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20090190690 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a communication system includes a transmission apparatus with a coding section that generates multi-level-coded signals and transmits the multi-level-coded signals; and a deskew signal generation section that generates and transmits a deskew signal related to the multi-level-coded signals. The communication system also includes a receiving apparatus with a decoding section that decodes the multi-level-coded signals to generate decoded signals, and a deskew processing section that performs deskew processing for compensating skew among the decoded signals of the multiple channels. The deskew signal generation section generates the deskew signal that has been framed by extracting a part of the data from each of the channels of the input signals, adding framing data for enabling a receiving apparatus to recognize which channel the extracted data has been extracted from, and performing rate conversion. | 07-30-2009 |
20100003036 | Communication apparatus and signal reception method - A communication apparatus in accordance with an embodiment comprises a reception unit configured to demodulate a received signal to output a first demodulated signal in dependence on a reception condition. The communication apparatus further comprises a pattern detection unit configured to detect a characteristic pattern in the first demodulated signal to output a pattern detection signal, and a pitch detection unit configured to detect a pitch of the characteristic pattern based on the pattern detection signal to output a first signal detection signal indicating that the first demodulated signal is one of an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal, or an inverted version of the one of the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal. | 01-07-2010 |
20100284486 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING-RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM METHOD THEREFOR - A receiving apparatus receives parallel data signals including a plurality of channels from a transmitting apparatus. The receiving apparatus includes a receiver, a detector, and a switch. The receiver receives the parallel data signals. The detector detects a first skew between channels within the receiving apparatus, and a second skew between channels prior to reception by the receiver. The switch interchanges the plurality of channels of the parallel data signals so as to reduce a total skew as a sum of the first skew and the second skew. | 11-11-2010 |
20110075761 | DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transmission system for transmitting a first differential signal includes a transmitter, a transmission path, and a receiver. The transmitter transmits the first differential signal and a second differential signal. The transmission path transfers the first differential signal and the second differential signal. The receiver receives the first differential signal and the second differential signal. The transmitter includes a generator circuit and a switch. The generator circuit generates the second differential signal lower in baud rate than the first differential signal. The switch selects between the second differential signal and the first differential signal to output the selected differential signal to the transmission path. The receiver includes a detector circuit and a corrector circuit. The detector circuit detects a skew of the second differential signal. The corrector circuit corrects a skew of the first differential signal based by the detected skew of the second differential signal. | 03-31-2011 |
20110182591 | OPTICAL RECEIVER - An optical receiver includes: an optical amplifier amplifying an optical signal fed thereinto according to an operating current fed thereinto, the optical signal being a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal, a demultiplexer demultiplexing an optical signal output from the optical amplifier; and an operating-current control circuit selecting a monitoring target from a plurality of wavelength signals output from the demultiplexer and controlling the operating current of the optical amplifier so that optical power of the monitoring target is controlled to be a predetermined value. | 07-28-2011 |
20110294308 | SUBSTRATE AND IC SOCKET - There is provided a substrate that includes a base substrate, a socket that has a step where the step has a first surface and a second surface, the socket being electrically coupled with the base substrate at the first surface; and a connection substrate that is disposed between the second surface and the base substrate, where the connection substrate is electrically coupled with the socket at the second surface. | 12-01-2011 |
20120082465 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, OPTICAL RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING THEM - A phase shift unit provides a prescribed phase difference (π/2, for example) between a pair of optical signals transmitted via a pair of arms constituting a data modulation unit. A low-frequency signal f | 04-05-2012 |
20120121259 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An optical transmission device includes a first power monitor to monitor a first signal into which second signals with respectively different wavelengths are multiplexed so as to measure received power of the first signal; an amplifier to amplify the first signal, to generate a third signal; a driver to drive the amplifier; a demultiplexer to separate the third signal into fourth signals with the different respectively wavelengths; second power monitors each to monitor each of the fourth signals so as to measure received power of each of the fourth signals; a memory to store therein data related to gain in the amplifier, the data corresponding to each of wavelengths of the second signals, with respect to parameters which are the received power measured by the first power monitor and driving condition; and a processor to calculate power of each of the second signals. | 05-17-2012 |
20120237225 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a communication system includes a transmission apparatus with a coding section that generates multi-level-coded signals and transmits the multi-level-coded signals; and a deskew signal generation section that generates and transmits a deskew signal related to the multi-level-coded signals. The communication system also includes a receiving apparatus with a decoding section that decodes the multi-level-coded signals to generate decoded signals, and a deskew processing section that performs deskew processing for compensating skew among the decoded signals of the multiple channels. The deskew signal generation section generates the deskew signal that has been framed by extracting a part of the data from each of the channels of the input signals, adding framing data for enabling a receiving apparatus to recognize which channel the extracted data has been extracted from, and performing rate conversion. | 09-20-2012 |
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20080198396 | Output image adjustment method, apparatus and computer program product for graphics files - When a memory card MC is inserted into slot, a control circuit of a color printer acquires and analyzes graphics processing control information GC from the memory card MC. A CPU corrects standard values for image quality parameters indicating graphics data qualities, to reflect the graphics processing control information GC. The CPU corrects image quality parameters to bring them into approximation with the corrected standard values, and adjusts image quality of the graphics data to reflect the corrected image quality parameters. | 08-21-2008 |
20090128840 | Apparatus, method, signal and computer program product configured to provide output image adjustment of an image file - An apparatus, method, signal and computer program product is provided to generate an image file that can correctly reproduce image data at a predetermined output device. The image file includes an image data storage area that stores image data, and a control information storage area stores output control information. The image data is stored in JPEG format for example, and output control information is stored in TIFF format. The output device control information is information set so as to be able to obtain an optimal image output results according to a paired-combination of the input device and output device, taking into consideration their respective image processing characteristics. | 05-21-2009 |
20090148063 | Edge generation method, edge generation device, medium recording edge generation program, and image processing method - A direction of an intended edge is determined, and a position of the intended edge is corrected to a position that brings a direction that connects a position of the intended edge and a position of an adjacent edge closer to the determined direction of the intended edge, and edge information representative of an area of the edge of an enlarged image is generated by using the corrected position of the edge. Gradation data before and after filtering are synthesized at a rate corresponding to a feature quantity representative of the amount of pixels within a predetermined color area. The gradation data of the plural pixels within a predetermined region including the position of the intended edge to be sharpened among the interpolated gradation data of the respective pixels on the interpolated image is sharpened at a degree corresponding to the number of pixels of the uninterpolated image. | 06-11-2009 |
20090303349 | Image processing apparatus and method of image processing - A frame image data specifying module specifies an arbitrary piece of frame image data from among specified moving image data, and a continuous frame image data acquiring module acquires a frame image data that is continuous with the specified frame image data. A major subject image data specifying module uses the specified frame image data and the continuous frame image data to specify major subject image data from among the specified frame image data. An image quality characteristic acquiring module scans the specified major subject image data to acquire image characteristic values that indicate characteristics of image quality of the major subject image data, and uses reference values and the acquired image quality characteristic values to determine correction values for the specified frame image data. An image quality adjusting module applies the determined correction values to the specified frame image data. | 12-10-2009 |
20100239179 | Generation of image quality adjustment information and image quality adjustment with image quality adjustment information - A CPU extracts ornamental image data and layout control information from an ornamental image file FF. When the layout control information does not include characteristic values, the CPU analyzes the ornamental image data to acquire characteristic values representing a tendency of image quality of the ornamental image data. The CPU may additionally compute correction rates for correcting values of image quality-relating parameters of objective image data from the acquired characteristic values of the ornamental image data. The CPU writes either the acquired characteristic values or the computed correction rates into the layout control information. The layout control information including the acquired characteristic values or the computed correction rates is output together with the ornamental image data in the form of the ornamental image file FF. | 09-23-2010 |
20100303353 | Output image data generating device and method of generating output image data - A CPU selects multiple objective image data to be pasted on ornamental image data, analyzes the selected multiple objective image data, and rates the image qualities of the respective image data. The CPU specifies the number of plural layout locations included in the ornamental image data and the priority order of the plural layout locations, and allocates the multiple objective image data to the plural layout locations in the ornamental image data, based on the specified priority order and the ratings of the multiple objective image data. The CPU executes image quality adjustment with regard to the multiple objective image data allocated to the plural layout locations and pastes the quality-adjusted image data on the ornamental image data according to layout control information, so as to generate resulting output image data. | 12-02-2010 |
20120229871 | Image Processing Apparatus, an Image Processing Method, A Medium on Which an Image Processing Control Program is Recorded, an Image Evaluation Device, an Image Evaluation Method and a Medium on Which an Image Evaluation Program is Recorded - A method for image processing image data having a plurality of picture elements. While scanning the image data, a scanned picture element is determined to be sampled or not according to a plurality of sampling methods until the scanned picture element is displaced to a next picture element (to be scanned) of the image data. | 09-13-2012 |
20130121596 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AN IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, A MEDIUM ON WHICH AN IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AN IMAGE EVALUATION DEVICE, AN IMAGE EVALUATION METHOD AND A MEDIUM ON WHICH AN IMAGE EVALUATION PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A computer calculates an edginess, which is an image variation from a differential value of data for adjacent picture elements, and determines object picture elements by selecting only images with a large variation. As optimum parameters for contrast correction and lightness compensation are calculated from image data for object picture elements, image processing indicators based on object picture elements are determined, and optimum imago processing can be performed automatically. After summing a luminance Distribution for each area of the image, which is a feature amount, while uniformly selecting picture elements, a reevaluation is performed by a weighting determined for each area, and a luminance distribution, strongly influenced by the luminance distribution of the photographed object is thus obtained with uniform sampling. After determining the intensity of this luminance distribution, the image data is converted, and image processing can therefore be performed with optimum intensity while reducing the processing amount. | 05-16-2013 |
20140126025 | OUTPUT IMAGE DATA GENERATING DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING OUTPUT IMAGE DATA - A CPU selects multiple objective image data to be pasted on ornamental image data, analyzes the selected multiple objective image data, and rates the image qualities of the respective image data. The CPU specifies the number of plural layout locations included in the ornamental image data and the priority order of the plural layout locations, and allocates the multiple objective image data to the plural layout locations in the ornamental image data, based on the specified priority order and the ratings of the multiple objective image data. The CPU executes image quality adjustment with regard to the multiple objective image data allocated to the plural layout locations and pastes the quality-adjusted image data on the ornamental image data according to layout control information, so as to generate resulting output image data. | 05-08-2014 |
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20080199079 | Information Processing Method, Information Processing Apparatus, and Storage Medium Having Program Stored Thereon - An information processing method of the present invention includes acquiring scene information of image data from supplemental data appended to the image data, identifying a scene of an image represented by the image data based on the image data, and storing the identified scene in the supplemental data when there is a mismatch between a scene indicated by the scene information and the identified scene. | 08-21-2008 |
20080199098 | Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium having program stored thereon - An information processing method includes: obtaining, from image data, data indicating a characteristic of an image indicated by the image data; obtaining, from supplemental data appended to the image data, data other than data relating to a scene; and identifying a scene of the image with data indicating the characteristic of the image and the data other than data relating to the scene as characteristic amounts. | 08-21-2008 |
20080259372 | Printing Method, Printing Apparatus, and Storage Medium Storing a Program - A printing method includes obtaining scene information concerning image data from supplemental data that is appended to the image data; classifying a scene of an image represented by the image data, based on the image data; comparing the classified scene with a scene indicated by the scene information; and printing a printout that is used to urge a user to make a continuation when a mismatch between the classified scene and the scene indicated by the scene information exists. | 10-23-2008 |
20080292181 | Information Processing Method, Information Processing Apparatus, and Storage Medium Storing a Program - An information processing method includes: for image data of each of a plurality of images, obtaining scene information concerning the image data from supplemental data that is appended to the image data, classifying a scene of an image represented by the image data, based on the image data, comparing the classified scene with a scene indicated by the scene information; and if there is a mismatch image for which the classified scene does not match the scene indicated by the scene information, displaying information concerning the mismatch image on a confirmation screen. | 11-27-2008 |