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20080294593 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - The present invention maintains the response speed to users operations when operation-target contents are changed and improves the operability in data retrieval operations. An information processing apparatus for reading out content information from a storage unit accumulating the content information and for displaying the content information holds association information that associates each of extraction conditions used for reading out the content information from the storage unit with a corresponding one of memory areas. The apparatus reads out content information from the storage unit according to the extraction conditions and stores the content information in the corresponding memory areas. The apparatus specifies a memory area corresponding to an extraction condition specified by a user based on the association information, reads out the content information from the specified memory area, and displays an image based on the read out content information on a display. | 11-27-2008 |
20090063981 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display control apparatus for displaying an image included in an array of images on a display unit, includes: a display control unit adapted to display a scroll area corresponding to an order of images in the array on the display unit; an accepting unit adapted to accept selection of a first image included in the array in response to a user's scroll operation; and an acquisition unit adapted to acquire a plurality of second images from images in at least one of ranges before and after the first image, wherein the display control unit displays the first image and the plurality of second images on the display unit, and the acquisition unit switches an acquisition method of the second images based on a characteristic of the scroll operation. | 03-05-2009 |
20090070710 | CONTENT DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - In a content display apparatus in which a plurality of contents are displayed according to the order of metadata added to each content, the plurality of contents are arranged hierarchically by metadata and a group of metadata, and an array of plurality of contents arranged hierarchically is formed. Icons representing contents are displayed on a display device according to the order of the array of plurality of contents formed, and when a command for scroll is made for the displayed icons, icons in the hierarchy level to which the icons belong are scroll displayed. The scroll speed for scroll displaying the icons is changed, and based on the changed scroll speed, the hierarchy level is changed so that icons in different hierarchy level are displayed and scrolled. | 03-12-2009 |
20100125792 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system stores a plurality of content data having different display qualities for each content in a storage unit, and detects a user operation to instruct switching of a content displayed on a display screen, and determines a switching speed of content display on the display screen based on the detected user operation, and decides a distribution for content data of each display quality to be read out to a temporary memory unit based on the determined switching speed, and reads out the content data from the storage unit to the temporary memory unit in accordance with the decided distribution. | 05-20-2010 |
20100312974 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA ACCESS SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - A data storage apparatus acquires rule information that is used by the external device when performing data access and that defines a relation between the type of access operation and a data read condition, and status information including information for specifying data currently displayed on the external device, and indicates a current display status of the external device. Then, the data storage apparatus determines data to be pre-read from a storage medium and stored in a temporary data storage unit based on the rule information and the status information, and reads the determined data from the storage medium, and stores the read data in a temporary data storage unit. In the case where a data access request is received from the external device, if the requested data is stored in the temporary data storage unit, the requested data is read from the temporary data storage unit, and is output. | 12-09-2010 |
20110255845 | VIDEO EDITING APPARATUS AND VIDEO EDITING METHOD - A video editing apparatus comprises an input unit that inputs first video data and second video data; a subject size detection unit that detects a representative size of the subject in both the first video data and the second video data as a subject size; a subject size change amount calculation unit that calculates a subject size change amount; a playback speed correction amount setting unit that sets a correction amount for correcting a playback speed of the second video data in accordance with the subject size change amount; a playback speed correction unit that generates third video data by correcting the playback speed of the second video data in accordance with the correction amount; and a video data concatenation unit that concatenates the first video data and the third video data. | 10-20-2011 |
20110268426 | VIDEO EDITING APPARATUS AND VIDEO EDITING METHOD - A video editing apparatus capable of generating edited video data includes a video data selection unit configured to select a plurality of pieces of video data based on a set selection condition, an estimation unit configured to estimate correlation between video frames of the plurality of pieces of the video data selected by the video data selection unit, a cut-point setting unit configured to set the video frames estimated with a predetermined high correlation by the estimation unit as a cut-point, if the plurality of pieces of the video data selected by the video data selection unit are connected, and a generation unit configured to connect the plurality of pieces of the video data selected by the video data selection unit based on the cut-point set by the cut-point setting unit, and generate the edited video data. | 11-03-2011 |
20130230251 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image generation apparatus stores a plurality of selection condition rows including a plurality of selection conditions used for selecting an image from a plurality of material images, selects at least one material image from the plurality of material images as a first material image, obtains a feature quantity of the first material image, selects a selection condition row which is stored in the storage unit and includes a selection condition including the obtained feature quantity, selects a second material image from the plurality of material images based on a selection condition row which has been selected, and generates an image based on the first and the second material images which have been selected and the selection condition row which has been selected. | 09-05-2013 |
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20090028196 | CONTINUOUS FORM ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND WRITE-START POSITION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A disclosed continuous form electrophotographic apparatus for forming an output image on a photoconductor surface by scanning the photoconductor surface with a laser beam irradiated from a laser light source and outputting the output image on a continuous form, includes a laser beam position detecting unit configured to output a position signal indicating a starting position where the laser beam irradiated on the photoconductor surface starts horizontal scanning; and a control signal output unit configured to output a control signal for controlling a timing at which the laser beam starts writing image data in a vertical direction. The phase difference between the control signal output from the control signal output unit and the position signal is corrected. | 01-29-2009 |
20090190617 | LASER LIGHT INTENSITY CONTROL DEVICE, LASER LIGHT INTENSITY CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A disclosed laser light intensity control device includes a semiconductor laser configured to scan a photoconductor by emitting laser beams and form an electrostatic latent image, a temperature detection circuit configured to detect a temperature of the semiconductor laser, a light intensity detection circuit configured to detect a light intensity of the laser beams emitted from the semiconductor laser, a first drive circuit configured to supply the semiconductor laser with a first current that drives the semiconductor laser, a second drive circuit configured to supply the semiconductor laser with a second current that is superimposed on the first current, and a control circuit configured to control the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit. | 07-30-2009 |
20100054772 | CONTINUOUS-SHEET PRINTING TANDEM ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRINTING A CONTINUOUS SHEET - A continuous-sheet printing tandem electrophotography system for printing a continuous sheet includes first and second electrophotography units. A first size of the continuous sheet is measured before an image printed by the first electrophotography unit with a first parameter value is fused on the continuous sheet. A second size of the continuous sheet is measured after the image printed by the first electrophotography unit is fused on the continuous sheet. The second electrophotography unit then prints the continuous sheet with a second parameter value that is determined by a size difference between the first and the second sizes. The first and the second sizes include a page length and a page width of the continuous sheet. The parameter values include a print speed, a polygon mirror rotating speed, a video clock frequency, and a laser power. | 03-04-2010 |