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20080244102 | Identifier assigning device, identifier assigninig system and computer readable medium - An identifier assigning device includes an accepting section, a releasing section and an assigning section. The accepting section accepts a request from a first equipment for assigning an identifier of a first type to the first equipment. The first equipment is configured to communicate using an identifier of the first type. The releasing section releases an identifier of the first type assigned to a second equipment. An identifier of a second type is also assigned to the second equipment. The second equipment is configured to communicate using any of (i) the identifier of the first type assigned to the second equipment and (ii) the identifier of the second type assigned to the second equipment. The assigning section that assigns the identifier of the first type released from the second equipment by the releasing section, to the first equipment from which the accepting section accepts the request. | 10-02-2008 |
20130010326 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PRINT SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a determining unit and a processor. The determining unit determines, upon detecting that a specific printing device is not checking whether print instruction information indicating an instruction to print a document in the specific printing device is retained in a service which generates print instruction information indicating an instruction to print a document in a specified printing device, that the specific printing device is not in a checking state in which it is intermittently checked whether print instruction information is retained in the service. The processor performs processing for allowing the specific printing device to shift to the checking state if the determining unit has determined that the specific printing device is not in the checking state. | 01-10-2013 |
20150234623 | PRINT-COMMAND SUPPORT DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print-command support device includes an accepting unit, an authenticating unit, a receiving unit, and a processing unit. The accepting unit accepts user information related to a user of a printing apparatus. The authenticating unit authenticates the user based on the user information. The receiving unit receives request information from a print command device, which displays information related to printing apparatuses and selects one apparatus therefrom to command the apparatus to perform printing. The request information is for requesting transmission of the information related to the apparatus. The processing unit performs a transmission or determination process in accordance with reception of the request information. The transmission process is for transmitting the apparatus-related information and information related to authentication by the authenticating unit to the print command device. The determination process is for determining whether to transmit the apparatus-related information to the print command device based on the authentication-related information. | 08-20-2015 |
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20120044991 | MOVING IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND MOVING IMAGE CODING METHOD - A moving image coding apparatus of one embodiment includes a prediction image generator that generates a prediction image abased on a moving image, a processor that performs deblocking process based on residual data that is generated based on a prediction residual being a difference between an input image of the moving image and the prediction image, and the prediction image, and an evaluator that evaluates the deblocking process based on the input image, the residual data, the prediction image, and the deblocked data. The moving image coding apparatus further includes a parameter determiner that calculates a threshold for determining presence or absence of the deblocking process based on a result of the evaluation by the evaluator and determines a parameter for deblocking based on the threshold, and an encoder that codes moving image data based on the prediction residual and the parameter. | 02-23-2012 |
20150071605 | MOVING IMAGE PLAYER DEVICE - A moving image player device of the present invention includes an interpolated image generating unit that generates an interpolated frame corresponding to a time between two adjacent input frames using two input frames among the plurality of input frames, and a video playing unit that detects a scene change in the video, outputs the plurality of input frames or the interpolated frames in time series based on the detection result, and plays the video at an arbitrary playing speed. When the scene change is detected, the video playing unit skips a display of the interpolated frames corresponding to time between an input frame at the end of a first scene and an input frame at the head of a second scene, and displays an input frame of the second scene or the interpolated frame after the input frame at the end of the first scene or the interpolated frame. | 03-12-2015 |
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20090236933 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION THEREOF - A piezoelectric device includes a lower electrode, a piezoelectric film and an upper electrode laminated in this order on a support. An oxide film containing a material that forms a lower electrode is formed on a side surface of the piezoelectric film. The piezoelectric device is produced such that an upper electrode and a piezoelectric film are patterned by dry-etching through a mask formed on a side of the upper electrode of the piezoelectric device member and thereafter a side surface of the patterned piezoelectric film (a film adhered to a side wall) is oxidized to form an oxide film. | 09-24-2009 |
20110006300 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, DISPLAY AND SENSOR - A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes: preparing a film-attached substrate including a substrate, and an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn and a metal film containing at least one of W or Mo provided in this order on the substrate; and wet-etching the metal film of the film-attached substrate using an etching liquid of which a main component is hydrogen peroxide under conditions such that an etching selection ratio between the metal film and the oxide semiconductor film (etching rate of the metal film/etching rate of the oxide semiconductor film) is | 01-13-2011 |
20110042668 | AMORPHOUS OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL, FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided an amorphous oxide semiconductor material including an amorphous oxide semiconductor including In, Ga and Zn, wherein when In:Ga:Zn=a:b:c denotes an element composition ratio of the oxide semiconductor, the element composition ratio is defined by the range of a+b=2 and b<2 and c<4b−3.2 and c>−5b+8 and 1≦c≦2. | 02-24-2011 |
20140131696 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE SENSOR, AND X-RAY SENSOR - There is provided a method of fabricating a field effect transistor including: forming a first oxide semiconductor film on a gate insulation layer disposed on a gate electrode; forming a second oxide semiconductor film on the first oxide semiconductor film, the second oxide semiconductor film differing in cation composition from the first oxide semiconductor film and being lower in electrical conductivity than the first oxide semiconductor film; applying a heat treatment at over 300° C. in an oxidizing atmosphere; forming a third oxide semiconductor film on the second oxide semiconductor film, the third oxide semiconductor film differing in cation composition from the first oxide semiconductor film and being lower in electrical conductivity than the first oxide semiconductor film; applying a heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere; and, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on the third oxide semiconductor film. | 05-15-2014 |
20140134795 | SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT MANUFACTURING METHOD - There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor element including: forming a semiconductor film of which a principal constituent is an oxide semiconductor; forming a first insulation film on a surface of the semiconductor film; applying a heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere; and, forming a second insulation film on a surface of the first insulation film, wherein a thickness of the first insulation film and a temperature of the heat treatment in the third step are adjusted such that, if the thickness of the first insulation film is represented by Z (nm), the heat treatment temperature is represented by T (° C.) and a diffusion distance of oxygen into the first insulation film and the semiconductor film is represented by L (nm), the relational expression 005-15-2014 | |
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20090138767 | Self-diagnostic circuit and self-diagnostic method for detecting errors - A self-diagnostic circuit includes a setting unit receiving a plurality of detection signals generated in an integrated circuit device, and determining a type of detection signal to be detected among the received plurality of detection signals. A counter is coupled to the setting unit and counts a number of a signal corresponding to the type of the detection signal to be detected. | 05-28-2009 |
20090292940 | Memory controller, system including the controller, and memory delay amount control method - A memory controller transmits and receives data to and from a memory. The memory controller includes a delay control section deciding a set value indicative of a determined delay amount in response to a result of a comparison between a test data transmitted to the memory and test data received from the memory, and transmitting the decided set value to the memory, a taking-in section receiving the set value stored in the memory, and a delay adjustment section receiving data from the memory, and arranging a delay amount of the received data in response to the set value received by the taking-in section. | 11-26-2009 |
20120113729 | MEMORY INTERFACE CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is a need to provide a small-sized memory interface circuit capable of adjusting timing between a strobe signal and a data signal without interrupting a normal memory access. | 05-10-2012 |
20120218844 | MEMORY CONTROLLER, SYSTEM INCLUDING THE CONTROLLER, AND MEMORY DELAY AMOUNT CONTROL METHOD - A memory controller coupled to a DRAM includes a delay control section including a delay holding section, and coupled to the DRAM to output a delay set value to the DRAM and a delay adjustment section coupled to the DRAM to receive data from the DRAM, and to arrange a delay amount of the received data based on the delay set value. The delay set value is stored in both the delay holding section of the memory controller and the DRAM. | 08-30-2012 |
20130010545 | MEMORY INTERFACE CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is a need to provide a small-sized memory interface circuit capable of adjusting timing between a strobe signal and a data signal without interrupting a normal memory access. | 01-10-2013 |
20130170304 | MEMORY INTERFACE CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is a need to provide a small-sized memory interface circuit capable of adjusting timing between a strobe signal and a data signal without interrupting a normal memory access. | 07-04-2013 |
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20080268923 | Folding Rotary Portable Terminal - In a folding rotary portable terminal, a first case having a display section for at least displaying information and side face keys and are coupled to a second case having at least a camera section and side face keys and through a hinge part having at least two degrees of freedom in rotation, namely open/close and orthogonal directions. When the first case is rotated by 180° about the rotary shaft of the hinge part from an opened state of the first case and the second case to a folding state where the first case is superposed on the second case with the display section directed outward, the side face keys on the different side faces of the first case and the second case come to the same side. Thus, even in the folding state, various functions can be operated easily. | 10-30-2008 |
20090264160 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DISPLAY AND MOBILE PHONE - An electronic device with a display device and a mobile phone wherein if a shock of falling or the like, is added to a housing, the shock is hard to transmit to an end face of the display device are provided. | 10-22-2009 |
20110222223 | FOLDING PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - To solve the problem that the user's finger may be pinched and prevent the deterioration of the operability on the one-push portion in a structure in which at least either of outer hinge members is rotated relative to a second housing provided with a main operation section. In a folding portable electronic device, a hinge section | 09-15-2011 |
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20090128311 | SAFETY-DRIVE ASSISTANCE DEVICE - The present invention is to provide a safety-drive assistance device that can judges whether a driver recognizes an object to which a driver should pay an attention or not even if an accuracy of detecting a visual-line direction is almost equal to one degree. A traffic environment detecting unit | 05-21-2009 |
20090292413 | DANGEROUS DRIVE PREDICTING APPARATUS - A dangerous drive predicting apparatus is provided which is capable of rapidly recognizing a future situation of the own vehicle by other vehicles. The dangerous drive predicting apparatus is equipped with: drive information detecting section | 11-26-2009 |
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20150103174 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE - A method capable of causing a driver to recognize multiple objects to which attention should be paid without requiring sight line shift of the driver is for a video system including a recognition unit that recognizes a moving body existing in a foreground of a user and a display source that displays a certain image generated on the basis of a result of the recognition by the recognition unit on a display medium. The method includes determining whether two or more moving bodies exist in the foreground of the user on the basis of an input data from the recognition unit; and controlling the display source, if two or more moving bodies exist, so as to generate the certain image representing a virtual line directed to each of the moving bodies from a certain position or a certain axis and display the certain image on the display medium. | 04-16-2015 |
20150213592 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, A METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method of controlling a display control apparatus in a display system includes causing a display unit to generate a first certain image indicating a first presentation image to be overlapped on a certain object in display on a display medium on the basis of the recognized certain object; determining a wiping area wiped by a wiper on the display medium on the basis of detected position after the first presentation image is displayed on the display medium; and causing the display unit to generate a second certain image indicating a second presentation image resulting from deletion of a portion corresponding to the wiping area in the first presentation image in the display on the display medium. | 07-30-2015 |
20150243171 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A computer performs a process to determine whether an object is a predetermined object and a process to control a display unit to generate a first image based on a result of recognized object at a first timing and generate a second image based on a result of the recognized object at a second timing that is later than the first timing if the predetermined object is determined. The first image is an image formed by a pattern of markers representing a skeleton of the object, and the second image is an image formed by a pattern of markers corresponding to the pattern of markers in the first image, and the position of at least one marker of the pattern of markers in the first image differs from the position of the corresponding marker in the second image. | 08-27-2015 |
20150251600 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control device includes an obtainer and a controller. The obtainer obtains a detection accuracy of an object that exists in surroundings of a movable body. When the obtainer obtains a first detection accuracy, the controller controls an image generator so as to generate a first predetermined image that shows a first graphic having a predetermined shape and divided into n regions (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2). When the obtainer obtains a second detection accuracy that is lower than the first detection accuracy, the controller controls the image generator so as to generate a second predetermined image that shows a second graphic having a predetermined shape and undivided or divided into m regions (m is an integer that is greater than or equal to 2 and that is smaller than n). | 09-10-2015 |
20150254983 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control device includes a determiner and a display controller. The determiner determines a recognition accuracy based on a result of a calculator. Based on a result of the determiner, the display controller controls a displayer so as to generate an image that shows a first or second graphic in which a region indicating the direction in which a predetermined object exists is displayed in a mode different from that of another region and so as to display the image on a display medium. The first graphic is generated when it is determined that the recognition accuracy is a first recognition accuracy. The second graphic is generated when it is determined that the recognition accuracy is a second recognition accuracy lower than the first recognition accuracy. A first width of the region in the first graphic is smaller than a second width of the region in the second graphic. | 09-10-2015 |
20150325125 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROJECTION DEVICE - A display control device causes a display unit to generate a first predetermined image representing a first presentation image that indicates a first speed limit. Change in a speed limit of a road where a vehicle travels from a first speed limit to a second speed limit different from the first speed limit is recognized. When the recognized change in the speed limit indicates decrease, the first predetermined image is switched by a first switching method so that a second predetermined image representing a second presentation image that indicates the second speed limit is generated. When the recognized change in the speed limit indicates increase, the first predetermined image is switched by a second switching method different from the first switching method so that the second predetermined image is generated. | 11-12-2015 |
20150362730 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display control apparatus includes: an input unit that receives state information indicating at least one of a state of a moving object, a state of inside of the moving object, and a state of outside of the moving object; and a controller that controls a displayer, which generates a predetermined image and outputs the predetermined image onto a display medium, based on the state information. The predetermined image shows a presentation image including text, when displayed on the display medium. The controller causes the displayer to generate a first predetermined image showing a first presentation image including first text corresponding to a predetermined event, determines whether the at least one state has made a predetermined change, based on the state information, and causes the displayer to generate a second predetermined image showing a second presentation image including second text corresponding to the predetermined event. | 12-17-2015 |
20150367779 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROJECTING DEVICE - A display control device includes a controller that, if an obtainer obtains first-segment speed limit information, controls a displayer so that it creates a first predetermined image, indicating a first-segment speed limit, and displays the first predetermined image on a display medium, and includes a determiner that, if second-segment length information is obtained after the first-segment speed limit information has been obtained, determines whether the second-segment length is shorter than a threshold. The controller makes a switchover from control under which the displayer creates the first predetermined image and displays it on the display medium to control under which the displayer creates a second predetermined image, indicating a second-segment speed limit, and displays the second predetermined image on the display medium in different control ways depending on whether the second-segment length is shorter than the threshold. | 12-24-2015 |
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20130070294 | PRINT DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A print data processing system includes plural main interpretation devices that interpret print data described in a page description language and generate print image data to be supplied to a printer, auxiliary interpretation devices that interpret the print data, generate print image data to be supplied to the printer, and are not powered on when the plural main interpretation devices are powered on, and an allocation device that divides the print data in prescribed units and allocates interpretation processing of divided print data of the respective units to the plural main interpretation devices, wherein the allocation device includes a load evaluation unit that evaluates the loads of the plural main interpretation devices, and a power-on unit that, when the loads of the plural main interpretation devices evaluated by the load evaluation unit exceed a prescribed on threshold value for activating the auxiliary interpretation devices, powers on the auxiliary interpretation devices. | 03-21-2013 |
20140268201 | PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system includes an allotment device, spooling devices, interpretation devices, and a print controller. The allotment device allots pages of print data to the interpretation devices in a distributed manner in a predetermined order without regard to a print output order corresponding to an imposition designation. The interpretation devices interpret the allotted pages to generate interpretation result data, and each cause a spooling device corresponding to that interpretation device to store the generated interpretation result data. The print controller acquires reference information indicating which spooling device stores the interpretation result data corresponding to each page and output order information indicating the print output order, acquires the interpretation result data for each page from the spooling device storing the interpretation result data for that page in the print output order, and imposes page image data based on the acquired interpretation result data in accordance with the imposition designation. | 09-18-2014 |
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20120076273 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus capable of clipping a diagnostic region while retaining the pixel information of the original radiographic image even when the subject is imaged aslant. The image processing apparatus applies trimming processing to a radiographic image acquired by an imaging apparatus for acquiring a radiographic image of a subject and includes an image rotation unit for rotating the radiographic image so that the subject is aligned with a given direction to produce a display image, a diagnostic region designation unit for designating a first diagnostic region clipped with a diagnostic region designation frame represented by a rectangle for the display image, and a trimming processing unit for calculating a second diagnostic region in the radiographic image from a rotation amount of the display image and diagnostic region information representing the first diagnostic region and applying trimming processing to the radiographic image to clip the second diagnostic region. | 03-29-2012 |
20120076275 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A radiographic imaging apparatus with which the rotation amount of acquired radiographs can be the same in comparative interpretation of these images. The radiographic imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit for emitting radiation from a radiation source to a subject and detecting radiation having passed through the subject with a radiation detector having sensors arrayed therein to acquire a radiographic image, an image processor for performing rotation processing on the radiographic image to produce an acquired radiograph and collateral information of the acquired radiograph, a storage unit for storing the acquired radiograph and the collateral information, and a monitor for displaying the acquired radiograph. The collateral information contains the direction in which the sensors are arrayed and a rotation angle used in the rotation processing and is correlated to the acquired radiograph. | 03-29-2012 |
20120249533 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A stereoscopic display apparatus that can perform a stereoscopic display using a right-eye image and a left-eye image acquired through radiography, includes an image display unit that can display a planar image of at least one of the right-eye image and the left-eye image as a planar display along with the stereoscopic display, a display selecting unit that selects any one of the stereoscopic display and the planar display, and a position pointing unit that can be operated in the selected stereoscopic display or planar display and that can be operated to interlock in the stereoscopic display and the planar display, wherein the position pointing unit includes a depth changing unit that changes the depth thereof in the stereoscopic display. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249534 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A stereoscopic display apparatus that performs a stereoscopic display using a right-eye image and a left-eye image acquired by radiographing a subject plural times while changing an incidence angle of radiation on the subject, includes a display unit that stereoscopically displays the right-eye image and the left-eye image, and a changing unit that shifts at least one of the right-eye image and the left-eye image displayed on the display unit to change an inter-image distance being a distance between the right-eye image and the left-eye image in a direction parallel to a straight line connecting the right eye and the left eye of an observer. | 10-04-2012 |
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20110280305 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, INTRA-FRAME DECODER, METHOD OF DECODING INTRA-FRAME AND INTRA-FRAME ENCODER - Adopted is a decoder, in which on condition that a prediction block shown by vector information extracted from a data stream, and a decode-target block have an overlap where respective pixels overlay each other, pixel information of an already-decoded portion at a distance of an integer multiple of a vector provided by the vector information from the overlap is made a prediction signal instead of the overlap, and the prediction signal is added to difference image data taken from the data stream to generate reproduction image data. The decoder is adopted for an intra-frame decoder, a local decoder of an encoder, and the like. According to a fundamental rule concerning a repetitive pattern of an image, a pixel at a distance of an integer multiple is a like pixel, and therefore the process of decoding can be performed efficiently. | 11-17-2011 |
20110305280 | COMPRESSED DYNAMIC IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, COMPRESSED DYNAMIC IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, COMPRESSED DYNAMIC IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND COMPRESSED DYNAMIC IMAGE DECODING METHOD - A compressed dynamic image encoding device is provided, in which a motion vector is generated by searching a reference image read from a frame memory for an image area most similar to an image area of a video input signal; a motion-compensated reference image is generated from the motion vector and the reference image read from the frame memory; a prediction residual is generated, by subtracting the motion-compensated reference image from the video input signal; the reference image to be stored in the frame memory is generated, by adding the motion-compensated reference image and the result of processing of orthogonal transform, quantization, inverse quantization, and inverse orthogonal transform performed to the prediction residual; and an encoded video output signal is generated by the processing of orthogonal transform, quantization, and variable-length encoding performed to the prediction residual. The reference image comprises on-screen reference images A, B, and C, located inside a video display screen, and an off-screen reference image D located outside the video display screen, and the off-screen reference image D is generated based on the positional relationship of plural similar reference images A and B of the on-screen reference images A, B, and C. | 12-15-2011 |
20120294373 | MOVING IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE DECODING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, AND MOVING IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - The moving image encoding method includes encoding macro-blocks included in a landscape picture frame of a moving image having a larger horizontal width in a horizontal direction than a vertical width in a vertical direction by an encoding device. In macro-block encoding, information of the encoded macro-blocks surrounding a macro-block to be encoded is stored in a built-in information storing memory of the encoding device. Further, in the encoding, first a vertical array of macro-blocks at the left end of the horizontal width of the landscape picture frame are encoded sequentially, and the resultant encode information is stored in the information storing memory, and subsequently an adjacent vertical array of the plural macro-blocks located horizontally on the right of the left end of the horizontal width of the landscape picture frame are encoded sequentially. | 11-22-2012 |
20130287105 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - In terms of the transmission of the coding method, it is ensured to decode information coded according to the intra-frame prediction coding with vector information. An error of a piece of divisional image information targeted for image prediction coding and a piece of predicted information is determined to perform prediction coding. A data stream in which a piece of information for identifying a prediction method and a piece of information subjected to prediction coding according to the method are arranged is produced according to the process sequence of the prediction coding for each process on the divisional image information. At this time, the data stream has a pair of vector information and the error information as information subjected to prediction coding for each process on the divisional image information on condition that the prediction method is intra-frame prediction coding with vectors. | 10-31-2013 |
20140376636 | COMPRESSED DYNAMIC IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, COMPRESSED DYNAMIC IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, COMPRESSED DYNAMIC IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND COMPRESSED DYNAMIC IMAGE DECODING METHOD - A compressed dynamic image encoding device is provided, in which a motion vector is generated by searching a reference image read from a frame memory for an image area most similar to an image area of a video input signal; a motion-compensated reference image is generated from the motion vector and the reference image read from the frame memory; a prediction residual is generated, by subtracting the motion-compensated reference image from the video input signal; the reference image to be stored in the frame memory is generated, by adding the motion-compensated reference image and the result of processing of orthogonal transform, quantization, inverse quantization, and inverse orthogonal transform performed to the prediction residual; and an encoded video output signal is generated by the processing of orthogonal transform, quantization, and variable-length encoding performed to the prediction residual. The reference image comprises on-screen reference images A, B, and C, located inside a video display screen, and an off-screen reference image D located outside the video display screen, and the off-screen reference image D is generated based on the positional relationship of plural similar reference images A and B of the on-screen reference images A, B, and C. | 12-25-2014 |
20150092840 | VIDEO ENCODER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - The present invention provides a video encoder and a method of operating the video encoder to implement high-precision bit rate control by reducing the risk of overflow of an intermediate buffer coupled between a quantizer and an encoding section. The intermediate buffer supplies a selection control signal indicative of whether the amount of stored data is large or small to a selector. If the selection control signal indicates large, the selector outputs an estimated code amount from a code amount estimation section to the rate controller. If the selection control signal indicates small, the selector outputs an actual code amount from the encoding section to the rate controller. The rate controller calculates the quantization scale according to the output of the selector and feedbacks the calculated quantization scale to the quantizer. The quantizer adjusts the quantizer scale. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092849 | VIDEO DECODING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a video decoding processing apparatus which can reduce overhead for the start of parallel decoding processing. The video decoding processing apparatus includes a parsing unit, and first and second video processing units. A coding bit stream including information of largest coding units each having at least a prescribed pixel size is supplied to an input terminal of the parsing unit. The parsing unit performs parsing of the syntax of the coding bit stream to thereby generate parallel-processable first and second intermediate streams from the largest coding unit. The first and second video processing units parallel-process the first and second intermediate streams generated from the parsing unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150117549 | MOVING-PICTURE DECODING PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING-PICTURE CODING PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SAME - The present invention is directed to reduce deterioration in parallel processing capability. In a moving-picture decoding processing apparatus, information of a first plurality of frames and a second plurality of frames is supplied from a decoding control unit to first and second decoding processing units. For decoding the information from an intermediate point to an end point of a second preceding frame by the second decoding unit in a third period, use of a result of the process of the first decoding processing unit in the third period is inhibited, and use of a result of the process of a first preceding frame by the first decoding processing unit in a second period is permitted by an end signal. By reach of the intermediate point of the decoding of the second preceding frame by the second decoding processing unit in the second period, information from the start point to the intermediate point of the first subsequent frame included in the plural frames is decoded by the first decoding unit in the third period. | 04-30-2015 |
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20090279588 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND A RECEPTION METHOD INVOLVING FREQUENCY HOPPING - Disclosed is a receiver of a direct conversion receiving scheme in which a packet is transmitted or received while performing frequency hopping for each symbol and demodulation is started by carrier sensing at the beginning of the packet, which performs demodulation without hopping frequencies of LOs of receiving systems to reliably execute fast carrier sensing and hopping synchronization at the beginning of the packet and remove the DC offset jump. At a time of demodulation of a payload part, the frequencies of LOs of the receiving system are hopped to allow a transition of MIMO. Further, by concurrently using complex bandpass filters while fixing all the LOs at a center LO frequency, complete removal of the DC offset jump over the entire length of the packet and MIMO can be simultaneously implemented. | 11-12-2009 |
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20130063740 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A display processing apparatus includes a gloss-control plane generating unit configured to generate gloss-control plane data for specifying a type of a surface effect applied to a recording medium and an area in a recording medium to which the surface effect is applied; an obtaining unit configured to obtain replacement information that is used to replace a type of the surface effect that is not available in a device configuration with a type of the surface effect that is available in the device configuration; a replacing unit configured to replace the type of the surface effect designated by the designation information with the type of the available surface effect using the replacement information obtained by the obtaining unit; and a preview image generating unit configured to generate a preview image based on the gloss-control plane data having an area to which the available surface effect is to be applied. | 03-14-2013 |
20140118773 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus includes: a generating unit that generates a print job including one or more print data, first information indicating the one or more print data divided into multiple units for which respective print conditions when printing is executed are set, and second information indicating the print conditions; an accepting unit that accepts designation input which designates a print range of a specified job indicating a print job specified from among one or more print jobs; a determining unit that determines whether a unit is included in the print range with respect to each of units indicated by first information included in the specified job; and an output control unit that performs control, as for a unit determined to be partially included in the print range by the determining unit, so as to output options to set a print condition for the unit. | 05-01-2014 |
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20100323457 | BIOSENSING METHOD USING COATED MAGNETIC FINE PARTICLES AND BIOSENSING APPARATUS FOR BIOSENSING METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a novel biosensing method as the novel application development of the magnetic particles in the biosensing. In an affinity reaction of biosensing, ligands are immobilized to magnetic fine particles and the magnetic fine particles are forced to reaction fields of the affinity reaction by magnetic guiding so as to bring the affinity reaction, which is the velocity controlling factor in the sensing, to high rates. According to the present invention, coated magnetic fine particles with having both of the high dispersion performance and high magnetic responsibility as the above described magnetic fine particles and the affinity reaction occurs quickly and in high density such that the present invention makes it possible to obtain relatively large signals within significantly short time duration when compared to the conventional art. | 12-23-2010 |
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20150157980 | ACIDIC GAS SEPARATION MODULE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACIDIC GAS SEPARATION MODULE - An acidic gas separation module including: a perforated hollow central tube; and a layered body that is wound on the perforated hollow central tube and has, in the following order on a porous support: an acidic gas separation layer containing a water-absorbing polymer, a carrier, and water; and a flow channel material with a network structure having a thread intersection portion and an arithmetical surface roughness for a surface contacting the acidic gas separation layer in the thread intersection portion of 35 μm or less. The acidic gas separation module suppresses generation of flocculated water by maintaining the generation of turbulent flow in the flow channel material, effectively suppresses damage to the surface of the acidic gas separation layer by the flow channel material in the winding-on process during manufacture, and exhibits excellent acidic gas separation efficiency. | 06-11-2015 |
20150233935 | POLYMER PARTICLE CONTAINING FLUORESCENT MOLECULE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for preparing polymer magnetic particles comprising magnetic particles and a coating polymer layer covering the magnetic particles and containing fluorescent molecules, the method includes swelling a coating polymer layer of the polymer magnetic particles in a non-aqueous solvent-containing and absorbing the fluorescent molecules inside the swelled coating polymer layer, adding water to the non-aqueous solvent in which the polymer magnetic particles adsorbing the fluorescent molecules are present, and removing the non-aqueous solvent by evaporation; where the non-aqueous solvent has affinity with water, a lower boiling point, and a higher vapor pressure than those of water, and the fluorescent molecule is selected from rare earth metal chelate complexes. | 08-20-2015 |