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20100251333 | SERVER, AUTHENTICATION SERVER, CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A service provider server has management means which manages a user ID corresponding to a service user and a device IDs corresponding to an information processing terminals of the service user in association with each other. | 09-30-2010 |
20110144500 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING COORDINATES OF SCANNED SURFACE THEREOF - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information about the contour of an object to be examined and information about the position of a specified region of the ultrasonic image of the object both corresponded to a body contour model coordinate system and a coordinate calculating unit configured to correspond the object coordinate system to the body contour model coordinate system according to the information about the position of the specified region of the object, associating with each other the object coordinate system and the body contour model coordinate system used when comparing an ultrasonic tomographic image based on ultrasonic tomographic data stored in an image storage unit with a real-time ultrasonic tomographic image scanned by an ultrasonic probe, and thereby calculating the coordinates of the scanned plane of the real-time ultrasonic tomographic image in association with the object coordinate system. | 06-16-2011 |
20130124622 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - To provide a content distribution system for suitably controlling bit rate for each receiving terminal while reducing the number of probe packets transmitted toward the receiving terminals from a distribution device. A content distribution device which is mutually connected via a network to a plurality of receiving terminals has a content packet transmission unit for transmitting content data, a probe packet transmission unit for transmitting probe packets, a probe packet reception unit for receiving return packets from the receiving terminals, and a transmission control unit for determining the transmission intervals of the probe packets and the bit rate of the content data. In addition, the transmission control unit treats receiving terminals having similar time variations in the bit rate as a small group in determining the transmission intervals of probe packets to be transmitted to the receiving terminals belonging to the same small group together. | 05-16-2013 |
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20120237186 | MOVING IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A moving image generating method, a moving image generating apparatus and a storage medium for generating a moving image from a still image. According to one application, a moving image generating method uses a moving image generating apparatus which stores in advance a plurality of pieces of movement information showing movements of a plurality of movable points. The method includes, an obtaining step which obtains a still image; a setting step which sets a plurality of movement control points in the still image; a frame image generating step which moves the plurality of control points based on movements of movement information and deforms the still image to generate a plurality of frame images; and a moving image generating step which generates a moving image from a plurality of frames. | 09-20-2012 |
20120307146 | MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCER REPRODUCING MOVING IMAGE IN SYNCHRONIZATION WITH MUSICAL PIECE - A moving image reproducer includes a generation section, a calculation section, a determination section, a correction section and a control section. The generation section generates an interpolation frame image interpolating between two adjacent frame images among a plurality of frame images. The calculation section sequentially calculates a progress level of a predetermined musical piece between the two adjacent frame images reproduced in synchronization with the predetermined musical piece. The determination section determines whether the progress level has varied along with a change in a tempo of the predetermined musical piece defined in the tempo information. The correction section corrects the progress level so as to reduce the variation in the progress level along with the change in the tempo if the progress level is determined to have varied. The control section controls the generation section to generate an interpolation frame image corresponding to the corrected progress level. | 12-06-2012 |
20130251253 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE THAT DISPLAYS RETRIEVED IMAGE SIMILAR TO TARGET IMAGE - The image acquisition unit | 09-26-2013 |
20130251266 | IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM, IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS, IMAGE SEARCH METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present invention, a database has feature information stored in association with flower sample images flower names, leaf sample images, and images indicating attention points for narrowing down the flower names. An extracting section extracts flower sample images having a high similarity to the image of the imaged flower as candidate images by comparing feature information of the image of the imaged flower and feature information stored in the database. A control section causes the image of the imaged flower, the extracted candidate images, flower names corresponding to the candidate images, and attention points for narrowing down the candidate images to be arranged and displayed on a display section, and changes the candidate images to their respective leaf sample images for display. The control section also changes the candidate images to images indicating their respective attention points and causes them to be displayed on the display section. | 09-26-2013 |
20130322743 | MULTI-CLASS IDENTIFIER, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A multi-class identifier identifies a kind of an imager, and identifies in detail with respect to a specified kind of a group. The multi-class identifier includes: an identification fault counter providing the image for test that includes any of class labels to the kind identifiers so that the kind identifiers individually identify the kind of the provided image, and counting, for a combination of arbitrary number of kinds among the plurality of kinds, the number of times of incorrect determination in the arbitrary number of kinds that belongs to the combination; a grouping processor, for a group of the combination for which count result is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, adding a group label corresponding to the group to the image for learning that includes the class label corresponding to any of the arbitrary number of kinds that belongs to the group. | 12-05-2013 |
20140029806 | OBJECT SEARCHING APPARATUS, OBJECT SEARCHING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In an object searching apparatus for searching through a database of objects, an image pickup unit repeatedly shoots a subject with the optical axis moved to obtain plural pieces of image data. A distance from the image pickup unit to the subject is calculated based on the plural pieces of image data, and a main object of the subject is clipped from the obtained image data. A calculating unit calculates a real size of the main object of the subject based on a size of the clipped main object on the image data, the calculated distance from the image pickup unit to the subject and a focal length of the image pickup unit. A searching unit accesses the database to search for a sort of the main object of the subject, using the calculated real size of the main object. | 01-30-2014 |
20140119646 | MULTI-CLASS DISCRIMINATING DEVICE - A multi-class discriminating device for judging to which class a feature represented by data falls. The device has a first unit for generating plural first hierarchical discriminating devices for discriminating one from N, and a second unit for combining score values output respectively from the plural first hierarchical discriminating devices to generate a second hierarchical feature vector and for entering the second hierarchical feature vector to generate plural second hierarchical discriminating devices for discriminating one from N. When data is entered, the plural first hierarchical discriminating devices output score values, and these score values are combined together to generate the second hierarchical feature vector. When the second hierarchical feature vector is entered, the second hierarchical discriminating device which outputs the maximum score value is selected. The class corresponding to the selected second hierarchical discriminating device is discriminated as the class, into which the feature represented by the entered data falls. | 05-01-2014 |
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20080278411 | Method of Driving Information Display Device - When information of one frame such as an image is displayed by performing a scanning operation with respect to line electrodes consisting of a plurality of electrodes extending in a line direction on one substrate and column electrodes consisting of a plurality electrodes extending in a column direction on the other substrate in such a manner that a voltage is applied to the line electrodes from one end to the other end, a voltage for generating a cross-talk in the first color and a voltage for generating a cross-talk in the second color are applied to all the cells of a display portion once or more times respectively after one frame is displayed. Specifically, two or more lines are added at the end of the scanning operation, and a drive, in which a display of the first color and a display of the second color are performed one or more times respectively, is performed after one scanning operation is finished (first aspect). Moreover, as a driving voltage applied to the electrodes for generating an electrostatic field, use is made of a pulse voltage which is composed of a plurality of voltages consisting of a driving voltage generating an ON state and a voltage of not larger than a threshold value, at which the display media start to move, generating an OFF state (second aspect). Further, when a pixel rewriting operation is performed once, a plurality of pulses are applied, and, during the one pixel rewriting operation, a driving waveform is adjusted in such a manner that a polarity of a cross-talk voltage applied to a non-rewriting pixel is not changed (third aspect). | 11-13-2008 |
20090040190 | INFORMATION EQUIPMENT - In an information equipment including: a display device having display memory properties, which displays information by a passive drive or an active drive, in which scan electrodes are sequentially addressed; and a position detector for detecting a position of an input means; wherein a display information is updated in accordance with an input of the position detector, a plurality of scan electrodes are selected simultaneously, when the display information is to be changed. Hereby, even in the case of using a display device, which displays information by a passive drive or an active drive, in which scan electrodes are sequentially addressed, the information equipment, in which display speed is not slow, can be provided. | 02-12-2009 |
20110181564 | METHOD OF DRIVING INFORMATION DISPLAY PANEL - A method of driving an information display panel in which a display medium | 07-28-2011 |
20110234575 | Method of Driving Information Display Device - When information of one frame such as an image is displayed by performing a scanning operation with respect to line electrodes consisting of a plurality of electrodes extending in a line direction on one substrate and column electrodes consisting of a plurality electrodes extending in a column direction on the other substrate in such a manner that a voltage is applied to the line electrodes from one end to the other end, a voltage for generating a cross-talk in the first color and a voltage for generating a cross-talk in the second color are applied to all the cells of a display portion once or more times respectively after one frame is displayed. Specifically, two or more lines are added at the end of the scanning operation, and a drive, in which a display of the first color and a display of the second color are performed one or more times respectively, is performed after one scanning operation is finished (first aspect). Moreover, as a driving voltage applied to the electrodes for generating an electrostatic field, use is made of a pulse voltage which is composed of a plurality of voltages consisting of a driving voltage generating an ON state and a voltage of not larger than a threshold value, at which the display media start to move, generating an OFF state (second aspect). Further, when a pixel rewriting operation is performed once, a plurality of pulses are applied, and, during the one pixel rewriting operation, a driving waveform is adjusted in such a manner that a polarity of a cross-talk voltage applied to a non-rewriting pixel is not changed (third aspect). | 09-29-2011 |
20110234576 | Method of Driving Information Display Device - A method of driving an information display device including displaying information of one frame by performing a scanning operation with respect to line electrodes on one substrate and column electrodes on another substrate, such that a voltage is applied to the line electrodes from one end to the other end. Then, a voltage for generating a cross-talk in the first color and a voltage for generating a cross-talk in the second color is applied to all cells one or more times respectively after the one frame is displayed. The information of the one frame is an image, and two or more lines of line electrodes are added at the end of the scanning operation, and a drive, in which a display of the first color and a display of the second color are performed one or more times respectively, is performed after the scanning operation is finished. | 09-29-2011 |
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20100215122 | Receiving Circuit - A receiver is provided that has reduced power consumption and seldom operates erroneously. The receiver generally includes: an input circuit or photoreceptor that receives a modulated digital signal that can includes a preamble; a detector that detects the received digital signal and outputs a baseband signal; a comparator that compares baseband signal and a reference signal; an integration circuit that integrates baseband signal; hysteresis circuits that generates voltage signals based on an average value signal from integration circuit; a multiplexer that selects between the signals from the hysteresis circuits based on a digital output signal from comparator; and a pulse detection counter that counts the number of pulses of the digital signal from comparator and outputs a count signal to one of the hysteresis circuits. | 08-26-2010 |
20100302545 | PARTICULATE DETECTOR SYSTEM - A particulate detector system is provided that can sense particulates (such as smoke in the air). The system employs a reflected light system that generally avoids making measurements of light intensity. Instead, coded signals are compared with one another to determine error rates between emitted light and detected light (across a chamber). Based on the error rate, processing circuitry can determine particulate concentration. | 12-02-2010 |
20130015867 | TOUCH SENSING METHOD AND APPARATUSAANM Aras; SualpAACI DallasAAST TXAACO USAAGP Aras; Sualp Dallas TX USAANM Nihei; TatsuyukiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Nihei; Tatsuyuki Tokyo JPAANM Rahman; AbidurAACI AllenAAST TXAACO USAAGP Rahman; Abidur Allen TX US - A method for measuring for generating a touch capacitance measurement is provided. Gain and offset control signals are generated, where the gain and offset control signals are adjusted to compensate for base capacitance of a touch sensor. The gain control signal is applied to a touch sensor during a first phase of a clock signal, and the offset control signal is applied to an output circuit during a second phase of the clock signal. The output circuit is coupled to the touch sensor during the second phase of the clock signal. The touch capacitance measurement is generated by compensating for the base capacitance with the gain and offset control signals, and a gain is applied to the touch capacitance measurement. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016062 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING AND SCANNING A CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANELAANM Nihei; TatsuyukiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Nihei; Tatsuyuki Tokyo JPAANM Uchino; OsamuAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Uchino; Osamu Kanagawa JPAANM Sato; TatsuroAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Sato; Tatsuro Tokyo JP - A method is provided. A first voltage is applied to a first set of column electrodes within a touch panel during a first interval, and a second voltage is applied to a second set of column electrodes within the touch panel during the first interval. The first and second sets of electrodes are adjacent to one another, and the second voltage has the opposite polarity of the first voltage. During the first interval, a first measurement signal is received from a set of row electrodes in the touch panel, and the first measurement signal is integrated to generate a first integrated signal. The first voltage is applied to the second set of column electrodes within the touch panel during a second interval, and the second voltage is applied to the first set of column electrodes within the touch panel during the second interval. During the second interval, a second measurement signal is received from the set of row electrodes in the touch panel, and the second measurement signal is integrated to generate a second integrated signal. Then, the first and second integrated signals are combined to generate an output signal. | 01-17-2013 |
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