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| 20120131506 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a method may obtain metadata associated with corresponding values of a first characteristic and a second characteristic of a plurality of content elements. A display including a plurality of display elements may be generated, and the content elements may be assigned to corresponding ones of the display elements, based on a comparison between first and second characteristic values and first and second characteristic value ranges. A first signal may be generated to display a representation of the display to a user, and a selection of a display element may be received from the user. The method may obtain a content element assigned to the selected display element. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131422 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A transmitting device includes a setting unit that sets the data length of an error correcting code whose data length is variable, an error correcting code calculator that calculates the error correcting code having the data length set by the setting unit for transmission-subject data as an information word, and a transmitting unit that transmits, to a receiving device existing in the same device, coded data that is data of a codeword obtained by adding the error correcting code obtained by calculation by the error correcting code calculator to the transmission-subject data. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131412 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus, including: an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word; a division section adapted to allocate coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation by the error correction code calculation section to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines; and a plurality of transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines and adapted to transmit the coded data allocated by the division section to a reception apparatus through the transmission lines. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131148 | CLIENT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided a client device including a storage section which stores content data, a control section which acquires content identification information for identifying the content data stored in the storage section, and a transmission section which transmits, to a server device, a registration request including user identification information for identifying a user who uses the client device and the content identification information acquired by the control section, and which, when the server device holds the content data identified by the content identification information, causes the server device to hold information obtained by associating the user identification information with the content identification information as user-specific registration information. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130530 | 3D MODELING APPARATUS, 3D MODELING METHOD, AND MODELED OBJECT - A 3D modeling apparatus includes: a support body which supports a modeled object formed by laminating a resin material that is cured by energy of an energy ray; an illumination mechanism which illuminates the resin material with the energy ray, on the basis of image data of laminated cross-sections which constitutes 3D data of an object to be modeled which is an object of modeling, in order to form the modeled object; and a supply mechanism which supplies a material that constitutes a part of the modeled object and is different from the resin material, to the resin material that is cured as being illuminated by the illumination mechanism, on the basis of the cross-section image data. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120129077 | ION-CONDUCTING COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND FUEL CELL USING THE SAME - An ion-conducting composite electrolyte membrane with strength improved without impairing ionic conductivity, and a fuel cell using the same are provided. The proton conductive composite electrolyte membrane includes an electrolyte which includes an ion-dissociating functional group and is made of a fullerene derivative or sulfonated pitch within a range of 5 wt % to 85 wt % both inclusive, and a binder which has a weight-average molecular weight of 550000 or over and a logarithmic viscosity of 2 dL/g or over, and is made of a fluorine-based polymer such as polyvinylidene fluoride and a copolymer of polyvinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene within a range of 15 wt % to 95 wt % both inclusive. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128917 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MASTER DISC FOR OPTICAL DISC, AND MASTER DISC FOR OPTICAL DISC - An inorganic resist layer made of an incomplete oxide of a transition metal is formed as a film onto a substrate by a sputtering method. A single element or alloy of the transition metal, or an oxide of them is used as a target material. Oxygen or nitrogen is used as a reactive gas. Oxygen concentration of the inorganic resist layer is made different in the thickness direction by changing a reactive gas ratio or a film forming power. A master disc (for an optical disc) in which fine concave/convex patterns such as pits, grooves, and the like have been formed by exposing and developing the inorganic resist layer is formed. Since sensitivity rises with an increase in oxygen concentration, the sensitivity can be made different in the thickness direction of the inorganic resist layer and the concave/convex shapes of different depths can be formed on the same disc. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128916 | MOLDED OBJECT, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, SEALED MOLDED OBJECT, POLYMER, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - There are provided a molded object, a method of producing the same, a sealed molded object, a polymer, and an optical information recording medium, in each of which curing may be achieved at around room temperature in a short time without addition of an accelerator, and volumetric shrinkage accompanying the curing may be suppressed. The molded object is obtained by curing a curable composition containing a silicon analogue having one or more epoxy groups and an α-hydroxy acid. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128324 | 3D AUTHORING TOOL ENSURING NO BUFFER UNDERRUN UPON JUMPS - Systems and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing 3D content, such as on optical media like Blu-ray® discs. In one implementation, a 3D authoring tool executing on a computer system manages how to construct an image for replication where the image handles jumps without buffer underruns, the jumps caused by layer switching or by moving from or to branches in a multi-branch story line. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128307 | OPTICAL FIBER ADAPTOR AND LASER SYSTEM - An optical fiber adaptor includes: an optical fiber adaptor body including an insertion hole in which to insert a ferrule of an optical fiber plug, and a mounting section to which to mount a lock nut of the optical fiber plug having the ferrule inserted in the insertion hole; a light-transmitting sleeve which is provided in the insertion hole and which surrounds the ferrule inserted in the insertion hole; a first detection section operable to optically detect, from the outer peripheral side of the sleeve, whether or not the ferrule is inserted in the insertion hole; and a second detection section operable to detect the position of the lock nut mounted to the mounting section. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128255 | PART DETECTION APPARATUS, PART DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides a part detection apparatus including, a part detection block configured to detect a location of a plurality of parts making up a subject from an input image, and a part-in-attention estimation block configured, if a location of a part in attention has not been detected by the part detection block, to estimate the location of a part in attention on the basis of the location of a part detected by the part detection block and information about a locational relation with the detected location of a part being used as reference. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128076 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING BLOCKING ARTIFACTS - The present invention relates to an apparatus for reducing blocking artifacts in a coded video signal comprising a plurality of video frames. An apparatus is proposed comprising a wavelet decomposition unit that decomposes an input video frame by use of wavelet decomposition into at least two frequency bands, a block grid detector that detects block borders in at least one high frequency band of said at least two frequency bands, a deblocking unit that equalizes the energy of detected block borders with the energy of neighboring areas of the same high frequency band to obtain processed frequency bands to reduce blocking artifacts in said video frame, and a wavelet composition unit that composes an output video frame from said input video frame and said processed frequency bands by use of wavelet composition. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127848 | RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF INITIALIZING THE SAME, INITIALIZING DEVICE, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - There is provided a method of initializing a recording medium having a first surface and a second surface which face to each other with a recording layer in between. The method includes forming interference patterns to have a pitch wider than λr/2N by applying initializing light of a plane wave with a wavelength λf to the recording layer from both of the first surface side and the second surface side, where λr is a wavelength of reproducing light applied to the recording layer at the time of reproducing recorded information, and N is an average refractive index of the recording layer. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127778 | MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device includes: a transistor array having transistors; and memory elements provided, one for each of the transistors. The transistor array includes a substrate having diffusion layers on a surface thereof, parallel word lines on the substrate, parallel first bit lines provided in a direction perpendicular to the word lines, bit contact electrodes between the adjacent two word lines and connecting the first bit lines and the diffusion layers, and node contact electrodes at an opposite side to the bit contact electrodes with the two word lines in between and connected to the diffusion layers. The memory elements have lower electrodes connected to the node contact electrodes, memory layers on the lower electrodes and having resistance values reversibly changing by voltage application, and parallel second bit lines extending in the same direction as that of the first bit lines on the memory layers. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127572 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display mode control unit configured to switch the display unit between a first stereoscopic display mode configured for a viewer to view images with stereoscopic viewing glasses and a second stereoscopic display mode configured for a viewer to view images without stereoscopic viewing glasses. Also described is a method of displaying images that includes switching between displaying images in a first stereoscopic display mode in which images are displayed to be viewed with stereoscopic viewing glasses and a second stereoscopic display mode in which images are displayed to be viewed without stereoscopic viewing glasses. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127546 | HOLOGRAM LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HOLOGRAM LAMINATE - A hologram laminate is provided with a hologram recording layer in which holograms are recorded, a first bonding layer, a pattern layer having a first region and a second region, and a second bonding layer. The hologram recording layer, the first bonding layer, the pattern layer, and the second bonding layer are laminated in this order. Detaching strength of the first bonding layer is larger than detaching strength of the second bonding layer. The detaching strength of the second bonding layer with respect to the first region and the detaching strength of the second bonding layer with respect to the second region are different. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127404 | LIQUID CRYSTAL APPARATUS, COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE, AND ARRAY SUBSTRATE - Disclosed is a liquid crystal apparatus including a plurality of dot regions. The liquid crystal apparatus includes a pair of transparent substrates disposed with a gap, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of transparent substrates, and a polarizer formed by disposing, on at least one of surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates which are opposed to each other, a polarization layer group constituted of a plurality of polarization layers including an inorganic fine particle layer having a shape anisotropy, the polarization layer group corresponding to one of the dot region and the plurality of dot regions. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127372 | 2K MODE INTERLEAVER WITH ODD INTERLEAVING ONLY AND PER OFDM SYMBOL PERMUTAION CODE CHANGE IN A DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING (DVB) STANDARD - A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM sub-carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, the order being determined from a set of addresses, with the effect that the data symbols are interleaved on to the sub-carrier signals. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator which comprises a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127286 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE AND 3D DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: an optical barrier unit which includes a plurality of gate groups each including a plurality of gates, and in which gates in different groups perform a gating operation individually at different timings; a combined image generator which generates a plurality of sequences of combined images each corresponding to the plurality of gate groups based on a plurality of different viewpoint images in accordance with an opening timing of the respective gate groups; and a display unit which displays the corresponding sequence of combined images in synchronization with the gating operation of the respective gate groups, wherein the combined image generator generates at least one sequence of combined images through interpolation. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127197 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, RECEPTION CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTENT TRANSCEIVING SYSTEM - A transmission control device may include an acquiring unit to acquire information indicating an orientation of a transmission apparatus. In addition, the device may include a control unit to control the transmission apparatus to transmit to a reception apparatus content of the transmission apparatus when an operation is performed to the transmission apparatus after the information indicating the orientation is acquired, the operation corresponding to the orientation. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127123 | TOUCH PANEL APPARATUS AND TOUCH PANEL DETECTION METHOD - A touch panel apparatus includes a detector configured to detect contact or approach of an object to a panel within a detection range of the panel, a controller configured to execute the detection on the entire panel and control the detection range in accordance with a result of the detection, and an output unit configure to determine and output a position corresponding to the contact or the approach of the object within the detection range controlled by the controller. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ACCESS CODE - Methods and apparatus are provided for generating an access code. In one embodiment, a method may include detecting user activation of a directional input of a device, wherein the user activation relates to a plurality of directional input commands, and determining an access code based on the user activation of the directional input, the access code including a plurality of code elements wherein each code element of the access code is associated with a direction of the directional input based on the user activation. The method may further include outputting code elements of the access code. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126744 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF CHARGING ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PROGRAM, CHARGING CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD - Provided is an electronic device including a secondary battery, a charging section which charges the secondary battery with power supplied from an external power supply section with a set charging current, a measurement section which measures an amount of charge accumulated in the secondary battery, a time information acquisition section which acquires time information, a storage section which stores charging history information indicating a time period in which a user performs charging, and a control section which has a chargeable time estimation section that estimates chargeable time based on the charging history information and the time information, and a charging current setting section that calculates a restricted charging current which enables the secondary battery to be charged up to a charging capacity within the chargeable time, based on the amount of charge acquired from the measurement section, and sets the restricted charging current in the charging section. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126291 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device including at least a p-channel field-effect transistor region formed above a compound semiconductor substrate. The p-channel field-effect transistor region includes an undoped buffer layer; a p-type channel layer formed in contact with the buffer layer; a p-type source region and a p-type drain region formed in the channel layer, being separated with each other; and an n-type gate region formed above the channel layer and between the source region and the drain region. The buffer layer is formed having either a multilayer structure including a hole diffusion control layer with a band gap larger than the channel layer, or a single layer structure including only the hole diffusion control layer. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120124511 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TABLE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing device includes a touch panel that detects a first user input, a communication unit that communicates with a portable terminal which detects a second user input, a data obtaining unit that obtains content data including an operable object, a display output unit that outputs a content image which displays the object, and a control unit that controls an operation of the object displayed in the content image, wherein the control unit executes a first operation of the object if the first user input is detected by the touch panel, and executes a second operation of the object if the second user input is received from the portable terminal by the communication unit. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124455 | CODING APPARATUS, CODING METHOD, DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, PROGRAM AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a coding apparatus, including: a calculation section adapted to calculate, based on information of a transmission object, a linear code to be used for error detection of the information; a production section adapted to produce coded data including a plurality of sets of the information and the linear code calculated by the calculation section; and a transmission section adapted to transmit the coded data to a reception apparatus. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124054 | RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, DATA SEARCH DEVICE, DATA SEARCH METHOD, AND DATA GENERATING DEVICE - A data search device includes a playback unit playing back subjective data representing a subjectivity for predetermined content data from a recording medium on which the subjective data is recorded in association with the content data; a receiving unit receiving subjective data input by a user; and a searching unit searching for the content data in accordance with the subjective data played back by the playback unit and the subjective data received by the receiving unit. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124023 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program are provided. An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A receiver receives a command requesting for the execution of predetermined processing. A storage unit stores data and first information indicating, among a plurality of stages in a lifecycle of the information processing apparatus, the current stage determined by the stored data and second information indicating an executable command in the current stage, the executable command being determined for each of the plurality of stages. A determining unit determines on the basis of the first information and the second information whether the command received by the receiver is an executable command in the current stage. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120123735 | WALKING SITUATION DETECTION DEVICE, WALKING SITUATION DETECTION METHOD, AND WALKING SITUATION DETECTION PROGRAM - A walking situation detection device includes an acquisition unit which acquires an acceleration value according to an action of a user in a predetermined cycle, an interval detection unit which detects a first time interval and a second time interval from the acceleration value, a determination unit which determines a position where the user carries a terminal in his or her body based on a ratio of the first time interval to the second time interval, and a number of steps determination unit which determines the number of steps of the user based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120123722 | FLUORESCENT SPECTRUM CORRECTING METHOD AND FLUORESCENT SPECTRUM MEASURING DEVICE - A fluorescent spectrum correcting method includes comparing fluorescent spectrum obtained from micro-particles labeled with a plurality of fluorescent pigments with reference spectrum to separating the fluorescent spectrum into fluorescent spectrum for each pigment, and previously measured spectrum data is used as the reference spectrum. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120122493 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, POSITION RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a main function unit which realizes main functions of the information processing device and is operated by being switched between a normal operation mode and a power-saving mode in which less power is consumed than in the normal operation mode, a position acquisition unit which acquires positional information indicating the current position, and a logging controller which causes a first storage unit to record movement trace information obtained by making the positional information acquired by the position acquisition unit correspond to the time when the positional information is acquired in the state where the main function unit is switched to the power-saving mode. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120122416 | Signal receiving apparatus, signal receiving method and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including a frequency conversion section configured to carry out frequency conversion on a modulated signal transmitted to the signal receiving apparatus by adoption of a radio transmission technique, wherein the frequency conversion section carries out the frequency conversion by adoption of a frequency conversion method selected from a plurality of frequency conversion methods adoptable by the frequency conversion section in the frequency conversion to be executed on the modulated signal. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120122257 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, CONVEX PART FORMED ON BACKING, AND CONVEX PART FORMATION METHOD FOR BACKING - A convex part formation method of forming a convex part in parallel with a < | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121967 | Non-Aqueous Electrolyte Battery - A non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes a battery device in which a positive electrode is faced to negative electrode through a separator; a non-aqueous electrolyte; a laminate film which is formed by laminating a metal layer, an outside resin layer formed in outer face of the metal layer, and an inside resin layer formed in the metal layer, and in which the battery device and the non-aqueous electrolyte is packaged by heat welding and housed; a positive electrode lead which is electrically connected to the positive electrode, and drawn from portion heat-welded of the laminate film to an exterior thereof; a negative electrode lead which is electrically connected to the negative electrode, and drawn from portion heat-welded of the laminate film to an exterior thereof; and a porous polymer layer containing, as a component, vinylidene fluoride formed between the laminate film and the battery device. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121965 | SECONDARY BATTERY, BATTERY UNIT, AND BATTERY MODULE - There is provided a secondary battery including a battery device that has a thickness of 3 to 20 mm, and a battery discharge capacity of 3 to 50 Ah, and an exterior material that packages the battery device. The battery device includes a positive electrode that has a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode that has a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer, a separator that is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode that are alternately laminated, a positive electrode tab that is electrically connected to a positive electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material, and a negative electrode tab that is electrically connected to a negative electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121484 | MICROCHIP - Disclosed herein is a microchip that allows a sample to be introduced into a region easily and accurately, and which makes it possible to obtain high analysis accuracy. The microchip includes an airtight region into which a solution is externally introduced; and positioning means for positioning a channel for injecting the solution into the region by penetrating a substrate layer forming the region with respect to a puncture part of the region. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121188 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method whereby deterioration of effects of filter processing due to local control of filter processing when encoding or decoding can be suppressed. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121134 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a control apparatus, a control method, and a program in which, when performing automatic image-recording, the frequency with which image-recording is performed can be changed so that the recording frequency can be suitably changed in accordance with, for example, a user's intention or the state of an imaging apparatus. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121090 | CONTENT PROTECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - There is disclosed a content protection method and apparatus. The content protection method and apparatus further improves such related schemes by facilitating spatial as well as temporal management of content. This is achieved by storing encrypted content and a corresponding decryption key and destroying the decryption key when suitable. In order to further facilitate the content protection, the decryption key may be received periodically, which allows for a large number of people to connect to the network at different times. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121089 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, OPERATION TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a security level determination section which determines a security level at a time of transmitting a key to an operation terminal, as a transmission security level, a transmission power determination section which determines a transmission power in accordance with the transmission security level and a key-dividing number included in a key transmission request, a key acquisition section which acquires each key fragment by dividing the key into the key-dividing number, and a transmission section which transmits the each key fragment acquired by the key acquisition section using the transmission power determined by the transmission power determination section, via a wireless signal to the operation terminal. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120862 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - Signal distribution, signal switching, and signal collection are performed with a simple configuration. An electronic device comprises a transmission unit ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120786 | DISC CARTRIDGE - A disc cartridge includes a case body for receiving disc-shaped recording media in an axial direction of a central shaft so that first and second shells respectively having a base surface portion parallel to a recording surface of the disc-shaped recording media are coupled separated by axial engagement/disengagement; and a lock lever supported perpendicular to the axial direction in the case body and locking the shells coupled. The shells are separated to form a disc insertion/extraction hole for the insert or discharge of the disc-shaped recording media into/from the case body. A support shaft serving as a pivoting point of the lock lever is installed to the case body. The lock lever includes a supported portion supported by the support shaft, a lock portion protruding from the supported portion and locking the shells, and a balance portion protruding from the supported portion approximately opposite to protrusion of the lock portion. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120580 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus, including: a base chassis formed as a unitary member from a transparent material and having two faces positioned on the opposite sides to each other and individually formed as a first mounting face section and a second mounting face section; a display unit having a display panel thereon and attached to said first mounting face section of said base chassis; a control circuit board attached to said second mounting face section of said base chassis; and a rear cover attached to said second mounting face section of said base chassis and configured to cover said control circuit board. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120552 | ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR - An electrochemical capacitor capable of improving discharge characteristics is provided. A cathode and an anode are laminated with a separator in between. The cathode includes a cathode active material layer on one surface of a cathode current collector, and the anode includes an anode active material layer on one surface of an anode current collector. Both of the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer include both of an ionic liquid and a polymer compound together with the active materials. Since the ionic liquid is retained by the polymer compound in the cathode and the anode, discharge capacity is less likely to be reduced. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120517 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING DATA REPRODUCTION INDEPENDENT OF DATA PROCESSING - A processing unit performs a method including controlling a reading-out of data from a first storage medium at a predetermined read-out data rate to produce inputted data, and controlling a compression of the inputted data to produce first compressed data of a first compressed format. The method includes controlling a storage of the first compressed data in a second storage medium at a faster writing data rate than the predetermined read-out data rate, controlling a reading-out of second compressed data of a second compressed format from the second storage medium, and controlling a decompression of the second compressed data to produce decompressed data. The method also includes controlling simultaneously the storage of the first compressed data in the second storage medium, the reading-out of the second compressed data from the second storage medium, and audibly reproducing the decompressed data. The first compressed format is different from the second compressed format. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120295 | IMAGE SENSOR, DATA OUTPUT METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND CAMERA - An image sensor includes: a pixel array block configured to get image data by photoelectrically converting light; a register group configured to store information associated with processing of the image sensor; and a parallel interface configured to output the image data to outside in parallel output; wherein the parallel interface further outputs a register value group stored in the register group to outside when the image data is not being outputted to outside. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120294 | Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus - An solid-state imaging device includes a pixel region formed on a semiconductor substrate, an effective pixel region and a shielded optical black region in the pixel region, a multilayer wiring layer formed on a surface of the side opposite to a light incident side of the semiconductor substrate, a supporting substrate bonded to a surface of the multilayer wiring layer side, and an antireflection structure that is formed on the bonding surface side of the supporting substrate. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120293 | Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment - A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels converting physical quantities into electric signals are arranged in a two-dimensional shape, a vertical signal line for reading signals from the pixels, and column circuits arranged corresponding to columns of the pixel unit and collecting the signals from the vertical signal line at the inside of the pixel unit. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120289 | IMAGE OUTPUTTING APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUTTING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, DATA STRUCTURE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image outputting apparatus includes a header production section for producing a header including header information formed from first and second frame information regarding whether pixel data included in a payload are of first and last lines of one frame, respectively, first line information regarding whether or not the pixel data included in the payload are valid, and second line information regarding a line number of a line formed from the pixel data included in the payload, and an error detection code for use for detection of an error of the header information. A packet production section produces a packet which includes, in the payload thereof, pixel data for one line which configure an image obtained by imaging by an imaging section and to which the header is added. An outputting section outputs the produced packet to an image processing apparatus. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120287 | IMAGE OUTPUTTING APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUTTING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides an image outputting apparatus, including, an image pickup section, an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code using pixel data, which configure an image obtained by image pickup by the image pickup section, as an information word, and an outputting section adapted to output coded data, which are data of a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code to the pixel data, to an image processing apparatus provided in an apparatus in which the image outputting apparatus is provided. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120267 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE-CAPTURING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to, for example, an electronic apparatus, a control method, and a program that are capable of realizing an image-capturing system that is more intelligent than existing systems and useful for the user, and to the image-capturing system. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120249 | CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control apparatus, an imaging system, a control method, and a program in which, when performing automatic image-recording, subjects which seem to be present around an imaging apparatus can be recorded as evenly as possible. An automatic recording operation for recording, upon detection of a subject from an image obtained by imaging, data representing an image containing the subject is performed. On that basis, if it is determined, on the basis of image-recording history information, that the transition to a subject configuration different from that used in the last image-recording is to be performed, a movable mechanism unit is moved to change an imaging field-of-view range, thereby obtaining a different subject configuration. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120241 | VIDEO SURVEILLANCE - A video surveillance system comprises two or more video cameras each providing a video signal, the cameras each being positioned at a respective known location; a motion detector to detect image motion of an image feature within the field of view of one of the video cameras and for deriving a corresponding physical motion of an object represented by the image feature; and a motion predictor to predict the physical motion of the object with respect to the known locations of the cameras so as to derive an expected time when the object may be observed in the field of view of another one of the video cameras, in which the motion predictor is responsive to routing data defining possible routes from the observed location of the object to the field of view of another of the cameras. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120237 | VIDEO PROCESSING - Video processing comprises storing data relating to images of a video signal captured over at least a reference period relative to a current image of the video signal; comparing the current image with a reference image of the video signal captured within the reference period, so as to detect image features in the current image representing changes with respect to a corresponding position in the reference image; detecting whether a detected image feature in the current image has remained at substantially the same image position over a group of images preceding the current image; and displaying the current image with an indication of any such image features and an indication of the duration of the presence of the image feature at that image position. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120213 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a two-dimensional display unit that displays p viewpoint videos, which are spatially divided, within one screen; and an optical device that optically splits the p viewpoint videos displayed on the display unit so as to enable a stereoscopic view at p viewpoints. The display unit includes unit pixels each formed from sub-pixels that display r types of colors necessary for a color video display, and the sub-pixels that emit light of different colors are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in a same row in a screen horizontal direction. Each of the p viewpoint videos is displayed in n sub-pixel rows, each of which is configured by the sub-pixels aligned in a first direction other than the screen horizontal direction and which are consecutive in the screen horizontal direction, in the screen horizontal direction on a cycle of (p×n) rows. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120188 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus including an interface that receives an input identifying a subject, and a processor that generates a panoramic image based on captured image data so that the subject is positioned in a reference position in the panoramic image. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120187 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus including an interface that receives an input identifying a subject, and a processor that controls a display to display information indicating a position of the subject in a graphic representation corresponding to a panoramic image based on an orientation of a device capturing image data for generating the panoramic image. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120121 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an image display apparatus including: a transmissive display panel; an illuminator configured to illuminate a rear surface of the transmissive display panel; an optical separator which includes a plurality of switchers capable of switching between a light transmitting state and a light blocking state, for separating an image displayed on the transmissive display panel by bringing one of the switchers into the light transmitting state and the other switchers into the light blocking state; and a light regulator capable of switching between a light diffusing state and a light transmitting state. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120106 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image display device includes: a storage means for storing a plurality of items of image data; a first classifying means for classifying the plurality of the items of image data in a first predetermined unit; a second classifying means for breaking the plurality of the items of image data classified by the first classifying means into smaller groups in a second predetermined unit; a display control means for controlling display in such a way that images are displayed in the second predetermined unit based on the image data broken into smaller groups by the second classifying means; and a display means for performing a predetermined display based on the control performed by the display control means. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120063 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes an input section where performing of input of an operation on a display image is possible using a multi-viewpoint image, a parallax detection section which detects the parallax of each image which configures the multi-viewpoint image, and a parallax control section which adjusts parallax of the multi-viewpoint image in a case where it is at least possible to perform an operation on the display image using the input section. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120036 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRIVING A DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a display apparatus including a switching transistor, a correction voltage for eliminating an effect of a variation in a characteristic of a driving transistor is stored in a storage capacitor. The switching transistor is disposed between one current terminal of the driving transistor and a light emitting element. The switching transistor turns off during the non-light emission period thereby to electrically disconnect the light emitting element from the one current terminal of the driving transistor thereby preventing a leakage current from flowing through the light emitting element during the period in which the correction unit operates, and thus preventing the correction voltage from having an error due to the leakage current. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119998 | SERVER DEVICE, DISPLAY OPERATION TERMINAL,AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM - Systems and methods for operating an operational terminal and a server are provided. In various aspects, an operational terminal may transmit information regarding the operational terminal and a remote commander for controlling a device. A server may receive the information, and transmit display information and signal code information to the operational terminal. The display information may include information for displaying operational elements of the remote commander on a display screen. The signal code information may include control information corresponding to each of the operational elements. The operational terminal may display the operational elements on a display screen for selection by a user. Upon selection of a particular operational element, the operational terminal may transmit a control signal for remotely controlling an operation of the device, where the control signal may be transmitted in accordance with the received signal code information corresponding to the selected operational element. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119827 | DEMODULATORS - Disclosed herein is a demodulator, including: a splitting/matching section for carrying out a matching process of making the amplitude and phase of a first modulated signal match respectively the amplitude and phase of a second modulated signal; and a demodulation section for generating a demodulated signal on the basis of the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal, which have been subjected to the matching process carried out by the splitting/matching section, wherein the splitting/matching section has a splitting section, a first matching section, and a second matching section, the first circuit-element constants determining the first input impedance of the first matching section and the second circuit-element constants determining the second input impedance of the second matching section are set at values determined in advance in order to make the first input impedance equal to the second input impedance. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119372 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes: a substrate including an electrode pad on a surface; a semiconductor chip placed on the substrate so as to be electrically connected to the electrode pad; a first resin layer which is formed on the substrate and is also filled between the substrate and the semiconductor chip; and a second resin layer, laminated on the first resin layer, which has an elastic modulus larger than that of the first resin layer. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119316 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME, AND MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE FOR SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A method for making a solid-state imaging device includes forming a pinning layer, which is a P-type semiconductor layer or an N-type semiconductor layer, on a first substrate by deposition; forming a semiconductor layer on the pinning layer; forming a photoelectric conversion unit in the semiconductor layer, the photoelectric conversion unit being configured to convert incident light into an electrical signal; forming, on the semiconductor layer, a transistor of a pixel unit and a transistor of a peripheral circuit unit disposed in the periphery of the pixel unit, and then forming a wiring section on the semiconductor layer; bonding a second substrate on the wiring section; and removing the first substrate after the second substrate is bonded. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119288 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device, including: a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor region having pairs of first pillar regions of the first conductivity type, and second pillar regions of a second conductivity type alternately provided; a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type; a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type; and control electrodes each provided within a trench through an insulating film, a sidewall of the trench being formed so as to contact each of the third semiconductor region and the fourth semiconductor region. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119205 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A thin film transistor, which is capable of improving carrier mobility, and a display device and an electronic device, each of which uses the thin film transistor, are provided. The thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer including a multilayer film including a carrier travel layer configuring a channel and a carrier supply layer for supplying carriers to the carrier travel layer; a gate insulating film provided between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer; and a pair of electrodes as a source and a drain. A conduction band minimum level or a valence band maximum level corresponding to a carrier supply source of the carrier supply layer is higher in energy than a conduction band minimum level or a valence band maximum level corresponding to a carrier supply destination of the carrier travel layer. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119069 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT - A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate having a principal surface, and three or more pixel regions formed in at least one direction of two different directions along the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. Each pixel region includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions having different sensitivities. The photoelectric conversion region having the highest sensitivity in peripheral pixel regions of the pixel regions has a higher sensitivity than the photoelectric conversion region having the highest sensitivity in a central pixel region of the pixel regions. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119063 | Solid-state imaging device and method of adjusting reference voltage - A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit that includes a plurality of pixels arranged two dimensionally and a plurality of read-out signal lines used for reading out pixel signals from the plurality of pixels; test voltage applying units that are disposed at the read-out signal lines and apply test voltages of various voltage levels to the read-out signal lines; a reference voltage generating circuit that includes a MOS transistor used for generating a reference voltage and can change an operating point of the MOS transistor; and an operating point control unit that controls a process of adjusting the operating point of the MOS transistor based on the test voltages and the reference voltage. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120118371 | LIGHT ELECTRON CONVERSION ELEMENT - A photoelectric conversion element includes a substrate that has a first unevenness structure including a plurality of first convex portions on one principal surface and a second unevenness structure formed on a surface of the first unevenness structure and including a plurality of second convex portions. A light-receiving element is formed on the one principal surface of the substrate and includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode in this order from the side of the substrate. At least the first electrode of the light-receiving element has a third unevenness structure replicated from one or both of the first and second unevenness structures on a surface opposite to the substrate. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120117590 | DEVICE REGISTRATION PROCESS FROM SECOND DISPLAY - Apparatus and methods to implement a technique for using a second display with a network-enabled television. In one implementation, this feature allows the user to conveniently register and manage their IPTV device directly from a second display device instead of going to a separate registration website. A typical current situation requires the user to either leave the living room for the PC which is inconvenient or perform the registration directly on the IPTV which often has a poor input interface. The second display could be a smart phone that can often be found beside the user, or a laptop or tablet PC, a desktop PC, or the like. After registration, certain convenient follow-up features can be implemented, such as directly selecting the device for browsing, or inheritance of configurations of other available devices for the newly-registered device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117588 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO CONTROL IPTV SETTINGS FROM A SECOND DISPLAY - Systems and methods for allowing a user to control IPTV settings from a second display, e.g., on an external device. In one implementation, such settings include brightness, volume, parental controls, input controls, language, clock, zip code etc. On-screen preview, wherever applicable, is also available when changing settings using the second display. This allows the user to change the settings of the TV without disturbing the TV screen. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117587 | SECOND DISPLAY SUPPORT OF CHARACTER SET UNSUPPORTED ON PLAYBACK DEVICE - Systems and methods are provided to allow users to browse services, content items, or the like using the language that is generally most familiar to them, and in particular ones that are not available on an IPTV. Thus, users can browse content offerings on the second display in a language and font set that are personalized to themselves, and they may further send the content item to the IPTV for playback. The disclosed systems and methods provide a way for a group of users to exploit individual “second displays” to view, browse, and navigate content or data service offerings, by service providers, e.g., internet network services, in a preferred language and using preferred fonts, especially one not supported by a content playback device, on behalf of a content playback device, e.g., IPTV, the same having authenticated credentials for playback of such content, and then arrange for a selected content item or items to be played back on the content playback device. The second displays serve as a visual aid to the IPTV, but generally do not require additional investment by the user because the same make use of a device, e.g., a smartphone, laptop computer, tablet computer, an internet appliance, a desktop computer, etc., which most users would already have in their possession. Such a second display is a significant complement to an IPTV because of the second display's strength in supported languages and character font sets, data entry, processing power, and user experience in content management. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117586 | EMPLOYMENT OF MULTIPLE SECOND DISPLAYS TO CONTROL IPTV CONTENT - Disclosed are systems and methods to enable a multiple users browsing content offerings on multiple devices to have their selections played by a content playback device using its own authentication credentials. The users can then continue to browse the content offerings on their multiple second displays without interrupting the content that is playing on the main content playback device. The method is an architecture design and implementation that allows users to navigate, browse, and search content offerings on a second display such as a smart phone, PC, laptop, tablet, internet appliance, or any other device with a capability to couple to a network. Concurrently, while a user is using the content playback device, another user can perform browsing activities on a second display and send a media selection to a primary content playback device of the user's choice for queueing and/or playback. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117583 | ADAPTABLE VIDEOLENS MEDIA ENGINE - A system, method, and computer program product for automatically analyzing multimedia data are disclosed. Embodiments receive multimedia data, detect portions having specified features, and output a corresponding subset of the multimedia data. Content features from downloaded or streaming movies or video clips are identified as a human probably would do, but in essentially real time. Embodiments then generate an index or menu based on individual consumer preferences. Consumers can peruse the index, or produce customized trailers, or edit and tag content with metadata as desired. The tool can categorize and cluster content by feature, to assemble a library of scenes or scene clusters according to user-selected criteria. The results may be sent to visual search engines so that further related content may be identified for use as a customized trailer, replacement content for advertisements, or as material to be shared with others. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117576 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FEEDBACK FROM A DEVICE - A method and apparatus for providing a user device with data based on user feedback from the user device. The method includes obtaining usage data of the user device using an application programming interface (API). A data file is generated or created based on the obtained usage data and the data file is uploaded from the user device to an external server device where data analysis of the data file is performed. The results of the analysis is used to increase user device performance. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117511 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN EXTERNAL MENU DISPLAY - Systems and methods are provided for sending a data request from a secondary display device to a main display device for menu data present on the main display device, wherein the main display device is capable of performing a set of functions and wherein the menu data corresponds to the set of functions, receiving the menu data associated with the data request, generating a menu at the secondary display device according to the data and displaying the menu such that the menu provides the user with means for viewing one or more of the set of functions, receiving a selection with relation to the menu to perform at least one function of the one or more of the set of functions from a user at the secondary display device and sending a command to the main display device to perform the at least one function at the main display device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FEEDBACK FROM A DEVICE FOR RECOMMENDATIONS - A system and method for utilizing user feedback of a user device. The method includes accessing a troubleshooting request for a user device and obtaining use pattern data of a user's use pattern of the user device. Operational setting information of the user device is obtained. Next, analysis of the use pattern data and the operational setting information of the user device is performed. A customized troubleshooting step list is generated, which is based on the analysis. A plurality of troubleshooting steps is performed in a sequence based on the customized troubleshooting step list. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a power switch which is turned ON and OFF for supplying and cutting off power; a power supply portion which supplies power to each portion through the power switch; an operation control portion to which power is supplied from the power supply portion regardless of the ON or OFF state of the power switch, which controls power supply to a main storage device including a built-in cache memory based on software; a measurement portion which measures temperature of a measurement target; and a power control portion which is controlled by the operation control portion and controls power supply to the main storage device from the power supply portion. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117288 | Arbitration circuit and control method thereof - An arbitration circuit includes a use frequency setting block that sets a setting value for limiting a bus use frequency for each of a plurality of masters. A use request management section holds the bus use request from each of the plurality of masters and selects a use request that has not been granted from among the held use requests. A use frequency limitation block limits the use request selected by the use request management section such that the bus use frequency of each of the plurality of masters will not exceed its setting value. A use request grant block grants a use request of any one of the plurality of masters from among use requests not limited by the use frequency limitation block received from the plurality of masters. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117227 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FEEDBACK FROM A DEVICE - An apparatus and method for utilizing user feedback of a user device. The method includes obtaining usage data of a user device using an application programming interface (API) and creating a data file based on the obtained usage data. The data file is uploaded from the user device to an external server device where data analysis of the data file is performed and a result of the data analysis is generated. This result is presented using a display unit. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117210 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes: a selection unit that selects a second wireless provider used when an application service is provided to a wireless terminal device on the basis of a connection request transmitted from the wireless terminal device storing contract authorization information of a first wireless provider constituting a plurality of wireless providers providing a wireless connection service through a wireless line, the connection request being based on a user operation for using the application service, from the plurality of wireless providers on the basis of the content of the application service and a position of the wireless terminal device; and a control unit that controls rewriting instruction information for rewriting contract authorization information stored in the wireless terminal device into contract authorization information of the second wireless provider to be transmitted to the wireless terminal device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117191 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117189 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FEEDBACK FROM A DEVICE - An apparatus and method for utilizing user feedback of a user device. The method includes identifying state information of the CPU and obtaining usage information when the CPU is identified to be in a processing state. The average CPU usage is calculated and the CPU is upgraded based on the calculated average. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117183 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USE IN PROVIDING ACCESS THROUGH A SECONDARY DEVICE TO SERVICES INTENDED FOR A PRIMARY DEVICE - Some embodiments provide methods of providing access to services comprise: receiving, from over a distributed network, a request from a secondary device to access an account; confirming authorization to access the account; identifying one or more primary devices registered with and corresponding to the account in response to confirming authorization to access to the account, where the one or more primary devices are multimedia playback devices; receiving, from the secondary device, a selection of a first primary device of the one or more primary devices, where the first primary device is separate and distinct from the secondary device; identifying services available to the first primary device and configured to be utilized through the first primary device; and providing access, through the secondary device, to the identified services. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117179 | MEDIA PLAYBACK CONTROL THROUGH REMOTE DEVICE CONTROL - Methods and systems are provided for establishing a connection with a first processor-based device at a second processor-based device, receiving through the connection a control command from the first processor-based device implemented according to a first protocol, wherein the command corresponds to a remote control command received through a remote control device at the first processor-based device, translating the control command from the first protocol to a second protocol executable at the second processor-based device, and executing an event in response to the control command having been translated into the second protocol. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117167 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A USER IN A VIEWING SOCIAL NETWORK - Method and systems are provided for initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences for the user, one or more connections associated with the user, and media preferences for each of the one or more connections, retrieving at least a portion of the user information for the user from the social networking server and generating a viewing recommendation for the user at least in part based on at least one of the media preferences of the user, and the media preferences of the one or more connections, the viewing recommendation comprising one or more multi-media content. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117145 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USE IN PROVIDING A REMOTE USER INTERFACE - The present embodiments provide systems, methods and apparatuses for use in providing the playback of content. Some of these embodiments provide methods of playing back multimedia content, comprising: implementing, on a multimedia rendering client device coupled with a LAN, a simplified Internet browser that establishes a browser environment; establishing a network connection over the LAN between the client device and a remote server; operating, within the browser environment, a lightweight remote user interface (RUI) protocol client application that is operated with a JavaScript based graphics application program interface to a graphics protocol stack of the client device; receiving graphics commands; implementing, through the RUI protocol client application in cooperation with the JavaScript based graphics application program interface, the graphics commands and generating graphics in accordance with the graphics commands; and displaying on the client device the graphics consistent with the graphics commands. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A VIEWING SOCIAL NETWORK - A system and method for detecting a user operating a first client device at an intermediary server communicatively coupled to one or more client devices including the first client device and further communicatively coupled to one or more other intermediary servers each communicatively coupled with one or more other client devices, establishing communication with at least one social networking server maintaining information corresponding to the user comprising one or more of user preferences, a plurality of user connections, and user connection preferences corresponding to each of the plurality of user connections, querying the at least one social networking server for the information, receiving the information and generating a local viewing social network for the user comprising generating a user profile according to the information, detecting one or more local connections and establishing direct communication between the user and at least one of the one or more local connections. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117139 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FEEDBACK FROM A DEVICE - A method and apparatus for providing a user device with data based on user feedback from the user device. The method includes obtaining usage data of the user device using an application programming interface (API) and creating a data file based on the obtained usage data. The data file is uploaded from the user device to an external server device and data analysis of the data file is performed. The user device is provided with selected data based on data analysis of the data file. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117128 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A configuration in which a reproducing process is enabled by constructing a virtual file system without using a local memory is realized. At the time of data reproducing process from a medium having BDMV standard compliant data in the BDMV directory and BDMV standard non-compliant data, for example, the 1080/60p or the 3D image data, are subject to the reproducing process by constructing the virtual file system in which the virtual file name corresponding to the data recorded in the BDAV or BU directory without performing the data transfer to the local memory at the time of data reproducing process from the media having a plurality of directories recorded in the BDAV or BU directories. With this configuration, the recording and reproducing of the BDMV standard compliant data and the BDMV standard non-compliant data can be performed without performing the data transfer to the local memory. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING USER DEVICES BASED ON USE PATTERN DATA - An apparatus and method for utilizing user feedback of a user device. The method includes obtaining use pattern data of a user's use patterns and performing use pattern analysis based on the use pattern data. A customized setting is generated based on the result of the use pattern analysis. A customized product recommendation is designed based on the customized setting and upgraded based on the customized setting. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117060 | PRIVATE INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE AND PRIVATE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - The events experienced are stored automatically, so that the information of higher utility for a user may be taken out with responsiveness and efficiency higher than is possible with a technique of keyword retrieval over a network. A private information storage device and a private information management device are provided in which information pertinent to an event experienced by a user is stored and managed so as to be read out, whereby the information may be taken out with higher responsiveness than with the technique of keyword retrieval over the network, while the selected information may be taken out from the extracted information more efficaciously, and the information taken out is highly useful for the user. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117046 | VIDEOLENS MEDIA SYSTEM FOR FEATURE SELECTION - A system, method, and computer program product for automatically analyzing multimedia data are disclosed. Embodiments receive multimedia data, detect portions having specified features, and output a corresponding subset of the multimedia data. Content features from downloaded or streaming movies or video clips are identified as a human probably would do, but in essentially real time. Embodiments then generate an index or menu based on individual consumer preferences. Consumers can peruse the index, or produce customized trailers, or edit and tag content with metadata as desired. The tool can categorize and cluster content by feature, to assemble a library of scenes or scene clusters according to user-selected criteria. The results may be sent to visual search engines so that further related content may be identified for use as a customized trailer, replacement content for advertisements, or as material to be shared with others. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117032 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device including: a storage device in which a plurality of files are stored in a file group in which a plurality of files are associated with one another and in a file group format in which the association is regulated, and which is able to delete a stored file; and a control unit that is able to restore a file that is deleted from files that are stored in the storage device, wherein in a case when a file that is stored in the storage device is deleted, the control unit restores a deleted file and restores the restored file to a file structure according to a file group format by arranging a file that matches a file group format in a structure of a file group format based on a restored file. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116883 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USE IN INCORPORATING TARGETED ADVERTISING INTO MULTIMEDIA CONTENT STREAMS - Some embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in distributing multimedia content. Some of these methods comprise: receiving a substantially live media stream comprising visual multimedia content and a playlist file that defines the playback of the visual multimedia content; identifying, within the media stream, a first advertisement content; identifying a source location identifier corresponding to a segment of the first advertisement content; identifying a replacement advertisement content; identifying a source location identifier corresponding to a segment of the replacement advertisement content; modifying the playlist file replacing the source location identifier corresponding to the segment of the first advertisement content with the source location identifier corresponding to the segment of the replacement advertisement content; and communicating, in substantially real time, the modified playlist file over the Internet to a remote CE device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116862 | INTERNET STRAWMAN AND USER INTERFACE THEREFOR - A user account including a personal profile is stored by a server for subsequent use. The user is provided a list of displayable entries sortable using specified criteria in a manner that allows the user to review a selection of entries and to make a change to the selection prior to submitting a transaction for processing. Responsive to a request to log into the user account, the identity of the user is verified. Once verified, the transaction is facilitated between a vendor and the user pursuant to instructions from the user. The instructions are generated based on a shopping cart screen rendered by a client device of the user. The user is sent a confirmation message regarding the transaction while the user is logged in the server. The user can be provided an account screen allowing access to information relating to user transactions and information relating to an account balance. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115440 | WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE - A wireless terminal device includes: a transmission control unit which transmits a transfer request which is for requesting a use right of contract authentication information relating to a wireless business operator providing wireless connection services, which is information held by a second wireless terminal device as another wireless terminal device, via a wireless line when a predetermined operation is input; a receiving unit which receives transfer information which is transmitted via the wireless line in response to the transfer request for transferring the use right; and a control unit which sets valid contract authentication information based on the received transfer information. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115439 | RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS - A radio terminal apparatus includes a transmission control unit transmitting an acquisition request for acquiring contract authentication information via a radio channel when a predetermined operation of acquiring the contract authentication information associated with a radio service provider providing a radio connection service is received; a reception unit receiving the contract authentication information transmitted via the radio channel in response to the acquisition request; and a control unit controlling writing the received contract authentication information in a retaining unit. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115270 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including: a photoelectric conversion section configured to convert incident light into a signal charge; a transfer transistor configured to read the signal charge from the photoelectric conversion section and transfer the signal charge; and an amplifying transistor configured to amplify the signal charge read by the transfer transistor, wherein a compressive stress film having a compressive stress is formed on the amplifying transistor. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115065 | ION-CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE, MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY USING THE SAME, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE USING MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ION-CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE - Provided are an ion-conductive composite electrolyte that improves ionic conductivity, a membrane-electrode assembly and an electrochemical device using the same, and a method for producing an ion-conductive composite electrolyte membrane. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115009 | SHRINK RESISTANT MICROPOROUS MEMBRANE AND BATTERY SEPARATOR - A shrink resistant microporous membrane includes a base material composed of a porous membrane, and a surface layer that is formed on at least one surface of the base material, and contains a heat resistant resin, a ceramic, and a clay mineral. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114843 | CONDUCTIVE INK, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF PREPARING TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM - A conductive ink includes carbon nanotubes, ionic liquid, and a solvent, wherein the viscosity of the ink is 0.01 Pa·s to 10000 Pa·s. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114336 | NETWORK DIGITAL SIGNAGE SOLUTION - The present invention relates to a network based digital signage apparatus and a method for causing the digital signage apparatus to retrieve content from a remote server, for use in displaying content thereon. By utilizing a computer network to cause a digital signage device to remotely retrieve and store and/or display content, the instant invention potentially offers significant cost savings over the use of traditional digital signage systems that require separate media player and controller hardware. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114320 | Image apparatus, imaging method and program - An imaging apparatus includes: a supplying section configured to supply a driving command for driving at least a portion of a lens in a specific direction to a focal-point adjustment device for changing or adjusting a focal-point distance in accordance with power supplied to the focal-point adjustment device; and an inference section configured to infer a position, at which the lens is located after being driven in accordance with the driving command in the specific direction, on the basis of the driving command supplied to the focal-point adjustment device and on the basis of error information serving as information on an error of a driving quantity by which the lens driven by the focal-point adjustment device is moved. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114298 | Reproduction device, reproduction method, reproduction program, and recording medium - For a content-prerecorded large capacity disc-shaped recording medium, a user interface having high flexibility is accomplished. Button image data, corresponding sound data as an effect sound, and control commands for the sound data and image data are multiplexed with a stream and recorded on the disc. A scenario reproduced from the disc is stored in a buffer. The image data and sound data are stored in a buffer. Image data is read from the buffer in accordance with a scenario and expanded to a graphics plane. In addition, corresponding sound data is read from the buffer and reproduced by a sound player. When a button image is varied in accordance with a state change of the button, an effect sound is reproduced. As a result, a more effective user interface is accomplished. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114260 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and an image processing method whereby encoding efficiency of image prediction encoding can be improved. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114233 | VIDEOLENS MEDIA ENGINE - A system, method, and computer program product for automatically analyzing multimedia data are disclosed. Embodiments receive multimedia data, detect portions having specified features, and output a corresponding subset of the multimedia data. Content features from downloaded or streaming movies or video clips are identified as a human probably would do, but in essentially real time. Embodiments then generate an index or menu based on individual consumer preferences. Consumers can peruse the index, or produce customized trailers, or edit and tag content with metadata as desired. The tool can categorize and cluster content by feature, to assemble a library of scenes or scene clusters according to user-selected criteria. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114224 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING - A method of image processing comprising receiving a plurality of interpolated images, interpolated from two adjacent camera positions having different image planes, applying a transformation to each interpolated image to a respective one of a plurality intermediate image planes, wherein each intermediate image plane is oriented intermediate to the image planes of the two adjacent camera positions depending on a viewing angle of that interpolated image relative to the adjacent camera positions. Also an integrated circuit or processor, an apparatus for capturing images and an apparatus for displaying images. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114179 | FACE DETECTION DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS AND FACE DETECTION METHOD - A face detection device for detecting the face of a person in an input image may include the following elements: a face detection circuit including a hardware circuit configured to detect a face in an input image; a signal processing circuit configured to perform signal processing based on an input image signal in accordance with a rewritable program including a face detection program for detecting a face in an input image; and a controller configured to allow the face detection circuit and the signal processing circuit to perform face detection on an image of a frame or on respective images of adjacent frames among consecutive frames, and to control face detection by the signal processing circuit on the basis of a face detection result obtained by the face detection circuit. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114150 | SPEAKER APPARATUS - A speaker apparatus includes: an actuator serving as a source of vibration; a vibration transmitting member connected to the actuator; and two sheet-like diaphragms provided opposite to each other in the thickness direction thereof with the vibration transmitting member and disposed in contact with the vibration transmitting member, wherein vibration generated at the actuator is transmitted to each of the two diaphragms through the vibration transmitting member to output sounds. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114147 | SPEAKER APPARATUS - A speaker system includes: a first speaker unit having a predetermined directivity angle in the horizontal direction; and a pair of second speaker units which are disposed opposite to each other with the first speaker unit sandwiched between them when viewed in the vertical direction and which have a directivity angle in the horizontal direction greater than the directivity angle of the first speaker unit, wherein distances from the center of the first speaker unit to the centers of the pair of second speaker units are equal to each other, and the first speaker unit and the pair of second speaker units are disposed so as to face toward the same direction. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114042 | IN LOOP CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT FOR IMPROVED MOTION ESTIMATION - The present invention relates to a motion estimation method comprising the steps of: providing first image data, providing second image data, block-matching a source block of the first image date with target blocks of the second image data to determine a motion vector corresponding to the position of the target block that most accords with the source block. The method further comprises a contrast enhancement step which is applied on source blocks and/or target blocks to improve block-matching. The invention also relates to a motion estimation device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113888 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND RELAY DEVICE - A base station is provided with a communication unit for communicating with a mobile terminal via a relay link between the base station and a relay device and an access link between the relay device and the mobile terminal, and a selection unit for selecting an allocation pattern of an uplink of the relay link, a downlink of the relay link, an uplink of the access link, and a downlink of the access link to frequency-time blocks from a plurality of allocation patterns that are different in delay occurring between the base station and the mobile terminal. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113793 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCTION METHOD - An optical recording medium provided with one or a plurality of recording layers includes an adjustment data recording area for recording therein adjustment data used for adjusting focus or spherical aberration of laser light used for recording/reproduction, the adjustment data recording area being disposed at a predetermined position on each of the one or plurality of recording layers, and a determination information recording area for recording therein determination information indicating whether or not the adjustment data has been recorded in the adjustment data recording area in each of the one or plurality of recording layers. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113789 | READ-ONLY OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - [Object] To provide a durable read-only optical recording medium having less variances in characteristics of a metal reflective film due to a temporal change. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113777 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus includes: a light illumination and light sensing unit configured to illuminate an optical disc recording medium including a reference surface having address information recorded and a recording layer, with recording light and light for position control; a recording unit which performs recording on the recording layer; and a control unit which controls, when data instructed to be recorded is to be recorded from an instructed recording start address, the recording unit to perform recording of dummy data on an area adjacent to a front side at least from the recording start address over a range of equal to or greater than the maximum spot deviation amount between an illumination spot of the light for position control and an illumination spot of the recording light and to perform recording of the data instructed to be recorded in succession to a recorded area of the dummy data. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113776 | SPOT POSITION CONTROL DEVICE AND SPOT POSITION CONTROL METHOD - A spot position control device includes a light irradiation and light sensing unit irradiating an optical recording medium with first light via an objective lens and sensing reflection light of the first light from the optical recording medium having a pit string where an interval between pit formable positions on one round is limited to a first interval, a tracking mechanism unit displacing the objective lens, a clock generation unit generating a clock corresponding to the interval between the pit formable positions, a timing selector signal generation unit generating a plurality of timing selector signals, a tracking error signal generation unit generating tracking error signals, a linear tracking error signal generation unit generating a linear tracking error signal indicating a tracking error amount linearly, a tracking servo control unit performing a tracking servo control, and an offset giving unit giving an offset to a tracking servo loop. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113775 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a light-emitting/receiving unit which emits a recording beam, an ATS beam, and a position control beam toward an optical disc recording medium via a common object lens; a tracking mechanism which drives the object lens in a tracking direction parallel to a radial direction of the optical disc recording medium; a reference plane-side tracking error signal generation unit which generates a reference plane-side tracking error signal; a reference plane-side tracking servo signal generation unit which generates a reference plane-side tracking servo signal to cancel out a tracking error; a tracking driving unit which drives the tracking mechanism; an ATS-side tracking error signal generation unit which generates an ATS-side tracking error signal; an ATS control signal generation unit which generates an ATS control signal to cancel out a tracking error; and a signal providing unit which provides the ATS control signal to a tracking servo loop. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113510 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: a display unit sequentially displaying q-pieces (“q” is an integer of 2 or more) of display patterns respectively including p-pieces (“p” is an integer of 2 or more) of viewpoint pictures arranged cyclically in one screen and having parallax therebetween; an optical separation device optically separating the p-pieces of viewpoint pictures respectively included in the q-pieces of display patterns displayed on the display unit, wherein the display unit is configured so that plural sub-pixels are two-dimensionally arranged in units of r-types (“r” is an integer of 3 or more) of colors necessary for color picture display, and one unit pixel is composed of r-pieces of sub-pixels having colors different from one another selected from the plural display patterns in respective viewpoint pictures. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113414 | PACKING CONTAINER, METHOD OF PACKING OPTICAL PROBE, LASER SYSTEM, AND CHECKING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a packing container including: a packing container body including a leading-out section which contains an optical probe having a first end section for incoming of a laser beam and a second end section for outgoing of the incoming laser beam, which leads out the first end section of the optical probe thus contained to the exterior and which is sealed, and a window section by which the laser beam going out from the second end section of the contained optical probe is led out to the exterior; and a light-transmitting member which closes the window section and permits the laser beam to pass therethrough. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113401 | PROJECTION DEVICE - There is provided a projection device including a device main body, and an open/close unit having a projection lens, the open/close unit being connected to the device main body in a manner openable and closable about an open/close axis formed in a vertical direction of the device main body and in a manner rotatable about a rotation axis that is perpendicular to the open/close axis. The projection lens is, in a closed state in which the open/close unit is closed with respect to the device main body such that the projection lens faces outward, provided on an upper side of the rotation axis of the open/close unit. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113372 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A liquid crystal display panel is provided and includes substrates opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, one of the substrates including gate and common lines disposed in parallel, source lines intersecting the gate and common lines, and switching elements in the vicinities of intersections of the gate and source lines. A lower electrode of a transparent conductive material and an upper electrode with slits are stacked with an insulating film interposed therebetween for each area defined by the gate and source lines. The upper electrode and the lower electrode are electrically connected to the corresponding switching element and the corresponding common line, respectively. The insulating film has a multi-layered structure of first and second insulating films close to the substrate and the liquid crystal layer, respectively. The surface of the lower electrode is covered with the first insulating film. The gate and common lines are formed on the surface of the first insulating film. The common line is electrically connected to the lower electrode via a contact hole formed in the first insulating film. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113324 | RECEIVER - The present invention relates to a receiver capable of reducing influence of disturbance waves and capable of receiving analog and digital broadcast signals without interference with a single front end module, without leading to complexity of the configuration. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113319 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: a display unit including plural display sections divided in a first direction and performing line sequential scanning in the first direction; and an interpolation picture generation unit generating an interpolation picture in accordance with a timing at which each display section is scanned based on supplied frame pictures, wherein the display unit displays the interpolation picture corresponding to the display section in each display section. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113302 | IMAGE PICK UP UNIT - An image pickup unit includes an image pickup lens, a lens array disposed on an image formation plane of the image pickup lens, and an image pickup device having a plurality of pixels arranged two-dimensionally along first and second directions intersecting each other. The lens array includes a plurality of lens sections each being assigned to a region of m- by n-pixel in the image pickup device, where each of m and n is an integer of 1 or more, and m is different from n. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113292 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A solid-state imaging device includes pixel cells that are formed on a substrate having a first substrate surface side, on which light is irradiated, and a second substrate surface side, on which elements are formed, and separated by an adjacent cell group and an element separation layer for each of the pixel cells or with plural pixel cells as a unit. Each of the pixel cells has a first conductive well formed on the first substrate surface side and a second conductive well formed on the second substrate surface side. The first conductive well receives light from the first substrate surface side and has a photoelectric conversion function and a charge accumulation function for the received light. A transistor that detects accumulated charges in the first conductive well and has a threshold modulation function is formed in the second conductive well. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113290 | Solid-state image sensing device and camera system - A solid-state image sensing device includes: a pixel part in which pixels are arranged in a matrix; and a pixel signal readout part including an AD conversion part that analog-digital (AD)-converts a pixel signal read out from the pixel part. Each of the adjacent pixels or one of the pixels of the pixel part is formed as divided pixels divided into regions with different photosensitivity or amounts of accumulated charge, photosensitivity or exposure time conditions are set for the divided pixels and the photosensitivity or exposure time conditions of the divided pixels provided to be opposed in diagonal directions are set to the same conditions, the pixel signal readout part reads out divided pixel signals of the respective divided pixels of the pixel, and the AD conversion part obtains a pixel signal of one pixel by AD-converting the respective read out divided pixel signals and adding the signals. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113278 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an imaging apparatus including a plurality of imaging units; a correction unit that executes a correction process for images captured by a plurality of the imaging units; and a control unit that computes a correction parameter applied to a correction process in the correction unit, wherein the correction unit executes distortion aberration correction and hand-vibration correction for each of the captured images and an image characteristic matching correction process for matching characteristics between a plurality of images captured by a plurality of the imaging units. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113277 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, IMAGAGING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND IMAGING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a control apparatus, a control method, an imaging apparatus, a program, and an imaging system able to prevent cable wrapping, etc. which has a risk of occurring when rotating an imaging apparatus while a cable is connected in an imaging system which conducts automatic imaging operations by automatic composing and which is provided with an imaging apparatus and a motorized platform apparatus that rotatably drives the imaging apparatus, for example. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113235 | 3D GLASSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZED VIEWING OF 3D VIDEO CONTENT - 3D glasses, 3D glasses systems, and related methods are disclosed for determining an orientation of the 3D glasses, and at least one of: indicating such to a user or adjusting disparity of the 3D content for optimizing a 3D video content viewing experience. The orientation of 3D glasses is determined by a tilt sensor or an infrared camera. A notification according to the orientation of the 3D glasses is provided to a user in the form of a visual indicator on a display, a vibration of the 3D glasses, or an audible sound. A video content device may be programmed to switch from a 3D presentation mode to a 2D presentation mode according to an orientation of the 3D glasses. Additionally, the system may be adapted to adjust image disparity to compensate for tilt. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113232 | MULTIPLE CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTABLE INTERAXIAL SEPARATION - Systems and methods are provided for 3-D photography. Multiple cameras or lens and sensor assemblies are employed to provide a range of interaxial separations. A user selects two of such cameras to achieve a desired interaxial separation, the two cameras separated by an interaxial separation closest to that desired. The systems and methods may be applicable to even low-cost consumer-grade still and video cameras to provide stereoscopic 3-D effects. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113222 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A video signal processing apparatus includes a correction pixel determining unit configured to detect an edge and a background region of a left-eye image and a right-eye image so as to determine a pixel that is to be corrected, a correction amount map forming unit configured to calculate a correction amount for each pixel based on whether the pixel is determined as a correction pixel, so as to form a correction amount map of a screen, and an image correcting unit configured to add the correction amount map to each of the left-eye image and the right-eye image that are inputted, so as to obtain a correction image. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113217 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium that allow a reproducing apparatus to determine which one of a base stream and an enhancement stream obtained by encoding video data obtained from a plurality of viewpoints using a predetermined encoding method is a stream of a left image and which one is a stream of a right image. 3D_PL_type indicates the type of a PlayList. The value of the 3D_PL_type equal to “01” indicates a PLayList for B-D1 reproduction of 3D reproduction. The value of the 3D_PL_type equal to “10” indicates a PLayList for B-D2 reproduction of 3D reproduction. view_type indicates whether the Base view video stream whose reproduction is managed using the PlayList is a stream of an L image (L view) or a stream of an R image (R view). The present invention is applicable to reproducing apparatuses that comply with the BD-ROM standard. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113170 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a display device including an HDMI transmission section which receives image information and control information from an STB, a display which displays the image information received from the STB on at least a part of a display area, and a CPU which, based on the control information received from the STB, controls display of the image information related to a partial display area that forms a part of the display area and also suppresses execution of a display function related to an area other than the partial display area. In this way, when performing passive information acquisition, the image information of an interactive service is displayed on the partial display area, and execution of the display function related to the area other than the partial display area is suppressed, thereby suppressing display of unnecessary video information. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113159 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a display section that is driven to perform line sequential scanning and display a plurality of different viewpoint video images; a backlight that includes a plurality of sub-light emitting areas separated in the line sequential scanning direction; a light barrier that has a plurality of open/close unit groups each of which is formed of a plurality of open/close units, the open/close units in different groups opened or closed at different timings; and a backlight controller that controls light emission from the sub-light emitting areas in the backlight in synchronization with the line sequential scanning in the display section, wherein the backlight controller separately controls intensities of the light emitted from the sub-light emitting areas. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113135 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processing device, server, and method are provided. According to some illustrative embodiments, the device and method are implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, comparing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to detection information for purposes of determining whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and executing predetermined processing based on cooperation control information when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed and the cooperation control information is received. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113096 | MEDICAL 3D VISUALIZATION - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for use in displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image representation of one or more three dimensional surface structures. More specifically, the present invention provides a method and apparatus by which data corresponding to one or more three dimensional object surfaces may be rendered to create a 3D display. In particular, this invention involves a method for rendering 3D object data into a plurality of 2D image segments or “image tiles” for use in displaying an auto-stereoscopic 3D image. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113071 | INPUT DEVICE, COORDINATES DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An input device includes an input operation surface which includes a display region, a display element which displays an operation screen, where an operation region is included in at least a portion thereof, in the display region, a sensor section which has a plurality of electrodes which are individually driven using scanning of electric signals and electrostatically detects an input position in the input operation surface, and a driving section which has a first driving mode where all out of the plurality of electrodes are driven and a second driving mode where a portion of the electrodes out of the plurality of electrodes are driven. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113056 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE DEVICE - An input device, method and computer program storage device cooperate to assist in controlling an input device. In the device, a detector detects a presence of an object that is within a first predetermined distance of a detection surface. The detector also detects when the object is within a second predetermined distance of the detection surface. A controller executes a first processing operation when the detector detects the object being within the first predetermined distance, and subsequently executes a related second processing operation when the detector detects the object being within the second predetermined distance. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113033 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes a display section displaying instruction information to be instructed to users in an instruction information display region provided corresponding to the instruction information, a touch panel capturing an instruction represented by the instruction information displayed in the instruction information display region, in response to a users' touch operation to a touch detection region provided corresponding to the instruction information display region, and a control section performing a predetermined operation control based on the instruction information inputted through the touch panel. The instruction information display region is provided in an upward zone within the touch detection region. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112989 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A pixel has an outer region extending linearly along a boundary with an adjacent pixel and an inner region extending along the inner side of the outer region. Wiring lines are arranged across the outer region and the inner region. An outer uneven zone is formed along the outer region and on a substrate due to level differences resulting from the presence of the wiring lines. Similarly, an inner uneven zone is formed along the inner region and on the substrate due to level differences resulting from the presence of the wiring lines. A pattern of a conductor film of which the wiring lines are made is formed properly such that recessed portions of the outer uneven zone are located directly behind their corresponding raised portions of the inner uneven zone, as viewed from inside the pixel. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112986 | WEB BROWSER AS SECOND DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE - Systems and methods for creating and employing software to handle the playback of media, especially video, in browsers that, in addition to or instead of playing the media in the browser, may use the second display protocols to instruct a separate display device to play the media. The software can of any type that can transmit the content or specify a network location of the content item for subsequent playback to a content playback device. In one implementation, the software may be in the form of a browser plug-in or in the form of an application that the browser is configured to use for the playback of selected media types. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112855 | CAPACITANCE ELEMENT AND RESONANCE CIRCUIT - To provide a capacitative device capable of accurately securing a capacitance value, a variable capacitative device capable of sufficiently securing a capacity variability rate, and a resonance circuit that uses the capacitative devices. A capacitative device according to the present invention includes a capacitative device body constituted of a dielectric layer and at least a pair of capacitative device electrodes that sandwich the dielectric layer and cause a desired electric field in the dielectric layer; and stress adjustment portions to adjust a stress caused in the dielectric layer of the capacitative device body. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112806 | FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER AND FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZING METHOD - The present invention relates to a frequency synthesizer comprising a main unit and a side unit. The main unit comprises a main phase detector to obtain a main control signal, a main oscillator that generates a main synthesized frequency output signal representing the frequency synthesizer output signal based on said main control signal, and a mixer that mixes said main synthesized frequency output signal with a side synthesized frequency output signal to obtain said mixer output signal. The side unit generates said side synthesized frequency output signal and comprises a frequency signal generation unit that provides a linear frequency sweep signal or a fixed-frequency control signal at a fine frequency resolution from said fixed-frequency side reference signal, and a side oscillator that generates said side synthesized frequency output signal based on said frequency sweep signal or said fixed-frequency control signal. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112267 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: a first conductivity type semiconductor base body; a first conductivity type pillar region; second conductivity type pillar regions; element and termination regions provided in the first and second conductivity type pillar regions, transistors being formed in the element region, and no transistors being formed in the termination region; body regions; a gate insulating film; gate electrodes; source regions; and body potential extraction regions, wherein voids are formed in the second conductivity type pillar regions of the termination region. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112254 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion unit that is formed on a semiconductor substrate, a reading unit that reads signal charges of the photoelectric conversion unit, a gate insulating film and an electrode disposed thereon that constitute the reading unit, a light shielding film that covers the electrode, and an antireflection film that is formed on the photoelectric conversion unit and is constituted by films of four or more layers. The film of the lower layer of the antireflection film is also used as a stopper film during patterning, and a gap between the end of the light shielding film and the semiconductor substrate which is defined by interposing a plurality of films of the lower layer of the antireflection film is set so as to be smaller than the thickness of the gate insulating film. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112182 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor having a structure that a gate electrode and an oxide semiconductor layer are disposed with a gate insulating film interposed between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, and a source/drain electrode is electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, the method including: continuously depositing an aluminum oxide (Al | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112173 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF THE SAME - Disclosed herein is an organic electroluminescence display device including: a substrate; a plurality of lower electrodes formed thereon for each of a plurality of organic electroluminescence elements; a plurality of hole injecting/transporting layers capable of either hole injection or hole transportation which are formed on the lower electrodes for each of the organic electroluminescence elements; a plurality of organic light emitting layers containing a low-molecular weight material which are formed on the hole injecting/transporting layers for each of the organic electroluminescence elements; an electron injecting/transporting layer capable of either electron injection or electron transportation which is formed over the entire surface of the organic light emitting layers; and an upper electrode formed on the electron injecting/transporting layer. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112172 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display device including a plurality of kinds of pixels that emit color light beams different from each other, the pixels being provided on a substrate, wherein each of the pixels includes an organic stacked film including one or more organic light emitting layers and another kind of organic layer, with the layer structure of another kind of organic layer differing on the basis of each of the kinds of the pixels, and a first electrode and a second electrode which are disposed so that the organic stacked film is interposed therebetween. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120111619 | CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE - A circuit substrate includes a substrate having a wiring formation surface formed in a planar shape; a primer resin layer formed on the wiring formation surface of the substrate and having a predetermined adhesive force with respect to the substrate; and a wiring layer formed on the primer resin layer, wherein the wiring layer is formed by removing a portion of the conductive ink, which contacts the wiring formation surface of the substrate coated so as to cover the primer resin layer by a removing unit, in which the adhesive force of a conductive ink with respect to the substrate is smaller than the adhesive force of the primer resin layer with respect to the substrate. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120111107 | LIQUID TANK AND FUEL CELL - Provided are a liquid tank capable of reducing an influence of disturbance on measurement results and measuring accurate volume, and a fuel cell using the same. One face of a liquid container section is structured by a detector in which a first board to a fourth board each configured of a printed board are stacked in order. A pair of detection electrodes | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120110679 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND SERVER - A service providing system includes a portable communication terminal operated by a user; a service providing apparatus providing a service to the user, and a server managing the service providing apparatus, wherein the service providing apparatus calculates a response using a challenge, and the portable communication terminal transmits a challenge generated by the server to the service providing apparatus subjected to a legitimacy check of the service providing apparatus and presents a result of the legitimacy check based on a response calculated by the service providing apparatus subjected to the legitimacy check using the transmitted challenge. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110587 | Methods and apparatuses for accumulating and distributing processing power - Calculating and distributing resources of at least one electronic device over a network. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110509 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - An electronic apparatus includes a thumbnail preparation unit configured to retrieve thumbnail images, each thumbnail image representing a scene of a different time of one or more moving images, a first thumbnail line display unit configured to time sequentially display a first plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to at least a part of one of the moving images as a first thumbnail line, a second thumbnail line display unit configured to display a second plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to a marked part of the moving images as a second thumbnail line, and a thumbnail shifting unit configured to shift a selection of a thumbnail along the second thumbnail line and update the first thumbnail line to display at least one thumbnail image of a temporally adjacent part of the marked part of the moving image corresponding to the newly selected thumbnail in response to a user instruction. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING A PRIMARY DISPLAY AREA - Receiving commands from a remote controller and automatically activating display areas for cursor navigation. Content display areas within a display frame respectively correspond to a variety of content items and include a primary display area wherein cursor navigation is activated and secondary display areas wherein cursor navigation is prevented. Remote controller navigational commands, for example, then allow cursor based navigation for the content item currently displayed in the primary display area. A content selection command such as a number key input of the remote controller allows immediate and automatic updating of the primary display area to include a desired content item that is associated to the command (e.g., the particular number). | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110415 | DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides a decoding apparatus including, a storage section configured to store a reception value, a detection section configured to detect an error in the reception value, an error correction section configured to correct an error detected by the detection section with respect to the reception value, and a control section configured to control reading of the reception value from the storage section, wherein the control section controls first reading such that the reception value is read into the detection section and, after detection of an error by the detection section, second reading such that substantially the same reception value as that in the first reading is read into the error correction section. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110407 | DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a decoding device including: an extracting section, a storing section, an allocating section, and a decoding section. The extracting section acquires data containing plural code words and information other than the plural code words in one frame, and extracts the plural code words from the data every one code word. The storing section at least stores the one code word extracted by the extracting section. The allocating section sets time obtained by dividing time for the one frame by the number of code words contained in the one frame as time allocated to decoding of one code word. The decoding section decodes the code word within the time allocated by the allocating section. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110284 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus, a data processing method, and a program that are configured to prevent (or lower) the increase in scale and cost of the apparatus. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110122 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, BROADCAST RECEPTION METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, PROGRAMS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information distribution apparatus and an information communication terminal, in which contents are managed by using content identifiers (content IDs) managed as IDs conforming to a rule of uniformity. In the information communication terminal, a content ripped from a recording medium, and stored in a storage element, is also managed by using a content identifier acquired from the information distribution apparatus. Accordingly, contents stored in the storage element can be managed by using content IDs each managed as an ID common to the information communication terminal and the information distribution apparatus. In communicating between the information communication terminal and the information distribution apparatus, a content identifier conforming to a rule of uniformity is used for identifying a content to which the content identifier is assigned, so that the terminal is capable of downloading the content as well as acquiring additional information relevant to the content from the apparatus. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110081 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for allowing communicating parties at remote locations to view the same displayed content and to point to desired positions on the displayed image of the content. A user A and a user B viewing themselves and the content on a cross-faded mode may point to desired positions on the content image with their fingertips. Motion vectors of the fingertips are then detected in particular areas extracted from the image in a manner containing the detected positions. The detected motion vectors are translated into a pointer for the user A and a pointer for the user B, the pointers being alpha-blended with the content image. The two pointers extracted from a single image are associated with the users A and B by use of different Cyber Codes attached to the fingertips of each user, for example. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110070 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the image data reference information to the server, the server creates the display structure description file and transmits the created display structure description file to the client, and the client executes processing for displaying a map on a display unit on the basis of the display structure description file received from the server and acquiring image data from a storage unit within the client on the basis of the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file and then displaying the acquired image data on the display unit. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120108181 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A first communication unit performs a non-contact communication with an external device and receives setting data from the external device. A second communication unit performs a wireless communication with the external device. A control unit establishes the wireless communication between the second communication unit and the external device by using the setting data. A data processing unit stores the setting data in a storage unit before the wireless communication is released. A communication releasing unit releases the wireless communication. The control unit uses the setting data stored in the storage unit at a time of re-performing a wireless communication between the second communication unit and the external device. The communication releasing unit releases the wireless communication when the power is not being supplied via a power input unit to which power is input from outside. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107972 | LASER DIODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A laser diode capable of independently driving each ridge section, and inhibiting rotation of a polarization angle resulting from a stress applied to the ridge section without lowering reliability and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A laser diode includes: three or more strip-like ridge sections in parallel with each other with a strip-like trench in between, including at least a lower cladding layer, an active layer, and an upper cladding layer in this order; an upper electrode on a top face of each ridge section, being electrically connected to the upper cladding layer; a wiring layer electrically connected to the upper electrode, in the air at least over the trench; and a pad electrode in a region different from regions of both the ridge section and the trench, being electrically connected to the upper electrode through the wiring layer. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107651 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY AND POWER CONSUMPTION APPARATUS - An assembled battery includes a plurality of secondary battery cell series modules each having a plurality of secondary battery cells connected in series, wherein in each secondary battery cell series module, the secondary battery cells are connected in series by a first connection member, the secondary battery cell constituting the secondary battery cell series module and the secondary battery cell constituting the secondary battery cell series module adjacent to the above secondary battery cell series module are connected in parallel by a second connection member, the electrical resistance value of the second connection member is higher than the electrical resistance value of the first connection member, and the melting point of a material constituting the second connection member is lower than the melting point of a material constituting the first connection member. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107586 | BARRIER FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A barrier film includes a base which is formed of a plastic film having a first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface, a first barrier layer which is formed on the first surface by an atomic layer deposition method and is made of an inorganic material having a water vapor barrier property; and a second barrier layer which is formed on the second surface by an atomic layer deposition method and is made of an inorganic material having a water vapor barrier property. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106869 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is disclosed an image processing apparatus including an image input unit that inputs frame image data; and a composition processing unit that generates motion transition image data expressing a motion transition of a moving subject in such a manner that a plurality of moving subject images are sequentially arranged side by side in a predetermined direction by performing a composition process using moving subject images included in a plurality of frame image data that is input by the image input unit, generates moving object image data expressing a moving object that moves according to the motion transition of the moving subject images, and performs a composition process that generates a moving object image-attached motion transition image data including the moving object images by composing the moving object image data and the motion transition image data. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106862 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image processing device, method, and program, enabling processing efficiency to be improved. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106789 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an image input configured to receive image data, a target extraction device configured to extract an object from the image data as a target object based on recognizing a first movement by the object, and a gesture recognition device configured to issue a command based on recognizing a second movement by the target object. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106773 | SPEAKER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SPEAKER DEVICE - A speaker device which can form an ideal cylindrical wave as sound traveling nondirectionally in a horizontal direction toward a listener. A vibration transmitting member is supported at one end thereof to the vertex of a conical diaphragm, and vibration generated by a vibrating element according to an acoustic signal is applied to the other end of the vibration transmitting member. The angle θ between the perpendicular dropped from the vertex of the conical diaphragm to the base thereof and the side surface of the conical diaphragm is set according to the sound velocity in the air and the sound velocity in the conical diaphragm so that the distance traveled by a sound radiated from the vertex is equal to the distance traveled by a sound radiated from an end of the side surface of the conical diaphragm farthest from the vertex. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106673 | ODD INTERLEAVING ONLY OF AN ODD-EVEN INTERLEAVER WHEN HALF OR LESS DATA SUBCARRIERS ARE ACTIVE IN A DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING (DVB) SYSTEM - A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data symbols are divided into first sets of input data symbols and second sets of input data symbols. The data processing apparatus comprises an interleaver operable to perform an odd interleaving process which interleaves the first sets of input data symbols on to the sub-carrier signals of first OFDM symbols and an even interleaving process which interleaves the second sets of input data symbols on to the sub-carrier signals of second OFDM symbols. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106660 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, DEMODULATION APPARATUS, DEMODULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception section configured to receive a signal modulated by a predetermined system defined by a predetermined standard; a decoding section configured to decode transmission parameters included in the received signal; an acquisition section configured to acquire from among sequentially decoded transmission parameters the parameters used in a demodulation process performed on the received signal; and a control section configured such that if the acquired transmission parameters used in the demodulation process on the received signal are different from the sequentially decoded transmission parameters, then the control section controls the demodulation process on the received signal based on newly decoded transmission parameters. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106619 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A signal processing apparatus includes a signal processing unit configured to carry out signal processing on a single-carrier signal and a multi-carrier signal by making use of a plurality of common filters shared by the single-carrier signal and the multi-carrier signal. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106608 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A signal processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a detection section configured such that based on a result of the error correction of a signal generated by a single carrier system, the detection section detects the presence or absence of spectrum inversion in the signal; and a selection section configured such that if the detection section detects the spectrum inversion, the selection section selects the spectrally inverted signal as the signal subject to the error correction, and that if the detection section does not detect the spectrum inversion, then the selection selects the spectrally uninverted signal as the signal subject to the error correction. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106308 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING DEVICE - An optical recording medium in which recording is performed by a recording device that is configured such that tracking servo control of recording light is performed by irradiating the recording light and ATS light for an adjacent track servo and by an adjacent track servo based on reflected light of the ATS light, wherein while a recording layer in which a mark is formed according to an irradiation of the recording light is included, a mark row is formed in advance by a pitch that is twice a distance between an irradiation spot of the recording light and an irradiation spot of the ATS light or greater in the recording layer. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105955 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical device includes first and second substrates disposed opposite each other; a partition wall provided upright on an inner surface of the first substrate, facing the second substrate, and extending, to divide a region on the first substrate into cell regions arranged in a first direction, in a second direction different from the first direction; first and second electrodes disposed on wall surfaces of the partition wall to face each other in each of the cell regions; an insulation film; a third electrode provided on an inner surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate; a protruding section formed upright on the inner surface of the second substrate and dividing each of the cell regions into sub cell regions arranged in the second direction; and polarity and non-polarity liquids sealed between the first substrate and the third electrode. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105952 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical device includes: first and second substrates disposed being opposite to each other; a partition wall provided on an inner surface of the first substrate, facing the second substrate, and extending, to divide a region on the first substrate into cell regions which are arranged in a first direction, in a second direction which is different from the first direction; first and second electrodes disposed on wall surfaces of the partition wall to face each other in each of the cell regions; a third electrode provided on an inner surface of the second substrate which faces the first substrate; a protruding section formed upright on the inner surface of the first substrate and dividing each of the cell regions into sub cell regions arranged in the second direction; and polarity and non-polarity liquids sealed between the first substrate and the third electrode and having different refraction indexes. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105753 | LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS ARRAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal lens array device includes: a first electrode; a plurality of second electrodes arranged to face the first electrode, to which drive voltages having waveforms with phase differences therebetween are applied; and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first electrode and the plural second electrodes, generating lens effects in accordance with potential differences between the drive voltage applied to the first electrode and drive voltages applied to the plural second electrodes. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105743 | Liquid crystal light adjusting device and imaging apparatus - A liquid crystal light adjusting device includes: a first liquid crystal layer on which light from one surface is incident; and a reflective film which reflects light transmitted through the first liquid crystal layer, wherein the first liquid crystal layer has adjacent alignment regions, and orientation directions of liquid crystal molecules in the adjacent alignment regions are different. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105738 | PROJECTION CONTROL DEVICE, PROJECTION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that includes a main body, a member movably attached to the main body, a first detector configured to detect an orientation of the member with respect to the main body, a second detector configured to detect whether the main body is connected to a cradle apparatus, and a processor configured to output a command for controlling an operation of a projection device based on an output of the first and second detectors. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105707 | Imaging device, imaging method, and program - An imaging device includes a detector that repeatedly carries out a series of operation of generating an evaluation value to evaluate the degree of focusing of a position after driving of a lens toward one end part in the drive range of the lens, and detects the evaluation value of a position that is closer to the end part than the position of the evaluation value of the highest degree of focusing and is immediately adjacent or adjacent across a predetermined number of positions to the position of the evaluation value of the highest degree of focusing. The imaging device further includes a drive controller that makes the series of operation be repeatedly carried out toward the other end part in the drive range of the lens, and drives the lens to a position of a degree of focusing not smaller than the detected evaluation value. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105701 | PROJECTION DEVICE, PROJECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus including a main body, a member including a projection device, the member moveably attached to the main body, a detector that detects an orientation of the moveable member with respect to the main body, and a processor that controls the projection device based on an output of the detector. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105698 | SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A MOS type solid state imaging device having unit pixels, each having a photodiode a transfer transistor for transferring the signal of the photodiode to a floating node, an amplifier transistor for outputting the signal of the floating node to a vertical signal line, and a reset transistor for resetting the floating node. A gate voltage of the reset transistor is controlled by three values of a power source potential (for example 3V), a ground potential (0V), and a negative power source potential (for example −1V). | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105696 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging element and a logic element. The imaging element includes a first semiconductor substrate, a first wiring layer, and a first metal layer, in which a pixel region which is a light sensing surface is formed. The logic element includes a second semiconductor substrate, a second wiring layer, and a second metal layer, in which a signal processing circuit that processes a pixel signal obtained at the pixel region is formed. The logic element is laminated to the imaging element so that the first metal layer and the second metal layer are bonded to each other, and the first metal layer and the second metal layer are formed on a region excluding a region in which a penetrating electrode layer penetrating a bonding surface of the imaging element and the logic element is formed. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105691 | LENS AND COLOUR FILTER ARRANGEMENT, SUPER-RESOLUTION CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A lens and colour filter assembly ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105690 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND IMAGING METHOD USING MULTIPLE LENS AND APERTURE UNITS - A camera system ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105688 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes an input unit which inputs image data that is generated by an imaging element including specific pixels, first image generation pixels that are the image generation pixels adjacent to the specific pixels, and second image generation pixels that are the image generation pixels not adjacent to the specific pixels, and includes a luminance value generated by each of the pixels, and a color mixture correction unit which corrects color mixture such that a change value of luminance caused by light leaked from the specific pixels to the first image generation pixels is calculated based on luminance values of each of specific pixels adjacent to the first image generation pixels and correction of color mixture to the first image generation pixels caused by the leaked light is performed. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105659 | VIDEO STILL CAMERA - A digital still camera has a cylindrical image pick up portion with a lens, a strobe unit, and a display. The image pick up unit is cylindrical and is rotatably held at each end, so that the lens and strobe unit move in concert. The image pick up unit can be rotated to face the rear of the camera, where the display is located, so that the user can do self-images. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105597 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image processor capable of obtaining viewpoint images which are allowed to achieve natural stereoscopic image display is provided. The image processor includes a parallax correction section correcting magnitude of parallax, depending on position on an image plane, for each of a plurality of viewpoint images, the viewpoint images having been taken from respective viewpoints different from one another, and each having a nonuniform parallax distribution in the image plane. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105593 | MULTI-VIEW VIDEO AND STILL 3D CAPTURE SYSTEM - A camera or camcorder with a multi-view three dimensional (3D) attachment enables acquisition of 3D images and video which are then able to be displayed to a user without the need for specialized glasses. The multi-view 3D attachment captures at least 3 views of the same image from different angles simultaneously on a sensor. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105582 | SUPER-RESOLUTION FROM 3D (3D TO 2D CONVERSION) FOR HIGH QUALITY 2D PLAYBACK - A display is able to display 3D content in high resolution 2D by utilizing the many views contained in the 3D data and converting the 3D data into 2D data. In some embodiments, the 3D data is converted using shifts in different views of a pixel. In some embodiments, the 3D is converted using shifts in different views of a local pixel and global pixels as well. Displays implementing the 2D high resolution display in addition to a low resolution 3D display are able to display 3D and 2D data depending on a user's preference. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105581 | 2D TO 3D IMAGE AND VIDEO CONVERSION USING GPS AND DSM - Converting two dimensional images to three dimensional images using Global Positioning System (GPS) data and Digital Surface Models (DSMs) is described herein. DSMs and GPS data are used to position a virtual camera. The distance between the virtual camera to the DSM is used to reconstruct a depth map. The depth map and two dimensional image are used to render a three dimensional image. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105488 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a position movement input unit configured to receive a position movement instruction from a user, a pointer movement unit configured to set a position of a pointer that moves in accordance with the instruction, and a screen movement unit configured to scroll a screen based on a relative position of the pointer with respect to a reference point of a predefined area around the pointer, the screen movement unit configured to move the predefined area to keep the pointer inside the predefined area when the pointer is at a border of the predefined area and moves towards an outside of the predefined area. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105444 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISPLAY PROCESSING PROGRAM - A display processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a left eye image and a right eye image of a stereoscopic image, a parallax calculation unit that calculates a parallax for each of image elements contained in the left eye image and the right eye image, an area setting unit that sets, as a blur area, an area of an image element for which the parallax is less than a predetermined threshold among the image elements contained in a selection image selected as the left eye image or the right eye image, a blurring unit that applies blurring to the blur area in the selection image, and a display control unit that alternately displays the selection image to which the burring has been applied and the selection image to which the burring has not been applied yet. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105382 | DISPLAY DEVICE, POSITION CORRECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display device includes an operating body detection unit detecting an operating body disposed over a display screen, a position determination unit determining a three-dimensional position of the operating body from the detection result and outputting the three-dimensional position as position information for the operating body, a position designation unit designating a three-dimensional position over the display screen, a guide information generation unit generating guide information which requests a user to perform a predetermined action for an operating body around the designated three-dimensional position and then dispose the operating body at the designated three-dimensional position, a correction information generation unit generating correction information from an error between the designated three-dimensional position and a determination result of the three-dimensional position of the operating body disposed according to the guide information, and a position correction unit correcting a three-dimensional position of the operating body based on the correction information. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105304 | ANTENNA - An antenna including one or more IC bond bands configured to connect to a signal port on an IC, one or more substrate bond pads, a bond wire antenna (BWA) connected between the one or more IC bond bands and the substrate bond pads, and a resonant cavity adjacent the one or more substrate bond pads. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104942 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device and a method for manufacturing the display device are provided. The display device includes an organic layer on an auxiliary wiring is removed with high precision by one operation and, thereby, the yield and the productivity are improved. A lower electrode is formed by patterning in each pixel on a substrate. An auxiliary wiring including a light absorption layer is formed between individual pixels. An organic layer is formed on the substrate while covering the lower electrodes. Laser irradiation is conducted from the organic layer side, the laser light is converted to heat in the light absorption layer exposed at a portion under the organic layer, and the organic layer portion above the light absorption layer is removed selectively. An upper electrode is formed on the organic layer and is connected to the light absorption layer portion of the auxiliary wiring. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104536 | Imaging device package, method of manufacturing the imaging device package, and electronic apparatus - An imaging device package includes: an imaging device chip; a substrate on which the imaging device chip is mounted; a wire that electrically connects the imaging device chip and the substrate at a peripheral edge of the substrate around the imaging device chip; a supporting body that supports an optical member with respect to the substrate; and a bonding section that bonds the supporting body to the substrate while sealing the wire and a bonding terminal of the wire at the peripheral edge of the substrate. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104533 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Channel stop sections formed by multiple times of impurity ion implanting processes. Four-layer impurity regions are formed across the depth of a semiconductor substrate (across the depth of the bulk) so that a P-type impurity region is formed deep in the semiconductor substrate; thus, incorrect movement of electric charges is prevented. Other four-layer impurity regions of another channel stop section are decreased in width step by step across the depth of the substrate, so that the reduction of a charge storage region of a light receiving section due to the dispersion of P-type impurity in the channel stop section is prevented in the depth of the substrate. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104523 | Solid-state imaging device manufacturing method of solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus - A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, a photodiode region which is formed in the substrate and generates a signal charge using photoelectric conversion of light which is incident from a back surface side of the substrate, a wiring layer which is formed on a front surface side of the substrate which is a side opposite to a light incidence surface, a light-blocking wiring which is formed in the wiring layer and is formed in a region which covers at least a portion of the photodiode region, and a connection portion which supplies a predetermined voltage from the light-blocking wiring to the photodiode region. | 05-03-2012 |
