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20090212682 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes a rear plate having a plurality of electron-emitting devices, a face plate having a plurality of pixels, each pixel having one or more phosphors that emit fluorescence in response to electrons emitted from the electron-emitting devices, and a drive circuit for driving the electron-emitting devices. At least one of the phosphors is CaAlSiN | 08-27-2009 |
20100085390 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A device that carries a panel comprising a back panel with wirings and electron emitting devices provided in intersection portions of the wirings and a face plate with formed therein cells comprising a fluorescent material that emits light, and in which gradation control is performed by varying an application time of a drive voltage that is applied to the electron emitting devices, wherein a line selection time is longer than 1 μs and the fluorescent material comprises a substance represented by a general formula Me | 04-08-2010 |
20100130089 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FLUORESCENT SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The method for manufacturing a fluorescent paste includes a process of applying a fluorescent paste including a sulfide fluorescent material and a binder resin onto a substrate, a first baking process of baking the substrate for a predetermined time at a first temperature that is equal to or lower than a temperature at which a generated amount of water has a maximum in a case where the fluorescent paste is measured by a TDP-MS method, and a second baking process of baking the substrate for a predetermined time at a second temperature that is equal to or higher than a temperature at which a generated amount of carbon dioxide has a minimum in a case where the fluorescent paste is measured by a TDP-MS method after the first baking process. | 05-27-2010 |
20100213816 | FLUORESCENT MATERIAL SUBSTRATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURE THEREOF - Degradation of a fluorescent material used in an image display device provided with an electron emitting device that is caused by heating in the process of manufacturing the device is prevented. | 08-26-2010 |
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20110103652 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A feature amount cluster holding unit extracts respective feature amounts from N images sensed under N respective types of image sensing conditions, and manages the feature amounts extracted from each sensed image as a feature amount cluster in association with corresponding one of the image sensing conditions. A feature space distance calculation unit specifies the second feature amount cluster containing a feature amount similar to the feature amount of interest in the first feature amount cluster. An image sensing condition setting unit specifies sets of feature amounts associated with the N respective types of image sensing conditions from the first and second feature amount clusters. The image sensing condition setting unit specifies a set having a largest distance between feature amounts in the set among the specified sets. An image sensing condition associated with the specified set is output as an image sensing condition for discriminating the feature amount clusters. | 05-05-2011 |
20110206237 | RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A recognition apparatus for recognizing a position and an orientation of a target object, inputs a captured image of the target object captured by an image capturing apparatus; detects a plurality of feature portions from the captured image, and to extract a plurality of feature amounts indicating image characteristics in each of the plurality of feature portions; inputs property information indicating respective physical properties in the plurality of feature portions on the target object; inputs illumination information indicating an illumination condition at the time of capturing the captured image; determines respective degrees of importance of the plurality of extracted feature amounts based on the respective physical properties indicated by the property information and the illumination condition indicated by the illumination information; and recognizes the position and the orientation of the target object based on the plurality of feature amounts and the respective degrees of importance thereof. | 08-25-2011 |
20120099798 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus for matching a position and/or orientation of a measurement object with that of a model of the measurement object includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of the measurement object, a calculation unit configured to calculate information indicating a surface shape of the measurement object based on the captured image, and a limitation unit configured to limit a position and/or orientation of the model based on the information indicating the surface shape. | 04-26-2012 |
20120269392 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A plurality of images obtained by capturing a recognition target object from different viewpoint positions is acquired, and a portion set on the recognition target object in the image is received as a set portion for each of the images. A plurality of feature points is set in each of the images so as to set a larger number of feature points at the set portion than at an unset portion other than the set portion. The recognition target object is learned using image feature amounts at the feature points. | 10-25-2012 |
20130141570 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A probability at which a target object takes a target object state is acquired for each of target object states that the target object is allowed to take, and a distribution of the probabilities is acquired. A success rate is acquired, for each relative target object state being determined in advance for a position and orientation of an image capturing device, at which the target object is successfully identified from a captured image obtained by capturing the target object having the relative target object state, and a distribution of the success rates is acquired. A position and orientation that the device is to take is determined based on the distribution of the success rates acquired for each of a plurality of positions and orientations that the image capturing apparatus is allowed to take, and the distribution of the probabilities. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142443 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The robustness of discriminating results at each stage is improved in discrimination processing in which a plurality of stages of discriminators are used to identify an object. An information processing apparatus in which a plurality of stages of the discriminators are used to identify a class of an object, comprises a candidate class output unit that acquires as a candidate class a class discriminated at a first stage of the discriminators, and an extended class setting unit that sets in a second stage of the discriminators, a class of a second stage of the discriminators, which is defined as an extended partial space of a partial space defined by a candidate class in a discriminating space used in discriminating the candidate class by the first stage of the discriminators, as a class to be discriminated at this second stage of the discriminators. | 06-06-2013 |
20140198951 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A dictionary for detection of an object is created from an image obtained by performing an image process, which depends on a first image process parameter, on the training image of the detection target object. The dictionary created based on the image process depending on the first image process parameter is determined, based on a result of detecting the object from an image obtained by performing an image process, which depends on the first image process parameter, on a photographed image based on the dictionary. A second image process parameter is determined, based on a result of detecting the object from an image obtained by performing an image process, which depends on the second image process parameter, on the photographed image using the determined dictionary. | 07-17-2014 |
20140286568 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND TRAINING METHOD - An information processing apparatus, for training a classifier that classifies local regions of an object, includes a feature amount setting unit, a selection unit, and a training unit. The feature amount setting unit sets a feature amount to be used by the classifier. The selection unit selects a local region of the object based on a predetermined selection condition based on positions for obtaining the feature amount set by the feature amount setting unit. The training unit trains the classifier using the feature amount set by the feature amount setting unit and the local region selected by the selection unit. | 09-25-2014 |
20150109474 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In order to precisely identify a class relating to classification of an object at each of regions of an image, an image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image capturing information when the object has been captured, an estimation unit configured to estimate distribution relating to a degree of existence of each class which indicates classification of the object at each of predetermined regions of a captured image of the object based on the image capturing information acquired by the acquisition unit, and an identification unit configured to identify the class at each of the regions based on distribution information indicating the distribution estimated by the estimation unit and image information relating to the captured image. | 04-23-2015 |
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20110221809 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A resonance pulse is a voltage waveform substantially containing an expansion element for varying a voltage to expand a pressure chamber, an expansion sustaining element generated following with the expansion element, and sustaining a maximum voltage at a predetermined value, and a contraction element generated following with the expansion sustaining element, and varying the voltage to contract the pressure chamber. A time span from a front end of the expansion element to a front end of the contraction element is set as ½ of an inherent vibration cycle of ink in the pressure chamber. | 09-15-2011 |
20140098147 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a reference drive signal generation section that generates a reference drive signal, a signal modulation section that modulates the reference drive signal to generate a modulation reference drive signal, a signal amplification section that amplifies the modulation reference drive signal using switching elements to generate a modulation drive signal, a signal conversion section that converts the modulation drive signal to a drive signal, and a head which includes a piezoelectric element that deforms in response to the drive signal, a pressure chamber that expands and contracts due to the deformation of the piezoelectric element and has a Helmholtz resonance frequency of a period Tc, and a nozzle opening portion that communicates with the pressure chamber. A period of an alternating current component contained in the modulation drive signal is a divisor of a section of one of the drive signal. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098148 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a reference drive signal generation section that generates a reference drive signal, a signal modulation section that modulates the reference drive signal to generate a modulation reference drive signal, a signal amplification section that amplifies the modulation reference drive signal using switching elements to generate a modulation drive signal, a signal conversion section that converts the modulation drive signal to a drive signal, a piezoelectric element that deforms in response to the drive signal, a pressure chamber that expands or contracts due to the deformation of the piezoelectric element, and a nozzle opening portion that communicates with the pressure chamber. A period of alternating current components contained in the modulation drive signal are shorter than a duration of a maximum voltage or a minimum voltage, and is longer than a total time of turn-on delay times and turn-off delay times of the switching elements. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098149 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a reference drive signal generation section that generates an analog reference drive signal, a signal modulation section that modulates the reference drive signal to generate a digital modulation reference drive signal, a signal amplification section that amplifies the modulation reference drive signal to generate a modulation drive signal, a signal conversion section that converts the modulation drive signal to an analog drive signal, and a liquid ejecting section that ejects a liquid in response to the drive signal. A sum of a resistance value of a reference drive signal transfer line and a resistance value of a drive signal transfer line is smaller than a sum of a resistance value of a modulation reference drive signal transfer line and a resistance value of a modulation drive signal transfer line. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098385 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing apparatus includes a reference drive signal generation section that generates a reference drive signal, a signal modulation section that modulates the reference drive signal to generate a modulation reference drive signal, a signal amplification section that amplifies the modulation reference drive signal using switching elements to generate a modulation drive signal, a signal conversion section that converts the modulation drive signal to a drive signal, a piezoelectric element that deforms in response to the drive signal, a pressure chamber that expands or contracts due to the deformation of the piezoelectric element, a nozzle opening portion that communicates with the pressure chamber, and a frequency control section which limits a switching frequency to be less than a predetermined value in a case where a product of the printing resolution and the printing speed is equal to or larger than a threshold value. | 04-10-2014 |