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20100021145 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A plurality of contents and a BD-J object are recorded on a multi-layered BD-ROM. The plurality of contents include those that comprise a monoscopic view video, and those that comprise a stereoscopic view video. A BD-J object includes an application management table and a GUI management table. The application management table is information specifying the application to be started up to the playback apparatus, when a specific content becomes targeted for playback among the plurality of contents. A flag in the configuration information of the GUI management table indicates whether reserving a plurality of plane memories is necessary for realizing a stereoscopic view of the graphics. | 01-28-2010 |
20110235988 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A recording medium | 09-29-2011 |
20110305435 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - A bytecode processing unit provided in a playback device is platform unit | 12-15-2011 |
20120002520 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - A playback device reads a BD-J application from a BD-ROM and runs the BD-J application. The BD-J application causes, by using a socket connection API, the digital copy module of the playback device to execute copying of a protected content for portable terminals to a removable recording medium and setting of a resume playback point on the copied content. The resume playback point is specified by the BD-J application according to playback time information read from the PSR set. | 01-05-2012 |
20130070052 | VIDEO PROCESING DEVICE, SYSTEM, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, AND VIDEO PROCESSING PROGRAM CAPABLE OF CHANGING DEPTH OF STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGES - A video processing device is one of multiple devices in a home theater system. Upon connection to another device, a depth adjustment determination module determines whether depth adjustment of two or more view components is necessary for playback of stereoscopic video images. When depth adjustment is necessary, a capability comparison module performs a communications sequence to determine which device will perform the depth adjustment. When it is determined during the communications sequence that the video processing device itself is to perform the depth adjustment, it does so and then transmits the resulting adjusted two or more view components to the other device. When it is determined that the other device is to perform the depth adjustment, the video processing device transmits the two or more view components without performing depth adjustment. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071012 | IMAGE PROVIDING DEVICE, IMAGE PROVIDING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROVIDING PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING PAST-EXPERIENCE IMAGES - A image providing device provides a user with realistic and natural past-experience simulation through stereoscopic photographs. Specifically, feature-point extractors | 03-21-2013 |
20130100132 | IMAGE RENDERING DEVICE, IMAGE RENDERING METHOD, AND IMAGE RENDERING PROGRAM FOR RENDERING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - An image rendering device realizes stereoscopic viewing of composite images generated by compositing background three-dimensional models and foreground three-dimensional models each defined in three-dimensional modeling space. A texture mapping unit converts background image data into two or more viewpoint textures and maps each viewpoint texture to a background three-dimensional model in the three-dimensional modeling space. A viewport conversion unit extracts, for each of the two or more viewpoint textures, a viewport image from the background three-dimensional model mapped with the viewpoint texture and from the foreground three-dimensional model. By comparing a parallax of the foreground three-dimensional model occurring in stereoscopic playback with a parallax of the intra-texture object occurring in stereoscopic playback, the device determines depth relationship between the foreground three-dimensional model and the intra-texture object and adjusts positional relationship between the foreground three-dimensional model and the intra-texture object based on a result of the determination. | 04-25-2013 |
20130121665 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING APPLICATION-SYNCHRONIZED PLAYBACK - A playback apparatus includes a package management unit operable to generate package information by merging files recorded on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, in accordance with merge management information. A selection unit is operable to detect a plurality of playable titles from the package information and select one of the detected titles as a current title. A processing unit is operable to execute an application specified in the current title and that is included in the package information. A playback control engine is operable to control playback of a digital stream in the current title and that is included in the package information. Status registers each store a parameter relating to a playback status of the digital stream, and backup registers each save one of the status registers. | 05-16-2013 |
20130177292 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A playback apparatus reads a byte-code application from a recording medium, and performs a playback control in accordance with the byte-code application. The playback apparatus includes a manager that selects a current title specified by an index table recorded on the recording medium. A display controller initializes a display rate of a display device using display rate initialization information, including a display rate applied to playlist information specifying video data, in an operation mode object corresponding to the current title. The operation mode object is recorded on the recording medium. A platform starts the byte-code application indicated in an application management table in the operation mode object. A graphics plane stores graphics data drawn by the byte-code application, and a playback controller plays back the video data specified by the playlist information selected by the byte-code application. | 07-11-2013 |
20140143313 | CLIENT TERMINAL, SERVER, AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING METHOD - If an execution target application is an application with a high load for a client terminal ( | 05-22-2014 |
20150271669 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING WIRELESS CONNECTION SETTINGS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY METHOD - Provided is a method for configuring wireless connection settings, a wireless communications apparatus, and a display method, the method being executed by the wireless communications apparatus and including: (a) receiving a first radio signal which includes second configuration information; (b) receiving authentication information for use in authenticating a first device from a second device, the authentication information being uniquely associated with the first device; (c) retaining the authentication information; (d) establishing the wireless connection with the first device, using the second configuration information; (e) transmitting a second radio signal which includes the authentication information, to the first device through the wireless connection established; (f) receiving a third radio signal which includes response information to the authentication information; and (g) transmitting the first configuration information to the first device if the response information indicates that the first device has been successfully authenticated. | 09-24-2015 |
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20110242615 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises an anchor point information extraction unit configured to decide coordinates of anchor points and attributes of the anchor points based on a plurality of predetermined extraction rules and a sequence of coordinate points that expresses an outline of image data; a tangential direction decision unit configured to decide tangential directions at an anchor point of interest based on the attribute of the anchor point of interest and coordinate points which are located within a predetermined range from the anchor point of interest; a control point coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate control point coordinates based on the tangential directions and the coordinates of the anchor point of interest; and a data output unit configured to output information including the coordinates of the anchor points and the control point coordinates. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242616 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises an anchor point candidate information extraction unit configured to decide coordinates of anchor point candidates and attributes of the anchor point candidates based on a plurality of predetermined extraction rules and a sequence of coordinate points that expresses an outline of image data; an anchor point decision unit configured to decide an anchor point candidate to be reduced based on the attributes of the anchor point candidates and priority orders set in advance for the attributes, and configured to decide anchor points by reducing the decided anchor point candidates to be reduced; a control point coordinate decision unit configured to decide control point coordinates based on the anchor points decided by the anchor point decision unit and the sequence of coordinate points; and a data output unit configured to output information including the coordinates of the decided anchor points and the decided control point coordinates. | 10-06-2011 |
20120287488 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: a division unit configured to divide an input image into a plurality of color regions based on a color difference; a color gradient information calculation unit configured to calculate color gradient information at a boundary between the divided color regions from color information of the input image; an attribute determination unit configured to determine a gradation attribute representing a characteristic of a color gradient at the boundary using the color gradient information; and a vectorization target determination unit configured to determine, based on the gradation attribute of the boundary determined by the attribute determination unit, whether the input image is a vectorization target. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288188 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: a unit configured to generate a gradation cluster by determining color regions belonging to the same gradation among a plurality of color regions using gradation attribute of boundary, and to generate gradation cluster information including information about a color region belonging to the generated gradation cluster and a gradation type of the gradation cluster; a unit configured to generate a gradation parameter for each gradation region using the color region, the color gradient information, and the gradation cluster information; a unit configured to integrate color regions belonging to the same gradation using the gradation cluster information; and a unit configured to generate a contour vector description based on a color region after integration, and to generate vector data of the gradation region based on the contour vector description and the gradation parameter. | 11-15-2012 |
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20120248027 | COMPOSITE SEMIPERMEABLE MEMBRANE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A composite semipermeable membrane comprising a porous support membrane on which a separating functional polyamide layer resulting from the polycondensation reaction of polyfunctional aromatic amines with polyfunctional acid halides is formed, wherein the separating functional polyamide layer has carboxy groups, amino groups, phenolic hydroxyl groups, and azo groups, wherein X | 10-04-2012 |
20130213880 | SEPARATION MEMBRANE, SEPARATION MEMBRANE ELEMENT AND SEPARATION MEMBRANE PRODUCTION METHOD - A separation membrane is provided containing hydrophilic molecules and having, as formed on at least one surface of a feed side and a permeate side thereof, a height difference of from 80 μm to 2000 μm, in which a weight of the hydrophilic molecules in a bone-dry separation membrane is from 0.1% to 40% based on a weight of the bone-dry separation membrane from which the weight of the hydrophilic molecules has been subtracted. | 08-22-2013 |
20150041388 | SEPARATION MEMBRANE AND SEPARATION MEMBRANE ELEMENT - A separation membrane includes a separation membrane main body that includes a supply-side surface and a filtrate-side surface; and a supply-side channel member disposed on the supply-side surface of the separation membrane main body, wherein when a thickness of the supply-side channel member in a direction perpendicular to a flowing direction of a supplied water that flows on the supply-side surface is a width d of the supply-side channel member, a ratio of height/width (h/d) of the supply-side channel member is 0.7 or greater and 3.0 or less. | 02-12-2015 |
20150321148 | SEPARATION MEMBRANE AND SEPARATION MEMBRANE ELEMENT - A separation membrane including: a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a plurality of channel members adhered to the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, in which a weight W (g) of the plurality of channel members and a volume V (cm | 11-12-2015 |
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20090142630 | Fuel Cell Apparatus and Method of Controlling Fuel Cell Apparatus - According to one embodiment, a fuel cell apparatus includes a cell stack of an active direct methanol type, and a DC-DC converter configure to receive output voltage of the cell stack and to control an output current of the cell stack so that the output voltage of the cell stack becomes greater than a lower-limit threshold Vt and the output current of the cell stack lies in a range of I | 06-04-2009 |
20090243390 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a power supply apparatus comprises a DC/DC converter coupled to an output of a fuel cell, a first diode connected between the output of the DC/DC converter and an output terminal of the apparatus, a second diode connected between an output of a secondary battery and the output terminal, a first transistor connected in parallel with the first diode, a second transistor connected in parallel with the second diode, and a control module configured to set the first and the second transistor to the off and the on state, respectively, when the output voltage of the DC/DC converter is equal to or lower than a reference voltage, and to set the first and the second transistor to the on and the off state, respectively, when the output voltage of the DC/DC converter is higher than the reference voltage. | 10-01-2009 |
20110129750 | DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a fuel cell, includes a stack includes blocks, each of the blocks includes direct methanol type cells, a connection module configured to switch between connection and disconnection between a block of the blocks and a load, according to an instruction, a voltage value detector configured to detect an output voltage value of the block, a determination module configured to determine whether an output restoration process is performed on the block based on an output voltage value of the block, and a controller configured to transmit, to the connection module, an instruction for connecting the load to the block when first determination module determines that the output restoration process is performed on the block, and to transmit, to the connection module, an instruction for disconnecting the load from the block when the output voltage value has become less than or equal to a set voltage value. | 06-02-2011 |
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20080273396 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device - A sub-decoder element provided corresponding to each word line is constructed by the same conductive type MOS transistors. The sub-decoder elements are arranged in a plurality of columns such that the layout of active regions for forming the sub-decoder elements is inverted in a Y direction and displaced by one sub-decoder element in an X direction. The arrangement of the sub-decoder elements is adjusted such that high voltage is not applied to both of gate electrodes adjacent in the Y direction. A well voltage of a well region for forming the sub-decoder element group is set to a voltage level such that a source to substrate of the transistor of the sub-decoder element is set into a deep reversed-bias state. In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, the leakage by a parasitic MOS in a sub-decoder circuit or word line driving circuit to which a positive or negative high voltage is supplied, can be suppressed. | 11-06-2008 |
20090310410 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A sub-decoder element provided corresponding to each word line is constructed by the same conductive type MOS transistors. The sub-decoder elements are arranged in a plurality of columns such that the layout of active regions for forming the sub-decoder elements is inverted in a Y direction and displaced by one sub-decoder element in an X direction. The arrangement of the sub-decoder elements is adjusted such that high voltage is not applied to both of gate electrodes adjacent in the Y direction. A well voltage of a well region for forming the sub-decoder element group is set to a voltage level such that a source to substrate of the transistor of the sub-decoder element is set into a deep reversed-bias state. In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, the leakage by a parasitic MOS in a sub-decoder circuit or word line driving circuit to which a positive or negative high voltage is supplied, can be suppressed. | 12-17-2009 |
20110058426 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A sub-decoder element provided corresponding to each word line is constructed by the same conductive type MOS transistors. The sub-decoder elements are arranged in a plurality of columns such that the layout of active regions for forming the sub-decoder elements is inverted in a Y direction and displaced by one sub-decoder element in an X direction. The arrangement of the sub-decoder elements is adjusted such that high voltage is not applied to both of gate electrodes adjacent in the Y direction. A well voltage of a well region for forming the sub-decoder element group is set to a voltage level such that a source to substrate of the transistor of the sub-decoder element is set into a deep reversed-bias state. In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, the leakage by a parasitic MOS in a sub-decoder circuit or word line driving circuit to which a positive or negative high voltage is supplied, can be suppressed. | 03-10-2011 |
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20130230066 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND LIGHT GENERATION METHOD - In aspects of the invention, wavelength conversion element has a harmonic generation portion and a parametric oscillation portion. The harmonic generation portion generates a harmonic of laser light output from a laser light source. The parametric oscillation portion generates signal light and idler light from the harmonic generated by the harmonic generation portion. In some aspects of the invention, electrodes and a first voltage control portion control the intensity of the harmonic generated by the harmonic generation portion. A first FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) and a second FBG cause resonance of signal light output from the parametric oscillation portion. A piezo tube and a second voltage control portion change the resonance frequency of the first FBG and the second FBG. | 09-05-2013 |
20130230282 | LIGHT GUIDING DEVICE AND LIGHT GUIDING METHOD - In aspects of the invention, photonic crystal fiber and a GI fiber form an emission portion of a first single-mode optical fiber. Specifically, in some aspects of the invention, the photonic crystal fiber is connected to an emission-side end face of the first single-mode optical fiber. The GI fiber can connected to an emission-side end face of the photonic crystal fiber. The refractive index of the GI fiber in the direction in which light is concentrated changes in the radial direction. | 09-05-2013 |
20130243366 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE OF OPTICAL ELEMENT - A waveguide mounting portion ( | 09-19-2013 |
20130293895 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND LIGHT GENERATION METHOD - In some aspects of the invention, wavelength conversion elements are provided for each of a plurality of laser light sources, and have different wavelength conversion characteristics. In some aspects, each of the wavelength conversion elements converts the wavelength of laser light incident on each of the wavelength conversion elements. The wavelengths of the laser light after wavelength conversion are different from one another. A multiplexer couples the plurality of laser light rays output from the plurality of wavelength conversion elements and outputs the laser light as coaxial light. A VBG (Volume Bragg Grating) is provided between the plurality of laser light sources and the plurality of wavelength conversion elements, and forms at least a portion of a laser light resonator. | 11-07-2013 |
20140293403 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND WAVELENGTH CONVERSION METHOD - A light source emits first incident light to a first polarization-reversed structure. The first polarization-reversed structure then converts the wavelength of the first incident light to emit a higher harmonic wave. A fiber coupler divides the higher harmonic wave output from the first polarization-reversed structure into output light emitted from the light source device and feedback light. The feedback light enters a second polarization-reversed structure. The second polarization-reversed structure then converts the wavelength of the feedback light to emit second incident light. The second incident light has the same wavelength as the first incident light. The second incident light enters a first wavelength converter. | 10-02-2014 |
20150212269 | OPTICAL MULTIPLEXING DEVICE - A plurality of second optical fibers are disposed around a first optical fiber. One ends of the second optical fibers are directed in the same direction as one end of the first optical fiber. A reflection surface faces the one end and the one ends and forms a parabolic surface. In addition, the one end is located on an extension line of an axis of the parabolic surface of the reflection surface, that is, on an extension line of an axis of a parabolic line serving as a base of the parabolic surface. | 07-30-2015 |
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20120026158 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a three-dimensional image generation program, which is used for generating, as images to be used for stereoscopic display, two images showing a scene within a virtual three-dimensional space viewed from two cameras set in the virtual three-dimensional space, the three-dimensional image generation program causing a computer to function to: acquire a value of a screen distance parameter, which indicates a distance from a representative position for the two cameras to a virtual screen position in the virtual three-dimensional space; and generate, as the images to be used for the stereoscopic display, the two images showing the scene within the virtual three-dimensional space viewed from the two cameras disposed at positions and in directions that are determined based on the acquired value of the screen distance parameter. | 02-02-2012 |
20120331277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - An acquisition unit acquires a command that is executable by a processor of an other type being a processor of a different type from a processor of a processing execution subject apparatus. An identification unit identifies processing that is executable by the processor of the processing execution subject apparatus which is associated with the command acquired by the acquisition unit. An execution control unit controls execution of the processing performed by the processor of the processing execution subject apparatus based on a value of a parameter which is set in a specific command for the processor of the other type, the value of the parameter which is set in the specific command not affecting execution of processing performed by the processor of the other type. | 12-27-2012 |
20130027392 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a technology that enables control selection as to which of a raster image for three-dimensional display, which is generated based on a raster image drawn in a memory, and the raster image drawn in the memory is to be displayed without forcing a user to do complicated work. A drawing unit draws a raster image generated based on data serving as a basis of the raster image into the memory. A pseudo-three-dimensional rendering control unit performs control as to which of the raster image drawn in the memory and a raster image for three-dimensional display based on the raster image drawn in the memory is to be displayed on a display device, in accordance with the drawing of the raster image based on the data serving as the basis of the raster image into the memory. | 01-31-2013 |