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20090153750 | Image display apparatus - A projector can be connected to a PC through a network. A flash memory in the projector stores a control program and external storage access information indicating an area in an HDD of the PC where a program for implementing an image display function is stored. During start-up, the projector uses the information stored in the flash memory to execute the program for implementing the image display function, under the control of a CPU. That is, the CPU executes the control program to establish network connection with the PC, then references the external storage access information to access a previously assigned area in the HDD of the PC, and reads the program for implementing the image display function to execute it. | 06-18-2009 |
20100129047 | TELEVISION BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE - Even when a communication state between a tuner device and a display device is deteriorated, a television broadcast receiving device enables a user to view broadcast. The television broadcast receiving device of the present invention has a tuner section that receives a digital broadcast signal, selects the digital broadcast signal to decode the digital broadcast signal, generates video data including a video signal and an audio signal, and converts the video data into processed video data suitable for wireless communication, and a display section that receives the processed video data from the tuner section through wireless communication, and displays a video based on the processed video data. The tuner section has a recording/playback section that records and reads the video data in and from a predetermined recording section according to a change in state of the communication with the display section. | 05-27-2010 |
20110302602 | BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE AND BROADCAST RECEIVING SYSTEM - A broadcast receiving device includes: a display control unit for causing a display unit to display a video based on received data; an input unit, through which information input operation is performed; a first network communication unit communicably connected to a wide area network; a second network communication unit communicably connected to an information processing device; a network bridge processing unit for creating a bridge connection between the first network communication unit and the second network communication unit to make possible communication between the information processing device and the wide area network; and a user interface providing unit for receiving graphical user interface generated by the information processing device via the second network communication unit and supplying graphics data based on the graphical user interface to the display control unit, the user interface providing unit supplying information inputted from the input unit to the information processing device via the second network communication unit. | 12-08-2011 |
20130058624 | NETWORK CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND NETWORK CONTROL METHOD - A user-operable device and a display device are connected via a network. The user-operable device has a user interface that involves display of user interface images on the display device. A network control device connected to the network stores surrogate user interface image data. Before the user interface of the user-operable device becomes operational, the network control device displays a surrogate user interface on the display device and receives events generated by user operations from the display device. The network control device transfers the received events to the user-operable device after the user interface of the user-operable device becomes operational. | 03-07-2013 |
20130246510 | REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM, CLIENT DEVICE, AND SERVER DEVICE - A remote control system including a server device and a client device. The client device displays an operation screen of the server device and, when an operation is input, sends operation information to the server device, thereby remotely operating the server device. The client device may request a moving picture content file from the server device. Upon receiving the requested moving picture content file, the client device displays the moving picture in place of the operation screen. The user of the client device can then view the moving picture without being troubled by the slow screen update speed of the remote control operation screen. | 09-19-2013 |
20140023143 | REMOTE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A remote display apparatus takes a display image generated for display on the display screen of an information processing device and displays it on the display screen of a digital television receiver connected to the information processing device through a network. The display image includes a still picture area and a moving picture area. Data representing the still picture area are sent to the digital television receiver as bit mapped data. Data representing the moving picture area are sent to the digital television receiver as a compressively encoded video stream. The digital television receiver does not require additional hardware. | 01-23-2014 |
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20090220158 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus | 09-03-2009 |
20100177982 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image processing device includes: an estimated plane calculation portion calculating, for inputted image data, estimated planes defined by luminance values in blocks each containing a predetermined number of pixels including a reference pixel; an optimal estimated plane selection portion selecting an optimal estimated plane having a least summation of errors between luminance values of respective pixels in a block and an estimated plane among the estimated planes; a weighting factor calculation portion calculating a weighting factor for the reference pixel base on luminance values of the reference pixel and in the optimal estimated plane; and a weighted smoothing portion computing a sum of products of relative luminance differences between the luminance values of the respective pixels in the block and in the optimal estimated plane and the weighting factor for the reference pixel and adding a luminance value in the optimal estimated plane at a reference pixel position to a result of computation. | 07-15-2010 |
20100290672 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE, MOVING OBJECT DETECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus for detecting movement of an object captured by an imaging device, the apparatus includes a moving object detection unit, that is (1) operable to detect movement of an object based on a first moving object detecting process, and (2) operable to detect movement of the object based on a second moving object detecting process. The apparatus also includes an output unit operable to generate an output based on the detection by the moving object detection unit based on at least one of the first and second moving object detecting processes. | 11-18-2010 |
20100296743 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is provided which includes a characteristic quantity calculation unit that calculates a characteristic quantity for each pixel of image data from the image data, a tightness determination unit that determines tightness indicating a degree of dispersion of pixels in image data for tightness determination by extracting the pixels having a same characteristic quantity by using the characteristic quantity and generating the image data for tightness determination composed of the pixels having the same characteristic quantity, and a pixel set calculation unit that calculates a set of the pixels from the pixels in the image data for tightness determination in accordance with a determination of the tightness. | 11-25-2010 |
20110135158 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing device which includes an optical flow computation unit computing optical flow within an image with reference to a past image, an optical flow detection unit setting multiple reference points in a partial region of the image and detecting whether or not optical flow is generated at the reference points, a feature point data storage unit storing, when optical flow is generated at the reference points, as a feature point a set of peaces of pixel data that generated the optical flow, a feature point tracking unit tracking a motion position of the feature point, a feature point deletion unit deleting the tracked feature point in accordance with a variation in motion position of the feature point, and a passage determination unit determining whether or not passage of an object is detected within the image based on multiple remaining undeleted feature points. | 06-09-2011 |
20110142342 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a block histogram generation unit configured to calculate frequency of a pixel value in each block, divide a dynamic range, and generate a first histogram including āNā number of bins, a pixel histogram generation unit configured to calculate frequency of a target pixel in a block based on first histograms of the block including the target pixel and a block adjacent to the block including the target pixel, and generate a second histogram including āNā number of bins for each pixel, and an output value determination unit configured to generate a relation between the pixel value and an output value of the pixel value based on the second histogram so that a maximum cumulative frequency of the second histogram matches a maximum value of the output value, and calculate the output value based on the pixel value of the target pixel. | 06-16-2011 |
20110228979 | Moving-object detection apparatus, moving-object detection method and moving-object detection program - Disclosed herein is a moving-object detection apparatus having a plurality of moving-object detection processing devices configured to detect a moving object on the basis of a motion vector computed by making use of a present image and a past image wherein the moving-object detection processing devices are set to operate differently from each other in at least one of the resolution of the present and past images, the time distance between the present and past images and the search area of the motion vector in order to detect the moving object. | 09-22-2011 |
20110243385 | Moving object detection apparatus, moving object detection method, and program - Disclosed herein is a moving object detection apparatus including: an image input processing section configured to input an analysis image composed of an image taken by a camera in order to establish a designated region inside the analysis image; a first detection processing section configured to detect an image of a moving object which moves within the designated region established by the image input processing section and which is at a distance in a first range from the camera; and a second detection processing section configured to detect an image of the moving object which moves within the designated region established by the image input processing section and which is at a distance in a second range from the camera, the second range being farther than the first range. | 10-06-2011 |
20140003669 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE, MOVING OBJECT DETECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | 01-02-2014 |
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20100173707 | GAME DEVICE, GAME DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a game device having a character transformation function and in which prevention of unnatural display of change of posture and facial expression of a character object is realized while suppressing increase in an amount of data and an amount of work related to motion data. In the present invention, a skeleton part (joint or bone) which is set for a character object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space is rotated so that a position of a predetermined vertex of the character object changes from a first position to a second position. In the present invention, a player is guided to change at least one of the first position and the second position. In a case where at least one of the first position and the second position is changed by the player, the position of the skeleton part is corrected so that the position of the predetermined vertex of the character object changes from the first position to the second position in a case where the skeleton part is rotated by a predetermined angle (S | 07-08-2010 |
20100240453 | GAME DEVICE, GAME DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a game device capable of expressing, through a relatively simple process, a picture showing a first character object grabbing and pulling a clothing object of a second character object. According to the present invention, a direction from the position of the second character object to the position of the first character object is obtained, and based on the obtained direction, the positions of at least some of the vertexes of the clothing object are changed (S | 09-23-2010 |
20130137513 | GAME MACHINE, GAME SYSTEM, GAME MACHINE CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A game machine executes a game in which a user character operated by a user, and a teammate character and an opponent character operated by a computer, act in a game space. A first determination unit determines whether or not the teammate character is performing a predetermined action. A second determination unit determines whether or not the user performs a predetermined operation indicating that the user has noticed the teammate character performing the predetermined action. An action control unit has the opponent character perform an action determined based on the predetermined action of the teammate character, based on the result of determination by the second determination unit. | 05-30-2013 |
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20140210777 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display pixel allocated at a matrix state in a display area, an image-reading device which detects strength of capacitive coupling by a dielectric material coming close to or making contact with the display area, and a control portion which controls each transistor of the image-reading device. The image-reading device includes a detection electrode which forms capacitance between the detection electrode and the dielectric material, a pre-charge gate line, a coupling pulse line, a readout gate line, a pre-charge line and a readout line. These lines supply a signal which drives the image-reading device. The image-reading device further includes a pre-charge transistor, an amplification transistor, a readout transistor, a compensation transistor, and a power-source switching transistor. | 07-31-2014 |
20140333852 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel having a counter substrate, an array substrate and a liquid crystal layer held therebetween, a counter electrode provided on the counter substrate, a pixel electrode arranged on the array substrate in a matrix, a sensor circuit arranged between rows of the plurality of pixel electrodes and configured to read out intensity of capacitive coupling between the sensor circuit and a dielectric, and a counter electrode drive circuit configured to pulsatively drive a common voltage added to the counter electrode during a period of driving the sensor circuit, wherein the sensor circuit comprises a detection electrode configured to form capacitance between the sensor circuit and the dielectric and to form capacitance between the sensor circuit and the counter electrode, and wherein the counter electrode comprises an aperture including at least a portion opposed to the detection electrode. | 11-13-2014 |
20150109267 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a unit pixel, a scanning line, and first to fourth signal lines. The first to fourth signal lines are extended in a columnar direction and are spaced apart from each other. The first and second signal lines are positioned in a region opposed to first and second pixel electrodes in a row direction. The third and fourth signal lines are positioned in a region opposed to third and fourth pixel electrodes in the row direction. | 04-23-2015 |
20150248866 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND REFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a unit pixel including a first pixel, a second pixel neighboring to the first pixel in a column direction, a third pixel neighboring to the first pixel in a row direction, and a fourth pixel neighboring to the second pixel in the row direction, a scanning line extending in the row direction and electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and first to fourth signal lines extending in the column direction and provided at intervals therebetween in the row direction, and the first to fourth signal lines are electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and video signal potentials for inverted drive applied to the first and second signal lines are inverted in polarity with respect to each other, and those to the third and fourth signal lines are inverted in polarity with respect to each other. | 09-03-2015 |
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20080211004 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a silicon crystal layer on an insulating layer, the silicon crystal layer containing a crystal lattice mismatch plane, a memory cell array portion on the silicon crystal layer, the memory cell array portion including memory strings, each of the memory strings including nonvolatile memory cell transistors connected in series in a first direction, the memory strings being arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the crystal lattice mismatch plane crossing the silicon crystal along the second direction without passing under gates of the nonvolatile memory cell transistors as viewed from a top of the silicon crystal layer, or crossing the silicon crystal along the first direction with passing under gates of the nonvolatile memory cell transistors as viewed from the top of the silicon crystal layer. | 09-04-2008 |
20080224252 | Semiconductor device having an element isolating insulating film - In using an epitaxial growth method to selectively grow on a silicon substrate an epitaxial layer on which an element is to be formed, the epitaxial layer is formed so as to extend upward above a thermal oxide film that is an element isolating insulating film, in order to prevent formation of facets. Subsequently, unwanted portions of the epitaxial layer are removed by means of CMP to complete an STI element isolating structure. | 09-18-2008 |
20080242115 | Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device - A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectrics formed on the semiconductor substrate and including a silicon oxide film containing a metallic element, the silicon oxide film containing the metallic element including a first region near a lower surface thereof, a second region near an upper surface thereof, and a third region between the first and second regions, the metallic element contained in the silicon oxide film having a density distribution in a thickness direction of the silicon oxide film, a peak of the density distribution existing in the third region, and an electrode formed on the gate dielectrics. | 10-02-2008 |
20090108412 | SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE - A semiconductor substrate includes: a silicon support substrate with a first crystal orientation; a silicon functional substrate which is formed on the silicon support substrate and which has a first crystalline region with a crystal orientation different from the first crystal orientation of the silicon support substrate and a second crystalline region with a crystal orientation equal to the first crystal orientation of the silicon support substrate; and a defect creation-preventing region formed at an interface between the first crystalline region and the second crystalline region of the silicon functional substrate so as to be at least elongated to a main surface of the silicon support substrate. | 04-30-2009 |
20090121279 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a single crystal silicon substrate an insulating layer partially formed on the single crystal silicon substrate, a single crystal silicon layer formed on the single crystal silicon substrate and the insulating layer, and containing a defect layer resulting from an excessive group IV element, and a plurality of first gate structures for memory cells, each including a first gate insulating film formed on the single crystal silicon layer, a charge storage layer formed on the first gate insulating film, a second gate insulating film formed on the charge storage layer, and a control gate electrode formed on the second gate insulating film. | 05-14-2009 |
20090233451 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING A GATE INSULATING FILM STRUCTURE INCLUDING AN INSULATING FILM CONTAINING METAL, SILICON AND OXYGEN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Claimed and disclosed is a semiconductor device including a transistor having a gate insulating film structure containing nitrogen or fluorine in a compound, such as metal silicate, containing metal, silicon and oxygen, a gate insulating film structure having a laminated structure of an amorphous metal oxide film and metal silicate film, or a gate insulating film structure having a first gate insulating film including an oxide film of a first metal element and a second gate insulating film including a metal silicate film of a second metal element. | 09-17-2009 |
20100055869 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate, forming a first insulating film having a first recessed portion in the trench, forming a coating film so as to fill the first recessed portion therewith, transforming the coating film into a second insulating film, planarizing the second insulating film to expose the first insulating film and the second insulating film, removing at least the second insulating film from the first recessed portion to moderate an aspect ratio for the first recessed portion formed in the trench, thereby forming a second recessed portion therein, and forming a third insulating film on a surface of the semiconductor substrate so as to fill the second recessed portion therewith. | 03-04-2010 |
20110303969 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device with memory cells each composed of a vertical transistor, comprises a silicon layer formed into a columnar shape on a silicon substrate, a gate insulating film part in which a tunnel insulating film, a charge storage layer, and a block insulating film are formed to surround the sidewall surface of the silicon layer, and a stacked structure part formed to surround the sidewall surface of the gate insulating film part and in which a plurality of interlayer insulating films and a plurality of control gate electrode layers are stacked alternately. The silicon layer, gate insulating film part, and control gate electrode layer constitute the vertical transistor. The charge storage layer has a region lower in trap level than a region facing the control gate electrode layer between the vertical transistors. | 12-15-2011 |
20140308789 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device with memory cells each composed of a vertical transistor, comprises a silicon layer formed into a columnar shape on a silicon substrate, a gate insulating film part in which a tunnel insulating film, a charge storage layer, and a block insulating film are formed to surround the sidewall surface of the silicon layer, and a stacked structure part formed to surround the sidewall surface of the gate insulating film part and in which a plurality of interlayer insulating films and a plurality of control gate electrode layers are stacked alternately. The silicon layer, gate insulating film part, and control gate electrode layer constitute the vertical transistor. The charge storage layer has a region lower in trap level than a region facing the control gate electrode layer between the vertical transistors. | 10-16-2014 |