-frame data. The pixel control unit is configured to repeat writing the sub-frame data into the first holding units, and to operate to rewrite the stored content in the second holding units. The common voltage generation unit is configured to change a voltage value of a common voltage from a first voltage value to a second voltage value determined based on at least the one frame period. | 10-30-2014 |
20140300765 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Provided is an image pickup apparatus that includes: an image pickup unit configured to generate picked-up image data by an image pickup process; a camera shake detection unit configured to detect an angular velocity generated by camera shake when shooting; an electronic image stabilization unit configured to perform an image stabilization process by moving a position of a cropping area in the picked-up image data, based on the angular velocity detected by the camera shake detection unit; and an area changing unit configured to change a size of the cropping area with respect to the picked-up image data, based on the angular velocity detected by the camera shake detection unit. | 10-09-2014 |
20140297628 | Text Information Processing Apparatus, Text Information Processing Method, and Computer Usable Medium Having Text Information Processing Program Embodied Therein - A text information processing apparatus includes a retrieval part, a degree-of-similarity calculation part and a determination part. The retrieval part obtains a retrieval result set which includes one or plural pieces of item information and corresponds to a retrieval key extracted from text data, from item database. The degree-of-similarity calculation part calculates a score of the retrieval result set, based on one or more pieces of degree of similarity each between different pieces of item information in the plural pieces of item information. The determination part identifies item information corresponding to the text data from among the plural pieces of item information, based on the score. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297174 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A position detector is configured to detect a current position of a moving body. A condition detector is configured to detect moving conditions including a forward direction of the moving body. A display unit is configured to display a predetermined image overlaid on the landscape in front of the moving body. A storage unit is configured to store the position of each intersection in a route along which the moving body moves and the position and shape of each object existing around the intersection. A selector is configured to select any one of the objects existing around an intersection for which guidance is needed when the moving body nears the intersection. A drawing controller is configured to draw on the display unit, a guide figure indicating the object selected by the selector. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293763 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DETERMINATION METHOD - An optical pickup of an optical disc device is configured to read a signal recorded in an optical disc. An envelope signal generation unit is configured to generate an envelope signal from the signal read by the optical pickup. An off-track level storage unit stores an off-track level. An off-track signal generation unit is configured to generate an off-track signal by binarizing the envelope signal, which is generated by the envelope signal generation unit, using the off-track level stored by the off-track level storage unit. A determination unit is configured to output a disc determination signal, which indicates whether the optical disc is a standard-density optical disc or a high-density optical disc in which a line density is higher than the standard density, based on the off-track signal generated by the off-track signal generation unit. | 10-02-2014 |
20140286402 | MOVING PICTURE CODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - In a moving picture coding device that codes moving pictures in units of a block by partitioning a first block, which is obtained by partitioning each picture of the moving pictures into predetermined sizes, into one or a plurality of second blocks, a quantization parameter calculation unit calculates a quantization parameter of the second block. A predictive quantization parameter deriving unit derives a predictive quantization parameter of the second block using quantization parameters of a third block adjacent to the left of the second block and a fourth block adjacent to the top of the second block. A differential quantization parameter generation unit generates a differential quantization parameter of the second block from a difference between the quantization parameter of the second block and the predictive quantization parameter. A first bitstream generation unit codes the differential quantization parameter of the second block. | 09-25-2014 |
20140267895 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - An image pickup device includes a body case, a grip belt, and a Wi-Fi module stored in the body case. A communication module has a substrate, a processing circuit, and an antenna. The grip belt extends from a first attaching portion provided on a right side surface of the body case to a second attaching portion provided on a side opposite to an opening portion side of a lens barrel of the body case. The communication module is arranged closer to the opening portion of the lens barrel than a reference surface substantially orthogonal to an optical axis and passing through the first attaching portion or in the vicinity of the reference surface. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267462 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A first sample holding unit ( | 09-18-2014 |
20140267200 | DESCRIPTION LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND PIXEL INSPECTION METHOD THEREFOR - A liquid crystal display device includes an inspection control unit configured to alternately perform a first inspection operation in which an inspection signal is input from a first column data line connected to one pixel of the two pixels in each of the pairs into the one pixel and is read out to a second column data line connected to another pixel through the other pixel of the two pixels in each of the pairs and a second inspection operation in which an inspection signal is input from the second column data line into the other pixel and is read out to the first column data line through the one pixel, on all of the plurality of pixels in a unit of pixels in each row when the pixels being inspected. | 09-18-2014 |
20140255019 | LIGHT QUANTITY ADJUSTING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - Provided is a light quantity adjusting device that adjusts size of a diaphragm opening centering on an optical axis of an optical system that includes: a first pair of a first and a second rectilinear diaphragm blades slidably arranged at positions opposing across the diaphragm opening in a direction moving to and from the optical axis on a plane orthogonal to the optical axis; a second pair of a third and a fourth rectilinear diaphragm blades slidably arranged at positions opposing across the diaphragm opening, in a direction orthogonal the first pair of blades move, and in a direction to and from the optical axis; and a driving unit that adjusts a size of the diaphragm opening by sliding the blades. The driving unit drives the blades so as to adjustably form and maintain a shape of an opening perimeter of the diaphragm opening in nearly similar shapes. | 09-11-2014 |
20140240495 | SURVEILLANCE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - A drive controller is configured to control an imaging unit so that a subject is imaged at a first exposure mode and imaged at a second exposure mode. A gain controller is configured to set equal to each other luminance amplitudes of a first and second image signals due to the difference in exposure time period of a first luminance signal obtained by imaging the subject in the first exposure mode and a second luminance signal obtained by imaging the subject in the second exposure mode. A determination unit is configured to detect a change between each frame of high-frequency components included in the first and second luminance signals whose luminance amplitudes are set equal to each other and to determine that the image of a surveillance area has changed when an amount of a detected change is equal to or larger than a predetermined value. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240458 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A first RGB converter is configured to convert a luminance signal and a color difference signal of a first frame signal to a first RGB signal. The first frame signal is a current frame having a first number of bits. A second RGB converter is configured to place at least one lower bit of the first frame signal on the least significant bit side of a second frame signal to form composite data having the first number of bits and to convert the composite data to a second RGB signal. The second frame signal is a previous frame having a second number of bits composed of upper bits of the first number of bits other than at least one lower bit. An overdrive processing unit is configured to correct an amplitude of the first RGB signal corresponding to the difference between the first and second RGB signals. | 08-28-2014 |
20140233651 | MOVING PICTURE CODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING METHOD AND TRANSMITTING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM, RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD AND RECEIVING PROGRAM - A prediction information derivation unit derives inter prediction information candidates from inter prediction information of coded prediction blocks neighboring a prediction block subject to coding within the same picture as the prediction block subject to coding and inter prediction information of a prediction block in a coded picture that is different from the prediction block subject to coding. The prediction information derivation unit determines an inter prediction information candidate to be used for inter prediction of the prediction block subject to coding from the inter prediction information candidates that have been derived. A second bitstream generation uni codes an index that indicates the inter prediction information candidate based on the number of the inter prediction information candidates. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233552 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD AND RECEIVING METHOD THAT WIRELESSLY COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER USING PLURALITY OF ANTENNAS - An acquiring unit acquires a channel matrix, which has elements representing the channel characteristics between a plurality of antennas at a transmitting side and a plurality of antennas at a receiving side, respectively. A first derivation unit derives not only a singular value matrix that is a diagonal matrix where singular values are arranged, by subjecting the channel matrix to the singular value decomposition, but also a weight matrix which is a unitary matrix corresponding to the singular value matrix. A second derivation unit derives the degree of difference between the singular values arranged in the singular value matrix. A determining unit determines whether or not the degree of difference lies within a predetermined range. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232751 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Provided is an information display device that includes: a transmittance setting unit configured to set, to a first character transmittance, a character information transmittance that indicates a degree that character information included in first display information of display information to be displayed in a display unit transmits second display information that is the display information, and to set, to a first image transmittance different from the first character transmittance, an image information transmittance that indicates a degree that image information included in the first display information transmits the second display information; a superimposed information generation unit configured to generate superimposed information in which the second display information and the first display information to which the transmittances have been set by the transmittance setting unit are superimposed; and a display processing unit configured to display the superimposed information in the display unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232706 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device that includes pixels and a pixel control unit. Each pixel individually includes: a display element; a first switching unit configured to sample subframe data; a first signal holding unit configured to form a static random access memory to store the subframe data; a second switching unit configured to output the subframe data stored; and a second signal holding unit configured to form a dynamic random access memory to apply output data to the pixel electrode. The pixel control unit performs, for individual subframes, operations of: after writing into all of the plurality of pixels by repeatedly writing the subframe data to the first signal holding unit for the individual pixels in units of rows; turning on the second switching units; and rewriting stored content in the second signal holding units with the subframe data stored in the first signal holding unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140222543 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A use history that at least associates a use subject identifier for identifying a user or a terminal device a user has used with a used item identifier, which is an item identifier for identifying an item used by a user, based on use information is stored in a use history storage section. Based on the use history, a degree of similarity between two item identifiers is calculated and using the degree of similarity, associated data causing a base item identifier, which is an item identifier of a base item, and an associated item identifier, which is an item identifier of an associated item similar to the base item to correspond to each other is created. A change value to change a point value managed for each use subject identifier is calculated. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219356 | PICTURE CODING DEVICE, PICTURE CODING METHOD, PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - In a first inter-image prediction mode in which information on a motion vector is used, a first mode detection unit constructs a first candidate list from a plurality of reference block candidates based on a first predetermined order, assigns indices for designating reference block candidates added in the first candidate list, and outputs the indices of the plurality of reference candidate blocks. In a second inter-image prediction mode in which is used a motion vector difference between a motion vector predictor based on information on a motion vector, and a motion vector of a coding target block, a second mode detection unit constructs a second candidate list from a plurality of reference block candidates based on a second predetermined order, assigns indices for designating reference block candidates added in the second candidate list, and outputs the indices of the plurality of reference block candidates and motion vector differences. | 08-07-2014 |
20140215363 | INPUT DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an embodiment, provided is an input display device that includes: a display unit configure to display an image in a front surface thereof; a detection unit configured to be provided on an outer circumference of the display unit; and an input determination unit configured to determine a detected position detected by the detection unit is changed whether in a posterior direction from a side of the front surface of the display unit to a side of a back surface of the display unit, or in an anterior direction from the side of the back surface to the side of the front surface. | 07-31-2014 |
20140205014 | MOVING PICTURE CODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM, RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEPTION PROGRAM - A motion vector predictor candidate constructing unit performs prediction based on a motion vector of one of coded blocks neighboring a coding target block in the same picture as the coding target block, constructs a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates, and adds the motion vector predictor candidates to a motion vector predictor candidate list. A motion vector predictor candidate number limiting unit limits the number of motion vector predictor candidates added to the motion vector predictor candidate list to a maximum candidate number according to a size of a prediction block. A motion vector predictor selecting unit selects a motion vector predictor from the motion vector predictor candidate list. A coding unit codes information representing an index of the selected motion vector predictor in the motion vector predictor candidate list. | 07-24-2014 |
20140186006 | MOVING IMAGE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MOVING IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A moving image data processing apparatus receives input of first and second image data with a first and second frame rate respectively. The apparatus includes; an input frame rate specification unit that specifies the first and the second frame rate of the moving image data; an output frame rate specification unit that specifies output frame rates of the first and second moving image data; a playback speed specification unit that specifies same playback speed for the first and second moving image data; a frame rate conversion unit that changes a frame rate of the first moving image data based on the first frame rate, the output frame rate, and the playback speed, and changes a frame rate of the second moving image data based on the second frame rate, the output frame rate, and the playback speed; and an output unit that outputs the changed moving image data. | 07-03-2014 |
20140184835 | IMAGING DEVICE - A first heat radiation unit is formed on one surface of the imaging unit in a vertical direction. A second heat radiation unit is formed on the other surface of the imaging unit in the vertical direction. A third heat radiation unit is formed on a surface opposite to an imaging direction of the imaging unit. A first heat transfer unit transfers heat of a first heat source of the imaging unit to the first heat radiation unit and the third heat radiation unit. A second heat transfer unit transfers heat of a second heat source of the imaging unit, which has a higher maximum allowable temperature than the first heating unit, to the second heat radiation unit. A heat insulation unit suppresses heat transfer between the first and the second heat radiation units and between the third and the second heat radiation units. | 07-03-2014 |
20140165009 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THROUGH TOUCH SENSOR - An electronic apparatus has a touch sensor provided with a first touching zone including at least a second touching zone and a third touching zone, the second and third touching zones being allocated with different functions. The electronic apparatus is controlled to perform a specific function assigned to a specific touching zone that is the second or the third touching zone when there is a first touch input at first through the specific touching zone and continuously perform the specific function even if there is a second touch input that follows the first touch input, through either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone, as long as there is a continuous touch input through the first touching zone from the first to the second touch input with no intermission. | 06-12-2014 |
20140165008 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THROUGH TOUCH SENSOR - An electronic apparatus has a touch sensor provided with a first touching zone including at least a second touching zone and a third touching zone, the second and third touching zones being allocated with different functions. The electronic apparatus is controlled to perform a specific function assigned to a specific touching zone that is the second or the third touching zone when there is a first touch input at first through the specific touching zone and continuously perform the specific function even if there is a second touch input that follows the first touch input, through either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone, as long as there is a continuous touch input through the first touching zone from the first to the second touch input with no intermission. | 06-12-2014 |
20140161271 | NOISE ELIMINATING DEVICE, NOISE ELIMINATING METHOD, AND NOISE ELIMINATING PROGRAM - Provided is a noise eliminating device that includes: a signal calculator that calculates a difference signal between a signal of one channel out of a plurality of signals input from a plurality of channels and a signal of another channel; a variable filter unit that processes and outputs the signals of channels; an adaptive filter unit that operates by receiving a composite signal of the difference signal and another signal as an input signal; and a unit that calculates an error signal between an output signal of the adaptive filter unit and a signal having correlation with the another signal being set as a desired signal. Characteristics of the adaptive filter are changed by using the error signal. Further, characteristics of the variable filter are changed in accordance with a change in the characteristics of the adaptive filter. | 06-12-2014 |
20140161180 | PICTURE CODING DEVICE, PICTURE CODING METHOD AND PICTURE CODING PROGRAM AS WELL AS PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A prediction direction difference calculating unit derives a prediction direction difference in intra prediction modes of a plurality of reference blocks used for an intra prediction processing of a block to be coded. A most probable mode determining unit and a coding tree selecting unit determine a most probable mode as an intra prediction mode candidate of the block to be coded based on the intra prediction modes of the reference blocks used for deriving the prediction direction difference and the prediction direction difference, and creates a coding tree assigned with a bitstream having a shorter code length than other prediction modes for the determined most probable mode. A variable length coding unit codes information for specifying an intra prediction mode of the block to be coded according to the coding tree. | 06-12-2014 |
20140156107 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION TARGET DEVICE IN VEHICLE, AND STEERING WHEEL - A first detector is configured to detect a state where a first area in a touch sensor mounted on a grip portion that a driver grips on a steering wheel is touched. A second detector is configured to detect a state where a particular input operation is performed on a second area located on the upper side of the first area in the touch sensor. A controller is configured to control an operation target device to be operated with the touch sensor according to the particular input operation when the first detector detects the state where the first area is touched and the second detector detects the state where the particular input operation is performed. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153647 | MOVING PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A motion vector predictor candidate generation unit derives a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates by prediction from first coded prediction blocks neighboring a prediction block subject to coding within the same picture as the prediction block subject to coding, or from a second coded prediction block located at the same position as or in the neighborhood of the prediction block subject to coding in a picture different from that of the prediction block subject to coding, and adds the derived motion vector predictor candidates in a motion vector predictor candidate. The motion vector predictor candidate generation unit determines, for the purpose of obtaining a predetermined number of motion vector predictor candidates, which of first coded prediction blocks provides the motion vector from which to derive the motion vector predictor candidate, organizing the blocks in the order of priority. | 06-05-2014 |
20140152867 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - A flash detection unit is configured to detect whether or not each frame of image data includes a high luminance portion due to a flash. A holding unit is configured to hold a past frame of the image data. A correction processing unit is configured to, if it is detected by the flash detection unit that frames include high luminance portions, correct the image data so as to consolidate a first image data and a second image data into one frame. The first image data is included in a first portion in a first frame stored in the holding unit. The second image data is included in a second portion in a second frame which is adjacent to the first frame. The first and second portions are high luminance portions. | 06-05-2014 |
20140146876 | MOVING PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS - An inter mode coding unit codes the information regarding the motion information of either one of a merge mode and a motion vector difference mode. A block size information coding unit codes the shape of the block on which the motion compensation prediction is performed. An evaluation inter mode setting unit sets the shape of the block, on which the motion compensation prediction is performed, then selects at least one of the merge mode and the motion vector difference mode, according to the shape thereof set. An inter mode determining unit determines an inter mode of the information regarding the motion information to be coded by the inter mode coding unit in the selectable inter mode. | 05-29-2014 |
20140139754 | PROJECTION DEVICE - A light guide plate receives light, which is emitted from a light source, and emits the light from a light emitting surface. A prism sheet reflects light at a predetermined angle among the light emitted from the light emitting surface, allows the reflected light to enter the light guide plate, and transmits light at another angle thereamong. Between a 1/4 wavelength plate and a reflection-type liquid crystal display element, a polarization control element is provided in parallel to the light emitting surface. The polarization control element splits the light, which is emitted from the 1/4 wavelength plate, into first polarized light allowed to transmit as illumination light that enters the reflection-type liquid crystal display element and second polarized light reflected so as to enter the light guide plate | 05-22-2014 |
20140126339 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND RECORDING METHOD AND REPRODUCING METHOD THEREOF - An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array. | 05-08-2014 |
20140119450 | MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A motion vector decoding unit derives a motion vector of a prediction block subject to decoding on the basis of a motion vector of a candidate block included in candidate blocks selected from neighboring blocks. The motion compensation prediction unit performs motion compensation prediction using the derived motion vector. In case a motion vector number of a first block and a motion vector number of a second block are identical with each other, the motion vector decoding unit determines whether or not to set the second block as a candidate block in accordance with whether or not a reference index indicating a reference picture that the motion vector of the first block refers to and a reference index indicating a reference picture that the motion vector of the second block refers to are identical with each other. | 05-01-2014 |
20140115630 | INFORMATION RECEPTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECEPTION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION RECEPTION, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS - An information reception apparatus which allows a user to easily understand, from an electronic program guide, the information announced in a broadcast program, and which contributes to increasing viewer ratings of the broadcast program. The information reception apparatus (broadcast reception apparatus) is provided with: an electronic program information acquisition unit (tuner, control unit) for acquiring electronic program information; an announcement information acquisition unit (control unit, DEMUX unit) for acquiring information announced in the broadcast program from information included in the electronic program information acquired by the electronic program information acquisition unit or from information transmitted together with the electronic program information; and an announcement information output unit (control unit, AV output unit) for outputting the electronic program information and for outputting information indicating the presence or absence of the announcement information, based on the information acquired by the announcement information acquisition unit. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112415 | RADIO APPARATUS AND DATA REPRODUCING METHOD - A radio apparatus receives a received signal having a frame structure with a synchronization word field interposed between anterior half part data and posterior half part data. The radio apparatus includes: a storage unit that sequentially stores predetermined time length of detected wave data; a synchronization detecting unit that detects a synchronization word from the detected wave data; a symbol timing detecting unit that determines a symbol timing of the detected wave data from the synchronization word; a DC offset detecting unit that detects a DC offset in the detected wave data from the synchronization word; and a data reproducing unit that extracts detected data for every symbol timing from detected wave data of the anterior half part data at a time when the synchronization word is detected, and cancels the DC offset from the detected wave data for every symbol timing so as to extract a symbol value. | 04-24-2014 |
20140105302 | PICTURE ENCODING DEVICE, PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM, PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A candidate list construction unit selects a plurality of blocks each having one or two pieces of motion information containing at least information about a motion vector and information about a reference picture from a plurality of neighboring encoded blocks of an encoding target block and constructs a candidate list containing candidates of the motion information used for the motion compensation prediction from the motion information of the selected blocks. A selected candidate generator generates a new candidate of the motion information by combining the motion information of a first prediction list derived by the first motion information deriving unit and the motion information of the second prediction list derived by a second motion information deriving unit. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105291 | PICTURE CODING DEVICE, PICTURE CODING METHOD, PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - There is provided a picture coding device that performs intra prediction coding of a picture signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal in units of blocks and codes information relating to an intra prediction mode. When the intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of coding blocks, in a case where a chroma format is 4:2:2, in a mode for setting a chroma intra prediction mode in accordance with the luma intra prediction mode, an intra prediction unit sets the chroma intra prediction mode based on the luma intra prediction mode and the chroma format and makes an intra prediction of the chroma signal. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105276 | PICTURE CODING DEVICE, PICTURE CODING METHOD, PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - In a case where a partition mode in which luma signals are partitioned horizontally and vertically is set when an intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of minimal coding blocks set in advance, an intra prediction unit is configured to make an intra prediction of a chroma signal in units of prediction blocks of the intra prediction of chroma signals within the minimal coding block set in accordance with a chroma format. A second bitstream constructing unit constructs a bitstream of information relating to a luma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of luma signals and information relating to a chroma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of chroma signals. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104840 | LIGHT SCANNING DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a light-scanning device may be designed to have a high resonance frequency and a large scanning angle. A mirror unit vibrates by using an arbitrary straight line as a rotation axis. A pair of first beam portions are disposed on a straight line that is parallel to the rotation axis, and support the mirror unit. A pair of second beam portions are disposed so as to be line-symmetrical to the pair of the first beam portions about the rotation axis as an axis of symmetry, and support the mirror unit. A pair of first arm portions respectively support the pair of first beam portions. A pair of second arm portions respectively support the pair of second beam portions. A pair of third beam portions support the mirror unit between the first beam portions and the second beam portions. | 04-17-2014 |
20140099070 | COMMENT CREATING-DISPLAYING DEVICE, METHOD OF CREATING AND DISPLAYING COMMENT, AND COMMENT CREATING AND DISPLAYING PROGRAM - A comment creating-displaying device includes: a comment storing unit that stores comment information in which a comment character string representing a character string displayed during reproduction of video captured during movement and a comment coordinate value representing coordinate information of a capture location at which the comment character string is displayed are associated with each other; a first acquisition unit that acquires positioning data that is information including the video, positioning time representing time when the capture location of the video is positioned, and a positioning point representing coordinate information of the capture location of the video; a reproduction control unit that controls reproduction of the acquired video; and a second acquisition unit that acquires the comment character string, which has a distance from the positioning point of the positioning data corresponding to the reproduction time of the video. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098865 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PICTURE CODING, AND DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PICTURE DECODING - An intra prediction mode selecting unit selects an intra prediction mode for a block subject to coding. A most probable mode list construction unit constructs, using intra prediction modes for multiple reference blocks, a list of most probable modes having a certain number of elements for any block subject to coding, irrespective of the number of different intra prediction modes for multiple coded blocks. A most probable mode index calculating unit calculates, when the intra prediction mode for a block subject to coding is probable, information identifying the most probable mode according to the list. A non-probable mode index calculating unit calculates, when the intra prediction mode for a block subject to coding is not probable, information identifying the non-probable mode according to the list. | 04-10-2014 |
20140092262 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - A transmission unit of the imaging device transmits a captured image via a network. A reception unit receives instructions to change a view angle from another device via the network. A view angle changing unit changes the view angle on the basis of the instructions to change a view angle which are received from the reception unit. A view angle changing instruction information storage unit stores view angle changing instruction information. A failure monitoring unit detects that a failure occurred in communication with the another device. A control unit instructs the view angle changing unit to change the view angle on the basis of the view angle changing instruction information stored in the view angle changing instruction information storage unit, according to the detection of the failure monitoring unit. An image storage unit stores the captured image. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092221 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM - Externally-set mask patterns are corrected into corrected mask patterns in a variable correction degree. A depth map is processed for each of areas designated by the corrected mask patterns respectively. The depth map is for an input image. A different-viewpoint image is generated on the basis of the input image and the processed depth map. The different-viewpoint image relates to a viewpoint different from the viewpoint concerning the input image. A texture in the input image is analyzed to obtain an analyzation result. The correction of the externally-set mask patterns into the corrected mask patterns includes varying the correction degree in response to the obtained analyzation result. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092086 | MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A viewpoint position determination unit is configured to determine whether a viewpoint indicated by a viewpoint array signal is closer to a left-eye viewpoint or a right-eye viewpoint. A coefficient generation unit is configured to generate a coefficient based on the viewpoint array signal. A first selector is configured to select either a left-eye viewpoint image signal or a right-eye viewpoint image signal. A second selector is configured to select either a left-eye viewpoint depth value or a right-eye viewpoint depth value. A multiplier is configured to multiply the left-eye viewpoint depth value or the right-eye viewpoint depth value by the coefficient. A pixel shift unit is configured to carry out a pixel shift on the left-eye viewpoint image signal and the right-eye viewpoint image signal according to the depth value output from the multiplier, so as to generate a multi-viewpoint image signal. | 04-03-2014 |
20140085506 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that images an event and generates imaged data of the event; a storage unit that stores the imaged data of the event as a plurality of moving image files; a marker input unit that inputs at least a start marker representing a start of the event and an end marker representing an end of the event; and a control unit that causes marker data including the input start marker and end marker to be stored in the storage unit as a plurality of marker data files in association with the plurality of moving image files. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085491 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CRADLE - An imaging device mounted on a cradle configured to control any one of a pan operation and a tilt operation includes: a control signal output unit configured to output a control signal that executes any one of a desired pan operation and tilt operation to the cradle. | 03-27-2014 |
20140078267 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - Every frame regarding an input video signal is changed into a sequence of subframes. Subframe data is generated from the input video signal while first and second tables are alternately used. The first and second tables are designed so that a number of subframes assigned a pixel activated state increases each time a drive gradation related to the input video signal increases by 1. According to the first table, a subframe newly assigned the pixel activated state is one following the subframe or subframes which have already been assigned the pixel activated state when the drive gradation increases from an odd number to a next even number. According to the second table, a subframe newly assigned the pixel activated state is one preceding the pixel-activated-state subframe or subframes in that case. A display device is driven in response to the generated subframe data. | 03-20-2014 |
20140078195 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a pixel circuit having a first hold unit, a second hold unit, a transfer control unit and a pixel unit. The first hold unit selectively holds a higher or lower driving voltage which is arbitrarily set between a ground potential and a power-supply voltage, according to a row selection signal from a vertical scanning unit and a logical value of data from a horizontal scanning unit. The second hold unit selectively holds the higher or lower driving voltage held in the first hold unit. The transfer control unit transfers to the second hold unit, the higher or lower driving voltage held in the first hold unit according to a trigger pulse. The pixel unit drives a liquid crystal according to a potential difference between the higher or lower driving voltage held in the second hold unit and a voltage supplied to a common electrode thereof. | 03-20-2014 |
20140078147 | Display Apparatus and Display Method - An image signal source alternately outputs two types of image signal. A pixel shifting unit outputs an image as light displayed by a display element having a number of pixels corresponding to the image signal while alternately shifting the light by a distance of a ½ pixel horizontally and a ½ pixel vertically. A horizontal display control unit receives the image signal and, in response to an installation position, changes the received image signal so that an image corresponding to any one of the two types of image signal alternately outputted is horizontally shifted by one pixel. A display element drive unit receives the changed image signal and, in response to the installation position, controls the display element so that the display element displays an image obtained by horizontally inverting the image based on the received image signal. | 03-20-2014 |
20140075044 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING CONTENT REPRODUCTION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A content reproduction apparatus includes a communicator, a music piece acquisition controller, and a music piece reproducer. The communicator receives a content distributed in a streaming system through a telecommunications line. The music piece acquisition controller acquires data, which has not been received, of a content being reproduced through the communicator, determines advance acquisition amounts in a plurality of contents to be reproduced after the content being reproduced according to a reproduction order, and acquires a part of the plurality of contents in advance based on the determined advance acquisition amounts. The music piece reproducer reproduces the acquired contents. | 03-13-2014 |
20140068474 | CONTENT SELECTION APPARATUS, CONTENT SELECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In an embodiment, a content selection apparatus includes: a select determining unit configured to determine whether a select manipulation input is input, the select manipulation input being a manipulation input to select a predetermined range on a display screen on which a GUI image including a plurality of category regions is displayed, and the category region being a region to which categories is allocated to sort a content item; a selected region identifying unit configured to identify a region corresponding to a position of the select manipulation input; a time measuring unit configured to measure a selection time period that is a time period involved in the select manipulation input; and a content selecting unit configured to select a number of content items based on the selection time period in accordance with selected category information indicating a selected category region. | 03-06-2014 |
20140068387 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD AND RECEIVING METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA CODED WITH LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK (LDPC) CODES - A low density parity check (LDPC) coding unit performs LDPC coding. An interleaving unit interleaves the LDPC-coded data, based on an array according to the number of bits that constitute a modulated symbol. A per-area division rearrangement unit divides to classify the interleaved data into a plurality of areas in a manner such that each area is formed by contiguous data and also outputs data, according to the number of bits that constitute the modulated symbol, by successively changing the areas. A symbol mapping unit generates the modulated symbol based on the data fed from the per-area division rearrangement unit. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063018 | DEPTH ESTIMATION DEVICE, DEPTH ESTIMATION METHOD, DEPTH ESTIMATION PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An outline identification unit identifies an outline of an object in a target image. A distance identification unit identifies the minimum distance between a target pixel in an object region and the outline. A depth value determination unit configured to determine a depth value of the target pixel in accordance with the distance. The distance identification unit examines can determine the minimum distance to the outline by spirally searching for a point of contact with the outline starting at the position of the target pixel. | 03-06-2014 |
20140055933 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a housing having an open portion at a part of a surface thereof, a door portion having at the open portion, a first face and a second face to be selectively exposed by rotation thereof, and a cradle having a connector and provided on the first face. The cradle is rotatable between a first attitude and a second attitude around a rotation axis line perpendicularly intersecting the first face. | 02-27-2014 |
20140044171 | MOVING PICTURE ENCODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING METHOD AND MOVING PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM AS WELL AS MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A first vector predictor candidate list generating unit generates a first motion vector predictor candidate list from motion vectors of encoded neighboring blocks to blocks to be encoded. A second vector predictor candidate list generating unit generates a second motion vector predictor candidate list from motion vectors of blocks at the same positions as the blocks to be encoded in an encoded image and neighboring blocks to the blocks at the same positions. A combination determining unit determines whether to generate a third vector predictor candidate list combining the first and second vector predictor candidate lists by comparison of a block size of the blocks to be encoded and a threshold size. A vector predictor candidate list deciding unit generates the third vector predictor candidate list from the first vector predictor candidate list. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043564 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE - A backlight device wherein LEDs which are arranged side by side at a first arrangement interval (P | 02-13-2014 |
20140015940 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSOR AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A three-dimensional image processor includes an aspect conversion discriminator, an aspect conversion parameter generator, a 2D/3D conversion parameter generator, a frame memory unit and a read address controller. The aspect conversion discriminator generates a signal indicating whether or not a read position of a video signal is to be modified. The aspect conversion parameter generator generates a parameter indicating an aspect ratio of an image based on the video signal. The 2D/3D conversion parameter generator generates shift amounts for generating a left-eye signal and a right-eye signal based on the video signal. The frame memory unit temporarily stores the video signal. The read address controller controls the read position of the video signal based on the parameter and the shift amounts when the signal received from the aspect conversion discriminator indicates that the read position is to be modified. | 01-16-2014 |
20130343662 | MOVING PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A prediction mode selection unit selects, before a pixel subject to encoding is encoded, a prediction mode used to encode the pixel subject to encoding, using a local decoded value of a pixel on a line preceding a line including the pixel subject to encoding by at least 1 line in the order of encoding and in accordance with a predetermined conditional expression, and determines a prediction mode index corresponding to the selected prediction mode. A prediction mode index storage unit stores the prediction mode index. A prediction unit generates a predicted value for the pixel subject to encoding, based on the prediction mode index for the pixel subject to encoding read from the prediction mode index storage unit and using local decoded values of a plurality of adjacent pixels. | 12-26-2013 |
20130336100 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3. | 12-19-2013 |
20130329069 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging device; a main memory that stores motion picture data acquired by the imaging device; a motion picture compressing unit that compresses the motion picture data stored in the main memory; a still image frame acquiring unit that acquires a still image frame at arbitrary timing from the motion picture data acquired by the imaging device; a line memory that stores still image data that is a part of the still image frame acquired by the still image frame acquiring unit; and a still image compressing unit that performs a compression process of the still image data stored in the line memory. The still image compressing unit compresses the still image data in real time. The main memory stores the motion picture data and stores compressed data that is compressed in real time by the still image compressing unit. | 12-12-2013 |
20130321705 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - A multiband signal generator generates multiband signals from 21 lines of input data by using a subset of N lines with each line delayed from 1 line to N lines respectively. M line buffers delay the multiband signals such that each line is delayed from 1 line to M lines respectively. An analyzer detects correlations between video data by selecting regions with a maximum size M×M in the multiband signals, and analyzes characteristics of the video data. A multiband signal generator generates multiband signals with cutoff frequencies based on an analysis result from the analyzer, by using the data from 1-line through N-line delayed multiband signal. An amplitude adjuster and synthesizer unit adjusts and synthesizes amplitudes of the multiband signals. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321608 | EYE DIRECTION DETECTING APPARATUS AND EYE DIRECTION DETECTING METHOD - An eye direction detecting apparatus includes a display unit, an imaging unit, a first detecting unit, a second detecting unit, and a display control unit. The imaging unit captures a subject. The first detecting unit detects a position of an eye of the subject from an image captured by the imaging unit. The second detecting unit detects a distance from the imaging unit to the position of the eye of the subject. The display control unit displays the image indicating the position of the eye of the subject on the display unit with a display manner being changed according to the distance detected by the second detecting unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20130303227 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, MOBILE STATION, AND BASE STATION - Process loads of a base station and a mobile station are reduced when setting a group with respect to a plurality of mobile stations. The base station stores group information corresponding to a group assignable to a wireless device in association with the wireless device. The base station transmits group information to the wireless device through a relay station according to an authentication request from the wireless device. The base station generates call information defining a group requesting participation. The base station transmits call information to the wireless device through the relay station. The wireless device determines whether the group defined by call information and received from the base station includes the group corresponding to group information. The wireless device participates in the group determined to be included. The wireless device performs a data communication with other wireless devices participating in the group through the relay station. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301193 | INSTALLATION POSTURE ADJUSTABLE LEG BODY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The installation posture adjustable leg body includes a foot fixed on a bottom surface of a case body, and a lever rotatably supported by the foot so as to selectively move to one of a sheltered state and an advanced state. The lever includes a lever main body inserted between the foot and an installation surface in the advanced state, and a rotating mechanism rotatably supporting the lever main body with respect to the foot. The lever main body includes a main body supporting surface of advanced state contacting the foot and a lever installation surface of advanced state contacting the installation surface, in the advanced state. A part of the lever installation surface of advanced state is located in a virtual pillar body using the main body supporting surface of advanced state as a bottom surface and extending perpendicular to the main body supporting surface of advanced state. | 11-14-2013 |
20130268100 | MANIPULATION CONTROL APPARATUS, MANIPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM, AND MANIPULATION CONTROL METHOD - A manipulation control apparatus includes a first obtaining unit which obtains manipulation information for indicating user manipulation, and a first control unit which performs control according to the manipulation indicated by the obtained manipulation information. Also, the manipulation control apparatus additionally includes a storage unit which stores condition information for indicating a condition that is valid when a user manipulation is highly likely to be performed again. In addition, the manipulation control apparatus includes a preserve unit which preserves the manipulation information in the storage unit when the manipulation indicated by the obtained manipulation information satisfies a condition indicated by stored condition information. | 10-10-2013 |
20130265640 | NAKED-EYE STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A naked-eye stereoscopic display apparatus satisfies θ=arctan {(Ax·px)/(Ay·py)}, GF=Bx·Lx/px, Ay≧2 and Bx≧2, Lx=α·px+β·py·tan θ, and GH=(α·px) | 10-10-2013 |
20130265390 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY PROCESSING DEVICE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY PROCESSING PROGRAM - A decoding section outputs a display image signal based on an input processed image signal after executing 3D decoding processing of the processed image signal based on a 3D format of the processed image signal, or without executing the 3D decoding processing. A determination section determines a state of superimposed text information in the processed image signal. A control section controls the decoding section to execute or not to execute the 3D decoding processing of the processed image signal based on a determination result from the determination section. | 10-10-2013 |
20130258633 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND FIXING STRUCTURE - An insertion member provided with a male thread on the peripheral surface thereof is inserted through an opening of a receiving member. The insertion member is fastened by a fastening member provided with a female thread on the inner surface thereof. A first O-ring is provided between the insertion member and the fastening member, and a second O-ring is provided between the fastening member and the receiving member. When viewing each circular cross-section of the first and second O-rings along a surface parallel to a moving direction of the fastening member at the point of fastening the insertion member by rotating the fastening member, a first point of each circular cross-section is pressed against a surface perpendicular to the moving direction, and a position displaced from a second point opposite to the first point of each circular cross-section is pressed against an inclined surface inclined to the moving direction. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258125 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A communication device includes: a receiving unit that receives image data generated by an imaging process of an imaging device facing a predetermined imaging direction and imaging direction information representing the predetermined imaging direction; an operating unit that generates direction instruction information indicating an imaging direction of the imaging device in response to an operation of the user; an image clipping unit that clips a predetermined region of the image data; a display unit that displays an image based on the image data of the predetermined region; and a region position adjusting unit that adjusts a position of the predetermined region in the image data based on the imaging direction information and the direction instruction information. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257702 | IMAGE PROJECTING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROJECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image projecting apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives a projection target image; a generating unit that generates an entire image including the projection target image received by the receiving unit; a projecting unit that projects the entire image generated by the generating unit; a detecting unit that detects a distribution of distances up to projection portions to which the entire image projected by the projecting unit is actually projected; and a specifying unit that specifies a projection target plane to which the projection target image is projected based on the distribution of the distances detected by the detecting unit. The generating unit generates the entire image so that the entire projection target image included in the entire image projected by the projecting unit is projected to the entire projection target plane specified by the specifying unit. | 10-03-2013 |
20130249938 | MAP DISPLAY APPARATUS, MAP DISPLAY METHOD, AND MAP DISPLAY PROGRAM PRODUCT - A map display apparatus includes: road network information in which integrated traffic signal information is provided in an intersection configured of a plurality of nodes having attribute information of traffic signal available; a display unit which performs map displaying using map image data generated based on the road network information; and a signal displaying controller which performs switching whether a traffic signal icon is displayed at the node of the map image data or the traffic signal icon is displayed at a position to display the integrated traffic signal information according to a display scale of the map displaying. | 09-26-2013 |
20130246882 | DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD FOR DECODING LDPC-ENCODED DATA - A min-sum processing unit executes a min-sum algorithm on input data so as to alternately execute check node processing in which an extrinsic value ratio is updated based on prior value ratios and variable node processing in which a prior value ratio is updated based on the extrinsic value ratios. Here, an initializing unit calculates the total product of the signs of the prior value ratios associated with the row to be processed. A deriving unit derives the sign for an extrinsic value ratio associated with the row to be processed, based on the sign of the prior value ratio that is unused in the updating of the extrinsic value ratio and the total product of the signs thus calculated. An updating unit updates an extrinsic value ratio associated with the row to be processed, using the sign thus derived. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245835 | INPUT OPERATION APPARATUS, INPUT OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND INPUT OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM - An input operation apparatus includes: an operating unit capable of performing a tilt operation and a depression operation; a detecting unit that detects a tilt direction and depression of the operating unit; and a control unit that manages a plurality of modes, each mode including a plurality of select items, and controls input change or input confirmation according to an input operation made by the operating unit. The control unit processes an operation of the operation unit in a tilt direction equivalently with the depression operation in a predetermined mode. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242404 | REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICE - A concave mirror of a reflective display device, which includes a reflector, a concave mirror arranged inside of an instrument panel, a display body, a lighting device, a display control circuit, driving parameters and the like, has reflecting surfaces with different wavelength selectivities, and the reflecting surfaces are formed into reflecting surface shapes of different focal lengths. By image light reflected selectively from the concave mirror, it is possible to present virtual images in different positions to an observer. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242047 | DEPTH SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS, PSEUDO STEREO IMAGE SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS, DEPTH SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, PSEUDO STEREO IMAGE SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING DEPTH SIGNAL GENERATION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PSEUDO STEREO IMAGE SIGNAL GENERATION PROGRAM - A depth signal generation apparatus includes a depth signal estimation unit, a depth signal histogram generator, and a depth signal level converter. The depth signal estimation unit estimates a depth signal for each pixel of a predetermined unit in a video image signal. The depth signal histogram generator divides a range of a depth signal level which the depth signal can have, into depth signal level regions each having a predetermined range size, determines which depth signal level region includes the depth signal for each pixel, counts the number of pixels included in each depth signal level region to generate depth signal histogram data according to the count value. The depth signal level converter generates a depth signal level conversion curve according to the depth signal histogram data and generates a depth signal after level conversion by executing depth signal level conversion according to the depth signal level conversion curve. | 09-19-2013 |
20130241977 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A signal processor converts an input 3D image signal into a signal in which a left-eye signal and right-eye signal are rearranged temporally alternately. A driver of a liquid crystal display element includes a sub-frame data generator configuring all the sub-frames with step bit pulses and generating sub-frame data by using a drive gradation table in which the last sub-frame reaches a drive state when a drive gradation is “1” and the number of sub-frames reaching the drive state is increased one by one toward ahead of a sub-frame which has already reached the drive state, every time the drive gradation is increased by one. The liquid crystal display element is driven by the driver. An illumination optical system causes illumination light to enter into the liquid crystal display element. A projection lens projects modulated light emitted from the liquid crystal display element. | 09-19-2013 |
20130238950 | DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD FOR DECODING LDPC-ENCODED DATA - A check node processing unit updates an extrinsic value ratio based on a prior value ratio for each row of a parity check matrix with respect to input data. An identifying unit identifies, based on an element of the parity check matrix that can be identified by a row and column associated with the updated extrinsic value ratio, a next-target element in the same column and in a different row. The identifying unit identifies an element to be updated in the next step by the check node processing unit, from among multiple elements included in the same column. A variable node processing unit updates, based on the extrinsic value ratio, a prior value ratio associated with the identified next-target element after the check node processing unit completes the updating of each row. The check node processing unit and the variable node processing unit alternately and iteratively execute their operations. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235171 | STEREO VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND STEREO VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A stereo video image display apparatus includes a data obtaining unit, a video image generator and an image quality degradation unit. The data obtaining unit obtains left eye video image data and right eye video image data. The video image generator generates sequential data in which a left eye video image data sequence repeating the left eye video image data and a right eye video image data sequence repeating the right eye video image data are arranged alternately to generate a control signal controlling opening and closing of shutter glasses according to the sequential data. The image quality degradation unit processes image quality degradation for object data which is frame data corresponding to one frame either before the switching between the left eye video image data and the right eye video image data and one frame after the switching, or two frames before and after the switching. | 09-12-2013 |
20130229604 | DISTRIBUTION-TYPE COMPENSATOR AND PROJECTION-TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A distribution-type compensator has an in-plane retardation of 18 nm±5 nm in a rectangular effective region with a long side and a short side. The slow axis direction of the distribution-type compensator changes continuously in a plane of the effective region and an angle difference between slow axis directions at any two positions in the effective region has a maximum value in a range of 10 degrees to 30 degrees. The distribution-type compensator is mounted to a projection-type display apparatus. | 09-05-2013 |
20130223656 | WATERPROOF STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT INCLUDING THE SAME - A waterproof structure includes a housing, an electroacoustic transducer, a packing and an annular member. The electroacoustic transducer has a case formed with tone holes. The packing is interposed between the housing and the electroacoustic transducer and has a thin film part on a part opposed to the tone holes. The annular member is interposed between the thin film part and the case and surrounds the tone holes. A space surrounded by the thin film part, the annular member and the case is formed. The annular member is configured to bias the thin film part of the packing. | 08-29-2013 |
20130218575 | AUDIO INPUT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONDITION NOTIFICATION METHOD - The used condition of a simplex communication apparatus is notified with a light-emitting device attached to the communication apparatus. It is determined whether a communication mode of the simplex communication apparatus is a transmission mode or a standby mode. A sound pick-up state of a sound carried by a speech signal to be transmitted is determined if the communication mode is the transmission mode. The light-emitting device is controlled so that it is turned off, turned on or repeatedly turned on and off based on determination results of the communication-mode determination and the sound pick-up state determination. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218559 | NOISE REDUCTION APPARATUS, AUDIO INPUT APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND NOISE REDUCTION METHOD - A speech segment of a voice sound is detected based on a first sound pick-up signal obtained based on the voice sound. A voice incoming direction of the voice sound is determined using the first sound pick-up signal and a second sound pick-up signal obtained based on a picked-up sound. A noise reduction process is performed to reduce a noise component carried by the first sound pick-up signal by using the second sound pick-up signal, wherein a noise reduction amount adjusted in accordance with the voice incoming direction is used in the noise reduction process. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215335 | PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A dynamic iris controller includes: a diaphragm and video-image controller including a video-image analyzer analyzing a picture signal, an association setting unit setting a diaphragm stop of a diaphragm mechanism, a color balance correction value, and a lightness correction value according to analysis data analyzed in the video-image analyzer, and a black period controller setting a black period in the picture signal according to a predetermined black time length; a diaphragm driver outputting a drive signal to the diaphragm mechanism so as to set the diaphragm stop of the diaphragm mechanism to be fully closed for the black period set by the black period controller and to set the diaphragm stop to have a value set by the association setting unit for the other period; and a video-image processor correcting color balance and lightness of the picture signal using the correction data set in the association setting unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215326 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT - A look-up table unit converts input video signal data of N bits into (M+F+D) bit data by performing inverse gamma correction and linear interpolation. An error diffusion unit converts the (M+F+D) bit data into (M+F) bit data by error diffusion processing. A frame rate control unit converts the (M+F) bit data into M bit data by frame rate control. A sub-frame data conversion unit, by using a gradation driving table and the M bit data, generates sub-frame data in which all sub-frames include a step-bit pulse respectively, and in which the number of sub-frames to be in a drive state every time the drive gradation increases by one, is increased one by one. | 08-22-2013 |
20130208357 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a two-dimensional display including color subpixels that are arranged in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction, and a plurality of cylindrical lenses through which the color subpixels are observed. px is a horizontal pixel pitch of the color subpixels, py is a vertical pixel pitch of the color subpixels, Lx is a horizontal lens pitch of the cylindrical lenses, and θ is an inclined angle of boundaries to the vertical direction. Ax and Ay are relatively prime natural numbers, Ax is equal to or larger than two, and Bx is a minimum natural number by which a value GF indicated in the formula (2) represents an integer value. Px, py, Lx and θ satisfy the relational expressions represented by the formula (1) to the formula (3). | 08-15-2013 |
20130208356 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a display in which color pixels of different colors are periodically arranged in a horizontal direction and color pixels of an identical color are arranged in a vertical direction, and a plurality of cylindrical lenses placed on the display and arranged parallel to each other, through which the color pixels are magnified and observed. When a pixel pitch of the color pixels in the horizontal direction is defined as px, a lens pitch of the cylindrical lenses is defined as L, an inclined angle of boundaries of the cylindrical lenses with respect to the vertical direction is defined as θ, and m is a positive integer, px, L and θ fulfill the formula (1). | 08-15-2013 |
20130208144 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A flash detection unit calculates a line average luminance of each line of the current screen of image data and a screen average luminance of a past screen at least one screen before the current screen and compares the calculated line average luminance with the calculated screen average luminance to detect whether the current screen includes a line of high luminance due to a flash. A holding unit holds the past screen of the image data. A flash correction unit, if it is detected that some lines of the current screen have high luminance, replaces the lines having high luminance in the current screen with corresponding lines of the past screen held in the holding unit to correct the image data. | 08-15-2013 |
20130202266 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - An image capturing device ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130202220 | IMAGE PROCESS DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESS METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESS PROGRAM - A mask correcting unit corrects an externally set mask pattern. A depth map processing unit processes a depth map of an input image for each of a plurality of regions designated by a plurality of mask patterns corrected by the mask correcting unit. An image generation unit generates an image of a different viewpoint on the basis of the input image and depth maps processed by the depth map processing unit. The mask correcting unit performs a blurring process on an object boundary part of the mask pattern. | 08-08-2013 |
20130194549 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A first lens array splits light flux emitted from a light source. A second lens array is provided with a plurality of lens cells two-dimensionally arranged, on which light emitted from the first lens array is irradiated. A polarization converting element splits indefinite polarized light emitted from the second lens array into P polarized light and S polarized light, and conforms the split light to either the P polarized light or the S polarized light and emits the conformed light. A drive mechanism displaces the polarization converting element in a direction perpendicular to a polarization split direction along a surface on which the indefinite polarized light from the polarization converting element is incident. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194398 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a two-dimensional display including color subpixels arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, cylindrical lenses configured to observe the color subpixels therethrough, a temperature sensor measuring an ambient temperature of the cylindrical lenses, and a parallax image changer changing the parallax images based on the measured ambient temperature. px is a horizontal pixel pitch. py is a vertical pixel pitch. Lx is a horizontal lens pitch. θ is an inclined angle of boundaries of the cylindrical lenses to the vertical direction. Ax and Ay are relatively prime natural numbers. Ax is equal to or larger than two. Bx is a minimum natural number by which a value GF indicated in the formula (2) represents an integer value. px, py, Lx and θ satisfy relational expressions represented by the formula (1) to the formula (3). | 08-01-2013 |
20130194385 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - A 3D parallax value detection unit detects a parallax value between a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal in a stereoscopic video signal. A stereoscopic degree determination unit determines a stereoscopic degree of the stereoscopic video signal based on the parallax value. In response to the stereoscopic degree, an image signal conversion unit obtains an amount of pixel shift, by which a pixel of the left-eye image signal or the right-eye image signal is to be shifted, and shifts the pixel by the amount of pixel shift. In such a way, a parallax of the left-eye image signal or the right-eye image signal is adjusted. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194007 | ASYNCHRONOUS SAMPLING FREQUENCY CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An asynchronous sampling frequency conversion device includes: a storage unit configured to store input digital signals; a data specifying unit configured to specify first data and second data based on a ratio of a sampling frequency of the input digital signal to a sampling frequency of an output digital signal, the first data being sampled at a sampling timing immediately before an i | 08-01-2013 |
20130183957 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A vehicle-mounted apparatus is mounted on a vehicle having a keyless entry unit which receives a signal instructing a keyless entry from a mobile terminal and performs a keyless entry process in response to the received signal. The vehicle-mounted apparatus includes: a communication unit which receives control information including manipulation information indicating manipulation content for controlling the vehicle-mounted apparatus and information specifying a mobile terminal, from the mobile terminal; a terminal determination unit which determines whether the mobile terminal which transmitted the control information is the mobile terminal used for the keyless entry; a manipulation acceptance determination unit which determines whether to accept manipulation specified by the manipulation information included in the control information received by the communication unit, according to the determination result of the terminal determination unit; and a processing unit which performs a process is according to the determination of the manipulation acceptance determination unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130173879 | On-Vehicle Apparatus, And Method And Computer Program For Transmitting Positional Information - At every first prescribed timing, a positional information piece is generated. Each generated positional information piece represents a position of a vehicle which occurs at the corresponding first prescribed timing. Each generated positional information piece is written into one of storage areas in a storage device. At every second prescribed timing, positional information pieces in the storage areas are sent to a positional information collecting apparatus, and new positional information pieces are allowed to be written into the storage areas in which the sent positional information pieces are stored. In the event that sending the positional information pieces in the storage areas to the positional information collecting apparatus is impossible, a new positional information piece or pieces are allowed to be written into one or more of the storage areas which store a positional information piece or pieces having not been sent yet. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170814 | Image Pickup Device and Control Method Thereof - An image pickup device capable of processing a high-resolution image appropriately is provided. The image pickup device includes an imaging sensor for taking an image and a plurality of main processors for encoding segmented images obtained by dividing the image taken by the image sensor spatially. Encoded files are obtained by encoding the segmented images and further recorded in a plurality of memory cards corresponding to the main processors, respectively. In these main processors, a first processor creates the encoded file so as to contain a thumbnail image of the image. | 07-04-2013 |
20130163946 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, MODE SETTING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - First position information indicating a position is acquired at a first time. Second position information indicating a position is acquired at a second time that is later than the first time. The first position information and the second position information are compared to determine whether or not a reproduction apparatus is moved. Information is stored in a recording medium in a first mode if it is determined that the reproduction apparatus is moved and the information is stored in the recording medium in a second mode different from the first mode if it is determined that the reproduction apparatus is not moved. The first mode is a reproduction mode having functions for use in reproduction more restricted than the second mode. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163078 | Autostereoscopic Display Apparatus - A display device is configured so that color pixels of a plurality of colors are formed in a longitudinal stripe shape. A lenticular lens is arranged on the display device, in which a periodical direction thereof is inclined with respect to the horizontal direction of the display device. A display position adjustment unit shifts a projected image data in predetermined pixel shift amounts of the respective horizontal and vertical directions including the pixel shift amount of 0, in a unit of one pixel defined by each of the color pixels of the plurality of colors in the horizontal direction of the display device and in a unit of each of the color pixels in the vertical direction thereof. A driving unit drives the display device to display the projected image data thereon. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162636 | DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING PROGRAM, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM - An average value, minimum value, and maximum value data detecting unit detects an average value, a minimum value, and a maximum value in one frame of a red (R) signal. A difference value calculating unit calculates a difference value by subtracting the average value from the R signal. A processing unit estimates the average value to be a level of a background image occupying a large area of a screen, and generates a signal indicating a minimum value (concavity) at the average value and a maximum value (convexity) at the maximum or minimum value as a compensated object signal. An adding unit adds the compensated object signal to a composed image of basic depth models to generate depth estimation data for generating an image in a different viewpoint from a non-3D image, the image in the different viewpoint and the non-3D image constituting the pseudo 3D image. | 06-27-2013 |
20130155262 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE BLUR CORRECTING METHOD FOR PERFORMING IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION BASED ON AT LEAST ONE OF SHUTTER SPEED AND AMOUNT OF IMAGE BLUR WHEN TAKING IMAGE - An image pickup apparatus includes an image-blur-amount calculation unit that calculates an image blur amount of a dynamic picture image, based on a blur of a main body unit when taking the dynamic picture image and an optical correction unit that optically corrects a blur of the dynamic picture image, an electronic correction unit that electronically corrects the image blur, a shutter-speed calculation unit that calculates a shutter speed of the imaging unit, and an image-blur-correction control unit that calculates an optical correction amount by the optical correction unit and optically corrects the image blur based on the optical correction amount, and also calculates an electronic correction amount by the electronic correction unit and electronically corrects the image blur based on the electronic correction amount, based on at least one of the amount of image blur and the shutter speed. | 06-20-2013 |
20130148734 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE CODING METHOD AND IMAGE CODING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM - A geometric-transformation motion compensation prediction unit calculates, for each of a plurality of prediction modes, a motion vector and a prediction signal between a target block in a target image and a reference block in a reference image obtained by performing geometric transformation on the target block, selects pixels located at vertices constituting the target block, pixels located near the vertices, or interpolation pixels located near the vertices as representative pixels corresponding to the vertices in each prediction mode, calculates the respective motion vectors of these representative pixels, and calculates the respective motion vectors of pixels other than the representative pixels by interpolation using the motion vectors of the representative pixels so as to calculate the prediction signal. | 06-13-2013 |
20130135488 | Image Pickup Apparatus - An image pickup apparatus has a camera-shake correction mechanism which performs camera-shake correction by moving an image pickup element with respect to a lens unit. The image pickup apparatus includes a z-plate provided slidably in a z-direction, an actuator for moving the plate in the z-direction, a z-shaft which guides the movement of the z-plate, and a rotating ball sandwiched between a base plate and the z-plate in a rotatable state. In a y-z plan view, an opening portion is provided between the z-shaft and the rotating ball, and the rotating ball is arranged outside the opening portion between one end and the other end of the opening portion in the z-direction. | 05-30-2013 |
20130089307 | BROADCAST RECEIVING AND RECORDING APPARATUS, BROADCAST RECEIVING AND RECORDING METHOD, AND BROADCAST RECEIVING AND RECORDING PROGRAM - Preset information that is preset for preset-recording that is an automatic recording mode for recording a broadcast program in accordance with the preset information is stored in a storage unit. Preset-recording identification information that identifies the preset information is also stored in the storage unit. A broadcast receiving unit receives a broadcast program in accordance with preset information that has been preset for preset-recording of the received broadcast program. Identification information is added to data of the received broadcast program and the data with the identification information is stored in a storage unit. When the identification information added to the stored data of the received broadcast is edited, preset-recording that has been set for the stored data of the received broadcast program is identified and preset-recording identification information that corresponds to the preset-recording is modified based on the edited identification information. | 04-11-2013 |
20130085839 | Mutually Advertising System, Advertisement Distribution Planning Apparatus and Method, and Computer Program - A mutually advertising system includes an ad distribution planning apparatus and ad indication systems possessed by respective business enterprises. Each of the ad indication systems plays back an ad distributed from the ad distribution planning apparatus. With respect to each of the business enterprises, an ad viewing amount is calculated from the number of viewers about the related ad indication system and a time range during which an ad is played back by the related ad indication system. The calculated ad viewing amount is converted into a conversion-result ad charge according to a prescribed rule. A combined ad charge is calculated from the conversion-result ad charge and a paid ad charge. The ad distribution planning apparatus sets distribution of an ad of each of the business enterprises to the ad indication systems on the basis of the calculated combined ad charge. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085822 | Mutually Advertising System, Advertisement Distribution Planning Apparatus and Method, and Computer Program - A mutually advertising system includes an ad distribution planning apparatus and ad indication systems. Each ad indication system includes a digital signage for indicating ads, and a section for calculating viewing indexes with respect to the respective indicated ads and for sending the calculated viewing indexes to the ad distribution planning apparatus. The ad distribution planning apparatus includes a section for, with respect to each ad indication system, identifying advertisers of the respective ads among business enterprises, for calculating evaluation values of the viewing indexes sent from the ad indication systems and regarding each of the identified advertisers, and for calculating degrees of relations between the business enterprises from the calculated evaluation values. The ad distribution planning apparatus further comprises a section for setting distribution allotment degrees for each of ads to be distributed to the ad indication systems in accordance with the calculated relations degrees. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083955 | HEADPHONE - A headphone includes: a housing, a hanger, and a bracket accommodated in the housing. The hanger includes: a connecting portion formed in a ring-shape; and a pair of engagement portions opposite to each other in a radial direction of the connecting portion and supports the housing unit to allow the housing unit to rotate. The bracket includes: a flexible curved base; and a pair of protrusions protruding at both ends of the base portion in directions away from each other on an axis penetrating the both ends. The housing includes a pair of through holes at positions corresponding to the pair of engagement portions. The pair of protrusions is rotatably engaged with the pair of engagement portions through the pair of through holes. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083846 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM - A luminance intra prediction mode encoding unit encodes a luminance component intra frame prediction mode for an encoding target block. A color difference intra prediction mode encoding unit encodes color difference prediction mode determination information for identifying a color difference component intra frame prediction mode for the encoding target block, referring to the luminance component intra frame prediction mode for the encoding target block, and then selects a vertical mode or a horizontal mode, each configured as a color difference component intra frame prediction mode, such that the selected mode has a smaller or otherwise greater angle between itself and the luminance component intra frame prediction mode for the encoding target block, and encodes color difference prediction mode determination information which indicates a vertical/horizontal mode in which the selected mode is employed as the color difference component intra frame prediction mode for the encoding target block. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083644 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3. | 04-04-2013 |
20130077460 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076985 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MOTION VECTOR - Provided is a motion vector detecting apparatus capable of detecting a motion vector based on each of front and rear frames as a starting point while restraining an increase of a circuit scale. A starting pixel generation unit generates starting pixel data based on pixel data in a frame f | 03-28-2013 |
20130076962 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THROUGH TOUCH SENSOR - An electronic apparatus has a touch sensor provided with a first touching zone including at least a second touching zone and a third touching zone, the second and third touching zones being allocated with different functions. The electronic apparatus is controlled to perform a specific function assigned to a specific touching zone that is the second or the third touching zone when there is a first touch input at first through the specific touching zone and continuously perform the specific function even if there is a second touch input that follows the first touch input, through either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone, as long as there is a continuous touch input through the first touching zone from the first to the second touch input with no intermission. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076859 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MOTION VECTOR, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE SIGNAL - Provided is a motion vector detecting apparatus capable of detecting a motion vector of a pulldown-converted 3D image signal with high precision. A pulldown detecting unit detects whether a 3D image signal is a pulldown-converted image signal. An LR separating unit outputs an LR separation signal separated into left and right image signals in each of frames having the same image content. A frame delay LR separating unit outputs a frame delay LR separation signal separated into left and right image signals in a frame before one repetition period. A motion vector detector detects motion vectors of the left and right image signals, An LR combination unit combines the motion vectors of the left and right image signals to output the combined motion vectors as a motion vector. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076745 | DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING PROGRAM, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM - An RB rate calculator calculates an RB rate based on an R signal and a B signal. A starting point changing unit changes a starting point based on the RB rate. An offset calculating unit calculates an offset value to adjust for selection of a basic depth model type based on a bottom high frequency component evaluation value. An adding unit adds a signal from the starting point changing unit and an offset. Another adding unit adds an offset-added signal from the adding unit and a basic depth model-composed image signal supplied from a composing unit, and generates depth estimation data wherein a degree of superimposition of object information is changed according to a composition of a composed image of basic depth models selected to be composed. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076744 | DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING PROGRAM, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND PSEUDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM - A high frequency component detector detects a high frequency component of an R signal. A high frequency component comparator outputs a flag indicating a threshold value division range having the highest threshold value including a value of a high frequency component in a specific period. A gain calculating unit calculates a ratio as a gain, the ratio set according to the threshold value division range indicated by the flag input. A multiplying unit multiplies the R signal and the gain to generate an object signal R′ wherein a concavity and convexity difference with adjacent pixels in a small region of an image is suppressed compared to the R signal. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076685 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THROUGH TOUCH SENSOR - An electronic apparatus has a touch sensor provided with a first touching zone including at least a second touching zone and a third touching zone, the second and third touching zones being allocated with different functions. The electronic apparatus is controlled to perform a specific function assigned to a specific touching zone that is the second or the third touching zone when there is a first touch input at first through the specific touching zone and continuously perform the specific function even if there is a second touch input that follows the first touch input, through either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone, as long as there is a continuous touch input through the first touching zone from the first to the second touch input with no intermission. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076668 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM - Objects are indicated on a display. A touch panel is superposed on the display. An acquiring section operates for detecting user's touches to the touch panel and acquiring positions of the user's touches to the touch panel as touch positions. A decision is made as to whether or not the distance between first and second touch positions decreases in accordance with the lapse of time. A selecting section operates for setting a rectangular area with respect to the display and selecting an object or objects contained in the rectangular area in cases where it is decided that the distance between the first and second touch positions decreases in accordance with the lapse of time. Two opposite corners of the rectangular area are respectively coincident with the first and second touch positions occurring at an initial stage of the user's touches to the touch panel. | 03-28-2013 |
20130067504 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A chassis, and a rigid mount member having at least three fixed support portions connected to the chassis are included. The rigid mount member has an installation surface for fixing a base unit, and with the installation surface being used as a reference plane which is along the horizontal plane, at least one of the fixed support portions is provided at a level higher than the center of gravity of the base unit on the side of one end edge of the installation surface, while at least the other one of the fixed support portion is provided at a level lower than the center of gravity of the base unit on the side of the other end edge of the installation surface. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064299 | MOVING PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - A provisional region dividing unit divides a block to be encoded into a plurality of provisional regions on a predetermined provisional boundary. A motion vector detecting unit detects a motion vector with respect to each provisional region. An actual region dividing•motion compensating unit generates a synthesized prediction block by generating a plurality of prediction blocks corresponding to the block to be encoded from a reference image by using the motion vector of each provisional region, deciding an actual boundary based on activities of the plurality of prediction blocks, and joining regions acquired by dividing the each prediction block on the actual boundary among the respective prediction blocks. A variable length encoding unit encodes a prediction difference block acquired by subtracting a synthesized prediction block from the block to be encoded, and the motion vector of each provisional region. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064054 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND RECORDING METHOD AND REPRODUCING METHOD THEREOF - An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064053 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND RECORDING METHOD AND REPRODUCING METHOD THEREOF - An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array. | 03-14-2013 |
20130057590 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THROUGH TOUCH SENSOR - An electronic apparatus has a touch sensor provided with a first touching zone including at least a second touching zone and a third touching zone, the second and third touching zones being allocated with different functions. The electronic apparatus is controlled to perform a specific function assigned to a specific touching zone that is the second or the third touching zone when there is a first touch input at first through the specific touching zone and continuously perform the specific function even if there is a second touch input that follows the first touch input, through either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone, as long as there is a continuous touch input through the first touching zone from the first to the second touch input with no intermission. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057589 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THROUGH TOUCH SENSOR - An electronic apparatus has a touch sensor provided with a first touching zone including at least a second touching zone and a third touching zone, the second and third touching zones being allocated with different functions. The electronic apparatus is controlled to perform a specific function assigned to a specific touching zone that is the second or the third touching zone when there is a first touch input at first through the specific touching zone and continuously perform the specific function even if there is a second touch input that follows the first touch input, through either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone, as long as there is a continuous touch input through the first touching zone from the first to the second touch input with no intermission. | 03-07-2013 |
20130051470 | MOTION COMPENSATED FRAME GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A motion vector detector detects a motion vector, and outputs a block matching error value. An entire scroll determiner generates an entire scroll degree. Based on the block matching error value, a reliability generator generates reliability data indicating reliability of the motion vector. A reliability adjuster adjusts the reliability data so that a value of the reliability data is larger as the entire scroll degree is a value in which the degree at which the image scrolls entirely is larger, and outputs adjusted reliability data. Based on the adjusted reliability data, the interpolation pixel generator generates respective interpolation pixels composing a motion compensated frame. | 02-28-2013 |
20130042273 | TELEVISION BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE OF GENERATINGINFORMATION FOR OBTAINING WEBPAGE INFORMATION, METHOD OFGENERATING ACQUISITION OBJECTIVE INFORMATION, PROGRAM,APPARATUS OF GENERATING ACQUISITION OBJECTIVE INFORMATION, AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A television broadcast receiving device includes a program selecting unit that accepts the selection of one of programs in a program list; an extracting unit that extracts a keyword related to the accepted program from the program information; a site information obtaining unit that obtains names and address information of web sites and a rule for generating acquisition objective information for obtaining information of a webpage related to a keyword extracted from one of one or plural web sites; a site name display controller that displays the obtained names of one or plural web sites on a display device; a site name selecting unit that accepts the selection of a name of one web site among the displayed names of the one or plural web sites; and a generating unit that generates acquisition objective information in accordance with the rule. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041584 | ROUTE GUIDANCE APPARATUS, ROUTE GUIDANCE METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication controller transmits current location information of a subject apparatus to another pre-registered apparatus, and receives current location information of the another pre-registered apparatus. A location relationship determiner determines whether the subject apparatus precedes the another apparatus in a heading direction. An operation mode determiner operates the subject apparatus as a main device when it is determined that the subject apparatus precedes the another apparatus in the heading direction, and operates the subject apparatus as a sub device when it is determined that the subject apparatus does not precede the another apparatus in the heading direction. A function selector activates a function of transmitting heading direction information to the another apparatus when the subject apparatus is determined to be a main device, and activates a function of receiving the heading direction information from a main device when the subject apparatus is determined to be a sub device. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038682 | APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - An apparatus for capturing a stereoscopic image maintains the image quality of partial image data by appropriately cutting out the partial image data from image data generated by an imaging unit. The apparatus includes imaging units which generate right-eye image data and left-eye image data having binocular parallax for making a viewer sense a stereoscopic image; an information storage unit which stores, when image center points of the right-eye and left-eye image data image data are origins, position information indicating positions of right and left correction points obtained by moving marks projected on the right-eye and left-eye image data by a differential vector, respectively; and a cutout control unit which, based on the position information, cuts out pieces of partial image data having the same size from the right-eye and left-eye image data. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038435 | VEHICLE RUNNING WARNING DEVICE - A vehicle running warning device includes: a fixed sound source signal generator configured to generate a fixed sound source signal with a certain frequency distribution; a variable sound source signal generator configured to generate a variable sound source signal with a frequency distribution having a peak frequency corresponding to each set; a sound-emitting controller configured to determine an acceleration segment of a vehicle based on vehicle speed information obtained from the vehicle to which the controller is mounted, and set the peak frequency based on the determined acceleration segment and the latest vehicle speed information; and a sound source signal adder configured to add to the fixed sound source signal a variable sound source signal in which the peak frequency is set, and output, and emits a vehicle running warning sound in consideration of a speed and an acceleration of the vehicle. | 02-14-2013 |
20130027773 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY OPTICAL MEMBER AND 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A polarizing-axis control plate includes first and second polarization areas and a polarizing-axis control plate area shading part arranged at a boundary between these polarization areas and arranged in a position corresponding to an image generating area shading part to shade all or part of right-eye and left-eye image lights. When these image lights enter the first and second polarization areas respectively, the polarizing-axis control plate emits these image lights in the form of linearly-polarized lights whose polarizing axes intersect with each other at right angles or circularly-polarized lights whose polarizing axes are rotated in opposite directions. The image generating area shading part is arranged at a boundary between first and second modulated-light generating areas to shade incident light. The polarizing-axis control plate area shading part is formed to contain a plurality of straight lines each having a width narrower than a linewidth of the image generating area shading part. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027405 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A mask information generator carries out the following processing: (1) defining lines which become respective sides of a polygon of which three or more points on a display screen designated by user's operation become vertices; (2) calculating a value of a coordinate in a vertical direction on each of the lines which has a value of a coordinate in a horizontal direction of each pixel designated by a counter which designates a coordinate of each pixel in an image signal based on a synchronization signal thereof; and (3) comparing a value of the coordinate designated by the counter in the vertical direction of each pixel with the calculated value of the coordinate on each of the lines, to determine whether or not each pixel in the image signal is included in a mask region which is a region within the polygon surrounded by the lines. | 01-31-2013 |
20130022123 | VIDEO CODING APPARATUS, VIDEO CODING METHOD AND VIDEO CODING PROGRAM, AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND VIDEO DECODING PROGRAM - A motion vector detector detects a motion vector from a first reference image for a coding target block. A multiple reference image composition unit creates a composite reference block that a first reference block extracted from the first reference image using the motion vector has been composited with a predetermined region of at least one of other reference images. Setting the composite reference block as a prediction block, an entropy encoder encodes a prediction difference block that the prediction block has been subtracted from the coding target block. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022110 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM - An intra-prediction unit generates an intra-prediction signal of an image. A subtraction unit calculates a first residual signal from a difference between an original signal of the image and the intra-prediction signal. A residual approximation signal creation unit creates a residual approximation signal by linearly approximating the first residual signal based on a DC component of the first residual signal. A subtraction unit calculates a second residual signal from a difference between the first residual signal and the residual approximation signal. An orthogonal transformation coefficient integration unit generates a third residual signal by synthesizing the DC component of the first residual signal and the second residual signal. A variable-length encoding unit performs variable-length encoding of the third residual signal. | 01-24-2013 |
20130016868 | EARPHONEAANM UCHIDA; HiroshiAACI Yokohama-shiAACO JPAAGP UCHIDA; Hiroshi Yokohama-shi JP - A housing contains a speaker. The housing has a first housing to which the speaker is attached and which covers a sound emitting part side of the speaker, and a second housing combined with the first housing to cover an opposite side of the sound emitting part side of the speaker. The second housing has a multi-layered structure including a base layer part integrated with the first housing, an inner layer part that is made of a material softer than the first housing and the base layer part and contacts and covers an inside of the base layer part, and an outer layer part that is made of a material softer than the base layer part and contacts and covers an outside of the base layer part. | 01-17-2013 |
20130013625 | ESTIMATING APPARATUS, ESTIMATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An estimating apparatus includes: a tag extracting unit configured to collect a blog via a network, the blog including a character string written by an individual to a web site; a provisional broadcasting station estimating unit configured to estimate a broadcasting station that broadcasts a program mentioned in the blog based on a feature word appearing in the character string of the blog; and a broadcasting station determination unit configured to refer to the blog database to count the number of the provisional broadcasting station of the program mentioned in the blog including the tag in the character string, and to determine the broadcasting station that broadcasts the program mentioned in the blog based on the counting result. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010268 | PROJECTOR - In a projector, a projection unit includes a projection mechanism that projects an image and an air hole that takes in or exhausts air used to dissipate heat generated from a light source included in the projection mechanism. A housing covers the air hole when the projection unit is in a storage position in which the projection unit does not project an image and uncovers the air hole when the projection unit is in a projection position in which the projection unit projects an image. The drive mechanism moves the projection unit or a cover member. An electronic control unit controls the drive mechanism to move the projection unit to the projection position in which an image is projected when receiving a predetermined projection preparation request and move the projection unit to the storage position in which no image is projected when receiving a predetermined storage request. | 01-10-2013 |
20130007619 | CHAPTER CREATING DEVICE, CHAPTER CREATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - A chapter creating device creates chapter data which indicates a reproduction point of content including at least one of screen image and sound and includes time information indicating a reproduction start position and a header indicating the outline of the content at the reproduction point. The chapter creating device includes: a live data receiving unit that receives live data including character string data which is input to a terminal; a chapter candidate selecting unit that displays the live data received by the live data receiving unit on a display unit so as to prompt a user to select the displayed live data using an input unit; and a chapter creating unit that creates the chapter data including the character string data of the selected live data as the header and the data registration date and time of the selected live data as the time information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007031 | SEGMENT CREATION DEVICE, SEGMENT CREATION METHOD, AND SEGMENT CREATION PROGRAM - A segment creation device includes: a live data acquiring unit that acquires character string data transmitted from a plurality of terminals, and acquires live data that includes the character string data and a data registration date and time; a condition input unit that causes a user to input a search condition including time zone information representing a predetermined time zone and character string information; a live data number counting unit that counts the number of pieces of live data having character string data; and a segment creating unit that creates segment data which is specified based on a starting time and an ending time of a time period. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006524 | NAVIGATION DEVICE - A navigation device includes: a storage unit configured to store map information; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of a moving body; a controller configured to generate drawing data; and a display unit configured to display the drawing data on a screen, the display unit includes a plurality of backlights. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002834 | 3D IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The disclosed 3D image display device has: a delay unit ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130002786 | THERMAL TRANSFER PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Thermal transfer printing method and apparatus are provided to make initial character image data left on a spent ink ribbon illegible. In the method, after forming an initial character image on an ink layer in black of the ink ribbon, a forefront of the ink layer is aligned with a forefront position of an intermediate transfer film. Then, overwrite character image data is applied on a thermal head to produce a first superimpose character image on the ribbon and a first superimpose character image on the film. After that, the forefront position of the ink layer is shifted from the forefront position of the film by a predetermined distance and the overwrite character image data is applied on the thermal head to produce a second superimpose character image on the ribbon and a second superimpose character image on the film. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002508 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE FOR ANTENNA SUBSTRATE - An electronic equipment comprises: a metal casing defining a first face formed so as to provide an opening, a second face connected to the first face; and a shielding member arranged adjacent to the first face to shield radio waves, wherein the metal casing has a cutout formed in the second face so as to come close to the first face, a part of the shielding member is arranged to be closer to the first face than a first end of the cutout, the first end is further away from the first face than a second end of the cutout on the side of the first face, and wherein an antenna is provided on outer side of a virtual line connecting a corner of the shielding member adjacent to the first face and closest to the second face with the first end of the cut out. | 01-03-2013 |
20120327270 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Based on pixel value conversion coefficients, a pixel value converter converts pixel values of image signals obtained by imaging a same subject a plurality of times while mutually differentiating an exposure value. A synthesizing/weighting coefficient creation unit creates a synthesizing/weighting coefficient. A difference creation unit creates short-time exposure image data and long-time exposure image data. A weighting/synthesizing unit synthesizes the short-time exposure image data and the long-time exposure image data by using the synthesizing/weighting coefficient. A controller evaluates the difference, and updates the pixel value conversion coefficient so that the difference becomes smaller. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327228 | MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING APPARATUS, AND MONITORING METHOD - When a plurality of sub-station monitoring apparatuses are controlled by a main station monitoring apparatus, if the sub-station monitoring apparatus detects a change of a plurality of events, the sub-station monitoring apparatus transmits information relating to the event such as the kind of change, the time of event occurrence, or the like to the main station monitoring apparatus instead of transmitting image data. The main station monitoring apparatus determines abnormality/normality of the occurred event, and requests the corresponding sub-station monitoring apparatus to transmit still image data or moving picture data when there is a possibility of abnormality, so as to monitor the event in detail. | 12-27-2012 |
20120323564 | PROGRAM SEARCH DEVICE AND PROGRAM SEARCH METHOD - A program search device includes: a table storage unit that stores an allowed word table; a program stream acquiring unit that acquires a program stream generated according to a broadcasting code of ethics; a table update unit that extracts caption data or program information, which is a first text data item related to the content of a program; a program storage unit that stores a program included in the acquired program stream; a data acquiring unit that acquires a second text data item; a data processing unit that divides the second text data item into morphemes, replaces the divided morpheme with a predetermined symbol; an index giving unit that gives a set of the recombined third text data item; and a program extracting unit that extracts the program stored in the program storage unit. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320050 | 3D-IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, 3D-IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND 3D-IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: an image data acquiring unit which acquires two pieces of image data having horizontal parallax; a composition unit which generates display data by composing the two pieces of image data; a line image overlapping unit which overlaps two longitudinal line images with an image based on the display data, and independently moves the two longitudinal line images in a horizontal direction; a parallax information derivation unit which derives parallax information about parallax between the two longitudinal line images; a parallax information overlapping unit which additionally overlaps the parallax information with the image based on the display data; and a display unit which displays the images based on the display data, on which the longitudinal line images and the parallax information are overlapped, such that a producer may easily and accurately identify parallax of each subject image in the display data. | 12-20-2012 |
20120317349 | PROCESSING DEVICE AND WRITING METHOD FOR WRITING A FILE TO A STORAGE MEDIUM - An acquiring unit acquires, from a storage device capable of storing a file by dividing the file into a plurality of blocks, managing information indicating an address of each block configuring the file. A creating unit creates a table indicating a start address and a size of each continuous region by extracting the address of each block from the acquired managing information, and aggregating blocks having continuous addresses as a continuous region. A reading unit reads a file stored in a non-volatile memory. A dividing unit divides the read file into a plurality of blocks. A writing unit writes the divided file to the storage device in units of the continuous region, which is from the start address over the size, based on the table, so as to maintain the addresses indicated in the managing information. | 12-13-2012 |
20120313982 | PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - There are arranged two light sources | 12-13-2012 |
20120310633 | FILTERING DEVICE AND FILTERING METHOD - A filtering device includes: a table storage unit that stores an allowed word table in which a plurality of morphemes and the number of appearances thereof are associated with each other; a program stream acquiring unit that acquires a program stream generated according to a broadcasting code of ethics; a table update unit that extracts caption data or program information, which is a first text data item related to the content of a program, from the program stream when the acquired program stream includes the caption data or the program information, divides the extracted caption data; a data acquiring unit that acquires an arbitrary second text data item; and a data processing unit that divides the second text data item into morphemes, replaces a divided morpheme with a predetermined symbol when the divided morpheme has not been registered in the allowed word table. | 12-06-2012 |
20120309319 | WIRELESS DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless device, includes: a radio transmission path characteristic acquiring unit that acquires information related to a radio transmission path characteristic between a wireless device connected to a source device and a wireless device connected to a sink device; a revising unit that revises a table by deleting an unusable transmission parameter value from a table including a plurality of transmission parameter values usable by the sink device; a communication unit that executes wireless communication from the source device to the sink device in a range of a transmission parameter value represented by the table notified by the notifying unit; and a type information acquiring unit that acquires information related to a type of data which is a target of wireless communication in the communication unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308083 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INTERPOLATION FRAME GENERATING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a frame memory, a motion vector detector, a screen edge detector and an interpolation frame generator. The frame memory frame-delays an input signal and outputs the input signal as a delayed input signal. The motion vector detector detects a motion vector between frames based on the input signal and the delayed input signal. The screen edge detector detects a pixel corresponding to a screen edge in the input signal. The interpolation frame generator generates an interpolation frame from the input signal and delayed input signal based on the motion vector and the pixel corresponding to the screen edge. The interpolation frame generator generates the interpolation frame using the pixel corresponding to the screen edge or the pixel inside relative to the pixel corresponding to the screen edge when the motion vector points a pixel outside relative to the pixel corresponding to the screen edge. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307142 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A frequency distribution monitor unit partitions, into a plurality of classes, a size of a vertical component of a motion vector, and detects a frequency of the number of occurrences at which the vertical component occurs in each of the classes. In a case where the vertical component of the motion vector exceeds a predetermined threshold value in predetermined specific classes, the offset control unit creates offset signals which shift read addresses in the vertical direction in delay units. A selection control unit controls to shift, in the vertical direction, pixel data selected by delay selection units. | 12-06-2012 |
20120303376 | INFORMATION SELECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Identifiers are of items or categories assigned to the respective items. A price influence degree of each of identifiers associated with a base identifier is calculated from price information of the identifier through the use of a price influence function. A selection index of each of the identifiers associated with the base identifier is calculated according to a rule such that the calculated selection index will increase as a degree of association with the base identifier is greater and the calculated price influence degree is greater. Identifiers each great in calculated selection index are preferentially selected from the identifiers associated with the base identifier. Items or categories having identifiers equal to the selected identifiers may be recommended to a user. | 11-29-2012 |
20120300840 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - A disparity vector detection unit retrieves a signal having a high correlation with an encoding target block and acquire the signal having the high correlation and a disparity vector which is a disparity in a screen of the encoding target block by using a local decoded image of a block in the same image signal which was previously encoded, with respect to the encoding target block. A disparity prediction signal generation unit generates a prediction signal in accordance with the disparity vector. The disparity vector detection unit includes a DC calculation unit operative to predict a DC component of an image signal of the encoding target block from a neighboring decoded image, and a disparity reference DC calculation unit operative to calculate a DC component of a prediction signal represented by the disparity vector. | 11-29-2012 |
20120293672 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE SHAKE CORRECTION METHOD - A system controller sets an optical correction ratio, which is a distribution ratio in which a shake angle detected by a gyro sensor is distributed to optical shake correction, in accordance with an optical zoom magnification and controls a prism driver to correct the shake angle multiplied by the optical correction ratio by the optical shake correction, and also controls a read controller to correct the rest of the angle by electronic shake correction. | 11-22-2012 |
20120288271 | APERTURE STOP MECHANISM WHICH DRIVES TWO APERTURE BLADES AND ADJUSTS AN APERTURE AREA OF LIGHT PASSAGE OPENING INTO WHICH LIGHT FOR IMAGING IS INTRODUCED - In an aperture stop mechanism, two aperture blades are arranged so as to overlap each other and form a single light passage opening into which light utilized in imaging is introduced with the respective edge portions of the two aperture blades. A drive mechanism drives the two aperture blades in directions different from each other, whereby the aperture area of the light passage opening is changed within a predetermined range. When the two aperture blades are located at a minimum aperture position where the aperture area of the light passage opening is minimum within the predetermined range, the two aperture blades are provided so that the single light passage opening surrounded by boundaries including eight straight lines is constituted of the respective edge portions of the two aperture blades. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288005 | MOTION VECTOR CORRECTION DEVICE AND METHOD AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A motion vector detector | 11-15-2012 |
20120287563 | CONNECTOR STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A connector structure includes a base body, a slider, a connector holder, a holder, a slider restriction portion and a connector holder restriction portion. In a state where the slider is not held to the base body by the holder, the slider restriction portion restricts a movement of the slider in one direction of one axis . In a state where the movement of the slider is restricted, the connector holder is separable from the slider in the one direction. The connector holder restriction portion restricts a position and an attitude taken by the connector holder separated from the slider within a predetermined range. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287126 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes a liquid crystal panel with video display lines, a display controller operable to have display data rendered on the liquid crystal panel, the display data including first field data of a video signal input, and second field data of the video signal as field data subsequent in temporal order and different in content from the first field data, a backlight unit disposed behind the liquid crystal panel and provided with light sources adapted to emit light for irradiation to respective regions on the liquid crystal panel sectioned in accordance with a scan direction, and a backlight controller operable to have the light sources transitioned between a light-out state and a light emitting state with a transition time shorter than a scan time of first field data and a scan time of second field data by the display controller. | 11-15-2012 |
20120284283 | Information Processing Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program - Scores of respective content information pieces are calculated. The scores are the degrees of conformity between the content information pieces and a narrowing condition, respectively. Appropriate ones are selected from the content information pieces on the basis of the narrowing condition. | 11-08-2012 |
20120276515 | USER ANSWER COLLECTION SERVER, USER ANSWER COLLECTION SYSTEM, BROADCAST RECEPTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | 11-01-2012 |
20120275717 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - A displacement vector detection unit searches for a signal with high correlation with an encoding target block using a locally-decoded image in an already encoded block so as to calculate, using a signal with the highest correlation as a displacement prediction signal, a displacement vector. A reduced-image displacement vector detection unit searches for a signal with high correlation with the encoding target block using a signal resulting from performing reduction at least either horizontally or vertically for the locally-decoded image in an already encoded block so as to obtain, using the signal with the highest correlation as the displacement prediction signal, the displacement vector indicating the displacement in a screen between a reduced encoding target block and a reduction displacement prediction signal. Then a signal with high correlation with the encoding target block from the displacement prediction signal and the reduction displacement prediction signal is selected as a prediction signal. | 11-01-2012 |
20120272255 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING AUXILIARY INFORMATION AND REFERENCE CLOCK - An information recording medium is composed of a substrate having a microscopic pattern constituted by a continuous substrate of grooves formed with a groove portion and a land portion alternately, a recording layer, and a light transmitting layer. The microscopic pattern is formed with satisfying a relation of P≦λ/NA, wherein P is a pitch of the land portion or the groove portion, λ is a wavelength of reproducing light, and NA is a numerical aperture of an objective lens. The land portion is formed with wobbling so as to be parallel with each other for both sidewalls of the land portion. Auxiliary information and a reference clock is recorded alternately. Information is recorded in the recording layer corresponding to a land portion by either one change of reflectivity difference and refractive index difference in the recording layer. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269491 | OBJECT IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, OBJECT IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND OBJECT IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - The total number of object images is “N”. Object images whose the number is less than “N” are displayed on a display among the N-object images according to a previously defined display rule. When a selected object image is shifted by n-object images, a position obtained by shifting by a distance becomes a new position of the selected object image, wherein the distance is obtained by multiplying by “n” a value obtained by dividing the distance between a display position of an object image and a display position of the selected object image by a value obtained by subtracting “1” from “N”. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269049 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING AUXILIARY INFORMATION AND REFERENCE CLOCK - An information recording medium is composed of a substrate having a microscopic pattern constituted by a continuous substrate of grooves formed with a groove portion and a land portion alternately, a recording layer, and a light transmitting layer. The microscopic pattern is formed with satisfying a relation of P≦λ/NA, wherein P is a pitch of the land portion or the groove portion, λ is a wavelength of reproducing light, and NA is a numerical aperture of an objective lens. The land portion is formed with wobbling so as to be parallel with each other for both sidewalls of the land portion. Auxiliary information and a reference clock is recorded alternately. Information is recorded in the recording layer corresponding to a land portion by either one change of reflectivity difference and refractive index difference in the recording layer. | 10-25-2012 |
20120263372 | Method And Apparatus For Processing 3D Image - A first image and a second image make a stereo pair. A parallax between each subject image in the first image and a corresponding subject image in the second image is calculated. A 3D image formed by the first image and the second image is divided into a plurality of areas. Detection is made as to which of the areas each parallax calculated by the parallax calculator is present in. A desired parallax is determined on the basis of the calculated parallax or parallaxes present in one of the areas. An object image is superimposed on the first image and the second image in said one of the areas in a manner such that a parallax between the object image superimposed on the first image and the object image superimposed on the second image will be equal to the desired parallax. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262377 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Operation keys are arranged on a front panel along with a display screen. When an electronic device has a certain state, information indicating the certain state is displayed on the display screen. A dynamic figure is displayed on a region on the display screen corresponding to a position of a specific operation key to be operated at the time of the certain state, among the operation keys. | 10-18-2012 |
20120252450 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION - A wireless communication system includes: a plurality of mobile stations; and a base station which periodically receives a predetermined kind of information from one or more registered mobile stations registered in the base station among the plurality of mobile stations via a radio channel shared among the registered mobile stations. | 10-04-2012 |
20120239881 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The position relating to a content can be displayed on map information using a portable storage medium. With respect to a content the visual information of which is to be displayed on a display unit ( | 09-20-2012 |
20120230588 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An in-scene digest segment number determining unit allocates the total number of cuts to be extracted as digest segments to each scene of digest creation objective scenes. A feature quantity detecting unit selects a plurality of representative frames from respective frames included in a cut extraction scene where the number of digest segments to be extracted is one or more and further detects a feature quantity of each representative frame. An importance calculating unit calculates the degree of importance of each representative frame, based on the feature quantities of each representative frame. A digest segment selecting unit determines a digest segment to be selected from each cut extraction scene, based on both feature quantities and importance degrees of representative frames in each cut extraction scene. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229716 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - [Task] It is to provide a projection type display apparatus which enhances the contrast performance while minimizing a reduction in the brightness by blocking a light beam which would decrease the contrast through the use of diaphragms provided in both of an illumination optical system and a projection lens. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229527 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A brightness detection unit detects brightness. An interpolation image signal generation unit generates interpolation image signal which are to be interpolated between each two adjacent frames of an input image signal. A temporal emphasis unit emphasizes high temporal frequency components of the input image signal and interpolation image signal. A time-series conversion memory converts the frame frequency of the image signal with the high temporal frequency components emphasized. A temporal emphasis unit adjusts amplitudes of a pair of inputted image signals according to the image brightness and determines a gain coefficient based on the pair of image signals with the amplitudes adjusted, the gain coefficient indicating the degree to which the high temporal frequency components are to be emphasized. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229505 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL - An information display apparatus includes an operation section, a content-related operation log acquisition section, a display section, and a controller. The operation section performs a content-related operation related to each of a plurality of types of content. The acquisition section acquires a content-related operation log as associated with each content for which the content-related operation is being performed and with a type of each content. The operation log includes a move log having position information on a position of the information display apparatus and time information on time during performance of the content-related operation. The display section displays map information based on the position information and an icon on the displayed map information based on the operation log. The icon represents the type of each content. The controller controls the operation section to perform the content-related operation related to each content when an instruction is given to the displayed icon. | 09-13-2012 |
20120224720 | SOUND VOLUME CONTROL DEVICE, SOUND VOLUME CONTROL METHOD, AND SOUND VOLUME CONTROL PROGRAM - A sound volume control device includes a sound input section, a band dividing section, an excessive output notification section, a correction band decision section and a sound output control section. The sound input section converts input sound into a sound signal. The band dividing section carries out band-division with respect to the sound signal. The excessive output notification section outputs excessive output notification information when output sound from the present device is excessive. The correction band decision section calculates audible signal distribution information when the excessive output notification information is not output and excessive signal distribution information when the excessive output notification information is output, for each band in the sound signal, and decides a correction band according to the audible signal distribution information and excessive signal distribution information. The sound output control section controls sound volume of sound signal for the correction band to provide output sound. | 09-06-2012 |
20120223944 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a stereoscopic image processing apparatus allowing a manufacturer of image data to grasp parallax of a subject in display data easily and accurately. The stereoscopic image processing apparatus includes units: acquiring two pieces of image data having horizontal parallax; composing the two pieces of image data to generate display data; deriving parallax of a predetermined object in the two pieces of image data and generates parallax information representing the parallax; holding the generated parallax information in relation to time information assigned to each piece of the image data; generating parallax time image data representing the parallax represented by the parallax information and time represented by the time information as a two-dimensional image; causing the generated parallax time image data and the display data to overlap each other; and displaying the display data overlapping the parallax time image data on a display unit. | 09-06-2012 |
20120212690 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A backlight device includes a housing, a light source, a diffuse plate and a fixing member. The housing has an open surface. The light source is arranged in the housing. The diffuser plate is arranged on the open surface of the housing and allows light emitted from the light source to pass therethrough while diffusing the light. The fixing member prevents the diffuser plate from bending in a direction in which light passes through the diffuser plate. A part of the fixing member has transmittance adjusted to substantially equalize luminance distribution of light passed through the diffuser plate. | 08-23-2012 |
20120208448 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, INFORMATION RECEPTION DEVICE, INFORMATION RECEPTION METHOD AND, INFORMATION RECEPTION PROGRAM - A content output propriety determination unit determines whether an output of the content is allowed in an information reception device based on reception statuses of radio waves from a plurality of radio stations in the information reception device and position information on the information reception device. A communication controller transmits a determination result by the content output propriety determination unit to the information reception device. A table creation unit creates a radio wave status acquisition table based on the position information on the information reception device, and the radio wave status acquisition table is used for acquiring the reception statuses of the radio waves from the radio stations. When some radio stations are receivable, the content output propriety determination unit allows output of contents distributed from the information distribution devices corresponding to all the radio stations included in the table. | 08-16-2012 |
20120207442 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A reproducing apparatus includes: a storage unit; a display control unit; a position determining unit; and a reproduction control unit. The storage unit stores information of each of a plurality of contents. The display control unit controls to display, on a display unit, content identification images corresponding to the plurality of contents respectively. The position determining unit determines a reproducing position for the content based on a designating position for a display range of the content identification images which is designated when any one of the content identification image is designated. The reproduction control unit reproduces the determined content from the determined reproducing position. | 08-16-2012 |
20120204211 | PROGRAM GUIDE GENERATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM GUIDE GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM GUIDE GENERATION PROGRAM - A program guide generation apparatus includes: a program-related information acquisition unit that acquires program-related information including information related to a start time of a broadcast program, information related to a broadcast duration length being the length of the duration of the broadcast of the broadcast program; a program display frame size calculation unit that calculates a time-base size obtained from the broadcast duration length and calculates an inside content size; a program guide generation unit that generates layout data of the program display frame in accordance with the time-base size calculated by the program display frame size calculation unit; and a display update unit that, upon a program display frame being selected by an operation input inputted via an input device, changes a size of the selected program display frame to the inside content size. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200788 | Distributed Polarizer And Liquid-Crystal Projection Display Apparatus Using The Same - A distributed polarizer includes first, second, and third regions. The first region has a first transmission axis extending in a first direction. The second region has a second transmission axis extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The third region has a third transmission axis extending in a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200672 | 3D IMAGING DEVICE - A 3D imaging device includes: a first imaging unit having a first variable power lens and a first driving unit that drives the first variable power lens along an optical axis; a second imaging unit having a second variable power lens and a second driving unit that drives the second variable power lens along an optical axis; a storage unit that temporarily stores the first photographic image and the second photographic image; a parallax determining unit that determines a parallax in a horizontal direction between the first photographic image and the second photographic image; a parallax adjusting unit that generates a third photographic image excluding a first parallax adjusting image from the first photographic image and a fourth photographic image excluding a second parallax adjusting image from the second photographic image; and a photographic information recording unit that records information about a magnification of the first variable power lens. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200548 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Since a first and a second source-follower PMOS transistor in a pixel have gates connected to a first and a second capacitor and are used always in on state, respectively, only respective threshold voltages in the first and second source-follower PMOS transistors are set to be +0.5 V and put in normally-on state. A current value in each of the first and second source-follower PMOS transistors is controlled by a constant current load transistor, and on/off thereof is controlled by the constant current load transistor and each of first and second switching NMOS transistors. Further, each of the first and second switching NMOS transistors intermediates to limit an outputtable voltage range and thereby optimization is performed so as to maximize a range where linearity is secured by shifting the respective threshold voltages of the first and second source-follower PMOS transistors. | 08-09-2012 |
20120197641 | CONSONANT-SEGMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND CONSONANT-SEGMENT DETECTION METHOD - A signal portion is extracted from an input signal for each frame having a specific duration to generate a per-frame input signal. The per-frame input signal in a time domain is converted into a per-frame input signal in a frequency domain, thereby generating a spectral pattern. Subband average energy is derived in each of subbands adjacent one another in the spectral pattern. The subband average energy is compared in at least one subband pair of a first subband and a second subband that is a higher frequency band than the first subband, the first and second subbands being consecutive subbands in the spectral pattern. It is determined that the per-frame input signal includes a consonant segment if the subband average energy of the second subband is higher than the subband average energy of the first subband. | 08-02-2012 |
20120188789 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The backlight device includes: a light guide plate having a rectangular shape; LEDs arranged on end surfaces of side surface portions formed of long and short sides of the light guide plate; and LED board having a long and thin shape and on which the LEDs are mounted, wherein a plurality of LED boards of a same type are arranged on the long and short sides of the light guide plate, and the plurality of LED boards are continuously arranged corresponding to the entire area of the end surface of each side of the light guide plate, and at the same time, the LED boards of any one of long and short sides are not arranged but a predetermined interval is formed at an edge portion constituting a point of contact between the long and short sides of the light guide plate. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188518 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light source device includes a fluorescent assembly and a light tunnel. The light tunnel is located on the fluorescent assembly with no gap. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188244 | DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING DEPTH ESTIMATION DATA GENERATING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON, AND PSEUDO-STEREO IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A depth estimation data generating device includes a difference data generator and negative and positive shift amount generators. The difference data generator calculates the difference between a non-stereo image and the average value data of the average brightness of the non-stereo image to generate the difference data. The negative shift amount generator generates a negative shift amount, wherein the difference data generated using the minimum value data of the minimum brightness of the non-stereo image has a minimum value of shift amount and the shift amount approaches zero from the minimum value as the difference data approaches zero. The positive shift amount generator generates a positive shift amount, wherein the difference data generated using the maximum value data of the maximum brightness of the non-stereo image has a maximum value of shift amount and the shift amount approaches zero from the maximum value as the difference data approaches zero. | 07-26-2012 |
20120185750 | DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD FOR DECODING DATA ENCODED BY LDPC - A min-sum processing unit executes, on input data, check node processing for each row of a check matrix and variable node processing for each column of the check matrix. When the decoded result involves an error, a detection unit detects a bit of a low degree of reliability from the decoded result. An identifying unit identifies a row and a column of a low degree of reliability in the check matrix on the basis of the bit of the low degree of reliability detected. The min-sum processing unit executes, on the decoded result, check node processing on the row identified as well as variable node processing on the column identified. | 07-19-2012 |
20120183341 | Printing Apparatus And Controlling Method Therefor - A printing apparatus for printing an image on a printing object on the basis of input data is composed of a printing mechanism for compressing an ink ribbon against a printing object and forming an image in accordance with input data on the printing object, a controlling section for controlling the printing mechanism so as to form a rotated image by 180 degrees for second printing conducted in succession to first printing for printing a not rotated image, and a driving mechanism for rewinding the ink ribbon extended between supply and take-up rolls to the supply roll during the first printing and second printing. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182763 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING BACKLIGHT DEVICE - A backlight device, where expense reduction is promoted by standardizing lengths of LED boards to one type. The backlight device includes: a light guide plate; and LED boards which are arranged facing end surfaces of side surface portions of the light guide plate and on which LEDs introducing light to the light guide plate are mounted, wherein lengths of long sides of the LED boards arranged on long sides facing end surfaces in a long side direction of the light guide plate and lengths of long sides of the LED boards arranged on short sides facing end surfaces in a short side direction of the light guide plate are all the same. | 07-19-2012 |
20120180077 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE DEVICE - An optical disk drive device includes: a tray provided with an outer disk tray on which an optical disk is mounted; an electrode provided on the outer disk tray; an electrostatic capacitance sensor unit configured to sense electrostatic capacitance between the electrode and an optical disk mounted in proximity to the electrode; a storage unit configured to store a table that identifies electrostatic capacitance between each of different types of optical disks and the electrode occurring when the optical disk is mounted in proximity to the electrode; and a determination unit configured to determine the type of the optical disk mounted on the tray, based on a sensor result obtained by the electrostatic capacitance sensor unit and the table. | 07-12-2012 |
20120176882 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND RECORDING METHOD AND REPRODUCING METHOD THEREOF - An information recording medium in which bottoms of a guide groove and a pit array formed on a disc substrate are allocated on a same flat plane and shaped in flat. Further, in a transition area from a pit array to a guide groove or from a guide groove to a pit array, the information recording medium is provided with an intermediate area composed of a pit array of which height changes from a height between a bottom and a side of a groove to another height between the bottom and a side of the pit array. | 07-12-2012 |
20120176535 | Sound Pickup Device - A sound pickup device is designed for an imaging apparatus including an objective lens and a camera casing. The sound pickup device includes first and second microphone holders fixed to the camera casing and each having an inner wall surface neighboring and facing a surface of the camera casing. First and second microphone units are held by the first and second microphone holders, respectively. The first and second microphone holders are located at left and right sides of the camera casing respectively while being separated from each other in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the objective lens. The aforesaid surface of the camera casing forms a sound reflecting surface which reflects incoming sound. Each of the first and second microphone units has a sound pickup surface facing the sound reflecting surface to pick up the sound reflected by the sound reflecting surface. | 07-12-2012 |
20120163151 | OPTICAL DISC, AND PRODUCTION METHOD AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL DISC - An optical disc has a data layer including a data-layer substrate made of a transparent material and a data-layer reflection film formed on an upper side of the data-layer substrate, a display layer including a display-layer substrate having a display pattern and a display-layer reflection film formed on a lower side of the display-layer substrate, and an intermediate layer made of a transparent material provided between an upper side of the data layer and a lower side of the display layer. | 06-28-2012 |