Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080274780 | COMPUTER DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING A TRADING CARD GAME AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM EXECUTED BY COMPUTER DEVICE, CONTROLLER, SYSTEM, AND GAME CARDS - A card game program is executed in a computer device for playing a game using a plurality of cards. The identification information of each card is used to generate a combination of the cards for a game player. The combination of the cards is changed in response to an instruction of the game player. | 11-06-2008 |
20090141802 | MOTION VECTOR DETECTING APPARATUS, MOTION VECTOR DETECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A motion vector detecting apparatus includes an evaluation value information forming unit, a motion vector extracting unit, and a motion vector deciding unit. The evaluation value information forming unit is configured to form evaluation value information on motion vectors evaluating that a reference pixel is a potential movement destination candidate for a focus pixel. The evaluation value information on the motion vectors is generated from pixel value correlation information that has been one of generated and limited using a movement direction of the pixels. The motion vector extracting unit is configured to extract motion vectors as candidates from a plurality of motion vectors based on the evaluation value information formed by the evaluation value information forming unit. The motion vector deciding unit is configured to decide motion vectors to be assigned to pixels in a frame from the motion vectors extracted as the candidates by the motion vector extracting unit. | 06-04-2009 |
20090161948 | COEFFICIENT LEARNING APPARATUS, COEFFICIENT LEARNING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAMS - A coefficient learning apparatus includes: a student-image generation section configured to generate a student image from the teacher image; a class classification section configured to sequentially set each of pixels in the teacher image as a pixel of interest and generate a class for the pixel of interest from the values of a plurality of specific pixels; a weight computation section configured to add up feature quantities; and a processing-coefficient generation section configured to generate a prediction coefficient on the basis of a determinant including said deterioration equation and a weighted constraint condition equation. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161976 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND LEARNING DEVICE - An image processing device for converting an input image into an output image whose blur is reduced more, the image processing device including: first image extracting section configured to extract a plurality of pixels composed of a pixel of the input image which pixel corresponds to a pixel of interest as a pixel to which to direct attention within the output image and predetermined pixels surrounding the pixel of the input image; first feature quantity calculating configured to calculate a first feature quantity from the plurality of pixels extracted by the first image extracting section; processing coefficient generating section; second pixel extracting section configured to extract a plurality of pixels composed of the pixel corresponding to the pixel of interest and predetermined pixels surrounding the pixel corresponding to the pixel of interest from the input image; and predicting section. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161977 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND LEARNING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a blur removing processing section configured to carry out a blur removing process for an input image using a plurality of blur removal coefficients for removing blur of a plurality of different blur amounts to produce a plurality of different blur removal result images; a feature detection section configured to detect a feature from each of the different blur removal result images; a blur amount class determination section configured to determine blur amount classes representative of classes of the blur amounts from the features; and a prediction processing section configured to carry out mathematic operation of pixel values of predetermined pixels of the input image and prediction coefficients learned in advance and corresponding to the blur amount classes to produce an output image from which the blur is removed. | 06-25-2009 |
20090204780 | DATA STORAGE UNIT, DATA STORAGE CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND DATA STORAGE CONTROLLING PROGRAM - A data storage unit is provided in which all data are stored into a memory including a plurality of memory banks and a plurality of desired data is read simultaneously, without any load to the hardware. It includes a memory controlling means including a data storage controller ( | 08-13-2009 |
20090207315 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image signal processing apparatus detects a motion vector between two temporally successive frames, and includes a detection device, a calculation device, and an arithmetic device. The detection device is configured to detect the motion vector in pixel blocks between the two frames, and output an evaluation value, which represents the degree of correspondence between the two frames in the pixel blocks provided in the two frames, and which is calculated in the process of detecting the motion vector. The calculation device is configured to calculate an activity value, which represents the degree of variation in pixel value in the frame, on the basis of the direction of the detected motion vector. The arithmetic device is configured to perform an arithmetic operation to obtain an accuracy value, which represents the degree of reliability of the detected motion vector, on the basis of the evaluation value and the activity value. | 08-20-2009 |
20090323814 | TRACKING POINT DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A tracking-point detection apparatus includes a background motion vector detection unit, a background image generation unit, a gate setting unit, a tracking-point motion detection unit, and a tracking-point determination unit. The background motion vector detection unit is configured to detect motion vectors for pixels in a frame included in a moving image and to detect, in accordance with the detected motion vectors, a background motion vector representing the motion of a background image of the moving image. The background image generation unit is configured to calculate and update a pixel value of a pixel in a background frame, which is a frame of a background image, stored in a memory by performing motion compensation on a pixel in the frame in accordance with the detected background motion vector. The gate setting unit is configured to set a gate in accordance with data of the background frame stored in the memory. | 12-31-2009 |
20100026903 | MOTION VECTOR DETECTION DEVICE, MOTION VECTOR DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A motion vector detection device includes: an evaluation value information creation unit creating, from correlation information of a target pixel in one frame and a reference pixel in another frame in moving image data including frames, evaluation value information evaluating the possibility that the reference pixel is a candidate for the destination of motion from the target pixel; a motion vector extraction unit extracting motion vector candidates of each of the pixels in a frame by using the evaluation value information, comparing, for the extracted candidates, the pixels in an area around the target pixel and the pixels in the area around the reference pixel, evaluating the candidate vectors of the evaluation value information by using the result of comparison in the entire area, and extracting motion vectors having a high evaluation value as candidates; and a motion vector determination unit determining a motion vector among the extracted motion vectors. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027666 | MOTION VECTOR DETECTING APPARATUS, MOTION VECTOR DETECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A motion vector detecting apparatus includes an evaluation value information forming unit to form evaluation value information of motion vectors evaluating a possibility that a reference pixel is a candidate motion of a target pixel on the basis of pixel value correlation information between the target pixel in one of frames on a time axis in moving image data and the reference pixel in a search area in another of the frames, perform counting on at least one of the target pixel and reference pixel when a strong correlation is determined on the basis of the pixel value correlation information, and determine an evaluation value to be added to the evaluation value information on the basis of a count value obtained through the counting; a motion vector extracting unit to extract candidate motion vectors; and a motion vector determining unit to determine a motion vector among the candidate motion vectors. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027900 | MOTION VECTOR DETECTING APPARATUS, MOTION VECTOR DETECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Generation of evaluation value information about a motion vector, extraction of candidates for the motion vector on the basis of the evaluation value information, and determination of the motion vector to be allocated from the candidates for the motion vector are performed. The possibility that a reference pixel a in a second frame is a candidate for a motion from a target point in a first frame is evaluated on the basis of pixel-value correlation information to generate an evaluation value table. A constant area is adaptively set around each of the target pixel and the reference pixel corresponding to each extracted candidate for the motion vector in accordance with the state of the continuity of a constant pixel value. The motion vector from the first frame to the second frame is allocated on the basis of the result of comparison between values calculated for the constant areas. | 02-04-2010 |
20110110497 | IMAGING AREA SPECIFYING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHIC SYSTEM, IMAGING AREA SPECIFYING METHOD, RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, AND IMAGING TABLE - An imaging area specifying apparatus that includes a storage component and a specifying component is provided. The storage component stores as correlation information a correlation value correlated with the amount of radiation emitted to each of a plurality of predetermined areas divided from a detection region of a radiation detector that outputs an electric signal indicating a radiological image represented by radiation which is emitted to the detection region for detecting the radiation. The specifying component specifies an imaging area capable of capturing the radiological image of a predetermined size while preventing variations in the amount of radiation emitted to each of the divided areas in the detection region, on the basis of the correlation information stored in the storage component. | 05-12-2011 |
20120169122 | DIRECT CURRENT POWER SWITCH DEVICE - Disclosed is a direct current power switch device which safely shuts off direct current power supply without generating arc at the time of shutting off the power supply to an electrical load. The direct current power switch device is provided with: an operation input unit ( | 07-05-2012 |
20120288056 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - An X-ray imaging system is provided with an X-ray source ( | 11-15-2012 |
20120325554 | Wire Connecting Structure and Cable Connector Assembly - A wire connecting structure and a cable connector assembly is provided. The wire connecting structure includes an electrical conductor, a cable and a resin. The electrical conductor includes a wire connecting portion. The cable includes an insulator and a core wire surrounded by and exposed from the insulator, the core wire connected to the wire connecting portion. The resin seals a part of the core wire exposed from the insulator and a part of the wire connecting portion. | 12-27-2012 |
20140042911 | LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM AND LIGHTING CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a lighting control system includes a plurality of luminaire, a sensor device, a luminance sensor, and a lighting control unit. The luminaires are set in a lighting space. The sensor device detects presence of a person in the lighting space. The luminance sensor detects indirect luminance in a predetermined position in the lighting space by the luminaire. The lighting control unit subjects the luminaire to lighting control such that the indirect luminance detected by the luminance sensor does not fall below a predetermined value in a position where the sensor device detects presence of the person. | 02-13-2014 |
20140055040 | LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM - A lighting control system according to the embodiment includes a plurality of lighting fixtures, a lighting control unit, and an access point. The plurality of lighting fixtures are arranged in a lighting area. The lighting control unit is configured so as to control the lighting fixture. The access point transmits a layout chart of a different lighting area depending on an installation position of the access point. | 02-27-2014 |