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20090201286 | Light emitting period setting method, driving method for display panel, driving method for backlight, light emitting period setting apparatus, semiconductor device, display panel and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a light emitting period setting method for a display panel wherein the peak luminance level is varied through control of a total light emitting period length which is the sum total of period lengths of light emitting periods arranged in a one-field period, including a step of setting period lengths of N light emitting periods, which are arranged in a one-field period, in response to the total light emitting period length such that the period lengths of the light emitting periods continue to keep a fixed ratio thereamong, N being equal to or higher than 3. | 08-13-2009 |
20090207193 | Lighting period setting method, display panel driving method, backlight driving method, lighting condition setting device, semiconductor device, display panel and electronic equipment - Disclosed herein is a lighting period setting method for a display panel which permits control of the peak luminance level by controlling the total lighting period length which is the sum of all lighting periods per field period, the lighting period setting method including the steps of, calculating the average luminance level across the screen based on input image data, determining light emission mode based on the calculated average luminance level, and setting the number, arrangement and lengths of lighting periods per field period according to the setting conditions defined for the determined light emission mode so as to provide the peak luminance level which is set according to the input image data. | 08-20-2009 |
20120169802 | LIGHT EMITTING PERIOD SETTING METHOD, DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY PANEL, DRIVING METHOD FOR BACKLIGHT, LIGHT EMITTING PERIOD SETTING APPARATUS, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a light emitting period setting method for a display panel wherein the peak luminance level is varied through control of a total light emitting period length which is the sum total of period lengths of light emitting periods arranged in a one-field period, including a step of setting period lengths of N light emitting periods, which are arranged in a one-field period, in response to the total light emitting period length such that the period lengths of the light emitting periods continue to keep a fixed ratio thereamong, N being equal to or higher than 3. | 07-05-2012 |
20120250139 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including first and second substrates, at least one of which has a light transmitting characteristic, as well as first and second electrodes provided on the two mutually facing surfaces of the first and second substrates respectively; and an electrophoretic device provided between the first and second substrates, wherein the first substrate and the first electrode each have an external edge folded back so as to cover at least a portion of a terminal surface of the second substrate. | 10-04-2012 |
20130127929 | LIGHTING PERIOD SETTING METHOD, DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD, BACKLIGHT DRIVING METHOD, LIGHTING CONDITION SETTING DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a lighting period setting method for a display panel which permits control of the peak luminance level by controlling the total lighting period length which is the sum of all lighting periods per field period, the lighting period setting method including the steps of, calculating the average luminance level across the screen based on input image data, determining light emission mode based on the calculated average luminance level, and setting the number, arrangement and lengths of lighting periods per field period according to the setting conditions defined for the determined light emission mode so as to provide the peak luminance level which is set according to the input image data. | 05-23-2013 |
20130200409 | SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There are provided a semiconductor unit that prevents connection failure caused by a wiring substrate to improve reliability, a method of manufacturing the semiconductor unit, and an electronic apparatus including the semiconductor unit. The semiconductor unit includes: a device substrate including a functional device and an electrode; a first wiring substrate electrically connected to the functional device through the electrode; and a second wiring substrate electrically connected to the functional device through the first wiring substrate. | 08-08-2013 |
20130278624 | DISPLAY UNIT - A display unit has a flexible display section, a detection section for detecting a deflection amount and a deflection direction of the display section, a determination section for determining a visible portion and a non-visible portion of the display section based on the deflection amount and the deflection direction, and a control section for controlling display contents of the display section. The control section either prevents an image display on the non-visible portion or displays one of a fixed image or a pre-set moving image on the non-visible portion. The display unit also includes a displacement sensor located in the same region as the display section. | 10-24-2013 |
20140160553 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including first and second substrates, at least one of which has a light transmitting characteristic, as well as first and second electrodes provided on the two mutually facing surfaces of the first and second substrates respectively; and an electrophoretic device provided between the first and second substrates, wherein the first substrate and the first electrode each have an external edge folded back so as to cover at least a portion of a terminal surface of the second substrate. | 06-12-2014 |
20140307009 | LIGHT EMITTING PERIOD SETTING METHOD, DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY PANEL, DRIVING METHOD FOR BACKLIGHT, LIGHT EMITTING PERIOD SETTING APPARATUS, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a light emitting period setting method for a display panel wherein the peak luminance level is varied through control of a total light emitting period length which is the sum total of period lengths of light emitting periods arranged in a one-field period, including a step of setting period lengths of N light emitting periods, which are arranged in a one-field period, in response to the total light emitting period length such that the period lengths of the light emitting periods continue to keep a fixed ratio thereamong, N being equal to or higher than 3. | 10-16-2014 |
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20080262967 | Information processing method and device thereby - An information processing method, includes steps of detecting a use range set for one of digital money expressed in digital data and a use right of the digital money, and a use status of one of the digital money and the digital money right when one of the digital money and the digital money use right is used, determining whether the use status falls within the use range, and permitting the use of one of the digital money and the digital money use right if the use status falls within the use range or not permitting the use of one of the digital money and the digital money use right if the use status falls out of the use range. | 10-23-2008 |
20090050686 | Electronic wallet device, communication method, and program - An electronic wallet device is provided, which includes a holding section holding a plurality of non-contact type IC cards in an attachable/detachable manner, an antenna for external communication, a transmitting/receiving section demodulating a communication request received by the antenna for external communication and transmitting a response signal, a storage section storing virtual card information for the respective non-contact type IC cards held in the holding section, a card internal information recording section recording the virtual card information in the storage section based on the status of mounting of the non-contact type IC card, a card selection section selecting virtual card information to be used for communication based on the code included in the communication request and the virtual card information, and a data processing section performing processing requested by the communication request by using the virtual card information selected and making the transmitting/receiving section transmit a response signal. | 02-26-2009 |
20090050687 | Electronic wallet device and method of using electronic value - There is provided an electronic wallet device using electronic value concerning a prescribed service by means of a non-contact type IC card capable of non-contact communication with an external unit, which includes a holding section to hold a plurality of non-contact type IC cards, an external communication antenna to perform non-contact communication with the external unit, a card communication antenna to perform non-contact communication with the non-contact type IC cards held in the holding section, a value storing section capable of storing electronic value, and a control section to receive a transaction request concerning the service from the external unit via the external communication antenna and, in response to the transaction request, transfer electronic value between the value storing section and at least one of the plurality of non-contact type IC cards via the card communication antenna. | 02-26-2009 |
20090050688 | Electronic wallet device and communication method - There is provided an electronic wallet device including a holding section to hold a plurality of non-contact type IC cards, an external communication antenna to perform non-contact communication with an external unit, a card communication antenna to perform non-contact communication with the IC cards held in the holding section, a card selecting section to select at least one IC card by narrowing down candidates for an IC card to be used for communication with the external unit from the plurality of IC cards based on a plurality of different card selection criteria, and a communication control section to connect the selected IC card with the external unit via the external communication antenna and the card communication antenna so that the selected non-contact type IC card and the external unit communicate with each other. | 02-26-2009 |
20090050689 | Electronic wallet device and method of using electronic value - There is provided an electronic wallet device using electronic value concerning a prescribed service by means of a non-contact type IC card capable of non-contact communication with an external unit, including a holding section to hold the non-contact type IC card, an external communication antenna to perform non-contact communication with the external unit, a card communication antenna to perform non-contact communication with the non-contact type IC card held in the holding section, a value storing section capable of storing electronic value, a charge section to charge the value storing section with electronic value, and a value transfer section to transfer electronic value stored in the value storing section to the non-contact type IC card on condition of success of authentication of an owner of the electronic wallet device by an authentication section when using electronic value by means of the non-contact type IC card. | 02-26-2009 |
20090111523 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus including an IC chip receiving, by communicating with a reader/writer, service data corresponding to a service provided via the reader/writer and processing the received service data, a SIM card holding section holding a SIM card which includes a card internal memory storing information and to which a unique number for identifying a subscriber is added and a control section storing in the card internal memory of the SIM card the service data processed by the IC chip in the communication with the reader/writer, reading the service data stored in the card internal memory of the SIM card and making the IC chip process the service data. | 04-30-2009 |
20100163617 | IC-CARD HOLDING APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD,DATA PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS,AND DATA PROVIDING METHOD - An IC-card holding apparatus improving the availability, the convenience, and the usefulness of a non-contact IC card. The IC-card holding apparatus may communicate with a non-contact IC card held therein to read out information from the non-contact IC card and obtain the type of the non-contact IC card held therein and usage history information. The IC-card holding apparatus may display an image corresponding to the type of the non-contact IC card. The usage history may also be read out and displayed. For example, information (e.g., place name or shop name) about a position where the non-contact IC card has been used may be displayed and/or the use position may be presented on a map image. | 07-01-2010 |
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20080199152 | Sound processing apparatus, sound processing method and program - A sound processing apparatus includes a sound determination portion operable to determine whether an input sound includes a first sound emitted from a particular source based on location information of the source, a sound separation portion operable to separate the input sound into the first sound and a second sound emitted from a source different from the particular source if the sound determination portion determines that the input sound includes the first sound, and a sound mixing portion operable to mix the first sound and the second sound separated by the sound separation portion at a prescribed volume ratio. | 08-21-2008 |
20090074204 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program - According to the present invention, a parameter adjustment section setting, in accordance with a first parameter indicating a variant factor for playback speed that is input, a second parameter and a third parameter, and a signal processing section adjusting at least one of playback speed and pitch of a sound of an audio signal based on the second parameter and the third parameter are provided, wherein the signal processing section adjusts the playback speed of the audio signal when the variant factor for playback speed that is input is less than a predetermined threshold and adjusts the playback speed and the pitch of a sound of the audio signal when the variant factor for playback speed that is input is above the predetermined threshold. | 03-19-2009 |
20100111290 | Call Voice Processing Apparatus, Call Voice Processing Method and Program - There is provided a call voice processing apparatus including an input correction unit that corrects characteristics of a first input sound input from a first input apparatus to characteristics of a second input sound input from a second input apparatus, a sound separation unit that separates the second input sound into a plurality of sounds, a sound type estimation unit that estimates sound types of the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit, a mixing ratio calculation unit that calculates a mixing ratio of each sound in accordance with the sound type estimated by the sound type estimation unit, a sound mixing unit that mixes the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit in the mixing ratio calculated by the mixing ratio calculation unit, and an extraction unit that extracts a specific sound from the first input sound corrected by the input correction unit. | 05-06-2010 |
20100111313 | Sound Processing Apparatus, Sound Processing Method and Program - There is provided a sound processing apparatus including a sound separation unit that separates an input sound into a plurality of sounds caused by a plurality of sound sources, a sound type estimation unit that estimates sound types of the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit, a mixing ratio calculation unit that calculates a mixing ratio of each sound in accordance with the sound type estimated by the sound type estimation unit, and a sound mixing unit that mixes the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit in the mixing ratio calculated by the mixing ratio calculation unit. | 05-06-2010 |
20110022361 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sound processing device includes: a nonlinear processing unit that outputs a plurality of sound signals including sound sources existing in predetermined areas by performing a nonlinear process for a plurality of observed signals that are generated by a plurality of sound sources and are observed by a plurality of sensors; a signal selecting unit that selects a sound signal including a specific sound source from among the plurality of sound signals output by the nonlinear processing unit and the observed signal including the plurality of sound sources; and a sound separating unit that separates a sound signal including the specific sound source that is selected by the signal selecting unit from the observed signal selected by the signal selecting unit. | 01-27-2011 |
20110228951 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sound processing apparatus includes a target sound emphasizing unit configured to acquire a sound frequency component by emphasizing target sound in input sound in which the target sound and noise are included, a target sound suppressing unit configured to acquire a noise frequency component by suppressing the target sound in the input sound, a gain computing unit configured to compute a gain value to be multiplied by the sound frequency component using a gain function that provides a gain value and has a slope that are less than predetermined values when an energy ratio of the sound frequency component to the noise frequency component is less than or equal to a predetermined value, and a gain multiplier unit configured to multiply the sound frequency component by the gain value computed by the gain computing unit. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231187 | VOICE PROCESSING DEVICE, VOICE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A voice processing device includes a zone detection unit which detects a voice zone including a voice signal or a non-steady sound zone including a non-steady signal other than the voice signal from an input signal and a filter calculation unit that calculates a filter coefficient for holding the voice signal in the voice zone and for suppressing the non-steady signal in the non-steady sound zone according to the detection result by the zone detection unit, in which the filter calculation unit calculates the filter coefficient by using a filter coefficient calculated in the non-steady sound zone for the voice zone and using a filter coefficient calculated in the voice zone for the non-steady sound zone. | 09-22-2011 |
20110255005 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a change point detection unit which detects change points of a moving image, a transition detection unit which detects transition of a subject, a composition similarity degree information generation unit which generates composition similarity degree information, based on feature amounts of the compositions of the images configuring the moving image included between the change points, a voice similarity degree information generation unit which generates voice similarity degree information, based on a feature amount of the voice data associated with the moving image included between the change points, and a determination unit which determines whether or not the moving image included between the change points is a moving image corresponding to the specific scene, based on the detected transition, the generated composition similarity degree information and the generated voice similarity degree information. | 10-20-2011 |
20110255710 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A signal processing apparatus includes an absolute value unit configured to convert an audio signal into absolute values, a representative value calculation unit configured to calculate representative values of consecutive sample values included in blocks of the audio signal which has been converted into the absolute values using at least maximum sample values among values of the samples included in the blocks for individual blocks, an average value calculation unit configured to determine a section which includes a predetermined number of consecutive blocks as a frame and calculate a maximum value of the representative values of the blocks included in the frame and an average value of the representative values of the blocks included in the frame, and a detector configured to detect click noise in the frame on the basis of a ratio of the maximum value to the average value. | 10-20-2011 |
20110274411 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device for analyzing motion and color of an image of a program and detecting shot sound and cheering of golf includes an extraction unit that extracts a notable interval which is a notable time interval of the program based on the motion of the image, a computation unit that computes a play scene level indicating a degree to which the notable interval is a play scene of the golf based on the motion, color and shot sound of the notable interval extracted by the extraction unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not the notable interval is a play scene of the golf based on the play scene level computed by the computation unit. | 11-10-2011 |
20110293176 | DETECTION APPARATUS, DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus for detecting a cut change based on a similarity between a first image and a second image, includes a unit for generating one of a luminance histogram and a color histogram of each of the first image and the second image, a unit for generating a spatial correlation image representing a correlation between spatial layouts of the first image and the second image, a unit for calculating a histogram similarity representing a similarity between the histogram of the first image and the histogram of the second image, a unit for calculating a spatial correlation image similarity representing a similarity between the spatial correlation image of the first image and the spatial correlation image of the second image, and a unit for determining whether a border between the first image and the second image is a cut change based on the histogram similarity and the spatial correlation image similarity. | 12-01-2011 |
20120026345 | MECHANICAL NOISE SUPPRESSION APPARATUS, MECHANICAL NOISE SUPPRESSION METHOD, PROGRAM AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A mechanical noise suppression apparatus includes: a framing section adapted to divide an input signal into frames of a predetermined time length; a Fourier transform section adapted to transform framed signals obtained by the framing section into a frequency spectrum of a frequency domain; a mechanical noise reduction section adapted to correct the frequency spectrum of the input signal obtained by the Fourier transform section based on frequency spectrum information of mechanical noise to suppress the mechanical noise; an inverse Fourier transform section adapted to return the frequency spectrum corrected by the mechanical noise reduction section into framed signals of a time domain; and a frame synthesis section adapted to carry out frame synthesis of the framed signals of frames obtained by the inverse Fourier transform section to obtain an output signal in which the mechanical noise is suppressed. | 02-02-2012 |
20120057722 | NOISE REMOVING APPARATUS AND NOISE REMOVING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a noise removing apparatus, including: an object sound emphasis section adapted to carry out an object sound emphasis process for observation signals of first and second microphones to produce an object sound estimation signal; a noise estimation section adapted to carry out a noise estimation process for the observation signals to produce a noise estimation signal; a post filtering section adapted to remove noise components remaining in the object sound estimation signal using the noise estimation signal; a correction coefficient calculation section adapted to calculate, for each frequency, a correction coefficient for correcting the post filtering process based on the object sound estimation signal and the noise estimation signal; and a correction coefficient changing section adapted to change those of the correction coefficients which belong to a frequency band suffering from spatial aliasing such that a peak appearing at a particular frequency is suppressed. | 03-08-2012 |
20120103166 | Signal Processing Device, Signal Processing Method, and Program - A signal processing device that identifies a piece of music of an input signal by comparing the input signal with a plurality of reference signals including only a piece of music includes a weight distribution generating section that generates a weight distribution corresponding to a likeness to music in regions of the input signal transformed into a time-frequency domain, and a similarity calculating section that calculates degrees of similarity between a feature quantity in the regions of the input signal transformed into the time-frequency domain and feature quantities in the regions of the reference signals transformed into the time-frequency domain on the basis of the weighting based on the weight distribution. | 05-03-2012 |
20120150054 | RESPIRATORY CONDITION ANALYSIS APPARATUS, RESPIRATORY CONDITION DISPLAY APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD THEREIN, AND PROGRAM - A respiratory condition analysis apparatus includes a respiratory signal acquisition section configured to acquire a time-series respiratory signal including respiratory sound of a living body, a respiratory segment identification section configured to identify a respiratory segment that is a time segment including the respiratory sound in the respiratory signal, a feature value generation section configured to generate a predetermined feature value of the respiratory signal for the identified respiratory segment, and a respiratory abnormality degree generation section configured to generate a degree of abnormality of the respiratory sound included in the respiratory signal on the basis of the feature value. | 06-14-2012 |
20120157857 | RESPIRATORY SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, RESPIRATORY SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A respiratory signal processing apparatus includes a pulse-based component detection unit configured to detect a pulse-based component from a first signal acquired from a living being, and a pulse-based component removal unit configured to remove the detected pulse-based component from a second signal acquired from the living being, the second signal including respiratory sounds. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162471 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An audio signal processing device includes a first microphone configured to pick up audio and output a first audio signal; a second microphone configured to pick up the audio and output a second audio signal; a first frequency converter configured to convert the first audio signal to a first audio spectrum signal; a second frequency converter configured to convert the second audio signal to a second audio spectrum signal; an operating sound estimating unit configured to estimate, based on the correlation between a sound emitting member that emits an operating sound and the first and second microphones, an operating sound spectrum signal indicating the operating sound, by calculating the first and second audio spectrum signals; and an operating sound reducing unit configured to reduce the estimated operating sound spectrum signal from the first and second audio spectrum signals. | 06-28-2012 |
20120197420 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A signal processing device includes a sound collecting unit configured to collect sound, a covering detecting unit configured to detect a covered state of the sound collecting unit on the basis of a resonance frequency and a magnitude of a component of the resonance frequency in a frequency characteristic of an acoustic signal obtained through sound collection performed by the sound collecting unit, and an apparatus control determining unit configured to determine a type of control to be performed on a target apparatus in accordance with the covered state of the sound collecting unit detected by the covering detecting unit. | 08-02-2012 |
20120238908 | MASTICATION DETECTION DEVICE AND MASTICATION DETECTION METHOD - An information processing apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an information processing apparatus may include a receiving unit configured to receive an audio signal associated with a motion of a human mandible over a time period. The information processing apparatus may also include a determination unit configured to determine whether the motion of the human mandible corresponds to mastication, based on at least a power of the received audio signal during the time period. | 09-20-2012 |
20120266742 | MUSIC SECTION DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MUSIC SIGNAL DETECTING APPARATUS - An index calculating unit calculates a tonality index of a signal component of each area of an input signal transformed into a time frequency domain based on intensity (for example, power spectrum) of the signal component and a function (quadratic function) obtained by approximating the intensity of the signal component. A music determining unit determines whether or not each area of the input signal includes music based on the tonality index. The present technology can be applied to a music section detecting apparatus that detects a music part from an input signal in which music is mixed with noise. | 10-25-2012 |
20120266743 | MUSIC SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An index calculating unit calculates a tonality index of a signal component of each area of the input signal transformed into a time frequency domain based on intensity of the signal component and a function obtained by approximating the intensity of the signal component. A similarity calculating unit calculates a similarity between a feature quantity in each area of the input signal obtained based on the index and the feature quantity in each area of the reference signal obtained based on the index calculated on the reference signal transformed into the time frequency domain. A music identifying unit identifies music of the input signal based on the similarity. The present technology can be applied to a music search apparatus that identifies music from an input signal. | 10-25-2012 |
20130182857 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A sound processing apparatus includes a sound determination portion operable to determine whether an input sound includes a first sound emitted from a particular source based on location information of the source, a sound separation portion operable to separate the input sound into the first sound and a second sound emitted from a source different from the particular source if the sound determination portion determines that the input sound includes the first sound, and a sound mixing portion operable to mix the first sound and the second sound separated by the sound separation portion at a prescribed volume ratio. | 07-18-2013 |
20130255473 | TONAL COMPONENT DETECTION METHOD, TONAL COMPONENT DETECTION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a tonal component detection method including performing a time-frequency transformation on an input time signal to obtain a time-frequency distribution, detecting a peak in a frequency direction at a time frame of the time-frequency distribution, fitting a tone model in a neighboring region of the detected peak, and obtaining a score indicating tonal component likeness of the detected peak based on a result obtained by the fitting. | 10-03-2013 |
20140122064 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a signal processing device including a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract, from a frequency-domain signal obtained by frequency conversion on a voice signal, a feature amount of the frequency-domain signal, and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the extracted feature amount, presence or absence of noise in the voice signal within a predetermined section. The feature amount is composed of a plurality of elements. The plurality of elements contain an element defined based on a correlation value between a feature amount waveform which is a waveform according to the frequency-domain signal in the voice signal within the predetermined section and a feature amount waveform within another section sequential in time to the predetermined section. | 05-01-2014 |
20140140519 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a sound processing device including an input signal processing unit configured to calculate a first acoustic feature quantity indicating a likelihood being of a sinusoidal wave of a signal in each time frequency domain and a second acoustic feature quantity different from the first acoustic feature quantity based on an input signal of content to be identified, a reference signal processing unit configured to calculate the first acoustic feature quantity and the second acoustic feature quantity based on a reference signal of content prepared in advance, and a matching processing unit configured to calculate a similarity between the input signal and the reference signal based on the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the input signal and the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the reference signal. | 05-22-2014 |
20140169581 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an audio signal processing device including a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract, from an audio signal obtained by a sound collection unit, a feature amount that indicates a pulsed operation sound generated from a sound generation unit provided in a same housing as the sound collection unit, and a noise determination unit configured to determine whether or not the operation sound is included in the audio signal based on the feature amount. | 06-19-2014 |
20140303521 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - To easily perform replacement of a fixing member for fixing an object on a skin of a human body. | 10-09-2014 |
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20150117656 | SAMPLING POINT ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided a sampling point adjustment apparatus including: a frequency conversion unit that converts a first signal and a second signal into a first narrow band signal and a second narrow band signal through frequency conversion; a central position determination unit that determines a central position of a window of the frequency conversion for the second signal based on an estimated value of a sampling interval offset between the first narrow band signal and the second narrow band signal; and a phase control unit that controls a phase of the second narrow band signal based on the estimated value. | 04-30-2015 |
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20090051952 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCREEN GENERATING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a user interface screen inclusive of an operation screen, a display image information extracting unit configured to extract display image information from an information carrier medium having the display image information embedded therein, the display image information including an operation-purpose display image to be displayed on the operation screen, position information indicative of a position of the operation-purpose display image on the operation screen, and operation information indicative of an operation associated with the operation-purpose display image, and a user interface screen generating unit configured to generate a user interface screen based on the display image information extracted by the display image information extracting unit, the user interface screen having the operation-purpose display image that is placed at the position indicated by the position information and is associated with the operation indicated by the operation information. | 02-26-2009 |
20110279842 | Image processing apparatus, device cooperation system, and recording medium - An image processing apparatus is connected to an apparatus including a layout data storage unit storing layout data, a display part data storage unit storing part data, and a customization data storage unit storing customization data, the image processing apparatus including a menu construction unit that generates the menu based on at least the part data, a menu generation unit that modifies the menu based on the customization data, a display unit that displays the menu modified based on the customization data and accepts an operation for the display part, and a device cooperation unit that requests the apparatus to provide the function and setting information of the function, the function having been accepted via a second display unit. | 11-17-2011 |
20120236325 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMATION DATA GENERATING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - In an embodiment, a display control device includes: a control unit configured to control the display and output of image data; a display information generating unit configured to generate display information including at least an image ID for identifying the image data and a display period whenever the image data is output by the control unit for display; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the display information to an external device so that the display information is managed by the external device as one unit information item serving as a unit of image formation together with other display information items having a predetermined relation with the display information. | 09-20-2012 |
20140189815 | INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention is concerning to an information processing system includes an information input device and an information output device. The information input device includes a communication module that establishes communication with one or more information output devices, an information acquiring module that acquires device information of the respective information output devices including an identification code used only for identifying the information output device and makes a storage module store therein the device information, an input receiving module that receives an entry of an identification code, and a device specifying module that searches the device information acquired from the respective information output devices to specify the information output device to which the information is to be transmitted based on the identification code received and gives instructions to the communication module to transmit the information using the device information of the information output device specified. | 07-03-2014 |
20140210861 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information display device includes: a selecting condition acquisition unit that externally acquires selecting condition information including a selecting condition for selecting an image file; a selection unit that selects at least one image file out of a plurality of image files stored in an external storage device on the basis of the selecting condition information; a reduced image generating unit that generates a reduced image representing the at least one selected image file; and a display control unit that causes the reduced image of each of the at least one selected image file to be displayed. | 07-31-2014 |
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20080222233 | INFORMATION SHARING SUPPORT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER CONTROLLING METHOD - An information sharing support system includes: a first information processing device connected to a projector device for projecting an image on a projection area including an object therein, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area including the object; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image as the remaining part of the first annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitting unit that transmits the second annotation image to the projector device; a receiving unit that receives a picked-up image from the image pick-up device; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion. | 09-11-2008 |
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20100070846 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, REMOTE INDICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including: a management portion that manages a first identifier to be added to a capture image from a capture device; and a first control portion that adds the first identifier to the capture image, temporarily stores the capture image to which the first identifier is added, and transmits the capture image to which the first identifier is added, to a remote terminal; wherein when storing an image displayed on a display device which is connected to the remote device is instructed, the management portion receives a storing instruction including the first identifier in relation to the displayed image from the remote terminal, acquires the capture image corresponding to the first identifier included in the storing instruction from the first control portion, and stores the acquired capture image into a storage. | 03-18-2010 |
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20120324330 | INFORMATION SHARING SUPPORT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER CONTROLLING METHOD - An information sharing support system includes a first information processor connected to a projector that projects an image on a projection area including an object, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitter that transmits the second annotation image to the projector device; a receiving unit that receives a picked-up image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion. | 12-20-2012 |
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20130070964 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an identifying unit, a character recognition unit, an obtaining unit, a correcting unit, and an output unit. The identifying unit identifies a still image included in a moving image. The character recognition unit performs character recognition on the still image identified by the identifying unit. The obtaining unit obtains information about the moving image. The correcting unit corrects, on the basis of the information obtained by the obtaining unit, a character recognition result generated by the character recognition unit. The output unit outputs the character recognition result corrected by the correcting unit in association with the moving image. | 03-21-2013 |
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20120224191 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus, including an image forming unit to form a full-color image on an intermediate transfer member; a pattern image forming unit to form a pattern image on the intermediate transfer member for correcting image forming conditions; a pattern image detecting unit to detect the pattern image; a correcting unit to correct the image forming conditions; a positional shift amount calculating unit to calculate a positional shift amount; a positional shift amount storage unit to store the positional shift amount calculated by the positional shift amount calculating unit; and a pattern image correcting unit to correct a position of the pattern image in a main scanning direction and a width thereof to be smaller than an initial width in the main scanning direction, when the pattern image forming unit forms a pattern image on the intermediate transfer member. | 09-06-2012 |
20130022364 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming apparatus includes image carriers; an exposing unit that forms latent images on the image carriers; a developing unit that develops the latent images with toners of different colors from each other; a first transfer unit that forms a color image by superimposing and transferring the developed images onto a second image carrier; a test pattern forming unit that forms, on the image carriers, test patterns to be transferred onto the second image carrier; and test pattern detection units capable of detecting the test patterns transferred onto the second image carrier in different positions from each other in a main-scanning direction. The test pattern forming unit selectively switches, depending on a width of the test patterns in the main-scanning direction, whether to form each of the test patterns in a position detectable by the corresponding one of the test pattern detection units. | 01-24-2013 |
20140072315 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms toner images based on image data on first image carriers; a second image carrier, on which the toner images formed on the first image carriers are transferred; a second image forming unit that transfers the toner images transferred on the second image carrier onto a transfer medium; a test pattern generating unit that generates a test pattern group with a predetermine length in a moving direction of the second image carrier; and an adjusting unit that determines a method to adjust an image formation condition for the first image forming unit using the test pattern group, based on a relationship between the predetermined length and a length of an image area, in which a print image based on the image data is formed, in a sub-scanning direction corresponding to the moving direction of the second image carrier. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072316 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE CORRECTING METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE CORRECTION UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: at least one first image carrier configured to carry an electrostatic latent image thereon; an image writing unit; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; a first transfer unit provided opposite to the at least one first image carrier; a second transfer unit configured to transfer the subject image to a transfer material; a test pattern detection unit configured to detect the test pattern image; a control unit configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image based on a result from the detection of the test pattern image, wherein the test pattern image is provided on the second transfer unit at an area being out of the image forming area and being at the same range as the subject image in a scanning direction. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072351 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PERFORMING IMAGE CORRECTION USING THE SAME AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus comprising: at least one first image carrier; an image writing unit configured to write the electrostatic latent image including a test pattern; a second image carrier configured to move along a transfer position facing to the at least one first image carrier; an image forming unit configured to transfer the subject image transferred on the second image carrier to a transfer material; a detector configured to detect the test pattern image; and a controller configured to correct an image forming condition of the subject image, wherein during a period from the detection of the test pattern to the writing a subsequent subject image, the controller calculates a correction amount of a correction matter, and reflects the calculated amount in the image forming condition of the subject image. | 03-13-2014 |
20140168343 | WRITING CONTROLLING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The invention is concerning the writing controlling apparatus that includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of light amounts of a light source driven while changing an input current in non-effective scanning periods during which an image carrier is not irradiated with light from the light source, as a plurality of output results; a detecting unit configured to detect characteristics of the light source using the output results thus acquired; and a correcting unit configured to correct a current to be applied to the light source based on the characteristics thus detected. | 06-19-2014 |
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20090256157 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a first substrate on which a semiconductor circuit is formed. A second substrate is disposed over the first substrate to include a first electrode formed on a first surface to perform image displaying, and a second electrode exposed to a second surface and bonded to the first electrode via a contact hole. A third substrate is disposed over the second substrate to include a third electrode formed to perform image displaying in association with the first electrode of the second substrate. An image displaying layer is disposed between the second substrate and the third substrate to perform image displaying. An electrode on a surface of the first substrate on which the semiconductor circuit is formed is electrically connected to the second electrode exposed to the second surface of the second substrate. | 10-15-2009 |
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20120305915 | FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR - A method for fabricating a field-effect transistor having a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and an active layer forming a channel region, the active layer having an oxide semiconductor mainly containing magnesium and indium is disclosed. The method includes a deposition step of depositing an oxide film, a patterning step of patterning the oxide film by processes including etching to obtain the active layer, and a heat-treatment step of heat-treating the obtained active layer subsequent to the patterning step. | 12-06-2012 |
20120306834 | FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY ELEMENT, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - A disclosed field effect transistor includes a gate electrode to which a gate voltage is applied, a source electrode and a drain electrode for acquiring a current in response to the gate voltage, an active layer provided adjacent to the source electrode and the drain electrode, the active layer being formed of an n-type oxide semiconductor, and a gate insulator layer provided between the gate electrode and the active layer. In the field effect transistor, the n-type oxide semiconductor is formed of an n-type doped compound having a chemical composition of a crystal phase obtained by introducing at least one of a trivalent cation, a tetravalent cation, a pentavalent cation and a hexavalent cation. | 12-06-2012 |
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