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20090077074 | APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING CONSTRUCTION OF ONTOLOGIES - To construct an ontology for a target data by re-using an existing ontology, from an aspect of the structure of the class hierarchy according to an object-oriented method and an aspect of the levels of relevance with other properties, the properties that correspond to the data items in the data serving as an ontology construction target and the extraction classes of the properties are determined as property extraction destination candidates for the ontology to be constructed. As a result, it is possible to re-use even a fine difference in the meanings among the properties in the classes. Consequently, it is possible to provide a support for constructing an effective ontology, while reducing the load on the user. | 03-19-2009 |
20100169760 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INSTANCE DATA, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information editing supporting apparatus receives an operation performed by a user. In a case where the operation related to editing of property values or referencing of property values, the apparatus generates operation information related to the operation while associating the operation information with one of the classes to which properties related to the operation belong. By the operation information, the apparatus determines a positional arrangement of property columns and generates positional arrangement information indicating the positional arrangement of the property columns in which the property value of the class are arranged for each of the properties. The apparatus also generates positional arrangement information indicating the determined positional arrangement of the property columns, stores therein the generated positional arrangement information while associating it with the class, and generates display data used for displaying the property columns of the class based on the positional arrangement information. | 07-01-2010 |
20100299330 | ONTOLOGY-INTEGRATION-POSITION SPECIFYING APPARATUS, ONTOLOGY-INTEGRATION SUPPORTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Attribute mapping information is stored, in which a superclass of an associated class in an integration-source ontology already associated with an integration-destination ontology, an attribute of the superclass, and an integration destination attribute of a class in the integration destination are associated with each other. An integration target class in the integration source is specified to acquire an attribute of a superclass of the integration target class. An associated class having the shortest distance from the integration target class is specified, to specify an integration-destination-associated class associated with the specified associated class. An inheritance relation is followed from the integration-destination-associated class to specify a class having the integration destination attribute corresponding to the attribute in the mapping information as a position where the class associated with the integration target class is present. | 11-25-2010 |
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20100033596 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS, CAMERA, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING SIGNAL - A solid-state image-capturing apparatus that converts light, which is reflected from a subject, into an electrical signal, includes an image processing unit that performs edge enhancement on a digital video signal that is generated based on an analog video signal, which is obtained from the light captured by an image-capturing device and amplified with a predetermined analog gain, based on position information on the image-capturing device and the analog gain. | 02-11-2010 |
20100085447 | NOISE CANCELING CIRCUIT, NOISE CANCELING METHOD, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A noise canceling circuit that includes a sharp/flat-part determining unit that determines whether a neighborhood of a target pixel in a digital video signal is a sharp part or a flat part by calculating a sharpness value indicating sharpness and an approximate noise value approximately indicating a noise value included in the target pixel based on pixel values of the target pixel and a predetermined number of pixels inputted immediately before and after the target pixel, and comparing the sharpness value and the approximate noise value, a noise extracting unit that extracts the noise value of the target pixel by performing a noise extraction corresponding to a result of the determination performed by the sharp/flat-part determining unit, and a correcting unit that corrects the pixel value of the target pixel by using the extracted noise value of the target pixel. | 04-08-2010 |
20100225781 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A pixel-interpolation processing unit generates a sensitivity level value of an insufficient color component according to interpolation processing of image signals. A sensitivity level value of an insufficient color component in a pixel of attention is calculated, according to an arithmetic operation corresponding to an acquired color component of the pixel of attention, by assuming a geometric figure including sensitivity level values of acquired color components as vertexes. As the geometric figure, the same figure is used irrespectively of which color component the acquired color component is. | 09-09-2010 |
20110317055 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND IMAGING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a third optical black portion is arranged in parallel with a first optical black portion in a row direction and in parallel with a second optical black portion in column direction. At least one of the vertical line correction circuit and the horizontal line correction circuit adds/subtracts arithmetic average of the third black level signal generated by the third optical black portion. | 12-29-2011 |
20120147210 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - According to the embodiment, a feedback clamp circuit is included, which increases or decreases a clamp parameter so that a black level approaches a target value while controlling a change amount of the clamp parameter, which sets the black level, based on the black level read out from OB pixels. | 06-14-2012 |
20130229552 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, ILLUMINANCE MEASURING METHOD PERFORMED BY SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND CAMERA MODULE - According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes an illuminance value calculating unit and an illuminance value output unit. The illuminance value calculating unit calculates an illuminance value based on an integration result of luminance values. The illuminance value output unit outputs the illuminance value calculated by the illuminance value calculating unit by setting, as a target, a subject image obtained through application of one of two or more illuminance measurement conditions. The two or more illuminance measurement conditions are set in advance by varying at least one of an electronic shutter time and an analog gain. | 09-05-2013 |
20140016022 | CAMERA MODULE, EXPOSURE ADJUSTING METHOD OF CAMERA MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - According to one embodiment, a camera module has an exposure control unit. When an exposure error has reached within a coring range by first exposure control, the exposure control unit switches exposure control from the first exposure control to second exposure control. The exposure error shows a deviation of an exposure evaluation value to an exposure target value. In the second exposure control, an exposure change amount is reduced than at the time of the first exposure control. When the exposure error has reached a zero level by the second exposure control, the exposure control unit stops the exposure control. | 01-16-2014 |
20140028879 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a vertical contour extraction unit, a horizontal contour extraction unit, an edge strength judgment unit, and a dynamic adjustment unit. The edge strength judgment unit outputs an edge strength signal by judgment of strength of an edge included in a pixel block. The dynamic adjustment unit performs dynamic adjustment on a vertical contour signal and a horizontal contour signal in accordance with the edge strength signal. | 01-30-2014 |
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20110242418 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image processing apparatus, a min-max pixel difference value computing unit computes the difference between the maximum and minimum pixel values in a first image portion including a target pixel and neighbor pixels. A maximum adjacent pixel difference value computing unit computes the maximum value among the difference values between adjacent pixels in the first image portion. An image change feature value computing unit computes a feature value corresponding to the suddenness of image change in the first image portion. A filter coefficient computing unit computes filter coefficients. A sharpen filter accepts, as input, pixels forming a second image portion including the same target pixel as the first image portion and neighbor pixels, and computes an output pixel value for the target pixel. | 10-06-2011 |
20120275691 | COEFFICIENT LEARNING DEVICE AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A feature-quantity extraction unit extracts a feature quantity of a target pixel of a student image. The target pixel is classified into a predetermined class. Natural-image processing of the target pixel is performed. Artificial-image processing of the target pixel is performed. A sample of a normal equation is generated using a pixel value of the target pixel subjected to the natural-image processing, a pixel value of the target pixel subjected to the artificial-image processing, a pixel value of a target pixel of a teacher image, and a predetermined mixing coefficient for each class. The mixing coefficient is calculated on the basis of a plurality of generated samples. | 11-01-2012 |
20120321214 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a sharpness improvement feature quantity calculation unit for calculating a sharpness improvement feature quantity of a pixel-of-interest, which is a feature quantity of sharpness improvement of a pixel-of-interest, according to a product-sum operation on pixel values of a plurality of peripheral pixels around a pixel of an input image corresponding to the pixel-of-interest, strengths of band limitation and noise addition, and filter coefficients corresponding to phases of the pixel-of-interest and the peripheral pixels, by designating a pixel of a prediction image as the pixel-of-interest when an image subjected to high image-quality processing is output as the prediction image, and a prediction calculation unit for calculating a prediction value of the pixel-of-interest by calculating a prediction expression defined by a product-sum operation on the sharpness improvement feature quantity and a prediction coefficient pre-obtained by learning. | 12-20-2012 |
20130195347 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a modifying unit configured to modify depth information representing depths in individual pixels of an image in accordance with content included in the image, thereby generating modified depth information, and an enhancing unit configured to perform a stereoscopic effect enhancement process of enhancing a stereoscopic effect of the image by using the modified depth information generated by the modifying unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130300890 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processor includes a first acquirer that acquires a matching tap having a target pixel at the center, a second acquirer that acquires plural matching taps each having, at the center, one of pixels in a search area including the pixels surrounding the target pixel, a similarity identifier that identifies, among the matching taps acquired by the second acquirer, a similarity maximizing pixel representing a central pixel of the matching tap having the highest similarity to the matching tap acquired by the first acquirer, and a mixing controller that computes a pixel value of the target pixel by mixing a pixel value obtained by performing a predetermined arithmetic process on pixel values of a prediction tap having the target pixel at the center with a pixel value obtained by performing a predetermined arithmetic process on pixel values of a prediction tap having the similarity maximizing pixel at the center. | 11-14-2013 |
20130308025 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a characteristic estimation portion that, from one of image information obtained from an image sensor and information attached to the image information, estimates a characteristic of the image sensor that is used to generate the image information, and a processing portion that processes the image information in accordance with the characteristic of the image sensor estimated by the characteristic estimation portion. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308854 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, LEARNING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a weight calculation unit that calculates a weight corresponding to each of a plurality of pixel values centering on a pixel of interest of an input image based on a feature amount calculated based on the plurality of pixel values centering on the pixel of interest, a regression coefficient reading unit that reads a regression coefficient stored for each class code determined based on a plurality of pixel values corresponding to the pixel of interest of the input image, and a pixel value calculation unit that calculates a pixel value of a pixel of interest of an output image by performing calculation using the plurality of pixel values, the weights, and the regression coefficients centering on the pixel of interest of the input image. | 11-21-2013 |
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20080299937 | Sampling Filter - The present invention aims at providing a sampling filter capable of changing a filtering characteristic without use of a complicate waveform as a control signal. A sampling filter | 12-04-2008 |
20090011720 | Bidirectional Frequency Converter and Radio Equipment Using Same - When a power supply switch is turned on and an RF signal and an LO signal are input to a bipolar transistor, a mixed signal of both signals is output as an IF signal. When the power supply switch is turned off, the bipolar transistor operates as two diodes connected between a base terminal and an emitter terminal and between the base terminal and a collector terminal. When the IF signal and the LO signal are input, the input signals are mixed with each other by the diodes and the RF signal is output. Accordingly, one frequency conversion has a plus conversion gain and when bidirectional frequency conversion is performed by the use of one frequency converter, an external circuit such as a signal path switching switch is not necessary. | 01-08-2009 |
20090270061 | SAMPLING MIXER AND RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a sampling mixer and a receiver, capable of optimizing a sampling rate of an output signal in response to a fractional band of a modulation band with respect to an RF frequency of the received signal. A sampling mixer of the present invention, includes a history capacitor | 10-29-2009 |
20090295436 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT, FREQUENCY DIVIDER AND RADIO SET - A master stage | 12-03-2009 |
20100279631 | BIDIRECTIONAL FREQUENCY CONVERTER AND RADIO EQUIPMENT USING SAME - When a power supply switch is turned on and an RF signal and an LO signal are input to a bipolar transistor, a mixed signal of both signals is output as an IF signal. When the power supply switch is turned off, the bipolar transistor operates as two diodes connected between a base terminal and an emitter terminal and between the base terminal and a collector terminal. When the IF signal and the LO signal are input, the input signals are mixed with each other by the diodes and the RF signal is output. Accordingly, one frequency conversion is performed by the use of one frequency converter, an external circuit such as a signal path switching switch is not necessary. | 11-04-2010 |