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| 20080253660 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A position and an area of a region to be processed, that is, a region from which image feature parameters are to be extracted, are obtained, and the number of pixels required for obtaining the usable image feature parameters is determined in accordance with types of the image feature parameters to be extracted. Then, a required resolution is calculated in accordance with the determined number of pixels and the area of the region to be processed, an image having a minimum resolution which is equal to or higher than the required resolution and which is usable to extract the usable image feature parameters is selected, and the image feature parameters are extracted from a region to be processed in the selected image. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080253661 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus divides an image into a plurality of first image blocks, each of which is a partial area of the image, and further divides each first image block to acquire a plurality of compartments that correspond to filters for determining an edge direction of an image of the first image block. The image processing apparatus determines the edge direction of each first image block based on the plurality of compartments and the filters, and decides that a first image block whose edge direction cannot be determined is a failed image block. The image processing apparatus then generates, from the failed image block, a second image block constituted by a plurality of compartments that differ in size from the plurality of acquired compartments, and determines the edge direction of the second storage block based on the plurality of newly generated compartments and the filters. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20110103697 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a calculation unit adapted to analyze an image and calculate an intermediate value; a setting unit adapted to set a feature extraction region in the image, using the intermediate value; and an extraction unit adapted to extract a local feature of the feature extraction region, reusing the intermediate value used by the setting unit. | 05-05-2011 |
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| 20090103502 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus selects one of multiple wireless communication apparatuses and activates the selected wireless communication apparatus as a second access point of a second group. The activated wireless communication apparatus establishes the second group including multiple wireless communication apparatuses. After the second group is thus established, the transmission power of the wireless communication apparatus activated as the access point and the multiple wireless communication apparatuses included in the second group is controlled. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090175446 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - This invention allows connection of an apparatus with a low security level without lowering the security level of a network even when such apparatus issues a connection request. This invention is directed to an access point which makes wireless communications with a station using an encryption method (AES). Upon reception of a connection request message including information indicating an encryption method (WEP) that can be used by a station, the access point checks if the encryption method (WEP) recognized based on the received connection request message is different from the encryption method (AES). When it is determined that the two encryption methods are different, the access point launches a controller which makes wireless communications with the station using that encryption method (WEP). | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100027459 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A management apparatus instructs a wireless terminal wirelessly connecting to a first base station to switch wireless connection to a second base station. After the wireless terminal switches the wireless connection to the second base station as instructed, the wireless terminal transmits a message for updating information used for determining a forwarding destination of the message received by the relay apparatus. The relay apparatus updates the information used for determining the forwarding destination of the received message based on the message transmitted from the wireless terminal. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100049844 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREOF - In order to identify a wireless device that is not under management in a wireless communication network, a management apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information from the wireless terminal; a storage unit configured to correlate and store the wireless base station detected by the wireless terminal and a wireless terminal wirelessly connected to this wireless base station; a deriving unit configured to derive a wireless base station which does not have a wireless connection with a wireless terminal; a requesting unit configured to request a wireless terminal for transmission of data that has passed through this wireless base station; and a determination unit which, if requested data that has passed through the wireless base station from the wireless terminal has not been received, is configured to determine that this wireless base station is a wireless base station that is not under management. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100278075 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - The invention makes it possible to manage the wireless resources of each network even if network separation, disappearance, and recreation are repeated. The invention includes a management apparatus ( | 11-04-2010 |
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| 20100237438 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device has a circuit element region formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a protective pattern formed so as to surround the circuit element region. The protective pattern comprises a first element separation region formed on the semiconductor substrate, a second element separation region formed on the semiconductor substrate and having a width smaller than that of the first element separation region, a first element region formed between the first element separation region and the second element separation region, a first gate layer formed on the first element separation region, a wiring layer formed on the first gate layer, a passivation layer formed above the wiring layer, a second element region, an insulation film formed on the second element region, and a second gate layer formed on the insulation film, the first element separation region, the first element region, the second element separation region and the second element region being located in this order from the nearer side of the circuit element region. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110204426 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked structure that is formed by laminating a first insulating film, first conductive layer, second insulating film and second conductive layer on a semiconductor substrate and in which the first and second conductive layers are connected with a via electrically, an interlayer insulating film formed to electrically separate the second conductive layer into a first region including a connecting portion with the first conductive layer and a second region that does not include the connecting portion, a first contact plug formed on the first region and a second contact plug formed on the second region. An isolation insulating film is buried in portions of the substrate, first insulating film and first conductive layer in one peripheral portion on the second region side of the stacked structure and the second contact plug is formed above the isolation insulating film. | 08-25-2011 |
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| 20090066831 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit which causes an image sensor to photoelectrically convert an object image to generate an image signal, a display unit which displays the image signal generated by the image capturing unit, a storage unit which stores foreign substance information that is information about at least the position and size of a foreign substance sticking to the surface of an optical element arranged in front of the image sensor, and a control unit which controls the display unit to display the image signal while superimposing, on it, an image which represents presence of the foreign substance and is generated based on the foreign substance information stored in the storage unit during a live view operation of sequentially displaying, on the display unit, image signals sequentially generated by the image capturing unit. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090213249 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit which has an image sensor, a storage unit which stores foreign substance information of a foreign substance adhering to an optical element arranged in front of the image sensor, a buffer unit which temporarily stores the image signal output from the image capturing unit, a correction unit which corrects, based on the foreign substance information, an image signal corresponding to a shadow of the foreign substance among image signals output from the buffer unit and outputs a corrected image signal, and a control unit which controls the buffer unit and the correction unit to change, in accordance with a free area of the buffer unit, an amount of the image signal corresponding to the shadow of the foreign substance that is to be corrected among image signals output from the image capturing unit. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100053357 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which corrects, based on information of a foreign substance adhered to an optical element arranged in front of an image sensor in an image capturing apparatus, a shadow of the foreign substance in the moving image data generated by performing predictive encoding by referring to image data of a different input frame, the image processing apparatus comprises: a moving image decompression unit which decompresses an image of each frame by obtaining information representing a difference between frames from the moving image data; and a correction unit which corrects the information representing the difference between frames when the information representing the difference between frames that is obtained by the moving image decompression unit in correspondence with a region containing the shadow of the foreign substance represented by the foreign substance information is determined to be larger than a predetermined threshold. | 03-04-2010 |