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20080198120 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A small or middle-sized liquid crystal display employing a black insertion driving method overcomes the after-image or blurring of a moving picture by shifting the level of a voltage applied to a storage capacitor line within a predetermined period corresponding to about 20% to about 80% that lasts after image signals are applied to pixels until the next image signals are applied to the pixels by using two types of voltages that shift pixel voltages into a black display potential. | 08-21-2008 |
20080224980 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines having odd-numbered gate lines and even-numbered gate lines, a plurality of source lines, a first gate driver which drives the odd-numbered gate lines, a second gate driver which drives the even-numbered gate lines and a driving controller which outputs an overdriven image signal in at least one driving period of a plurality of driving periods and outputs a normal image signal in remaining driving periods of the plurality of driving periods. The overdriven image signal is obtained by adding an overdrive voltage to the normal image signal, and the overdrive voltage is set according to a level of the normal image signal. | 09-18-2008 |
20090096948 | Liquid Crystal Display with An Increased Aperture Ration - A liquid crystal display includes a pixel group including a first pixel having a first thin film transistor and a second pixel having a second thin film transistor. A gate line provides a driving signal to a gate of the first and second thin film transistors. A first storage capacitor line is arranged substantially parallel with the gate line and adjacent to one side of the first pixel. A second storage capacitor line is arranged substantially parallel with the gate line and adjacent to an opposite side of the first pixel. The liquid crystal display includes a first storage capacitor arranged in the first pixel and connected between the first thin film transistor and the first storage capacitor line. A second storage capacitor is arranged in the second pixel and is connected between the second thin film transistor and the second storage capacitor line. | 04-16-2009 |
20120327320 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY WITH AN INCREASED APERTURE RATIO - A liquid crystal display includes a pixel group including a first pixel having a first thin film transistor and a second pixel having a second thin film transistor. A gate line provides a driving signal to a gate of the first and second thin film transistors. A first storage capacitor line is arranged substantially parallel with the gate line and adjacent to one side of the first pixel. A second storage capacitor line is arranged substantially parallel with the gate line and adjacent to an opposite side of the first pixel. The liquid crystal display includes a first storage capacitor arranged in the first pixel and connected between the first thin film transistor and the first storage capacitor line. A second storage capacitor is arranged in the second pixel and is connected between the second thin film transistor and the second storage capacitor line. | 12-27-2012 |
20130300963 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a thin film transistor (TFT), a gate line supplying a driving signal to a gate of the TFT of each pixel, a liquid crystal capacitor included in each pixel and connected to one terminal of the TFT in a corresponding pixel, a sub-capacitor line aligned in parallel to the gate line, a sub-capacitor included in each pixel and connected between one terminal of the TFT in a corresponding pixel and the sub-capacitor line, and a driving circuit having at least four voltages, selecting one of the voltages and supplying the selected voltage to the sub-capacitor line to drive the liquid crystal display in a state in which the liquid crystal capacitor is capacitively coupled to the sub-capacitor. | 11-14-2013 |
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20090196115 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR PREVENTING ERRONEOUS WRITE TO MEMORY CELL IN SWITCHING OPERATIONAL MODE BETWEEN NORMAL MODE AND STANDBY MODE - When an operational mode is shifted to a standby mode, a first transistor is brought into a conduction state by a control signal, and a word line is thereby clamped to a ground voltage. Further, a second transistor is brought into a non-conduction state, and supply of an internal power supply voltage to a word line driver is shut off. Subsequently, the supply of the internal power supply voltage is halted for saving electrical power. When the operational mode returns to a normal mode, the supply of the internal power supply voltage is started, and subsequently, the first transistor is brought into the non-conduction state by the control signal, and the second transistor is thereby brought into the conduction state. | 08-06-2009 |
20110116321 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR PREVENTING ERRONEOUS WRITE TO MEMORY CELL IN SWITCHING OPERATIONAL MODE BETWEEN NORMAL MODE AND STANDBY MODE - When an operational mode is shifted to a standby mode, a first transistor is brought into a conduction state by a control signal, and a word line is thereby clamped to a ground voltage. Further, a second transistor is brought into a non-conduction state, and supply of an internal power supply voltage to a word line driver is shut off. Subsequently, the supply of the internal power supply voltage is halted for saving electrical power. When the operational mode returns to a normal mode, the supply of the internal power supply voltage is started, and subsequently, the first transistor is brought into the non-conduction state by the control signal, and the second transistor is thereby brought into the conduction state. | 05-19-2011 |
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20100031014 | INFORMATION CONCEALING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information concealing device comprises a mask means for prompting the user to specify a secret area in an input image, a secret area specifying means for generating image data describing the image of the specified area in the input image and describing an area other than the specified area in a single color, an encoding means for converting the image data, which describes the image of the specified area in the input image and describes an area other than the specified area in a single color, to image data describing a code, and an embedding means for generating the image data of an image describing the specified area in the input image in a single color and embedding the code into the image. | 02-04-2010 |
20100042936 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a browsing technology capable of performing a browsing operation intuitively as well as by a smaller number operations without the need of a device capable of performing a direct pointing such as a mouse in a layout arrangement reflecting the intention of a creator of a browsing document. Browsing documents are displayed at an ordinary display mode and in a zapping display mode. The ordinary display mode is a mode for displaying an entire display screen (a first display region) on which an entire HTML document, in which a browsing target is blocked, is displayed and a detail display screen (a second display region) on which the detail of the blocked HTML document is displayed. The zapping display mode is a mode for displaying a detail screen (a first display region), on which the detail of a browsing HTML document is displayed, and a thumbnail display screen (a second display region) on which the thumbnail image of a link destination of the information, from which the HTML document is selected, is displayed. | 02-18-2010 |
20100225667 | Content Display Method Content Display Device and Program - A thumbnail creating section creates a thumbnail of a specified object to be read. A linear information computing section computes an internal coordinate used as linear information from attribute information on each content. An order-of-priority determining section determines the order of priority of each content. A thumbnail line-forming section forms a line of thumbnails according to the scale specified by the user. A superposition thumbnail nondisplay section does not display a thumbnail having the lower order of priority than that of the other of the superposed thumbnails. | 09-09-2010 |
20100231503 | CHARACTER INPUT SYSTEM, CHARACTER INPUT METHOD AND CHARACTER INPUT PROGRAM - The grouping unit assigns an m-digit value expressed by an n-ary notation to each input candidate character one-for-one to classify the respective input candidate characters into n groups on a basis of each of the m digits. The group displaying unit causes the display device to display, in the lump on a group basis, the input candidate characters classified on a digit basis. Among n selection keys corresponding to the respective groups, the input device has one key operated by a user to output information indicating which selection key is operated (information indicative of a selection key operated) to the character structuring unit. The character structuring unit determines a character according to information input from the input device. | 09-16-2010 |
20100250561 | CONTENTS DISPLAY SYSTEM, CONTENTS DISPLAY METHOD AND CONTENTS DISPLAY PROGRAM - The present invention is directed to a contents display system that arranges an image corresponding to contents in accordance with predetermined attribute information. The contents display system is provided with a contents arrangement means that arranges a contents image corresponding to contents that do not meet a predetermined limitation condition at a position where a viewing recognition of at least part of the contents corresponding image is not obstructed by a contents image corresponding to contents that meet a predetermined limitation condition. | 09-30-2010 |
20100322523 | SCREEN DATA TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, SCREEN DATA TRANSMITTING SERVER, SCREEN DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A difference region extracting section | 12-23-2010 |
20110163988 | IMAGE OBJECT CONTROL SYSTEM, IMAGE OBJECT CONTROL METHOD AND IMAGE OBJECT CONTROL PROGRAM - An inside/outside determining unit determines whether a touch position of a contact body is located outside or inside an inside/outside determining target region defined with respect to a display position of an image object as a target region for inside/outside determination of the touch position of the contact body. The signal generating unit generates a signal indicating the operation performed with respect to the image object when it is determined that the touch position of the contact body is located outside the inside/outside determining target region. | 07-07-2011 |
20130195373 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Error-function determining means makes use of a blur function serving as a function representing the degree of blurring of a blurred input image and a geometrical-deformation matrix serving as a matrix for restricting an operation to lay out a 2-dimensional code shown by the input image on cells each serving as a configuration unit of the 2-dimensional code in order to determine an error function serving as a function satisfying a relation that, the smaller the error between the input image and an image obtained by adding geometrical deformations and blurs to a recovered image obtained from a recovering process, the more the approach to a result determined in advance. Pixel-value restricting means determines pixel-value restriction information prescribing a restriction condition for a restriction imposed on a predetermined pixel value obtained from discretization of pixel values of the 2-dimensional code to be recovered. Objective-function determining means makes use of the error function and the pixel-value restriction information as a basis for determining an objective function serving as a function satisfying a relation that, the closer the recovered image to the true image, the more the approach to a result determined in advance. Objective-function optimizing means determines a recovered image optimizing the objective function. | 08-01-2013 |
20130279755 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention includes: a database which stores a position on a map and feature information in an image which can be taken by an imaging device at the position, to be associated with each other; an extraction means for extracting the feature information from the image; an estimation means for estimating the position at which the imaging device exists on a map on the basis of the extracted feature information referring to the database; a display means for displaying an estimated current position of the imaging device; a determination means for determining whether or not an imaging direction of the imaging device is varied by a predetermined amount from a direction in which the image from which the feature information is extracted is taken during the imaging; and a control means for controlling the extraction means so that new feature information is extracted, upon determining that the direction is varied by the predetermined amount; wherein the estimation means combines the new feature information and the extracted feature information and re-estimates the position on the map at which the imaging device exists when the new feature information is extracted. | 10-24-2013 |
20140321738 | DICTIONARY CREATION DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, DICTIONARY CREATION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A dictionary creation device including a blurred image generation unit which outputs a blurred image generated by performing a blurring process to a learning image together with a blur parameter indicating a blurring state of the blurred image, a patch pair generation unit which generates a restoration patch and a blurred patch as a patch pair that is composed of the patches located at the corresponding positions of the learning image and the blurred image, and a registration unit which associates the patch pair with a blur parameter corresponding to the blurred patch in the patch pair and registers them in a dictionary. | 10-30-2014 |
20140334720 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The present invention generates a highly-accurate restored image while reducing computation costs by obtaining a similar effect to when the adjacent similarity of restoration patches is taken into consideration. | 11-13-2014 |
20140340529 | Automatic Projection Image Correction System, Automatic Projection Image Correction Method, and Non-Transitory Storage Medium - An automatic projection image correction system ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140355900 | DEGRADATION RESTORATION SYSTEM, DEGRADATION RESTORATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - For each pixel of an input image, a direction toward which variation in pixel value between the relevant pixel and its peripheral pixels is largest and an amount of the variation in pixel value are computed, where a direction unit vector that indicates the direction toward which the variation is largest and a variation vector that represents the amount of the largest variation in the pixel value are computed. For each pixel, a regularization strength is computed utilizing the direction unit vector, the variation vector, and a regularization strength computing formula so that the larger the amount of the variation in pixel value toward a direction indicated by the direction unit vector, the less the regularization strength. An optimization function is determined based on the input image and the regularization strength for each pixel thereof and assigns a value for each pixel, by which the determined optimization function has the minimum value, to the corresponding pixel of a restored image to be generated. | 12-04-2014 |
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20090217132 | Parity Check Matrix Generation Method, Data Transmission System, Encoding Device, Decoding Device, and a Parity Check Matrix Generation Program - A method is disclosed that allows the easy generation of low-density parity-check codes that can realize superior error-correcting characteristics. A processor ( | 08-27-2009 |
20090279604 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - When entropy-encoding a converted quantized amount obtained by converting an image into a frequency region and quantizing it, if the output code bit quantity of the entropy encoding exceeds a predetermined amount, an image obtained by rebuilding the converted quantized value is outputted from an image encoding device. This guarantees an encoding delay caused by re-encoding to be a constant time without increasing the circuit size of the encoding device and provides an image encoding device of a subjectively high quality. | 11-12-2009 |
20100318635 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM, FEATURE AMOUNT DISTRIBUTING SERVER, CLIENT, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTING METHOD - In a content distributing system, a feature amount distributing server | 12-16-2010 |
20110123171 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - Provided is a content reproduction control system equipped with: a signal characterizing quantity sequence extraction means that, for each content item stored in a content group storage unit that stores at least more than one content item, extracts a signal characterizing quantity sequence which is the sequence of the signal characterizing quantities associated with the content positions on the time axis; a common section group detection means that detects, as a common section group in the signal characterizing quantity sequence for each content item, a common section group for which the signal characterizing quantities for different content items are similar to each other; a content reproduction quality information collection means that, for each common section group, collects content reproduction quality information which indicates the reproduction quality of the content to which each common section of a common section group belongs; and a content reproduction control means that, when the content contained in the content group storage unit is reproduced, switches the content reproduced for the content to be reproduced for the sections included in the common section group and performs reproduction such that the reproduction quality of the content will be higher, based on the content reproduction quality information for the content to which each common section of a common section group belongs. | 05-26-2011 |
20110153609 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONTENT TOPICALITY, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A system for determining content topicality comprises a feature value extracting means which extracts feature values of a plurality of contents from the contents; a content grouping means which compares the feature values of the plurality of contents extracted by the feature value extracting means, obtains identical contents and derived contents created using the contents, both of which are included in the plurality of contents, and groups the identical/derived contents, thereby computing identical/derived content grouping information; and a topicality determining means which totals viewing frequencies of the contents determined to be the identical/derived contents from viewing history information and the identical/derived content grouping information relating to the plurality of contents, computes total viewing frequencies of each of the identical/derived contents, and determines the topicality of the identical/derived contents according to the total viewing frequency. | 06-23-2011 |
20130016286 | INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAMAANM Nomura; ToshiyukiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Nomura; Toshiyuki Tokyo JPAANM Senda; YuzoAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Senda; Yuzo Tokyo JPAANM Higa; KyotaAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Higa; Kyota Tokyo JP - Disclosed is an information display system provided with: a signal analyzing unit which analyzes the audio signals obtained from a predetermined location and which generates ambient sound information regarding the sound generated at the predetermined location; an ambient expression selection unit which selects an ambient expression which expresses the content of what a person is feeling from the sound generated at the predetermined location on the basis of the ambient sound information; and an ambient expression and video superimposing unit which superimposes the ambient expression on the video of a video signal obtained from the predetermined location. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024192 | ATMOSPHERE EXPRESSION WORD SELECTION SYSTEM, ATMOSPHERE EXPRESSION WORD SELECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an information display system provided with: a signal analyzing unit which analyzes the audio signals obtained from a predetermined location and which generates ambient sound information regarding the sound generated at the predetermined location; and an ambient expression selection unit which selects an ambient expression which expresses the content of what a person is feeling from the sound generated at the predetermined location on the basis of the ambient sound information. | 01-24-2013 |
20130121408 | VIDEO IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND VIDEO IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - When injecting pseudo random noise to an area centered on a block boundary, a video encoding device and a video decoding device prevent injection of pseudo random noise to an area including a reference image for subsequent planar mode filtering, in order to suppress linear artifacts. The video encoding device includes: an inverse quantization unit for inverse-quantizing a quantization index to obtain a quantization representative value; an inverse frequency transform unit for inverse-transforming the quantization representative value obtained by the inverse quantization unit, to obtain a reconstructed image block; and an adaptive distortion removal filter unit for injecting pseudo random noise to an area centered on a boundary of the reconstructed image block, wherein the adaptive distortion removal filter unit does not inject pseudo random noise to an area including a reference image for planar mode filtering. | 05-16-2013 |
20130136177 | VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, VIDEO CODING APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO CODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In the present invention, reconstructed images for prediction are stored in uncompressed reference picture memory and compressed reference picture memory. A video decoder stores in uncompressed reference picture memory a reconstructed image of a frame to be decoded which has been generated on the basis of a prediction, and among reconstructed images which have been stored in the uncompressed reference picture memory, compresses a reconstructed image that will not be used for prediction of the frame to be decoded and stores the image in the compressed reference picture memory. Using the reconstructed images which are stored in the uncompressed reference picture memory and the compressed reference picture memory, the video bitstream is decoded into a video. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144985 | TERMINAL, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTION SERVER, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is a technology which eliminates distribution modality choices that are intrinsically unnecessary, as follows. For each content item on a content list containing identifying information for content to play on a terminal, information on distribution modalities supported by that content item is acquired from a server. On the basis of the acquired distribution-modality information and content playback preparation statuses for each distribution modality, pairs comprising content items in playable states and distribution modalities therefor are searched for, and said content items are played using said distribution modalities. | 06-06-2013 |
20130182907 | FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING DEVICE, FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING METHOD, AND FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present approach enables an impression of the atmosphere of a scene or an object present in the scene at the time of photography to be pictured in a person's mind as though the person were actually at the photographed scene. A feeling-expressing-word processing device has: a feeling information calculating unit | 07-18-2013 |
20130322526 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD - In order to increase the encoding efficiency of a quantization step size, this video encoding device comprises a quantization step size encoding unit for encoding a quantization step size that controls the granularity of quantization. The quantization step size encoding unit includes a step size prediction unit for predicting the quantization step size using quantization step size information assigned to an already-encoded nearby image block, and using in-frame prediction direction information about an image block that is to be encoded. | 12-05-2013 |
20140307779 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes: a transformer for transforming an image block; an entropy encoder for entropy-encoding transformed data of the image block transformed by the transformer; a PCM encoder for PCM-encoding an image block; a multiplexed data selector for selecting output data of the entropy encoder or output data of the PCM encoder, for each block of an externally set block size; and a multiplexer for embedding a PCM header into a bitstream, in a block of the externally set block size, wherein the number of successive PCM-encoded blocks is embedded into the PCM header, and PCM data for the number of successive PCM-encoded blocks is multiplexed into the bitstream. | 10-16-2014 |