Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080260024 | METHOD, DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND TRANSCODER FOR SELECTIVELY REDUCING QUANTIZATION LEVELS - A method for selectively reducing quantization levels is adapted for use in a transcoder including a variable length decoding unit. The variable length decoding unit decodes a plurality of input variable length codes into a plurality of decoded pairs, wherein each decoded pair is a run-level pair. The method includes the following steps: (a) obtaining a plurality of absolute levels arranged in an order of scan positions according to the runs and levels of the decoded pairs; (b) determining whether a saved bit number correspondingly found by reducing each absolute level exceeds a bit number threshold value such that, if yes, the respective absolute level belongs to a target set; and (c) reducing each absolute level that belongs to the target set. | 10-23-2008 |
20080282061 | Array Type Operation Device - An array calculation device that includes a processor array composed of a plurality of processor elements having been assigned with orders, acquires an instruction in each cycle, generates, in each cycle, operation control information for controlling an operation of a processor element of a first order, and then generates an instruction to the processor element of the first order in accordance with the operation control information and the acquired instruction, and also generates, in each cycle, operation control information for controlling an operation of each processor element of a next order and onwards, in accordance with operation control information generated for controlling an operation of a processor element of an immediately preceding order, and then generates an instruction to each processor element of the next order and onwards, in accordance with the operation control information generated and the acquired instruction. | 11-13-2008 |
20080296049 | Printed Circuit Board - A printed circuit board includes a base insulating layer and a conductor pattern provided on the base insulating layer. The conductor pattern includes a line portion linearly extending along a virtual axis line in a line region, a first bend portion extending along the axis line while being bent in a convex shape toward one side of the base insulating layer in a first bend region, and a second bend portion extending along the axis line while being bent in a convex shape toward the other side of the base insulating layer in a second bend region. The conductor pattern is formed such that the first bend portion and the second bend portion do not overlap with each other in a vertical direction when the printed circuit board is folded along a boundary. | 12-04-2008 |
20090044969 | Wired circuit board and connection structure between wired circuit boards - A wired circuit board includes a first wired circuit board and a second wired circuit board disposed to be opposed to the first wired circuit board in the same plane. A first opposed surface of the first wired circuit board facing the second wired circuit board and a second opposed surface of the second wired circuit board facing the first wired circuit board include at least two types of interfitting surfaces extending in different directions so as to mutually interfit the first opposed surface with the second opposed surface. | 02-19-2009 |
20090110077 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE, IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND IMAGE CODING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - When compression encoding processing of an image is performed in units of macroblocks using pipeline structure, application of the skip mode or the like according to MPEG4AVC to compression encode an encoding target block requires motion vectors and the like of adjacent blocks of the encoding target block. However, depending on the structure of the pipeline stages, the motion vectors and the like may not be determined. In such cases, the skip mode cannot be applied to compression encode the encoding target block. The present invention aims to solve this problem and (i) calculates all motion information candidates, of the encoding target block, corresponding to all motion information selectable by a previous block of the encoding target block, and (ii) selects, as the motion information of the encoding target block in the skip mode, the motion information corresponding to the motion information determined for the previous block. | 04-30-2009 |
20090158590 | Wheel manufacturing method - The present invention provides wheel manufacturing method comprising a pressing step in which a primary molded product having a cylindrical shape with a bottom in which a flange part that extends to the outside is disposed on the open side end part is manufactured, a working step in which a secondary molded product is obtained by cutting away the bottom part of the abovementioned primary molded product, and a spinning step in which, the secondary worked product is fit over and fastened to a rotating jig, a rim flange molding roller is pressed against the end part of the flange part while the secondary worked product is rotated together with the rotating jig, so that the flange part is gradually molded into the shape of a rim flange part, and the flange part is subsequently subjected to an angular adjustment to an appropriate angle to mold a rim flange part. | 06-25-2009 |
20090323821 | MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS - Provided is a moving picture decoding apparatus including: a picture memory ( | 12-31-2009 |
20100040153 | DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD - A decoding apparatus is provided which can perform error concealment accurately by reducing false detection of an error and detecting an error efficiently. The decoding apparatus ( | 02-18-2010 |
20100051334 | Printed Circuit Board and Method of Manufacturing the Same - A first insulating layer is formed on a suspension body. A write wiring trace is formed on the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed on the first insulating layer to cover the write wiring trace. A write wiring trace and read wiring traces are formed on the second insulating layer. The write wiring trace is arranged above the write wiring trace. The write wiring trace includes a conductor layer and reinforcing alloy layers. The reinforcing alloy layers are sequentially formed to cover an upper surface and side surfaces of the conductor layer. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054332 | MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD - A moving picture decoding apparatus ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100232767 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A main-view stream and a sub-view stream are recorded on a recording medium. The main-view stream is used for monoscopic video playback. The sub-view stream is used for stereoscopic video playback in combination with the main-view stream are recorded. The main-view stream includes a plurality of main-view pictures, and the sub-view stream includes a plurality of sub-view pictures. The main-view pictures and the sub-view pictures are in one-to-one correspondence. A B picture is not used as a reference picture for compression of any of the sub-view pictures whose corresponding main-view picture is one of an I picture and a P picture. | 09-16-2010 |
20100254620 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - To provide a simply-structured image decoding apparatus which appropriately executes parallel decoding processing. | 10-07-2010 |
20100322317 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - To provide a simply-structured image decoding apparatus which appropriately executes parallel decoding processing. The image decoding apparatus includes: a stream segmentation unit ( | 12-23-2010 |
20110026593 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image processing apparatus ( | 02-03-2011 |
20110107599 | Method for manufacturing wheels - To provide a manufacturing method of wheels which can easily and beautifully remove plating at the welding planned portion and which can manufacture wheels with rims plated at low price and efficiently. | 05-12-2011 |
20110149049 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A main-view stream and a sub-view stream are recorded on a recording medium. The main-view stream is used for monoscopic video playback. The sub-view stream is used for stereoscopic video playback in combination with the main-view stream are recorded. The main-view stream includes a plurality of main-view pictures, and the sub-view stream includes a plurality of sub-view pictures. The main-view pictures and the sub-view pictures are in one-to-one correspondence. A B picture is not used as a reference picture for compression of any of the sub-view pictures whose corresponding main-view picture is one of an I picture and a P picture. | 06-23-2011 |
20110235716 | DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, PROGRAM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A decoding apparatus ( | 09-29-2011 |
20110317769 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An image coding method for improving coding efficiency by using more appropriate probability information is provided. The image coding method includes: a first coding step (S | 12-29-2011 |
20120063693 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - A decoding apparatus ( | 03-15-2012 |
20120099657 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE CODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image decoding device and an image coding device are each capable of using spatial dependence across a boundary between slices to smoothly execute parallel processing. The image decoding device includes: a first decoding unit ( | 04-26-2012 |
20120147959 | MOVING IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE DECODING CIRCUIT, AND MOVING IMAGE DECODING METHOD - A moving image decoding apparatus which enables reduction in the memory bandwidth and the memory access latency for the motion compensation filter coefficients for use in inter-picture prediction involving motion compensation using variable coefficients includes: a decoding unit ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120183072 | MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS - Provided is a moving picture decoding apparatus including: a picture memory ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120183079 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING METHOD - An image decoding apparatus ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120275516 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE CODING DEVICE, METHODS THEREOF, PROGRAMS THEREOF, INTEGRATED CIRCUITS THEREOF, AND TRANSCODING DEVICE - An image decoding device (C | 11-01-2012 |
20120294376 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE AND IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, METHODS THEREFOR, PROGRAMS THEREOF, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND TRANSCODING DEVICE - An image decoding device which increases decoding efficiency and can be easily implemented includes: a division unit dividing coded image data into first and second coded image data; a frame storage unit; first and second decoding units decoding, in parallel, the first and second coded image data; and an information storage unit. The first decoding unit decodes the first coded image data using second decoding result information stored in the information storage unit and stores, as first decoding result information, a part of information generated by the decoding into the information storage unit. The second decoding unit decodes the second coded image data using the first decoding result information stored in the information storage unit and stores, as the second decoding result information, a part of information generated by the decoding into the information storage unit. | 11-22-2012 |
20130002041 | MAGNETIC ELEMENT FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - In the disclosed magnetic element ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130044816 | MOTION COMPENSATION APPARATUS, VIDEO CODING APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, MOTION COMPENSATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A motion compensation apparatus performs motion compensation on a current block having a non-rectangular shape, using a reference image stored in a frame memory and includes: a reference block memory for storing part of the reference image; a frame-memory-transfer control unit which identifies, in the reference image, a pixel block having a rectangular shape and including a reference block having a non-rectangular shape and used for motion compensation, and transfers pixel data of the identified pixel block from the frame memory to the reference block memory; and a motion compensation processing unit which generates a prediction block of the current block, using the reference block included in the pixel block stored in the reference block memory. | 02-21-2013 |
20130089149 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM - An image decoding device is provided that decodes, without an increase in the circuit size, a coded video sequence including a large-size block. The image decoding apparatus includes: a block division unit which divides a current block that is to be decoded and is included in a picture of the coded video sequence, into sub-blocks; an image obtainment unit which obtains, for each of the sub-blocks, image data corresponding to the sub-block from a recording medium; a prediction unit which generates, for each of the sub-blocks, a predicted image of the sub-block, based on the image data obtained by the image obtainment unit; and a reconstruction unit which reconstructs each of the sub-blocks, by adding the predicted image generated for the sub-block to the sub-block. | 04-11-2013 |
20130188723 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing device which performs plural processes efficiently, by pipelining, on a coded stream obtained by coding an image based on various coding unit blocks. The image processing device which performs plural first processes, by pipelining, on a coded stream obtained by dividing an image into plural coding unit blocks having at least two sizes, and coding the image on a coding unit block-by-block basis includes: plural first process units which perform, by the pipelining, the plural first processes on the coded stream by each executing one of the plural first processes; and a control unit which divides the coded stream into plural first processing unit blocks each having a first size, and control the plural first process units to cause the plural first processes to be executed for each of the first processing unit blocks. | 07-25-2013 |
20130243096 | VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING PROGRAM, AND VIDEO DECODING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - With use of a simplified program or calculating device for motion compensation, a video decoding device decodes video data compressed by motion detection operations on macroblock units, as in the MPEG-4AVC standard. The video decoding device splits compressed data blocks of the prescribed size, 16×16 pixels for instance, to generate sub-blocks, which are smaller than the blocks and on which the video decoding device is able to execute motion compensation operations. The video decoding device duplicates a motion vector assigned to a given block to generate as many motion vectors as there are sub-blocks in the given block, and executes motion compensation on each sub-block using the corresponding duplicate motion vector. Data resulting from the motion compensation operation on each sub-block is combined to obtain a target block corresponding to the given block. | 09-19-2013 |
20130315312 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus for decoding an image coded in coding processes including (i) prediction on at least one prediction unit (PU) and (ii) frequency transform on transform units (TUs) included in a region including the at least one PU includes a processing unit configured to perform image processing for a predictive image of the at least one PU, depending on a transform order predetermined for the TUs. | 11-28-2013 |
20140010311 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - A decoding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a decoding unit which decodes identification information identifying an orthogonal transform basis for inverse orthogonal transform; an orthogonal transform basis accumulation unit accumulating orthogonal transform bases for inverse orthogonal transform; an orthogonal transform basis storage unit storing an orthogonal transform basis for inverse transform, from among the stored orthogonal transform bases; an inverse orthogonal transform unit which performs inverse orthogonal transform using the identified orthogonal transform basis; and an orthogonal transform basis transfer control unit which transfers the identified orthogonal transfer basis from the orthogonal transform basis accumulation unit to the orthogonal transfer basis storage unit only when the identified orthogonal transform basis is not yet stored therein. With this structure, it is possible to reduce the memory bandwidth for the memory storing the orthogonal transform basis and the memory access latency. | 01-09-2014 |
20140064370 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a first storing unit for storing a plurality of prediction parameters used in predictive image generation for a plurality of prediction units corresponding in size to at least one picture; a second storing unit for storing two or more prediction parameters used in predictive image generation for two or more prediction units among the plurality of prediction units; and a transferring unit configured to collectively transfer, for predictive image generation, (i) two or more of the prediction parameters from the first storing unit to the second storing unit or collectively transfer (ii) the two or more prediction parameters used in the predictive image generation for the two or more prediction units from the second storing unit to the first storing unit. | 03-06-2014 |
20140140412 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An image coding method for improving coding efficiency by using more appropriate probability information is provided. The image coding method includes: a first coding step of coding a first set of blocks included in a first region sequentially based on first probability information; and a second coding step of coding a second set of blocks included in a second region sequentially based on second probability information. In the first coding step, the first probability information is updated depending on data of a target block to be coded, after coding the target block and before coding a next target block. In the second coding step, the second probability information is updated depending on the first probability information updated in the first coding step, before coding the first target block. | 05-22-2014 |
20140140413 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An image coding method for improving coding efficiency by using more appropriate probability information is provided. The image coding method includes: a first coding step of coding a first set of blocks included in a first region sequentially based on first probability information; and a second coding step of coding a second set of blocks included in a second region sequentially based on second probability information. In the first coding step, the first probability information is updated depending on data of a target block to be coded, after coding the target block and before coding a next target block. In the second coding step, the second probability information is updated depending on the first probability information updated in the first coding step, before coding the first target block. | 05-22-2014 |
20140169479 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus capable of reducing a capacity of a storage element includes: a first variable-length decoding unit that sequentially outputs, for each first unit of processing, one or more components included in the first unit of processing, by performing a first process on a coded stream; a reordering unit that sequentially outputs, for each second unit of processing different from the first unit of processing, one or more components included in the second unit of processing, by reordering the components outputted from the first variable-length decoding unit; and a second inverse quantization unit that performs a second process on the components outputted from the reordering unit, for each second unit of processing. | 06-19-2014 |
20140223142 | PROCESSOR AND COMPILER - A Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor having an instruction set with a reduced size resulting in a small number of bits being necessary to specify registers. The VLIW processor includes a register file, and first through third operation units, and executes a very long instruction word. Further, the very long instruction word includes a register specifying field which specifies a least one of the registers in the register file and a plurality of instructions. The operand of each instruction includes bits src | 08-07-2014 |
20140294310 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD - An image decoding device which decodes, by pipeline processing which includes plural processes, an encoded image obtained by encoding plural blocks of at least two sizes divided from the image includes: a first storage unit having a capacity for storing two or more blocks having a largest size of the at least two sizes; a first process unit which performs a first process among the plural processes on the plural blocks sequentially, and sequentially stores the plural blocks on which the first process has been performed into the first storage unit; and a second process unit sequentially extracts the plural blocks from the first storage unit, and performs a second process among the plural processes on the extracted plural blocks sequentially. | 10-02-2014 |
20150085918 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE, IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND IMAGE CODING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - When compression encoding processing of an image is performed in units of macroblocks using a pipeline structure, an application of a skip mode or the like according to MPEG4AVC to compression encode an encoding target block requires motion vectors and the like of adjacent blocks of the encoding target block. However, depending on a structure of the pipeline stages, the motion vectors may not be determined. In such cases, the skip mode cannot be applied to compression encode the encoding target block. This problem can be solved by (i) calculating all motion information candidates, of the encoding target block, corresponding to all motion information selectable by a previous block of the encoding target block, and (ii) selecting, as the motion information of the encoding target block in the skip mode, the motion information corresponding to the motion information determined for the previous block. | 03-26-2015 |