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20100044773 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - To provide a semiconductor memory device having an improved write efficiency because deterioration of a gate insulating film is suppressed. | 02-25-2010 |
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20120112991 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An embodiment of a liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including pixels arranged in a pixel; and a backlight that irradiates it with light. In at least one example embodiment, the pixels included in the liquid crystal panel each include picture elements different in color. The picture elements are each provided with a color filter corresponding to the color of the picture element. The liquid crystal display device includes: an aperture ratio converting section that, to reduce optical cross talk, decreases an aperture ratio for inputted image data and outputs data of the aperture ratio; and a backlight data converting section that, to supplement the aperture ratio for the image data which is decreased by the aperture ratio converting section, converts data to increase a backlight luminance. This backlight luminance control prevents or reduces optical or electrical cross talk. | 05-10-2012 |
20120139975 | Display Device - Disclosed is a display device that has improved correspondence between brightness distribution of an illuminating device including a plurality of partial lights and brightness distribution of images displayed on a display panel. Specifically, in a liquid crystal display, a filtering unit generates brightness distribution data by filtering each item of brightness adjustment data corresponding to partial lights using a filter among a plurality of brightness diffusing filters. Furthermore, a panel control data correcting unit generates panel control data that controls images displayed on a liquid crystal display panel from the brightness distribution data and panel control data. | 06-07-2012 |
20120176419 | Image Display Device And Image Display Method - An emission luminance calculation section of an image display device divides an input image into a plurality of areas, and obtains luminances upon emission of LEDs in the areas. A maximum luminance position eccentricity coefficient calculation section obtains maximum luminance position eccentricity coefficients indicating maximum luminance positions in the areas. An emission luminance correction section corrects the first emission luminances on the basis of the maximum luminance position eccentricity coefficients and contribution ratios stored in an LED filter. At this time, luminances of areas positioned in the same direction as the maximum luminance positions are set to be relatively high, and luminances of areas positioned in the opposite direction to the maximum luminance positions are set to be relatively low. | 07-12-2012 |
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20100005070 | METADATA EDITING APPARATUS, METADATA REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, METADATA DELIVERY APPARATUS, METADATA SEARCH APPARATUS, METADATA RE-GENERATION CONDITION SETTING APPARATUS, AND METADATA DELIVERY METHOD AND HINT INFORMATION DESCRIPTION METHOD - Multimedia content containing moving pictures and audio is divided into multiple scenes and metadata is generated for each of the scenes obtained as a result of the division. It is possible to generate metadata containing scene structure information metadata that describes the hierarchical structure of the content in addition to scene section information and titles. Also, a name or an identifier of each descriptor contained in the metadata is described as hint information for manipulation of metadata composed of at least one descriptor describing semantic content, a structure, and characteristics of content. | 01-07-2010 |
20110032991 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - To provide a method of efficiently compressing information by performing improved removal of signal correlations according to statistical and local properties of a video signal in a 4:4:4 format which is to be encoded, an image encoding device for dividing each picture of a digital video signal into predetermined unit regions, and carrying out, for each of the predetermined unit regions, compression encoding using a motion compensation prediction includes: a prediction unit for searching for a motion vector based on virtual-pixel-accuracy specification information for specifying an upper limit of an accuracy of a pixel position indicated by the motion vector, and generating, based on the motion vector that is searched for, a motion-compensation predicted image; and an encoding unit for multiplexing the virtual-pixel-accuracy specification information with a bit stream, and multiplexing, based on a magnitude of the motion vector that is searched for and a magnitude of a motion vector used for prediction of the motion vector that is searched for, motion vector data to be encoded with the bit stream. | 02-10-2011 |