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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181214 | Recording system and recording substitution system A recording center station includes functions for receiving a broadcast wave and saving or recording received data. In response to a request from each receiving station, the recording center station substitutionally records a specified broadcast program and provides... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8161508 | Image content and advertisement data providing method, system, and apparatus To provide an image content providing method capable of promoting advertisement effect by dynamically inserting an advertisement image to a distributed image content, an image content reproducing apparatus requests an image content providing apparatus to distribute ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155257 | Synchronizing circuit and controlling method thereof Disclosed herein is synchronizing circuit including: a numerically controlled oscillating section; a phase rotating section; a phase error estimating section; a loop filter; and a gain controlling section; wherein the gain controlling section controls the gain so as... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145492 | Robot behavior control system and method, and robot apparatus A behavior control system of a robot for learning a phoneme sequence includes a sound inputting device inputting a phoneme sequence, a sound signal learning unit operable to convert the phoneme sequence into a sound synthesis parameter and to learn or evaluate a rel... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145177 | Receiving apparatus A receiving apparatus includes: a frequency conversion portion that has at least a mixer that down-converts a frequency of a reception radio-frequency signal by mixing the radio-frequency signal and an output from a voltage-controlled oscillator and outputs the down... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140329 | Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing audio data A method and apparatus are proposed for automatically recognizing observed audio data. An observation vector is created of audio features extracted from the observed audio data and the observed audio data is recognized from the observation vector. The audio features... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139648 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method A basic pattern generating unit 81 generates a film grain basic pattern 86 in which the histogram of random noise is substantially the same as the film grain basic pattern information 53. The film grain basic pattern 86 is of (64×64) pix... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135646 | Content transmission apparatus A content transmission apparatus is disclosed which promotes distribution of contents over a network and thereby affords better convenience to those who wish to sell and buy the contents. The apparatus is implemented typically as a video camera provided beforehand w... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8122373 | Image display control apparatus and program and method therefor An image display control apparatus, an image display control method for the image display control apparatus, and a program for the image display control apparatus that control display of windows on a screen on the basis of window headers, the program including the s... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120600 | Light emission control system and image display system The present invention provides a light emission control system including a plurality of light emitting modules each including a plurality of light emitting elements and each being a unit to be controlled, light emitting module controllers each provided for each of t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111721 | Multiplexing apparatus and method A multiplexing system (10) is provided which includes a plurality of encoders (12-15) which generates elementary streams, respectively, CPU (16), multiplexer (17), instruction memory (18), and a data memory (19) which... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107528 | Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, information processing apparatus, recording medium, and program A reusable quantization value Qref included in history information or parameter information is obtained in step S21. In step S22, it is judged whether or not the quantization value Qref obtained in step S21 is smaller than a predetermined minimu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107342 | Laser driving device, optical unit, and light device which can change the setting information for a sampling pulse A laser driving device includes: a first pulse generating section; a second pulse generating section; a light emission waveform generating section; a light emission level pattern storing section; and a second storing section. The second storing section stores sampli... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105117 | Spring connector and terminal device A spring connector includes an inner conductor and an outer conductor. The inner conductor is formed of a conductive material, and has a small-diameter portion, a large-diameter portion, and a resilient portion axially disposed so as to be integrally and continuousl... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094852 | Headset A headset for using an electronic device worn on a head, includes an ear clip formed to have a shape conforming to and wearable on a root of auricle. The ear clip includes a core that can plastically be deformed according to a difference between shapes of the root o... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077258 | Image display apparatus, signal processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product An image display apparatus includes the following elements. An IP converter performs signal conversion processing for converting an interlace signal into a progressive signal including information on interpolated pixels. A frame controller temporally divides an inpu... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074254 | Recording device, playback device, recording method and playback method A data transmission device transmits a data broadcast using a narrow unused broadcasting band in a digital broadcast, and to record the data broadcast, which has been received, on a receiving side so that the receiving side can play back the data broadcast after a d... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046822 | Electronic apparatus, function selection method of electronic apparatus and management system of electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a first apparatus that carries out a plurality of functions, and a second apparatus that is coupled to the first apparatus. The second apparatus comprises a control unit that includes a processing unit for supplying commands to the f... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045842 | Information processing apparatus and method, transmission apparatus and method, recording apparatus and method and program An information processing apparatus includes a conversion section configured to convert one of an SD signal according to a predetermined standard of Standard Definition Television and an HD signal according to a predetermined standard of High-Definition Television i... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045837 | Controller for photographing apparatus and photographing system A picture photographed by a camera portion is sent to a video capturing portion of a computer. The picture is displayed in an operation area of a monitor. A panorama picture of which pictures in part or all moving range of a pan tiler are combined is displayed in a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041188 | Contents recording system and contents recording method A contents recording system and a contents recording method reducing a time taken for recording and editing of video content and other video contents. An optical disk device for recording video content and a computer are connected via a network. The computer is supp... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040425 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method using ND filters for color-temperature correction An imaging apparatus includes one or a plurality of optical filters, an image sensor, an imaging signal processing part, a detecting part, and a control part. The one or the plurality of optical filters are selectively arranged in a path of an optical system for obt... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040404 | Image pickup apparatus, image signal processing circuit and image signal processing method as well as computer program The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus, including: an image pickup section of the plural channel output type configured to output signals individually corresponding to divisional regions of an image pickup device; a plurality of signal processing s... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024843 | Biaxial hinge device and portable terminal device A biaxial hinge device includes an approximately rod-shaped first shaft member; an approximately rod-shaped second shaft member; a shaft connecting member for connecting the first shaft member and the second shaft member such that the direction in which the first sh... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023817 | Image capturing system, image capturing device, and image capturing method To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014635 | Transmitting apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, program and recording medium, and transmitting/receiving system A receiving processing unit receives identical SD pictures transmitted a plurality of number of times, and performs addition for weighting an SD picture stored in a storage and the received SD pictures. The receiving processing unit stores the obtained values as a n... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000476 | Data encryption/decryption method, and device A method of enciphering data which is applicable to cipher-transmission of digital information data, in which the HD-SDI signal DHS is subjected to enciphering process using common key data DEY which is common to encipherment and decipherment to produce enciphered H... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999717 | Folding circuit and analog-to-digital converter A folding circuit and an analog-to-digital converter wherein a response to small signals is improved, a load on a clock signal can be reduced, and the increase of circuit area can be prevented. The circuit includes a reference voltage generating circuit that generat... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987091 | Dialog control device and method, and robot device A robot can make a dialog customized for the user by first storing various pieces of information appendant to an object as values of the corresponding items of the object. A topic that is related to the topic used in the immediately preceding conversation is then se... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986735 | Digital signal transmission apparatus and method, digital signal receiving apparatus and method, and digital signal transmission system A digital signal transmission apparatus that transmits a digital signal to another apparatus via a coaxial cable connected therebetween includes a signal divider configured to divide a digital signal to be transmitted into a plurality of signal groups; a plurality o... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983500 | Encoding method, encoding apparatus, decoding method, and decoding apparatus An encoding method of losslessly encoding picture data is disclosed. The picture data are composed of pixel data. The pixel data whose number of quantizer bits is larger than eight bits are separated into a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is co... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7969118 | Electronic apparatus with remaining battery power indicating function An electronic apparatus has a multiplicity of display units including an electronic viewfinder and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. The apparatus has various display modes. The remaining battery power, i.e., estimated amounts of remaining battery times relative... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965919 | Contents recording system and contents recording method A contents recording system and a contents recording method reducing a time taken for recording and editing of video content and other video contents and enabling editing of the video contents with a high reliability. An optical disk device for recording video conte... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7964303 | Structure of thin battery covered by outer packaging film, battery pack, and method for manufacturing battery pack To provide a thinner, lighter battery pack and to reduce the cost by eliminating the need for a battery case. A thin battery pack structure using an outer packaging film (battery pack) is constructed by a flat and rectangular shaped battery cell, a flat and rectangu... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7949428 | Robot apparatus and method of controlling the same A robot apparatus having a plurality of movable sections includes a motion control section that generates a control signal for the periodic motion of at least part of the movable sections according to the output of an oscillator showing self-oscillation and entrainm... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948476 | Touch screen input method and device A touch panel 47 is constructed by a display/sensor unit 51a which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD 46 and a sensor unit 51b which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on th... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944479 | Image-capture apparatus, camera control unit, video camera system, and method of transmitting warning information An image-capture apparatus having an intercom connecting unit, capable of voice communication with an external camera control unit (CCU) is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit, a warning-sound signal generator, a receiving unit, a voice synthesizer and a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7933949 | Data processing apparatus which prevents data overflow and underflow A data processing apparatus constitutes a low-cost audio/video data transmission and reception system. A reception buffer monitoring circuit 21 monitors the size of receiver data being accumulated in a reception buffer 6. When the size of accumulated d... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924177 | Distributed on-demand media transcoding system and method A method for delivering media content over a network includes transcoding the media content to generate multiple copies of the media content, each of the multiple copies having a different destination type or a different source type or both, storing the multiple cop... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920634 | Editing system, editing controlling apparatus, and editing controlling method A splicer/transcoder device that interfaces with a material archiver/server using a stream. The splicer/transcoder device interfaces with an editor and switcher using a base band signal. In a predetermined region including at least an edit point, a transcoding proce... | 04/05/2011 |
