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20090119583 | IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An attribute determining unit determines an attribute of image data of an image. A still-image extracting unit extracts, when the attribute is a moving image, a still image from the image data. A feature-amount obtaining unit obtains a feature amount from image data of the still image and image data of a still image when the attribute is the still image. An arrangement-position determining unit determines an arrangement position of a display area based on the feature amount. A display-image generating unit generates a thumbnail image from the still image and displays a list of thumbnail images in the display area, based on the arrangement position and the display area. | 05-07-2009 |
20090119585 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A disclosed image display apparatus for displaying multiple images on a single screen includes a magnification unit configured to, in response to a zooming operation on the screen, magnify distances between centroids of first group images included in the multiple images and magnify the first group images; and a display control unit configured to display in a space of the magnified distances one or more images different from the multiple images. A magnification rate of the distances between the centroids has a nonlinear relationship to a magnification rate of the first group images, and within an extent of the nonlinear relationship, the magnification rate of the distances between the centroids has a predetermined range in which the magnification rate of the first group images is larger than the magnification rate of the distances between the centroids. | 05-07-2009 |
20090161969 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image, computer-readable program therefore, and information recording medium storing same program - An image encoding apparatus reduces the discontinuation or elimination of thin lines during a transform process including rounding of coefficient data generated by a frequency transform, thereby enabling the ready acquisition of a high-quality reduced image. The image encoding apparatus includes a frequency transform unit configured to frequency-transform an image to generate coefficient data having a low-frequency component and a high-frequency component; a dynamic range control unit configured to add a bit on a least significant bit end of a portion of pixel data of the image that is used for generating the coefficient data of the low-frequency component on a pixel by pixel basis, thereby increasing a dynamic range of the pixel data; and an encoding unit configured to encode the coefficient data generated by the frequency transform unit. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164567 | Information display system, information display method, and computer program product - A thumbnail image generating unit generates thumbnail images from a plurality of images having a sequential relation. A thumbnail image displaying unit displays the thumbnail images generated according to the sequential relation. A thumbnail image designating unit receives a designation of a thumbnail image from among the thumbnail images. An enlarging unit generates an enlarged image of a designated thumbnail image. An enlarged image displaying unit displays the enlarged image. A forward-advance designating unit designates a forward advance of the enlarged image displayed by the enlarged image displaying unit according to the sequential relation. | 06-25-2009 |
20100034473 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an image processing apparatus, an encoding unit encodes a processed image; a determining unit determines whether a reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing; and a decoding unit decodes, when the determining unit determines that the reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing, a piece of rectangular block code data of a rectangular block thereby acquiring a second decoded image. The encoding unit refers to, when the determining unit determines that the reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing, the processed image and encodes the second decoded image. | 02-11-2010 |
20110064309 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus includes an image separating unit that separates and creates a plurality of derivative images from an input image based on feature of the input image; a coding unit that codes each of the derivative images separately, couples coded data of the derivative images, and generates multilayer structure data; and a controller that controls a code amount of coded data of at least one derivative image with a low code assignment priority out of the derivative images so that a data amount of the multilayer structure data is equal to or less than a limit amount. | 03-17-2011 |
20120236344 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A disclosed image processing system including plural image processing apparatuses connected by a network and an image printing part outputting a print by printing based on image information to be printed with a first image processing apparatus; an image reading part reading an image of the print and generating read image information with a second image processing apparatus; a correction information generating part generating a correction requirement for a print function of the first image processing apparatus and correction information containing a correction content based on read image characteristic information indicative of characteristics of the read image information, print image characteristic information indicating the image information to be printed, or the read image characteristic information and the print image characteristic information; and a correction executing part carrying out a correction for the print function based on the correction information in the first image processing apparatus. | 09-20-2012 |
20130241949 | IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE, LIGHT/DARK-LEVEL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image projection device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a first ratio of a second distance to a first distance. The first distance is a distance between a projecting unit that projects a projection image and a first point in a projection area on which the projection image is projected. The second distance is a distance between the projecting unit and a second point in the projection area. The image projection device also includes an estimating unit configured to estimate, using the first ratio, light/dark levels of respective division areas into which the projection area is divided; and a light/dark-level processing unit configured to perform light/dark-level processing on areas in the projection image corresponding respectively to the division areas in accordance with the corresponding light/dark level. | 09-19-2013 |
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20080201535 | Method and Apparatus for Provisioning Storage Volumes - A method for determining volume size in a storage system, comprising the steps of receiving a request for a volume assignment from a client host; obtaining client host specification; obtaining storage system specification; based on the client host specification and storage system specification selecting a proper volume size; and assigning a virtual volume to the client host, the virtual volume having the selected proper volume size. | 08-21-2008 |
20090025007 | Method and apparatus for managing virtual ports on storage systems - A storage system is configured to create and manage virtual ports on physical ports. The storage system can transfer associations between virtual ports and physical ports when a failure occurs in a physical port or a link connected to the physical port so that a host can access volumes under the virtual ports through another physical port. The storage system can also change associations between virtual ports and physical ports by taking into account the relative loads on the physical ports. When a virtual machine is migrated from one host computer to another, the loads on the physical ports in the storage system can be used to determine whether load balancing should take place. Additionally, the storage system can transfer virtual ports to a remote storage system that will take over the virtual ports, so that a virtual machine can be migrated to remote location. | 01-22-2009 |
20090077327 | Method and apparatus for enabling a NAS system to utilize thin provisioning - A NAS (network attached storage) controller managing file system data is configured for use in a storage system having thin provisioning capability. Physical storage capacity is used efficiently by making it possible for the NAS controller to identify to a disk array system having thin provisioning capability which segments of a thin provisioned volume are no longer in use. File system blocks or block groups no longer in use by the NAS controller are identified by the NAS controller. The NAS controller sends a release request to the disk array system specifying thin provisioning segments that correspond to the identified FS blocks or block groups. The release request instructs the disk array system to release chunks of physical storage capacity assigned to the specified thin provisioning segments so that the physical storage capacity can be made available for reuse in the disk array storage system. | 03-19-2009 |
20090157984 | Avoiding use of an inter-unit network in a storage system having multiple storage control units - A storage system provides virtual ports, and is able to transfer the virtual ports among physical ports located on multiple storage control units making up the storage system. The storage system is able to manage logical volumes and/or virtual volumes and virtual ports as a group when considering whether to move logical/virtual volumes and/or virtual ports to another storage control unit in the storage system. When the storage system is instructed to transfer volumes, virtual ports, or a group of volumes and virtual ports among the storage control units, the storage system determines whether an inter-unit network will be required to be used following the transfer. When the storage system determines that the inter-unit network will be required if the transfer takes place, the storage system determines and presents an alternate storage control unit for the transfer to avoid use of the inter-unit network, thereby avoiding degraded performance. | 06-18-2009 |
20090287898 | Method and apparatus for I/O priority control in storage systems - In exemplary embodiments a storage control unit is able to provide and track priority control among virtual ports created for corresponding physical ports and/or volume groups made up of one or more volumes, and thereby ensure application of priority settings. According to exemplary embodiments, when a virtual port created for a physical port on a first storage control unit is transferred to another physical port, such as in the same storage control unit or on another storage control unit, priority settings on the first physical port and storage control unit are checked and transferred with the virtual port to the other physical port to prevent competition for priority by virtual ports at the destination physical port. Similarly, priority settings assigned to volume groups may also be transferred when a volume group is transferred to another physical port within a storage control unit or to a different storage control unit. | 11-19-2009 |
20110029973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL PORTS ON STORAGE SYSTEMS - A storage system is configured to create and manage virtual ports on physical ports. The storage system can transfer associations between virtual ports and physical ports when a failure occurs in a physical port or a link connected to the physical port so that a host can access volumes under the virtual ports through another physical port. The storage system can also change associations between virtual ports and physical ports by taking into account the relative loads on the physical ports. When a virtual machine is migrated from one host computer to another, the loads on the physical ports in the storage system can be used to determine whether load balancing should take place. Additionally, the storage system can transfer virtual ports to a remote storage system that will take over the virtual ports, so that a virtual machine can be migrated to remote location. | 02-03-2011 |
20110055477 | AVOIDING USE OF AN INTER-UNIT NETWORK IN A STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE STORAGE CONTROL UNITS - A storage system provides virtual ports, and is able to transfer the virtual ports among physical ports located on multiple storage control units making up the storage system. The storage system is able to manage logical volumes and/or virtual volumes and virtual ports as a group when considering whether to move logical/virtual volumes and/or virtual ports to another storage control unit in the storage system. When the storage system is instructed to transfer volumes, virtual ports, or a group of volumes and virtual ports among the storage control units, the storage system determines whether an inter-unit network will be required to be used following the transfer. When the storage system determines that the inter-unit network will be required if the transfer takes place, the storage system determines and presents an alternate storage control unit for the transfer to avoid use of the inter-unit network, thereby avoiding degraded performance. | 03-03-2011 |
20120011240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL PORTS ON STORAGE SYSTEMS - A storage system is configured to create and manage virtual ports on physical ports. The storage system can transfer associations between virtual ports and physical ports when a failure occurs in a physical port or a link connected to the physical port so that a host can access volumes under the virtual ports through another physical port. The storage system can also change associations between virtual ports and physical ports by taking into account the relative loads on the physical ports. When a virtual machine is migrated from one host computer to another, the loads on the physical ports in the storage system can be used to determine whether load balancing should take place. Additionally, the storage system can transfer virtual ports to a remote storage system that will take over the virtual ports, so that a virtual machine can be migrated to remote location. | 01-12-2012 |
20120117345 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BACKUP AND RESTORE IN A DYNAMIC CHUNK ALLOCATION STORAGE SYSTEM - Backup and restore operations are made possible in a storage system that has dynamic chunk allocation (DCA) capability. In a DCA storage system, a chunk of physical storage area is not allocated to a segment of a volume until a write command is received targeting the segment of the volume. During a restore operation of the volume in the DCA storage system, the wasting of storage capacity when a backup image of the volume is restored is mitigated by preventing allocation of physical storage areas to segments of restore data that are only void data. | 05-10-2012 |
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20100153666 | Storage system, method for calculating estimated value of data recovery available time and management computer - The invention provides a technology applicable to technologies other than a main frame technology and monitors data recovery available time while suppressing a monitoring error within a certain range in a storage system that performs Asynchronous Remote Copy among storage devices. A management computer in the storage system stores latest or quasi-latest management data corresponding to data staying in a buffer of the first storage device with temporal information at certain monitoring intervals, calculates an estimated value of the data recovery available time which is time of data stored in the second storage device corresponding to data stored in the first storage device, based on the temporal information stored, and based on a certain management data among earliest or quasi-earliest management data or a number of the data staying in the buffer at the certain time and displays the estimated value on a display section. | 06-17-2010 |
20100191926 | Remote copy system and path setting support method - A remote copy system includes: a host computer; a first storage system connected to the host computer; and a second storage apparatus connected to the first storage system. At least one of the first storage system and the second storage system holds, in a storage part thereof, path information used for performing a remote copy of data therebetween. The host computer references the path information in the storage part; determines whether or not a path required for conducting an operation instructed by a user exists, based on at least one of a type of the remote copy and a direction of the path; and, if the required path does not exist, displays, on a display part, that the necessary path does not exist and why the necessary path does not exist. | 07-29-2010 |
20110185130 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONSOLIDATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - In order to properly use resources according to the application or search for available resources in an environment in which a block storage apparatus and a file storage apparatus coexist, knowledge and experience of applications and storage apparatuses, as well manpower were required. Thus, a policy pre-defined with a preferred type of interface and a preferred type of storage area for each type of application that is loaded in the host computers is predetermined, configuration information is collected from each storage apparatus, each intermediate storage apparatus and each host computer, respectively, a combination of a storage apparatus, an intermediate storage apparatus and a host computer that is suitable for the type of application designated by a user is detected based on the collected configuration information of each storage apparatus, each intermediate storage apparatus and each host computer, the policy, and the type of application designated by the user, and the detected combination is presented to the user. | 07-28-2011 |
20110202735 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND BACKUP METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A backup is completed within a backup window designated by a user. | 08-18-2011 |
20110314239 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - Operation of an environment that supports both host-based replication and array-based replication is realized. According to the present invention, data in the first storage area is copied first to the second storage area using an array-based replication engine. In this case, the execution result of the replication is managed using a flag from which the copy timing can be known. In addition, data in the first storage area is copied to the third storage area using a host-based replication engine, and further, data in the third storage area is copied to the fourth storage area. Then, when data in the second storage area is restored to the first storage area, data in the fourth storage area is returned to the third storage area so that the third storage area has data of the same time as the second storage area (see FIG. | 12-22-2011 |
20120030440 | STORAGE SYSTEM GROUP INCLUDING SCALE-OUT STORAGE SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREFOR - A management system is coupled to a storage system group including a scale-out storage system (a virtual storage system). The management system has storage management information, which includes information denoting, for each storage system, whether or not a storage system is a component of a virtual storage system. The management system, based on the storage management information, determines whether or not a first storage system is a component of a virtual storage system, and in a case where the result of this determination is affirmative, identifies, based on the storage management information, a second storage system, which is a storage system other than the virtual storage system that includes the first storage system, and allows a user to perform a specific operation only with respect to this second storage system. | 02-02-2012 |
20120079226 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - A computer system of the present invention selects and executes an appropriate action in a case where capacity of a pool that provides a real storage area to a virtual logical volume is insufficient. A management computer determines, based on a utilization status of each pool, whether or not there exists a prescribed pool that requires pool size expansion. The management computer, in a case where the prescribed pool is detected, selects at least any one of a volume addition method for adding an unused real volume to the prescribed pool and a data migration method for migrating data of the virtual logical volume to another pool other than the prescribed pool, and expands a pool size of the prescribed pool in accordance with the selected method. | 03-29-2012 |
20120215895 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD OF THE COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a technique capable of efficient comprehensive management of a system, even if the system is a large-scale storage system. Management software acquires configuration information of a storage system (computer system) in two stages. In a first stage, the management software acquires only basic information of resources (identifiers of resources, the number of resources, and relationship between the resources) included in storage subsystems, host computers, switches, hubs, and the like. The management software determines a range and timing of acquiring detailed configuration information and necessity of holding the detailed configuration information based on the acquired basic information. In a second stage, the management software acquires the detailed configuration information of an appropriate range at appropriate timing. The management software always holds the basic information, but holds the detailed information only necessary to hold. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221729 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Even when a configuration in which instances of plural kinds of storage management software having equivalent functions are arranged to cooperatively manage a large-scale storage system is adopted, to prevent occurrence of a management inoperability and configuration information inconsistency and enable the same management operation and information reference as those performed when all management target objects are managed by a single instance. In the present invention, a representative management computer serving as a representative among management computers is determined. The representative management computer collects, from storage apparatuses and host computers, information concerning the management target objects and configuration summary information including a relation type among the objects and determines, on the basis of the configuration summary information, management target objects which each of the management computers should take charge of. | 08-30-2012 |
20120331248 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD - An embodiment of this invention is a storage management system including a processor and a storage device to manage a storage system having one or more copy functions. The processor locates data designated to determine a backup method. The storage device stores copy function management information on the one or more copy functions of the storage system. The processor refers to the copy function management information to ascertain the unit of copy operation of each of the one or more copy functions. The processor determines a candidate for a copy function of the storage system to be used to back up the designated data depending on the data configuration in a volume holding the designated data and the unit of copy operation of the candidate for the copy function. | 12-27-2012 |
20130151770 | REMOTE COPY SYSTEM AND REMOTE COPY CONTROL METHOD - A first storage system comprises a first RAID group comprising multiple first storage devices, which constitute the basis of a first logical volume. A second storage system comprises a second RAID group comprising multiple second storage devices, which constitute the basis of a second logical volume. The RAID configuration of the first RAID group and the RAID configuration of the second RAID group are the same, and the type of a compression/decompression function of the respective first storage devices and the type of a compression/decompression function of the respective second storage devices are the same. Compressed data is read from a first storage device without being decompressed with respect to the data inside a first logical volume, and the read compressed data is written to a second storage device, which is in the same location in RAID in the second RAID group as the location in RAID of this first storage device. | 06-13-2013 |
20130198466 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - An embodiment of the invention is a computer system including one or more storage arrays providing a plurality of storage resources and a management system managing the one or more storage arrays. The management system stores configuration information of the plurality of storage resources. The management system specifies a non-applicable free storage resource for a configuration condition including one or more predesignated condition items in response to a predesignated event and records information of the specified free storage resource and a non-applicable reason in condition non-applicable storage resource information. The management system repeats the specifying and the recording in response to the predesignated event. The management system selects a free storage resource applicable to a predesignated unnecessary storage resource condition from the condition non-applicable storage resource information after the repetition as an unnecessary storage resource candidate. | 08-01-2013 |
20140040583 | STORAGE SYSTEM GROUP INCLUDING SCALE-OUT STORAGE SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREFOR - A management system is coupled to a storage system group including a scale-out storage system (a virtual storage system). The management system has storage management information, which includes information denoting, for each storage system, whether or not a storage system is a component of a virtual storage system. The management system, based on the storage management information, determines whether or not a first storage system is a component of a virtual storage system, and in a case where the result of this determination is affirmative, identifies, based on the storage management information, a second storage system, which is a storage system other than the virtual storage system that includes the first storage system, and allows a user to perform a specific operation only with respect to this second storage system. | 02-06-2014 |
20140156927 | COMPUTING DEVICE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD FOR REARRANGEMENT OF DATA BASED ON ACCESS CHARACTERISTIC RELATED TO A TASK - Technique for decision criterion for determining a transfer destination layer in rearrangement processing. A computer configures rearrangement reference information showing whether an access characteristic related to a task executed on a plurality of host computing devices is considered as a decision criterion for transfer destination determination in rearrangement processing of transferring data between actual storage areas of physical storage devices of different response performance. Storage subsystem refers to the rearrangement reference information and, based on an access characteristic of the plurality of computing devices with respect to the actual storage areas assigned to the plurality of computing devices, executes rearrangement processing of transferring data stored in the actual storage areas to different actual storage areas in the physical storage devices of different response performance. | 06-05-2014 |
20140250271 | REMOTE COPY SYSTEM AND REMOTE COPY CONTROL METHOD - A first storage system comprises a first RAID group comprising multiple first storage devices, which constitute the basis of a first logical volume. A second storage system comprises a second RAID group comprising multiple second storage devices, which constitute the basis of a second logical volume. The RAID configuration of the first RAID group and the RAID configuration of the second RAID group are the same, and the type of a compression/decompression function of the respective first storage devices and the type of a compression/decompression function of the respective second storage devices are the same. Compressed data is read from a first storage device without being decompressed with respect to the data inside a first logical volume, and the read compressed data is written to a second storage device, which is in the same location in RAID in the second RAID group as the location in RAID of this first storage device. | 09-04-2014 |
20140317297 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Even when a configuration in which instances of plural kinds of storage management software having equivalent functions are arranged to cooperatively manage a large-scale storage system is adopted, to prevent occurrence of a management inoperability and configuration information inconsistency and enable the same management operation and information reference as those performed when all management target objects are managed by a single instance. In the present invention, a representative management computer serving as a representative among management computers is determined. The representative management computer collects, from storage apparatuses and host computers, information concerning the management target objects and configuration summary information including a relation type among the objects and determines, on the basis of the configuration summary information, management target objects which each of the management computers should take charge of. | 10-23-2014 |
20140351407 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD OF THE COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a technique capable of efficient comprehensive management of a system, even if the system is a large-scale storage system. Management software acquires configuration information of a storage system (computer system) in two stages. In a first stage, the management software acquires only basic information of resources (identifiers of resources, the number of resources, and relationship between the resources) included in storage subsystems, host computers, switches, hubs, and the like. The management software determines a range and timing of acquiring detailed configuration information and necessity of holding the detailed configuration information based on the acquired basic information. In a second stage, the management software acquires the detailed configuration information of an appropriate range at appropriate timing. The management software always holds the basic information, but holds the detailed information only necessary to hold. | 11-27-2014 |
20150081964 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF COMPUTING SYSTEM - Tier management is performed immediately in response to the priority level of an object. A priority level is determined for each of two or more objects included in a specific computer program. A physical memory area is extracted that is a relocation target for each of the two or more objects. Using a management apparatus, a specific physical memory area is selected from the physical memory areas that are relocation targets based on the priority level for each of the objects. The management apparatus instructs a storage apparatus to allocate data stored in the selected specific physical memory area to the physical memory area in a specific storage tier. | 03-19-2015 |