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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7616263 | Information-processing apparatus and removable substrate used therein An information-processing apparatus is provided. For example, the information-processing apparatus has an information-processing device that processes information and a removable substrate that is detachably connected to the information-processing device. The inform... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7610634 | Bathtub device A bathtub device includes a bathtub internal wall made of a flexible material, a pressure unit for changing a shape of a tub, which is a concavity surrounded with the internal wall, by applying a pressure on the internal wall, a setting unit for setting a movement r... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613354 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program A user interface unit sets a parameter based on operations of a user, and outputs to a parameter correction unit. The parameter correction unit extracts the feature quantity of pixels in an observation region that corresponds to the value of the parameter, and based... | 11/03/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7609324 | Signal processing apparatus and method for generating a corrected image having a large number of pixels from an image having a lesser number of pixels, and recording medium having a program recorded thereon for performing such method A signal processing apparatus includes a generator operable to generate a second image signal by converting a first image signal into the second image signal; a calculation unit operable to calculate a correction amount based on an evaluation of the second image sig... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7605841 | Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus, image-capturing device and method, recording medium, and program A feature extracting unit obtains sensor data from a plurality of sensors to calculate each feature. When an event determining unit determines the occurrence of an event based on each feature, a display data constructor generates remote-controller display data for d... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7605868 | Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program A pattern matching section compares reference taps supplied by one area extracting section with a reference tap component of a training pair pre-stored in a training-pair storing section, selects a training pair including a reference tap component having highest sim... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606431 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus embeds information into image data without an overhead. The image processing apparatus includes a selection unit for selecting some of the pixels forming the image data. A changing unit embeds the information into the pixels selected by... | 10/20/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7602413 | Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus, image-capturing device and method, recording medium, and program A feature extracting unit obtains sensor data from a plurality of sensors to calculate each feature. When an event determining unit determines the occurrence of an event based on each feature, a display data constructor generates remote-controller display data for d... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7602428 | Image pick-up apparatus and image pick-up method At a controller 5, pixel values that a CCD 3 outputs are evaluated. On the basis of the evaluation result, exposure times with respect to a light receiving surface of the CCD 3 in a shutter 2 constituted with, e.g., DMD (Digital Micromirr... | 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 |
| 7599607 | Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program In an information processing apparatus, for example, a video tape recorder, a recording section records an input signal on a recording medium. Substantially at the same time, a playback section plays back the input signal from the recording medium to output a playba... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599987 | Information processing device for obtaining high-quality content An information processing apparatus which allows high-quality contents to be easily obtained. A WWW browser section sends search request information which includes a keyword for web pages, input by the user, to an evaluation and search server. A search section of th... | 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 |
| 7595819 | Signal processing device and signal processing method, program, and recording medium A signal processing unit subjects to signal processing first image signals, obtained as the output from a three-sensor-system sensor unit which uses CMOS sensors or the like, thereby obtaining high-image-quality second image signals. The three sensors are positioned... | 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 |
| 7590397 | Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method, program, and recording medium An IC chip allows first communication for performing communication with all of the other IC chips, and second communication for performing communication while restricting communication parties. That is to say, the IC chip performs sending/receiving signals with a ne... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7584008 | Digital signal processing method, learning method, apparatuses for them, and program storage medium An input digital signal D10 is class-classified according to the envelope of the input digital signal D10, and the input digital signal D10 is converted by the prediction method corresponding to the class, so that conversion further suited to th... | 09/01/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7580955 | Information processing apparatus, system and method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus for providing content data to terminal units includes a content data storage unit, a communication unit, an input information storage unit, an analysis unit, and a processing unit. The content data storage unit stores a plurality ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7573508 | Image signal processing apparatus and method for performing an adaptation process on an image signal An image signal generated by a CCD image sensor is processed by the block-generating section 28 provided in an image-signal processing section 25. A class tap and a prediction tap are thereby extracted. The class tap is output to an ADRC process sectio... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7573939 | Memory cell circuit, memory device, motion vector detection device, and motion compensation prediction coding device The invention relates to a memory device and the like. The memory device comprises one or more memory block. The memory block has a memory cell array consists of multiple memory cells (210) arranged in a matrix form. A region of the multiple memory cells (... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574072 | Apparatus and method for processing informational signal and program for performing the method therefor An informational signal processing apparatus comprising an adjustment device that permits a user to adjust a space resolution adjustment value and a time resolution adjustment value output uninterruptedly. From the adjustment values output to the testing terminal, a... | 08/11/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7561207 | Image processing apparatus and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program An information processing apparatus includes storage means for storing an adjusted value previously set by a user for an output state of information and prediction means for predicting a prediction value for adjustment of the output state in accordance with the stor... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558934 | Data storage unit, data storage controlling apparatus and method, and data storage controlling program A data storage unit is provided in which all data are stored into a memory including a plurality of memory banks and a plurality of desired data is read simultaneously, without any load to the hardware. It includes a memory controlling means including a data storage... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555429 | Sound signal processing apparatus and degree of speech computation method Speech likeliness or a degree of speech is determined with a simple configuration or with a small amount of processing, and speech parts are separated from an input sound signal. The input sound signal is subjected to a waveform slicing process in frame units. The i... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555766 | Audience response determination An audience response determination apparatus detects the state of an audience and the individual states of the members of the audience to determine the response of the audience to the content of entertainment and the like. Based on the thus determined audience respo... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551328 | Image reading apparatus and method The present invention enables image data with good S/N and high resolution to be obtained reliably in a short reading time. A CCD 102 is formed by arranging line sensors, in which detecting elements having a time integration effect are arranged in a direction... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551226 | Image signal conversion apparatus, method and, display for image signal conversion based on selected pixel data An image signal conversion apparatus for converting a SD signal (525i) into a HD signal (525p or the like). In the image signal conversion section, the SD signal is converted into the HD signal, and the image is displayed on the display s... | 06/23/2009 |