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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366660 | Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, reception method, and transmission/reception apparatus The present invention relates to a transceiver which provides a high-quality decoded voice. A mobile telephone 1011 encodes voice data, and outputs the encoded voice data. Furthermore, the mobile telephone 1011 learns quality-enha... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352917 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus The present invention aims to recognize the mixture state of images. An area specifying unit 103 specifies a mixed area in which foreground object components which form a foreground object and background object components which form a background object are mi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343027 | Image processing apparatus, image signal generation method, information recording medium, and image processing program By using input image signals of a plurality of frames, the motions of prescribed areas within an image based on the input image signals are detected, and then a layering is performed. An image signal of a peripheral image which occurs at the same time as an objectiv... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342601 | Communication system, communication device, seating-order determination device, communication method, recording medium, group-determination-table generating method, and group-determination-table generating device In a communication system having at least three communication devices communicating with each other, a seating-order determination device for generating seating-order information for information sent from each communication device and for transmitting the seating-or... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340106 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus The present invention allows the amount of movement indicating the movement of an object within an exposure period to be obtained. An estimated-mixture-ratio processor 401 calculates an estimated mixture ratio for each pixel and an estimated motion vector by ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340097 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium An image processing apparatus includes an object extracting unit, a selecting unit, and an object storing unit. The object extracting unit extracts an object from a target image through a plurality of processing, and outputs the result of extracting the object. The ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339617 | Image providing device and its providing method, image processing device and processing method, and storage medium In this invention, a transmit/receive section 34 receives, from monitor, request for transmission of picture image through network and transmits, to the monitor, the entirety or a portion of picture image from which distortion has been eliminated. A memory se... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336818 | Image processing device and method, and image-taking device The present invention allows an image to be processed corresponding to the mixture of a background image and an image of a moving object. A region specifying unit specifies a mixed region wherein foreground object components making up foreground objects and backgrou... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336829 | Data processing apparatus and method and recording medium JPEG encoded data are entropy-decoded to quantized DCT coefficients which are sent to a prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and to a class tap extraction circuit (42). The prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and the class tap extraction ci... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336832 | Processor and processing method for an image signal, image display apparatus, generation apparatus and generation method for coefficient data used therein, program for executing each of these methods, and computer-readable medium recording the program A class sorting section obtains a class code CL indicating a class to which pixel data y of a target position in an image signal Vb belongs using motion compensation vector information mi stored in a buffer memory in pair with pixel data of an image signal Va corres... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328447 | Optical recording medium manufacturing device, method, optical recording medium, reproduction device, method, recording device, and method An optical recording medium having a plural number of recording layers includes a n-th recording layer (23) (n≧1), made up by a substrate (20) and a semi-reflective layer (21) carried by the substrate (20) and adapted for partially refl... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315654 | Image processing apparatus A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames vie... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315653 | Image processing apparatus A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames vie... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313386 | Data processing system and method, communication system and method, and charging device 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... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305136 | Image processing apparatus A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames vie... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298905 | Image processing apparatus and method, communication apparatus, communication system and method, and recording medium The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and method destined for processing image data sent via a communication system. In the apparatus and method, image data corresponding to designation data supplied from the user are coupled to each other for... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289671 | Data processing apparatus and method and recording medium JPEG encoded data are entropy-decoded to quantized DCT coefficients which are sent to a prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and to a class tap extraction circuit (42). The prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and the class tap extraction ci... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286184 | Information signal processing device, information signal processing method, image signal processing device and image display device using it, coefficient type data creating device used therein and creating method, coefficient data creating device and creating method, and information providing medium The invention relates to an information signal processor suitable for use in conversion of, for example, an SD signal. Pixel data sets are extracted selectively from the SD signal. Class CL is then obtained using the pixel data sets. A coefficient production circuit... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283961 | High-quality speech synthesis device and method by classification and prediction processing of synthesized sound There is disclosed a speech processing device in which prediction taps for finding prediction values of the speech of high sound quality are extracted from the synthesized sound obtained on affording linear prediction coefficients and residual signals, generated fro... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283678 | Data processing apparatus and method and recording medium JPEG encoded data are entropy-decoded to quantized DCT coefficients which are sent to a prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and to a class tap extraction circuit (42). The prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and the class tap extraction ci... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283173 | Coefficient seed data or coefficient data production device used in image display apparatus, method for producing coefficient seed data or coefficient data used in image display apparatus, program therefor, and computer-readable medium for storing the same The invention relates to a data processing apparatus and the like that are available for various processing according to a preference of user. Controller 101 collects parameters, s, z, for adjusting a picture quality inputted by user's operation and stores hi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280152 | Coefficient seed data or coefficient data production device used in image display apparatus, method for producing coefficient seed data or coefficient data used in image display apparatus, program therefor, and computer-readable medium for storing the same The invention relates to a data processing apparatus and the like that are available for various processing according to a preference of user. Controller 101 collects parameters, s, z, for adjusting a picture quality inputted by user's operation and stores hi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277894 | Control system, control apparatus, control method, storage medium, and program A remote controller for controlling a television receiver can be set such that each of users can enjoy viewing television programs in a viewing environment optimized for each user. In an operation history registration mode, data indicating an operation performed by ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269559 | Speech decoding apparatus and method using prediction and class taps The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus capable of obtaining high-quality sound, etc. A tap generation section 121 generate a prediction tap from synthesized speech data for 40 samples in a subframe of subject data of interest within the ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262808 | Apparatus and method for generating coefficients, apparatus and method for generating class configuration, informational signal processing apparatus, and programs for performing these methods A class configuration generation unit generates (n−1) number of class configurations each of which is comprised of i number of the already selected features plus a feature selected from the remaining (n−i) number of the features (both of n and i are integers). A... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260260 | Image processing apparatus and method An object of the present invention is to separate in real time a captured image into a foreground component image and a background component image. An image captured by an image-capturing unit 74 is separated into a foreground component image and a background... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248599 | Signal processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus receives a time divisional multiplexed signal including a plurality of kinds of data. The signal processing apparatus includes a processing unit for processing plural kinds of operations corresponding to the data of the time divisional ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245774 | Image processing apparatus A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames vie... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240128 | Data processing apparatus and data processing method that generates a final class code An integrated processing box performs processing commonly to a plurality of input devices, a plurality of output devices, or a plurality of storage devices. For example, the integrated processing box performs noise reduction processing on data received from an input... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233364 | Apparatus and method for generating coefficient data, apparatus and method for processing information signal using the same, apparatus and method for obtaining coefficient data used therefor, and information providing medium A class code of a subject pixel of an HD signal is obtained from pixel data of a class tap extracted from an SD signal. In a memory bank, coefficient data for a generating equation, including parameters for adjusting image quality, for generating elements of a summa... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221863 | Image processing apparatus and method, and program and recording medium used therewith An image processing apparatus displays a realistic image depending on a user's viewpoint. A sensor control unit 41 detects a user's viewpoint and a point of interest based on signals from various sensors, and outputs the detected viewpoint and point to a dept... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221778 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus The present invention allows detection of an exposure time of an image that has already been captured. A motion detector 102 detects an amount of inter-frame movement of a foreground object in a designated frame based on the designated frame and a frame prece... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218791 | Image processing device and method, and imaging device The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for generating an image having a high density in the direction of time and having a natural-looking motion blur. The correlation calculators 103 and 104 respectively calculate a correlation... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212245 | Information signal processing device, information signal processing method, image signal processing device and image display device using it, coefficient type data creating device used therein and creating method, and information providing medium An information signal processor that is well suitable for use in conversion of an SD signal into an HD signal. The pixel data set corresponding to an objective position in the HD signal is extracted selectively from the SD signal. Class CL to which pixel data set of... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209595 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, noise-amount estimate apparatus, noise-amount estimate method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus processes input pixel data and outputs the processed pixel data as output pixel data. The image processing apparatus includes an input reliability calculation section for calculating an input reliability indicating the reliability of th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206452 | Data processing apparatus and method and recording medium JPEG encoded data are entropy-decoded to quantized DCT coefficients which are sent to a prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and to a class tap extraction circuit (42). The prediction tap extraction circuit (41) and the class tap extraction ci... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206018 | 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... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7181080 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus An object of the present invention is to make it possible to specify a background image area, a moving object image area, and an image area in which the mixture of the background image area and the moving object image area occurs. A mixture-ratio calculator 103 | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174051 | Information processing apparatus for adaptive processing circuits A data processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of signal processes. The data processing apparatus switches processes of a pre-processing portion, a data processing portion, and a post-processing portion with a control signal supplied from a function... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7154541 | Image processing device In accordance with the present invention, a mixture ratio indicating the state of mixture of a plurality of objects such as a background image and the image of an object is detected. A pixel value setter 502 extracts background pixel data while also extractin... | 12/26/2006 |
