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20100321618 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A transflective-type and a reflection-type liquid crystal display device having a high reflection efficiency and a high image quality are provided. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a reflection region, wherein the reflection region includes an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and a reflective layer formed on a metal layer having a plurality of recesses therein; a plurality of protrusions of the metal layer, each having a bottom surface, an upper surface and a slope, are formed between the plurality of recesses of the metal layer; and a width a of a bottom surface of at least one of the plurality of protrusions in the metal layer satisfies a≦2(x+y)/tan θ, where a denotes the width of the bottom surface of each of the plurality of protrusions, x a thickness between the bottom surface and the upper surface, θ a tilt angle of the slope with respect to the bottom surface, and y a total thickness of the insulating layer, the semiconductor layer and the reflective layer. | 12-23-2010 |
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20120320228 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Light-receiving unit is set corresponding to a plurality of pixels. The pixel values of a plurality of pixels included in the light-receiving unit are added up, and read as light-receiving value to acquire a low-resolution frame image. The image processing device includes an estimation calculation section that estimates the pixel values of the pixels included in the light-receiving unit based on a plurality of low-resolution frame images, and an image output section that outputs a high-resolution frame image based on the estimated pixel values. The light-receiving value is read while sequentially performing a pixel shift process so that light-receiving units overlap each other. The estimation calculation section estimates the pixel values of the pixels included in the light-receiving unit based on the light-receiving values obtained by performing the pixel shift process. | 12-20-2012 |
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20140078346 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - The image conversion section calculates luminance values and color difference values based on pixel values of the captured image that respectively correspond to a plurality of colors, and outputs a luminance image formed by the calculated luminance values and a color difference image formed by the calculated color difference values. The estimation calculation section calculates an estimated luminance value of each pixel of a high-resolution image based on the luminance image, and calculates an estimated color difference value of each pixel of the high-resolution image based on the color difference image. The pixel value conversion section converts the estimated luminance value and the estimated color difference value into RGB pixel values of each pixel of the high-resolution image. | 03-20-2014 |
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20160094817 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to implement an image acquisition process that acquires an image captured by an image sensor that includes a first-color filter having first transmittance characteristics, a second-color filter having second transmittance characteristics, and a third-color filter having third transmittance characteristics, and a correction process that multiplies a pixel value that corresponds to a second color by a first coefficient to calculate a component value that corresponds to the overlapping region of the first transmittance characteristics and the third transmittance characteristics, and corrects a pixel value that corresponds to a first color, the pixel value that corresponds to the second color, and a pixel value that corresponds to a third color based on the component value that corresponds to the overlapping region. The second color is longer in wavelength than the first color and shorter in wavelength than the third color. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094822 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An imaging device includes an optical filter, an image sensor, a multi-band estimation section, and a processor including hardware. The optical filter divides the pupil of an imaging optics into a first pupil and a second pupil that differs in wavelength passband from the first pupil. The image sensor includes a first-color filter that has first transmittance characteristics, a second-color filter that has second transmittance characteristics, and a third-color filter that has third transmittance characteristics. The processor is configured to implement a multi-band estimation process that estimates component values that respectively correspond to first to fourth bands based on pixel values that respectively correspond to first to third colors that form an image captured by the image sensor, the first to fourth bands being set based on the wavelength passbands of the first pupil and the second pupil, and the first to third transmittance characteristics. | 03-31-2016 |