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20090160849 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - An integrated circuit device includes first to Nth data driver blocks that are disposed along a first direction. Each of the first to Nth data driver blocks includes first to Mth sub-driver blocks. Each of the sub-driver blocks includes a D/A conversion circuit that receives image data and D/A-converts the image data, and first to Lth data line driver circuits that are disposed along the first direction in a second direction with respect to the D/A conversion circuit and share the D/A conversion circuit. | 06-25-2009 |
20090160881 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - An integrated circuit device includes first to Nth memory blocks that are disposed along a first direction, and first to Nth data driver blocks that are disposed along the first direction in a second direction with respect to the first to Nth memory blocks. A Jth memory block among the first to Nth memory blocks dot-sequentially reads subpixel image data and outputs the subpixel image data to a corresponding Jth data driver block among the first to Nth data driver blocks, the subpixel image data being image data corresponding to at least one subpixel. The Jth data driver block receives the subpixel image data from the Jth memory block, and outputs a data signal corresponding to the subpixel image data. | 06-25-2009 |
20090160882 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - An integrated circuit device includes first to Nth memory blocks disposed along a first direction, a power supply circuit, and a data driver disposed in a second direction with respect to the first to Nth memory blocks. The power supply circuit includes an analog reference power supply voltage output circuit that outputs an analog reference power supply voltage. The analog reference power supply voltage output circuit is disposed between an Mth memory block and an (M+1)th memory block among the first to Nth memory blocks. An analog reference power supply line is provided in an area of the data driver along the first direction, | 06-25-2009 |
20110069052 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An integrated circuit device includes: a driving voltage output unit that outputs a driving voltage supplied to a segment electrode of an electro-optical panel; a display data storage unit that stores display data; and a driving waveform information output unit that outputs driving waveform information when a display state of the segment electrode is changed from a first display state corresponding to first display data to a second display state corresponding to second display data, wherein the driving voltage output unit outputs the driving voltage specified by the first display data and the second display data from the display data storage unit, and the driving waveform information from the driving waveform information output unit. | 03-24-2011 |
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20140008984 | POWER SUPPLY SWITCHING CIRCUIT, REAL TIME CLOCK DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MOBILE UNIT, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY SWITCHING CIRCUIT - A power supply switching circuit includes a switching circuit that electrically connects a VCC terminal and a VBK terminal in a connected state, a switch control circuit, and a power supply monitoring circuit that monitors a voltage of the VCC terminal, and outputs a voltage of the VBK terminal. The switch control circuit switches a mode from a normal mode in which the switching circuit is intermittently connected to a standby mode in which the switching circuit is opened according to an output signal of the power supply monitoring circuit. | 01-09-2014 |
20150028676 | VOLTAGE OUTPUT CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MOVING OBJECT, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR VOLTAGE OUTPUT CIRCUIT, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A voltage output circuit includes a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, an output terminal, a switch circuit present in a supply path of a voltage from the second power supply terminal to the output terminal and configured to supply the voltage from the second power supply terminal to the output terminal when the switch circuit is in a closed state and interrupt the supply of the voltage from the second power supply terminal to the output terminal when the switch circuit is in an open state, a switch control circuit configured to fix the switch circuit in the open state on the basis of the voltage at the second power supply terminal, and a switch control circuit configured to release the fixing of the open state of the switch circuit on the basis of the voltage at the first power supply terminal. | 01-29-2015 |
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20110075063 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates disposed to face each other so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a gate potential creating circuit for outputting a selection potential and a non-selection potential, scanning lines, signal lines, thin film transistors formed so as to correspond to intersection portions between the scanning lines and the signal lines, respectively, pixel electrodes electrically connected to the thin film transistors, respectively, and a gate control circuit for switching the selection potential and the non-selection potential supplied from the gate potential creating circuit over to each other, thereby supplying one of the selection potential and the non-selection potential to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors through corresponding one of the scanning lines being formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode being formed either on the first substrate or the second substrate. | 03-31-2011 |
20140092074 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates disposed to face each other so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a gate potential creating circuit for outputting a selection potential and a non-selection potential, scanning lines, signal lines, thin film transistors formed so as to correspond to intersection portions between the scanning lines and the signal lines, respectively, pixel electrodes electrically connected to the thin film transistors, respectively, and a gate control circuit for switching the selection potential and the non-selection potential supplied from the gate potential creating circuit over to each other, thereby supplying one of the selection potential and the non-selection potential to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors through corresponding one of the scanning lines being formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode being formed either on the first substrate or the second substrate. | 04-03-2014 |
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20100020966 | METHOD FOR GENERATING ENCRYPTION KEY - The present invention relates to an encryption key generating method ensuring resistance to collusion attacks and achieving reduction in a key length of encryption keys corresponding to respective hierarchies of each scalability. In the encryption key generating method, an encryption key (K | 01-28-2010 |
20100118935 | CODING METHOD FOR MOTION-IMAGE DATA, DECODING METHOD, TERMINAL EQUIPMENT EXECUTING THESE, AND TWO-WAY INTERACTIVE SYSTEM - This invention relates to a coding method for motion-image data and others effective in a special interactive environment for transmitting motion-image data with information concentrated on only a partial region of a display image as in a two-way interactive system implementing real-time two-way interaction. The coding method involves dividing an image frame forming motion-image data into a plurality of rectangular regions, and grouping each of these rectangular regions into a preset ROI and a non-ROI. These rectangular regions are sequentially compressed so that a code length of a rectangular region grouped into the ROI is larger than a code length of a rectangular region grouped into the non-ROI, thereby generating coded data of each image frame. | 05-13-2010 |
20100128923 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE INSPECTING METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing method and image inspecting method with high versatility which enable efficient and highly accurate proof of authenticity of a digital image. The image processing method subjects at least a part of a digital image which can exist temporarily or continuously in a falsification-vulnerable environment, to a first morphology operation using a predetermined structuring element, to process the digital image. The image inspecting method subjects the digital image thus processed, to a second morphology operation using the same structuring element as in the first morphology operation. The morphology operations have the idempotent and the presence or absence of falsification can be detected by determining identity of images before and after the second morphology operation. | 05-27-2010 |
20100202705 | IMAGE COMPARING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR, IMAGE RETRIEVING APPARATUS AS WELL AS PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A coding parameter extracting unit extracts and supplies coding parameters of a code stream to an image characteristic amount output unit. A code stream characteristic amount extracting unit outputs a first vector calculated based on the number of zero bit planes for each code block extracted by analyzing the code stream. The image characteristic amount output unit uses the coding parameters other than a quantization step size of the code stream to output a second vector calculated based on the number of zero bit planes for each code block of a specific image. A comparing unit compares the first and second vectors for each code block and makes a matching decision between the code stream and the specific image. | 08-12-2010 |
20110182525 | IMAGE SEARCHING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - An encoded code stream is searched for a frame generally coincident with a specific frame without having to decoding the frame to its original image. The present invention provides an image search device that searches an object encoded code stream formed by compression coding of a plurality of frames for a frame generally coincident with a specific one, which includes a decoder for making entropy decoding of the object encoded code stream to generate quantization coefficients of each frame, a matching unit for making matching between the quantization coefficients of the specific frame and those of each frame which are generated by the decoder and correspond in sample position to those of the specific frame, and a judging unit for judging, based on the result of matching, whether the frame is generally coincident with the specific one. | 07-28-2011 |
20110249907 | IMAGE COMPARISON APPARATUS, IMAGE COMPARISON METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A code block size comparison unit examines an inclusion relationship of code block size. A comparing target code block determination unit determines a comparing target code block based on an inclusion relationship of code block. A zero bit plane number comparison unit compares the numbers of zero bit planes of the comparing target code blocks and determines match or mismatch between a specific image and a comparing target code stream. The invention can be applied to, for example, an image comparison apparatus. | 10-13-2011 |
20120057788 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus which includes a division unit dividing an image into a plurality of images in a bit depth direction, and an encoding unit encoding respectively some or all of the plurality of images acquired by dividing the image in the bit depth direction by the division unit. | 03-08-2012 |
20120121088 | ENCRYPTION KEY GENERATION DEVICE - A master key (K | 05-17-2012 |
20120213434 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a first color transform unit carrying out a color transform on a combination of color components with high correlation out of a plurality of color components included in image data; and a second color transform unit carrying out a color transform on a combination of color components aside from the combination of color components subjected to the color transform by the first color transform unit out of the plurality of color components included in the image data. | 08-23-2012 |
20120243784 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing device which transforms an image with a bit depth of N into an upper layer with a bit depth of M and a remaining lower layer, including a histogram unit that generates histogram indicating occurrence frequency of each pixel value of an image with a bit depth of N, a table unit that generates a table listing pixel values of which occurrence frequency in the histogram generated by the histogram unit is equal to or more than one, a reordering unit that reorders an arrangement of values in the histogram using the table generated by the table unit, an update unit that updates the table generated by the table unit and the histogram reordered by the reordering unit; and an index image unit that generates an index image with a bit depth of N using the updated table and the updated histogram. | 09-27-2012 |
20120314964 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a zero class detecting unit that detects a zero class in which an appearance frequency of a pixel value is zero from among a plurality of classes into which pixel values of an image are classified according to pixel value magnitude, and a non-zero class converting unit that converts the zero class into a non-zero class in which the appearance frequency of the pixel value is one or more, without updating a total number of the classes, by updating a range of the zero class detected by the zero class detecting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus. | 12-13-2012 |
20130028515 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a histogram generating unit that generates a histogram representing an appearance frequency distribution of a pixel value of an input image, and a quantization table generating unit that generates a quantization table including table information used to perform transform of a bit depth of the pixel value of the input image and table information used to allocate an effective pixel in which an appearance frequency in the histogram generated by the histogram generating unit is not zero to an index value after bit depth transform so that effective pixels are allocated to index values as equally as possible. | 01-31-2013 |
20130129239 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a quantization unit that quantizes an image subjected to logarithmic conversion such that a quantization error is focused on a luminance region in which expansion of an error caused due to logarithmic inverse-conversion which is inverse conversion of the logarithmic conversion is relatively small or a luminance region in which no expansion of the error occurs; and an encoding unit that encodes an index image obtained through the quantization by the quantization unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130330016 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a tone mapper that losslessly tone maps image data in a floating-point representation, a base layer generator that generates base layer image data by reducing a bit depth of the image data tone mapped by the tone mapper, and an enhancement layer generator that generates enhancement layer data by using the image data tone mapped by the tone mapper and the base layer image data generated by the base layer generator. | 12-12-2013 |
20140314146 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus which includes a division unit dividing an image into a plurality of images in a bit depth direction, and an encoding unit encoding respectively some or all of the plurality of images acquired by dividing the image in the bit depth direction by the division unit. | 10-23-2014 |
20140376829 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a quantization unit that quantizes an image subjected to logarithmic conversion such that a quantization error is focused on a luminance region in which expansion of an error caused due to logarithmic inverse-conversion which is inverse conversion of the logarithmic conversion is relatively small or a luminance region in which no expansion of the error occurs; and an encoding unit that encodes an index image obtained through the quantization by the quantization unit. | 12-25-2014 |
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20130182547 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND OPTICAL PICKUP THEREFOR - When an optical pickup used for an optical disk device is formed, the optical pickup includes a stepping motor which drives a lens used to correct for spherical aberration, and the stepping motor is mounted in such a manner that the stepping motor is exposed at a surface (upper part) where the stepping motor faces the optical disk. In addition, the stepping motor is mounted in such a manner that the stepping motor is exposed at a surface (lower part) opposite the surface where the stepping motor faces the optical disk. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182551 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND OPTICAL PICKUP THEREFOR - When an optical pickup used an optical disk device is formed, a PWB (Printed Wiring Board) which serves as a top cover is used at at least a part of a surface of a housing which houses the optical pickup, the surface facing an optical disk. The PWB (Printed Wiring Board) is adapted to seal components inside the optical pickup, and to reduce the flexure of FPC (Flexible Printed Circuits). Moreover, the printed wiring board is provided with a connector which allows the connection of FPC for connection to circuits outside the optical pickup. | 07-18-2013 |
20130194905 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE USING OPTICAL PICKUP - In an optical pickup for an optical disk device using BD, DVD and CD as recording media, simplification of constitutional elements is promoted. The optical pickup includes a dual wavelength type laser beam source generating laser beams for DVD and CD, a single wavelength type laser beam source generating a laser beam for BD, and a first wave plate converting the laser beam for BD generated from the laser beam source concerned into circular polarization. It further includes a second wave plate converting the laser beam for DVD generated from the dual wavelength type laser beam source into 45-degree linear polarization. Favorable recording and reproduction are performed by radiating the laser beam to the recording medium concerned as the circular polarization for BD and the 45-degree linear polarization for DVD. | 08-01-2013 |
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20120295163 | ELECTRIC STORAGE DEVICE AND POSITIVE ELECTRODE - An electric storage device is provided with a positive electrode having a positive-electrode mixture layer including a positive-electrode active material. The positive-electrode active material includes a lithium-vanadium-phosphate from 8% to 70% by mass and a lithium-nickel complex oxide from 20% to 82% by mass. A coating concentration of the positive-electrode mixture layer is from 4 mg/cm | 11-22-2012 |
20130095391 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - In a lithium on secondary battery, lithium ions are reversibly absorbed to and released from a negative electrode. A positive electrode includes lithium vanadium phosphate. A non-aqueous electrolytic solution includes fluorinated carbonate as a solvent. | 04-18-2013 |
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20090153784 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal cell including a pair of substrates provided with a color filter on one substrate, and a liquid crystal layer as a display medium arranged between the substrates; and an optical compensation element including at least an optical compensation layer. The substrate provided with the color filter has a haze value of more than 10%, and the optical compensation element is arranged on the opposite side against the color filter with respect to the liquid crystal layer. | 06-18-2009 |
20090279031 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided, in which excellent viewing angle compensation is conducted, and which is highly excellent in a contrast in an oblique direction and can be reduced in thickness. A liquid crystal panel of the present invention includes a first polarizer, a first optical compensation layer, a liquid crystal cell, a second optical compensation layer, and a second polarizer in the stated order. Each of the first optical compensation layer and the second optical compensation layer contains at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polyimide, polyamide, polyester, polyetherketone, polyamideimide, and polyesterimide, and have a refractive index profile of nx>ny>nz. | 11-12-2009 |
20100157205 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus in which light leakage occurring from a peripheral portion of a screen is small, and which has excellent display uniformity in a high humidity environment. | 06-24-2010 |