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20090096893 | MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - Disclosed is a moving image reproducing apparatus including a reproduction control unit. The moving image reproducing apparatus sequentially transfers at least part of moving image data elements stored in an incorporated memory to an external storage device, stating from a moving image data element to be reproduced last by the reproduction control unit. | 04-16-2009 |
20090257667 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - The invention enables effectively executing decoding processing in units of blocks based on encoded image data that has been variable-length encoded in units of blocks and furthermore has marker code inserted therein. An identification unit generates information indicating the position of an emulation prevention byte and deletes the emulation prevention byte. A code length calculation unit outputs a code length of the encoded image data from which the identification data has been deleted. A code length accumulation unit determines, based on the identification data position information, whether identification data was included in the encoded image data that has been decoded, and accumulates the code lengths of encoded data and outputs the accumulated code length in units of blocks. Based on this, storage address information for encoded data in blocks in the encoded image data is registered in a decoding table which is used for performing in units of blocks. | 10-15-2009 |
20100202685 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A clustering unit first calculates a distance between a feature vector of a processing object pixel and a representative feature vector of a cluster to which a pixel with a high probability of belonging to the same cluster as the processing object pixel such as a nearby pixel of the processing object pixel belongs. When the calculated distance is less than or equal to a first threshold, the processing object pixel is allocated to a cluster to which the nearby pixel or a background image belongs. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202686 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A clustering unit calculates, for clusters in a descending order of the number of pixels belonging thereto, a distance from a feature vector of a processing object pixel and a representative feature vector of an object cluster, and compares the distance with a first threshold. The processing object pixel is stored in a memory or the like as a pixel belonging to an object cluster when the distance is judged to be less than or equal to the first threshold. | 08-12-2010 |
20110019928 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - Every time clustering processing for a predetermined number of pixels is complete, a small cluster having the number of allocated pixels, which is equal to or smaller than a pixel count threshold, is discriminated. The small cluster, which is discriminated to have the number of allocated pixels equal to or smaller than the pixel count threshold, is merged to a cluster having the nearest representative feature vector. With this arrangement, the number of clusters which are to undergo distance calculations of feature vectors is reduced. According to this arrangement, region segmentation of an image can be executed faster by the clustering processing. | 01-27-2011 |
20110317927 | CLUSTERING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CLUSTERING PROCESSING METHOD - A clustering processing apparatus comprises: N clustering units that group samples included in the data block into clusters, each clustering unit sequentially taking each sample as a target, grouping the target sample into one of the clusters within the data block, storing cluster information including identification on each cluster into which the samples are grouped within the data block, and storing sample assignment information indicating the cluster to which the target sample belongs; a cluster information transferring unit that selects cluster information on a cluster to be integrated from the cluster information when a predetermined condition is met, and transfers the selected cluster information to a third storage unit; and an updating unit that integrates clusters selected based on the cluster information stored in the third storage unit into an integrated cluster, and updates the sample assignment information based on information of the integrated clusters. | 12-29-2011 |
20120294480 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image of a prescribed frame of images of respective frames is set as a target image, and an area including a prescribed pattern is detected from the target image as a specific area. An image other than the target image is set as a non-target image, and the specific area in the non-target image is predicted. The images of the respective frames are encoded so that the specific area is encoded to have higher image quality than an area other than the specific area. In encoding, the images of the respective frames are encoded so that the specific area in the non-target image is not referred to from another frame. | 11-22-2012 |
20130114726 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image coding method for an image coding apparatus includes determining an anchor picture in a same view as a picture to be coded, determining an anchor block corresponding to a block to be coded, selecting an inter-view prediction method, encoding an inter-view prediction mode indicating the inter-view prediction method, and calculating, using a parallax vector of the anchor block, a parallax vector of the block to be coded. | 05-09-2013 |
20130329080 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - For each of respective viewpoints, the capturing condition at the viewpoint, and each frame image captured from the viewpoint in accordance with the capturing condition are acquired. One of the viewpoints is selected as a reference viewpoint by using the acquired capturing conditions. Predicting coding and intra-coding are performed for the acquired images. For each of the respective viewpoints for each frame, the coding result of the frame image captured from the viewpoint by predicting coding or intra-coding is output. When performing predicting coding for an image captured from the reference viewpoint, predicting coding is performed by referring to the image captured from the reference viewpoint without referring to images captured from the viewpoints other than the reference viewpoint. | 12-12-2013 |
20130335591 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE CODING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A multi-viewpoint image which has been captured with respect to an object from a plurality of viewpoints is coded by setting a base viewpoint among the plurality of viewpoints. An image captured from a viewpoint that is not the base viewpoint is then coded using a reference image selected based on imaging parameters and a parallax. | 12-19-2013 |
20140105306 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Upon completion of storing the predictive residual data and predictive image of a block having undergone inter-frame coding in a predictive residual data memory and predictive image memory respectively, the block is decoded by performing motion compensation using the predictive residual data and the predictive image. | 04-17-2014 |
20140133581 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - To prevent deterioration in performance that is caused by the processing for copying a context parameter between memories, an image processing apparatus writes an updated context parameter into context memories corresponding to respective entropy coding units and into a shared context memory, until it completes encoding processing for M blocks positioned on the left side of a slice. | 05-15-2014 |
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20120322652 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes: rhodium; a zirconium-containing oxide which supports rhodium, and comprises: at least one element selected from the group consisting of calcium, lanthanum, cerium, neodymium and yttrium; and zirconium; and a NOx absorbing material comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of magnesium, barium, sodium, potassium and cesium. A degree of dispersion of rhodium is 20% or more after baking at 900° C. in air for three hours. A method for manufacturing the exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes: mixing the zirconium-containing oxide with water, thereby preparing an aqueous liquid of the zirconium-containing oxide; and supporting rhodium on the zirconium-containing oxide by mixing the aqueous liquid of the zirconium-containing oxide with an aqueous solution of a rhodium salt. A pH of a mixed liquid of the aqueous solution of the rhodium salt and the aqueous liquid of the zirconium-containing oxide is adjusted to 7 or more. | 12-20-2012 |
20130177484 | LEAN NOx TRAP TYPE EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST AND EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION SYSTEM - A lean NOx trap type exhaust gas purifying catalyst having a catalyst noble metal selected from a group consisting of platinum, palladium and rhodium, an inorganic oxide that carries the catalyst noble metal, and at least one NOx adsorbent one selected from a group of magnesium, barium, sodium, potassium and cesium. The inorganic oxide carrying palladium containing cerium in a CeO2-equivalent quantity in a range of 1 to 20 wt %, and at least one of aluminum and zirconium. | 07-11-2013 |
20140018235 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST, EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING MONOLITH CATALYST, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST - An exhaust gas purifying catalyst having a high purifying ability even if noble metal is not used as an essential component, an exhaust gas purifying monolith catalyst, and a method for manufacturing an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, are provided. The exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes an oxide having an oxygen storage and release capacity, and an oxide represented by the following formula (1) supported on the oxide having the oxygen storage and release capacity, | 01-16-2014 |
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20120087471 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A radiation imaging apparatus comprises: an output unit adapted to output an analog signal for each pixel circuit by sampling and holding an electrical signal converted from radiation; and a selection unit adapted to select positions of pixel circuits which output the analog signals, wherein after the output unit outputs the electrical signals corresponding to a predetermined number of pixel circuits as analog signals, the selection unit stops the selection and the output unit stops the output in accordance with the stop of the selection. | 04-12-2012 |
20120104267 | IMAGING APPARATUS, RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE SENSOR - An imaging apparatus including: a plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element and a sample hold circuit; a plurality of signal lines configured to read from the plurality of pixels an electric signal held in the sample hold circuit therein; a imaging control unit configured to perform a first control for applying the held electric signal to the plurality of signal lines, and a second control for sequentially applying to the signal lines the electric signal obtained corresponding to light received by each of the plurality of pixels and reading the electric signal, after the first control has been performed; and a generation unit configured not to create image data based on the electric signal applied to the signal line by the first control but to create the image data based on the electric signal read via the signal line by the second control. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105665 | DIGITAL IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS, AND RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor configured to include a plurality of pixels in its image pickup area; a plurality of analog-to-digital converters configured to share a plurality of analog signals read out from the plurality of pixels to perform analog-to-digital conversion to the analog signals allocated thereto; and a control unit configured to read out the analog signals from the pixels within a partial area in the image pickup area for the analog-to-digital conversion. The number of pixels allocated to the analog-to-digital converters performing the analog-to-digital conversion to areas near a center position of the partial area is smaller than that allocated to the analog-to-digital converters performing the analog-to-digital conversion to areas far from the center position of the partial area. | 05-03-2012 |
20140036118 | IMAGE SENSOR DRIVING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS - An image sensor driving apparatus extracts an image signal from an image sensor including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements two-dimensionally arrayed, and includes a conversion unit which converts the image signal into digital data by performing offset correction for the image signal. The apparatus obtains digital data corresponding to a first sampling count by causing the conversion unit to process a reference voltage signal in accordance with a synchronization signal which determines an imaging frame rate, and obtains digital data corresponding to a second sampling count by causing the conversion unit to process a reference voltage signal every time extracting an image signal from a photoelectric conversion element group obtained by dividing a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The apparatus generates a correction value used for offset correction based on the obtained digital data corresponding to the first and second sampling counts. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037056 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus determines, based on a frame interval associated with imaging of the object, the number of output values to be measured, and inputs an electric signals of a given value to amplifiers to measure the determined number of output values during a time after a readout circuit performs a readout operation for a photoelectric conversion elements of one line and before the readout circuit performs a readout operation for the photoelectric conversion elements of the next one line, calculates a difference between the measured output value and a predetermined reference value, and corrects a measurement value of one line of the object by increasing or decreasing the measurement value by the difference. | 02-06-2014 |