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20100053372 | IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - An image capturing apparatus | 03-04-2010 |
20100225785 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A camera device | 09-09-2010 |
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20110050722 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM - A display control apparatus controls an input unit that inputs pieces of captured image data, an acquisition control unit that controls consecutive acquisition of a plurality of pieces of image data, a memory control unit that buffers in the memory unit the plurality of pieces of image data consecutively acquired by the acquisition control unit, an image compositor that composites the latest buffered image data and other (non-latest) pieces of image data successively buffered in the memory control unit, and a display control unit that displays chronologically an image represented by a image data composited by the image compositor. | 03-03-2011 |
20110157385 | IMAGING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH IMAGE ENLARGING DISPLAY FUNCTION, RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING CONTROL PROGRAM OF THE IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a display section to sequentially display each of the images generated by the imaging section and an enlargement display control section to sequentially display parts of the images generated by the imaging section on the display section while enlarging the parts by a predetermined enlargement factor. The imaging section changes the enlargement factor of the enlargement display control section according to a shake quantity detected by the detecting section or an optical zoom magnification of an optical zoom section. | 06-30-2011 |
20110199496 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus | 08-18-2011 |
20110311159 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING A PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an obtainment section to obtain a face image; an area specifying section to specify a set of a plurality of corresponding areas in the face image obtained by the obtainment section; and a correction section to generate a face image in which one area of the plurality of corresponding areas of the face image is used as a reference to correct another area. | 12-22-2011 |
20120069204 | MOTION BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE AND MOTION BLUR CORRECTION METHOD - A motion blur correction device includes a motion blur correction section which performs motion blur correction processing on an intended video data, and a correction intensity judgment section which instructs the motion blur correction section to cancel the execution of the motion blur correction processing when the frame rate of the video data is equal to or less than a predetermined value. As a result, motion blur correction is prevented from being automatically performed when motion blur correction is not required. | 03-22-2012 |
20120097287 | DUCT ARRANGEMENT, DUCT EQUIPMENT, DUCT REINFORCEMENT CONSTRUCTION METHOD, SUPPORT REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURE, AND REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURE FOR SUPPORT FIXING UNIT - Provided is duct equipment including a duct body, a heat insulating material, a external cover, a fiber-reinforced sheet, and fiber-reinforced moldings. The duct body includes a duct wall, a duct passage defined by the duct wall, and duct corners formed in the duct wall when viewed in a cross-section in a direction intersecting a direction in which the duct passage extends. The heat insulating material is installed on an outer circumference of the duct body. The external cover includes a external cover wall installed on an outer circumference of the heat insulating material, and external cover corners formed alone the duct corners. The fiber-reinforced sheet is disposed on the outer circumference of the duct body via an adhesive layer. The fiber-reinforced moldings are disposed adjacent to the fiber-reinforced sheet along the external cover corners via adhesive layers, and have a substantially L-shape when viewed in the cross-section. | 04-26-2012 |
20120110937 | FOUNDATION FOR BUILDING IN NUCLEAR FACILITIES AND METHOD FOR BUILDING FOUNDATION - To include a lower foundation | 05-10-2012 |
20120249728 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS FOR ENABLING GENERATION OF DATA OF PANORAMIC IMAGE WITH WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE - An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing section, an image capturing control section, an image clipping section, an HDR composing section and a panoramic image composing section. The image capturing control section causes the image capturing section to repeatedly capture an image of different luminance to provide plural images of different luminance. The image clipping section clips respective data of substantially overlapping image regions of the plural images of different luminance. The HDR composing section composes the image regions each clipped by the image clipping section to generate data of plural composite images having a wider dynamic range than the image captured by the image capturing section. The panoramic image composing section joins data of the plural composite images generated by the HDR composing section to generate an image whose range is wider than that of the image captured by the image capturing section. | 10-04-2012 |
20130001649 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE EMPLOYING CIRCUIT BLOCKS HAVING THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS - A semiconductor device is disclosed, which comprises First and second inputs ports, first and second output nodes, and first and second transistors. The first transistor includes first and second diffusion regions defining a first channel region and a first gate electrode and connected to the first input port, the first diffusion region being connected to the first output node, the second diffusion region being disposed between the first diffusion region and the first input port and supplied with a first operating potential. The second transistor includes third and fourth diffusion regions defining a second channel region and a second gate electrode and connected to the second input port, the third diffusion region being supplied with the first operating potential, the fourth diffusion region being disposed between the third diffusion region and the second input port and connected to the second output node. | 01-03-2013 |
20130033618 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS DETECTING QUADRILATERAL REGION FROM PICKED-UP IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining section, a detection section, a first identification section and a second identification section. The obtaining section obtains image data of a first picked-up image and a second picked-up image picked up by an image pickup section. The detection section detects a brightness change region where brightness changes at predetermined time intervals in the first picked-up image on the basis of the obtained image data of the first picked-up image. The first identification section performs straight line detection processing on the obtained image data of the second picked-up image to detect a straight line, so as to identify a candidate straight line in a corresponding region corresponding to the brightness change region. The second identification section identifies a quadrilateral region including the candidate straight line as an extraction candidate region in the second picked-up image. | 02-07-2013 |
20130058633 | VIDEO PLAYBACK DEVICE CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING PLAYBACK SPEED - A video playback device including a playback section which replays a video, a setting section which sets a predetermined area within the video frames being replayed by the playback section, a detecting section which detects whether or not a predetermined subject is included within the predetermined area, a selecting section which selectively switches between a first playback speed and a second playback speed based on the timing of the detection by the detecting section, and a control section which controls the playback speed of the playback section in accordance with a result of the selection by the selecting section. | 03-07-2013 |
20130093840 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention can easily acquire images having a uniform aspect ratio. In an imaging device of the invention, a control section detects the movement amount and the movement direction of the imaging device based on output from an acceleration sensor. Then, when the movement direction of the imaging device in its initial movement started at the beginning of imaging is substantially linear and a substantially horizontal or vertical direction, the control section calculates a reference movement amount by which a composite image having a predetermined aspect ratio can be generated, based on the movement amount of the imaging device, and controls the display section to display imaging area information (guide) indicating the final imaging area having the predetermined aspect ratio based on the reference movement amount. | 04-18-2013 |
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20140034269 | HEAT EXCHANGER, GAP EXPANSION JIG OF HEAT TRANSFER TUBE, AND METHOD OF DISPOSING VIBRATION SUPPRESSION MEMBER - The heat exchanger includes: a plurality of heat transfer tubes which is arranged and provided with predetermined gaps; and a plurality of second vibration suppression members | 02-06-2014 |
20140219410 | FOUNDATION STRUCTURE OF REACTOR CONTAINMENT VESSEL - In the foundation structure of a reactor containment vessel, a lower foundation plate provided on a ground, an upper foundation plate provided over the lower foundation plate, a base isolation device inserted between the upper foundation plate and the lower foundation plate, and a reactor containment vessel provided on the upper foundation plate are provided. The ends of reverse U-shaped tendons serving as the lower structures of the reactor containment vessel are fixed to the lower surface of the upper foundation plate through the upper foundation plate, which makes it possible to simplify a structure and reduce a construction cost. | 08-07-2014 |