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20120002751 | Transmitter, Transmission Method, Receiver, Reception Method, and Program - A transmitter, a transmission method, a receiver, a reception method, and a program are provided which can allow the acquisition of all selection information of multi-segment broadcasting. | 01-05-2012 |
20120102519 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND RECEIVING METHOD - The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus and transmitting method as well as a receiving apparatus and receiving method configured to be able to recognize only channel selection information for digital broadcasting that is viewable at the receiving end. | 04-26-2012 |
20120281141 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A reception apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a broadcast stream at least including a data stream for data broadcasting; a first style selector configured to select a display style for each of data broadcast content acquired from the broadcast stream received by the reception unit; a second style selector configured to select, when the data broadcast content corresponding to the style selected by the first style selector corresponds to a plurality of display styles, one display style out of the plurality of display styles; and a display unit configured to display the data broadcast content corresponding to the style selected by the first style selector or the second style selector. | 11-08-2012 |
20120300130 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus and method and a receiving apparatus and method that allow obtaining of all of the tuning information of a multi-segment broadcasting. | 11-29-2012 |
20130141649 | RECEPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL INCLUDING TUNING ASSISTANT INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device and a transmission method for a digital signal including tuning assistant information capable of rapidly presenting one segment broadcasting which can be received, and a program. | 06-06-2013 |
20140044219 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to a receiving device that can promptly present receivable one-segment broadcasts, a receiving method, and a program. | 02-13-2014 |
20140196096 | BROADCAST WAVE RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD, BROADCAST WAVE TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present technique relates to a broadcast wave receiving device and method, a broadcast wave transmitting device and method, a program, and a recording medium that realize universal tuning that enables selection of multi-segment broadcasting only through broadcast reception while utilizing existing infrastructures. | 07-10-2014 |
20150131548 | RECEIVER, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a receiver, a receiving method, and a program capable of rapidly presenting receivable one segment broadcasting. | 05-14-2015 |
20150222374 | RECEPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a reception device including a first acquisition unit configured to acquire station information regarding a station transmitting a broadcasting wave of broadcasting on an arbitrary segment, a storage unit configured to store the station information, a selection unit configured to select a station transmitting a broadcasting wave that is receivable at a predetermined position as a tunable station to be tuned to using the station information, a specifying unit configured to specify a transmission frequency used at a transmission point of a broadcasting wave of the broadcasting performed by the tunable station using the station information, and a tuning control unit configured to perform tuning control such that a service of the broadcasting performed by the tunable station is tuned to according to the transmission frequency. | 08-06-2015 |
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20110132899 | CONVERTER CIRCUIT AND MOTOR DRIVE APPARATUS, AIR-CONDITIONER, REFRIGERATOR, AND INDUCTION HEATING COOKER PROVIDED WITH THE CIRCUIT - To obtain a converter circuit capable of being made to be small and light-weighted and reducing switching loss, a motor drive control apparatus, an air-conditioner, a refrigerator, and an induction heating cooker provided with the circuit. | 06-09-2011 |
20120096881 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - The air-conditioning apparatus includes a coolant circuit configured by sequentially connecting a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and an outdoor heat exchanger; a motor that operates a compressor mechanism disposed inside the compressor; an inverter for driving the motor; and a control unit that controls the inverter. The control unit includes a liquefaction detecting unit that detects coolant liquefaction in the compressor; includes a first PWM signal generating unit that generates an inverter control signal for driving the motor; includes a second PWM signal generating unit that generates an inverter control signal for making the motor perform a preheating operation; and includes a switching unit that performs switching in such a way that the first PWM signal generating unit or the second PWM signal generating unit outputs the corresponding inverter control signal to the inverter. | 04-26-2012 |
20120111043 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - In order to be able to comply itself to the environment-conscious design standard, a refrigerant heating method is obtained with high efficiency during standby and reduction of vibrations and noises of a bearing in a compressor. A compressor, a motor to drive the compressor, an inverter to apply a desired voltage to the motor, an inverter control means to control the inverter, and a bus voltage detecting means to detect a bus voltage of the inverter are provided, in which the inverter control means includes dormant refrigerant detecting means to detect a dormant state of refrigerant in the compressor, high-frequency AC voltage generating means to output a high-frequency AC voltage command out of a range of an operating frequency when the motor is undergoing compression operation to a coil of the motor on the basis of an output of the dormant refrigerant detecting means, an amplitude, and a phase, and PWM signal generating means to cause the inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage by generating a PWM signal on the basis of the output of the high-frequency AC voltage generating means and the output of the bus voltage detecting means. | 05-10-2012 |
20130152609 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND A CONTROL METHOD OF THREE-PHASE INVERTER - An adder adds a phase θplus, which is n times a size of 60 degrees, to a phase output from a phase switching unit and outputs the phase as a voltage command phase θ. A voltage generation unit generates voltage command value based on the voltage command phase output by the adder and outputs the command value. A drive-signal generation unit, based on an output from the voltage generation unit generates drive signals corresponding to respective switching elements of an inverter, and outputs respective generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the inverter, and generates a high-frequency AC voltage in the inverter. | 06-20-2013 |
20130180273 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREE-PHASE INVERTER - A selection unit switches between a phase θp and a phase θn different from the phase θp substantially by 180 degrees, and outputs one of them in synchronization with a carrier signal. A voltage-command generation unit generates and outputs three-phase voltage command values Vu*, Vv* and Vw* based on the phase outputted by the selection unit. A PWM-signal generation unit generates three-phase voltage command values Vu*′, Vv*′ and Vw*′ by correcting the three-phase voltage command values Vu*, Vv* and Vw* outputted by the voltage-command generation unit according to a predetermined method, and generates six drive signals corresponding to switching elements of the inverter based on the three-phase voltage command values Vu*′, Vv*′ and Vw*′ and the carrier signal. The PWM-signal generation unit outputs the generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the three-phase inverter, to cause the inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage. | 07-18-2013 |
20130269370 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INVERTER - An object of the present invention is to maintain a heating amount constant when a compressor is heated at the time of shutdown of the compressor, regardless of the influences of production tolerance and environment variations. An inverter control unit causes an inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage having a de-energized section in which a voltage applied from the inverter to a motor is zero between a section in which the voltage is positive and a section in which the voltage is negative. At this time, the inverter control unit detects a value of a current flowing to the inverter in a detection section residing from immediately before a start of the de-energized section to immediately after an end of the de-energized section, and causes the inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage adjusted according to the detected current value. | 10-17-2013 |
20130291578 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREE-PHASE INVERTER - A voltage-command correction-value computation unit outputs a correction value for correcting a voltage command value according to a bus voltage. A multiplier calculates a voltage command value acquired by correcting the voltage command value based on the correction value. A voltage-command generation unit generates and outputs three-phase voltage command values based on the corrected voltage command value calculated by the multiplier and a phase. A PWM-signal generation unit generates six drive signals corresponding to switching elements of an inverter based on the three-phase voltage command values outputted by the voltage-command generation unit and a carrier signal. The PWM-signal generation unit outputs the generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the three-phase inverter, to cause the inerter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage. | 11-07-2013 |
20130305760 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREE-PHASE INVERTER - An object of the present invention is to efficiently heat a refrigerant retained in a compressor. An inverter control unit generates six drive signals corresponding to the respective switching elements of the inverter, and outputs the generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the inverter to cause the inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage. Particularly, the inverter control unit generates a drive signal having a switching pattern A for turning on all the three switching elements on a positive voltage side or a negative voltage side of the inverter, and subsequent thereto, generates a drive signal having a switching pattern B for turning on two switching elements of the three switching elements and turning off one switching element thereof. | 11-21-2013 |
20140174118 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND REFRIGERATING MACHINE - A heat pump device that can efficiently feed a high-frequency current to an electric motor and effectively heat a compressor includes a compressor including a compression mechanism configured to compress a refrigerant and a motor configured to drive the compression mechanism, heat exchangers, an inverter configured to apply a voltage to the motor, and an inverter control unit configured to drive the inverter. The inverter control unit includes a stagnation detecting unit configured to determine whether heating of the compressor is necessary and notify the determination result and a high-frequency-alternating-current-voltage generating unit and a PWM-signal generating unit configured to shift to a heating operation mode when the heating is necessary and, in the heating operation mode, generate PWM signals to provide, based on a heating time carrier signal having two or more frequencies, a period in which a reflux current flows. | 06-26-2014 |
20140286069 | DRIVE DEVICE FOR POWER CONVERTER AND DRIVING METHOD OF POWER CONVERTER - A drive device driving a power converter that includes a switching element formed from a wide bandgap semiconductor, includes a PWM-signal output unit that generates a drive signal that drives the switching element with PWM; an on-speed reducing unit that, when the switching element is changed from off to on, reduces a change rate of the drive signal; and an off-speed improving unit that, when the switching element is changed from on to off, draws charge from the switching element at a high speed and with a charge drawing performance higher than that at a time when the switching element is changed from off to on. | 09-25-2014 |
20140320059 | CONVERTER CIRCUIT AND MOTOR DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS, AIR-CONDITIONER, REFRIGERATOR, AND INDUCTION HEATING COOKER PROVIDED WITH THE CIRCUIT - A converter circuit capable of being compact and light-weight and capable of reducing switching loss, a motor drive control apparatus, an air-conditioner, a refrigerator, and an induction heating cooker provided with the circuit. The converter circuit including: a step-up converter including a rectifier, a step-up reactor, a switching element, and a reverse current prevention element; a step-up converter having a step-up reactor, a switching element, and a reverse current prevention element and connected in parallel with the step-up converter; switching control unit that controls switching elements; and a smoothing capacitor that is provided at the output of the step-up converters. The switching control unit switches the current mode of the current flowing through the step-up reactors into any of a continuous mode, a critical mode, and a discontinuous mode based on a predetermined condition. | 10-30-2014 |
20140338379 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AND AIR CONDITIONER, HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER, REFRIGERATOR AND FREEZING MACHINE INCLUDING HEAT PUMP DEVICE - A heat pump device includes an inverter control unit for controlling an inverter. The inverter control unit includes a constraint-energization control unit that, during operation standby of a compressor, determines whether heating to the compressor is necessary, on the basis of a coolant sleeping amount in the compressor, and, when having determined that heating to the compressor is necessary, selects, according to the coolant sleeping amount, any one of direct-current energization for supplying a direct-current voltage to the motor and high-frequency energization for supplying a high-frequency voltage having a frequency higher than a frequency during a normal operation to the motor, so as to output a constraint energization command for carrying out constraint energization of the motor; and a driving-signal generating unit that generates a driving signal on the basis of the constraint energization command. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338380 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND FREEZER - The present invention is a heat pump device that includes a compressor including a compression mechanism and a motor, a heat exchanger, an inverter, and an inverter control unit including a drive-signal generation unit generating a drive signal for the inverter and a heating-operation-mode control unit controlling the drive-signal generation unit when the compressor is heated by applying, to the motor, a high-frequency voltage with which the motor cannot be rotationally driven, wherein the heating-operation-mode control unit includes a magnetic-pole-position estimation unit estimating a magnetic pole position indicating a stop position of a rotor of the motor, and a high-frequency energization unit determining an amplitude and a phase of a voltage command based on an estimation result of the magnetic pole position and a necessary amount of heat, notifies the drive-signal generation unit of determined amplitude and phase, and causes the drive-signal generation unit to generate a drive signal. | 11-20-2014 |
20140339900 | POWER SUPPLY SWITCHING DEVICE AND SWITCH BOARD - A power supply switching device and switch board checks whether or not a primary-side voltage of a remote shutoff breaker and a secondary-side voltage thereof become a rated voltage after a commercial power system is recovered from a blackout. Next, when both primary-side voltage and secondary-side voltage become the rated voltage, a contactor is actuated to interconnect a home power system with the commercial power system. Hence, charging of the home power system without causing a user to notice such a charging upon recovery of the commercial power system from a blackout can be prevented. As a result, the safety for the user can be ensured. | 11-20-2014 |
20150028780 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner includes: an outdoor fan provided in an outdoor unit; a permanent magnet synchronous motor that drives the outdoor fan; an inverter that uses a DC power source as a power source and applies a voltage to the permanent magnet synchronous motor; an inverter control means that controls the output voltage of the inverter; and a shunt resist connected between the DC power source and the inverter. If the outdoor fan is rotating due to an external force while the inverter is stopped, the inverter control means causes the inverter to operate using a brake sequence that brakes the rotation of the outdoor fan, and then causes the inverter to operate using a drive sequence that power-drives the outdoor fan. | 01-29-2015 |
20150089972 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND FREEZER - A heat pump device includes a compressor including a compression mechanism that compresses a refrigerant and a motor that drives the compression mechanism, an inverter that applies a voltage for driving the motor, a converter that applies a voltage to the inverter, an inverter control unit that generates a driving signal for driving the inverter, and a converter control unit that generates a driving signal for driving the converter, wherein the inverter control unit includes a heating operation mode in which a heating operation of the compressor is performed and a normal operation mode in which a refrigerant is compressed by performing a normal operation of the compressor and the converter control unit sets, in the heating operation mode of the inverter control unit, a voltage applied to the inverter on the basis of a voltage command value for the motor. | 04-02-2015 |
20150096320 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND FREEZER - A heat pump device includes: a compressor including a compression mechanism compressing a refrigerant and a motor driving the compression mechanism; an inverter unit applying a voltage for driving the motor; an inverter control unit generating a driving signal for driving the inverter unit; and temperature sensors detecting temperatures of the compressor, wherein the inverter control unit includes a normal operation mode in which a refrigerant is compressed by performing a normal operation of the compressor and a heating operation mode in which a heating operation of the compressor is performed by applying, to the motor, a high-frequency voltage, and in the heating operation mode, the inverter control unit determines an amplitude and a phase of a voltage command for generating the high-frequency voltage on a basis of a temperatures detected by the temperature sensors and a necessary amount of heat specified in advance. | 04-09-2015 |
20150288201 | CHARGING/DISCHARGING DEVICE - A charging/discharging device includes a charging/discharging connector that electrically connects a storage battery and the charging/discharging device, a cable that is connected to the charging/discharging connector at one end and is connected to the charging/discharging device at the other end, a power conversion unit, a control unit that controls an operation of the power conversion unit, and an abnormality detection unit that outputs an abnormality detection signal for stopping an operation of the power conversion unit to at least any of the control unit and the power conversion unit, when an output from a comparator and an ON signal from the control unit are input to an AND circuit. | 10-08-2015 |
20160079845 | DC POWER-SUPPLY DEVICE AND REFRIGERATION-CYCLE APPLICATION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A DC power-supply device that suppresses an increase of a harmonic current and deterioration of a power factor without causing any imbalance among respective phase currents, in a configuration in which a three-phase alternating current is converted into a direct current and supplied to a load. The DC power-supply device includes a rectifier circuit, a reactor connected to an input side or an output side of the rectifier circuit, a first capacitor and a second capacitor serially connected between output terminals to a load, and a charging unit. During a cycle combining a charging period and a non-charging period of a pair of the first capacitor and the second capacitor, the charging unit is controlled so that a charging frequency becomes 3n times (n is a natural number) the frequency of the three-phase alternating current. | 03-17-2016 |
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20090321912 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same - A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor chip, and first and second insulations. The substrate has at least a first region and a second region. The semiconductor chip structure covers the first region. The first insulation covers the second region. The first insulation has a first thermal expansion coefficient approximately equal to that of the semiconductor chip structure. The second insulation covers the semiconductor chip structure and the first insulation so that the semiconductor chip structure and the first insulation are sandwiched between the substrate and the second insulation. The second insulation has a second thermal expansion coefficient approximately equal to that of the substrate. | 12-31-2009 |
20100252923 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor chip formed with an electrode pad on a front side thereof, a wiring board having a wiring pattern, the wiring board having a front side opposing the back side of the semiconductor chip, a wire for electrically connecting the electrode pad of the semiconductor chip with the wiring pattern of the wiring board, an external terminal arranged on the back side of the wiring board for electrical connection with the electrode pad through the wire and the wiring pattern, and a sealant for fixing the semiconductor chip on the front side of the wiring board so as to form a hollow which is continuous to a portion straddling the entirety of the back side of the semiconductor chip and the front side of the wiring board, and continuous to a portion adjacent to at least one outer peripheral surface of the semiconductor chip except for the back side of the same. The wiring board includes a throughhole in communication with the hollow. | 10-07-2010 |
20100258933 | Semiconductor device, method of forming the same, and electronic device - A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stack of semiconductor chips, and a first sealing material. The substrate may include, but is not limited to, a chip mounting area and a higher-level portion. The higher level portion surrounds the chip mounting area. The higher-level portion is higher in level than the chip mounting area. The stack of semiconductor chips is disposed over the chip mounting area. A first sealing material seals the stack of semiconductor chips. The first sealing material is confined by the higher-level portion. | 10-14-2010 |
20100301468 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device may include, but is not limited to a wiring board, a first insulator, a semiconductor chip, and a second insulator. The first insulator penetrates the wiring board. A top end of the first insulator is higher in level than an upper surface of the wiring board. The semiconductor chip is disposed on the top end of the first insulator. The semiconductor chip is separated from the upper surface of the wiring board. The second insulator covers the semiconductor chip and the upper surface of the wiring board. | 12-02-2010 |
20110294428 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, READER/WRITER DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - There is provided a communication device including a secure communication unit configured to perform secure communication with an external reader/writer device, the secure communication being secure close-proximity communication, a first communication unit configured to perform high-speed communication with the reader/writer device, the high-speed communication being close-proximity communication that is faster than the secure communication, a second communication unit configured to, when communication via the high-speed communication is disconnected, communicate with the reader/writer device with a communication mode that is different from a communication mode of the high-speed communication, a power transmission unit configured to receive power transmitted from the reader-writer device by power transmission, and a secondary battery configured to store the power received by the power transmission unit. The second communication unit may be configured to, when communication via the high-speed communication is disconnected, operate with the power stored in the secondary battery. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302042 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication device including a secure communication unit configured to perform secure communication, the secure communication being secure close-proximity communication, a high-speed communication unit configured to perform high-speed communication, the high-speed communication being close-proximity communication that is faster than the secure communication, and a power transmission unit configured to perform power transmission. Communication via the secure communication and the power transmission of the power transmission unit may be performed at timings that do not temporally overlap with each other. | 12-08-2011 |
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20120126402 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a wiring board; a stack of semiconductor chips disposed over the wiring board, each of the semiconductor chip comprising via electrodes, the semiconductor chips being electrically coupled through the via electrodes to each other, the semiconductor chips being electrically coupled through the via electrodes to the wiring board; a first seal that seals the stack of semiconductor chips; and a second seal that covers the first seal. The first seal is smaller in elastic modulus than the second seal. | 05-24-2012 |
20130290175 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication device including a secure communication unit configured to perform secure communication, the secure communication being secure close-proximity communication, a high-speed communication unit configured to perform high-speed communication, the high-speed communication being close-proximity communication that is faster than the secure communication, and a power transmission unit configured to perform power transmission. Communication via the secure communication and the power transmission of the power transmission unit may be performed at timings that do not temporally overlap with each other. | 10-31-2013 |
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20100079615 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method comprises obtaining a color input image obtained by taking an image using an optical system | 04-01-2010 |
20100079626 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The image processing method includes a step of acquiring an image generated by image pickup through an optical system, and a step of performing image restoration processing on the image using an image restoration filter created such that its filter values have a two-dimensional distribution based on aberration information of the optical system. The image restoration filter is a filter in which a position of a cell having a maximum absolute value among the filter values is shifted with respect to a position of a center cell of the image restoration filter by a shift amount according to one of an amount of distortion of the optical system and an amount of chromatic aberration of magnification of the optical system, and which reduces a blur component of the image and at least one of a component of distortion and a component of chromatic aberration of magnification of the image. | 04-01-2010 |
20100277700 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is an image display apparatus, including: a light modulation element; an illumination optical system which includes at least one light source unit including a plurality of light emitting units two-dimensionally arranged and illuminates the light modulation element; and a projection optical system for enlarging and projecting an image of the light modulation element onto a projection surface, in which: an image of the plurality of light emitting units is imaged at a position corresponding to a stop of the projection optical system; the stop has an aperture shape of rotational asymmetry or of two-fold symmetry; and the plurality of light emitting units have illuminance intensities each independently controlled. | 11-04-2010 |
20110135213 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING DEGRADATION COMPONENT OF IMAGE - An image processing method includes the steps of generating a first image through restoration processing of an amplitude component and a phase component of an input image, generating a second image that has an equal state of the phase component to that of the first image and a different state of the amplitude component from that of the first image through restoration processing of the phase component without restoration processing of the amplitude component of the input image, obtaining difference information between the first image and the second image, setting a restoration level adjustment factor used to adjust a restoration degree in the restoration processing, and generating a restoration adjusted image by composing the difference information with the second image according to the restoration level adjustment factor. | 06-09-2011 |
20110135216 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING DEGRADATION COMPONENT OF IMAGE - An image processing method includes the steps of obtaining an image generated by an image pickup system, and performing correction processing for the image by utilizing an image restoration filter generated or selected based on an optical transfer function of the image pickup system. The image restoration filter is a filter configured to reduce a phase degradation component of the image. | 06-09-2011 |
20110149103 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING SAME - To provide an image processing apparatus capable of obtaining a good-quality image even if an unexpected aberration occurs and an image pickup apparatus using the same. An image processing apparatus includes a primary restored image generating module configured to generate a primary restored image by performing image restoration processing on an input image having a plurality of color components, a restoration component generating module configured to generate difference information for each of the plurality of color components by calculating a difference between the input image and the primary restored image, and a secondary restored image generating module configured to generate a secondary restored image using the difference information. The secondary restored image generating module combines a color-combination restoration component based on the difference information for the plurality of color components with one color component of the input image. | 06-23-2011 |
20110193997 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The image processing method processes an image generated by image pickup using an optical system ( | 08-11-2011 |
20110228120 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining part configured to obtain a first image and a second image. The first image is an image generated by image capturing or generated by expanding part of the captured image and includes a first object image. The second image corresponds to an image captured at a higher image capturing magnification than that for the first image and includes a second object image corresponding to part of the first object image. The apparatus includes a processing part configured to produce a third image whose resolution is higher than that of the first image by performing image processing on the first image using the second image as a constraint condition. | 09-22-2011 |
20110242373 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING IMAGE RESTORATION - An image processing apparatus obtains a plurality of pre-restoration images of an object for chromatic components when these images are taken at a first in-focus position to a third in-focus position corresponding to the RGB chromatic components, obtains an image pickup state and an image restoration filter corresponding to the image pickup state for each chromatic component, restores the pre-restoration image at an in-focus position for each chromatic component utilizing the obtained image restoration filter, and synthesizes the restored images. | 10-06-2011 |
20110285879 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING THE SAME - An image processing device capable of obtaining a high precision image while aberration asymmetry is corrected. | 11-24-2011 |
20110292257 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An image is obtained with reduced chromatic aberration as well as improved sharpness. | 12-01-2011 |
20120141027 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING SAME - To provide an image processing apparatus capable of obtaining a high-quality image. | 06-07-2012 |
20120154626 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR IMAGE RESTORATION - The image processing method includes a step of acquiring an input image produced by image capturing using an optical system, an image restoration step of performing an image restoration process on the input image to produce a restored image, the image restoration process using an image restoration filter produced based on an optical transfer function of the optical system, and a color shift detection step of detecting color shift included in the restored image, the color shift corresponding to chromatic aberration of magnification of the optical system. The method further includes a restored image color shift reduction step of performing a color shift reduction process on the restored image to reduce the color shift detected in the color shift detection step. | 06-21-2012 |
20120229691 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING LENS ARRAY AND IMAGE PICKUP OPTICAL SYSTEM - An image pickup apparatus ( | 09-13-2012 |
20120288193 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGE RESTORATION, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The image processing method includes a filter preparation step of preparing an image restoration filter to be commonly used for plural optical apparatuses having mutually different optical characteristics, and a correction information preparation step of preparing correction information varying by the optical characteristic of each of the plural optical apparatuses. The method further includes a processing step of performing an image restoration process, on an input image produced by image capturing through a specific optical apparatus of the plural optical apparatuses, using the image restoration filter and the correction information for the specific optical apparatus. | 11-15-2012 |
20130038748 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus that performs an image restoration processing of an image includes an optical transfer function obtaining portion configured to obtain an optical transfer function depending on an image pickup condition of the image, a threshold frequency obtaining portion configured to obtain a threshold frequency at which an absolute value of the optical transfer function is under a predetermined threshold value, a generating portion configured to generate an image restoration filter that has gain characteristics depending on the threshold frequency using the optical transfer function, and a processing portion configured to perform the image restoration processing of the image using the image restoration filter. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038749 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method of performing an image restoration processing of an image, includes the steps of generating a plurality of first optical transfer functions depending on a position of the image using coefficient data depending on an image pickup condition of the image, generating a plurality of second optical transfer functions by rotating the first optical transfer functions around a center of the image or around an optical axis of an image pickup optical system, generating an image restoration filter based on the first optical transfer functions and the second optical transfer functions, and performing the image restoration processing of the image using the image restoration filter. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044256 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method includes the steps of obtaining an input image that is an image in which information of an object space is obtained from a plurality of points of view using an image pickup apparatus that includes an image pickup element having a plurality of pixels and an imaging optical system, calculating a first position of a virtual imaging plane that corresponds to a specified focus position, setting the virtual imaging plane to a second position that is in a range of a depth of focus of the imaging optical system with reference to the first position so that a maximum value of an apparent pixel pitch that is formed by reconstructing the input image is decreased, and generating an output image in a state where the virtual imaging plane is set to the second position. | 02-21-2013 |
20130057749 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an image pickup element that includes a plurality of pixels, a lens array configured so that a ray from the same position on an object plane enters the pixels different from each other of the image pickup element in accordance with a pupil region of the imaging optical system through which the ray passes, and a controller configured to change an interval between the lens array and the image pickup element in accordance with a variation of a pupil of the imaging optical system. | 03-07-2013 |
20130194387 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS - The image processing method includes acquiring parallax images produced by image capturing, performing position matching of the parallax images to calculate difference between the parallax images, and deciding, in the difference, an unnecessary image component different from an image component corresponding to the parallax. The method is capable of accurately deciding the unnecessary image component included in a captured image without requiring image capturing multiple times. | 08-01-2013 |
20130208150 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING THE SAME - It is an object to provide an image processing device capable of obtaining a high precise image while aberration asymmetry is corrected. | 08-15-2013 |
20130215296 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining portion | 08-22-2013 |
20130308035 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The image pickup apparatus includes an imaging optical system to cause light rays from an object plane to image on an image side conjugate plane with respect to the object plane, an image sensor including pixels and to photoelectrically convert the optical image, and an optical element array including optical element cells each of which conjugates the image side conjugate plane with the image sensor and which are arranged so as to cause light rays from a same point on the object plane to enter mutually different pixels depending on positions on a pupil plane of the imaging optical system through which the light rays pass. An arrangement pitch of the optical element cells in the optical element array is 25 times or less of an arrangement pitch of the pixels in the image sensor. | 11-21-2013 |
20130329120 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method is capable of performing a reconstruction for an input image so as to generate a plurality of output images having a plurality of focus positions different from each other, and the image processing method includes the steps of obtaining the input image that is an image containing information of an object space obtained from a plurality of points of view using an image pickup apparatus having an imaging optical system and an image pickup element including a plurality of pixels, and calculating a pixel shift amount of pixels that are to be combined by the reconstruction for a plurality of virtual imaging planes corresponding to the plurality of focus positions. | 12-12-2013 |
20140028869 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The image processing method of producing, based on information on positions and angles of light rays obtained from a first image, a second image, the first image being produced by using an image pickup apparatus that introduces the light rays from an image capturing optical system ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140071305 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus ( | 03-13-2014 |
20140176768 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The image processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store information on a specific image pickup condition under which a specific blur component is generated in an input image produced by image capturing using an optical system, the specific blur component being caused by the optical system;
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20140368690 | IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image generation method is provided for generating an output image from an input image acquired by an image sensor that has an array of multiple pixels, each of which has arranged therein multiple sub-pixels that each receive a light beam that passes through a different pupil sub-area of an imaging optical system. The method includes a step of generating multiple parallax images that respectively correspond to the different pupil sub-areas; a step of generating multiple pixel shifted images by performing different shifting for each of the parallax images according to a virtual image forming plane of the imaging optical system; and a step of generating an output image that has a higher resolution than the resolution of the parallax images from the pixel shifted images through composition processing. | 12-18-2014 |
20150055010 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an image pickup element including a plurality of pixels, a lens array configured such that rays from the same position on an object plane are incident on pixels of the image pickup element different from each other depending on a pupil region of the imaging optical system through which the ray passes, an image processing unit configured to perform image processing for the input image acquired by the image pickup element to generate the output images, and a control unit configured to drive the imaging optical system to perform focus control, the image processing unit is configured to acquire information on a refocus control range, and the control unit is configured to perform the focus control based on the information on the refocus control range. | 02-26-2015 |
20150097993 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processor includes a correction signal generator configured to generate a correction signal by calculating a difference between an image and an image obtained by applying an unsharp mask generated based on a PSF corresponding to an image-pickup conditions of an image-pickup optical system to the image, and a correction signal applier configured to sharpen the image by multiplying the correction signal generated by the generator by a constant and by adding a multiplied correction signal to the image. | 04-09-2015 |
20150097994 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus ( | 04-09-2015 |
20150287208 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus ( | 10-08-2015 |
20150296138 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element which obtains an original image, a storage unit which stores a first optical transfer function different depending on an image pickup condition and on a position in the original image and an image restoration filter or a function designed to generate a second optical transfer function, a data obtaining unit which obtains the first optical transfer function when the aperture value is less than a predetermined value, and the image restoration filter or the second optical transfer function generated based on the function designed to generate the second optical transfer function when the aperture value is not less than the predetermined value, a filter generating unit which generates an image restoration filter based on the first or second optical transfer function, and an image processing unit which generates the restored image by using the image restoration filter. | 10-15-2015 |
20150304544 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, and a controller configured to drive a focus unit so that a first position is focused, to acquire first information on a first refocusable range that is available in an image that is captured while the first position is being focused by the focus unit, to acquire second information on a second refocusable range that contains the first position, to acquire information on a second position on which the focus unit is to be focused so as to provide the second refocusable range using the first information and the second information, and make the image sensor capture an image while the second position is being focused by the focus unit. | 10-22-2015 |
20160005151 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element which obtains an original image, a storage unit which stores a first optical transfer function different depending on an image pickup condition and on a position in the original image and an image restoration filter or a function designed to generate a second optical transfer function, a data obtaining unit which obtains the first optical transfer function when the aperture value is less than a predetermined value, and the image restoration filter or the second optical transfer function generated based on the function designed to generate the second optical transfer function when the aperture value is not less than the predetermined value, a filter generating unit which generates an image restoration filter based on the first or second optical transfer function, and an image processing unit which generates the restored image by using the image restoration filter. | 01-07-2016 |
20160037096 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method includes the steps of acquiring a first image shot by using a compound eye image pickup apparatus, acquiring image capturing condition information of the first image, acquiring, depending on the image capturing condition information, optical characteristic information of a plurality of optical systems having a plurality of focal lengths different from each other in the compound eye image pickup apparatus, correcting a deterioration of the first image caused by shooting the first image based on the optical characteristic information, and generating a second image based on information of a position and an angle of a ray obtained from the first image whose deterioration is corrected, and the optical characteristic information contains at least one of information related to aberrations and information related to peripheral illumination of the optical systems. | 02-04-2016 |
20160080711 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM USING THE METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program that causes a computer to execute an image processing method comprising acquiring step of acquiring an input image generated by image pickup through an optical system, generating step of generating a point spread function by using coefficient data of a function approximating a point spread function corresponding to an image-pickup condition of the optical system, and providing step of providing unsharp mask processing to the input image using a filter generated based on information of the point spread function generated by using the coefficient data. The filter is a filter having two-dimensional data. | 03-17-2016 |
20160110851 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The image processing apparatus performs an image process on a first image produced by image capturing. The apparatus includes: a memory storing coefficient data containing coefficients to be used in an approximation function to approximate a PSF of an image capturing optical system, and a processor performs the image process. The processor produces an approximated point spread function by using the coefficient of the coefficient data corresponding to an optical state of the optical system in the image capturing and two of a pixel pitch of an image sensor, a kernel size of a filter to be used for a sharpening process on the first image and number of taps of the filter; produce the filter by using the approximated PSF; and produce a second image that is a sharpened image by applying the filter to the first image. | 04-21-2016 |