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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8103114 | Image processing apparatus, method, storage medium, and program A motion-vector detector determines the centroid of pixels on a reference frame that is identified with position information set in a database and associated with a feature address corresponding to a feature of a target pixel. The motion-vector detector detects, as ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098944 | Image processing apparatus, method, storage medium, and program A motion-vector detector determines the centroid of pixels on a reference frame that is identified with position information set in a database and associated with a feature address corresponding to a feature of a target pixel. The motion-vector detector detects, as ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8063830 | Antenna device A planar antenna device is mounted on a board including a dielectric layer and two conductor layers vertically sandwiching the dielectric layer. The upper conductor layer includes a first radiating element having an end portion connected through a via hole to a grou... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8026951 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program where the device includes a simple-type angle detecting unit simply detects the angle as continuity using correlation from an input image. The device includes an input configured to input image data m... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7991078 | Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program In a signal processing apparatus adapted to process a signal transmitted via a transmission path, distortion of a waveform of a signal value of a specific symbol is predicted on the basis of a characteristic of distortion depending on values of symbols transmitted b... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7970968 | Apparatus and method for controlling plural functional blocks using common command This invention relates to an information-signal-processing apparatus etc. for performing a series of processing pieces by using plural functional blocks in response to any information signals, in which functions can be easily upgraded through version upgrading of th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961777 | Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program A signal processing apparatus configured to process a signal transmitted via a transmission path where a waveform represented by a signal value of a particular symbol is stationarily distorted in accordance with values of symbols transmitted prior to the particular ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7936712 | Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program In a signal processing apparatus adapted to process a signal transmitted via a transmission path, an acquisition unit acquires a signal value of a specific symbol from a signal transmitted via the transmission path, and a prediction unit predicts a signal value of t... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7894702 | Method and apparatus of obtaining directivity A method of obtaining directivity in an optical waveguide includes the steps of falling incident light on surface of diffuse reflection members arranged at a center portion of the optical waveguide, generating a first table relative to an amount of emitted light tha... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889944 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program where the device includes an image data continuity detector configured to detect continuity of image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by real world light signals being cast upon a plural... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889957 | Optical selector switch and signal-processing apparatus An optical selector switch contains an optical waveguide that includes a first optical waveguide portion having a first light-transmissivity, a second optical waveguide portion having a second light-transmissivity, reflecting members that reflect light, and a light-... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880810 | Apparatus and method for processing informational signal An apparatus for processing an informational signal includes a first processing section for receiving the informational signal, executing a first processing on the informational signal, and outputting the processed informational signal. The apparatus also includes a... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7821471 | Asymmetrical flat antenna, method of manufacturing the asymmetrical flat antenna, and signal-processing unit using the same An asymmetrical flat antenna contains an insulation layer. The antenna also contains a conductive power supply pattern that is provided on the insulation layer and a conductive antenna pattern that extends from the power supply pattern and is provided on the insulat... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7800624 | Memory device signal processing apparatus image signal processing apparatus and methods of the same A memory device, a signal processing apparatus, and an image signal processing apparatus and signal processing methods configured to perform matching processing with a small amount of calculation and accurately detecting motion vectors, provided with a memory for co... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7778439 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program and a learning device, where the learning device includes a computer configured to compute image data corresponding to light signals when the light signals corresponding to second image data pass thro... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7734113 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the device includes a data continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of detecting element... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7718905 | Electronic device and method of reducing multi-path fading An electronic device has housing having plural inner surfaces, plural modules in the housing, and a communication section provided on each of the plural modules. The communication sections perform wireless communication to each other. One inner surface having the la... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715643 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus An image processing device for processing images of background images and moving objects. A region specifying unit specifies a mixed region made up of a mixture of a foreground object component and a background object component, and a non-mixed region made up of one... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7697605 | Signal transmitting/receiving system and method, signal transmitting apparatus and method, signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program for transmitting/receiving signals unaffected by other apparatuses A signal transmitting/receiving system and method, signal transmitting apparatus and method, signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program are provided. A signal transmitting/receiving system includes a transmitter configured to transmit sign... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7672534 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world by taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing d... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668395 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing d... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668393 | Signal processing device, method, and program An apparatus and method which takes into consideration the real world where data was acquired, and enables obtaining of processing results which are more accurate and more precise as to phenomena in the real world. A data continuity detecting unit detects the contin... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7636481 | Image processing apparatus, method, storage medium, and program for compressing an input image using a motion vector that is detected based on stored position information of pixels A motion-vector detector determines the centroid of pixels on a reference frame that is identified with position information set in a database and associated with a feature address corresponding to a feature of a target pixel. The motion-vector detector detects, as ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634111 | Storage device, signal processor, image signal processor, and their methods An image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of performing matching processing with a small amount of calculation and highly accurately detecting a motion vector, etc., provided with a first feature extraction portion 13 for extracting... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7619655 | Communication apparatus and method The present invention enables the high speed processing of a foreground component image and a background component image associated with images received on a network platform. A client computer outputs information specifying image data to a separation server. The se... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7612909 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus based on the difference between a signal detected by a sensor and the real world An apparatus for detecting a mixed area in frames. An object extracting unit extracts a foreground object from an input image and generates an area-specified object formed of the foreground object and a value indicating that the foreground object belongs to a backgr... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609292 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the device includes an image data continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of first image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of dete... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7602992 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and program are capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7602442 | Apparatus and method for processing information signal A plurality of processing portions sequentially performs a plurality of processing operation on an information signal. In this case, the plurality of processing portions is provided with a control-command-added information signal to which control commands are added ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599573 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, and a program, obtains processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. In the event that the light sig... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7595800 | Signal processing device, method, and program A data processing apparatus and method, where the apparatus includes a region selecting unit configured to select a region corresponding to a pixel of interest, a frequency detector configured to detect a frequency corresponding to pixels belonging to the region, a ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596268 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing d... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593601 | Image processing device, method, and program The present invention enables processing results which are more accurate and which have higher precision as to events of the real world to be obtained. A non-continuity component extracting unit 201 detects discontinuity portions of pixel values of multiple p... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7593594 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the device includes a data continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of a first image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of detecting... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590304 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the image processing device includes an angle detector configured to detect an angle between a reference axis of data continuity with image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world b... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7583292 | Signal processing device and method, and recording medium A signal processor 12 acquires a second signal obtained by detecting a first signal, as a signal of the real world, having a first dimension. The second signal is of a second dimension lower than the first dimension and has distortion relative to the first si... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7576780 | Signal processing method and apparatus and recording medium A signal processor 12 acquires a second signal obtained by detecting a first signal, as a signal of the real world, having a first dimension. The second signal is of a second dimension lower than the first dimension and has distortion relative to the first si... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7576777 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the image processing device includes a continuity region detector configured to detect a region having data continuity within image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cas... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7567727 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and program are capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561188 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program The present invention relates an image processing device and method, recording medium, and program. A simple-type angle detecting unit 901 simply detects the angle as continuity using correlation from an input image. A determining unit 902, based on th... | 07/14/2009 |
