| Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Patent applications |
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| 20120131451 | ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY DEVICE WITH TOUCH PANEL DISPLAY MODULE AND SEARCH METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH PANEL DISPLAY MODULE - The electronic dictionary device, when one character in text displayed on a touch panel display module is specified by a cursor operation, retrieves entry words in a dictionary stored in a dictionary storage module in descending order of length of an entry word that matches a series of character strings whose first character is the one character and, when a character string in text displayed on the touch panel display module is specified by a touch operation, retrieves an entry word that matches the specified character string in the text from a dictionary stored in the dictionary storage module, and reads text of an explanation corresponding to the retrieved entry word from the corresponding dictionary and displaying the text on the display module. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120129477 | RADIO WAVE RECEIVING APPARATUS - A radio wave receiving apparatus includes: an antenna to receive a radio wave; a tuning member to allow a reception frequency of the antenna to be tuned to an intended frequency, in which tuning member a frequency characteristic is variable; a receiving member to receive a reception signal from the antenna to demodulate a modulation wave; a positive feedback member to perform a positive feedback in a signal path including the tuning member; and a switching member to turn on/off a feedback operation of the positive feedback member. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128206 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM THEREFOR - An object detection device includes: an obtaining unit successively obtaining frame images; a first determination unit determining whether a first similarity between a reference image and a first image region in one of the obtained frame images is less than a first threshold value; a second determination unit determining whether a second similarity between the reference image and a second image region, included in a frame image obtained before the one of the frame images and corresponding to the first image region, is less than a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value, when the first determination unit determines that the first similarity is not less than the first threshold value; and a detection unit detecting the first image region as a region of a particular object image when the second determination unit determines that the second similarity is not less than the second threshold value. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128196 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In an electronic device, a speaker attaching section | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127494 | IMAGE TONE CONVERSION APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM - An image tone conversion apparatus includes: a region specifying section configured to specify a region of an original image, to which region an image tone conversion is to be performed; an image tone specifying section configured to specify a different type of image tone in accordance with an elapsed time since the region specifying section has specified the region; an image converting section configured to convert an tone of the original image in the region specified by the region specifying section to the image tone specified by the image tone specifying section; and a superimposing section configured to superimpose the image in the region to which the image tone conversion has been performed by the image converting section on the region of the original image specified by the region specifying section. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127345 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR IMAGE CAPTURING - There is provided an image capturing method for use in an image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of an object to output image data. The method includes performing a first position adjustment between the image data obtained under the first image capturing control and the image data obtained under the second image capturing control, thereby calculating a first displacement, performing a second position adjustment between the image data obtained under the second image capturing control and the image data obtained under the third image capturing control, thereby calculating a second displacement, and performing an image composition of obtaining image data representing a composite image, by performing a position adjustment between the image data obtained under the first image capturing control and the image data obtained under the third image capturing control, using the first and second displacements. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127338 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a shutter, a memory, a temperature acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an acquisition controller. The image sensor includes an effective pixel region and an optical black region. The memory temporarily stores photoelectric-converted image data after the shutter is opened. The temperature acquisition unit acquires an ambient temperature when the temperature is determined to be equal to or more than a threshold value when the image data is stored in the memory. The acquisition controller makes control for shutting the shutter and for acquiring photoelectric-converted image data at that time when the temperature is equal to or more than the threshold value. The writing unit cuts out image data of the effective pixel region from the acquired image data. Difference in optical black level is corrected using the cut-out image data. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127037 | PATCH ANTENNA AND METHOD OF MOUNTING THE SAME - A patch antenna including: a dielectric substrate having a vertical through-hole and a recess that is open downward, the recess having an inner periphery greater than a diameter of the through-hole, the recess being connected to the through-hole; a radiation electrode provided on an upper surface of the dielectric substrate; a ground electrode provided on a lower surface of the dielectric substrate; and a feed pin inserted into the through-hole such that a lower end portion of the feed pin is arranged inside the recess, the feed pin electrically connected to the radiation electrode through an upper end portion of the feed pin, wherein first solder is applied to the lower end portion of the feed pin, and a lower end of the feed pin and a lower end of the first solder are flush with or above a lower surface of the ground electrode. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120120273 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD - An object of the exemplary embodiment is to make it possible to easily take a group photo of a plurality of persons including a photographer. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120114035 | MOTION PICTURE ENCODING DEVICE AND MOTION PICTURE ENCODING PROCESSING PROGRAM - The minimum Sum of Absolute Differences obtained by a motion vector search roughly judges the magnitude of quantization error by whether or not exceeding a predetermined threshold value. When the quantization error is lower, whether or not visually noticeable noise exists in some of the pixels of the current macroblock is judged based on the amount of flatness and noise detected in each of the 4×4 pixel blocks of the current macroblock partitioned into 16 sub-macroblocks. If there is visually noticeable noise, intra-frame coding is selected. When the quantization error is higher, whether or not visually noticeable noise exists in the current macroblock is judged while considering the magnitude of the motion vector. If there is visually noticeable noise, intra-frame coding is selected. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113295 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING WHITE BALANCE - An image capturing apparatus | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113267 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM CAPABLE OF CONTINUOUSLY CAPTURING OBJECT - An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit, a designating unit configured to designate a main-area or a position to which a moving object is to reach, in each captured image captured by the image capturing unit, an image capturing control unit configured to control the image capturing unit to continuously capture the moving object at a predetermined frame rate, a position specifying unit configured to specify a position of the moving object in the image captured by the image capturing unit, and a frame rate control unit configured to control the predetermined frame rate, based on the specified position of the moving object, and either the main-area or position. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113171 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD - Disclosed is a nail print apparatus including: a photographing section which photographs a plurality of fingers and a nail section of each finger to obtain a finger image; a finger type detecting section which detects a type of each finger from the finger image; a first storage controlling section which stores the type of finger detected by the finger type detecting section corresponded with the nail image; a design specifying section which receives specification of a design image to be printed; a second storage controlling section which stores the design image specified on the design specifying section; a combined nail image generating section which combines the design image with the nail image for each type of finger to generate a combined nail image; and a print controlling section which controls printing of the combined nail image on the nail chip sheet. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120111179 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - An electronic percussion instrument including: a detecting section which is provided in a stick and detects acceleration and angular speed based on movement of the stick; a first timing generating section which generates beat timing based on a predetermined tempo and beat width; a first pre-sound-production movement detecting section which detects a pre-sound-production movement that is performed prior to sound production, based on the acceleration and the angular speed detected by the detecting section; and a sound production instructing section which instructs to produce a sound at the beat timing generated by the first timing generating section, when the first pre-sound-production movement detecting section detects the pre-sound-production movement. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120111176 | KEYBOARD DEVICE - The present invention includes a keyboard chassis | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120105288 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH ANTENNA DEVICE AND SOLAR PANEL - Disclosed is an electronic device including an antenna device which is constituted by a plate like radiator being provided on a top surface side of a plate like dielectric and a plate like grounding conductor being provided on a back surface side of the plate like dielectric, a solar panel which is arranged on a top surface side of the antenna device and a circuit board which is arranged on a back surface side of the antenna device and electrically connected with an electrode formed at an outer circumference of the solar panel, and the outer circumference of the solar panel, excluding the electrode, is formed so as not to exceed outside from an outer circumference of the radiator, and the electrode projects outside from the outer circumference of the radiator and an outer circumference of the dielectric and is electrically connected with the circuit board at outside of the dielectric. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120103210 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed is a nail print apparatus including a storage unit in which a plurality of sets of data relating to a plurality of design parts constituting each of a plurality of design images are stored, a photographing unit which obtains a finger image by photographing a finger, a nail region information detection unit which extracts a nail region from the finger image and detects an area, a length in horizontal direction and a length in vertical direction of the nail region, a design selection unit which selects one design image from the design images which are stored in the storage unit, a part layout calculation unit which reads out the one design image and calculates a print size and a print position of each of the design parts, and a print unit which performs a printing to the nail region according to printing data. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120103168 | INPUT APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - An input apparatus including: a first operation detecting section provided on a first operating section which detects acceleration and angular speed based on movement of the first operating section; a second operation detecting section provided on a second operating section which detects acceleration and angular speed based on movement of the second operating section; a judging section which judges whether or not the first and second operating sections have been held together, based on the accelerations and the angular speeds detected by the first and second operation detecting sections; a detecting section which detects a change operation based on the accelerations and the angular speeds detected by the first and second operation detecting sections, when the judging section judges that the first and second operating sections have been held together; and a changing section which changes a predetermined parameter in accordance with the change operation detected by the detecting section. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120101763 | POSITIONING APPARATUS, POSITIONING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR POSITIONING OF PEDESTRIAN BY AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION - Disclosed is a positioning apparatus including: an autonomous navigation sensor which is held by a pedestrian and which outputs periodic oscillation and direction information; a step length data storage section which stores step length data; a movement distance calculating section which calculates movement distance; a traveling direction calculating section which calculates a traveling direction; and a movement direction calculating section which calculates a movement direction for each step, wherein the movement distance calculating section includes a taken step angle calculating section which calculates a taken step angle from the movement direction for each step with respect to the traveling direction; and the movement distance calculating section corrects a value of the step length data so that the step length is larger as the taken step angle becomes larger to calculate a movement distance for each step. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098982 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE WHICH MEASURES AZIMUTH DURING PHOTOGRAPHING - Disclosed is a photographing device comprising: a photographing unit; a shutter operating unit; a geomagnetic sensor which detects geomagnetism; an electric actuator unit which is electrically driven to generate magnetic field; a drive control unit which turns the electric actuator unit into a non-driven state, within a predetermined period after an operation is entered through the shutter operating unit; and a shooting azimuth calculation unit which captures an output from the geomagnetic sensor within the predetermined period, and calculates azimuth based on the captured output. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120096060 | ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR, CALCULATION RESULT DISPLAYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR DISPLAYING CALCULATION RESULT - A mathematical formula input unit inputs a mathematical formula according to a user manipulation. A calculation unit calculates a calculation result of the mathematical formula. A display unit displays the mathematical formula and the calculation result. A position specifying unit specifics a position in a display area on the display unit according to a user manipulation. A right slide ENG display control unit performs ENG normal conversion to the calculation result and updates display contents thereof when a position of the calculation result is specified by the position. specifying unit and a slide manipulation is performed toward the right. A left slide ENG display control unit performs ENG inverse conversion to the calculation result. and updates display contents thereof when a position of the calculation result is specified by the position specifying unit and a slide manipulation is performed toward the left. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092338 | IMAGE COMPOSITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided an image retrieval method including obtaining a parallax that exists in a material image which is viewed as an object in a three-dimensional manner, retrieving a three-dimensional image that satisfies a predetermined condition as a selectable candidate image from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which viewed in a three-dimensional manner, and executing image composition by superposing the material image on the three-dimensional image that is retrieved as the selectable candidate image in the retrieving of the three-dimensional image. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120090448 | INPUT DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - An input device including: a first operation detecting section which is provided on one stick and detects acceleration based on movement of the one stick; a second operation detecting section which is provided on an other stick and detects acceleration based on movement of the other stick; a first strike judging section which judges whether or not the one stick and the other stick have struck against one another, based on the acceleration detected by the first operation detecting section and the acceleration detected by the second operation detecting section; and an instructing section which instructs to produce a sound corresponding to striking of the one stick and the other stick against one another, when the first strike judging section judges that the one stick and the other stick have struck against one another. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120082369 | IMAGE COMPOSITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided an image composition apparatus including a parallax deriving unit configured to derive a parallax of one area in a background image, the one area corresponding to one object in the background image, an image selection unit configured to select an image which has a parallax different from the parallax of the one area in the background image, as a material image, from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which is viewed as a specific object in a three-dimensional manner, and an image composition unit configured to superpose the material image selected by the image selection unit on the background image. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081725 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PRINT ORDER RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND PRINT ORDER RECEIVING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a receiver which receives original image data from a terminal, a converter which converts the original image data to tone-changed image, a storing unit which stores parameter groups for converting the original image data, the parameter groups including a first parameter group for RGB components and a second parameter group for YMCK components, a print size selector, and a print controller which issues a print instruction for the converted image data. A display controller allows the terminal to display the converted image data obtained by using the first parameter group. The print controller issues a print instruction for the converted image data obtained by using the second parameter group. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081574 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS THAT RECORDS CAPTURED IMAGE AND LOCATION INFORMATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH EACH OTHER - An image capturing apparatus including a location information acquiring unit | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081510 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CAPABLE OF GENERATING WIDE ANGLE IMAGE - A digital camera | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081381 | DISPLAY DRIVE DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - display drive device includes a correction data memory circuit, a data reading control circuit, and an image data correction circuit. The correction data memory circuit stores a plurality of pieces of correction data according to characteristics of pixels in association with positions where the pixels are arranged in a display panel. The data reading control circuit sets a reading order of the plurality of pieces of correction data to an order corresponding to a display form and reads the correction data in the set reading order. The image data correction circuit associates the image data with each of the plurality of pieces of correction data and generates corrected image data obtained by correcting the image data using the corresponding correction data. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120080788 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING MULTILAYER WIRING STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed is a semiconductor device | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120077448 | ANTENNA WITH BUILT-IN FILTER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed is an antenna with a built-in filter, the antenna being implemented in an electronic device, comprising: an antenna element; and a circuit board unit connected to the antenna element, wherein the circuit board unit includes: a filter circuit that filters input and output signals of the antenna element; and a matching circuit that performs impedance matching of the antenna element. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075964 | CASE UNIT WITH OPENING COVERED WITH LIGHT TRANSMISSION MEMBER, PORTABLE APPARATUS INCLUDING SUCH CASE UNIT, AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING SUCH CASE UNIT - A case unit includes a resin case main body including an outer peripheral surface and an opening forming surface enclosed by the outer peripheral surface and being formed with an opening. A step is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the opening to face an entrance of the opening. An elastic member is provided along the inner peripheral surface of the opening and mounted on the step. A light transmission member is press-fitted in the opening via the elastic member and covers the opening. And, a fitting part of a frame member is fitted on the outer peripheral surface of the resin case main body to make an elastic member pressing part extending from the fitting part toward the entrance of the frame member cover at least a part of the elastic member at the entrance of the opening. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075591 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A light source unit includes an excitation light source and a luminescent wheel on which luminescent light emitting areas including, on a reflecting surface, red and green luminescent materials which respectively emit light of red and green wavelength band, when receiving excitation light, and a diffuse transmission area which diffuses and transmits excitation light, are aligned end to end in a circumferential direction. An excitation light incident surface of a luminescent material layer of the luminescent wheel has a surface with a plurality of projecting bodies. Regular quadrangular pyramids are arranged thereon in a matrix with outer boundaries of bottom portions of adjacent regular quadrangular pyramids contacting each other. The pyramids rise at a rising angle of at least 30°, and a length of one side of an outer boundary of the bottom portion of the pyramid is between 10 and 100 μm. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075413 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A digital camera | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075412 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CAPTURING PANORAMIC IMAGE - A digital camera | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075411 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CAPTURING A PANORAMIC IMAGE - A digital camera | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075410 | IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PLAYING BACK PANORAMIC IMAGE - A digital camera | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075277 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an active-matrix type display panel and a signal drive circuit. The active-matrix type display panel includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates, pixel electrodes arranged on one of the substrates in rows and columns, switching elements connected to the pixel electrodes, scan lines connected to the switching elements, and signal lines connected to the switching elements. Each signal line extends between two columns of the pixel electrodes, and any two pixel electrodes adjacent in the row direction use one signal line in common. One of two pixel electrodes is connected to an odd-numbered scan line, and the other of two pixel electrodes is connected to an even-numbered scan line. The signal drive circuit supplies display signals to the pixel electrodes through the signal lines, and to invert the display signal in polarity at every two other scan lines. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075143 | SATELLITE RADIOWAVE RECEIVER AND SATELLITE RADIOWAVE RECEIVING METHOD - Disclosed is a satellite radiowave receiver which obtains a satellite signal transmitted from a positioning satellite including a receiving unit which receives a radiowave in a frequency range which is set in advance, the frequency range including a frequency transmitted by the positioning satellite transmit, a capture unit which detects the satellite signal from a received signal based on the radiowave received by the receiving unit and a calculation unit which calculates a mean frequency of a plurality of the satellite signals which are detected, based on receiving frequencies of the plurality of the satellite signal detected by the capture unit, and the capture unit detects the satellite signal according to the mean frequency. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120074565 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PROVIDED WITH REAR PROTECTIVE FILM ON OTHER SIDE OF SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - An opening is formed in a part of a rear protective film corresponding to the center of a dicing street by laser processing which applies a laser beam. The rear protective film is formed on the lower surface of a semiconductor wafer, and made of a resin. By using a resin cutting blade, parts of a sealing film and the upper side of the semiconductor wafer corresponding to the dicing street and both its sides are then cut to form a trench. By using a silicon cutting blade, parts of the semiconductor wafer and the rear protective film corresponding to the dicing street are then cut. In this case, cutting of the rear protective film with the silicon cutting blade is reduced by the opening. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120074564 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate having a connection pad, an external connection electrode provided on the semiconductor substrate to be connected to the connection pad, and a sealing film provided to cover the external connection electrode, wherein an opening is provided in the sealing film to expose a center of the upper surface of the external connection electrode, and the sealing film is provided to cover an outer peripheral part of the upper surface of the external connection electrode. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120074409 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and a light emitting layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; a capacitor having a third electrode formed in a position overlapping the light emitting element and an insulating layer provided between the first and third electrodes; a first drive transistor disposed on a first side of the first electrode and having a gate electrode; and a second drive transistor disposed on a second side of the first electrode and having a gate electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first drive transistor via the third electrode. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120073423 | KEY DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING KEY DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A manipulator information obtaining unit obtains at least a note name corresponding to a manipulator manipulated. A storage device includes a register configured to store at least possible note names, note names in a history of manipulators manipulated, and key candidates, and a first table configured to store diatonic scale notes for each of the key candidates. A key determination unit compares the note names in a history of manipulators manipulated with the diatonic scale notes for each of the key candidates and determines whether there is a key candidate in which all of the note names in the history of the manipulators coincide with any of the diatonic scale notes of the key candidate, thereby determining a key of a musical composition played by the manipulation of the manipulators, and storing the determined key in the register. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120070137 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH GEOMAGNETIC SENSOR - Disclosed is a photographing device including a geomagnetic sensor which detects an intensity of geomagnetism, an image capture unit which captures an image, a lens tube including a part that exerts magnetic influence on the geomagnetic sensor, in which a position of the part shifts, a detection unit which detects a current shifted position of the part in the lens tube, an obtaining unit which obtains a magnetic field that exerts magnetic influence on the geomagnetic sensor from the lens tube corresponding to the current shifter position detected by the detection unit, and an orientation calculation unit which calculates an orientation by correcting an output of the geomagnetic sensor based on the magnetic field obtained by the obtaining unit. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120070086 | INFORMATION READING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information reading apparatus that reads information from an image. The apparatus includes: an acquiring module, a first processing module, a second processing module, and an adding module. The acquiring module acquires a whole image containing plural reading subjects. The first processing module performs processing of extracting particular patterns from the respective reading subjects by performing a pattern analysis on the whole image to identify the reading subjects contained in the whole image. The second processing module performs processing of reading pieces of information from the respective reading subjects and recognizing the read-out pieces of information by analyzing the respective particular patterns extracted by the first processing module. The adding module adds current processing statuses for the respective reading subjects contained in the whole image based on at least one of sets of processing results of the first processing module and the second processing module. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069375 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A LAN control unit receives print data from a client device or the like. An input job storage unit registered on a hard disk a series of PDL commands included in the print data received. An input job queue management unit registers print job specifying information specifying a print job represented by the print data received to the end of an input job queue. A PDL interpretation/execution unit successively executes from the head of the series of PDL commands stored on the hard disk device. When it is determined that the PDL command that has been executed is a re-execution unnecessary command, the PDL interpretation/execution unit overwrites the PDL command stored on the hard disk with a NOP command. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069374 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A conversion unit converts a command part of an image inclusion command into an internal command. A first memory unit stores an image non-inclusion command and the internal command converted by the conversion unit. A second memory unit stores an image data part of the image inclusion command. A restart page number memory unit stores restart page number information when a print process being executed is interrupted in order to execute an interruption print process. When restarting the interrupted print process, a control unit executes control to read out the internal command and the image non-inclusion command stored in the first memory unit up to the page indicated by the restart page number information, and from the page indicated by the restart page number, further executes control to read out from the second memory unit the image data part following the internal command read out from the first memory unit. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069210 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS PERFORMING AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING PROCESSING, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM THEREOF - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup section to pick up a subject image; and a central processing section to perform processing of arbitrarily setting at least one automatic photographing condition among a plurality of kinds of automatic photographing conditions, judging whether the set automatic photographing condition is satisfied or not, and instructing the image pickup section to pick up a recording subject image when the set automatic photographing condition is judged to be satisfied. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069204 | MOTION BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE AND MOTION BLUR CORRECTION METHOD - A motion blur correction device includes a motion blur correction section which performs motion blur correction processing on an intended video data, and a correction intensity judgment section which instructs the motion blur correction section to cancel the execution of the motion blur correction processing when the frame rate of the video data is equal to or less than a predetermined value. As a result, motion blur correction is prevented from being automatically performed when motion blur correction is not required. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069169 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing unit | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069053 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING AN IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - Disclosed is an image display apparatus including: a display section; a theme icon storage section which stores a plurality of sets of a theme of an image corresponded to a theme icon representing the theme; an image storage section which stores an image folder storing a sequence of a plurality of images; an image theme detecting section which detects an image theme of each image; a representative theme extracting section which extracts an image theme which represents an image line of the divided sequence of the plurality of images as an image line representative theme for each image line; and a folder icon display control section which positions each theme icon corresponding to the plurality of image line representative themes extracted by the representative theme extracting section according to an order of the image line to form a folder icon and allows the display section to display the folder icon. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069018 | AR PROCESS APPARATUS, AR PROCESS METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A generating unit generates a 3D model of an object based on pair images obtained for the same object. An extracting unit extracts plural first feature points from a to-be-synthesis 3D model and plural second feature points from a synthesis 3D model. An obtaining unit obtains a coordinate conversion parameter based on the plural first feature points and second feature points. A converting unit converts a coordinate of the synthesis 3D model in a coordinate in the coordinate system of the to-be-synthesis 3D model using the coordinate conversion parameter. A synthesizing unit synthesizes all converted synthesis 3D models with the to-be-synthesis 3D model, and unifies feature points. A storing unit stores the synthesized 3D model of the object and information on the unified feature points in a memory card, etc. The stored data is used in an AR process. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120068986 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, DRIVE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The light emitting device comprises at least one data line, at least one pixel, a common electrode, a data driver and an ammeter, | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120066575 | ELECTRONIC ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY DEVICE, ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY DISPLAY CONTROL - An electronic illustrated dictionary device includes an illustration highlighter character string hiding unit configured to execute a process of, when an illustration associated with an expository content of an arbitrary headword is displayed on the display unit according to a user operation, displaying a character string highlighted with a highlighter by the illustration highlighter adding unit in invisible form, and a link destination highlighter character string hiding unit configured to execute a process of, when the in-illustration textual content display unit displays an expository content having a character string as a headword highlighted with a highlighter by the illustration highlighter adding unit on the display unit, displaying a character string highlighted with a highlighter by the link destination highlighter adding unit in invisible form. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120062779 | PLAYBACK DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, PLAYBACK DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A playback display device including: a display unit; a data storage unit which stores data representing a travel route and a plurality of pieces of image data each associated with an image capturing place; a movement display control unit which displays a mark moving on a map displayed on the display unit based on the data representing the travel route; and an image playback unit which displays image data when, while the movement display control unit displays the mark moving on the map, a displayed position of the mark matches a corresponding position of the image capturing place associated with the image data. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120062765 | IMAGING DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREIN IMAGING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND IMAGING CONTROL METHOD - When a shutter key is operated, characteristic data is acquired. A determination is made as to whether the characteristic data has been acquired, and face image shooting processing is executed when the characteristic data has been acquired. File generation processing is executed in which a format of a face registration file is generated and the characteristic data and image data are written into the format of this face registration file, thereby generating a single face registration file. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120062625 | PROJECTION APPARATUS, PROJECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A projection apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store an image signal input via the input unit, a comparison unit configured to compare an image signal input via the input unit with an image signal already stored in the storage unit and determine one of coincidence and inconsistency between the compared two image signals, a time-measurement unit configured to measure a time of a state in which coincidence between the compared two image signals is determined by the comparison unit, a determining unit configured to determine whether or not a time-measurement result by the time-measurement unit exceeds a preset time, and a projection control unit configured to variably set the light-emission luminance of the light source to be lowered according to a determination result of the determining unit. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120062414 | POSITIONING APPARATUS, POSITIONING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MEASURING POSITION USING BOTH AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION AND GPS - A positioning apparatus including: a first positioning unit which intermittently receives signals from satellites and carries out a first position measurement; a second positioning unit which carries out a second position measurement by adding information of a moving direction and a moving amount to positional information of a reference position; a positioning control unit which obtains positional information corresponding to positions along a movement path by the first position measurement and the second position measurement; a reference position updating unit which updates the positional information of the reference position based on a result of the first position measurement; a distance calculating unit which calculates a distance between two positions, i.e., between the reference position and a position obtained by the second position measurement; and a positioning timing control unit which controls timing to carry out the first position measurement based on the distance. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061675 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a transistor structure including: a first thin film transistor including, a first gate electrode; a first insulating film; a first semiconductor film; and a first light blocking film, and a second thin film transistor including, a second semiconductor film; the second insulating film; a second gate electrode; and a second light blocking film, wherein the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film include a first region and a second region along a thickness direction from the first insulating film side; and degree of crystallization of silicon of one of the first region or the second region is higher than the degree of crystallization of silicon of the other of the first region or the second region. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120060671 | PEDAL DEVICE - A pedal device includes a pedal chassis | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120059623 | POSITIONING APPARATUS JUDGING MOVING METHOD TO CONTROL POSITIONING TIMING - A positioning apparatus includes: a position measuring section to obtain measured position data by measuring its own present position; a positioning controlling section to control operation timing of the position measuring section to make the position measuring section discontinuously obtain the measured position data; a movement measuring section to measure a movement operation; a moving method judging section to judge a moving method based on a measurement result of the movement measuring section; a map data storage section to store information of a rail route map; and a migration path judging section to judge a migration path in a period judged to be a moving state by an electric train by the moving method judging section based on the measured position data measured by the position measuring section and the information of the rail route map. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059581 | POSITIONING APPARATUS JUDGING MOVEMENT METHOD TO CONTROL POSITIONING TIMING - A positioning apparatus includes: a first measuring section to directly measuring its own present position; a second measuring section to measure an azimuth and a movement of a user; a movement method judging section to judge a movement method of the user based on the measurement result by the second measuring section; an azimuth specifying section to specify a movement azimuth of the user based on the measurement result by the second measuring section; a movement speed calculating section to calculate an average movement speed in a period where the movement method of the user is judged to be a movement state by car; and a position calculating section to obtain a movement position by integrating a movement distance into the specified movement azimuth at the average movement speed to reference position information obtained by the first measuring section when the user is in the movement state by car. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057843 | MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A moving image processing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057805 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A COMPOSITE IMAGE - In an image pickup apparatus | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057119 | TOUCH-TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH BUILT-IN CONTACT - A touch-type liquid crystal display apparatus with a built-in contact, includes a substrate support structure supporting a first substrate and a second substrate respectively. The substrate support structure includes a pillar-shaped spacer formed on an opposing surface of the second substrate, and a base region formed on an opposing surface of the first substrate and having a front end with which a front end of the pillar-shaped spacer is in contact. A contact point protrusion is also formed on the opposing surface of the second substrate by using the same material as that of the pillar-shaped spacer. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120044658 | DEVICE MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided a device module. The device module includes: a key input portion; a display portion; a power supply portion; a circuit board, wherein the key input portion, the display portion and the power supply portion are mounted on and electrically connected to the circuit board; and a sheet member, wherein the key input portion, the display portion, the power supply portion and the circuit board are enveloped in and sealed with the sheet member. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044379 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit, a light emission unit, an image acquisition unit configured to drive the image pickup unit and the light emission unit to acquire an image while the light emission unit is emitting light and acquire images while the light emission unit is emitting no light at substantially the same view angle, a difference acquisition unit configured to acquire a luminance difference between the image acquired while the light emission unit is emitting light and one of the images acquired while the light emission unit is emitting no light, and an image composing unit configured to compose a composite image from the images acquired while the light emission unit is emitting no light and the image acquired while the light emission unit is emitting light, using the luminance difference acquired by the difference acquisition unit as transmission intensity data. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120038569 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT METHOD FOR INPUT DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an input device that includes: a display configured to display information on a screen; a detector configured to detect a user input operation in a detectable region of the detector and acquire position coordinates of the user input operation, wherein the detectable region is larger than a display region of the display, and the display region is included in the detectable region; and a controller configured to transform the position coordinates of the user input operation, wherein when the detector detects the user input operation in the detectable region other than the display region and acquires position coordinates of the user input operation, the controller transforms the position coordinates into position coordinates corresponding to a certain position in the display region. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038535 | MULTIBAND ANTENNA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed is a multiband antenna, comprising: an antenna element section which is fed from a feeding point; and a ground element section which is connected to a ground of the feeding point; wherein the antenna element section includes: a pole element which includes the feeding point, and has a length at which the pole element resonates at a first frequency; an L-shaped folded-back element which is connected to an end of the pole element, and resonates at a second frequency together with the pole element; and an L-shaped added element which is connected to the pole element; wherein a length from the feeding point to an end of the added element is a length at which the added element resonates at the first frequency. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120026842 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A time information acquiring apparatus includes: a first decoder which decodes a time code signal frame by frame so as to generate solo-decoded time information; a first determining section which determines consistency of the solo-decoded time information; a second decoder which combines detection data of the frames, and performs a code determination on the time code signal based on the combined detection data so as to generate sum-up-decoded time information; a second determining section which determines the consistency of the sum-up-decoded time information; and a controller which makes the first decoder generate the solo-decoded time information, the first determining section determine the consistency of the solo-decoded time information, the second decoder generate the sum-up decoded time information, and the second determining section determine the consistency of the sum-up-decoded time information in a predetermined order so as to extract time information having the consistency. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026841 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - Disclosed is a time information acquiring apparatus wherein: a second data acquiring section acquires a second data by measuring pulse signals of a frame of a time code signal during a period of time including a period of time a first data acquiring section acquires a first data which is stored in a first data storing section; and when a time data, which is generated by a decoder based on information on a starting point of the frame detected by a detecting section and the second data stored in a second data storing section, is determined as inconsistent by a consistency determining section, a controller makes the detecting section re-detect the starting point of the frame, and makes the decoder re-generate the time data based on a result of the re-detection of the starting point of the frame and the second data stored in the second data storing section. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026472 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - There is provided a light source unit comprising a luminescent plate having a luminescent light emission portion and a diffuse transmission portion, a first light source which emits light of a wavelength band which can excite the luminescent material, a second light source which emits light of a wavelength band which differs from the luminous light and the light emitted from the first light source, a light guiding optical system which guides light of respective wavelength bands in color emitted from the luminescent plate to a predetermined plane, and a light source control part for controlling individually the emission of light from the first light source and the second light source, wherein the luminescent plate is disposed on optical paths of the first light source and the second light source, wherein a light shining position of light from the first light source and a light shining position of light from the second light source are made to differ from each other on the luminescent plate, and wherein the light source control part controls so that the first light source and the second light source emit light simultaneously or separately to thereby emit synthesized light or monochromatic light. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026184 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a first display controller configured to display a first image, a touch area detector configured to detect a touched area of the displayed first image, a first processor configured to change a tone of the touched area of the first image, a storage configured to store touched areas detected by the touch area detector, a second display controller configured to display a second image instead of the first image, and a second processor configured to change tones of the touched areas of the second image which are stored in the storage. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026116 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a display device configured to display an image, a touch area detector configured to detect a touched area of the image displayed by the display unit, and a processor configured to change a tone of the touched area of the image. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024128 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A performance apparatus | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120020707 | ACHROMATIC APPARATUS FOR ACHROMATIZING ACHROMATIC TONER IMAGE FORMED ON RECORDING MEDIUM - An achromatic apparatus achromatizing an achromatic toner image on paper by an achromatic toner containing a near-infrared ray absorbing colorant that is a cyanine-based colorant, and an organic boron-based compound includes heater units each of which are a ceramic heater arranged across an achromatic convey path of an achromatic unit, and light source units each of which include an LED array chip having a center wavelength shifted to the long-wavelength side from the peak of the first absorption band of the near-infrared ray absorbing colorant and within a predetermined wavelength range. While the paper formed with the achromatic toner image is being conveyed through the achromatic convey path at a liner speed of equal to or faster than 15 mm/sec, the achromatic toner image is heated to a predetermined temperature, and is irradiated with achromatic light from the LED, and thus achromatized efficiently at a low energy consumption. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020568 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processor for implementing an image turning operation of turning a photographic image showing a person into an image having a painting effect comprises a face detection part for capturing an image and detecting an image of the face of a person shown in the image so captured, a determination part for determining whether or not the mage of the face of the person detected meets a predetermined criterion, and an image turning operation implementing part for implementing an image turning operation of turning the image into an image having a painting effect based on the result of the determination. When the photographic image showing the person is turned into an image having a painting effect, whether or not the photographic image is turned into an image having a painting effect is determined in consideration of the position and size of the person in the photographic image, as well as orientations of the face and a line of sight of the person. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020566 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A character recognition device which recognizes an operation for writing a character performed by a housing including an acceleration sensor | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020556 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processor for processing input image data having a luminance component and other components, which are defined in a prescribed color space. The image processor includes: a first emphasis processor configured to process first image data so as to emphasize the contrast of the first image data in accordance with a first emphasis amount, wherein the first image data correspond to the luminance component of the input image data; a second emphasis processor configured to process second image data so as to emphasize the chroma of the second image data in accordance with the first emphasis amount, wherein the second image data correspond to said other components of the input image data; and an image data generator configured to generate new image data by combining the contrast-emphasized first image data and the chroma-emphasized second image data. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019896 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An electrophoretic display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged opposite to each other at a predetermined interval; a plurality of pixel electrodes which are aligned on the first substrate; a wiring which is arranged between adjacent pixel electrodes among the pixel electrodes; an opposite electrode which is provided on the second substrate; a partition wall which is provided above the wiring of the first substrate to stand toward the second substrate so as to surround the pixel electrodes; and a solvent which fills up a space surrounded by the partition wall and in which a plurality of particles are dispersed. The partition wall has a rectangular shape including four sides, at least one of which partially has an expanded-width portion wider than other portion of the at least one of the four sides. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019872 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The printing device includes a reading unit, a printing unit, an operation mode setting unit, a personal information determining unit that determines the kind of the personal information, such as an address, a personal name, or a telephone number, from image data read by the reading unit when the operation mode setting unit sets the operation mode to be a reading mode, a printing data setting unit, a concealing-pattern-data generating unit that generates concealing pattern data, and a printing control unit that activates the printing unit to perform printing on the printed object based on the concealing pattern data generated by the concealing-pattern-data generating unit when the operation mode setting unit sets the operation mode to be a printing mode. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019686 | IMAGE SYNTHESIZING DEVICE, IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image synthesizing device. The device includes: an image capturing unit configured to capture a plurality of images that are temporally continuous; an image generator configured to generate a single synthesized image by adding pixels of the plurality of images; a first difference obtaining unit configured to obtain differences between the plurality of images on pixel-by-pixel basis for each of the plurality images; and a blending unit configured to employ the differences between the plurality of images as transparency information and blend the transparency information into the synthesized image. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019538 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A information display apparatus includes a content storage module, a controller, a specification module, and a marker information storage module. The controller controls a text to be displayed. The specification module specifies, based on a user's operation, a character string, as a marker display character string in the displayed text. The marker information storage module stores position information of the marker display character string within a storage region of the content storage module, and stores a stored time where the position information is stored as being related to the position information. The controller allows the text in an identifiable manner based on the position information, wherein a mode of the identifiable display is differed in accordance with time elapsed since the stored time for the marker display character string. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120014226 | MARKER DETECTING APPARATUS AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A marker detecting apparatus includes: a signal input section where a time code signal is inputted; a level detecting section detecting a signal level of a pulse signal of the time code signal at points in a marker characteristic interval to detect a match between the pulse signal and an ideal marker pulse signal in the signal level; a first calculating section calculating a number of the detected matches so as to obtain a value thereof, and correlating the obtained value with a pulse position of the pulse signal, the pulse position being a same in any of frames of the time code signal; a second calculating section adding up the obtained values correlated with the pulse position in the frames; and a marker determining section determining at which pulse position in the frames a marker pulse signal is disposed, based on the added-up value. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014225 | RADIO CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A radio controlled timepiece includes: a radio wave receiving section which outputs a time code signal; an indicator display section which performs a display regarding a reception condition; a level change detecting section which detects a change of a signal level of the time code signal in a predetermined detection interval in a period of 1 second; an indicator control section which controls a content of the display based on a number of times that the change of the detected signal level appears; and an interval setting section which specifies the detection interval as a whole interval of the period of 1 second during a detecting process of a synchronization point in the time code signal every 1 second, and narrows the detection interval to be a certain interval within the period of 1 second after a detection of the synchronization point every 1 second. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013510 | MULTIBAND ANTENNA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A multiband antenna includes a conductive antenna element portion and a conductive ground element portion which are provided on an insulating film. The antenna element portion includes a first antenna element having a length corresponding to a first resonance frequency, and a second antenna element having a length corresponding to a second resonance frequency. The ground element portion includes a first side having a length to resonate at the first resonance frequency, and a second side having a length to resonate at the second resonance frequency. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120008466 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A time information acquiring apparatus for acquiring time information from a time code signal included in a standard radio wave, including: a pulse measuring section which detects a degree of proximity of an individual pulse signal constituting the time code signal to a predetermined code value; a grouping section which groups pulse signals into one group; a code string estimating section which estimates a code string having a possibility of emerging in a portion of the group in a frame of the time code signal; a code string determining section which determines a probability that the code string indicated by the grouped pulse signals corresponds to the estimated code string based on the degree of proximity; and a time information generating section which generates the time information based on the code string for which the code string determining section determines that the probability is high. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008015 | IMAGE COMBINING APPARATUS, IMAGE COMBINING METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - A plurality of image data different in exposure condition are separated into a plurality of luminance component image data and a plurality of color-difference component image data, and the luminance component image data and the color-difference component image data are inputted to an image combining portion | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120007093 | TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a transistor structure including: a first thin film transistor including, a first gate electrode; a first insulating film which covers the first gate electrode; and a first semiconductor film formed on the first insulating film in a position corresponding to the first gate electrode; and a second thin film transistor including, a second semiconductor film formed on the first insulating film; a second insulating film which covers the second semiconductor film; and a second gate electrode formed in a position corresponding to a channel portion of the second semiconductor film on the second insulating film, wherein the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film include a first portion on the first insulating film side and a second portion on the opposite surface side, and one of the first portion or the second portion has a higher degree of crystallization of silicon compared to the other. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006181 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A performance apparatus | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120002897 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A filter coefficient calculating unit | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002878 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM THAT CLASSIFIES DATA OF IMAGES - In an image processing apparatus, a face detection unit | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002176 | PROJECTOR WITH HEAT RADIATING CONSTRUCTION - A projector includes a light source unit, a light source side optical system which includes a color wheel and a light guiding unit, a display device, a projection side optical system, a cooling fan, and a projector control unit. An interior of a projector casing is divided into an outlet side spatial compartment which is positioned on an outlet side of the cooling fan and in which the light source unit is disposed and an inlet side spatial compartment which is positioned on an inlet side of the cooling fan. The outlet side spatial compartment is covered thereabove by an upper division board, above which a heat conductive sheet which is formed of an aluminum sheet is disposed. The heat conductive sheet is electrically connected to the projector casing, so that electricity charged in the heat conductive sheet can be discharged. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000347 | KEYBOARD DEVICE - Disclosed is a keyboard device | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110317525 | TIMEPIECE DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE-HAND - A timepiece device with multiple-hand which can be miniaturized and made thin as a whole has a configuration where a hour hand hour wheel positioned close to an hour hand to which a rotation movement of a 3rd motor via an hour hand gear train mechanism and a functional hand hour wheel positioned close to a functional hand to which a rotation movement of a 4th motor via a functional hand gear train mechanism are arranged on a front side of a support plate, and a 4th wheel positioned close to a second hand and a 2nd wheel positioned close to a minute hand are arranged on a rear side of the support plate. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317524 | TIMEPIECE DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE-HAND - A timepiece device with multiple-hand includes: one or more hands driven to rotate by one or more driving motors; one or more gear train mechanisms include gears which transmit a rotation movement of the driving motors to the hands; and a support plate which supports the gears; wherein the gears include: a first gear which includes a pair of gear members provided on front and rear sides of the support plate; a second gear which meshes with a gear member provided on the rear side to transmit a rotation movement of one of the driving motors to the first gear; and a third gear which meshes with a gear member provided on the front side to transmit a rotation movement of one of the driving motors to the hands. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317247 | PROJECTION APPARATUS - There is provided a projection apparatus including a light source, a micromirror element which tilts a plurality of micromirrors arranged in an array +A° or −A° (A>0) separately from an array surface to form a light image with light components reflected by the plurality of micromirrors, an illumination optical system which uses light emitted from the light source and causes illumination light whose incidence angle is (2A+α)° (α>0) to enter the micromirror element from a direction to which a less than 45° turn is made from a narrow side direction of the array surface of the micromirror element, and a projection optical system which a light image output from the micromirror element enters and which projects the light image onto a projection object. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317131 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND PROJECTOR - An illumination optical system includes: a light source device including: a red light-emitting device that emits red light; a blue light-emitting device that emits blue light; and a fluorescence plate comprising a green fluorescence region and a light transmission region, wherein the green fluorescence region is excited by the blue light to emit green light, and the light transmission region transmits the blue light; a light guide including a dichroic layer therein, wherein the dichroic layer is arranged to intersect a center axis of the light guide at about 45 degree to transmit the blue light while reflecting the green light and the blue light; a mirror group and a lens group. The blue light transmitted through the light transmission region is incident on an end surface of the light guide, and the red light and the green light are incident on a side surface of the light guide. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316976 | IMAGING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus generates a 3D model using a photographed image of a subject and generates a 3D image based on the 3D model. When a corresponding point corresponding to a point forming the 3D model does not form a 3D model generated using a photographed image photographed at a different photographing position, the imaging apparatus determines that the point is noise, and removes the point determined as noise from the 3D model. The imaging apparatus generates a 3D image based on the 3D model from which the point determined as noise is removed. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316822 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device, which displays image data on a display section, includes a vibration section which vibrates a housing constituting the device, analyzes video data displayed on the display section to detect a changing state of an image of the video data, and controls the driving of the vibration section based on the detected changing state of the image. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315027 | NAIL PRINTING APPARATUS - A nail printing apparatus is provided with a main body including a held portion which has a print target finger placing surface and a non-print-target finger placing surface. The print target finger placing surface is configured in such a manner that at least one finger with a nail, on which a desired image is to be printed, of one hand is placed thereon. The non-print-target finger placing surface is configured in such a manner that at least one remaining finger of the one hand is placed thereon. The held portion is held between the at least one finger on the print target finger placing surface and the at least one remaining finger on the non-print-target placing surface. The apparatus is further provided with an image printing unit configured to print the desired image on the nail of the at least one finger on the print target finger placing surface. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110311159 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING A PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an obtainment section to obtain a face image; an area specifying section to specify a set of a plurality of corresponding areas in the face image obtained by the obtainment section; and a correction section to generate a face image in which one area of the plurality of corresponding areas of the face image is used as a reference to correct another area. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310340 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display element includes a thin-film transistor in which one of source and drain electrodes is connected to a pixel electrode, and an auxiliary capacitance electrode that forms an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and at least partially overlaps with the thin-film transistor. The thin-film transistor includes a semiconductor layer, an anti-etching layer that is arranged in contact with the semiconductor layer and made of an insulative material, and a gate electrode that is arranged to interpose the semiconductor layer between the gate electrode itself and the anti-etching layer. A region in the auxiliary capacitance electrode that overlaps with the gate electrode has a length in a direction parallel to a channel length direction of the thin-film transistor that is shorter than a length of the gate electrode in this direction and longer than a length of the anti-etching layer in this direction. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310292 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREOF - In a digital camera, in an automatic shooting stand-by state, when it is judged that an automatic shooting condition has not been satisfied, it is judged whether or not to issue an AE re-processing command (that is, it is judged whether or not the current shooting condition is similar to a condition where the automatic shooting condition is satisfied). When it is judged to issue the AE re-processing command, exposure tracking in an aperture-priority mode is performed, and shooting exposure conditions excluding the aperture value for still-image shooting in the aperture-priority mode are determined. Then, storage is updated. When it is judged that an automatic shooting condition has been satisfied, record processing for still-image shooting is performed with the updated shooting exposure conditions without changing the aperture value. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309116 | WATCH BAND AND WRISTWATCH - A watch band with a buckle which does not slip off from a band body thereof even when it gets a great shock, for example from collision with an object due to dropping thereof, and a wristwatch with such band. The band body has a pair of spaced attaching parts provided at an end thereof. An engaging member has a connection part connected through a connection pipe to between these attaching parts. A buckle has a pair of arms which hold these attaching parts therebetween. A pair of screws have a thread portion screwed into a screw hole in the end portion of an associated arm of the buckle and a shank part inserted in a nearer end portion of the connection pipe to attach the buckle to the band body so as not to slip off from the connection pipe even when the buckle gets a great shock. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110304877 | NAIL PRINTER AND PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD - A nail printer and printing method for printing on nails of fingers in a short time. Printing of nails starts a predetermined time after a print start command is given by a print switch or a both-hand switch. When nails of thumbs or fingers of both right and left hands are printed with an image, a print switch is operated by one of the hands, the thumbs or fingers of the both hands are fixed at a predetermined printing position within a printed finger receiver and then the nails of both the thumbs or fingers are printed with a design or pattern. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304831 | PROJECTOR - There is provided a projector comprising, a light source unit having a laser light emitter and a projection light producing device for converting the laser light into projection light, a display unit and a light guiding optical system which forms a projection optical path along which light from the light source unit is guided to the display device, the projector comprising a partial light separation unit which reflects or transmits part of light emitted from the projection light converting device of the light source unit so as to separate the part of the light to an optical path which is different from the projection optical path, a photosensor which is disposed on the optical path which is separated and changed by the partial light separation unit, a light intensity determination unit which detects an light intensity of the laser light which is separated by the partial light separation unit so as to determine whether or not the light intensity exceeds a threshold, and a light source control unit which stops the emission of the laser light emitter based on the result of the determination of the light intensity determination unit. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304742 | IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY REPRODUCING PLURALITY OF IMAGES - An image reproduction apparatus includes a flash memory which adds recording time information to an image and records the image, and a control unit which classifies images in the memory on the basis of the added time information, limits the number of classified images for each date to one, and causes a display unit to display a calendar image as a list of images. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304655 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes first and second scanning lines, first and second signal lines, first to fourth thin-film transistors, and first to third pixel electrodes. The first and second signal lines are arranged to intersect with the first and second scanning lines. The first thin-film transistor is connected to the second scanning line and the first signal line. The first pixel electrode is connected to the first thin-film transistor. The second thin-film transistor is connected to the first scanning line and the first pixel electrode. The second pixel electrode is connected to the second thin-film transistor. The third thin-film transistor is connected to the first scanning line and the second pixel electrode. The third pixel electrode is connected to the third thin-film transistor. The fourth thin-film transistor is connected to the second scanning line, the third pixel electrode, and the second signal line. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304043 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip which comprises mode-set terminals, and mode-set wiring lines respectively connected to the mode-set terminals, a sealing layer which covers the semiconductor chip and also covers a land of a first mode-set wiring line that is one of the mode-set wiring lines, the sealing layer including a mode-set via hole formed above a land of a second mode-set wiring line, the second mode-set wiring line being one of the mode-set wiring lines and being different from the first mode-set wiring line, a mode-set embedded conductor provided within the mode-set via hole to be connected to the second mode-set wiring line, and a mode-set conductive pattern which is connected to the mode-set embedded conductor and which is provided on the sealing layer above the land of the first mode-set wiring line. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304031 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH BONDING WIRES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH BONDING WIRES - Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a printed-circuit board which includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes and a semiconductor chip on which a plurality of first connection pads are aligned in a first line being disposed along an outer circumference side of a top surface and a plurality of second connection pads are aligned in a second line being disposed inside of and apart from the first line, when the semiconductor chip is seen from above, and any of the plurality of first connection pads are used for a power voltage terminal and a system reset terminal of the semiconductor device. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303076 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Based on acceleration-sensor values from a three-dimensional acceleration sensor | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110299860 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER REFILLING METHOD THEREFOR - In a new printer, a toner cartridge is mounted in the state where there is no toner in a reserve tank, and toner of the amount of filling toner D therein is supplied with the amount of full accommodation toner E for filling up the reserve tank by a toner supply mechanism. The toner of the amount of remaining surplus toner F remains in the toner cartridge. The amount of toner consumption G is measured by a dot counter during a printing execution. In the case where a toner density sensor detects a toner decreasing, the toner is supplied to a developing unit from the reserve tank. When it becomes G>F, it display-informs a user of “toner cartridge exchange is allowed”. Hereby, it enables to exchange the toner cartridge without stopping operation of the main body of the image forming apparatus using a two-component developer. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110293239 | MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A moving image reproducing apparatus is provided with CPU | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292418 | COLOR PRINTER WITH POWER SAVING RECORDING HEAD - The present invention relates to a color printer and particularly to a color printer reducing power consumption and complying with international criteria ensuring sustained earth environment. In a color printer having multiple optical writing heads for individual recording colors, the activated periods of individual color recording heads are set to different periods and one writing period of individual recording heads is divided into multiple periods, video data for recording one dot line are divided into multiple blocks in the main scan direction, and the divided video data are used for emission at different times in the sub-scan direction, whereby a smaller number of optical writing elements are simultaneously driven for emission and the peak power consumption of the entire apparatus is reduced. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292098 | PROJECTOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A LIGHT SOURCE FOR USE WITH THE PROJECTOR - A projector has a storage unit storing data on a plurality of different light emission patterns each occurring in a period based on a plurality of different-colored lights, wherein each light emission pattern corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of different projection conditions of a color image. An acquiring unit acquires a present projection condition of the color image, and a controller controls a light emission operation of the plurality of different-colored light emitting elements in the period in accordance with data on a lightemission pattern corresponding to the present projection condition of the color image. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292075 | IMAGE COMPOSITION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - There is provided an image composition apparatus configured to produce a composite image in which a foreground image is overlaid on a part of a background image. The apparatus designates a pair of images used as the background image and the foreground image, when one image of the pair of images is a pictorial image with a certain pictorial style, obtains pictorial style information indicative of the pictorial style of the one image of the pair of images, converts the other image of the pair of images into a pictorial image with the pictorial style indicated by the pictorial style information, produces a composite image from a combination of the pictorial image corresponding to the one image of the pair of images and the pictorial image resulting from the conversion on the other image of the pair of images, and outputs the composite image. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292062 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - A photo frame | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291212 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING PHOTOSENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A photosensor comprises a photoelectric conversion device region and a connection pad on the lower surface of a semiconductor substrate, and also comprises a wiring line connected to the connection pad via insulating film under the semiconductor substrate, and a columnar electrode as an external connection electrode connected to the wiring line. As a result, as compared with the case where the photoelectric conversion device region and the connection pad connected to the photoelectric conversion device region are formed on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, a piercing electrode for connecting the connection pad and the wiring line does not have to be formed in the semiconductor substrate. Thus, the number of steps can be smaller, and a fabrication process can be less restricted. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110290097 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A performance apparatus | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110286773 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus whose primary transfer roller is structured in a way as to move from a transfer position along a locus of a rotational motion of a radius r about a rotational center of a photosensitive drum as a rotational axis so that the transfer position is set to a position shifted downstream in a belt moving direction from a position of contact between the photosensitive drum and an intermediate transfer belt by a shift amount f. Accordingly, even when there is an error the upward/downward movement of the primary transfer roller to shift the position of contact, the distance of the primary transfer roller from the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum is constant, so that the shift amount f which is the tangent of the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum and the circumferential surface of the primary transfer roller is always set constant. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285739 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image display apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store first images, a processor configured to change tones of first reduced images of the first images to first tones, and a display configured to display the first reduced images of the first images in a column direction or a row direction, and to display tone-changed reduced images of the first images in the row direction or the column direction. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110282620 | TRAVELING STATE DETERMINING DEVICE, METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRAVELING STATE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a traveling state determining device including an acceleration sensor which detects an acceleration, a cycle comparing unit which compares a varying cycle of an acceleration of a vertical direction component in an output of the acceleration sensor to a varying cycle of an acceleration of a horizontal direction component and a state determining unit which determines between a state where a user is walking or running by wearing or retaining the traveling state determining device on a body of the user and a state where the user is walking or running by holding the traveling state determining device in a hand of the user based on the comparing result of the cycle comparing unit. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279711 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus is provided which informs a user of a state of brightness adjusting operation and which has excellent usability for the user. Disclosed is a digital camera including an image adder | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279701 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, FACE DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image pickup device can effectively detect a face in accordance with an object without causing a user to do bothersome setting. A speed preference mode and a person-number preference mode both having different detection conditions of a face region are prepared beforehand as face detection modes. The user is caused to select a desired face detection mode, and minimum values of a face size set as detectable in a face detection and a maximum number of face regions to be detected are set to values corresponding to the face detection mode selected by the user. In a case where an image-pickup preparation is set by pressing a shutter key halfway, when the face detection mode is the speed preference mode, the mode is forcibly changed to the person-number preference mode. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279693 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CAMERA SHAKE CORRECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing unit capturing an image of an object; an image capture controller that causes the image capturing unit to capture first color component images having a first color component by multi-shot exposure, and causes the image capturing unit to capture second and third color component images, a displacement information acquiring unit that acquires displacement information; an image adding unit that aligns and adds the first color component images based on the displacement information to generate an added image; a calculator that calculates a first point spread function based on the displacement information; a first correcting unit that corrects the second and third color component images using the first point spread function; and a combining unit that combines the added image with the corrected second and third color component images. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110273643 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel; a side-lit backlight that emits light towards the liquid crystal panel through a light guide plate, the backlight further having a reflection layer that reflects light that has passed through the liquid crystal panel and the light guide plate in that order; a first λ/4 plate disposed between a first polarizer and the first substrate, the first λ/4 plate having a retarded phase axis that is at a 45° angle with the transmission axis of the first polarizer; a second λ/4 plate disposed between a second polarizer and the second substrate, the second λ/4 plate having a retarded phase axis that is at 45° with the transmission axis of the second polarizer and that is perpendicular to the retarded phase axis of the first λ/4 plate; and a diffusion layer disposed between the first λ/4 plate and the first substrate. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110273571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUBJECT TRACKING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - A subject tracking apparatus, including: a storage section that stores image data of a subject; a division section that divides the image data of the subject into a plurality of first areas; an imaging section that sequentially generates image frames; a specification section that specifies a second area similar to one of the first areas, the second area being included in each of the image frames sequentially generated, based on a characteristic value of one of the first areas into which the image data of the subject is divided by the division section; and a tracking section that tracks an image area as the subject in each of the image frames sequentially generated, wherein the image area is determined based on the second area specified by the specification section. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110271305 | WIRELESS TELEVISION SYSTEM - A control data transmission and reception period of, for example, 1 ms is provided for each frame of a digital broadcast signal. The digital broadcast signal is intermittently transmitted. In the intermittent transmission, the transmitting device stops the digital broadcast signal from being sent during the control data transmission and reception period. At the same time, control data is transmitted during the control data transmission and reception period. In other words, a beacon signal is sent from a transmitting device to a wireless television receiver as control data, between the intermittent transmissions of the digital broadcast signal. Having received the beacon signal, the wireless television receiver returns a request signal to the transmitting device. As a result, communication between the transmitting device and the wireless television receiver can be established. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267565 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer twist-aligned at 90° sandwiched between a pair of substrates, first and second polarizing layers arranged to sandwich the liquid crystal cell therebetween so that their absorption axes set to parallel with directions crossing aligning treatment directions of the substrates at 45°, and viewing angle compensating plates respectively arranged between the polarizing layers and the liquid crystal cell. A total value of retardations in a thickness direction, defined as a value of a product of a phase difference within a plane perpendicular to substrate surfaces of the liquid crystal cell and a layer thickness, of optical layers present between the polarizing layers is set to a value that substantially cancels out a retardation in a liquid crystal layer thickness direction when a saturation voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110264675 | SEARCHING APPARATUS AND SEARCHING METHOD - A searching apparatus includes a memory unit which stores transposed indexes representing appearing positions of all n-grams in plural pieces of document data subjected to searching and appearing frequencies, an n-gram extracting unit that extracts all n-grams extractable from a searching character string, a smallest-frequency deriving unit which refers to the appearing frequency of the n-gram represented by the transposed index, and derives an n-gram with the smallest appearing frequency among all of the extracted n-grams, a searching n-gram selecting unit that selects, from all extracted n-grams, a plurality of searching n-grams which form the searching character string and include the n-gram with the smallest appearing frequency, and a document specifying unit that specifies, based on the plurality of selected searching n-grams and the appearing position of the searching n-gram represented by the transposed index, document data including the searching character string among the plural pieces of document data. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261222 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, FACE DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image pickup device can effectively detect a face in accordance with an object without causing a user to do bothersome setting. A speed preference mode and a person-number preference mode both having different detection conditions of a face region are prepared beforehand as face detection modes. The user is caused to select a desired face detection mode, and minimum values of a face size set as detectable in a face detection and a maximum number of face regions to be detected are set to values corresponding to the face detection mode selected by the user. In a case where an image-pickup preparation is set by pressing a shutter key halfway, when the face detection mode is the speed preference mode, the mode is forcibly changed to the person-number preference mode. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261210 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THAT RECORDS PROCESSING PROGRAM THEREOF - When directed to transmit data in a personal computer ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261066 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus comprises a storage configured to store original images, a display configured to display reduced images of the original images, a specifying unit configured to specify one of the reduced images displayed on the display, and a processor configured to convert the one of the reduced images specified by the specifying unit into an artwork. The processor is configured to convert the one of the reduced images into an artwork of a different tone every time the specifying unit specifies the one of the reduced images, and the display displays the artwork from the processor. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261011 | METHOD OF DETECTING CONTACT STATE OF RESISTIVE TOUCH PANEL DEVICE, TOUCH PANEL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of detecting a contact state of resistive touch panel device includes measuring a potential at both ends of a first resistive film, as viewed in a first direction, as a first-film-potential. At this time, the both ends of the first resistive film are short circuited, and a predetermined current is applied between both ends of a second resistive film, as viewed in a second direction. The method further includes measuring a potential at the both ends of the second resistive film as a second-film-potential. At this time, the both ends of the second resistive film are short circuited, and the current is applied between the both ends of the first resistive film. The method further includes deriving distance information between two contact points of the first and the second resistive film, based on the first-film-potential and the second-film-potential. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110255642 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEMORY MEDIUM THAT STORES A PROGRAM - Suitable gain control is achieved at low cost. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255377 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE - A time information acquisition apparatus comprises an input waveform data pattern generator configured to sample a standard time radio wave signal in order to generate an input waveform data pattern, a predicted waveform data pattern generator configured to generate predicted waveform data patterns, represents a string of codes based on a base time, and has a head position, an error detector configured to detect non-coincidence between the input waveform data pattern and each of the predicted waveform data patterns in order to acquire a number of errors indicative of a number of non-coincidences, a current time correction module configured to correct the base time based on the predicted waveform data pattern indicative of a minimum value of the number of errors, and a controller configured to determine the number of predicted waveform data patterns to be generated. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110254862 | GRAPH DISPLAY APPARATUS, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided a graph display apparatus. An image display control unit causes a display unit to display the image data stored by the image and graph formula storage unit. An formula input unit inputs a graph formula according to a user operation. An input graph display control unit causes the display unit to display a graph corresponding to a graph formula input by the formula input unit, on the image data displayed on the display unit by the image display control unit as a background image. A model graph display control unit causes the display unit to display, in a different display mode, a graph corresponding to a model graph formula stored by the image and graph formula storage unit, together with the graph displayed on the image data as the background image on the display unit by the input graph display control unit, according to a user operation. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110254857 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Disclosed is a display apparatus comprising: a display section including a first and a second display areas, which can set a first and a second coordinate systems; a memory storing an image file including image data, coordinate range data, and coordinate value table data; and a processor which performs: image file specifying processing specifying the image file; display processing which (i) reads out the specified data, (ii) controls a display of an image part among an image of the specified image data, (iii) sets the first coordinate system within a range overlapping the image part, and (iv) controls a display of plotted points of the first coordinate system, wherein the coordinate value table data correlates a coordinate value of the third coordinate axis with those in the first coordinate system, and the display processing sets the second coordinate system in the second display area, and controls a display of plotted points. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110249539 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - Disclosed is an electronic timepiece, comprising: hands which indicate time to display the time; a stepping motor which performs a stepping drive of the hands; a drive control section which supplies the stepping motor with drive pulses; a hand movement examining section which examines whether the hands are moving or not; and awaiting control section which temporarily interrupts a supply of the drive pulses by the drive control section to be in a waiting state, when the hand movement examining section judges that the hands are stopped, wherein the supply of the drive pulses by the drive control section and an examination of whether the hands are moving or not by the hand movement examining section are respectively restarted, after the waiting control section has released the waiting state. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249538 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE - Disclosed is an electronic timepiece, comprising: a second hand and a minute hand; a stepping motor which performs a stepping drive of the hands; a rotating body which includes a target section, and rotates with the second hand; a detection section which detects an existence of the target section; a detection control section which makes the detection section operate by every rotation period, to make the detection section detect the existence of the target section at a first timing and at a second timing; a hand position counter which counts estimated positions of the hands based on the number of drive times of the stepping motor; a counted value holding section capable of temporarily holding a value of the hand position counter; a counted value saving section which makes the counted value holding section hold the value; and a counted value correcting section which corrects the value. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249412 | KEY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A key device includes: a chassis which has an opening divided by one of a vertical rib and a horizontal rib; a plurality of keys which are arranged along the opening; and a substrate which is housed in the chassis, wherein the rib is engaged with the substrate. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110246903 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COLLABORATION AMONG A PLURALITY OF DEVICES - An apparatus, system, or method for causing a controlled device and a controlling terminal to operate in collaboration with each other, wherein a server apparatus stores in advance a plurality of sets of collaboration information which causes the controlled device and the controlling terminal to operate in collaboration with each other. The plurality of sets of collaboration information is respectively stored in association with a plurality of controlled apparatuses different from one another in type. When the controlling terminal requests the server apparatus to send the collaboration information designating the type of the controlled device, the server apparatus sends to the controlling terminal the collaboration information corresponding to the type of the controlled device. The controlled device and the controlling terminal operate in collaboration with each other using the collaboration information. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242502 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A projector is provided which can reduce power consumption while preventing the deterioration of a luminescent material by heat by controlling a luminescent wheel to rotate or stop rotating. The projector of the invention includes a light source unit having an excitation light source, a luminescent wheel on which a luminescent material layer is laid circumferentially which becomes luminous using light emitted from the excitation light source as excitation light and a wheel motor for driving the luminescent wheel, a display device, a light guiding optical system which guides light emitted from the light source unit to the display device, a projection side optical system which projects projection light generated in the display device, and a motor control part which determines whether to stop or drive the wheel motor in such a state that excitation light is shone on to the luminescent material layer by the excitation light source. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242497 | LIGHT SOURCE SYSTEM AND PROJECTOR - There are provided a light source system which can suppress the deterioration of a luminescent material and a projector which can project a clear image. The light source system comprises a luminescent wheel, a driving unit for rotating the luminescent wheel, a light source for shining excitation light on to a luminescent material layer of the luminescent wheel, a light shining control unit for controlling an illumination timing of the light source, a light shining time integrating unit for integrating individual excitation light shining times to a plurality of predetermined divided areas of the luminescent wheel, an integrated light shining time storage unit for storing the individual light shining times to the predetermined divided areas, and a light shining range control unit for equalizing times over which excitation light is shone on to the plurality of predetermined divided areas of the luminescent wheel based on the individual excitation light shining times to the predetermined divided areas. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242354 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - An imaging apparatus including a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle, a capturing control section which performs a plurality of image capturing operations by the capturing section, a generation section which generates a composite image reproducing an image captured at a second viewing angle that is wider than the first viewing angle by combining a plurality of images acquired by the plurality of image capturing operations by the capturing control section, a judgment section which judges whether or not an uncaptured area that has not been captured by the capturing control section exists within the composite image with the second viewing angle generated by the generation section, and a notification section which notifies a user of a judgment result, when the judgment section judges that an uncaptured area exists. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242130 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a display unit, a memory that stores a plurality of images, and a processor. The processor performs a composite image production process of producing a composite image composed of a plurality of images stored in the memory, a composite image display process of displaying the produced composite image on the display unit, a region setting process of setting a clipping region on the displayed composite image, and an image clipping process of clipping an image in the same region as the set clipping region from each of the images before the composite image is produced and storing the clipped images in a memory. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242107 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - The apparatus includes: an image file storing unit configured to store at least one image file including a plurality of image data; an image file specifying unit configured to specify one of the at least one image file according to a user operation; an image display controller configured to display, on a display screen, one of the plurality of image data included in the specified image file; a plotting operation receiver configured to receive a user plotting operation that is performed on a targeted analysis point in the displayed image data, wherein a plot point is plotted on the display screen according to the user plotting operation; and a plotting display controller configured to sequentially display the plurality of image data included in the specified image file while displaying a plurality of plot points plotted on the display screen according to a plurality of user plotting operations. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242075 | OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE - An optical sensor device includes a plurality of optical sensor units two-dimensionally arranged, a scan driver, and a detection driver. The scan driver sets optical sensor units, in each row, in a selected state. The detection driver acquires detection signals corresponding to illuminance of incident light on the optical sensor units. Each of the optical sensor units comprises a first optical sensor including a first photoelectric conversion section blocked from light and a second optical sensor including a second photoelectric conversion section configured to change the illuminance in response to an externally applied external force. The detection driver maintains each voltage of electrodes of the first optical sensors and each voltage of electrodes of the second optical sensors in equal voltage levels to each other, and acquires a plurality of voltage signals in parallel. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241002 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed in a semiconductor device including a substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode of the first transistor are arranged along a first direction and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode of the second transistor are arranged in a reverse order of the first source electrode and the first drain electrode along the first direction, the first source electrode and the second source electrode are connected by a source connecting wiring, the first drain electrode and the second drain electrode are connected by a drain connecting wiring, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode are connected by a gate connecting wiring and the source connecting wiring and the drain connecting wiring are provided at positions except a region overlapped with the first gate electrode, the second gate electrode and the gate connecting wiring. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110236005 | CAMERA WITH A FUNCTION OF AUTOMATICALLY SETTING SHOOTING CONDITIONS AND SHOOTING METHOD - A camera with a function of automatically setting shooting conditions, is provided with a memory storing plural pieces of feature information of an object corresponding to different positions, respectively, the feature information of an object representing features of the object, a judging unit for, when a shooting operation is performed with the camera at a position to obtain an image, obtaining from the memory feature information corresponding to the camera position and judging whether or not an object corresponding to the obtained feature information is found in the image obtained in the shooting operation, and a shooting-operation controller for changing shooting conditions depending on the judgment made by the judging unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235987 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are a communication apparatus and program which improve the operability for a user before and during data communication. The communication apparatus includes a plurality of communication units that establish electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling with a communication device located within a predetermined distance, a storage unit storing control information indicative of predetermined control contents in association with the respective communication units, a control information acquisition section that acquires, from the storage unit, control information associated with that communication unit which has established the electric field coupling or the magnetic field coupling, and a control unit that controls communication of that of the communication units which has established the electric field coupling or the magnetic field coupling by using the control information acquired by the control information acquisition section. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235475 | SHOCK ABSORBING MEMBER FOR WRISTWATCH AND WRISTWATCH - A shock absorbing member for a wristwatch including a wristwatch case whose side portions are provided with a pair of bands and an operation member positioned avoiding the pair of bands, and back surface has a case back attached thereto. This shock absorbing member is made of a flexible resin, and includes a peripheral side portion that surrounds the wristwatch case and projects further outward than a top surface of the wristwatch case, and a bottom portion to which the case back is attached. In addition, the peripheral side portion is provided with band holes into which the pair of bands are inserted and an operation hole corresponding to the operation member. Accordingly, even when a strong shock of falling from a high place or the like is received, the shock is unfailingly absorbed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234998 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - To provide a projector which enables a stable projection for a long period of time, there is provided a projector comprising a light source unit, a display device, a projection-side optical system, a light guiding optical system and a projector control unit, wherein the light source unit comprises an excitation light source unit comprising an excitation light source and a microlens array and a rectangular green luminescent plate which receives light emitted from the excitation light source to emit light in a green wavelength band, and the microlens array is disposed between the excitation light source and the luminescent plate and has a plurality of micro convex lenses which each have a similar shape to the shape of the luminescent material layer are arranged into a matrix, so as to convert light from excitation light source into a plurality of pencils of light to shine them onto the luminescent plate. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234957 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a first gate line extended in a predetermined direction; a second gate line extended in parallel to the first gate line; a first gate output terminal corresponding to the first gate line; a second gate output terminal corresponding to the second gate line; a first gate leading line electrically connecting the first gate line to the first gate output terminal; a second gate leading line electrically connecting the second gate line to the second gate output terminal and having a length longer than said first gate leading line; and a static electric protection line disposed so as to overlap the first gate leading line and the second gate leading line with an insulating layer interposed between said static electric protection line and the first and second gate leading lines, wherein an overlapping area between the first gate leading line and the static electric protection line is larger than an overlapping area between the second gate leading line and the static electric protection line. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234855 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - An imaging apparatus including a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle, a capturing control section which performs consecutive image capturing by the capturing section, a setting section which sets areas to be captured at the first viewing angle to generate a composite image reproducing a captured image at a second viewing angle by combining captured images, a judgment section which judges whether a captured image is suitable for any one of the set areas, and a recording control section which corresponds the captured image with an area and records the capture image in a recording section when the captured image is suitable, wherein the judgment section further judges whether the captured image is more suitable for an area than previously recorded by corresponding a recorded image in comparison with a previously recorded image, when an image that was previously recorded in the record means exists. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234759 | 3D MODELING APPARATUS, 3D MODELING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A 3D modeling apparatus includes: a generator configured to generate 3D models of a subject based on pairs of images; a selector configured to select a first 3D model and a second 3D model from the 3D models, wherein the second 3D model is to be superimposed on the first 3D model; an extracting unit configured to extract first feature points from the first 3D model and extract second feature points from the second 3D model; an acquiring unit configured to acquire coordinate transformation parameters based on the first and second feature points; a transformation unit configured to transform coordinates of the second 3D model into coordinates in a coordinate system of the first 3D model, based on the coordinate transformation parameters; and a combining unit configured to superimpose the second 3D model having the transformed coordinates on the first 3D model. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234634 | MAP DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, MAP DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided a map display control apparatus. The apparatus includes: an accepting section configured to accept a search character; a search section configured to search for a landmark on a map, a name of the landmark at least partly matching the search character; a position adjusting section configured to adjust a display position of the map such that the searched landmark appears in the map; a search refining section configured to perform a new search for the landmark and refine the landmark whenever a new character is added to the search character; and a position movement section configured to move the display position of the map, depending on the number of the refined landmark or a position of the refined landmark. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234624 | GRAPH DISPLAY APPARATUS AND GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD - There is provided a graph display apparatus including a list input unit configured to input list data including a plurality of numerical data items, a color designation unit configured to designate arbitrary colors for the numerical data items of the list data input by the list input unit, a list storage unit configured to store the list data input by the list input unit and information of the colors designated for the numerical data items by the color designation unit in a state where the list data and the information are associated with each other, and a graph display unit configured to color-display graph data, based on the list data and the information of the colors designated for the numerical data items, which are stored in the list storage unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234596 | GRAPH DISPLAY APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AND GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD - A scientific electronic calculator includes a display unit which performs display by a plurality of dots and a CPU which displays X and Y axes on the display unit and displays scales on the X axis at predetermined scale intervals. The CPU displays a graph in a coordinate system determined by the X and Y axes moves the trace pointer on the graph dot by dot in an X-axis direction according to a user operation, and displays coordinate values of the trace pointer on the display unit, while displaying a trace pointer on the graph The CPU sets a numerical width of the X axis in such a way that a value obtained by dividing the numerical width of the X axis by a scale interval is one N-th of the number of dots in an X-axis direction, the N which is an integer, and displays the X axis. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234582 | Display Apparatus and Method of Controlling Images - A display apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional image using a parallax barrier scheme includes a display module having a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, and a parallax barrier facing the display region. In the parallax barrier, a plurality of aperture regions are formed as light-transmissive regions so that each one of the aperture regions corresponds to a predetermined number of the pixels. In one embodiment, each of the aperture regions is in a shape that exhibits an identical shape when rotated by 90 degrees. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233787 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE - Disclosed is a semiconductor structure including a semiconductor substrate including an electronic circuit, which is provided in a predetermined region of the semiconductor substrate; a wall which is formed to encircle the predetermined region of the semiconductor substrate; a wiring provided in a region of the semiconductor substrate outside of the predetermined region of the semiconductor substrate; an external connection electrode provided on the wiring; a sealing resin which seals the wiring, the sealing resin being filled in the region of the semiconductor substrate outside of the wall; and a transparent resin to seal the predetermined region of the semiconductor substrate, the transparent resin being filled inside of the wall. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233769 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PROVIDED WITH TIN DIFFUSION INHIBITING LAYER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A semiconductor device is disclosed wherein a tin diffusion inhibiting layer is provided above the land of a wiring line, and a solder ball is provided above the tin diffusion inhibiting layer. Thus, even when this semiconductor device is, for example, a power supply IC which deals with a high current, the presence of the tin diffusion inhibiting layer makes it possible to more inhibit the diffusion of tin in the solder ball into the wiring line. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233739 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a semiconductor structure including a semiconductor substrate including an electronic circuit which is provided in a predetermined region of the semiconductor substrate, a wiring provided on the semiconductor substrate in a region outside of the predetermined region, an external connection electrode provided on the wiring, a sealing resin which covers a side surface of the external connection electrode and a wall which intervenes between the electronic circuit and the sealing resin. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110228197 | DISPLAY WIRING SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a drive circuit provided to the display panel, and a wiring substrate. The wiring substrate includes a proximal end portion joined to the display panel, an extended portion extended from the proximal end portion, a first fixed portion extended from the extended portion in one direction inclined from an extending direction of the extended portion, and a second fixed portion extended from the extended portion in the other direction inclined from the extending direction. The extended portion is folded back to face the proximal end portion. The first fixed portion and the second fixed portion are folded back so as to straddle side surfaces of the display panel and so that their end portions are arranged on a side of the display panel opposite to a side of the same on which the proximal end portion is arranged. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228129 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS PERFORMING AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING PROCESSING, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM THEREOF - Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to pick up a subject image; and a central processing section to perform processing of arbitrarily setting at least one automatic photographing condition among a plurality of kinds of automatic photographing conditions, judging whether “the set automatic photographing condition” is satisfied or not, and instructing the image pickup section to pick up a recording subject image when “the set automatic photographing condition” is judged to be satisfied. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228123 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - An imaging apparatus including a display section, a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle, a capturing control section which performs a plurality of capturing operations by the capturing section, a generation section which generates a composite image reproducing an image captured at a second viewing angle that is wider than the first viewing angle by combining a plurality of images acquired by the plurality of capturing operations by the capturing control section, and a display control section which displays the composite image generated by the generation section on the display section. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228044 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - An imaging apparatus including a capturing section which captures images, a detection section which detects an image capturing direction of the capturing section, a setting section which sets a plurality of image capturing directions of images for use in a composite necessary to generate a wide-angle image based on a reference image which is a first image captured by the capturing section, a judgment section which judges whether or not the image capturing direction detected by the detection section coincides with any one of the plurality of image capturing directions set by the setting section, and an imaging control section which controls to capture an image for use in the composite by the capturing section in the image capturing direction detected by the detection section, when the judgment section judges that mutual directions coincide. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227946 | GRAPH DISPLAY APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED AND GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD - A graph display apparatus including: a display unit; a graph formula input unit for receiving input of a graph formula; a coordinate system setting unit for setting a display range of a coordinate system and a scale interval on a coordinate axis in the coordinate system; a coordinate system display controlling unit for making the display unit display the coordinate axis, and display scales and scale values at the scale interval, the coordinate system display controlling unit including a scale value display controlling unit for detecting overlapping of the scale values to be displayed, and, when the scale values overlap, making the display unit display only scale values of scales at both ends among the scales to be displayed on the coordinate axis; and a graph display controlling unit for making the display unit display a graph of the graph formula. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227924 | 3D MODELING APPARATUS, 3D MODELING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A 3D modeling apparatus includes: an accepting unit configured to accept sets of images; a generator configured to generate 3D models of a subject based on the sets of images; a selector configured to select first and second 3D models from the 3D models, wherein the second 3D model is to be superimposed on the first 3D model; a divider configured to divide the second 3D model into second regions; a specifying unit configured to specify first regions in the first 3D model, wherein each of the first regions corresponds to one of the second regions; an acquiring unit configured to acquire coordinate transformation parameters; a transformation unit configured to transform coordinates of the second regions based on the coordinate transformation parameters; and an updating unit configured to superimpose the second regions having the transformed coordinates on the first regions to update the first 3D model. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227906 | DISPLAY DRIVE APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display pixel including a light-emitting element and a drive element for supplying current flowing in a current path to the light-emitting element is applied with a detection voltage based on a predetermined unit voltage. Based on a value of current flowing in the current path of the drive element, a specific value corresponding to an element characteristic of the drive element is detected. A gradation voltage corresponding to a luminance gradation of display data is generated. Based on the specific value and the unit voltage, a compensated voltagea is generated. By compensating the gradation voltage based on the compensated voltage, a compensated gradation voltage is generated. And the compensated gradation voltage is supplied to the display pixel. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227816 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an auxiliary electrode located between a first scan signal line and a second scan signal line that are adjacent to each other, a first thin film transistor with a gate electrode connected to the first scan signal line, a second thin film transistor with a gate electrode connected to the second scan signal line, a first pixel electrode connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the first thin film transistor, a second pixel electrode connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second thin film transistor, a data signal line that is connected to the other of the source electrode and the drain electrode of the first thin film transistor and that is connected to the other of the source electrode and the drain electrode of the second thin film transistor, and a common electrode disposed to face the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode through a liquid crystal layer. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are adjacently located along the data signal line. The auxiliary electrode is set so that a potential difference between the auxiliary electrode and the common electrode is greater than a potential difference between the first pixel electrode and the common electrode and greater than a potential difference between the second pixel electrode and the common electrode. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227081 | PIXEL CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PIXEL CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE - A pixel circuit substrate includes: a pixel electrode; a first drive element connected to one side of the pixel electrode; a second drive element that is connected to the first drive element in parallel and also is connected to the other side opposite to the one side of the pixel electrode. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110226116 | WAVEFORM GENERATION APPARATUS AND WAVEFORM GENERATION PROGRAM - In a waveform generation apparatus, a coordinates information group showing original waveform data in a two-dimensional phase space having a time axis and a wave height value axis is expanded to an n-dimensional phase space (n>2) including a time axis and a wave height value axis using Takens' embedding theorem, and converted to a coordinates information group showing attractor data. In addition, an area of the attractor data is shown, and after one of the coordinates information is specified from the coordinates information group within the shown area, coordinate values corresponding to a time axis in the coordinates information are acquired as time information. Then, composite waveform data is generated by a predetermined waveform data being added to the original waveform data, and the generated composite waveform data is outputted from a position of the original waveform data on a time axis corresponding to the acquired time information. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110225799 | PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - The apparatus manufactures a light emitting device provided with a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on a substrate. The apparatus comprises: a rotating plate cylinder provided with a flexographic plate for printing ink that forms an organic layer of the light emitting elements on the substrate; an intermediate transfer member that contacts the flexographic plate to transfer the ink; a head unit that supplies the ink to the intermediate transfer member; a storage unit that stores as an ink replenishment pattern a region in which the ink is removed from the intermediate transfer member by the transfer of the ink from the intermediate transfer member to the flexographic plate; and a control unit that supplies the ink from the head unit to the region of the ink replenishment pattern on a surface of the intermediate transfer member. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110225219 | MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION CALCULATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A mathematical expression calculation apparatus includes: a display; and a processor to perform the operations of: displaying a mathematical expression on the display; displaying terms included in the mathematical expression displayed on the display in display modes which differ among types of the terms respectively; specifying among the display modes a display mode of any of the terms of the mathematical expression displayed on the display, in accordance with operation of a user; and carrying out calculation among terms which are included in the terms of the mathematical expression displayed on the display and are displayed in the specified mode, and renewing and displaying the mathematical expression. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221992 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE FOR USE IN DISPLAYS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An array substrate for displays, includes a first conductive film pattern, a first insulating layer, a second conductive film pattern, a second insulating layer, a contact hole, and a transparent conductive film. The first conductive film pattern is pattern-formed on a transparent substrate. The first insulating layer is formed on the first conductive film pattern. The second conductive film pattern is pattern-formed upper the first insulating layer and overlapping the first conductive film pattern. The second insulating layer is formed upper the first insulating layer and the second conductive film pattern. The contact hole is made from the first insulating layer to the second insulating layer. The transparent conductive film electrically connects the first conductive film pattern and the second conductive film pattern in the contact hole. The contact hole is made in a region where an edge of the second conductive film pattern overlaps the first conductive film pattern. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221869 | IMAGING DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A finder display processing unit displays a finder image on a finder screen, measures the distance through triangulation from a stereo camera to a part of a subject expressed in a designated region on the finder image, and designates the shortest distance and the farthest distance from the stereo camera to the subject on the basis of the distance acquired through distance measurement. A finder display processing unit specifies as an effective range candidate a range where the imaging ranges of the first imaging unit and a second imaging unit overlap, specifies an effective range candidate at the shortest distance and an effective range candidate at the farthest distance on the first photographed image, and specifies the range where these effective range candidates overlap as the effective range. The finder display processing unit displays on the finder screen information indicating the specified effective range. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110220896 | TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF TRANSISTOR, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - An electric-field blocking film is provided between a BL insulation film and BL insulation film of a transistor, and a blocking film includes those three layers. The electric-field blocking film blocks an electric field produced by a drain electrode, a source electrode, and an n | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110220719 | BARCODE READING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Disclosed is a barcode reading apparatus including: a variable focus lens in which a focus position can be adjusted at a high speed according to applied voltage; an imaging section to generate image data by imaging a barcode through the variable focus lens; a control section to change a focus position of the variable focus lens and to obtain image data of a plurality of image areas with different focus positions in one frame from the imaging section when image data of one frame is obtained from the imaging section; and a decoding section to decode a barcode image included in the image data of the plurality of image areas obtained by the control section. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110219304 | DICTIONARY INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - A block data creation unit creates an explanatory assistance block data item in which an explanatory information item is placed on a word thereof in a display block of a specific size for each of the words searched for by the dictionary search unit. A block data display unit causes the display unit to display a specific number of explanatory assistance block data items created by the block data creation unit so as to correspond to an order of the words arranged in the text. A block change unit changeably displays another explanatory assistance block data item according to a user operation to the explanatory assistance block data items displayed by the block data display unit. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219051 | ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR, DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION IN FULL COLOR - An electronic calculator makes a display section display an input mathematical expression when receiving an input of the mathematical expression from a user. At that time, a color is given to a component related to a predetermined operation symbol among components of the mathematical expression, and the component is displayed. Also a cursor is displayed in the same color as that of the component to which the cursor belongs. Thus, even when the mathematical expression is displayed in an arithmetic manner, each component of the mathematical expression and a position of the cursor can be easily distinguished from each other. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216269 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a light source, a dielectric multilayer film, and a transistor array. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light source irradiates the liquid crystal layer with light through the first substrate. The dielectric multilayer film is provided on a surface of the first substrate, the surface facing the second substrate. The transistor array is provided on the dielectric multilayer film. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216170 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE VIEWING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A three-dimensional image viewing device includes a control panel in which a plurality of pixels are disposed in a predetermined region; a position identifying unit that identifies a right eye position and a left eye position of a user viewing a display screen on which a left eye image and a right eye image are displayed through the predetermined region of the control panel configured to be interposed between the user and the display screen; and a control circuit that controls the plurality of pixels such that at least part of the pixels arranged in a region corresponding to the right eye position identified by the position identifying unit transmits light only from the right eye image and also such that at least part of the pixels disposed in a region corresponding to the left eye position identified by the position identifying unit transmits light only from the left eye image. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216034 | METHOD OF DETECTING CONTACT STATE OF RESISTIVE TOUCH PANEL DEVICE, TOUCH PANEL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of detecting a contact state includes measuring first, second, third and fourth potentials. The method further includes deriving distance information between two points when a first resistive film contacts a second resistive film at the two points, based on the first, second, third and fourth potentials. The first, second, third and fourth potentials are potentials at fourth, second, third and fourth end regions, respectively, in first, second, third and fourth states, respectively. A first end region is an end region, as viewed in a first direction, and the second end region is an end region opposite to the first end region of the first resistive film. The third end region is an end region, as viewed in a second direction, and the fourth end region is an end region opposite to the third end region of the second resistive film. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110214730 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL - A dye-sensitized solar cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an electron-collector/dye layer, and an electron donor. The second electrode faces the first electrode. The electron-collector/dye layer provided on the first electrode includes an electron collector and dye. The electron collector includes first electron collector grains and second electron collector grains. The first electron collector grains have a diameter or diameters within a first diameter range and the second electron collector grains have a diameter or diameters within a second diameter range. A minimum value of the second diameter range is greater than a maximum value of the first diameter range. The electron donor is provided between the electron-collector/dye layer and the second electrode. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110211093 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A digital camera includes: an image capture data creation unit; a CPU for directing the image capture data creation unit to perform image captures several times and acquire a plurality of image capture data; and an image processing device that determines whether or not a common specific image region exists in a plurality of image capture data acquired by the CPU and, in the case where it is determined that a specific image region exists, performs a pixel additive synthesis for image data of the specific image region and creates image data. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211086 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE GENERATING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image capturing unit outputs an image data signal. A first moving picture data generating unit generates first moving picture data based on the image signal from the image capturing unit. A trigger signal generating unit causes a trigger signal to be generated, every time a predetermined trigger condition is met, while the first moving picture data generating unit is in process of generating the first moving picture data. A second moving picture data generating unit causes, every time the trigger signal is generated, generation of moving picture data corresponding to an image signal of the predetermined period of time based on the point of time the trigger signal has been generated. A recording unit effects recording of the first moving picture data and the second moving picture data. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110210929 | TOUCH PANEL-ATTACHED DISPLAY DEVICE AND ANTISTATIC STRUCTURE - A touch panel-attached display device including: a display panel; a case having electric conductivity which is provided with an opening exposing a screen area of the display panel, the case which houses the display panel inside; and a touch panel fixed to the case on a front side of the case so as to face the opening of the case, wherein the case includes a projection formed in such a manner that a part of the case projects toward the front side from a front surface thereof, and the touch panel is fixed to the case in such a manner that a lateral surface of the touch panel and the projection face each other. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110210825 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION FOR USER IN DISPLAY AREA PART NOT COVERED WITH RFID TAG - There is provided a mobile terminal device designed to perform wireless communication with an RFID tag being held over the device by using electromagnetic waves. The device includes a plurality of antennae arranged in or in vicinity to a display area of the mobile terminal device, and a control unit configured to detect a part of the display area, which is not covered with the RFID tag, from electromagnetic wave intensities acquired by the plurality of antennae and to display information for a user in the detected part of the display area. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110206277 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PROGRAM - A processing object selection unit (for large size) 53 selects data of a plurality of pixels to be processed in texture processing from among YUV components of an original image. An orientation decision unit (for large size) 54 determines orientation of a brush stroke pattern using edge intensity of a Y component in horizontal and vertical directions for each of predetermined unit of pixels of the original image. A texture processing unit (for large size) 55 carries out first texture processing on data of the plurality of pixels selected by the processing object selection unit (for large size) 53 using colors of the pixels and the brush stroke pattern of the orientation determined by the orientation decision unit (for large size) 54. Also, second texture processing similar to the first is carried out only near the edge portion of the image by a processing object selection unit (for small size) 56, an orientation decision unit (for small size) 57, and a texture processing unit (for small size) 58. In this way, it is possible to generate data of an image with enhanced artistically creative effects by taking into account an original image as a whole. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205236 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN AN IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A texture processing unit | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205213 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes two-column pixel electrodes. The pixel electrodes are arrayed so that a signal line is positioned between the pixel electrodes. The pixel electrodes include a first pixel electrode which is connected to the signal line and a second pixel electrode which is not connected to the signal line. A pixel electrode of a first column of the two columns is set as the first pixel electrode, and a pixel electrode of a second column of the two columns is set as the second pixel electrode in a first row. A pixel electrode of the first column of the two columns is set as the second pixel electrode, and a pixel electrode of the second column of the two columns is set as the first pixel electrode in a second row. At least one of the first and second rows is continuously arranged. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205107 | POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A positioning device including: a time counter for counting time; a first reception controller (S | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110199528 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CAMERA - A display device includes a liquid crystal layer, which is formed of a polymer dispersed liquid crystal held between a transparent first substrate and a transparent second substrate, a transparent first segment electrode, which is formed on the first substrate so that a predetermined area becomes a positive pattern with respect to a predetermined display information, a transparent second segment electrode, which is formed on the first substrate so that a predetermined area becomes a negative pattern with respect to the predetermined display information, and the transparent second segment electrode is formed as the same first layer as the first segment electrode, a transparent common electrode, which is formed on the second substrate to face the first and second segment electrodes, and a transparent auxiliary electrode, which is formed on the first substrate along a gap between the first and second segment electrodes. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110199515 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided an image processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a moving image data acquisition unit configured to acquire moving image data representing a moving image, a notable-region specification unit configured to specify, as a notable region, a motion region among a plurality of still images forming the moving image represented by the moving image data acquired by the moving image data acquisition unit, for each still image, and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing of changing a style of each still image, in which the notable region is specified by the notable-region specification unit, into a pictorial image, by using different processes between the notable region in the still image specified by the notable-region specification unit and the rest of the still image. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110199496 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110193996 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - In a digital camera | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110193876 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a display processing apparatus that displays an image represented by image data. The apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store the image data, an obtaining unit configured to obtain surrounding image data representing an image of surroundings in which the display processing apparatus is located, a determination unit configured to determine a color given to a region not smaller than a specific threshold region in a surrounding image represented by the obtained surrounding image data or the type of person determined from a face region of a person included in the surrounding image, a conversion unit configured to convert an image represented by the image data into a specific painting style associated with the determined color or the determine type of person, and a display unit configured to display a converted image represented by the converted image data. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110187886 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, WARNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image pickup control unit displays either one of a picked-up image by a first image pickup unit and a picked-up image by a second image pickup unit on a display unit as a finder image. A feature detecting unit calculates a distribution of brightness values or brightness dispersion for each of the picked-up images by the first and second image pickup units, thereby detecting features of the two picked-up images. A sameness determining unit determines the sameness between both picked-up images based on the detected features, and determines that an abnormality like the unexpected appearance of an obstacle is present when the feature largely differs. When it is determined that an abnormality is present, a warning processing unit simultaneously displays both picked-up images on the display unit, or displays the picked-up image including the abnormality on the display unit as a finder image. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110187829 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image capture apparatus. The apparatus includes: an image capture section configured to capture an image of a subject; a focal point distance detector configured to detect a focal point distance from a main point of the image capture section to a focal point of the image capture section on the subject; an image acquisition section configured to acquire first and second images of the subject; an image position detector configured to detect a first image position and a second image position, wherein the first image position represents a position of a certain point on the subject in the first image, and the second image position represents a position of the certain point on the subject in the second image; a 3D image generator configured to generate a 3D image of the subject based on a difference between the first image position and the second image position; a parallelism computation section configured to compute parallelism based on the first and second image positions and the focal point distance; and a display section configured to display the parallelism. | 08-04-2011 |
