Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090162034 | INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING/REPRODUCING INFORMATION - A video recording/reproducing apparatus having an HDD to a mobile device using removable media such as a BD. Data can be removed and stored by copying and moving data recorded on the HDD onto these removable media or in the direction opposite thereto. When vibrations occurs on a recording medium inserted into the HDD, DVD drive, and BD drive due to foreign elements, a copy or movement of data tends to fail. To solve the problem, provided is an apparatus or method including a portable power source, a recording unit for recording information on a removable medium and a built-in medium, a dubbing unit for copying or moving data therebetween, and a detector for detecting acceleration, wherein when the acceleration detected by the detector has a predetermined value, the dubbing unit operates between the recording media. | 06-25-2009 |
20100002093 | IMAGING APPARATUS - A camera capable of compensating for facial field of a person to a proper brightness, and maintaining the luminance scale of the background, comprising an imaging portion for generating the picture data of the person; a gamma compensator for performing gamma compensation for the picture data; a facial field detecting portion for detecting a facial field from the picture data; a photometric portion for exposure metering value of the facial field detected by the facial field detecting portion; an exposure controlling portion for calculating a target exposure amount in response to the output of the photometric portion and controlling exposure depending on the target exposure amount; and a gamma compensation controlling portion for determining a luminance scale characteristic in accordance with the target exposure amount, wherein the gamma compensating portion is controlled on the basis of the luminance scale characteristic determined by the gamma compensation controlling portion. | 01-07-2010 |
20100008649 | INFORMATION RECORD/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION RECORD/PLAYBACK METHOD - A hybrid video camera with a built-in hard drive and optical disk drive plus removable media read/write unit is disclosed. The video camera has a face detection function, which is used to split a video stream of a scene shot at the position of a frame containing no human face images, thereby realizing automatic scene-split dubbing without impairing the scene continuity. With this feature, it is possible, when watching a home video movie, to avoid sudden stop of playback of the scene otherwise occurring due to improper splitting of the scene at its run-on part during dubbing by letting the scene be dividedly recorded on a plurality of disks. | 01-14-2010 |
20100054704 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR - When video data is reproduced by a recording/reproduction unit, an output unit outputs occurrence information on an object, which is not included in the video data being output by the output unit but is included the video data recorded on a recording medium, to a display unit. While the video data is being reproduced from the recording medium by the recording/reproduction unit, an instruction specifying a predetermined object condition including a non-reproduction object is input based on the occurrence information and the reproduction operation is performed by extracting video data satisfying the object condition. | 03-04-2010 |
20100214429 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that receives image data in response to a photographic subject, a face detection unit that detects a human face from the received image data, a photometry unit that performs a photometry of the detected human face, an exposure control unit that calculates a target exposure amount in accordance with a photometry result to calculate an exposure control value, and an exposure correction control unit that determines an exposure in response to the target exposure amount, wherein an exposure correction unit performs an exposure correction by using an exposure target determined by the exposure correction control unit, as an area smaller than a domain of the human face detected by the face detection unit is set to the photometry area. | 08-26-2010 |
20110317030 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image signal processing system according to the present invention has a function to perform image quality control in photographing a subject having a large difference in brightness in the surrounding environment so that the entire photographed image, in particular a subject which a user desires to view, has an adequate brightness and an adequate gradation. Specifically, this image signal processing system comprises: a video input unit, a video signal processing unit for performing signal processing on a signal output from the video input unit, and generating a video signal; an input-output characteristic control unit for controlling a characteristic of the video signal which the video signal processing unit generates; and a subject recognition unit for performing image processing on the video signal which the video signal processing unit generates, and recognizing and detecting subject information. | 12-29-2011 |
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20080212659 | Communication Device and Communication Method - Based on interference electric power attributed to a delayed wave, interference electric power attributed to a signal from another non-targeted terminal or a base station, and noise electric power, in order to obtain an index for further exactly representing the signal quality, the combination of a desired-signal/undesired-signal ratio | 09-04-2008 |
20090003154 | INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - In a recording apparatus for a file system conforming to UDF 2.6, performance is improved when a MetaData file (MD) representing management information and its MetaDataMirror file (MDM) are recorded. The MDM file is not recorded before finalization is executed and when finalizing, a copy of the latest MD file is recorded as the MDM file. | 01-01-2009 |
20090040890 | Information recording/reproduction apparatus, information recording method and information recording medium - Provided is a recording/reproduction apparatus capable of securing a backup area for management information on a recording medium without affecting the capacity of a user data area. Before a hard disk drive or a disc medium (recording medium) is finalized, metadata is recorded in a metadata area and when the hard disk drive or the disc medium are finalized, a user data area portion corresponding to the volume of metadata required for the finalizing is set as a metadata mirror area and then the metadata recorded in the metadata area is copied to the metadata mirror area. | 02-12-2009 |
20090129329 | SCHEDULING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - The present invention provides a scheduling method in which a communication apparatus belonging to an OFDMA-based wireless communication system communicates data with a plurality of users by preferentially allocating a data sequence to a default subchannel segment that is different from other-cell allocation subchannel segment that is preferentially used for data communication by adjacent communication terminal. The scheduling method includes a data sequence selection-allocation step including selecting as many data sequences as can be allocated to the default subchannel segment and allocating (scheduling) selected data sequences to the default subchannel segment, wherein in downlink scheduling, the data sequence selection-allocation step including selecting the data sequences in order from a data sequence subjected to a maximum level of interference from an adjacent other base station (adjacent base station), and in uplink scheduling, the data sequence selection-allocation step including selecting the data sequences in order from a data sequence that causes a maximum level of interference to the adjacent base station because of data communication; and a remaining data sequence allocation step including allocating a data sequence that has not allocated to the default subchannel segment to the other-cell allocation subchannel segment when allocation of all the data sequences to the default subchannel segment fails. | 05-21-2009 |
20100086069 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device performing communications by an OFDMA system. The communication device includes a zone-boosting-amount calculating unit that obtains a segment number calculated in a synchronization process, obtains a sub-channel corresponding to the segment number by referring to a predetermined relationship between sub-channels and segment numbers, and calculates an amount of zone boosting based on an average power of a preamble and an average power of pilot sub-carriers included in the sub-channel. A demodulating unit estimates a transmission path after correcting a power value of a received signal based on calculated amount of zone boosting, and performs demodulation. | 04-08-2010 |
20100135424 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes: a plurality of antennas; a pre-processing unit that, according to an instruction from a higher-level layer, performs processing on each zone generated by time-division of a transmission frame and generates a transmitting signal; and post-processing units that transmit the transmitting signal generated corresponding to each zone via one or more of the antennas. Each post-processing unit includes transmission of a preamble via each of the antennas. Thus, each post-processing unit transmits the preamble in a format that enables a receiving side to correctly determine AGC power control amount. | 06-03-2010 |
20120127947 | ON-BOARD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND ON-BOARD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An on-board wireless communication apparatus using an OFDMA scheme includes: a position information acquisition unit which estimates a position after a predetermined time period based on base station position information, mobile station position information, and speed information of mobile station as estimated mobile station position information; a transmission path information storage unit which determines a transmission rate to be applied based on the estimated position information and a distribution of the transmission rate determined by a distance from the base station; a reception buffer unit which stores received data; a reception buffer amount adjustment unit which determines a data amount to be received based on a data storage amount from the buffer unit and a type of the data therein; and a band allocation unit which determines a band requested to the base station by the transmission rate from the storage unit and the data amount from the adjustment unit. | 05-24-2012 |