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20090093966 | Hybridization data processing method using probe array - A data processing method of reducing signals to numerical values and processing the numerical values are provided. The signals are obtained by using a probe array where probes of a plurality of kinds are immobilized on a solid phase as so many spots such that a plurality of spots of probes of one kind are arranged on the solid phase and causing the array to react with a target substance. The method comprises ( | 04-09-2009 |
20100121798 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS, AND PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD - In a hierarchical neural network having a module structure, learning necessary for detection of a new feature class is executed by a processing module which has not finished learning yet and includes a plurality of neurons which should learn an unlearned feature class and have an undetermined receptor field structure by presenting a predetermined pattern to a data input layer. Thus, a feature class necessary for subject recognition can be learned automatically and efficiently. | 05-13-2010 |
20120044390 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor having an effective pixel area composed of effective pixels that photoelectrically convert an object image and a reference pixel area composed of reference pixels that output pixel signals to be a reference; a first calculation unit that calculates a standard deviation of the pixel signals output from the reference pixel area; a second calculation unit that calculates an integrated value of the pixel signals output from the reference pixel area; a third calculation unit that calculates a correction value for correcting pixel signals output from the effective pixel area, with use of the integrated value; a correction unit that corrects the pixel signals output from the effective pixel area, based on the correction value; and a determination unit that determines whether correction is to be performed by the correction unit, according to the standard deviation. | 02-23-2012 |
20120249817 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE SENSOR - An image pickup apparatus that is capable of taking a distortion-free moving image without enlarging circuit scale. An image sensor has pixels each of which comprises a photoelectric conversion section that generates an electric charge corresponding to the incident light, a charge storage section that stores the electric charge, and an output section that outputs a voltage corresponding to the electric charge. The pixels include a first type pixel with a charge retention section that temporally holds the electric charge before transferring to the charge storage section, and a second type pixel without the charge retention section. A setting unit sets up a mode. A control unit controls to generate an image corresponding the output voltage from the first type pixel in a moving image pickup mode, and to generate an image corresponding to the output voltages from the first and second type pixels in a still image pickup mode. | 10-04-2012 |
20120327280 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD FOR THE SAME - Provided is an imaging apparatus including an image sensor. In the image sensor that includes a valid pixel area in which a plurality of valid pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit is disposed, a first reference pixel area in which a plurality of first reference pixels each having a light-shielded photoelectric conversion unit is disposed, and a second reference pixel area in which a plurality of second reference pixels each having no photoelectric conversion unit is disposed, when outputs of the plurality of valid pixels are added to be read, outputs of the plurality of first reference pixels are added by the addition unit to be read, and outputs of the plurality of second reference pixels are read without being added by the addition unit. Thus, noises can be effectively corrected even in the small number of invalid pixels areas. | 12-27-2012 |
20130141621 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus, which includes an imaging device having a plurality of image sensors, is configured to receive light incident on the imaging device, obtain an output voltage based the received light, and generate an image based on the output voltage. The plurality of image sensors have an aperture pixel region that accumulates and outputs the charges generated based on the incident light and a shielded optical black region. The imaging device performs a skipping operation for arbitrarily and non-sequentially selecting a read row. By performing an offset correction of a step amount produced during the non-sequential reading due to the skip operation, the step resulting from the skip reading can be corrected. | 06-06-2013 |
20140340554 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image capturing apparatus including an image sensor including a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a row direction and a column direction, and readout unit for reading out pixel signals from the plurality of pixels, setting unit for setting an imaging condition and control unit for selecting one of a readout mode between thinning readout mode in which the pixel signals are read out from the plurality of pixels while thinning out the plurality of pixels and a mixing readout mode in which the pixel signals of the plurality of pixels are mixed and readout according to the imaging condition set by the setting unit. | 11-20-2014 |
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20120195715 | COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PREVIEW DISPLAY PROGRAM, PREVIEW DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PREVIEW DISPLAY METHOD - A computer readable information recording medium stores a preview display program that performs, when executed by one or more processors, functions of a part configured to determine setting information for imposition type; a part configured to determine setting information for finishing; and a part configured to display preview images for a state after bookbinding in a case where the setting information for imposition type, determined by the part configured to determine setting information for imposition type, includes a setting of magazine or mini book and the setting information for finishing, determined by the part configured to determine setting information for finishing, includes a setting for carrying out the bookbinding, and display preview images for a state before the bookbinding in the other cases. | 08-02-2012 |
20120307261 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print control device includes a prohibition determination unit, when a first sheet size of a sheet stored in a printing device is different from a second sheet size designated by an operator, preventing, when determining that the second sheet size of the sheet can be generated by cutting the sheet having the first sheet size, an execution of a post process function other than cutting in the printing device; and a workflow generation unit generating a workflow including operational steps of causing a cutting device to cut the sheet having the first sheet size to obtain the sheet having the second sheet size, and causing a functional device other than the cutting device to perform the post process function on the printing output after cutting the sheet having the first sheet size. | 12-06-2012 |
20140111829 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The printing system according to the present invention includes a specifying unit configured to specify specified data from print object data of a print job containing the print object data and a print setting of the print object data, the specified data representing the print object data to be printed; a partial extraction unit configured to extract the specified data and a partial print setting from the print job, the partial print setting representing the print setting to be applied to the specified data; a job generation unit configured to newly generate a print job containing the specified data and the partial print setting; and a printing unit configured to print an image based on the generated print job. | 04-24-2014 |
20140132972 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - In an image processing system that includes a terminal apparatus and multiple image processing apparatuses connected via a network, the image processing apparatus selectable after configuring intended print settings on the terminal apparatus. The configuration information is configured on the terminal apparatus to perform intended printing, and the configured configuration information is sent to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus generates image information that indicates a result outputtable by the image processing apparatus based on the received configuration information and its own apparatus information. The terminal apparatus sends a command to print to the image processing apparatus selected by a user based on the sent multiple image information. | 05-15-2014 |
20150293728 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus stores function information that identifies, for each one of a plurality of functions, one or more devices capable of performing the function, receives a user instruction for executing a job from a first device of the plurality of devices, the user instruction instructing execution of at least one function that cannot be performed by the first device, identifies a second device of the plurality of devices that is capable of performing the at least one function of the user instruction using the function information, and controls the second device to transition from a power save mode to a normal operating mode, while keeping devices other than the second device to be in the power save mode. | 10-15-2015 |
20150341441 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing system includes electronic devices each including a display unit, and at least one information processing apparatus including a display unit. The information processing apparatus is able to communicate with the electronic devices via a network. The information processing system includes a first sharing unit configured to cause sharing of display contents of the display unit of a first electronic device of the electronic devices and the display unit of the information processing apparatus; and a second sharing unit configured to acquire, from the first electronic device, information of a second electronic device of the electronic devices that is operating in cooperation with the first electronic device, and cause sharing of display contents of the display unit of the second electronic device and the display unit of the information processing apparatus based on the information of the second electronic device. | 11-26-2015 |
20160080200 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF REGISTERING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A system includes a first apparatus capable of registering a plurality of apparatuses, and a second apparatus connected to the first apparatus via a network. The second apparatus transmits an inquiry request for inquiring presence of a first apparatus capable of registering on the network to all apparatuses on the network by broadcast, and when information indicating an access destination of the first apparatus is received, transmits a registration request for registering the second apparatus to the first apparatus to the received access destination. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080588 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing system includes an execution request unit that requests one or more multiple preregistered apparatuses to execute an operation, an authority information acquisition unit that acquires authority information that indicates user authority on the preregistered apparatus from at least one of the preregistered apparatuses, an authority management information generator that generates authority management information that indicates the user authority applied to the preregistered apparatuses based on the authority information that the authority information acquisition unit acquires, and a controller that controls whether or not to allow the execution request unit to request to execute the operation based on the authority management information. | 03-17-2016 |