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20090046166 | Image processing apparatus, image processing program, image processing method, and electronic camera for correcting texture of image - An image processing apparatus includes a brightness fluctuation extraction section, a color difference fluctuation extraction section, a conversion section, and an addition section. The brightness extraction section extracts a local fluctuation component from brightness information (hereinafter, a brightness fluctuation) in the image data. The color difference fluctuation extraction section extracts a local fluctuation component from color difference information (hereinafter, a color difference fluctuation) in the image data. The conversion section weightedly adds the color difference fluctuation and the brightness fluctuation to generate a pseudo texture component. The addition section adds the generated texture component to the brightness information. In the above-described structure, the conversion section adjusts and changes a weighting ratio of the weighted addition so as to make ratios of noises of color components included in the texture component substantially equal. | 02-19-2009 |
20090123067 | Gradation correction characteristics evaluation device, image processing device, gradation correction characteristics evaluation method, image processing method, and computer-readable computer program product - A gradation correction characteristics evaluation device includes: a histogram creation unit that creates a histogram based upon pixel values indicated at pixels constituting an input image; and an evaluation unit that evaluates gradation correction characteristics, which is used to correct gradation of the image, based upon the histogram of the image having been created by the histogram creation unit and the gradation correction characteristics. | 05-14-2009 |
20090244329 | DIGITAL CAMERA AND IMAGE PROCESSING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A digital camera includes: a photometering unit that measures brightness of a photographic field by dividing the field into a plurality of areas; a reference value calculation unit that calculates, a first value to be used to determine exposure conditions for a photographing operation based upon photometering results provided by the photometering unit and also calculates a second value to be used to set gradation conversion characteristics in conformance to which gradation correction is to be executed on a photographic image photographed based upon the results; an exposure condition determining unit that determines the conditions for the operation based upon the first value; a gradation conversion characteristics setting unit that sets the characteristics based upon the second reference value; and an image processing unit that executes image processing including gradation conversion executed by using the gradation conversion characteristics on the photographic image obtained under the conditions via an imaging unit. | 10-01-2009 |
20100053382 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE FOR CORRECTING SIGNAL IRREGULARITY, CALIBRATION METHOD,IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device of the present application includes an image acquisition unit, a slope generation unit, and a slope correction unit. The image acquisition unit takes in an image data generated by an imaging element. The slope generation unit generates a slope correction data correcting, in a slope-shape, a signal irregularity caused in the image data due to a manufacturing process of the imaging element. The slope correction unit corrects the signal irregularity within the image data using the slope correction data. | 03-04-2010 |
20100097482 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD,IMAGE PROCESSING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND CAMERA - An image processing apparatus includes: a gradation conversion unit that executes gradation conversion processing based upon gradation conversion features assuming a slope that changes at a predetermined brightness level, on a component representing a brightness of an image in a color space expressed with the component representing the brightness and a component representing a color depth; and a modulation unit that executes modulation processing on the component representing the color depth by multiplying the component representing the color depth by modulation features, wherein: the modulation features are set so as to assume values equal to or less than 1 over at least part of a brightness range above the predetermined brightness level. | 04-22-2010 |
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20100022674 | Expandable polystyrenic resin particles and production process thereof, pre-expanded particles and molded foam product - Expandable polystyrenic resin particles having superior resistance to cracking of a molded foam product, having superior retention of blowing agent and maintaining expandability over a long period of time, a production process thereof, and a molded foam product are provided. These expandable polystyrenic resin particles contain a volatile blowing agent in polystyrenic resin particles obtained by impregnating and polymerizing a styrenic monomer in polyolefin resin particles to form a polystyrenic resin, wherein together with the styrenic monomer being used at 140 to 600 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of the polyolefin resin particles, the average thickness of the surface layer observed in scanning electron micrographs obtained by immersing sections cut into halves through the center from the surface of the resin particles in tetrahydrofuran followed by extracting the polystyrenic resin component and capturing cross-sections of said sections is 15 to 150 μm, and the volatile blowing agent is contained at 5.5 to 13.0% by weight. | 01-28-2010 |
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| 10-13-2011 |
20120003478 | METHOD FOR REDUCING VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN COMPOSITE RESIN PARTICLES, AND COMPOSITE RESIN PARTICLES - A method of reducing a volatile organic compound of composite resin particles comprising the step of:
| 01-05-2012 |
20120004337 | STYRENE-MODIFIED LINEAR LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE-BASED RESIN BEADS, STYRENE-MODIFIED LINEAR LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE-BASED EXPANDABLE RESIN BEADS, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, PRE-EXPANDED BEADS AND EXPANDED MOLDED ARTICLE - A method for producing styrene-modified linear low-density polyethylene-based resin particles, which includes the steps of: dispersing 100 parts by weight of non-crosslinked linear low-density polyethylene-based resin particles which are polymerized using a metallocene compound as a catalyst and contain an inorganic nucleating agent, 50 to 800 parts by weight of a styrene-based monomer and 0.1 to 0.9 parts by weight of a polymerization initiator relative to 100 parts by weight of the styrene-based monomer into an aqueous suspension containing a dispersant; impregnating the polyethylene-based resin particles with the styrene-based monomer under heating the resulting dispersion at such a temperature that the styrene-based monomer does not substantially polymerize; and performing polymerization of the styrene-based monomer at a temperature of (T+10) to (T+35)° C. where T° C. is a crystallization peak temperature of the polyethylene-based resin particles. | 01-05-2012 |
20120021220 | METHOD OF REDUCING ODOR OF COMPOSITE RESIN PARTICLES, AND COMPOSITE RESIN PARTICLES - A method of reducing an odor of composite resin particles comprising the step of:
| 01-26-2012 |
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20100047659 | MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE JUNCTION AGENT, PROTON CONDUCTING MEMBRANE HAVING JUNCTION LAYER, MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY - A membrane-electrode junction agent, a proton conducting membrane having a junction layer, a membrane-electrode assembly, a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, and a manufacturing method of the membrane-electrode assembly, which enhance the power generation performance, realize the high fuel barrier property, and are capable of enhancing the joint strength between the membrane and the electrodes, is provided. A membrane-electrode junction agent that joins a proton conducting membrane and electrodes arranged on both surfaces of the proton conducting membrane to each other, the membrane-electrode junction agent including: a cross-linked compound (X) having a silicon-oxygen bond; a polymer material (Y) containing an acid group; and a hydrophilic resin (Z) containing no acid group. | 02-25-2010 |
20100092840 | ELECTRODE BINDER, ELECTRODE, MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY AND POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL - An electrode which can be used in a fuel cell having improved power generation performance and high durability, and a fuel cell having such an electrode, are provided. An electrode having catalyst layers arranged on both surfaces of an electrolyte membrane, wherein the electrode is characterized in that an electrode binder used for constituting the catalyst layers contains a cross-linked compound (X) having a silicon-oxygen bond, a polymer material (Y) containing an acid group, and an aqueous dispersion (Z) containing a thermoplastic resin. | 04-15-2010 |
20100119908 | PROTON CONDUCTING MEMBRANE, MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL - A proton conducting membrane, a membrane-electrode assembly, and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, which can realize high impact resistance and high polar solvent resistance as well as high proton conductivity, at the same time, can improve adhesion to an electrode, and can improve power generation performance, are provided. A proton conducting membrane includes a silicon-oxygen bonding structure (A) containing a cross-linked structure formed by a silicon-oxygen bond, and an acid group-containing structure (B) covalently bonded to a silane compound and containing an acid group, which are coupled to each other by a silicon—oxygen bond, wherein the acid group-containing structure (B) includes a structure in which a silane compound (α) having a polymerizable unsaturated double bond and an acid group-containing compound (β) having an acid group and a polymerizable unsaturated double bond are covalently bonded to each other. | 05-13-2010 |
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20110222082 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which can rotate input image data in a compressed state, comprises a storage unit which stores a rotation angle of the image data; a holding unit which holds, for each tile including blocks each including a predetermined number of pixels in the image data, information on a color arrangement in the block obtained by compressing the image data, color information corresponding to the color arrangement, and information on a position of the tile in the image data; and a rotation unit which converts the color arrangement in the block in accordance with the rotation angle of the image data stored in the storage unit to form rotated image data based on the converted color arrangement, color information corresponding to the color arrangement, and information on a position of the tile. | 09-15-2011 |
20110268352 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: an unit configured to sequentially determine, as a processing object, each of blocks, and to compare color data of respective pixels in the block that is the processing object, thereby specifying a pattern flag indicating an arrangement pattern of color data; an unit configured to extract first color data from a pixel, and further to extract second color data to fourth color data corresponding to the arrangement pattern; an unit configured to hold the pattern flag of each of the blocks, the first color data, and the second color data to fourth color data; and an unit configured to specify addresses in a memory, at which the first color data and the second color data to fourth color data in a block to be composed are held. | 11-03-2011 |
20120102351 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND POWER CONSUMPTION AMOUNT MANAGEMENT METHOD - A data processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a job to be executed by the data processing apparatus, a processing unit configured to process the job input by the input unit, a power measurement unit configured to make power measurement of the data processing apparatus, and a storage unit configured to store a measurement time of the power consumption by the power measurement unit. | 04-26-2012 |
20120327452 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND MONITORING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a control unit to perform control and a communication control unit to operate as a normal mode for transmitting and receiving information concerning the information processing apparatus. At a time of startup of the information processing apparatus, the control unit executes a plurality of processing, and writes information indicating that processing has been completed each time processing is completed. At the time of startup, an operation mode of the communication control unit is shifted to a monitoring mode wherein the communication control unit monitors occurrence of abnormality based on presence/absence of information indicating that processing has been completed. In response to abnormality having occurred, the communication control unit outputs occurrence of the abnormality. In response to certain information being written into the predetermined storage area, the operation mode of the communication control unit is shifted to the normal mode from the monitoring mode. | 12-27-2012 |
20130169831 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, SERVER, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A system including an image forming apparatus and a terminal for displaying an image acquired by a capturing unit on a display, wherein the terminal comprises: a unit which transmits a current position information, a unit which receives the distribution data in response to the transmission of the current position information, a unit which performs display control such that, when an image including the image forming apparatus is displayed on the display, a message included in distribution data distributed by the image forming apparatus and received from the server is superimposedly displayed on the image, a unit which accepts a print instruction made after the message displayed on the display is selected, and a unit which transmits print data to the image forming apparatus that distributed the distribution data containing the selected message according to the print instruction. | 07-04-2013 |
20140108841 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of this invention includes a wide IO memory device stacked on an SoC die that includes a CPU, detects the temperatures of multiple memories included in the wide IO memory device, and when transitioning to a power saving mode, specifies a memory with a lower temperature, based on the detected temperatures, as the memory to be used with priority in the power saving mode, and stores information for returning from the power saving mode to a normal mode in the specified memory. | 04-17-2014 |
20140126809 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF DETERMINING COLOR AMOUNT, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When a printing fee is changed, if a printing fee is changed to one for a color amount that is smaller than an actual color amount of an input image, an image processing apparatus automatically performs image processing in order to maximize the color amount at the selected printing fee and prints an image processing result. | 05-08-2014 |
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20100228920 | PARALLEL PROCESSING PROCESSOR SYSTEM - A parallel processing processor system includes multiple processor elements, a main memory, and a shared memory, whose latency with the processors is less than the latency between the main memory and the processors. Each of the multiple processor elements has a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) and an instruction cache. Firmware executed by the DSPs is transferred from the main memory to the shared memory and is shared by the DSPs. Updating of the instruction caches in the case where a cache miss has occurred is performed by, for example, copying, into the instruction caches, the content of the shared memory corresponding to an address accessed by a DSP. | 09-09-2010 |
20100321730 | JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - It enables to cancel a job transferred from a communication apparatus to a job processing apparatus, even if a user does not perform a complicated operation. To achieve this, there is provided a control method for controlling the job processing apparatus for establishing a communication session with the communication apparatus and communicating with the communication apparatus by the established communication session, the control method comprising: receiving plural images from the communication apparatus by the communication session; holding, in a holding unit, the received plural images as the plural jobs to be processed; and controlling to, in a case where the communication session with the communication apparatus is disconnected while the reception of the plural images is not completed, cancel, among the jobs held in the holding unit, the job corresponding to the image which has been received from the communication apparatus by the communication session. | 12-23-2010 |
20130179644 | PARALLEL PROCESSING PROCESSOR SYSTEM - A parallel processing processor system includes multiple processor elements, a main memory, and a shared memory, whose latency with the processors is less than the latency between the main memory and the processors. Each of the multiple processor elements has a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) and an instruction cache. Firmware executed by the DSPs is transferred from the main memory to the shared memory and is shared by the DSPs. Updating of the instruction caches in the case where a cache miss has occurred is performed by, for example, copying, into the instruction caches, the content of the shared memory corresponding to an address accessed by a DSP. | 07-11-2013 |