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| 8111325 | Image processing apparatus and method and program An image processing apparatus includes an interlace-progressive converter converting an interlace input image into a progressive intermediate image, a motion-vector detector detecting motion vectors of the input image by using a distance shorter than the pixel inter... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106957 | Image signal processing apparatus, and image signal processing method 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... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102333 | Display device securing mechanism and display system that rotates display devices around a rotational axis A display device securing mechanism to which a plurality of display devices that are linearly disposed are mountable includes a plurality of housings to which the plurality of display devices are mounted, first rotating members which rotate the corresponding housing... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102395 | Display apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing method, imaging apparatus, and program A system and method displays a realistic image that allows a user to readily grasp his/her own positional relationship and also to experience a sense of presence. An outer dome screen is disposed so as to surround a user, and an immersion image such as the scenery o... | 01/24/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8086587 | Information processing apparatus, method, and program An information processing apparatus searches search target frame images in video data to find a frame image matching a search query frame image. An extractor extracts characteristic quantities expressing the characteristics of respective images. A reliability judge ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082216 | Information processing apparatus, method and program having a historical user functionality adjustment An information processing apparatus includes: strength estimation means for calculating an operation frequency for each predetermined time period from an operation history, and estimating a time period of the operation frequency which exceeds a predetermined value a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077214 | Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, program and recording medium A signal processing apparatus includes: an input unit receiving a first image generated by a first camera and higher-resolution second images generated by a plurality of second cameras; a similar portion detecting unit detecting a similar portion between part of a s... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077978 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus may include a feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity from an image, a setting unit configured to set setting information including a plurality of setting items used to perform processing upon the image... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073058 | Memory device and device and method for detecting motion vector This invention relates to a memory device and the like that are preferably applied to a case where motion vector is detected using a block matching. Pixel data of a first frame (a reference frame) is stored in a unit A of memory cell array portion 20a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073145 | Method and apparatus for separating sound-source signal and method and device for detecting pitch In a sound-source signal separating method, a target sound-source signal in an input audio signal is enhanced, the input audio signal being from a mixture of acoustic signals from a plurality of sound sources picked up by a plurality of sound pickup devices. The pit... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073274 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program An image processing apparatus may include a feature value extraction unit adapted to extract a feature value from an image, a setting unit adapted to set setting-information defining a process to be performed on the image, an editing unit adapted to edit the setting... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072491 | Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus, image-capturing device and method, recording medium, and program An information processing system includes a sensor that obtains sensor data. The system also includes a feature extracting mechanism that extracts a feature of an object based on the sensor data obtained by the sensor. Further, the system includes an event determini... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068672 | Image processing apparatus and method, data recording medium, program recording medium, and program therefor An image processing apparatus includes a feature value extractor configured to extract a feature value from an image; a setting unit configured to set setting information for applying a process to the image; and a recorder configured to record the setting informatio... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064522 | Motion-vector detecting device, motion-vector detecting method, and computer program A device and method that serve to generate an accurate evaluation-value table and to detect a correct motion vector are provided. A weight coefficient W is calculated on the basis of correlation information of a representative-point pixel and flag-correlation inform... | 11/22/2011 |
| 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 |
| 8059162 | Imaging apparatus and method, and method for designing imaging apparatus A single-focus imaging apparatus having an array of imaging devices includes an optical system including a first imaging system that produces a focused image, at least one imaging plane on which an image produced through the first imaging system is formed, and a sec... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041072 | Audio output apparatus and method An audio output apparatus for converting an input audio signal into audio and outputting the audio includes a first oscillation enhancing panel for outputting the audio as a result of being oscillated; a second oscillation enhancing panel for outputting the audio as... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036470 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes a compressed-feature extractor configured to extract a compressed feature from image data, the compressed feature being a feature having a less amount of data than the image data; a display controller configured to display the ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037509 | Signal processing system and method, signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program According to one aspect of the invention, when an algorithm bay is connected to a signal processing apparatus according to a first connection mode, a selector of the algorithm bay selects and sets a first function provided by a first function provider as the signal ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031232 | Image pickup apparatus including a first image formation system and a second image formation system, method for capturing image, and method for designing image pickup apparatus The present invention relates to an image pickup apparatus, a method for capturing an image, and a method for designing the image pickup apparatus capable of realizing a fixed focal length image pickup apparatus of high resolution and fine resolution at a low cost b... | 10/04/2011 |
| 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 |
| 8023045 | Storage device, data processing apparatus, data processing method, program, storage medium and data processing system A video processor card stores tap generation information for determining a predetermined tap coefficient when the tap generation information is used together with tap generation information stored in another video processor card, and supplies a video processing inte... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8017897 | Image generation apparatus, method, and recording medium for projecting a plurality of phase images overlapping each other with a predetermined amount of shift An image generation apparatus for generating, from an input image, a plurality of phase images having lower resolutions than the input image and overlapping each other with a predetermined amount of shift when being projected onto a projection plane. The apparatus i... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019476 | Control device, control method, recording medium, program, and building The present invention relates to a control device, control method, recording medium, and program, and building, wherein intelligent and active integration of electronic apparatuses and dwelling-places can be realized. A receiving unit 21 receives broadcasting... | 09/13/2011 |
| 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 |
| 8004766 | Illuminating device, illuminating method, image signal processing device, image signal processing method, and image projecting apparatus An illuminating device is provided. The illuminating device includes a light source, a dividing unit, an optical unit and a light-distribution control unit. The dividing unit is configured to divide light emitted from the light source into light beams. The optical u... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7991054 | Information signal processing device, information signal processing method, image signal processing device, image displaying device, device and method for producing correction data used in them, device and method for producing coefficient data, programs for executing these methods, and computer-readable medium for storing the program The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing informational signal etc. that are preferably applied to a digital broadcast receiver etc. A class classification portion (130) generates a class code CL for indicating a class to which pixel data y... | 08/02/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7986797 | Signal processing system, signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program A signal processing system, a signal processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program in which high frequency components of a narrow-range signal having suppressed high frequency components can be restored with high accuracy. A narrow-range audio s... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7980704 | Audiovisual system including wall-integrated audiovisual capabilities There is a need for being able to excellently audiovisually receive contents without disordering a room atmosphere. An audiovisual room 1 is provided with one wall including an inner wall 2 and an outer wall 3. Part or all of the inner wall 2... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974345 | Image processing apparatus and associated methodology of creating motion compensating vectors An image data processing apparatus is provided and includes a variable length decoding section to decode and extract quantized DCT coefficients from an encoded signal input thereto and extract encoded information from side information added to the encoded signal. Cl... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975085 | Signal processing device and control method, signal processing method, program, and signal processing system A signal processing device controls a plurality of signal processing units that process an input signal inputted via a signal line with wide bandwidth, via a control line with narrow bandwidth or the signal line, and includes: a storing unit configured to store corr... | 07/05/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7966005 | Data processing system and method, communication system and method, and charging apparatus and method In a communication system for serving data corresponding to a request from the user and charging the user for the data served to the user, when the user designates a result of a desired one of a plurality of different operations, a usage management unit selects a on... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959586 | Multifunction equipment Multifunction equipment installed in a room is provided. The multifunction equipment has main body and movable device that moves to implement plural functions, thereby allowing the multifunction equipment to be used as plural functional devices. The movable device i... | 06/14/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7957594 | Outline definition apparatus and outline definition method, and image processing apparatus An outline definition apparatus includes an edge detection unit detecting pixels at edge positions, each of the pixels at the edge positions having a data value between a value representing a first level and a value representing a second level, a pixel extraction un... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957471 | Encoding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, image processing system and method, and recording medium In encoding input image data including first and second images, the first image is divided into blocks. A second block corresponding to a first block that is one of the blocks is detected from the second image. Pixels forming the first and second blocks are sorted i... | 06/07/2011 |
