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20100214325 | IMAGE DISPLAY - An image display (A) comprises a display unit ( | 08-26-2010 |
20100277500 | COLOR ADJUSTMENT CIRCUIT - The fact that B and R are close to a U axis and to a V axis, respectively, is noted. On that basis, from an example of color adjustment parameters set in directions of colors, it is found out that, when inputted V is in a negative range, B has a small influence. Accordingly, a B component is omitted from calculation in order to reduce a calculation amount. Similarly, components having small influences are omitted when B is in a positive range, when U is in the positive range, and when U is in the negative range. Thereby, adjustment parameters A | 11-04-2010 |
20110080524 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND PROGRAM - Shown is a diagram showing input-output characteristics for color adjustment. The horizontal axis represents an input, and the vertical axis represents an output. In this color adjustment technique, first, so as to prevent degradation the luminance of white after white correction, correction coefficients are determined so that the smallest value thereof may be 1. Note that “1” here is not a strict value. To be more specific, in contrast to the conventional technique in which correction is performed with the largest value being made equal to about “1,” the present embodiments sets the smallest value at about “1.” This idea itself is a first point which makes the embodiments different from the conventional technique. When doing so, all the correction coefficients are “1” or larger. In the case where a correction coefficient is “1” or larger, when the input is large, the output is saturated. To prevent the saturation, the saturation suppressed using an n-degree curve (X | 04-07-2011 |
20110115982 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - In an X-Y conversion chart, a threshold Th is defined as Y=0, that is, the threshold Th is defined on the X axis, a range from −Th to +Th is defined as a range in which smoothing (noise elimination) processing is performed, and a range outside the range from −Th to +Th is defined as a range in which sharpening processing is performed. As shown in equations in drawings, among equations denoted by Y | 05-19-2011 |
20110216967 | SPECIFIED COLOR AREA DEMARCATION CIRCUIT, DETECTION CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS USING SAME - A specified color area demarcation circuit | 09-08-2011 |
20120062622 | LUMINANCE CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME, LUMINANCE CONTROL METHOD AND LUMINANCE CONTROL PROGRAM - Power consumption is cut down by reducing backlight light source luminance in accordance with the variability of luminance of the picture displayed on a display panel. A picture luminance detector calculates information (luminance information) representing luminance of the picture at intervals of a time unit. A picture luminance storage is a memory capable of storing the past records of luminance information within a fixed period of time (some seconds to some ten seconds). A processor is configured of a variation detector and a light source luminance determiner. Variation detector performs detection of the variability of picture luminance based on the luminance information on the current picture detected by picture luminance detector and the past records of picture luminance information stored in picture luminance storage to output variation information. Light source luminance determiner determines light source luminance based on the luminance information on the current picture detected by picture luminance detector and the variation information output from variation detector and outputs a light source information control signal. | 03-15-2012 |
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20080297699 | OPTICAL ADJUSTING MEMBER AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical adjusting member according to the invention includes a base member having optical transparency and a plurality of linear members provided on the base member and having optical transparency. A section of the linear member orthogonal to the lengthwise direction of the linear member includes a triangular first sectional part defined by first to third sides and an approximately triangular second sectional part. The second sectional part has a smaller area than that of the first sectional part and defined by fourth to sixth sides. The first side of the first sectional part is in contact with the surface of the base member. The second sectional part is formed on the second side of the first sectional part, and the fourth side of the second sectional part is in contact with the second side of the first sectional part. | 12-04-2008 |
20080303777 | OPTICAL ADJUSTING MEMBER, AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical adjusting member according to the invention includes a base member, a plurality of lenses, and a light diffusion layer. The base member has optical transparency. The plurality of lenses are formed on the base member. The light diffusion layer is formed on the plurality of lenses, and at least top edge parts of the lenses are buried in the light diffusion layer. In the optical adjusting member according to the invention, at least the top edge parts of the plurality of lenses are buried in the light diffusion layer and therefore the lenses are less susceptible to damages. The optical adjusting member according to the invention has a light collecting function by the lenses and a diffusion function by the light diffusion layer. | 12-11-2008 |
20110157521 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display according to the present invention includes a light source, an optical control member, and a liquid crystal display panel. Said optical control member includes a base having optical transparency and a plurality of linear structures provided on said base, a section of the linear structure orthogonal to its extending direction includes a first sectional portion having a triangular shape defined by first to third sides, and a second sectional portion having a plurality of triangular structures each having a smaller area than the first sectional portion and defined by fourth to sixth sides, the first side of the first sectional portion is abutted on and parallel to a surface of said base, the second sectional portion is provided on the second side of the first sectional portion, and the fourth side of the second sectional portion is abutted on and parallel to the second side of the first sectional portion. Said liquid crystal display panel having a polarizing plate arranged in a direction to transmit a P-polarized component is provided on the side of the light output surface of said optical control member. Therefore, the liquid crystal display according to the present invention can solve the problems of color separation and insufficient luminance. | 06-30-2011 |
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20130207350 | ENGINE - An engine in which an oil consumption and a leakage of blow-by gas can be stably reduced for a long period of time. The engine includes a first land ( | 08-15-2013 |
20140290226 | EXHAUST TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR ENGINE - An engine exhaust treatment apparatus, which suppresses thermal damage to an electrothermal ignition apparatus, includes: an exhaust passage; an oxidation catalyst disposed in the exhaust passage; a combustible gas generator; a combustible gas supplying passage; a heat dissipation port opened upstream in the exhaust passage from the oxidation catalyst and in a downstream part of the combustible gas supplying passage, the exhaust passage and the combustible gas supplying passage communicating with each other through the heat dissipation port; and an electrothermal ignition apparatus disposed in the combustible gas supplying passage. Heat of flaming combustion of the combustible gas ignited by the electrothermal ignition apparatus is supplied to the exhaust passage, to raise the temperature of exhaust in the exhaust passage. A heat dissipation plate is attached to an outer projecting portion of the electrothermal ignition apparatus. The outer projecting portion projects outside a wall of the exhaust treatment apparatus. | 10-02-2014 |
20150034043 | SUBCHAMBER TYPE COMBUSTION CHAMBER FOR DIESEL ENGINE - A subchamber type combustion chamber for a diesel engine, which reduces fuel consumption rate and combustion noise. To achieve the object, a subchamber type combustion chamber is communicated with a main combustion chamber through a nozzle hole, a fuel injection nozzle faces into the subchamber, and a glow plug extends into the subchamber. A heat generating portion of the glow plug includes a rod-shaped portion and a projecting portion projecting from an end of the rod-shaped portion. The projecting portion is provided with a convex curved surface projecting from a circular peripheral edge at the end of the rod-shaped portion while the convex curved surface is reduced in diameter. The percentage of value P/D obtained by dividing projection dimension P of the projecting portion from the end of the rod-shaped portion by diameter dimension D at the end of the rod-shaped portion is 3% to 23%. | 02-05-2015 |
20150267636 | ENGINE COOLER - An engine cooler capable of suppressing a piston slap sound is provided. The engine cooler includes a cylinder block including a cylinder barrel and a water jacket, and a spacer stored in the water jacket, the water jacket surrounds the cylinder barrel, and the spacer encloses the cylinder barrel. Given that a width direction of the cylinder block is a lateral direction, a pressed member is pressed between the cylinder barrel and the spacer on lateral sides of the cylinder barrel, and a lower end of the pressed member is disposed above a lower end of each of right and left skirts of a piston located at a top dead center. | 09-24-2015 |
20160090895 | ENGINE WATER-COOLING DEVICE - There is provided an engine water-cooling device that can increase warming-up efficiency of an engine. The engine water-cooling device includes a thermostat housing that houses a thermostat. The thermostat housing is mounted to a front wall of a cylinder head in one side portion in a width direction of the cylinder head. A cooling water pump is mounted to a front wall of a cylinder block in a central portion in a width direction of the cylinder block. A bypass passage includes an intra-head bypass passage in the cylinder head, and the intra-head bypass passage includes a width-direction passage portion extending from a position behind the thermostat housing to a position behind and above the cooling water pump. | 03-31-2016 |
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20100103291 | Image-Sensing Apparatus - An image-sensing apparatus has: an image sensor sequentially acquiring source images by sequential shooting; an optical zoom control portion varying the size of the subject image on the source images by optical zooming; a particular subject detection portion detecting the position and size of a particular subject on the source images based on the image data of the source images; a narrow-angle image extraction portion setting, in each of the source images, a narrow-angle image including the particular subject based on the result of detection by the particular subject detection portion, to set the position and size of the narrow-angle image on image; a wide-angle image extraction portion extracting, from each of the source images, a wide-angle image that includes the narrow-angle image, that has a larger angle of view than the narrow-angle image, and that has a reference number of pixels; a resolution enhancement processing portion cutting out, from a plurality of temporally consecutive wide-angle images, a plurality of narrow-angle images according to a setting in the narrow-angle image extraction portion, to generate, from the plurality of narrow-angle images, a narrow-angle high-resolution image having a number of pixels greater than the number of pixels of the narrow-angle image; and a recording portion recording the image data of the individual wide-angle images. The optical zoom control portion controls the factor of the optical zooming such that the ratio of the reference number of pixels to the number of pixels of the narrow-angle image approaches the factor of enlargement by the resolution enhancement processing portion. | 04-29-2010 |
20120194707 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes a target image generating portion that generates a target image by photography using optical zoom and digital zoom, and an output image generating portion that generates an output image by performing image processing on the target image. An entire image region of the target image includes a first image region and a second image region having a focus degree lower than that of the first image region. The image processing includes a blurring process for blurring an image in the second image region of the target image, and the output image generating portion performs the blurring process in accordance with a magnification of the digital zoom. | 08-02-2012 |
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20090032444 | Grain Classifying Device And Adhesive Containing Grains Classified By The Device - A grain classifying device for accurately classifying the grains of uniform length, and an adhesive containing grains classified by the device and capable of connecting electrodes under a low pressure and being applicable to electrodes arranged in fine pitches. The grain classifying device ( | 02-05-2009 |
20090101408 | ULTRAFINE-COAXIAL-WIRE HARNESS, CONNECTING METHOD THEREOF, CIRCUIT-BOARD-CONNECTED BODY, CIRCUIT-BOARD MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The invention offers an ultrafine-coaxial-wire harness that enables connectorless connection to a substrate in a narrow space while maintaining the reliability and speediness of the operation. A multicore ultrafine coaxial wire | 04-23-2009 |
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20100175507 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF CHAIN METAL POWDERS, CHAIN METAL POWDERS PRODUCED THEREBY, AND ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVE FILM FORMED BY USING THE POWDERS - A process for production of a chain metal powder, which comprises the steps of reducing metal ions contained in an aqueous solution, while applying a magnetic filed to the solution, in the presence of both a reducing agent capable of generating a gas during the reduction of metal ions and a foamable water soluble compound, through the generation of a gas, a bubble layer on the surface of the aqueous solution to form a chain metal powder, separating the bubble layer formed on the surface of the aqueous solution from the solution, and collecting the chain metal powder contained in the bubble layer. | 07-15-2010 |
20100252781 | GRAIN CLASSIFYING DEVICE AND ADHESIVE CONTAINING GRAINS CLASSIFIED BY THE DEVICE - A grain classifying device for accurately classifying the grains of uniform length, and an adhesive containing grains classified by the device and capable of connecting electrodes under a low pressure and being applicable to electrodes arranged in fine pitches. The grain classifying device ( | 10-07-2010 |
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20110028586 | ENERGY RAY-CURABLE INKJET INK COMPOSITION - The present invention provides an energy ray-curable inkjet ink composition which is excellent in stretchability for a printed film and, at the same time, is excellent in curability, adherability and the continuous discharge property. The present invention relates to an energy ray-curable inkjet ink composition containing at least a coloring material, 8 to 60% by mass of a monofunctional monomer (A) having a glass transition temperature of lower than −25° C., 25 to 40% by mass of a difunctional oligomer (B) having an elongation rate of 130% or more at 25° C. when a single oligomer is polymerized, at least one kind of a photopolymerization initiator (C) selected from the group consisting of an acylphosphine oxide initiator (C-1), and a mixed initiator (C-2) of an α-aminoalkylphenone initiator and a thioxanthone initiator, and a surface tension conditioner (D). | 02-03-2011 |
20110230582 | ENERGY BEAM-CURING INKJET INK COMPOSITION - An energy ray-curable inkjet ink composition comprising polymerizable compounds containing a monofunctional monomer, (A) a reactive oligomer having a rate of elongation of 130% or more and a weight average molecular weight of not less than 800 and less than 3,000 and (B) a reactive oligomer having a rate of elongation of 130% or more and a weight average molecular weight of not less than 3,000 and not more than 8,000, provided that one of the reactive oligomers (A) and (B) is not more than difunctional and the other is not less than difunctional, at least one polymerization initiator selected from the group consisting of (C) an acylphosphine oxide initiator and (D) an α-aminoalkylphenone initiator, a surface tension modifier, and a colorant. | 09-22-2011 |
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20090138610 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TUNNEL COMMUNICATION DEVICE, TUNNEL COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided are an information processing system, a tunnel communication device, a tunnel communication method, and a program that can make a communication between plural information processing devices belonging to different LANs without a user's making a complex setup. In the information processing system, a first tunnel communication unit encapsulates a packet from a first information processing device, transmits the encapsulated packet through a path of a P2P communication, and decapsulates the packet transmitted from a second tunnel communication device through the path of the P2P communication. A second tunnel communication unit encapsulates the packet transmitted from the second information processing device, transmits the encapsulated packet through the path of the P2P communication, and decapsulates the packet transmitted from the first tunnel communication device through the path of the P2P communication. | 05-28-2009 |
20090232138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TUNNEL COMMUNICATION DEVICE, TUNNELL COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROXY RESPONSE DEVICE, AND PROXY RESPONSE METHOD - Provided is an information processing system and the like that can make a communication between plural information processing devices belonging to different LANs. A first tunnel communication device includes a first address correlating information memory unit that stores information for correlating an address in a first LAN with an address in a second LAN, a first address translating unit that translates an address of a packet on the basis of the correlating information, a first P2P communication setup unit that sets up a P2P communication with a device as a destination, and a first tunnel communication unit that makes a tunnel communication through a path of a P2P communication. The packet transmitted from a first information processing device is translated in address, is encapsulated, and is then transmitted through the path of the P2P communication. The packet transmitted from the device as a destination is decapsulated, is translated in address, and is then transmitted to the first information processing device. | 09-17-2009 |
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20100246972 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A reduced edge image generating unit divides into blocks an image indicated by image information inputted by an input device which inputs image information for expressing an image, calculates the luminance values of pixels in each of the divided blocks, and generates a 1/N edge image based on a difference between the luminance value of a block of interest and the luminance value of a block adjacent to the block of interest. An inclination detecting unit performs line scanning on the 1/N edge image, which has been generated by the reduced edge image generating unit, for every angle set beforehand, calculates the evaluation value based on the luminance of a pixel for every line on which the line scanning is performed, calculates the statistical value based on the evaluation value calculated for every line, and estimates the inclination of the image from the calculated statistical value. | 09-30-2010 |
20150199036 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An image display apparatus includes a display unit displaying an image, a touch detecting unit detecting a touch operation by a touch pen, a control unit executing a process allocated to the detected touch operation, and a communication unit receiving an ID transmitted from a touch pen when the touch pen is detected to be held by a user. In response to the communication unit receiving the ID, the display unit displays a partial image indicating a state of settings related to the process allocated to the touch operation by the touch pen, and in response to a touch to the partial image, the display unit displays a menu allowing a change of settings. Thus, the user can easily confirm the state of settings related to the touch operation, and can easily change the settings. | 07-16-2015 |
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20080304156 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A solid-state imaging device including a color filter having a filter characteristic more approaching to a human visual sensitivity is provided. The color filter including a group of dielectric layers has high-refractive-index-material films and low-refractive-index-material films, the high-refractive-index-material film and the low-refractive-index-material film being n films and (n−1) films, lo respectively, which are laminated alternately, n being an integer equal to or larger than 4. The color filter includes at least a red-transmission filter, a green-transmission filter, and a blue-transmission filter. The group of dielectric layers is common in the color filter and includes two of the high-refractive-index-material films and one of the low-refractive-index-material films positioned between and in contact with the two of high-refractive-index-material films. In the red-transmission filter, a first one of low-refractive-index-material films and a second one of low-refractive-index-material films, which are not in the group of dielectric layers, have a thickness different from each other. | 12-11-2008 |
20090147116 | IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS, CAMERA, VEHICLE, AND IMAGE-CAPTURING METHOD - The image-capturing apparatus according to the present invention is an image-capturing apparatus including a solid-state imaging device which generates a first image by image-capturing a subject using a first exposure time, a predicted-flare generating unit which generates a predicted-flare image showing a flare component included in the first image, a subtracting unit which generates a difference image by subtracting the predicted-flare image from the first image, and an amplifying unit which generates an amplified image by amplifying the difference image. | 06-11-2009 |
20090321865 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A solid-state imaging device having a color filter with high color reproducibility even in the case of using lighting of low color temperatures. The solid-state imaging device has a plurality of pixels arranged two-dimensionally, and comprises a color separation filter which allows transmission of light of a predetermined wavelength in incident light for each of the plurality of pixels, wherein the color separation filter includes: a visible-light and near-infrared filter having transmission bands in regions of a visible lo wavelength band and a near-infrared wavelength band; and a near-infrared normalization filter laminated with the visible-light and near-infrared filter, wherein the near-infrared normalization filter is substantially transparent in the visible wavelength band and a first near-infrared wavelength band, and is substantially not transparent in a second near-infrared wavelength band between the visible wavelength band and the first near-infrared wavelength band. | 12-31-2009 |
20140111676 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit in which a plurality of unit pixels is arranged in rows and columns, the unit pixels performing photoelectric conversion of incident light to generate pixel information; and a secondary memory unit in which a plurality of unit memories is arranged in rows and columns, the unit memories holding the pixel information, wherein each of the columns in the secondary memory unit includes, as a unit memory block, the unit memories in the column, the secondary memory unit includes: a memory signal line provided for each of the columns in the memory unit; and a selection transistor provided between the unit memory block and the memory signal line, and shared by the plurality of unit memories in the unit memory block. | 04-24-2014 |
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20080320170 | DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention provides a data communication apparatus for solving the following problem. When generating coded frames of multiple data streams, in the case where there is a bias in code amount of the generated coded frame, the communication apparatus is instantaneously overloaded, causing packet losses. | 12-25-2008 |
20120235992 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A stereoscopic image processing apparatus includes an input/output interface operable to obtain a stereoscopic image including images at least at two view points, a parallax information detector operable to obtain parallax information about a parallax value for at least one of an upper region including an upper end and a lower region including a lower end of the obtained stereoscopic image, a display method setting unit operable to set a display method of an image on the region for which the parallax information is obtained, based on the parallax information about the region, an signal processor operable to process the image of the stereoscopic image on the region for which the parallax information is obtained, based on the set display method, and an signal processor operable to output a new stereoscopic image obtained based on the processed result. | 09-20-2012 |
20130242065 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A three-dimensional video processing apparatus includes: a video obtaining unit which obtains a 3D video for three-dimensional viewing; a position obtaining unit which obtains a position of a first area which is an area included in a part of the 3D video; a disparity obtaining unit which obtains disparity amounts of the 3D video; a determination unit which determines a size of an enlargement area; and an area selection unit which selects, as the enlargement area, at least one second area that has disparity amounts within a predetermined range, includes the first area, and has a size determined by the determination unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20130272677 | IMAGE FILE GENERATION DEVICE, IMAGE FILE REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE FILE GENERATION METHOD - An image file generation device includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain data of a stereoscopic image enabling stereovision, an parallax information obtaining unit configured to obtain parallax information for each of sub-regions (divided regions) of an entire region of the stereoscopic image, and a file generator configured to generate an image file including a data part which stores data of the stereoscopic image obtained by the image obtaining unit and a header part which stores management data for the data of the stereoscopic image stored in the data part. The file generator stores, in the header part, parallax information for each sub-region and information on a method of dividing the region, for each sub-region. | 10-17-2013 |
20150201150 | VIDEO OUTPUT DEVICE - A video output device according to the present disclosure synthesizes a plurality of videos into a video to be displayed. The video output device includes image processing unit and output unit. The image processing unit extracts a plurality of reference frames from any one reference video selected from the plurality of the videos captured by an imaging unit, and extracts a corresponding frame, most similar to a respective one of the reference frames, from each of the videos excluding the reference video. The output unit outputs a synthesized frame which image processing unit synthesizes from the each of the reference frame and the corresponding frame. | 07-16-2015 |