Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130015476 | DISPLAY UNIT - A display unit that secures favorable display performance and has a simple structure is provided. The display unit includes a multilayer structure in which an organic light emitting device group respectively having a plurality of organic light emitting devices that emits cyan light and a plurality of organic light emitting devices that emits magenta light and a color filter group having a plurality of blue filters that transmit blue light and a plurality of yellow filters that transmit yellow light are sequentially layered. In the display unit, the cyan light and the magenta light entering from the organic light emitting device group to the color filter group is converted to blue light by the blue filter, and is respectively converted to green light and red light by the yellow filter. Therefore, compared to a case that the organic light emitting device group emits white light, color separation is more facilitated. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024886 | MODULAR BROADCAST RECEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - The construction of a receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast from a plurality of broadcasting providers is simplified. In a receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast from a plurality of broadcasting providers, of the function blocks which constitute the receiving apparatus, a block used in common irrespective of the broadcasting provider is formed as a common block, and a block different from one broadcasting provider to another is formed as an independent block. These blocks are connected to each other through an IEEE1394 interface, and the common block is shared among the plurality of blocks which are not used in common, so that a receiving process is performed. | 01-24-2013 |
20130027018 | BOOSTER CIRCUIT, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A booster circuit including an output terminal; a reference voltage generating section that generates a boosting reference voltage; a charge pump section that boosts the reference voltage and outputs the boosted reference voltage from the output terminal; and an output-terminal voltage holding section that holds the output terminal at a voltage of a high level at a standby time. The charge pump section includes an input node, at least one boosting node, at least one reference node, at least one boosting capacitor, and a plurality of switching transistors that are provided between the input node and the at least one boosting node, between a boosting node at a last stage and the output terminal, between the input node and the reference node, and between a reference potential and a reference node, and are switched on or off by a switch signal. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027281 | SELF-LUMINOUS DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME INCLUDING A LIGHT EMISSION INTERRUPTION PERIOD DURING A LIGHT EMISSIN ENABLED PERIOD - A self-luminous display device includes: pixel circuits; and a drive circuit, wherein each of the pixel circuits includes a light-emitting diode, a drive transistor connected to a drive current channel of the light-emitting diode, and a holding capacitor coupled to a control node of the drive transistor, the drive circuit applies a light emission enabling bias to the light-emitting diode after correcting the drive transistor and writing a data voltage to the control node, provides, during a light emission enabled period in which the light emission enabling bias is applied, a light emission interruption period adapted to change the light emission enabling bias to a non-light emission bias with the data voltage held by the holding capacitor, and performs a light emission disabling process, adapted to reverse-bias the light-emitting diode to stop the light emission, for a constant period after the light emission enabled period. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027369 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel circuit includes: a switching transistor whose conduction is controlled by a drive signal supplied to the control terminal; a drive wiring adapted to propagate the drive signal; and a data wiring adapted to propagate a data signal. The drive wiring is formed on a first wiring layer and connected to the control terminal of the switching transistor. The data wiring is formed on a second wiring layer and connected to a first terminal of the switching transistor. A multi-layered wiring structure is used so that the second wiring layer is formed on a layer different from that on which the first wiring layer is formed. | 01-31-2013 |
20130029462 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR - A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor is provided. The method includes forming a lower organic semiconductor layer, forming an upper organic semiconductor layer on the lower organic semiconductor layer, the upper organic semiconductor layer having solubility and conductivity higher than those of the lower organic semiconductor layer, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from each other and respectively overlapping the upper organic semiconductor layer, and dissolving the upper organic semiconductor layer selectively by using the source electrode and the drain electrode as a mask. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031163 | System and Method For Content Delivery - Based on a user profile, content that is predicted to be desired by the user, including past episodes of a series that may have been missed by the user, is downloaded to the user's home system during periods of low bandwidth usage in the home system. A determination is made dynamically as to whether to provide the content from a server or a peer-to-peer network based on network attributes, file size, etc. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031168 | CLIENT DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY OF ACCESSING NETWORKED SERVICES - A system makes it possible to use services offered by a plurality of servers different from one another is realized with the use of a common API. The system includes a plurality of service-offering servers, a client that uses services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers, and an interchange server that performs intermediary processing when the client uses a service. The client performs communication with the interchange server while using a common API when using any service among a plurality of services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers. The interchange server uses a unique API, which is unique to the service-offering server that offers the service selected by the client, to execute a processing sequence that is unique to the service-offering server. The client may use any service among services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers with the use of a common API without any need to use a unique API, which is unique to each of the plurality of service-offering servers. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031311 | INTERFACE APPARATUS, CALCULATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INTERFACE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND CIRCUIT GENERATION APPARATUS - There is provided is an interface apparatus including: a stream converter receiving write-addresses and write-data, storing the received data in a buffer, and sorting the stored write-data in the order of the write-addresses to output the write-data as stream-data; a cache memory storing received stream-data if a load-signal indicates that the stream-data are necessarily loaded and outputting data stored in a storage device corresponding to an input cache-address as cache-data; a controller determining whether or not data allocated with a read-address have already been loaded, outputting the load-signal instructing the loading on the cache memory if not loaded, and outputting a load-address indicating a load-completed-address of the cache memory; and at least one address converter calculating which one of the storage devices the allocated data are stored in, by using the load-address, outputting the calculated value as the cache-address to the cache memory, and outputting the cache-data as read-data. | 01-31-2013 |
20130033628 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid state imaging device that includes a substrate having oppositely facing first and second surfaces and a photoelectric conversion unit layer having a light incident side facing away from the substrate. The substrate includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion and the photoelectric conversion layer includes a third photoelectric conversion unit. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036437 | USING IPTV AS HEALTH MONITOR - An IPTV can receive a user name and present a screen enabling a user by means of a remote control to select health information categories, inputting numeric parameters into the selected categories which can be uploaded to an Internet server for analysis and viewed by the user for subsequent monitoring/charting. | 02-07-2013 |
20130037612 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information providing system includes the following elements. An IC card stores card ID. An information providing terminal reads out the card ID of the IC card, provides information to the IC card, and transmits the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the ID of the provided information to a management server. The management server receives the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the provided information ID from the information providing terminal, has a database to manage the card ID and the provided information such that the card ID is associated with the provided information, acquires the information provided to the IC card from the database in response to an information request from a client terminal, and supplies the provided information to the client terminal. The client terminal displays the provided information supplied from the management server. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038514 | DISPLAY PANEL AND PANEL INSPECTION APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display panel based on active matrix driving having a display area made up of N pixel control lines, M video signal lines orthogonally intersecting the N pixel control lines, and pixel circuits arranged at intersections between the N pixel control lines and M video signal lines, wherein positional identification patterns are arranged on every k (k being a natural number) pixel control lines inside each of the pixel circuits. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038795 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION METHOD - An AV system composed of an HD recorder and a display unit uses a communication interface of the HDMI. An HDMI source of the HD recorder transmits image data (image signal) in the form of differential signals to an HDMI sink of the display unit through three TMDS channels. The HDMI source inserts content identification information for the identification of the type of a content of image data to be transmitted into an AVI InfoFrame packet placed in a blanking period. A control section of the display unit controls operation of a display processing section which carries out a process for displaying for the image data based on the content identification information received by the HDMI sink and a display section for displaying an image. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039490 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A configuration in which use management for each piece of content, which is divided in units, can be performed strictly and efficiently is provided. CPS units such that content stored on an information recording medium is divided into units are set, a unit key is assigned to each CPS unit, and data forming each unit is encrypted and recorded. For reproduction, a unit key is generated, and data processing using the unit key is performed. As information for generating the unit key, copy/play control information (CCI) that is set so as to correspond to the CPS unit and a content hash that is a hash value based on data forming the CPS unit are used. With this configuration, tampering of CCI and data forming the CPS unit can be prevented, and authorized content use can be realized. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041829 | TRACKING DETAILS OF ACTIVATION OF LICENSABLE COMPONENT OF CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Instead of buying blanket licenses for all licensable components of its CE devices, a manufacturer enables users to activate licensable components on a device basis and then obtains the necessary licenses individually. Seldom used activation modes and seldom activated licensable components can be pruned from future devices, while widely activated licensable components can be automatically enabled by purchasing a blanket license for those components. Characteristics of license requests and the people making them can be used to focus marketing. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041983 | INTELLIGENT ROUTING - Routing of content, including: receiving a request to access a content item from a device; determining at least one of status, location, and format of the content item; and planning a procedure to fulfill the request to access the content item, wherein the procedure includes a method and a route. | 02-14-2013 |
20130042267 | USING IPTV AS HEALTH MONITOR - An IPTV can receive a user name and present a screen enabling a user by means of a remote control to select health information categories, inputting numeric parameters into the selected categories which can be uploaded to an Internet server for analysis and viewed by the user for subsequent monitoring/charting. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044245 | SOLID-STATE IMAGER DEVICE, DRIVE METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGER DEVICE AND CAMERA APPARATUS - In a case when a structure of forming a p+ layer on a substrate rear surface side is employed in order to prevent dark current generation from the silicon boundary surface, various problems occur. According to this invention, an insulation film | 02-21-2013 |
20130044993 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An imaging apparatus includes: a first display panel unit for executing display toward a user side; a second display panel unit for executing display toward a subject side; an imaging processing unit for subjecting incident light from the subject side to photoelectric conversion to obtain a captured image signal; a recording processing unit for executing a recording process to a recording medium regarding the captured image signal obtained at the imaging processing unit; and a control unit for controlling the display states of the first display panel unit and the second display panel unit for each of a plurality of various types of operation periods changing along with the operation of the imaging processing unit or the recording processing unit, and executing display control wherein the first display panel unit and the second display panel unit can have different display content during at least a single operation period. | 02-21-2013 |
20130045553 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING A COLOR SHIFT OF WHITE LIGHT IN SAME - A display device includes: an optical cavity portion; and a light emitting layer, wherein a peak wavelength of an internal emission spectrum of the light emitting layer is identical to a peak wavelength of a multiple interference filter spectrum of the optical cavity portion, and wherein a color shift Δuv of white light in the display device at a viewing angle of 60° is less than or equal to 0.015. A method of adjusting a color shift of white light in a display device includes: setting a peak wavelength of a multiple interference filter spectrum obtained by an optical cavity portion in the display device equal to a peak wavelength of an internal emission spectrum of a light emitting layer in the display device; and adjusting a position of the light emitting layer in a thickness direction thereof | 02-21-2013 |
20130045555 | THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE USING SUCH THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A thin film semiconductor device formed as integrated circuits on an insulating substrate with bottom gate type thin film transistors stacked with gate electrodes, a gate insulating film and a semiconductor thin film in the order from below upward. The gate electrodes comprise metallic materials with thickness less than 100 nm. The gate insulating film has a thickness thicker than the gate electrodes. The semiconductor thin film comprises polycrystalline silicon crystallized by a laser beam. By reducing thickness of metallic gate electrodes, thermal capacity becomes small and difference in thermal condition on the metallic gate electrodes and on the insulating substrate made of glass or the like becomes small. This invention relates to the task of uniforming and optimizing recrystallization by a laser anneal treatment provided for the semiconductor thin film which works as an active layer of the bottom gate type thin film transistors. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046401 | RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a microphone, a semiconductor memory, an operating section and a controller. An output signal from the microphone is written in the semiconductor memory and the written signals are read out from the semiconductor memory. The operating section performs input processing for writing a digital signal outputted by an analog/digital converter, reading out the digital signal stored in the semiconductor memory and for erasing the digital signal stored in the semiconductor memory. The control section controls the writing of the microphone output signal in the semiconductor memory based on an input from the operating section and the readout of the digital signal stored in the semiconductor memory. The control section operates so that, if, when the signals written in the storage section is read out from it, an input for erasure is entered by the operating section, the signal being read out from the storage section is erased when, after reading out the signal from the storage section for a pre-set period, an input for erasure is again entered from the operating section. | 02-21-2013 |
20130047087 | RELATED INFORMATION SUCCESSIVELY OUTPUTTING METHOD, RELATED INFORMATION SUCCESSIVELY PROVIDING METHOD, RELATED INFORMATION SUCCESSIVELY OUTPUTTING APPARATUS, RELATED INFORMATION SUCCESSIVELY PROVIDING APPARATUS, RELATED INFORMATION SUCCESSIVELY OUTPUTTING PROGRAM AND RELATED INFORMATION SUCCESSIVELY PROVIDING PROGRAM - Related information successively outputting and providing methods and apparatus are disclosed wherein the processing load to a related information successively providing apparatus upon provision of content related information can be reduced significantly. The outputting apparatus selects content identification information set as a successive output object in a list included in page information acquired from the providing apparatus as noticed content information, and acquires content related information coordinated with the selected content identification from the providing apparatus. The outputting apparatus outputs the acquired content related information and detects an end of the outputting. When an end of the outputting is detected, the selection of noticed content information, acquisition and outputting of related information and detection of an end of outputting are successively executed again. As a result, content related information acquired from the providing apparatus are outputted automatically and successively. | 02-21-2013 |
20130047096 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROVIDING MEDIUM - The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data. | 02-21-2013 |
20130047179 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at the request source. | 02-21-2013 |
20130049083 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A solid-state imaging device including is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes: pixels arrayed; a photoelectric conversion element in each of the pixels; a read transistor for reading electric charges photoelectrically-converted in the photoelectric conversion elements to a floating diffusion portion; a shallow trench element isolation region bordering the floating diffusion portion; and an impurity diffusion isolation region for other element isolation regions than the shallow trench element isolation region. | 02-28-2013 |
20130050261 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROVIDING MEDIUM - The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054420 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROVIDING MEDIUM - The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data. | 02-28-2013 |
20130055085 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROVIDING MEDIUM - The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data. | 02-28-2013 |
20130055130 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROVIDING MEDIUM - The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data. | 02-28-2013 |
20130055141 | USER INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING BOOKS - A system and method for employing a user interface to facilitate user access to books. The example method includes displaying a band of plural adjacent tiles, wherein each tile represents a book or collection of books, and wherein the band is scrollable in response to a specific user input; and arranging adjacent tiles based on a sorting rule, wherein the sorting rule includes arranging each tile according to a recency of use of a book associated with each tile. In a more specific embodiment, the method further includes displaying content associated with a book in response to user selection of a tile associated therewith, wherein the content pertains to a most recently viewed portion of the book. A menu activatable via the band may enable access to recommendations of content based on content present in the band of plural adjacent tiles; access a library of books, and so on. | 02-28-2013 |
20130055162 | USER INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING GAMES - A system and method for employing a user interface to facilitate user access to games. The example method includes displaying a band of plural adjacent tiles, wherein each tile represents a game, and wherein the band is scrollable in response to a specific user input; and arranging adjacent tiles based on a sorting rule, wherein the sorting rule includes arranging each tile according to a time of use and/or a time of download of a game associated with each tile. In a more specific embodiment, the method further includes illustrating, via the adjacent tiles, one or more games corresponding to one or game recommendations obtained in response to accessing a social network associated with a user of the user interface. Menu selections can allow access to recommendations; access to related games; access to games based on social network usage, and so on. | 02-28-2013 |
20130056728 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a thin film transistor capable of improving reliability in the thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer. A thin film transistor including: a gate electrode; a gate insulating film formed on the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer forming a channel region corresponding to the gate electrode on the gate insulating film; a channel protective film formed at least in a region corresponding to the channel region on the oxide semiconductor layer; and a source/drain electrode. A top face and a side face of the oxide semiconductor layer are covered with the source/drain electrode and the channel protective layer on the gate insulating film. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056762 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display device having a base substrate provided with light-emitting devices and terminal electrodes connected thereto; a sealing substrate disposed to face the base substrate; a first resin material between the base substrate and the sealing substrate so as to surround a first region in which the light-emitting devices are provided; and a second resin material between the base substrate and the sealing substrate and is filled in the first region surrounded by the first resin material so as to seal the light-emitting devices. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056768 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING A DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a plurality of main pixels. Each main pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels. At least two of the sub-pixels emit light of different colors. The at least two sub-pixels are different in size. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057458 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIXEL CIRCUIT - The display device including a pixel circuit has a first line, a transistor, a light emitting element, and a second line. The transistor is located between the second line and an electrode of the light emitting element. Either the first line or the second line is wired in a region that overlaps a light emitting region of the light emitting element in a lamination direction of layers. The second line intersects the first line outside of the light emitting region and overlaps a non-light emitting region of the light emitting element. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057584 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROVIDING MEDIUM - The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057735 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes a color filter array based on a checkered pattern array and in which two pixels adjacent to each other in at least one of upper/lower and right/left directions have the same color. The color filter array is a color filter array in which a spatial sampling point (x, y) is approximately arranged in at least one of (x=3*(2n−1+oe)+1±2 and y=3m−2 (n and m are an integer, oe has a value of 0 when m is an odd number and 1 when m is an even number)) and (x=3*(2n−1+oe)+1 and y=3m−2±2 (n and m denote an integer, and oe has a value of 0 when m is an odd number and 1 when m is an even number)). | 03-07-2013 |
20130059198 | BATTERY WITH ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT IN RELATION TO THE HOLDER - A battery includes a battery cell and a battery housing. The battery cell includes arcuate portions wherein an outer circumference of the battery cell is formed at least in part to be arcuate. The battery housing includes angular portions respectively opposing the arcuate portions and for storing the battery cell therein. Support walls having substantially the same curvatures as the arcuate portions and supporting the arcuate portions are formed along an insertion direction of the battery cell. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060704 | DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT DONGLE - A dongle for digital rights management protection, in accordance with one embodiment of the present technology, includes a digital right management engine and an encryption/decryption engine. The digital rights management engine is adapted to port digital rights management rules of a source of content to digital rights management rules enforced by the digital rights management engine. The encryption/decryption engine is adapted to re-encrypting the source of content into a managed copy of the content, wherein the managed copy of the content is locked to the dongle. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060957 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATION WITHIN A NETWORK AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention relates to an electronic device for communication within a network, comprising a first interface ( | 03-07-2013 |
20130061318 | USER-DEFINED MULTIPLE INPUT MODE AUTHENTICATION - A user can define two or more input modes with respective input values to establish an authentication protocol to unlock a computer or govern other computer behavior. As an example, the user may first establish a particular voice recognition pattern followed by a particular image recognition and subsequent logons can be accomplished only by speaking the voice recognition pattern into the device and then by presenting the commanded image, such as an image of the use's face, to the device. | 03-07-2013 |
20130063636 | SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid state imaging device including: a plurality of sensor sections formed in a semiconductor substrate in order to convert incident light into an electric signal; a peripheral circuit section formed in the semiconductor substrate so as to be positioned beside the sensor sections; and a layer having negative fixed electric charges that is formed on a light incidence side of the sensor sections in order to form a hole accumulation layer on light receiving surfaces of the sensor sections. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064123 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL, MESSAGE SENDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR ALLOWING TERMINAL TO EXECUTE THE METHOD - Upon receiving a beacon, a terminal B sends a RTS control message to a terminal A before sending a registration request message to the terminal A. Upon receiving the RTS control message, the terminal A sends a CTS control message. The terminal B measures the time from when the RTS control message is sent to when the CTS control message is received so as to calculate the distance with the terminal A. If the distance with the terminal A is within a predetermined distance X | 03-14-2013 |
20130065540 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication device including: a first radio communication unit capable of radio communication in accordance with a first communication method; and a second radio communication unit capable of radio communication in accordance with a second communication method using a higher frequency band than the first communication method, wherein the first radio communication unit transmits an instruction signal instructing to learn a beam directionality to another communication device, and the second radio communication unit transmits a beam reference signal used for learning a beam directionality to said another communication device after completion of transmission of the instruction signal by the first radio communication unit and before reception of a response signal to the instruction signal. | 03-14-2013 |
20130067223 | CONTENT TRANSMISSION DEVICE, CONTENT TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USED THEREWITH - A content transmission device for transmitting content, whose copying is controlled, includes an authentication section for performing an authentication procedure between the content transmission device and a content receiving device, a first copy-control-information processing section for processing first copy control information describing copy control information concerning the content, a second copy-control-information processing section for processing second copy control information including content information different from the first copy control information, and a content transmission section for generating and transmitting, to the content receiving device, a packet including a header including the first copy control information and the second copy control information, and a payload obtained by encrypting the content with a predetermined content key. | 03-14-2013 |
20130067337 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROVIDING MEDIUM - The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data. | 03-14-2013 |
20130067356 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention is related to an information processing system that simultaneously shares content data in private virtual spaces. A home server is arranged at a user's home. A portable user terminal can access the home server and a virtual home DB server supplies the layout information about virtual home to the portable user terminal. An authentication server executes authentication processing on the portable user terminal. An inter-user-terminal communication relay server executes the processing associated with the communication between a plurality of users. A user information holding server stores the personal data of each user and the content data, which are shared with other users. This system thus realizes realtime communication via the Internet. | 03-14-2013 |
20130069763 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION STORING APPARATUS, BIOLOGICAL AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, DATA STRUCTURE FOR BIOLOGICAL AUTHENTICATION, AND BIOLOGICAL AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A biological information storing apparatus includes: a biological information storing unit for storing biological information for authenticating reception of a first service; a biological information acquisition unit for acquiring biological information for authenticating reception of a second service different from the first service; and a determination unit for determining whether the biological information acquired by the acquisition unit and the biological information stored in the storing unit coincide with each other, wherein when the determination unit determines that the biological information acquired by the acquisition unit and the biological information stored in the storing unit coincide with each other, either the biological information acquired by the acquisition unit or the biological information stored in the storing unit is selected and stored into the storing unit as biological information for authenticating the reception of the first service and the second service. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069850 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS - A head-mounted display apparatus includes an image display device, a wearing device with which the image display device is worn on a head of an observer, and an attachment member with which the image display device is attached to the wearing device. The attachment member is capable of adjusting a position of the image display device relative to the wearing device independently in a first direction and in a second direction, the first direction being defined by a virtual line connecting centers of eyes of the observer, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction and extending vertically with respect to the observer. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069851 | EL DISPLAY PANEL, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND EL DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - An electro luminescence display panel adopting an active-matrix driving method and including pixel circuits, a capacitor control line, a coupling capacitor, and a pulse voltage source. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069927 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING CONTROLLING METHOD WITH TEMPORARY LOWERING OF POWER SUPPLY POTENTIAL DURING MOBILITY CORRECTION - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels disposed in rows and columns, and a number of power supply lines and scanning lines equal to the number of the rows of the pixels, each of the power supply lines being wired commonly to those of the pixels which are juxtaposed in a direction of a row. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070118 | TIMING ADJUSTMENT CIRCUIT, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A timing adjustment circuit includes at least one data line; a phase synchronization circuit that includes a plurality of oscillation delay elements which oscillate an oscillation signal, and that is configured to oscillate the oscillation signal by synchronizing a phase of a feedback clock with a phase of a reference clock; at least one delay circuit that includes a delay element which is disposed on the data line and which is equivalent to one of the plurality of oscillation delay elements, and that is configured to delay data which is to be transmitted on the data line; and a delay adjustment unit configured to adjust an amount of delay of the delay element of the delay circuit in accordance with a signal associated with oscillation of the phase synchronization circuit. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070141 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device comprising a plurality of unit pixels each comprising (a) a photoelectric conversion element operative to generate a charge in response to incident light, (b) a first storage element in which the charge generated by the photoelectric conversion element is stored and (c) a second storage element in which a charge based on the charge stored in the first storage element is stored, wherein, for each pixel, the second storage element is located at an opposite side of a light receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion element. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070713 | PILOT ALLOCATION IN MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEMS WITH FREQUENCY NOTCHING - The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus for transmitting signals in a multi carrier system, in which pilot signals and data mapped on frequency carriers are transmitted in a transmission bandwidth, wherein apart of sai transmission bandwidth is not used to transmit signals, comprising pilot signal mapping means for mapping pilot signals onto selected frequency carriers according to a pilot pattern which is adapted for a channel estimation in a corresponding receiving apparatus, said pilot pattern enabling a channel estimation for frequency carriers next to said part of said transmission bandwidth which is not used to transmit signals. The present invention further relates to a corresponding method as well as a pilot pattern. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070873 | SIGNAL ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAMS AND RECORDING MEDIUMS - A signal decoding method including the steps of: (a) de-multiplexing compressed data in an input signal and generating encoded data for at least one low frequency sub-band signal and information characterizing at least one high frequency sub-band signal; (b) decoding the encoded data and generating a low frequency sub-band signal; (c) generating at least one high frequency band signal using the low frequency sub-band signal and at least one item of the information characterizing the at least one high frequency sub-band signal; (d) adjusting a gain of the at least one high frequency band signal using the at least one item of information characterizing the at least one high frequency sub-band signal; and (e) generating a time series signal by combining the low frequency sub-band signal and the at least one high frequency sub-band signal | 03-21-2013 |
20130071045 | IMAGE TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, IMAGE RECEIVING APPARATUS, IMAGE TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE TRANSMITTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE RECEIVING PROGRAM - An image transmitting apparatus includes a region detecting unit detecting, in an image, a region of interest matching a predetermined condition; a resolution converting unit selecting, for reducing resolution of the image, an image passed through a low-pass filter as an image outside the detected region of interest and an image not passed through the low-pass filter as an image inside the region of interest; and a transmitting unit transmitting the image with reduced resolution and positional information of the region of interest. An image receiving apparatus includes a resolution restoring unit performing image quality improvement processing on the region of interest obtained from the positional information and included in the image transmitted from the image transmitting apparatus so as to increase resolution in the region of interest; and a combining unit combining the image inside the processed region of interest with the image outside the region of interest. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING A PERSONAL CHANNEL FOR INTERACTIVE TELEVISION - A system and method for effectively implementing a personal channel for interactive television comprises a personal channel manager that may include a configuration module, a search module, and a content packaging module. A system user may utilize the configuration module to perform a personal channel configuration procedure to specify personal channel configuration data for performing a content record search procedure. The search module may manage the content record search procedure according to one or more search parameters that may be defined during the personal channel configuration procedure. The search module finds content records from content databases during the foregoing content record search procedure. The content packaging module coordinates a content record sorting procedure according to user-specified sorting criteria. | 03-21-2013 |
20130076603 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus has a pixel array section including: pixel circuits which are each provided with a driving transistor and an electro-optical device and are laid out to form a matrix; and a draw wire provided in each of the pixel circuits to serve as a wire connecting the driving transistor to a power-supply providing line, wherein the resistance of the draw wire is relatively large in the pixel circuit close to a source applying a power-supply voltage to the power-supply providing line. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077141 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND VIRTUAL IMAGE DISPLAY - An optical device includes: a light guide plate receiving, for each of N types of wavelength bands, a plurality of parallel light beams with different incident angles each corresponding to view angles, and guiding the received parallel light beams; a first and a second volume hologram gratings of reflection type having a diffraction configuration which includes N types of interference fringes each corresponding to the N types of wavelength bands, and diffracting/reflecting the parallel light beams. The optical device satisfies for each wavelength band, a relationship of ‘P>L’, where ‘L’ represents a central diffraction wavelength in the first and second volume hologram gratings, defined for a parallel light beam corresponding to a central view angle, and ‘P’ represents a peak wavelength of the parallel light beams. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077695 | IMPLEMENTATION OF A DV VIDEO DECODER WITH A VLIW PROCESSOR AND A VARIABLE LENGHT DECODING UNIT - A decoder for decoding a plurality of digital video data is described. In an embodiment, the decoder comprises a DV video decoder for decoding digital video data which is formatted according to the DV standard. The DV video decoder has a Very-Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor and a variable length decoding unit. The VLIW processor includes a preparser unit for recovering a decoding order of the digital video data so that the variable length decoding unit can process the digital video data. The variable length decoding unit decodes a variable length coding format of the digital video data which has been preparsed by the VLIW processor. Furthermore, the VLIW processor includes a decompression unit for decompressing the digital video data which has been decoded by the variable length decoding unit. In an embodiment, the VLIW processor and the variable length decoding unit are formed on the same semiconductor device. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083073 | TILT DIRECTION DETECTOR FOR ORIENTING DISPLAY INFORMATION - An electronic apparatus having a display function is able to alter the orientation of an image displayed on a display means for displaying images between a first orientation and a second orientation different from the first orientation. A plurality of operating means are provided at positions symmetrical between disposal positions which take the first orientation as a standard orientation and disposal positions which take the second orientation as a standard orientation. | 04-04-2013 |
20130088508 | AUTOMATIC COLOR ADJUSTMENT OF A TEMPLATE DESIGN - The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality of source images that are separate from the plurality of template designs are provided on the visual display. A selection of a color from one of the plurality of source images is received from the user. Colors of the selected template design are automatically adjusted to match the selected the color from the source image. The selected template design may include framing, mat, background, and foreground portions, at least one of which is adjusted. After automatically adjusting the colors, the selected template design may be displayed and/or stored for use as a template. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088529 | DISPLAY UNIT - A display unit includes: a display panel; an illumination device illuminating the display panel; and a drive circuit driving the display panel and the illumination device. The illumination device includes a light modulation layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode sandwiching the light modulation layer therebetween, the first electrode and the second electrode each include a plurality of strip-like electrodes. The strip-like electrodes of the first electrode and the strip-like electrodes of the second electrode extend in directions intersecting with each other, and the drive circuit drives the respective strip-like electrodes to allow an in-plane distribution of a potential difference between the strip-like electrodes of the first electrode and the strip-like electrodes of the second electrode to be constant within one frame period, when a two-dimensional image, a three-dimensional image, or an image including a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional image is displayed on the display panel. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088608 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR RESULT OF IMAGE PICKUP - The present invention is applied to an image pickup apparatus for which, for example, a CMOS solid-state image pickup element is used. One screen image is divided into a plurality of blocks, and a motion is detected for each of the blocks to control the exposure time of the block. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088891 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, DISPLAY UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display unit includes: a display section including a plurality of pixels; and a light source device disposed to face the display section and to emit light for image display toward the display section, the light source device including a first light source emitting first illumination light, and a light guide plate including a plurality of scattering region groups that allow the first illumination light entering through a side surface of the light guide plate to be scattered and then to exit from the light guide plate. Each scattering region group includes a plurality of scattering regions distributed as a whole in a first oblique direction with respect to a vertical direction and in a plane parallel to a plane where the pixels are arranged. One or more of the scattering regions extend in a second oblique direction opposite to the first oblique direction with respect to the vertical direction. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089155 | IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING METHOD - A decoding method decodes a base stream generated by encoding a first image signal of a first view and a dependent stream generated by encoding a second image signal of a second view. The method includes detecting, on the basis of a dependent delimiter indicating a picture boundary between pictures in the dependent stream, the picture boundary in the dependent stream configured by inserting the dependent delimiter at the beginning of a picture in the dependent stream. Further, the method includes decoding the base stream and the dependent stream on the basis of the detected picture boundary in the dependent stream. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089267 | IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD - An encoding method encodes a first image signal of a first view and a second image signal of a second view. The method includes encoding the first image signal to generate a base stream. The method also includes encoding the second image signal to generate a dependent stream, and inserting a dependent delimiter indicating a picture boundary between pictures in the dependent stream at the beginning of a picture in the dependent stream. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091470 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATA OBJECTS - A device for managing image and audio files displays thumbnails, which are representative of the files, on a screen in different arrangements, depending on the selected layout and order. When the user enters input to indicates that he or she wishes to browse through the thumbnails, the thumbnails move across the screen in sequence, following a path through a focus outline in the center of the screen. The path followed by the thumbnails depends on the selected layout. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091497 | CONFIGURATION TO ORDER SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT - In a configuration-to-order (CTO) software provisioning system, software upgrade/downgrade support, software running change support, and software file server management are provided in part using microcode typically stored on a user computer BIOS. | 04-11-2013 |
20130092915 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SOLUTION USED IN METHOD - An organic electroluminescence display unit including: a lower electrode for each device; a first hole injection/transport layer provided on the lower electrode for each device; a second organic light emitting layer of the first color provided on the first hole injection/transport layer for the second organic electroluminescence device; a second hole injection/transport layer provided on the entire surfaces of the second organic light emitting layer and the first hole injection/transport layer for the first organic electroluminescence device, and being made of a low molecular material; a blue first organic light emitting layer provided on the entire surface of the second hole injection/transport layer; and an electron injection/transport layer having at least one of electron injection characteristics and electron transport characteristics, and an upper electrode that are provided in sequence on the entire surface of first organic light emitting layer. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092916 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A thin film transistor includes a contact layer that contains an organic semiconductor material and an acceptor material or a donor material provided between an organic semiconductor layer and a source electrode/a drain electrode. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092917 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An organic EL display includes: lower electrodes arranged on a substrate so as to correspond to red, green and blue organic EL elements, respectively; hole injection/transport layers arranged on the lower electrodes so as to correspond to the red, green and blue organic EL elements, respectively, the hole injection/transport layers having one or both of hole injection and hole transport properties; red and green organic light-emitting layers arranged on the hole injection/transport layers for the red and green organic EL elements, respectively, and including a low-molecular material; a blue organic light-emitting layer arranged on whole surfaces of the red and green organic light-emitting layers and the hole injection/transport layer for the blue organic EL element; and an electron injection/transport layer and an upper electrode arranged on a whole surface of the blue light-emitting layer, the electron injection/transport layer having one or both of electron injection properties and electron transport properties. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093392 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, ELECTRICAL STORAGE APPARATUS, AND ELECTRICITY SYSTEM - A non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes: a cathode, an anode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte having a non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes at least one kind of 1,3-dioxane derivative having a substituent group containing nitrogen or oxygen. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093398 | BATTERY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, CAPACITIVE STORAGE DEVICE, AND POWER SYSTEM - A battery including cladding members in which a metal layer, an external resin layer, an inner resin are laminated; an electrode body which includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode; electrolyte which is accommodated in the cladding member; a positive electrode lead which is electrically connected to the positive electrode; and a negative electrode lead which is electrically connected to the negative electrode, the thickness of the heat sealed portions of both end portions of the positive electrode lead is formed larger than the thickness of the heat sealed portion on a center line in a width direction of the positive electrode lead, and the thickness of the heat sealed portions of both end portions of the negative electrode lead is formed larger than the thickness of the heat sealed portion on a center line in a width direction of the negative electrode lead. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093574 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMNUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device for managing a key necessary for secure near field communication includes an IC card function executing unit, a reader/writer function executing unit, a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a function execution controlling unit. The IC card function executing unit executes a function of an IC card. The reader/writer function executing unit executes a function of a reader/writer. The receiving unit receives a command. The determining unit determines whether the receiving command is intended for the IC card function or the reader/writer function. The function execution controlling unit controls the IC card function executing unit to execute the IC card function or the reader/writer function executing unit to execute the reader/writer function according to a result determined by the determining unit. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093801 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display panel including pixels disposed on a substrate, where each of the pixels includes a light emitting element, and a capacitor. The capacitor of a first one of the pixels is partially overlapped, in a vertical direction, by respective pixel areas of two of the pixels. The anode of the capacitor of the first one of the pixels may be disposed closer to the substrate than a cathode of the capacitor, thereby reducing a parasitic capacitance between the capacitor and an anode of the light emitting element of one of the two pixels overlapping the capacitor. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093826 | PRINTER APPARATUS AND LAMINATING METHOD - A printer apparatus including a printing-medium conveying unit conveying a printing medium, a sheet conveying unit conveying a thermal transfer sheet having an image protecting layer to be thermally transferred onto an image formed on the printing medium, a thermal head with heating elements linearly arranged in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the printing medium, and a control unit driving and controlling the thermal head. For selectively applying different amounts of thermal energy to the heating elements to form an uneven pattern on the image protecting layer thermally transferred onto the image on the printing medium, the control unit randomly divides a row of the heating elements into heating element groups each including at least two adjacent heating elements, applies the same amount of thermal energy to heating elements in the same heating element group, and applies different amounts of thermal energy to adjacent heating element groups. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093927 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image pickup device includes: an image pickup section including a plurality of pixels, the pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element; a drive section performing a readout operation and a reset operation of a signal electric charge, the signal electric charge being accumulated in the pixel; and a correction section correcting a timing of performing the reset operation to allow an afterimage in an image output from the image pickup section to be reduced. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093934 | A/D CONVERTER, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An A/D converter includes: plural comparators to which reference voltages as ramp waves different from each other are supplied, which are configured to compare the supplied reference voltages with an analog input signal; and plural latches arranged so as to correspond to the plural comparators, which are configured to count comparison time of the corresponding comparators, to stop counting when an outputs of the comparator is inverted and to store the count value, wherein the plural reference voltages are offset by an arbitrary voltage at the same time point. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093950 | IMAGE INFORMATION ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODER, AND IMAGE INFORMATION DECODING METHOD AND DECODER - A motion compensation method includes performing a motion compensation of a decoded image signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal in a format in which the number of chroma pixels is vertically different from the number of luma pixels. The method further includes detecting a condition that a reference field has a different parity from a current field for a motion compensation. The method further includes controlling, in the detected condition, the motion compensation so as to vertically shift a phase of the chroma signal in the reference field so that the reference field will coincide in phase of the chroma signal with a current field. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094144 | HEAT DISSIPATION STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A heat dissipation structure includes a circuit board that is disposed inside an outer casing having a chassis formed with air inlet holes, and in which a first electronic component generating heat when driven and a second electronic component not generating heat when driven are mounted on one surface of a base plate, and a heat sink that releases the heat generated in the first electronic component. Here, in the heat sink, a heat dissipation unit positioned facing the base plate, an eaves portion protruding from the heat dissipation unit, and a pair of enclosing portions protruding from ends of the eaves portion in a direction perpendicular to a protruding direction from the heat dissipation unit, and at least one of the air inlet holes is formed in a position facing the eaves portion. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094334 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING DATA REPRODUCTION INDEPENDENT OF DATA PROCESSING - A processing unit performs a method including controlling a reading-out of data from a first storage medium at a predetermined read-out data rate to produce inputted data, and controlling a compression of the inputted data to produce first compressed data of a first compressed format. The method includes controlling a storage of the first compressed data in a second storage medium at a faster writing data rate than the predetermined read-out data rate, controlling a reading-out of second compressed data of a second compressed format from the second storage medium, and controlling a decompression of the second compressed data to produce decompressed data. The method also includes controlling simultaneously the storage of the first compressed data in the second storage medium, the reading-out of the second compressed data from the second storage medium, and audibly reproducing the decompressed data. The first compressed format is different from the second compressed format. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094461 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING SYSTEM INFORMATION THEREOF - A communication system for supporting carrier aggregation and a method and apparatus for updating system information thereof are disclosed. A method for providing system information in the communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes: when system information of said communication system changes, generating first information including information for indicating the change of system information; determining a first cell of a terminal related to the change of system information, wherein said first cell is one of cells to which said terminal connects, and corresponds to a carrier unit currently used by said terminal for keeping connection with a base station of said communication system; and transmitting said first information to said terminal through said first cell. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094530 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DRIVING CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor laser driving circuit supplies a drive current to a semiconductor laser diode connected to an output terminal based on an input signal inputted thereto through an input terminal, thereby controlling the semiconductor laser diode. The semiconductor laser driving circuit includes a first supply portion supplying a bias current, and a first supply signal having a frequency component whose frequency is equal to or lower than a first frequency of the input signal, and a second supply portion supplying a second supply signal having a frequency component whose frequency is higher than a second frequency of the input signal. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094573 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING AND DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, AND SYSTEM OF CODING AND TRANSMITTING IMAGE INFORMATION - A decoding method decodes a bit stream in an image decoding apparatus. The method includes receiving a luma quantization parameter and a weight parameter that is added to the luma quantization parameter as the bit stream. The method also includes decoding, in a decoding unit in the image decoding apparatus, the bit stream, and generating a luma component of quantized coefficients and a chroma component of quantized coefficients. Further, the method includes performing, in a dequantization unit in the image decoding apparatus, dequantization on the luma component of quantized coefficients using the luma quantization parameter and the chroma component of quantized coefficients using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of the luma quantization parameter weighted by an add operation of the weight parameter. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING AND DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, AND SYSTEM OF CODING AND TRANSMITTING IMAGE INFORMATION - A decoding method decodes a bit stream in an image decoding apparatus. The method includes receiving a weight parameter that is added to a luma quantization parameter as the bit stream. The method also includes decoding, in a decoding unit in the image decoding apparatus, the bit stream, and generating a luma component of quantized coefficients and a chroma component of quantized coefficients. Further, the method includes performing, in a dequantization unit in the image decoding apparatus, dequantization on the luma component of quantized coefficients using the luma quantization parameter and the chroma component of quantized coefficients using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of the luma quantization parameter weighted by an add operation of the weight parameter. In addition, the method includes performing, in a transform unit in the image decoding apparatus, an inverse orthogonal transform. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094575 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING AND DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, AND SYSTEM OF CODING AND TRANSMITTING IMAGE INFORMATION - A decoding method decodes a bit stream in an image decoding apparatus. The method includes decoding, in a decoding unit in the image decoding apparatus, the bit stream, and generating a luma component of quantized coefficients and a chroma component of quantized coefficients. The method also includes performing, in a dequantization unit in the image decoding apparatus, dequantization on the luma component of quantized coefficients and the chroma component of quantized coefficients using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of a luma quantization parameter weighted by an addition operation. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094576 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING AND DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, AND SYSTEM OF CODING AND TRANSMITTING IMAGE INFORMATION - An image decoding apparatus for decoding a bit stream includes a receiving unit that receives the bit stream and a weight parameter that is added to a luma quantization parameter. Further, the image decoding apparatus includes a decoding unit that decodes the bit stream and generates a chroma component of quantized coefficients. The image decoding apparatus also includes a setting unit that sets a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of the luma quantization parameter weighted by an addition operation that adds the weight parameter. Additionally, the image decoding apparatus includes a dequantization unit that performs dequantization on the chroma component of quantized coefficients using the chroma quantization parameter. In addition, the image decoding apparatus includes a transform unit that performs an inverse orthogonal transform. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094577 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING AND DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, AND SYSTEM OF CODING AND TRANSMITTING IMAGE INFORMATION - An image decoding apparatus for decoding a bit stream includes a receiving unit that receives the bit stream and a weight parameter that is added to a luma quantization parameter. The image decoding apparatus also includes a decoding unit that decodes the bit stream and generates a chroma component of quantized coefficients. Further, the image decoding apparatus includes a dequantization unit that performs dequantization on the chroma component of quantized coefficients using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of a luma quantization parameter weighted by the weight parameter. In addition, the image decoding apparatus includes a transform unit that performs an inverse orthogonal transform. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094578 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING AND DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, AND SYSTEM OF CODING AND TRANSMITTING IMAGE INFORMATION - An image decoding apparatus for decoding a bit stream includes a decoding unit that decodes the bit stream and generates a chroma component of quantized coefficients. The image decoding apparatus also includes a dequantization unit that performs a dequantization on the chroma component of quantized coefficients using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of a luma quantization parameter weighted by an addition operation. Further, the image decoding apparatus includes a transform unit that performs an inverse orthogonal transform. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094588 | IMAGE INFORMATION ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODER, AND IMAGE INFORMATION DECODING METHOD AND DECODER - An image processing method includes decoding encoded image data to generate a decoded image signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal. The method further includes detecting a condition that a reference field has a different parity from a current field and that the number of chroma pixels is vertically different from the number of luma pixels. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095348 | RECORDING LAYER FOR OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical information recording medium includes a recording layer capable of recording information signals on the basis of application of light, wherein the recording layer contains an oxide of metal X and an oxide of metal Y, the metal X is at least one type selected from the group consisting of tungsten and molybdenum, and the metal Y is at least one type selected from the group consisting of copper, manganese, nickel, and silver. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095378 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY - A nonaqueous electrolyte composition includes: a nonaqueous solvent; an electrolyte salt; a matrix resin; a filler; and a surfactant. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096396 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING AND/OR IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF PHYSICAL TRAINING - A device for monitoring the efficiency of physical training in a human or animal includes a millimeter wave generator that generates millimeter wave radiation and a millimeter wave antenna that emits millimeter waves generated by the millimeter wave generator in a predetermined direction. The device includes a coupling element that couples the millimeter wave antenna to the millimeter wave generator and that transmits the millimeter wave radiation to the millimeter wave antenna. The device also includes a reference element that intermittently receives millimeter wave radiation from the millimeter wave antenna and a detector that detects millimeter wave radiation and produces a first data stream. The device further includes a processing unit that receives the first data stream and generates a signal indicating development of a body lactate level over time and an output device indicating the development of the body lactate level over time, to a user. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097074 | FINANCIAL SERVER, IC CARD TERMINAL, AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A system capable of charging up electronic money cards using a credit card is provided. A PIN is authenticated between a card terminal and the credit card. The card terminal transmits to a credit company server an authentication result, amount information indicating an amount with which to charge up, and a credit card number of the credit card. After billing, the credit company server transmits the amount information and the credit card number to an electronic money server. The electronic money server identifies an electronic money card based on the credit card number. The electronic money server generates amount change information for adding the amount with which to charge up to “VALUE”, and transmits the amount change information to the card terminal. The electronic money card updates the amount of “VALUE” stored therein to an amount specified by the amount change information. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097381 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a management apparatus including a management unit that manages, based on execution control information indicating an execution sequence of a plurality of applications, an execution area and a cache area of a recording medium which temporarily stores the applications when the applications are executed. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097650 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, FILTERING AND STORING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - It is possible for the content distribution side to control the conditions of target viewers for distributions without depending on the functions specific to a receiver. Content which is broadcast, a content profile, and a program are received. In an initial step of the program, prestored viewer profile information is read. All the content profiles and the contents are downloaded temporarily. Next, the profile information is read, and then a process of matching the profile information with the viewer profile information is performed. When it is determined that they do not match, a matching process for the next content profile is performed. If, on the other hand, they match, at the next step, the content is stored. The viewer reproduces the stored content at an appropriate time. | 04-18-2013 |
20130099097 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging element section, an imaging optical system, a transmission/block section, an actuator, and an output section. The imaging element section includes a plurality of pixels, and the imaging optical system forms an image on the imaging element section, the image being formed by an electromagnetic wave from the outside. The transmission/block section transmits and blocks the electromagnetic wave to/against the imaging element section, the transmission/block section being disposed at an aperture stop position in the imaging optical system. The actuator drives the transmission/block section to move back and forth to be changed in state between transmission and blocking. The output section produces an image signal output being differential signaling between a pixel output from the imaging element section when the transmission/block section is in the transmission state, and a pixel output from the imaging element section when it is in the blocking state. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099217 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099222 | DISPLAY, METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixels that are arranged in a matrix and each have an electro-optical element, a write transistor for writing a video signal, a drive transistor for driving the electro-optical element based on the video signal written by the write transistor, and a holding capacitor connected between gate and source of the drive transistor, wherein the holding capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to face one surface of the first electrode for forming a first capacitor, and a third electrode disposed to face the other surface of the first electrode for forming a second capacitor, and the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel to each other electrically. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099223 | ANTHANTHRENE BASED COMPOUND AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An anthanthrene based compound of the structural formula (1) is disclosed: | 04-25-2013 |
20130100104 | DISPLAY, METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixels that are arranged in a matrix and each have an electro-optical element, a write transistor for writing a video signal, a drive transistor for driving the electro-optical element based on the video signal written by the write transistor, and a holding capacitor connected between gate and source of the drive transistor, wherein the holding capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to face one surface of the first electrode for forming a first capacitor, and a third electrode disposed to face the other surface of the first electrode for forming a second capacitor, and the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel to each other electrically. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100302 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND IMAGE PICKUP DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup section having a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion device and a field effect transistor; and a driving section, by using the transistor, that executes read driving and reset driving on a signal charge stored in the pixel. The driving section intermittently executes the reset driving a plurality of times in a one-frame term, and executes on-operation of the transistor by applying, to the transistor over at least one resetting term in the one-frame term or over a partial term in the at least one resetting term, a second voltage that is lower than a first voltage applied in a resetting term in the one-frame term other than the at least one resetting term. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100305 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging lens includes an aperture stop, a front group arranged to the object side, and a rear group arranged to the image side, wherein image blurring correction on an image face is performed by including a lens with a positive refractive force and moving the lens with the positive refractive force as a blurring correction lens in a different direction from the optical axis. The rear group includes a lens group GrA with a positive refractive force and a lens group GrB with a negative refractive force. The blurring correction lens, the lens group GrA, and the lens group GrB respectively include one or two lenses. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100317 | WIRELESS MODEM MODULE SERVER SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for managing data for a wireless device, which includes a first memory for storing received data of a wireless device, a second memory for storing a network operational file, the operational file consisting of instructions for selecting a destination using a wireless module of the wireless device, and instruction steps for operating the network operational file for sending the received data using the wireless module to the selected destination. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100324 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a solid-state image pickup element having a lens provided above a light receiving portion. The manufacturing method includes: forming a lens base material layer composing the lens; forming an intermediate film having a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of a resist on the lens base material layer; forming the resist in contact with the intermediate film; forming the resist into a lens shape by thermal reflow; and transferring the lens shape of the resist to the lens base material layer by etching, thereby forming the lens. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100326 | COMPARATOR, AD CONVERTER, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a comparator including: a first input sampling capacitance; a second input sampling capacitance; an output node; a transconductance (Gm) amplifier as a differential comparator section configured to receive a slope signal, a signal level of the slope signal changing with a slope, at one input terminal of the Gm amplifier via the first input sampling capacitance, and receive an input signal at another input terminal of the Gm amplifier via the second input sampling capacitance, and subject the slope signal and the input signal to comparing operation; and an isolator configured to hold a voltage of an output section of the Gm amplifier constant, the isolator being disposed between the output section of the Gm amplifier and the output node. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100327 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND IMAGE PICKUP DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup section having a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric transducer; and a drive section performing reading driving and reset driving of signal charge stored in each of the pixels. The drive section includes a charge amplifier circuit converting the read signal charge into a voltage, the drive section performs the reset driving a plurality of times intermittently during one frame period, and the drive section performs each reset driving within the one frame period, by using feedback or an imaginary short of a charge amplifier in the charge amplifier circuit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100330 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND IMAGE PICKUP DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup section including a plurality of pixels, the pixels each including a photoelectric transducer and a field-effect transistor; and a drive section switching the transistor between an on operation and an off operation to perform a read operation and a reset operation of a signal charge accumulated in each of the pixels. The transistor includes a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode with a semiconductor layer in between, the drive section applies a first voltage and a second voltage to the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode of the transistor, respectively, to switch the transistor between the on operation and the off operation, and the drive section adjusts timings of switching the first and second voltages between an on-voltage and an off-voltage, on-voltage values of the first and second voltages, or both thereof to be different from each other. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100375 | DISPLAY DEVICE, SPACER, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A spacer is disposed between two polarizing plates. The spacer has a retardation value of 40 [nm] or less. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100785 | RECORDING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including a reading unit, a processor, a transferring unit, and a control unit. The reading unit reads first management data from a first recording medium. The first management data identifies tracks of source data recorded on the first recording medium. The processor compares the first management data with second management data. The second management data identifies files of ripped data recorded on a second recording medium. The transferring unit transfers one of the tracks of the source data, to the second recording medium, when absent from the second recording medium. The control unit controls a display unit to display transferring status by a symbolic figure. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101020 | IMAGE INFORMATION ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODER, AND IMAGE INFORMATION DECODING METHOD AND DECODER - An image processing method includes decoding encoded image data to generate a decoded image signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal. The method further includes detecting a condition that a reference field has a different parity from a current field and that the number of chroma pixels is vertically different from the number of luma pixels. The method further includes shifting a phase of the chroma signal in the reference field in a vertical plus direction according a value of a motion vector in a vertical direction under the detected condition so that the reference field will coincide in phase of the chroma signal with a current field. The method also includes performing a motion compensation of the decoded image signal using the reference field. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101043 | ENCODING APPARATUS, ENCODING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an encoding apparatus, including an intra-block determination section which determines that a prediction mode of a block is a forced intra-prediction mode, by a frequency based on a priority of each block of an image to be encoded, an encoding section which encodes the block, to which the prediction mode has been determined to be an intra-prediction mode by the intra-block determination section, with the intra-prediction mode, and a transmission section which transmits an encoded result of the image to be encoded obtained by the encoding section, and the prediction mode of the image. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101044 | IMAGE INFORMATION ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODER, AND IMAGE INFORMATION DECODING METHOD AND DECODER - A motion compensation method includes receiving mode information that identify a field motion estimate/compensate mode. The method further includes performing, on the basis of the mode information, a motion compensation of a decoded image signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal in a format in which the number of chroma pixels is vertically different from the number of luma pixels. The method further includes detecting a condition that a reference field has a different parity from a current field for a motion compensation. The method also includes controlling, in the detected condition, the motion compensation so as to vertically shift a phase of the chroma signal in the reference field so that the reference field will coincide in phase of the chroma signal with a current field. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101047 | CONTEXT REDUCTION OF SIGNIFICANCE MAP CODING OF 4X4 AND 8X8 TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT IN HM4.0 - Reducing contexts of a significance map includes merging some of the adjacent partitions of the higher frequency transform coefficients into one partition so that the significance of the coefficients in a merged partition are encoded with the same contexts. To reduce the impact of merging on coding efficiency of 4×4 blocks, the partitions of the lower frequency AC components of 4×4 blocks are not merged. To reduce the impact of merging on coding efficiency, the DC component is not merged with any AC component. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101135 | TRAY MOVING MECHANISM AND IN-VEHICLE AUDIO APPARATUS - A tray moving mechanism includes: a unit base having an internal space formed as a containing space; and a tray movable between a retracted position in which the unit base is contained in the containing space and a projected position in which a music player formed in a substantially rectangular shape can be placed on the tray and in which a part of the tray is projected from the base unit, wherein the tray is moved with respect to the unit base such that the orientations of the tray with respect to the unit base in the retracted and projected positions are substantially 90 deg different from each other. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101894 | BATTERY, METHOD OF FORMING A BATTERY CELL CONTAINER, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention provides a battery, a method of forming a battery cell container, and an electronic device. The battery of the present invention comprises: a battery cell, and a battery cell container composed of two folded container portions formed by stretching in one thin sheet, wherein, in each container portion, among the planes where the walls of each container exist, at least two planes are inclined to the plane where the thin sheet section for forming the container portion exists. Through the implementation of the present invention, a larger volume of battery container can be obtained with the same or less material as well as easy positioning. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102062 | MICROCHIP FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION REACTION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a microchip for a nucleic acid amplification reaction, including a well configured to function as a reaction site of the nucleic acid amplification reaction, and the well has a center portion and a marginal portion, a substance anchored in a form that the substance is eccentrically-located less at the center portion and much at the marginal portion of the well, in which the substance is at least a part of a substance for the nucleic and amplification reaction. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102335 | MOBILE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, LOCATION INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, LOCATION INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a mobile device including an identification information acquisition section which acquires first identification information from an approaching mobile device, a location information acquisition section which acquires location information of a current point at a time point at which the first identification information is acquired, and a transmission section which transmits the first identification information and the location information in association with each other to an external device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102350 | TRANSMISSION POWER DETERMINATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method for determining an acceptable transmission power for a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, comprising the step of determining the acceptable transmission power based on quality of a radio signal required in the first communication service, an interference level or a noise level in the first communication service, and a path loss on a communication path about one or more secondary usage node that transmits a radio signal of the second communication service. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102861 | MEDICAL APPARATUS, THERAPY APPARATUS, METHOD OF ESTIMATING OPTICAL PROBE, AND CALIBRATION METHOD - According to an embodiment of the present application, there is provided a medical apparatus, including: a light source unit configured to be capable of emitting light including at least natural emission light, the light being guided into an optical probe; a first detecting unit configured to detect an intensity of light exiting from the light source unit; and a calculation unit configured to calculate to approximate to a non-linear function based on an intensity of light detected by the first detecting unit for calibration of the optical probe. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103217 | POWER DEMAND FORECAST DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM AND POWER FAILURE DETECTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a power demand forecast device including: an absence detection section adapted to detect whether a consumer is absent at a given location; and a power demand forecast section adapted to forecast a power demand on a forecasted date and time in future based on an absence detection result obtained by the absence detection section. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103625 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: evaluation information extracting means extracting evaluation information from evaluation of every user for an item; preference information creating means for creating preference information indicating a preference of every user on the basis of the evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extracting means and an item characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the item; space creating means for creating a space in which the user is located, according to the preference information; and display control means for controlling display of the user located in the space, according to the space created by the space creating means and the preference information. The apparatus may be applied to, for example, an image display apparatus which displays server images for providing a variety of items and information. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103716 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTERLOCKED APPLICATION FEED SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a terminal apparatus including an extraction portion configured to extract from a content to be reproduced signature data representative of a characteristic of the content; a query generation portion configured to generate a query including the extracted signature data; a communication portion configured to transmit the generated query to a server apparatus and receive a response returned therefrom in reply to the query; and an application execution portion configured to acquire and execute an application corresponding to an application identifier included in the received response. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103907 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A memory management device includes a prefetch execution unit which performs prefetching data from a first memory unit, and moving the data to a second memory unit, and an initial data preservation unit which preserves data including at least a part of the data items which are placed in the second memory unit before the prefetch execution unit performs the prefetching, and data including the data which is prefetched by the prefetch execution unit as initial data which is data stored in the second memory unit when a system including the first and second memory units is started, before the prefetch execution unit performs prefetching. | 04-25-2013 |
20130104001 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control apparatus including a first error detection block and a second error detection block is provided. The first error detection block is configured to execute error detection in accordance with a first data unit read from a memory and a first error detection code corresponding to the first data unit. The second error detection block is configured, if a second error detection code corresponding to a second data unit smaller than the first data unit is held in an error detection code hold block different from the memory, to execute error detection in accordance with the second data unit read from the memory and the second error detection code held in the error detection code hold block. | 04-25-2013 |
20130113297 | MAGNETIC COUPLING UNIT AND MAGNETIC COUPLING SYSTEM - There are provided a magnetic coupling unit and a magnetic coupling system which are capable of reducing energy loss when operations using magnetic coupling between magnetic devices are performed. The magnetic coupling unit includes: one or more magnetic devices each capable of being magnetically coupled with other magnetic device in other unit; and one or more coupling reinforcing sections each reinforcing the magnetic coupling. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113393 | ILLUMINATING DEVICE - An illuminating device includes a connecting portion supplied with power, a conversion circuit that converts power supplied from the connecting portion, a case having a tubular shape, a support body that divides the case in the radial direction, and a plurality of light emitting diodes provided on one surface of the support body. The illuminating device further includes a drive circuit that drives the light emitting diodes, a secondary battery provided on the other surface of the support body, a charge/discharge control circuit for the secondary battery, and a control section that lights the light emitting diodes by supplied power and charges the secondary battery. The control section permits lighting of the light emitting diodes by a discharge of the secondary battery in a state in which power supply is stopped. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113416 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROLLING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a charge/discharge controlling apparatus, including: a charging circuit; a discharging circuit; and a control section configured to control starting and stopping of charging into an electricity accumulating section through the charging circuit and starting and stopping of discharging from the electricity accumulating section through the discharging circuit; the charge/discharge controlling apparatus returning a response, in response to a charging starting instruction received when the electricity accumulating section is in a charging state and to a discharging starting instruction received when the electricity accumulating section is in a discharging state, representing that a process corresponding to the received instruction has been executed. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113417 | CHARGE CONTROL DEVICE AND CHARGE CONTROL METHOD - A charge control device includes a current acquisition unit that acquires a charge current value of each battery, and a main charge unit that performs main charge for each battery based on the charge current value acquired by the current acquisition unit. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113418 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS, POWER CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND STARTING METHOD FOR ELECTRIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a power supply apparatus, including: a first switch configured to change over electric connection to an electric power generation section; a voltage sensor configured to acquire a magnitude of an input voltage; a control section configured to control the first switch in response to an input from the voltage sensor; and a voltage conversion circuit configured to convert an input voltage into a desired voltage and output the converted voltage, wherein, when the input voltage is lower than a voltage necessary for starting up of the voltage conversion circuit, switching on and off of the first switch are repeated until the input voltage reaches the voltage necessary for starting up of the voltage conversion circuit. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113436 | CHARGE CONTROLLING METHOD AND DISCHARGE CONTROLLING METHOD, CHARGING APPARATUS CONTROLLER AND DISCHARGING APPARATUS CONTROLLER, AND CHARGE CONTROLLING PROGRAM AND DISCHARGE CONTROLLING PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a charge controlling method, wherein, when charging into at least one of a plurality of charging apparatus each including a battery is to be started, if it is detected that at least one of the charging apparatus is connected or disconnected, then charging into all of the charging apparatus is stopped. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113437 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a control apparatus, including: a discrimination section configured to discriminate a plurality of battery units which are to share and output electric power required by a load; and a control section configured to carry out discharge control for the battery units in response to a situation of each of batteries which the battery units individually have. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113689 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: a pixel array unit having pixels including a circuit configuration, in which a first electrode of an electro-optical element and a source electrode of a driving transistor are connected together, a gate electrode of the driving transistor and a source electrode or a drain electrode of a writing transistor are connected together, a holding capacitor is connected between the gate electrode and the source electrode, and an auxiliary capacitor is connected between the first electrode and a second electrode, disposed in a matrix shape. A signal line used for transmitting a video signal is disposed between adjacent pixels, and from one pixel of adjacent pixels to an area of the other pixel, the auxiliary capacitor of the one pixel is set to be disposed. One electrode of the auxiliary capacitor disposed on the signal line side is conductive with the second electrode of the electro-optical element. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113692 | DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY - A display includes a pixel array part with pixels that each have at least one transistor whose conduction state is controlled by a drive signal input to a control terminal, and a scanner including a plurality of buffers that are formed of transistors. The buffers correspond to a pixel arrangement and output a drive signal to the control terminals of the transistors of the pixels. The transistors of the pixels and the transistors of the buffers are formed through irradiation with laser light that is moved for scanning in a predetermined direction and has a predetermined wavelength. The transistors in the buffers are formed in such a way that the channel length direction of the transistors is set parallel to the scan direction of the laser light. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113737 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device, including: a position determination unit configured to, on the basis of a touch position of an input object on a display unit that displays first information, determine a touch on a display object that displays second information associated with the first information; an operation input determination unit configured to determine if a predetermined operation is input to the display object; and a display processing unit configured to, on the basis of determination results obtained by the position determination unit and the operation input determination unit, move a display position of the first information so that the second information is displayed at a position in which the moved first information has been displayed. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113789 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a comparing unit comparing a size of at least one of virtual clothing or accessories based on dimensions set in advance and a size of a subject that has been captured; and a display control unit reshaping at least one of the virtual clothing or accessories in accordance with a comparison result produced by the comparing unit and displaying at least one of the reshaped virtual clothing or accessories overlaid on the subject. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113828 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit which combines a virtual object with a captured image. The image processing unit determines the virtual object based on a state or a type of an object shown in the captured image. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113829 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation detecting unit detecting an operation of a subject that has been captured, and a display control unit controlling at least one of wearing or removal of at least one of virtual clothing or accessories to be displayed overlaid on the subject in accordance with the operation detected by the operation detecting unit. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113830 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an operation detecting unit detecting an operation of a subject that has been captured, and a display control unit changing a worn state of at least one of virtual clothing or accessories displayed overlaid on the subject in accordance with the operation detected by the operation detecting unit. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113851 | PRINTER, SUPPLIED POWER CONTROLLER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A printer includes: an inkjet print head; an image processing part that processes image data and supplies the data to the print head; a main power supply that is connected to a commercial power source and supplies first power to the print head; a rechargeable sub-power supply that supplies second power for supporting the first power to the print head when power necessary for driving of the print head exceeds the first power during execution of printing; and a switch part that is located on a power supply line and electrically connects the sub-power supply to the power supply line when the power necessary for driving of the print head exceeds the first power. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113882 | VIDEO CODING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a video coding system includes: receiving a video bitstream; identifying a syntax type of the video bitstream; extracting a video syntax from the video bitstream for the syntax type; and forming a video stream based on the video syntax for displaying on a device. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113952 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition part acquiring a subject image obtained by capturing an image of a subject; an image analysis part analyzing an image capturing aspect of the subject in the subject image acquired by the image acquisition part; and a comment determination part determining, with respect to the image capturing aspect, a comment which is added to the subject image and displayed on a display screen based on an analysis result of the image analysis part. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113982 | IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - An image pickup element includes a light-receiving portion having a matrix arrangement formed by disposing first-direction arrays, each having photoelectric conversion portions arranged in a first direction with a predetermined gap maintained therebetween, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and micro-lenses provided above the light-receiving portion. A certain first-direction array in the matrix arrangement is provided with a pair of photoelectric conversion portions that optically receive, via a pair of micro-lenses, photographic-subject light beams passing through a pair of segmental regions in an exit pupil of a photographic optical system, the pair of segmental regions being disposed biasedly in opposite directions from each other in the first direction. The pair of micro-lenses is disposed such that light axes thereof extend through vicinities of edges of the pair of photoelectric conversion portions, the edges being the farthest edges from each other in the first direction. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114134 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: a display section including a plurality of pixels, the display section displaying a plurality of perspective images; and a plurality of separating sections each tilted in a first oblique direction, and each separating the perspective images displayed on the display section into different directions. Each of the pixels has a shape extending differently between in the first oblique direction and in a second oblique direction, the second oblique direction being tilted in a direction opposite to the first oblique direction with respect to a vertical direction. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114218 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT, AND MOUNTING MEMBER - An electronic circuit includes: a semiconductor chip provided with a single-ended I/F including a pad on which single-ended signals are exchanged; and a mounting unit on which a differential transmission path transmitting a differential signal is formed, and on which the semiconductor chip is mounted so that the pad of the single-ended I/F is directly electrically connected to a conductor configuring the differential transmission path. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114667 | BINARISATION OF LAST POSITION FOR HIGHER THROUGHPUT - For encoding the last position (x, y) of the transform coefficients in a given scan order with Context-Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC), to improve throughput, the binarisation is ordered with the unary code of x and y followed by fixed binary codes of x and y. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114760 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERLEAVING AND DEINTERLEAVING DATA - A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data symbols are divided into first sets of input data symbols and second sets of input data symbols. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114857 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: an entire image display control portion that performs control to display an entire image of a predetermined region in an entire image display window; and a cutout image display control portion that performs control to enlarge a plurality of tracking subjects included in the entire image and display the tracking subjects in a cutout image display window. The cutout image display control portion performs the control in such a manner that one cutout image including the tracking subjects is displayed in the cutout image display window in a case where relative distances among the tracking subjects are equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and that two cutout images including the respective tracking subjects are displayed in the cutout image display window in a case where the relative distances among the tracking subjects are larger than the predetermined value. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114896 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a color discrimination section configured to discriminate a color of each pixel of an input image; a boundary region setting section configured to set a boundary region of a predetermined color based on a result of the color discrimination in the color discrimination section; and a noise removing section configured to control a noise removing characteristic based on a result of the boundary region setting in the boundary region setting section to remove noise from the input image. | 05-09-2013 |
20130115728 | FUSING METHOD OF SUBSTRATE LAYER, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND FUSING APPARATUS OF SUBSTRATE LAYER - Provided is a fusing method of a substrate layer including: treating a joining surface of a substrate layer formed from a resin using an organic solvent having solubility with respect to the resin; and heating the treated substrate layer at less than a glass transition temperature or a softening point temperature of the resin and crimping the heated substrate layer. | 05-09-2013 |
20130116842 | POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD AND DEMAND NOTIFICATION APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a power management apparatus including: a power-demand forecasting section configured to forecast a power demand made by an electric-power demander at a future time; a power measurement section configured to acquire a power consumption of the electric-power demander for the time; a demand control section configured to determine a demand for urging the electric-power demander to adjust the amount of electric power consumed by the electric-power demander on the basis of the power demand forecasted by the power-demand forecasting section and the power consumption acquired by the power measurement section; and a demand issuance section configured to issue the demand determined by the demand control section to the electric-power demander. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117478 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS, DEVICE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR INITIATING CONTROL OF AN OPERATION OF AN EXTERNAL DEVICE - There is provided a device control apparatus, a device control method and a program capable of easily initiating control of an operation of an external device through an application according to a status of the external device and a usage status of the application. An application for controlling an operation of an AV amplifier is acquired from an application server, a status of the AV amplifier and a usage status of the application are determined upon startup of the application, a screen according to the result of the determination is displayed in order to arrange an operation environment of the application and then a manipulation screen for controlling the operation of the AV amplifier through the application is displayed, and the operation of the AV amplifier is controlled according to a user manipulation performed through the manipulation screen. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117632 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS - Embodiments of the technology disclosed herein are intended to flexibly set the rules of attaching error correction codes to a group of data sequences stored in a memory. A storage control apparatus has an error correction code attachment rule hold block and an error correction portion. The error correction code attachment rule hold block holds the rules of attaching error correction codes to a group of data sequences stored in a memory by relating the rules with the data for each address of the group of data sequences. If an access occurs to the memory, the error correction portion executes error correction processing on a group of data sequences stored in the memory in accordance with the attachment rules related to the address at which the access occurred. | 05-09-2013 |
20130118551 | COOLING CONTROL APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND SOLAR CELL SYSTEM - There is provided a cooling control apparatus including a measurement unit that acquires a measured value of a power generation amount of a solar cell, and a cooling control unit that controls an intensity of cooling performed by a cooling mechanism of the solar cell in accordance with a relation between an expected value of the power generation amount of the solar cell and a measured value obtained by the measurement unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119178 | CABLE WINDING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a cable winding device including: a base member disposed in a fixed state; a winding reel that is connected to part of a cable and that can be rotated relative to the base member in a winding direction and an unwinding direction; a lever supported on the winding reel and rotated together with the winding reel relative to the base member; a biasing member biasing the winding reel in the winding direction; a rotatable member that is disposed to face the base member, that can be rotated around a fulcrum axis relative to the base member, and that has a control part operative to control winding of the cable; and a control rib located on a locus of rotation of the rotatable member. The winding of the cable is controlled according to the position of the control part relative to the control rib. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119272 | IMAGE OBTAINING APPARATUS, IMAGE OBTAINING METHOD, AND IMAGE OBTAINING PROGRAM - An image obtaining apparatus includes: a light source configured to irradiate a biological sample having a fluorescent label with an excitation light, the excitation light exciting the fluorescent label; an optical system including an objective lens, the objective lens being configured to magnify an imaging target of the biological sample; an image sensor configured to form an image of the imaging target magnified by the objective lens; a movement controller configured to move a focus position of the optical system in an extended range, the extended range being obtained by adding predetermined margins to both ends of the imaging target in a thickness range; and a light-exposure controller configured to expose the image sensor to light while moving the focus position of the optical system in the extended range. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119383 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - Thin-film transistors and techniques for forming thin-film transistors (TFT). In some embodiments, there is provided a method of forming a TFT, comprising forming a body region of the TFT comprising an organic semiconducting material, and forming a protective layer comprising an organic insulating material. Forming the protective layer comprises contacting the body region of the TFT with a solution comprising the organic insulating material. The organic insulating material is a material that phase separates with the organic semiconducting material when the solution contacts the organic semiconducting material. In other embodiments, there is provided an apparatus comprising a TFT. The TFT comprises a body region comprising an organic semiconducting material and a protective layer contacting the body region and comprising an organic insulating material that, when a solution comprising the organic insulating material contacts the organic semiconducting material, causes the organic insulating material to phase separate with the organic semiconducting material. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119439 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A method of producing a solid-state image pickup apparatus, including the steps of: forming a plurality of light-receiving portions on a substrate; forming a plurality of transfer gates to be connected to the plurality of light-receiving portions formed on the substrate; forming an insulation film on the substrate; exposing a base by etching the insulation film so that the etched part of the insulation film between the adjacent transfer gates tapers away; and injecting an impurity into the exposed part using the insulation film that has remained after the etching as a mask to thus form an impurity injection portion. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120002 | TRANSMISSION LINE FOR DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENT AND DIELECTRIC MEASURING DEVICE HAVING THE TRANSMISSION LINE - A transmission line substrate includes at least an insulating layer of a predetermined thickness, a pair of conductor layers arranged in a state of being opposed to each other such that the insulating layer is interposed between the conductor layers, the pair of conductor layers functioning as a high-frequency transmission line, and a fault part formed so as to make the conductor layer on one side disconnected, into which a sample to be measured can be introduced. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120227 | DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A display includes: a drive substrate having a display region and a bonding region around the display region; a display layer provided on the display region; a surface film disposed to face a display surface of the display layer; and a moisture proof film interposed between the display layer and the surface film while being in contact with the drive substrate in the bonding region, and sealing the display layer between the moisture proof film and the drive substrate. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120239 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a display screen having flexibility; a deflection detection unit configured to detect deflection of the display screen; and a control unit configured to recognize a change in the deflection detected by the deflection detection unit as an on operation input and output a corresponding process command. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120313 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a contact detection unit that detects coordinates of a position of a touch manipulation with respect to a touch panel, a storage unit that stores a table that is a command table relating to an editing process with respect to a material that is an element of content, and that at least includes a command to change a reproduction position of the material that is reproduced on a separate information processing apparatus, according to a distance that the touch manipulation moves, and a command specification unit that specifies the command issued to the separate information processing apparatus, from the table stored in the storage unit, based on a detection result obtained by the contact detection unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120339 | BUFFER CIRCUIT, SCANNING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A buffer circuit includes a first transistor circuit having a first conductivity type transistor, a second transistor circuit having a second conductivity type transistors, in which the first and second transistor circuits are serially connected between a first fixed power supply and a second fixed power supply, and input terminals and output terminals of each of the first and second transistor circuits are connected in common respectively, in which at least one transistor circuit of the first transistor circuit and the second transistor circuit is a double gate transistor, and in which wherein a switch element, when any one transistor circuit of the first and the second transistor circuits is in an operating state, is included to supply a voltage of a third fixed power supply to a common connection node of the double gate transistor of the other transistor circuit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120347 | LEVEL SHIFTER CIRCUIT, SCANNING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A level shifter circuit, wherein a first and a second transistor circuit are connected serially, a third and a fourth transistor circuit are connected serially; a first input voltage is applied to the second transistor circuit and a second input voltage is applied to the fourth transistor circuit; an input terminal of the first transistor circuit is connected to an output terminal of the third and the fourth transistor circuits, and an input terminal of the third transistor circuit is connected to an output terminal of the first and the second transistor circuits; two transistor circuits of at least one side of two transistor circuits of a first fixed power source side and two transistor circuits of a second fixed power source side are configured of double gate transistors; and the level shifter circuit has a switch element for applying a voltage to a common connection node. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120348 | DRIVING METHOD FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE LIGHT EMITTING SECTION - A driving method for an organic EL light emitting section is provided which achieves optimization of a mobility correction process for a transistor of a driving circuit in response to luminance. The light emitting section may include a driving circuit with a driving transistor, an image signal writing transistor and a capacitor section having a pair of electrodes (corresponding to a first node ND | 05-16-2013 |
20130120409 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a first graphics chip having a first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a first image signal; a second graphics chip having a second drawing processing capacity higher than the first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a second image signal; an output changeover section capable of selectively outputting one of the first or second image signals; an inputting section configured to input a user operation to select one of the first graphics chip or the second graphics chip; and a control section configured to control the output of the output changeover section in response to the inputted user operation. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120445 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a recognition unit that recognizes exercise of a person reflected in an input image, and a display control unit that superimposes on the input image a virtual object varying according to effectiveness of the exercise recognized by the recognition unit. The image processing device further includes a score calculation unit that calculates a score denoting the effectiveness of the exercise recognized by the recognition unit, and the display control unit superimposes on the input image the virtual object representing greatness of the score calculated by the score calculation unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120475 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - Disclosed herein is a display device including: a liquid crystal display section adapted to display an image based on a video signal; a backlight; and a processing section adapted to correct the video signal and set the luminance of the backlight based on two pieces of information, a peak level of the video signal in a display screen or in each of a plurality of partial display areas into which the display screen is divided, and factor data obtained from a data map made up of a reference position on the display screen and the factor data that are associated with each other. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120570 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PRIORITISING CONTENT FOR DISTRIBUTION - A method of prioritising content for distribution from a camera to a server over an Internet Protocol (IP) network, the method comprising: storing a plurality of audio and/or video data packages to be distributed to the server over the IP network; obtaining information indicating the priority at which each audio and/or video package is to be distributed over the IP network, the priority being determined in accordance with the content of the audio and/or video package; and sending each audio and/or video data package over the IP network, the order in which each audio and/or video data package is sent being determined in accordance with the indicated priority. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120581 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM - An apparatus for detecting the position of a sporting projectile within a scene, the apparatus comprising:
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20130120582 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM - A camera movement correction apparatus for use in a system which detects the position of a sporting projectile within a scene, the apparatus comprising: an interface operable to receive a first and second image of the scene captured by a camera; a reference marker determiner operable to determine the position of a reference marker within the first and second image of the scene, the reference marker being static within the scene; a difference determination device operable to determine the difference between the position of the reference marker in the first and second image of the scene; and a corrective transformer operable to apply a corrective transform to the second image on the basis of said determined difference. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120604 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subject to record this image, and also transmits a trigger signal to a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device image-captures an image to record this image in accordance with the trigger signal. Thus, the first and second image capturing devices enable both of an overall image and a zoomed image to be obtained with simultaneous timing. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120608 | LIGHT SOURCE ESTIMATION DEVICE, LIGHT SOURCE ESTIMATION METHOD, LIGHT SOURCE ESTIMATION PROGRAM, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A light source estimation device includes: a light-source-estimation area setting section configured to detect a background in an image and to set a light-source-estimation area on the basis of a result of the background detection; and a light source estimation section configured to estimate a type of a light source when the image is captured on the basis of the light-source-estimation area. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120627 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging section having multiple pixels laid out in a matrix form for performing photoelectric conversion and multiple vertical transfer sections that vertically transfer signal charges of the multiple pixels in columns, a control section that controls the transfer, hold and addition of signal charges transferred from each of the vertical transfer sections, at least two horizontal transfer sections that horizontally transfer signal charges output from the control section, and a horizontal-horizontal transfer section that transfers the signal charges of one horizontal transfer section that has received the signal charges transferred from the control section to the other horizontal transfer section. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120634 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR SELECTING IMAGE DATA USING A DISPLAY - An image recording apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject, a recording unit configured to record one of still image data and video image data captured by the image capturing unit on a storage medium in the form of an image file, a generating unit configured to generate a management file used for managing the image file recorded on the storage medium, and a registering unit configured to register an identifier of the image file recorded on the storage medium in the management file on a capture date basis in the order of capture time. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120671 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL PROJECTOR - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display panel wherein: dummy pixels are created at locations surrounding an effective pixel area; and if the dummy pixels include same-column dummy pixels provided on the same pixel column as pixels provided in the effective pixel area, at least, a pixel transistor employed in each of the same-column dummy pixels is electrically disconnected from a signal line. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120713 | PROJECTION APPARATUS - There is provided a projection apparatus including a color synthesis section, a projection lens, and a polarization conversion section. The color synthesis section is configured to combine three-primary color light. The projection lens is configured to emit light provided by the color synthesis section. The polarization conversion section is disposed on a light-emission side of the projection lens and is configured to put the color light provided by the projection lens in a non-polarized state. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120814 | HOLOGRAM REPLICATING METHOD AND HOLOGRAM REPLICATING APPARATUS - A hologram master having a hologram image recorded thereon is brought into intimate contact with a surface of a hologram recording medium containing a photosensitive material directly or via a refractive index adjuster. The hologram image is made to have continuous parallax in at least a first direction with a movement of an eyepoint along the first direction with respect to a normal line when the hologram master is illuminated at a predetermined angle. First laser light is applied onto the hologram master and the hologram recording medium via a diffusion plate configured to diffuse incident light in a second direction. Second laser light is applied onto the hologram recording medium via the hologram master simultaneously with the first laser light. The hologram image recorded on the hologram master and first additional information are recorded on the hologram recording medium. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120827 | OPTICAL ELEMENT ARRAY, METHOD OF FORMING OPTICAL ELEMENT ARRAY, DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An optical element array includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a plurality of first walls which is provided upright on an inner surface facing the second substrate of the first substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode which are respectively provided on facing wall surfaces of the adjacent first walls, a third electrode which is provided on an inner surface facing the first substrate of the second substrate, a second wall which partially covers the inner surface of the first substrate and the first walls to partially or entirely surround at least a part of a space which is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a polar liquid and a nonpolar liquid which are sealed in the space surrounded by the first substrate, the second substrate and the second wall and have different refractive indices. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121027 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A light source device includes: a first light source emitting first illumination light; a light guide plate including a plurality of scattering areas each allowing the first illumination light that has entered the light guide plate through a side surface thereof to be scattered and to exit therethrough; a second light source disposed to face the light guide plate, and emitting second illumination light toward the light guide plate from a direction different from a light emitting direction of the first light source; and light shields arranged between the light guide plate and the second light source at positions other than positions corresponding to the plurality of scattering areas, each of the light shields blocking the second illumination light. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121284 | Communication System, Communication Device, Program and Communication Control Method - There is provided a communication system comprising: a first communication device that senses a communication environment surrounding the first communication device; a second communication device that acquires sensed data sensed by the first communication device; and a third communication device that determines availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service based on the sensed data transmitted from the second communication device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121423 | VIDEO DATA ENCODING AND DECODING - Video data encoding apparatus in which arrays of video data are reordered for entropy encoding includes a frequency domain converter for generating a frequency domain representation of data derived from an input video signal, the frequency domain representation including an array of plural frequency domain coefficients in respect of each image area. The apparatus includes a selector for selecting a reordering pattern from a set of two or more candidate reordering patterns, for use in reordering the array of frequency domain coefficients. The apparatus includes a data scanner for changing the order of the frequency domain coefficients according to the selected reordering pattern so as to generate reordered coefficients. The apparatus further includes an entropy encoder for entropy-encoding the reordered coefficients. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121510 | CONTROLLING TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a controlling terminal apparatus including: a transmission section transmitting and outputting a control signal to a plurality of sound outputting apparatus; a display section; an operation detection section detecting an operation for the displayed substance of the display section; and a control section controlling the display section to display, for each of the sound outputting apparatus, an individual sound volume setting region and a master sound volume setting region, the control section changing, when an operation for the master sound volume setting region is detected by the operation detection section, the sound volume setting of each of the individual sound volume setting regions using a value with respect to an operable amount of each of the individual sound volume setting regions, generating control signals indicative of the new sound volume settings, and controlling the transmission section to transmit and output the control signals. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121528 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION REGISTRATION DEVICE, INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD, INFORMATION REGISTRATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An information presentation device includes an object information acquiring unit and an information presentation control unit. The object information acquiring unit acquires object identification information and relative positional information on the relative position between an object and a camera. The object identification information and the relative positional information are obtained by performing processing for detecting and identifying the object for image data. The information presentation control unit controls presentation of information on the basis of the object identification information and the relative positional information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121538 | METHOD AND APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An apparatus for determining the position of a sporting projectile within a scene during a time interval in which the sporting projectile is hidden from the view of a camera, the apparatus comprising:
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20130122808 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication apparatus including a first storage unit, a second storage unit logically or physically discriminated from the first storage unit, a first communication unit, a second communication unit for transmitting data stored in the second storage unit through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling, and a selecting unit for selecting at least either the first storage unit or the second storage unit as a storage destination of the data received by the first communication unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130123995 | POWER MANAGEMENT DEVICE, POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND DEMAND NOTIFYING DEVICE - A power management device includes a power demand predicting section, demand control section, demand issuing section, and acceptance receiving section. The power demand predicting section calculates a first predicted amount of power demand, representing a result of prediction of power demand of a power consumer on a date and time in a future, and a second predicted amount of power demand, being calculated after the first predicted amount of power demand, and represents a result of prediction of power demand of the consumer on the date and time in the future. The demand control section determines a demand for prompting the consumer to adjust the amount of power demand based on the first and the second predicted amounts of power demand. The demand issuing section issues the demand determined by the demand control section to the consumer. The acceptance receiving section receives acceptance of the issued demand by the consumer. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124120 | IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, IDENTIFICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is an identification apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire power generation information from a power generation unit; and an identification unit configured to identify a behavior characteristic in accordance with the power generation information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of information input units; an event detection unit that generates event information including estimated position information and estimated identification information of users present in the real space based on analysis of the information from the information input unit; and an information integration processing unit that inputs the event information, and generates target information including a position of each user and user identification information based on the input event information, and signal information representing a probability value of the event generation source, wherein the information integration processing unit includes an utterance source probability calculation unit, and wherein the utterance source probability calculation unit performs a process of calculating an utterance source score as an index value representing an utterance source probability of each target by multiplying weights based on utterance situations by a plurality of different information items from the event detection unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124516 | DATA DISPLAY SERVER, DATA DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention relates to recommendation of items to a user for providing items more satisfying a user's request on the basis of new association. The present invention provides a data display server connected to a user terminal, which includes a posting database for storing posting data posted through the user terminal, a reference data base for storing reference data, relational metadata generating means which generates relational metadata making association between two pieces of reference data, and a relational database for storing the relational metadata. According to the arrangement, tight linking between reference data is made possible so that items more suitable for a user's preference can be recommended. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124518 | INFORMATION REGISTRATION DEVICE, INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD, INFORMATION REGISTRATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, INFORMATON PRESENTATION METHOD, INFORMATON PRESENTATON SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An information registration device includes an object information acquiring unit and a content information registering unit. The object information acquiring unit acquires object information obtained by performing processing for detecting and identifying an object for image data. The content information registering unit registers target content information in a database in association with the object information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124536 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a difference applying unit that obtains, according to difference feature information indicating a difference between first feature information characterizing an action of a target user and second feature information characterizing another action performed by the target user after the foregoing action is performed and third feature information characterizing an action newly performed by the target user, fourth feature information; and a target extracting unit that extracts information based on the fourth feature information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124632 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A terminal device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire time information and position information, and a generation unit configured to generate an action identification based on acquired pieces of the time information and acquired pieces of the position information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124907 | CLOCK GATING CIRCUIT AND BUS SYSTEM - The present technology provides an excellent advantageous effect in terms of reducing power consumption of a bus system adapted to treat a transaction as a unit. Disclosed herein is a clock gating circuit including: a clock enable signal generation portion adapted to count the number of outstanding transactions in each of a plurality of regions into which a bus system is divided so as to generate a clock enable signal for each of the plurality of regions; and a masked clock generation portion adapted to mask a clock by using the clock enable signal for each of the plurality of regions so as to generate a masked clock. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125391 | MOUNTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MOUNTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE, AND PROGRAM - A mounting apparatus includes a first mounting head, a second mounting head, and a controller. The first mounting head and the second mounting head are configured to each repeat a holding operation of holding an electronic component and a mounting operation of mounting the electronic component held on a substrate to alternately mount the electronic components on the substrate. The controller is configured to compare, when the first mounting head and the second mounting head complete the holding operation and are each in a state of being capable of mounting the electronic component, a first value relating to a remaining mounting time period of the first mounting head and a second value relating to a remaining mounting time period of the second mounting head, to cause the mounting operation by the mounting head corresponding to a larger value between the first value and the second value to be preferentially performed. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127003 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging element including: a transfer section configured to transfer charge generated simultaneously by a photoelectric conversion section in all pixels to a memory section and have a metal gate; and a light-shielding section formed by filling a metal into a groove portion formed by digging an interlayer insulating film around the transfer section. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127326 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH CLEARANCE - A display device is provided, in which view-angle dependence of chromaticity of white or an intermediate color may be reduced. The display device includes a pair of opposed substrates, a light blocking layer provided on one of the pair of substrates while having a plurality of openings, and a plurality of self-luminous elements provided on the other of the pair of substrates, each of the self-luminous elements having an emission region facing each of the openings, and having an emission color different from an emission color of another element, at least one self-luminous element being different from other self-luminous elements in clearance in a display plane direction from an end of the emission region to an opening of the light blocking film. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127334 | LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS, ILLUMINATION APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light-emitting apparatus including light-emitting devices emitting light of different single colors in a visible wavelength region, wherein each light-emitting device including: an organic layer between first and second electrodes and in which a first or second light-emitting layer emitting light of a different single color is included at a first or second position separated from each other in a direction from the first electrode to the second electrode; a first reflective interface on the side of the first electrode; and a second reflective interface and a third reflective interface which on the side of the second electrode in that order at mutually separated positions in a direction from the first electrode to the second electrode. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127363 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes an anode electrode provided for each pixel, an opening insulation film which covers the periphery of the anode electrode and which defines an pixel opening, and a storage capacitor disposed below the anode electrode through a planarizing insulation film, having a function to store charge for driving a pixel, and including capacitor electrodes wider than the pixel opening. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127370 | EL DISPLAY PANEL MODULE, EL DISPLAY PANEL, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DRIVING CONTROLLING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an EL display panel module, including: a pixel array section including a panel serving as a substrate, and a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix on the panel and each including a pixel circuit, and a light emitting region; and a driving circuit for driving the pixel circuits such that a threshold value correction operation is carried out commonly for plural ones of the pixel circuits which are connected to each signal line and writing of a signal potential corresponding to a gradation value is executed time-sequentially for the individual pixel circuits, the driving circuit applying a reset potential lower than a reference potential for the threshold value correction to the plural ones of the pixel circuits before first writing of the signal potential after the threshold value correction operation is completed; the pixel array section and the driving circuit being mounted on the same substrate. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127373 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device including a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, each of the pixels including a sampling transistor configured to sample a data potential from a video signal line which is insulated from and intersects a control line in response to the change in potential of the control line, and a light-emitting element configured to emit light at the brightness commensurate with the magnitude of the post-sampling data potential. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127702 | ELECTROPHORETIC DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY - An electrophoretic device includes: a plurality of electrophoretic particles in an insulating liquid; and a porous layer formed of a fibrous structure in the insulating liquid, the fibrous structure having a polarity same as a polarity of the electrophoretic particles. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127802 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRIVING A DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a display apparatus including a switching transistor, a correction voltage for eliminating an effect of a variation in a characteristic of a driving transistor is stored in a storage capacitor. The switching transistor is disposed between one current terminal of the driving transistor and a light emitting element. The switching transistor turns off during the non-light emission period thereby to electrically disconnect the light emitting element from the one current terminal of the driving transistor thereby preventing a leakage current from flowing through the light emitting element during the period in which the correction unit operates, and thus preventing the correction voltage from having an error due to the leakage current. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127819 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF LAYING OUT WIRING IN DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device includes: a pixel array section having pixels arranged in a form of a matrix on a display panel; a first terminal group disposed on the display panel so as to correspond to each control line of a first control line group arranged in each pixel row of the pixel array section; a first wiring group for electrically connecting each terminal of the first terminal group to each control line of the first control line group; a second terminal group disposed on the display panel for a second control line group arranged in each pixel row of the pixel array section with a plurality of control lines as a unit; and a second wiring group for electrically connecting each terminal of the second terminal group to each control line of the second control line group through parts between the terminals of the first terminal group. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127914 | REPRODUCING DEVICE, SETTING CHANGING METHOD, AND SETTING CHANGING DEVICE - A reproducing device that can reproduce data and operates on a battery includes displaying means, attitude detecting means for detecting an attitude of the reproducing device, determining means for determining whether the reproducing device satisfies a predetermined condition, and controlling means for changing a setting of the reproducing device on a basis of a result of detection of the attitude detecting means when the determining means determines that the reproducing device satisfies the predetermined condition. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127929 | LIGHTING PERIOD SETTING METHOD, DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD, BACKLIGHT DRIVING METHOD, LIGHTING CONDITION SETTING DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a lighting period setting method for a display panel which permits control of the peak luminance level by controlling the total lighting period length which is the sum of all lighting periods per field period, the lighting period setting method including the steps of, calculating the average luminance level across the screen based on input image data, determining light emission mode based on the calculated average luminance level, and setting the number, arrangement and lengths of lighting periods per field period according to the setting conditions defined for the determined light emission mode so as to provide the peak luminance level which is set according to the input image data. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128024 | IMAGE OBTAINING APPARATUS, IMAGE OBTAINING METHOD, AND IMAGE OBTAINING PROGRAM - An image obtaining apparatus includes: a light source configured to irradiate a biological sample having a fluorescent label with an excitation light, the excitation light exciting the fluorescent label; a focus moving unit configured to move a focus position of an optical system in the thickness direction of the biological sample; and a data processing unit configured to expose an image sensor to light while moving the focus position of the optical system in each of a plurality of preset scanning ranges to thereby obtain fluorescent images of the biological sample, each of the plurality of scanning ranges having a predetermined scanning length, the predetermined scanning length being smaller than the length of a bright-point detection range of the biological sample in the thickness direction, the center positions of the scanning ranges being different from each other in the thickness direction. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128048 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is an imaging system including: an imaging section attached to a bottom of a vehicle to capture an omnidirectional image; and a display section adapted to display the omnidirectional image captured by the imaging section | 05-23-2013 |
20130128070 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control for selecting settings for an imaging operation of an imaging unit based on surrounding sound obtained by a sound obtaining unit and an image generated by the imaging unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128094 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging optical system using a zoom lens and a focus lens; an optical system driving unit configured to drive the imaging optical system; and a controller configured to prevent an avoidance operation of avoiding an influence of hysteresis of a position of the zoom lens having the hysteresis with respect to a driving direction of the zoom lens in a first operation mode of recording an moving image and to control the optical system driving unit to perform the avoidance operation at a predetermined timing in a second operation mode different from the first operation mode. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128095 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state image capture device including: at least one photoelectric converter at an image capture surface of a substrate; at least one on-chip lens at the image capture surface of the substrate and above a light-receiving surface of the photoelectric converter; and an antireflection layer on an upper surface of the on-chip lens. The antireflection layer contains a binder resin having a lower refractive index than that of the on-chip lens and low-refractive-index particles having a lower refractive index than that of the binder resin. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128162 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A stereoscopic display includes: a display panel configured to display an image in either one of two or more arrangement states including a first arrangement state and a second arrangement state which are switchable with each other; and a lens array device arranged to face a display surface of the display panel. The lens array device produces a lens effect in a direction, the direction of effect being changed between in the first arrangement state and in the second arrangement state. The display panel includes an array of a plurality of sub-pixels, and a combination of sub-pixels used as a unit pixel is changed between in the first arrangement state and in the second arrangement state. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128337 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, OPTICAL ELEMENT ARRAY, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An optical element includes: a first electrode and a second electrode that are arranged opposite each other, in which the first electrode allows part of incident light to pass therethrough and reflects another part of the incident light, and the second electrode reflects light that has passed through the first electrode; a first dielectric film and a second dielectric film covering the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively; and a first medium and a second medium each interposed and sealed in a space containing a cavity portion between the first dielectric film and the second dielectric film, in which the first medium and the second medium have refractive indices different from one another, and one of the first medium and the second medium is a polar liquid. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128611 | LIGHT BEAM EXPANDING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - An image display device includes an image generating device, a light guide unit, and a light beam expanding device. The light guide unit includes a light guide plate, a first deflector, and a second deflector. The light beam expanding device expands a light beam incident from the image generating device along the Z direction and outputs the light beam to the light guide unit when the incident direction of light incident on the light guide plate is defined as the X direction and the propagation direction of light in the light guide plate is defined as the Y direction. The light beam expanding device is composed of a first reflective mirror on which light from the image generating device is incident and a second reflective mirror on which light from the first reflective mirror is incident and that outputs light to the light guide unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128953 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A reproduction apparatus is disclosed which includes: an acquisition part configured to acquire a transmitted stream; a buffer configured to store the acquired stream; and a decoding part configured to perform the process of decoding the stream coming from the buffer. The reproduction apparatus further includes a control part configured such that if the amount of the stream occupying the buffer is below a predetermined reference value, the control part controls the frame rate of frames for reproduction acquired through the decoding process to be a lower frame rate than normal and that if the amount of the stream occupying the buffer reaches the reference value, the control part controls the frame rate of the frames to become the normal frame rate. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128958 | VIDEO DATA ENCODING AND DECODING - A video data encoding apparatus in which arrays of frequency domain video data are reordered for encoding by an encoder. The apparatus includes a last data item detector for searching a current array for a last non-zero array element according to a searching pattern which searches array elements in one or more sets of a constant horizontal spatial frequency or a constant vertical spatial frequency respectively followed by any remaining array elements of the array ordered according to successive subsets, each subset being selected so that the sum of a horizontal spatial frequency component and a vertical spatial frequency component is generally constant for array elements within a subset. The apparatus including a data scanner for changing the order of the array elements for entropy encoding according to a reordering pattern so as to generate reordered array elements comprising successive subsets. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129089 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION STORAGE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information storage apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store an encrypted content and an encryption key to be applied to decryption of the encrypted content, the storage unit including a protected area in which a converted encryption key is stored and to which access restrictions are set, the converted encryption key being a data item acquired through conversion of the encryption key, and a general purpose area storing the encrypted content and an encrypted content signature file set correspondingly to the encrypted content, the encrypted content signature file containing, as a recorded data item, a block identifier indicating in which of areas in the protected area storage of the converted encryption key is permitted, to permit a reproducing apparatus to execute content reproduction possibility judgment applying the block identifier, the reproducing apparatus being configured to read the encrypted content from the storage unit and execute a reproducing process. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129221 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing device including a synthesis processing portion configured to perform a synthesis process of performing addition on pixels including a region of a subject included in an input image and terminate the synthesis process on the basis of a detection result of a subject detection portion which detects the subject of the input image. | 05-23-2013 |
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 |
20130129320 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus for sending received contents to a recording apparatus and for getting the recording apparatus to record the contents in accordance with preset recording reservations, the receiving apparatus including: a recording ready time information acquisition section configured to acquire from the recording apparatus information about a recording ready time; a continuous recording determination section configured to determine whether two chronologically successive broadcast contents are reserved for recording based on the preset recording reservations; and an end time setting section configured such that if the two chronologically successive broadcast contents are found reserved for recording, then the end time setting section sets the time at which to end processing for recording the earlier of the two contents based on a broadcast start time of the latter of the two contents and on the acquired information about the recording ready time. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130426 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL MEMBER HAVING STACKED HIGH AND LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX LAYERS - A method of making an optical member including high refractive index layers and low refractive index layers, which are each relatively thin as compared with an optical length, and disposed alternately in the lateral direction with respect to an optical axis. Each width of the high refractive index layers and the low refractive index layers is equal to or smaller than the wavelength order of incident light. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130720 | INORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR SENDING REMINDER TIMES BASED ON EVENT AND TRAVEL TIMES - There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132204 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC POP ADVERTISING APPARATUS - An electronic point of purchase (POP) advertising apparatus presents a predetermined POP advertisement. A sensor unit includes a sensor for detecting a person. A storing unit stores a plurality of different POP advertisements. Each of the plurality of different POP advertisements has at least one of (i) moving images or (ii) music. A selection unit selects a particular POP advertisement from the plurality of stored POP advertisements. An output unit outputs the particular POP advertisement in response to a detection signal output from the sensor unit such that the output unit start a presentation of the particular POP advertisement when the sensor detects the person. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132355 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program are provided. An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A receiver receives a command requesting for the execution of predetermined processing. A storage unit stores data and first information indicating, among a plurality of stages in a lifecycle of the information processing apparatus, the current stage determined by the stored data and second information indicating an executable command in the current stage, the executable command being determined for each of the plurality of stages. A determining unit determines on the basis of the first information and the second information whether the command received by the receiver is an executable command in the current stage. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132387 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing terminal device includes: a communication unit; a primary content information acquiring unit for acquiring primary content information; a primary content information holding managing unit for holding and managing primary content information, in correlation with a unique primary content identifier; a subsidiary content information holding managing unit for obtaining subsidiary content information configured having at least playback control information and having a subsidiary content identifier corresponding to itself and an editing history identifier; an editing processing unit for executing editing processing with secondary usage of at least one of primary content information and subsidiary content information; a subsidiary content information creating unit for creating subsidiary content information; an editing history identifier managing unit for generating the editing history identifier; and a subsidiary content identifier managing unit for generating a subsidiary content identifier to be correlated with subsidiary content information and providing this to subsidiary content information. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132526 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system includes: first and second information processing devices for performing communication through a network, which include a first transmission unit for, in the case of data to be downloaded being selected, transmitting a data download request to the second information processing device along with downloaded data identification information, and third information processing device identification information, and a second transmission unit for transmitting a data download request to the third information processing device identified with the data identification information and the device identification information in response to the download request from the first information processing device, respectively; and a third information processing device for downloading data through the network from a distribution server for distributing data, which includes a download unit for downloading data identified with the data identification information from the distribution server in response to the download request from the second information processing device. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132719 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION STORAGE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a data processing unit which executes processing for decoding and reproducing encrypted content. The data processing unit executes processing for determining whether the content can be reproduced by applying an encrypted content signature file. The encrypted content signature file stores information on issue date of the encrypted content signature file and an encrypted content signature issuer certificate with a public key of an encrypted content signature issuer. In determining whether the content can be reproduced, the data processing unit compares expiration date of the encrypted content signature issuer certificate with the information on issue date of the encrypted content signature file, and does not perform processing for decoding and reproducing the encrypted content when the expiration date is before the issue date, and performs the processing for decoding and reproducing the encrypted content only when the expiration date is not before the issue date. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132890 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A file management apparatus includes the following elements: a representative image storage device storing representative image data of each of a plurality of content files in association with a creation time of the content file; a rendering unit rendering the representative image data at a position corresponding to the creation time with a calendar continuous over days, months, and years serving as a background; a display state maintaining unit maintaining, as a display state, a time-axis range of the calendar being displayed and a position thereof; an operation receiving unit receiving a change operation to change the display state, the change operation commonly being a scrolling operation in a time-series direction in any time-axis range; and a controller controlling, in response to the change operation, the rendering means to render the representative image data on the calendar on the basis of the display state. | 05-23-2013 |
20130133005 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus communicable with a plurality of content viewing devices via a network, including a viewing information receiving unit for receiving viewing information of a user in the past, present, and future from each of the content viewing devices, a user viewing content management unit for managing a user viewing content DB based on the viewing information received from each of the content viewing devices and a program guide, the user viewing content DB associating, in a form of program guide, past, present, and future contents represented in the program guide and identification information of users who have viewed the past content, those who are viewing the present content, and those who will view the future content, and a viewing information transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted viewing information of another user to the requesting content viewing device. | 05-23-2013 |
20130133832 | SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION PROGRAM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - The simulation method is for predicting a damage amount due to ultraviolet rays in manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: calculating particle density by performing simulation based on a differential equation for the particle density; calculating emission intensity at each wavelength in a visible wavelength region based on the calculated particle density; obtaining an electron energy distribution function by comparing the calculated emission intensity at each wavelength in the visible wavelength region with an actually detected emission spectrum in the visible wavelength region with reference to information on emission species and an emission wavelength in a target manufacturing process; predicting an emission spectrum in an ultraviolet wavelength region by using the electron energy distribution function and a reaction cross-sectional area relating to the emission species; and predicting a damage amount due to the ultraviolet rays based on the predicted emission spectrum in the ultraviolet wavelength region. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134427 | TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A transistor includes: a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer facing the gate electrode with an insulating layer in between; a pair of source-drain electrodes electrically connected to the semiconductor layer; and a contact layer provided in a moving path of carriers between each of the pair of source-drain electrodes and the semiconductor layer, the contact layer having end surfaces covered with the source-drain electrode. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134453 | TRANSISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A transistor includes: a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer facing the gate electrode, with an insulating layer interposed in between; an etching stopper layer on the semiconductor layer; a pair of contact layers provided on the semiconductor layer, at least on both sides of the etching stopper layer; and source-drain electrodes electrically connected to the semiconductor layer through the pair of contact layers, and being in contact with the insulating layer. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134532 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY APPARATUS - A memory element includes a layered structure: a memory layer having a magnetization direction changed depending on information, the magnetization direction being changed by applying a current in a lamination direction of the layered structure to record the information in the memory layer, including a first ferromagnetic layer having a magnetization direction that is inclined from a direction perpendicular to a film face, a bonding layer laminated on the first ferromagnetic layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer laminated on the bonding layer and bonded to the first ferromagnetic layer via the bonding layer, having a magnetization direction that is inclined from the direction perpendicular to the film face, a magnetization-fixed layer having a fixed magnetization direction, an intermediate layer that is provided between the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer, and is contacted with the first ferromagnetic layer, and a cap layer that is contacted with the second ferromagnetic layer. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134537 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND COMPOSITION FOR SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels arranged two-dimensionally, wherein the pixels each have at least a planarizing film formed on the upper side of a photoelectric conversion element, a filter formed on the upper side of the planarizing film, and a microlens formed on the upper side of the filter. The filters of a part of the pixels are each a color filter permitting transmission therethrough of light of a predetermined color component, whereas the filters of another part of the pixels are each a white filter permitting transmission therethrough of light in the whole visible spectral range. The refractive indices of the white filter, the microlens and the planarizing film are in the following relationship: (Refractive index of white filter)≧(Refractive index of microlens)>(Refractive index of planarizing film). | 05-30-2013 |
20130134576 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, SEMICONDUCTOR-APPARATUS MANUFACTURING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A method for manufacturing the semiconductor apparatus includes an anchor process of forming a barrier metal film and carrying out physical etching making use of sputter gas. The anchor process is carried out at the same time on a wire connected to the lower portion of a first aperture serving as a penetration connection hole and a wire connected to the lower portion of a second aperture serving as a connection hole having an aspect ratio different from the aspect ratio of the penetration connection hole. The first and second apertures are apertures created on a semiconductor substrate obtained by bonding first and second semiconductor substrates to each other. The present technology can be applied to the semiconductor apparatus such as a solid-state imaging apparatus. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134792 | DETECTING DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND DETECTING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a detecting device including a coil electromagnetically coupled to the external, a resonant circuit that includes at least the coil, and a detecting section that superimposes a measurement signal for measuring the Q-factor of the resonant circuit on a power transmission signal transmitted to the coil in a contactless manner and removes the power transmission signal from an alternating-current signal obtained by superimposing the measurement signal on the power transmission signal. The detecting section measures the Q-factor by using the alternating-current signal from which the power transmission signal is removed. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134984 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT AND TEST CIRCUIT - Disclosed herein is an oscillation circuit including: a control transistor changing an electric potential at an output terminal thereof by proceeding to one of a conduction state and a non-conduction state in accordance with an electric potential at an input terminal thereof; a transistor as an object of a measurement having a polarity of a channel identical to that of the control transistor, and connected in series with the control transistor between a power source and a ground; a capacitor delaying the change in the electric potential at the output terminal in accordance with a value of a leakage current leaked from the transistor as an object of a measurement when the control transistor proceeds from the conduction state to the non-conduction state; and an inversion circuit inverting the electric potential at the output terminal, thereby feeding the inverted electric potential back to the input terminal. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135252 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing apparatus includes a sensor for generating a sensor output signal responsive to the three-dimensional coordinate position of a detection target in a monitor space by detecting a capacitance in the monitor space, and outputting the sensor output signal, a position detector for detecting the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space from the sensor output signal of the sensor, a storage unit for storing coordinate information identifying a three-dimensional space region set in the monitor space, a determining unit for determining whether the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target in the monitor space is contained in the three-dimensional set space region, based on the three-dimensional coordinate position of the detection target detected by the position detector and the coordinate information stored on the storage, and an output unit for outputting determination results of the determining unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135280 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes pixel array unit and a driver unit. A sampling transistor samples a signal potential to hold the signal potential in a holding capacitor. A driver transistor flows a drive current to a light emitting element in accordance with the signal potential held. A main scanner in the driver unit outputs the control signal having a shorter pulse width than the time period to the scan line to make the sampling transistor conductive during a time period while the signal line is at the signal potential, thereby adding the signal potential a correction for a mobility of the driver transistor when the signal potential is held in the holding capacitor. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135448 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a viewpoint separating unit configured to separate multi-viewpoint image data, including images of multiple viewpoints and representing intensity distribution of light and the direction of travel of light according to positions and pixel values of pixels, into a plurality of single-viewpoint image data for each of the individual viewpoints; and a parallax control unit configured to control amount of parallax between the plurality of single-viewpoint image data obtained by separation into individual viewpoints by the viewpoint separating unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135456 | IMAGE OBTAINING APPARATUS, IMAGE OBTAINING METHOD, AND IMAGE OBTAINING PROGRAM - An image obtaining apparatus includes: a light source configured to irradiate a biological sample having a fluorescent label with excitation light, the excitation light exciting the fluorescent label; an optical system including an objective lens, the objective lens being configured to magnify an imaging target of the biological sample; an image sensor configured to form an image of the imaging target magnified by the objective lens; a movement controller configured to move a focus position of the optical system in an imaging range including at least a range corresponding to the thickness of the imaging target; and a data processing unit configured to exposure the image sensor to light while moving the focus position in the imaging range and obtain a fluorescent image of the biological sample, to thereby calculate distribution information of the fluorescent label in a thickness direction of the imaging target based on the fluorescent image. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135496 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: an image probability model generation unit calculating a feature amount in units of local regions as division regions of a captured image of an imaging apparatus and generating an image probability model configured by the calculated feature amount, the image probability model indicating the generation probability of each noiseless pixel value; a memory storing a noise probability model generated from imaging element-dependent noise characteristic information, the noise probability model indicating the conditional probability of a given noised pixel value being generated in a case where a given noiseless pixel value is generated; and a Bayesian estimation unit generating a noise reduced image in which the noise of the captured image is reduced through a Bayesian estimation process in which the image probability model and the noise probability model are applied. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135504 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A signal processing circuit of a solid-state imaging element which processes a signal of the solid-state imaging element having a first pixel group and a second pixel group in which a charge accumulation time or photosensitivity is different by α times from that of the first pixel group, includes a calculation unit that multiplies a signal value of a pixel of interest in the first pixel group by α times, a weighting unit that performs weighting with respect to the signal value of the pixel of interest based on a signal value of a pixel associated with the pixel of interest, and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the signal value which has been multiplied by α times in the calculation unit and on which the weighting has been performed in the weighting unit and a signal value of a pixel of the second pixel group. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135509 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes a calculation unit that calculates power consumptions related to a plurality of functions during a predetermined period for the respective functions; and a control unit that performs control to display data of the calculated power consumptions for the respective functions and countermeasures to be used to reduce the power consumptions related to a predetermined number of functions among the plurality of functions, on a display unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135515 | DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM - A digital imaging system for imaging an object is provided comprising a photosensor array arranged in an image plane and a plurality of microlenses arranged so as to direct light from the object to the photosensor array. The plurality of microlenses have different focal lengths and different fields of view. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135543 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DIMMER, IMAGE PICKUP UNIT, AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DIMMING DEVICE - A liquid crystal dimmer includes: a liquid crystal dimming device adjusting a transmitted light amount of incident picked-up image light; a driving section supplying a drive voltage for driving the liquid crystal dimming device to the liquid crystal dimming device; and a control section controlling the drive voltage to control a dimmed state of the liquid crystal dimming device. The control section controls the drive voltage to allow plural-stage shifting of a tilt angle of a liquid crystal molecule in the liquid crystal dimming device when the liquid crystal dimming device is caused to undergo a state transition from one dimmed state to another dimmed state, the dimmed states being different from each other in the transmitted light amount. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135590 | PROJECTION APPARATUS - There is provided a projection apparatus including a color synthesis section, a polarization conversion section, and a projection lens. The color synthesis section is configured to combine three-primary color light and emit combined light. The polarization conversion section is disposed on a light-emission side of the color synthesis section, the polarization conversion section being configured to put the color light in the combined light in a non-polarized state uniformly in all directions. The projection lens is configured to emit light provided by the polarization conversion section. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135749 | LIGHT REFLECTING MEMBER, LIGHT BEAM EXTENSION DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - An image display device includes an image generating device, a light guide unit which includes a light guide plate and first and second deflection sections, and a light beam extension device which extends light incident from the image generating device, along a Z direction when an incident direction of light incident on the light guide plate is set to be an X direction and a direction of propagation of light in the light guide plate is set to be a Y direction, and emits the light to the light guide unit, wherein the light beam extension device includes a first reflecting mirror on which light from the image generating device is incident, and a second reflecting mirror which emits light incident from the first reflecting mirror to the light guide unit, and each of the first and second reflecting mirrors has a light reflecting surface having a sawtooth-shaped cross-sectional shape. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135870 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS, DRIVING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD - An illumination apparatus disclosed herein includes a first light emitting section, a thermal actuator, and a displacement mechanism. The thermal actuator is configured to generate a driving force on the basis of heat dissipated by the first light emitting section. The displacement mechanism is configured to displace a predetermined object by making use of the driving force generated by the thermal actuator. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136414 | IN-VEHICLE REPRODUCING SYSTEM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is an in-vehicle reproducing system, including: a reproducing device; and a display device detachably mounted to the reproducing device, wherein the reproducing device is fixed to a vehicle and includes a reproducing portion obtaining at least a video signal from an attachable storage medium, a manipulation portion carrying out control for reproduction from the attachable storage medium, a first wireless communication portion transmitting the video signal to the display device, and an electric power transmitting portion transmitting an electric power to the display device through non-contact electric power transmission, and the display device includes an electric power receiving portion receiving the electric power transmitted thereto from the reproducing device through the non-contact electric power transmission, a second wireless communication portion receiving the video signal from the reproducing device, and a display portion displaying thereon an image based on the video signal received in the second wireless communication portion. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136417 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processor includes: a recording portion configured to record a table describing a correspondence relationship between reproduction information in accordance with which reality information as reality of contents is specified to be reproduced and which is adapted to share the same reality information with any other suitable reproduction information, and the reality information to which the reproduction information refers, with respect to all of pieces of reproduction information recorded in a recording medium, in one file; a deleting portion configured to delete the reproduction information instructed; and an updating portion configured to update the table when the reproduction information is deleted. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136936 | GAS BARRIER BASE MATERIAL AND GAS BARRIER LAMINATE - A gas barrier base material includes a base material, a resin layer disposed on at least one principal surface of the base material, and an inorganic oxide layer which is disposed on one principal surface of the resin layer and which contains an inorganic oxide, wherein the resin layer is produced by curing a resin composition containing a polymerizable compound having a cycloalkane structure or a polymerizable compound having a high-acid value phthalic acid structure. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136985 | ELECTRODE, SECONDARY BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, ELECTRIC POWER STORAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER TOOL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The cathode includes a lithium composite oxide, a first compound, and a second compound. The lithium composite oxide includes lithium (Li) and a transition metal element as constituent elements. The first compound includes a first metal element different from the transition metal element as a constituent element, the first compound existing on a surface and inside of the lithium composite oxide. The second compound includes a second metal element different from the first metal element as a constituent element, the second compound existing on the surface of the lithium composite oxide. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137169 | MICROCHIP AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a microchip including a plurality of substrates, a reaction zone configured to function as a reaction site of a reaction, and a circumferential path on a circumferential part of the reaction zone with an inside of the circumferential path being at a pressure negative to atmospheric pressure, in which the circumferential path is disposed on at least one side of at least one of the substrates bonded together. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137455 | WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEM - A wireless energy transfer system comprising: a transmitter configured to beam scan RF radiation across a plurality of sectors at a first frequency, a receiver storing energy from the RF radiation, and sending acknowledgements at a second frequency, the first frequency being significantly different from the second frequency, and a controller configured to direct wireless energy transfer from the transmitter substantially at the receiver based on the acknowledgements. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137552 | ELECTRONIC FITNESS TRAINER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC FITNESS TRAINER - A device for controlling and supervising a user during performing a fitness exercise at a fitness device (electronic Fitness Trainer) comprises a controller module for selecting at least one music piece suited for executing the fitness exercise according to a training plan, for monitoring biofeedback data obtained from the user during executing the exercise, for monitoring device data obtained from the fitness device during executing the exercise and for controlling other components of the device, an explanation module for generating an explanation message, a correction module for generating a correction message, a feedback module for generating a feedback message and an input/output module for receiving biofeedback data from the user and device data from the fitness device and for outputting the explanation message, the correction message and the feedback message as well as the selected at least one music piece to the user. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138244 | ROBOT APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A robot apparatus includes a plurality of arm sections; a grasping-easiness calculation section configured to calculate an index value of grasping easiness quantitatively evaluating easiness of assuming a grasping posture for grasping an object or assuming a transition posture leading to the grasping posture for each of the plurality of arm sections; and an arm-section selection section configured to select an arm section to be used for actually grasping the object on the basis of the index value of the grasping easiness calculated for each of the arm sections. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138259 | POWER GENERATION APPARATUS - A power generation apparatus includes a power calculation unit configured to receive voltage information and temperature information from a power generation module, and calculate power generation information of the power generation module based on the received voltage information and temperature information. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138523 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a condition acquisition unit that acquires a task condition of a shopping task, a cost calculation unit that calculates a cost of a candidate of a purchase behavior for executing the shopping task by a participating member participating in the shopping task based on a characteristic of an item purchased through the purchase behavior, and a determination unit that determines the purchase behavior of the participating member based on the cost. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139007 | NONVOLATILE CACHE MEMORY, PROCESSING METHOD OF NONVOLATILE CACHE MEMORY, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - Disclosed is a nonvolatile cache memory including a nonvolatile memory part and a cache controller. The nonvolatile memory part is configured to store cache data. The cache controller is configured to control reading and writing of the cache data with respect to the nonvolatile memory part. Further, the cache controller is configured to perform, as a preparation for an interruption of power supply, standby preparation processing to generate standby state data and store the generated standby state data in the nonvolatile memory part. Further, the cache controller is configured to perform, at resumption of the power supply, restoration processing of the cache data stored in the nonvolatile memory part using the standby state data. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139030 | STORAGE CONTROLLER, STORAGE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE CONTROLLING METHOD - A storage controller includes an error correcting code managing portion, an address managing portion and an error correcting portion. The error correcting code managing portion manages a correspondence relationship between predetermined plural pieces of unit data, and a second error code corresponding to the plural pieces of unit data every entry when plural pieces of unit data and a second error correcting code are stored in a storage portion. The address managing portion manages a correspondence relationship between logical addresses and the entries in the error correcting code managing portion. The error correcting portion acquires the entry in the error correction managing portion corresponding to the logical address as an object of read from the address managing portion, and carries out error correction based on the plural pieces of unit data managed in the entry concerned, and the second error correcting code. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139058 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire display information relevant to displaying a list of content items recorded to a recording medium, and a recording unit configured to collectively record the display information in a single file. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139059 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a recording section recording data continuously acquired via a sensor; and a controlling section controlling a playback of record data recorded by the recording section, wherein, in response to a user input, the controlling section performs control such that the record data is played from a timing predated with reference to a timing of the user input. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139163 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING APPLICATION PROGRAMS - An information processing apparatus includes a communication section that acquires application programs from an external apparatus, a memory that stores an application program and information relevant to the application program, and an application execution section that executes the application program stored in the memory. The information processing apparatus also includes a control section that determines other application programs to be recommended, during execution of the application program by the application execution section. The other application programs to be recommended are determined based on the information relevant to the application program, which includes first relevant information and second relevant information. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139180 | SERVER APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION TERMINAL - A server apparatus which may include an event-information receiver configured to receive information from an information terminal, in which the information may identify an event in which a user of the information terminal wishes to join. The server apparatus may further include an application recommending unit configured to recommend, when receiving the information identifying the event, to the user of the information terminal that the information terminal execute one or more event-related applications at timings when the event-related applications are available, respectively, in which the one or more event-related applications may relate to the event in which the user wishes to join. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139190 | PATTERN TRANSFER MEDIUM MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, PATTERN TRANSFER MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD, DISC-SHAPED PATTERN TRANSFER MEDIUM, AND PATTERN TRANSFER MEDIUM - Provided is a pattern transfer medium manufacturing apparatus including a disc injection compression molding unit that forms a disc-shaped pattern transfer medium by an injection compression molding using a disc molding die and a disc-shaped stamper and a cutting unit that performs cutting the periphery of a concave and convex pattern portion on the disc-shaped pattern transfer medium, which is formed due to a transfer by the injection compression molding, as a target object. | 05-30-2013 |
20130140287 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR ABLATION - An ablation method including a steps of ablating a region of a substrate ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130140442 | AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD, SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging element including: a photoelectric conversion section configured to generate a charge according to received light; and a plurality of active elements configured to perform predetermined operation on the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion section, wherein a part of a gate electrode possessed by one of the active elements has a projection part buried in a substrate in which the photoelectric conversion section is formed. Thus, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of noise, and provide excellent image quality with a smaller area. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140575 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF LAYING OUT PIXEL CIRCUITS - Herein disclosed a display apparatus including: a pixel array having a matrix of pixel circuits each including respective electrooptical elements for determining a display brightness level and respective drive circuits for driving the electrooptical elements; wherein adjacent two of the pixel circuits are paired with each other, and each of the drive circuits of the adjacent two pixel circuits includes at least one transistor having a low-concentration source/drain region or an offset region of an offset gate structure, the electrooptical elements and the drive circuits of the adjacent two pixel circuits being laid out such that a line interconnecting a drain region and a source region of the at least one transistor extends parallel to a direction of pixel columns of the pixel circuits of the pixel array. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140610 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A solid-state imaging device which includes a plurality of pixels in an arrangement, each of the pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, pixel transistors including a transfer transistor, and a floating diffusion region, in which the channel width of transfer gate of the transfer transistor is formed to be larger on a side of the floating diffusion region than on a side of the photoelectric conversion element. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140658 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY APPARATUS - A memory element includes a layered structure and a negative thermal expansion material layer. The layered structure includes a memory layer, a magnetization-fixed layer, and an intermediate layer. The memory layer has magnetization perpendicular to a film face in which a magnetization direction is changed depending on information, and includes a magnetic layer having a positive magnetostriction constant. The magnetization direction is changed by applying a current in a lamination direction of the layered structure to record the information in the memory layer. The magnetization-fixed layer has magnetization perpendicular to a film face that becomes a base of the information stored in the memory layer. The intermediate layer is formed of a non-magnetic material and is provided between the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140699 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device with a connection pad in a substrate, the connection pad having an exposed surface made of a metallic material that diffuses less readily into a dielectric layer than does a metal of a wiring layer connected thereto. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141377 | CONTACT DETECTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a contact detecting device including: a contact responding section configured to produce an electric change in response to an object to be detected coming into contact with or proximity to a detecting surface; and a contact driving scanning section configured to scan application of driving voltage to the contact responding section in one direction within the detecting surface, and control output of the electric change in time series, wherein the contact driving scanning section performs a plurality of scans of different regions of the contact responding section in parallel with each other, and outputs a plurality of the electric changes in parallel with each other. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141379 | CONTACT DETECTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a contact detecting device including: a contact responding section configured to produce an electric change in response to an object to be detected coming into contact with or proximity to a detecting surface; and a contact driving scanning section configured to scan application of driving voltage to the contact responding section in one direction within the detecting surface, and control output of the electric change in time series, wherein the contact driving scanning section performs a plurality of scans of different regions of the contact responding section in parallel with each other, and outputs a plurality of the electric changes in parallel with each other. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141413 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device, a method for driving the same, and an electronic device capable of making μ correction function reliably even in the case where light emission luminance is low. A potential difference between the gate and the source of a transistor is corrected to a threshold voltage of the transistor. After that, while a horizontal drive circuit outputs a third voltage Vofs | 06-06-2013 |
20130141521 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An image processing system comprises a still camera arranged at a first width of viewing angle, and operable to capture a still image, a video camera having a lower resolution than the still camera, and arranged at a second width of viewing angle narrower than that of the still camera, and operable to capture a video image, a shutter release control unit for initiating capture of a still image by the still camera, a reference signal source operable to transmit a reference signal for controlling the timing of video image capture by the video camera, and an image capture and processing unit operable to receive images captured by the still camera and the video camera, with the still camera and the video camera being arranged in a pair having a pre-set physical relation to each other; and upon receipt of a triggering input, the shutter release control unit is operable to release a shutter of the still camera responsive to the next reference signal from the reference signal source, and the image capture and processing unit is operable to associate a same time code with a still image and a video image generated responsive to the same reference signal. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141525 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An image processing system comprises a first video camera arranged to have a first width of field of view, and operable to capture a first image, a second video camera arranged to have a second width of field of view narrower than that of the first video camera, and operable to capture a second image substantially at the same time that the first camera captures the first image, and an image processing unit operable to access scene geometry for a known scene, with the first video camera and the second video camera being arranged in a pre-set positional relation to each other; the image processing unit is arranged in operation to map scene geometry onto the first image captured by the first video camera, and the image processing unit is arranged in operation to map onto the second image captured by the second video camera at least part of the scene geometry mapped onto the first image, in dependence upon the pre-set positional relation of the first and second video cameras and their respective widths of field of view. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141561 | METHOD OF ANALYZING LINEARITY OF SHOT IMAGE, IMAGE OBTAINING METHOD, AND IMAGE OBTAINING APPARATUS - Provided is a method of analyzing a linearity of a shot image, including: irradiating a biological sample having a fluorescent label with an excitation light, the excitation light exciting the fluorescent label, and exposing an image sensor to light while moving a focus position of an optical system including an objective lens in an optical-axis direction and in a direction orthogonal to the optical-axis direction; and analyzing a gamma value for an imaging environment based on a brightness distribution of one bright-point image in a real-shot-image obtained by the image sensor. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141623 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD IN IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes: a first display panel mounted on an apparatus casing so as to display images or data in a direction towards a user; a second display panel mounted on the apparatus casing so as to display images or data in a direction towards a subject; an imaging processor that performs a photoelectric conversion on incident light from the subject direction to obtain image signals; a person detector that detects whether or not a person is present in the subject direction; and a controller that allows images or data based on the image signals obtained by the imaging processor to be displayed on the first display panel and controls an operation of displaying the images or data based on the image signals obtained by the imaging processor on the second display panel in accordance with at least the detection results of the person detector. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141625 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units disposed on an imaging surface of a substrate; and a plurality of inner-layer lenses that are disposed in correspondence with each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units on the upper side of the photoelectric conversion units and are formed in shapes protruding in directions toward the photoelectric conversion units, wherein each of the plurality of inner-layer lenses is formed to have different lens shapes in the center and in the periphery of the imaging surface. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141631 | AUTO-FOCUS APPARATUS, IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS, AND AUTO-FOCUS METHOD - Disclosed is an auto-focus apparatus utilized for an image pickup apparatus having a focus ring. The auto-focus apparatus includes an evaluation value calculator periodically calculating a plurality of evaluation values for a plurality of areas of a subject image based on high frequency components of image signals of the plurality of areas of the subject image; and a control unit, after detecting that the focus ring has been stopped, performing image processing on an area of the subject image where fluctuations of the evaluation values obtained just before the focus ring has been stopped exhibit a predetermined history, based on an evaluation value obtained in the area of the subject image exhibiting the predetermined history, and outputting instruction signals for moving a focus lens base on a peak of the evaluation values obtained by the image processing. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141648 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - A transmission and reception apparatus, system for transmitting and receiving signals, and method for transmitting and receiving signals are disclosed. In one example, a transmitting part produces an output signal including a first digitally modulated signal. A receiving part includes a mixer circuit and receives an input signal including a second digitally modulated signal. A folding signal may be present as a function of the first digitally modulated signal and a clock signal used to produce the first digitally modulated signal. The mixer circuit performs frequency down conversion on the input signal, and may also be configured to perform a harmonic wave removal function on the input signal that reduces the presence of the folding signal from the input signal. The receiving part may further include a filter circuit that receives the frequency-down-converted input signal from the mixer circuit and selects a predetermined reception signal from the frequency-down-converted input signal. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141964 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY APPARATUS - A memory element has a layered structure, including a memory layer that has magnetization perpendicular to a film face in which a magnetization direction is changed depending on information, and includes a Co—Fe—B magnetic layer, the magnetization direction being changed by applying a current in a lamination direction of the layered structure to record the information in the memory layer, a magnetization-fixed layer having magnetization perpendicular to a film face that becomes a base of the information stored in the memory layer, and an intermediate layer that is formed of a non-magnetic material and is provided between the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer, a first oxide layer and a second oxide layer. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142210 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device has a semiconductor ridge, and includes a first inner-layer between an active layer and an n-type cladding and a second inner-semiconductor layer between the active layer and a p-type cladding. The first inner-layer, active layer and second inner-layer constitute a core-region. The n-type cladding, core-region and p-type cladding constitute a waveguide-structure. The active layer and the first inner-layer constitute a first heterojunction inclined at an angle greater than zero with respect to a reference plane of the c-plane of the nitride semiconductor of the n-type cladding. Piezoelectric polarization of the well layer is oriented in a direction from the p-type cladding toward the n-type cladding. The second inner-layer and InGaN well layer constitute a second heterojunction. A distance between the ridge bottom and the second heterojunction is 200 nm or less. The ridge includes a third heterojunction between the second inner-layer and the p-type cladding. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142233 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A COMMON-MODE SIGNAL IN A POWER LINE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A device for determining a common-mode signal in a power line communication network. The device includes a first line, a second line, and a third line that are connected to a first terminal, to a second terminal, and to a third terminal, respectively. The first, the second, and the third terminal are configured to be connected to a phase line, a neutral line, and a protective ground line of the power line communication network, respectively. The device further includes a common-mode choke configured to couple out the common signal from the first, second, and third line, and the common-mode choke is connected to a termination impedance which is higher than an impedance of the power line communication network. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142359 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus includes: a control section; a signal processing section connected with a plurality of signal processing elements and configured to perform signal processing for enhancing or attenuating an input signal in a specific frequency band; and a crossfade signal section including a crossfade signal processing element capable of replacing at least one of the signal processing elements, wherein the control section is configured to control any one of the signal processing elements among the plurality of signal processing elements, and the crossfade signal processing element, to crossfade to the crossfade signal processing element having the signal processing element as a new characteristic, to perform processing for replacing any one of the signal processing elements by the crossfade signal processing element, and to perform the processing on remaining signal processing elements of the plurality of signal processing elements in the signal processing section. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142452 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a depth acquisition unit configured to acquire depth information of an object included in a captured image, an image combining unit configured to combine the object with an image object having depth information according to each piece of the depth information, and an effect processing unit configured to execute effect processing according to the depth information of the object. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143492 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A communication system and communication method enable various types of near field communication. NFC communication apparatuses have two features in that each can perform communication in two communication modes and that each can perform data transmission at a plurality of transfer rates. The two communication modes consist of a passive mode and an active mode. In the passive mode, between the NFC communication apparatuses, for example, a first NFC communication apparatus transmits data to a second NFC communication apparatus by modulating electromagnetic waves generated by itself, while the second NFC communication apparatus transmits data to the first NFC communication apparatus by performing load modulation on the electromagnetic waves generated by the first NFC communication apparatus. Alternatively, in the active mode, either of the NFC communication apparatuses transmits data by modulating electromagnetic waves generated by itself. The present innovation can be applied to, for example, an IC card system, etc. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144440 | ROBOT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A robot apparatus includes a reception arm determination unit that determines from a left arm or a right arm of a user a reception arm which is used in handing of an object; a hand location calculation unit that calculates a current location of a hand of the reception arm; and a handing operation unit that performs an object handing operation at the location of the hand of the reception arm which is calculated using the hand location calculation unit. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144891 | SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a server apparatus, including: keyword storage capable of storing event-identification information and one or more keywords in relation to each other, the event-identification information identifying an event, the one or more keywords relating to the event; and a first keyword-registering section configured to obtain event-identification information and detailed information from an event-information registering server, the event-identification information identifying an event, the detailed information being on the event, to extract one or more first keywords from the obtained detailed information, and to register the one or more extracted first keywords and the event-identification information in relation to each other in the keyword storage. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144913 | METHOD AND SYSTEM AND FILE FORMAT OF GENERATING CONTENT BY REFERENCE - A method of generating content defined by a file of a prescribed format. A portion of a first work of content is automatically identified responsive to a user selection thereof. The first work of content may be audio, video, and still images. A reference to the portion of the first work of content is generated responsive to the identifying. Instructions associated with the portion of the first work of content operable for use by a playback device to render the content are generated. The reference and the instructions are incorporated in a digital file of a prescribed format operable for use by the playback device during rendition of the content. The file may be stored in a memory component. The playback device is operable to use the reference to access the portion of the first work of content from a source other than the file during rendition of the file. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144982 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF CONTENT EXCHANGE - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a method of exchanging content. The method includes connecting to an information processing apparatus, and transferring a ID of the computer to the information processing apparatus when a connection to the information processing apparatus is detected. The method further includes storing content and data related to the content transmitted from the information processing apparatus, transferring the data corresponding to the content stored in the computer, and reproducing the stored content. The content is automatically transferred to the computer when the computer is judged to be a predetermined device. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145163 | NEAR FIELD REGISTRATION OF HOME SYSTEM AUDIO-VIDEO DEVICE - A near field communication (NFC) sticker which stores a key is attached to a new client device. A remote commander in a home network reads the key using a NFC interface and IR-transmits it to a home network server. Once the client is connected to the network, it encrypts its own device information with the key and sends the encrypted information to the server, which decrypts the data with the key sent from the remote commander. In this way, client device registration is executed easily and securely. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145196 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of electric power generating elements; detection means for determining whether each of the plurality of electric power generating elements has an electromotive force equal to or higher than a predetermined value; determination means determining an input operation performed by a user by identifying an electric power generating element having an electromotive force below the predetermined value when at least one of the plurality of electric power generating elements is determined as having an electromotive force below the predetermined value according to the detection means; processing means carrying out a process associate with the input operation determined by the determination means; and bypass means which is provided in parallel with the electric power generating elements and through which a current flows when the electric power generating elements have an electromotive force below the predetermined value. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145391 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at the request source. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145414 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND LINKING APPLICATION SUPPLY SYSTEM | 06-06-2013 |
20130146748 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes pixels each of which has a photoelectric conversion portion that senses light and converts the sensed light into a charge; and an amplifying portion which is shared by a predetermined number of the pixels, amplifies the generated charge in the photoelectric conversion portion, and outputs a level of signal corresponding to the charge, wherein the a predetermined number of the pixels which share the amplifying portion are arranged in a first direction extending along a signal line via which the amplifying portion outputs the signal, and wherein a length of an area where the amplifying portion is formed along a second direction substantially intersecting the first direction is set to be equal to or more than a length of one pixel and to be less than a length of two pixels in the second direction. | 06-13-2013 |
20130146750 | LIGHT DETECTION APPARATUS AND LIGHT DETECTION METHOD - A light detection apparatus includes an image sensor, a signal obtaining unit, an exposure-time-period determination unit, and an exposure controller. The signal obtaining unit is configured to obtain a first dark current being a dark current of the image sensor in a first exposure time period, and a second dark current being a dark current of the image sensor in a second exposure time period. The exposure-time-period determination unit is configured to determine an optimal exposure time period of the image sensor based on the first dark current and the second dark current. The exposure controller is configured to control the image sensor to be exposed to light for the optimal exposure time period. | 06-13-2013 |
20130146855 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a substrate; a circuit part configured to include a drive element; a planarization insulating layer; an electrically-conductive layer including a plurality of first electrodes and an auxiliary interconnect; an aperture-defining insulating layer configured to insulate the plurality of first electrodes from each other and have an aperture through which part of the first electrode is exposed; a plurality of light emitting elements; and a separator configured to be formed by removing the planarization insulating layer at a position between a display area, in which the plurality of light emitting elements connected to the drive element are disposed, and a peripheral area which is surrounding the display area. A method of manufacturing a display device is also provided. | 06-13-2013 |
20130146903 | DISPLAY UNIT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ILLUMINATION UNIT, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display unit includes: a plurality of light-emitting devices; and a separation section disposed between any adjacent two of the plurality of light-emitting devices and including a photoexcited material. A light-emitting device includes: an excitation light source; a wavelength conversion layer converting excitation light emitted from the excitation light source into light of a wavelength different from a wavelength of the excitation light; and a wavelength selection film disposed on a surface farther from the excitation light source of the wavelength conversion layer. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147439 | ELECTRODE, BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, ELECTRICAL STORAGE APPARATUS AND ELECTRICITY SYSTEM - An electrode includes a current collector and an electrode layer provided on the current collector. The electrode layer includes first particles containing an active material and second particles harder than the current collector. The second particles are present at least at an interface between the current collector and the electrode layer. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147692 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Any one of a write scanning line, a power source supply line, and a video signal line is structured as a subsidiary wiring disposed in the same layer as that having a lower electrode disposed therein. The subsidiary wiring is used in the power source supply line through which a power source drive pulse to be pulse-driven is transmitted, or other wirings (such as the write scanning line and the video signal line). | 06-13-2013 |
20130147695 | DISPLAY, METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display including, a pixel array section configured to include power feed lines, scan lines disposed along rows, signal lines disposed along columns, and pixels that are disposed at intersections of the scan lines and the signal lines and are arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including a drive transistor and a light-emitting device, one of a pair of current terminals as source and drain of the drive transistor being connected to the power feed line, and a power supply scanner configured to sequentially switch potential of each power feed line between higher potential and lower potential, wherein the power supply scanner switches the higher potential applied to the power feed line between first higher potential and second higher potential at different levels in a predetermined sequence. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147746 | CONTACT DETECTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a contact detecting device including: a contact responding section configured to produce an electric change in response to an object to be detected coming into contact with or proximity to a detecting surface; and a contact driving scanning section configured to scan application of driving voltage to the contact responding section in one direction within the detecting surface, and control output of the electric change in time series, wherein the contact driving scanning section performs a plurality of scans of different regions of the contact responding section in parallel with each other, and outputs a plurality of the electric changes in parallel with each other. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147858 | DISPLAY UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display unit includes: a display panel including, for each pixel, four or more types of sub-pixels that are different from one another in luminescent colors; and a driving circuit applying a pulse based on an image signal to each of the sub-pixels, and applying, when the sub-pixels include a sub-pixel of a defect dot, a compensated pulse configured to correct the defect dot to the sub-pixels that are adjacent or close to the sub-pixel of the defect dot. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147930 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display device according includes: a display section which displays a plurality of images intended for different eye-points; a separation section which optically separates the plurality of images for the different eye-points; a travel distance calculation section which calculates a plurality of directional travel distances of the separation section relative to the display section, in accordance with a change in an eye-point location of a viewer observing the display section; and a plurality of drive sections which is driven on the basis of the directional travel distances and moves the separation section relative to the display section. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147997 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, DRIVE METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state image capture device includes unit pixels including transfer gates that transfer charges to diffusion layers, the charges being obtained by photoelectric conversion performed by photoelectric converting sections; signal lines to which signals output from the unit pixels are read out: current sources connected to the signal lines; and a driver that electrically cuts off connections between the unit pixels and the signal lines and the signal lines and the current sources in a transfer period of the transfer gates. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147999 | A/D CONVERSION CIRCUIT, SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An A/D conversion circuit in which a counter is made to be capable of performing counting at both edges of a clock, up/down count values can be switched while the up/down count values are held, and the duty of the counting operation is difficult to be distorted even with the both-edge counting, a solid-state image sensor, and a camera system. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148004 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group having a positive refracting power and fixed in position, a second lens group having a negative refracting power and movable in a direction of an optical axis for zooming, a third lens group having a positive refracting power, and a fourth lens group movable in the direction of the optical axis. The first lens group includes three lenses including a negative lens, a positive lens and another positive lens disposed in order from the object side to the image side and satisfies | 06-13-2013 |
20130148009 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes, from the object side, a positionally-fixed first lens group having a positive refracting power, a second lens group having a negative refracting power and movable in an optical axis direction for zooming, a third lens group having a positive refracting power, and a fourth lens group movable in the optical axis direction. The first lens group includes a negative lens, a positive lens and another positive lens disposed in order from the object side and satisfies | 06-13-2013 |
20130148012 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging lens, including in order from an object side to an image side, an aperture stop, a first lens formed in a biconvex shape having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power with a surface on the image side formed to be a concave surface, a third lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface faced to the image side, and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power with a surface on the image side formed to be a concave surface. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148015 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND ACTIVATION METHOD THEREFOR - An image capturing device includes a first controller operable to control image capturing; an operation section including a switch; a detector operable to detect a change to an image capturing mode and to send a signal representing the change; a second controller operable to monitor and process the sent signal, the second controller having a power consumption less than that of the first controller; and a power supply operable to supply power to the first controller, the second controller, and a functional section of the device. When the second controller receives the signal sent from the detecting section in a power saving state in which power is supplied from the power supply to the second controller, the power saving state is changed to a power supplying state capable of image capturing by supplying power from the power supply to portions of the device including the first controller. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148030 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TRANSMITTING DEVICE - A display device includes a signal receiving unit, an image display unit, a communicating unit, a position designating unit, and an information transmitting unit. The signal receiving unit receives a video signal by a differential signal through a plurality of channels from an external apparatus via a transmission path. The image display unit processes the video signal received in the signal receiving unit to display an image. The communicating unit performs a bi-directional communication by using a predetermined line which constitutes the transmission path. The position designating unit designates a position on a display screen of the image display unit. The information transmitting unit transmits, by the communicating unit, coordinate information on the position designated by the position designating unit to the external apparatus. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148034 | COMBINED TELEPHONE/ TV REMOTE CONTROL - When a person arrives home with his mobile phone, the phone sends a presence signal via Bluetooth to the TV system in the home, which enables a telephone feature in which phone calls to the phone are relayed to the TV system. The remote control associated with the TV has a microphone and speaker so that a person can use the RC not only to control the TV but also to respond to phone calls, with the TV system relaying voice signals from the RC back to the phone. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148243 | ESD PROTECTING CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An electrostatic discharge protecting circuit includes a trigger circuit and a protecting transistor. The trigger circuit includes a capacitive element and a resistive element and connected between two power source lines. The protecting transistor is connected in parallel with the trigger circuit and has a control electrode connected to an output terminal of the trigger circuit. The trigger circuit has an MIS capacitor as the capacitive element, and the resistive element is composed of an upper electrode of the MIS capacitor. In addition, a semiconductor device has the above-described electrostatic discharge protecting circuit protecting an internal circuit connected between two power source lines. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN WIRELESS DEVICES - A device for transferring data. The device includes a processor operable to process a header portion of data without processing a payload. Processing the header portion generates a processed header. The processor may signal a direct memory access (DMA) unit to access the payload of the data. As a result, the DMA accesses and passes the payload to a wireless interface for transmission to a destination electronic device based on the processed header. The processor used to process the header portion may be a processor of an electronic device, e.g., a cellular phone, a PDA, etc. Alternatively, the processor may be a processor of a removable memory component. In one embodiment, the processor may be a processor of a module adapted to receive a removable memory and further adapted to couple to an electronic device, e.g., a cellular phone, a PDA, etc., where the removable memory includes its own processor. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148681 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE - There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor laser device. The method includes: preparing a production substrate on a hexagonal-system group III nitride semiconductor substrate having a semi-polar plane, the production substrate having an epitaxial layer that includes a luminous layer of a semiconductor laser device; forming a cutting guide groove in a partial region on a surface of the production substrate, the partial region being on a scribe line on a resonator-end-face side of the semiconductor laser device and including one or more corners of the semiconductor laser device, and the cutting guide groove being formed in an extending direction along the scribe line and being V-shaped in cross section when viewed from the extending direction; and cutting, along the scribe line, the production substrate in which the cutting guide groove is formed. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148941 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING/PRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a parallax detecting unit detecting a parallax between L and R images included in 3D contents to be recorded; and a recording control unit recording both of the L and R images at a first section at which the parallax between the L and R images is greater than a threshold value and recording one of the L and R images at a second section at which the parallax between the L and R images is less than the threshold value. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149464 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CIRCUIT BOARD - A method of manufacturing a circuit board, the method includes: forming a capacitive device and a short-circuit section with use of a capacitive device material including a dielectric film and a conductive film in this order on metallic foil, the capacitive device including a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer with the dielectric film interposed therebetween, and the short-circuit section short-circuiting the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; forming an upper-layer wiring above the capacitive device and the short-circuit section; and removing or cutting the short-circuit section after the forming of the upper-layer wiring. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149604 | ELECTRODE, SECONDARY BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, ELECTRIC POWER STORAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER TOOL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A secondary battery includes: a cathode including a cathode active material layer on a cathode current collector; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The cathode active material layer includes spherical active materials each being a secondary particle and planular active materials each being a secondary particle. The spherical active materials are each included in a region closer to the cathode current collector, and the planular active materials are each included in a region farther from the cathode current collector. Primary particles of the spherical active materials have an average particle diameter that is larger than an average particle diameter of primary particles of the planular active materials. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149809 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A photoelectric conversion element includes a first semiconductor layer that exhibits a first conductivity type and is provided in a selective area over a substrate, a second semiconductor layer that exhibits a second conductivity type and is disposed opposed to the first semiconductor layer, and a third semiconductor layer that is provided between the first and second semiconductor layers and exhibits a substantially intrinsic conductivity type. The third semiconductor layer has at least one corner part that is not in contact with the first semiconductor layer. | 06-13-2013 |
20130150135 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device is provided and includes: an electromagnetic-wave generating means for outputting an electromagnetic wave; and a transmitting/receiving means for transmitting data by modulating the electromagnetic wave in accordance with data as well as receiving data transmitted from the other device by demodulating the electromagnetic wave outputted by the electromagnetic-wave generating means or the electromagnetic wave outputted by the other device as the other party of communication, wherein the transmitting/receiving means transmits attribute information indicating communication ability of the device itself as well as receives attribute information indicating communication ability of the other device as the data, and the electromagnetic-wave generating means turns off the output of the electromagnetic wave for a given period of time after the transmission of the data based on the attribute information. | 06-13-2013 |
20130150697 | INPUT DEVICE AND CALIBRATION METHOD - There is provided an input device including a plurality of electrodes that are arranged on a surface of a body in a direction crossing a muscular fiber group of the body at a right angle, and detect electromyogram signals generated from the muscular fiber group according to a motion performed by the body; a switch unit that switches an electrode acquiring an electromyogram signal between the plurality of electrodes; and a control unit that selects an electrode detecting an electromyogram signal for identifying the motion from among the plurality of electrodes. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152127 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, BROADCASTING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including: a broadcast reception block; a network connection block; an operation input block; a display block; a broadcast content display block; a network content processing block; a pseudo-data broadcast content processing block configured to process pseudo-data broadcast content having a first designation part and a second designation part, and a data broadcast content processing block. | 06-13-2013 |
20130153424 | MICROCHIP - Provided is a microchip, including independently an introduction area inside having a pressure negative to atmospheric pressure and into which a liquid is injected by puncturing, and a degassing area inside having a pressure negative to atmospheric pressure for degassing a cavity of a hollow tube that punctures the introduction area for injecting the liquid. | 06-20-2013 |
20130153748 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state image sensor includes pixel units each having a group of pixels forming a polygonal outer shape to cover an entire light receiving plane. The polygonal outer shape has at least six equilateral sides and the group of pixels includes pixels receiving light of at least four different colors. | 06-20-2013 |
20130153876 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF LAYING OUT LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENTS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a display device in which light emitting elements of a plurality of colors including a light emitting element emitting blue light are formed in each pixel on a substrate on which a transistor is formed for each sub-pixel, and a plurality of pixels formed with sub-pixels of the plurality of colors as a unit are arranged in a form of a matrix, wherein relative positional relation between transistors of sub-pixels of respective light emission colors including blue light and a light emitting section of a light emitting element emitting the blue light is laid out such that distances between the transistors of the sub-pixels of the respective light emission colors including the blue light and the light emitting section of the light emitting element emitting the blue light are equal to each other for the respective colors. | 06-20-2013 |
20130153893 | DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A display device includes a display element, a transistor configured to drive the display element, the transistor including a channel region, and a retention capacitor. An oxide semiconductor film is provided in areas across the transistor and the retention capacitor, the oxide semiconductor film including a first region formed in the channel region of the transistor, and a second region having a lower resistance than that of the first region. The second region is formed in the areas of the transistor and retention capacitor other than in the channel region. | 06-20-2013 |
20130153976 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is a solid-state imaging apparatus including: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units; an element isolation unit that performs element isolation between the plurality of photoelectric conversion units; and a diffusion prevention unit that prevents diffusion of a dark current component generated on an interfacial surface of the element isolation unit to a region surrounding the dark current component generation region. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154063 | DRIVING SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE, PLANARIZING METHOD, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DRIVING SUBSTRATE - A driving substrate includes: a protective layer including an etching surface; and a film layer including one or more convex portions on a surface thereof, the film layer being in contact with a rear surface of the protective layer, the one or more convex portions each having a surface being flush with the etching surface. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154146 | SINTERING MACHINE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SINTERED BODY - A sintering machine includes: a die configured to accommodate a processing object, and having a hole that extends from an outer side surface of the die toward inside of the die; a pressurizing member configured to apply a pressure on the processing object in the die; and a heating section configured to heat the processing object in the die. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154759 | WAVEGUIDE, INTERPOSER SUBSTRATE INCLUDING THE SAME, MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A waveguide includes: a waveguide portion including a first surface and a second surface that are opposed to each other; a first transmission line provided on the first surface of the waveguide portion; a second transmission line provided on the second surface of the waveguide portion; and a first conversion structure inputting a signal from the first transmission line to the waveguide portion and converting the signal. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154909 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A semiconductor device includes a plurality of thin film transistors of a single channel formed on an insulating substrate, and a buffer circuit including an outputting stage; a first inputting stage; a second inputting stage; a seventh thin film transistor; and an eighth thin film transistor. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155198 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS - According to an illustrative embodiment, an imaging system is provided. The system includes a first imaging unit; a second imaging unit; and an objective optical system optically coupled to the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit, wherein the objective optical system has a first direction along which light is refracted and a second direction along which light is refracted differently. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155294 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP UNIT - A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, the first to fourth lens groups being arranged in order from an object side, in which zooming is performed through varying a distance between adjacent lens groups of the first to fourth lens groups, and the fourth lens group includes a first positive lens, a first negative meniscus lens, and a cemented lens which are arranged in order from the object side, the cemented lens being configured of a second negative meniscus lens with a convex surface facing the object side and a second positive lens. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155310 | IMAGING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE, AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY FOR A CO-EXISTENT SHOOTING AND REPRODUCTION MODE - A currently captured image of an object is displayed at a center of a display frame on a display screen in a shooting mode. When a dial is rotated, the currently captured image is moved rightward. A reproduced image captured before the currently captured image is displayed on the left thereof. Another reproduced image captured before the reproduced image is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image and the reproduced images are displayed simultaneously on the display screen as a co-existent shooting and reproducing mode. When the dial is rotated in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images are displayed in a reproducing mode. The reproduced images are displayed along a time axis. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155312 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a zoom lens, including: a first lens group having a positive refracting power; a second lens group having a negative refracting power; a third lens group having a positive refracting power; and a fourth lens group having a positive refracting power; the first, second, third and fourth lens groups being disposed in order from the object side; the lens groups moving upon zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end of the zoom lens such that the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group increases while the distance between the second lens group and the third lens group decreases. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155319 | USAGE OF DITHER ON INTERPOLATED FRAMES - The present invention relates to an image processing method comprising providing video image frames with a first frame rate, up-converting said frame rate to provide video image frames with a second frame rate, and applying dithering to said video image frames with said second frame rate. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155322 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND TRANSMITTING METHOD - Provided a display device including a receiving unit that receives image data of a predetermined format for each frame; an additional information detection unit that detects an additional information disposed in a specific position of the image data of one frame received by the receiving unit; a synthesis unit that extracts division images of a still image disposed in the image data of one frame received by the receiving unit, synthesizes the extracted division images based on the additional information and assembles the still image greater than the number of pixels of the image data of one frame; and a display unit that displays the still image synthesized by the synthesis unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155360 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element including a pair of alignment films provided on opposing face sides of a pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules with negative dielectric constant anisotropy provided between the pair of alignment films, wherein at least one of the pair of alignment films includes a compound in which a polymer compound including a cross-linkable functional group as a side chain is cross-linked, a pretilt is conferred on the liquid crystal molecules by the cross-linked compound, and at least one type of a compound represented by the following General Formula 101 or General Formula 102 is included in the liquid crystal layer. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155513 | OPTICAL DEVICE, AND VIRTUAL IMAGE DISPLAY - A virtual image display device with an optical waveguide to guide, by internal total reflection, parallel pencil groups meeting a condition of internal total reflection, a first reflection volume hologram grating to diffract and reflect the parallel pencil groups incident upon the optical waveguide from outside and traveling in different directions as they are so as to meet the condition of internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide and a second reflection volume hologram grating to project the parallel pencil groups guided by internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide as they are from the optical waveguide by diffraction and reflection thereof so as to depart from the condition of internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155828 | RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording method includes: generating a laser driving pulse, of which the number depends on a length of a mark which is formed, and where a pulse level of a pulse column at least in an intermediate pulse besides the lead pulse and the last pulse is sequentially decreased; performing laser emission, based on the laser driving pulse; and performing mark formation using thermal recording by laser irradiation on a recording medium. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156060 | LASER DIODE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LASER DIODE DEVICE - A laser diode device includes: a semiconductor substrate including a semi-polar surface, the semiconductor substrate being formed of a hexagonal III-nitride semiconductor; an epitaxial layer including a light emitting layer, the epitaxial layer being formed on the semi-polar surface of the semiconductor substrate, and the epitaxial layer including a ridge section; a first electrode formed on a top surface of the ridge section; an insulating layer covering the epitaxial layer in an adjacent region of the ridge section and a side surface of the ridge section, the insulating layer covering part or all of side surfaces of the first electrode continuously from the epitaxial layer; a pad electrode formed to cover a top surface of the first electrode and the insulating layer, the pad electrode being electrically connected to the first electrode; and a second electrode formed on a surface, of the semiconductor substrate, opposite to the semi-polar surface. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156110 | Image Processing System, Image Processing Method And Program - There is provided an image processing system and an image processing method able to suppress block distortion in the case of decoding Image data encoded in unit of blocks. A controlling unit selects a filtering content to be applied to the block image data based on the encoding types of the block image data to be filtered, and a filtering unit applies filtering to the block image data to be processed according to the filtering content selected by the controlling unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156128 | Transmission Device, Communication System, Transmission Method and Program - A transmission device of the present invention includes a baseband waveform generator to generate a transmission signal by using a transfer function H | 06-20-2013 |
20130156277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: an acquisition section configured to acquire personal identification information for identifying a person relating to first image information and image evaluation information produced by evaluating the first image information in accordance with an image of a main imaging object detected based on the first image information; and a setting section configured to set an evaluation condition for evaluating second image information based on the personal identification information and the image evaluation information. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156333 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device which includes an encoding processing unit which generates a data stream in which markers denoting segmentation of image encoding processing are inserted, and a marker information generation unit which generates marker information which is provided with position information denoting a position in the data stream of a selected marker with a predetermined marker thinning-out interval from the markers which are inserted. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156338 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus including: an error determination processing unit inputting a distance image having distance information or parallax information up to the subject, detecting an error signal included in the distance image, and outputting a synthesis coefficient according to an error degree of an image region unit; a low pass filter processing unit applying a low pass filter with respect to the distance image and generating a noise reduction distance image; and a distance image synthesis unit generating a corrected distance image using a synthesis process of the distance image and the noise reduction distance image, in which, the distance image synthesis unit follows a synthesis coefficient of an image region unit output by the error determination processing unit, performs synthesis processing in which the synthesis ratio of the distance image and the noise reduction image is set in the image region units, and generates the corrected distance image. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157127 | ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE BATTERY, RECHARGEABLE BATTERY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A rechargeable battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode including active material; and an electrolytic solution, in which the active material is capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions and includes Si and O as constituent elements, and an atomic ratio (Si/(Si+O)) of Si with respect to Si and O is 30 atomic % to 75 atomic % in a surface of the active material. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157425 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes: a cooling function component including an active region made of an impurity region and formed on a surface of a semiconductor layer, an N-type gate made of a semiconductor including an N-type impurity, a P-type gate made of a semiconductor including a P-type impurity, a first metal wiring connected to the N-type gate, the P-type gate and the active region, a second metal wiring connected to the P-type gate and the N-type gate, and a heat releasing portion connected to the second metal wiring for releasing heat to the outside. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158633 | MOBILE DEVICE FOR THERAPEUTIC ACTION - The present disclosure relates to a mobile device for domestic use by a patient for therapeutic action on himself/herself, comprising: a millimeter wave generator that generates millimeter wave radiation, a millimeter wave antenna that emits millimeter waves generated by said millimeter wave generator in a predetermined direction, a coupling element that couples the millimeter wave antenna to the millimeter wave generator and that transmits the millimeter wave radiation generated by said millimeter wave generator to said millimeter wave antenna, a control unit that controls the millimeter wave generator, and a user interface that allows a patient to change settings of the device. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159177 | COORDINATING LICENSE ACTIVATION OF LICENABLE AUDIO VIDEO (AV) DEVICE COMPONENTS BETWEEN CONTRACT MANUFACTURER AND BRAND MANUFACTURER - A server for reducing license fee payments to account for non-use of a licensed component includes a processor and a computer readable storage medium. The computer readable storage medium is accessible to the processor and bears instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine, for a license period, a first number of consumer electronic (CE) devices that have activated the licensed component. The instructions also cause the processor to determine, for the license period, a second number of CE devices that have not activated the licensed component. In addition, the instructions cause the processor to generate a license fee payment index related to the licensed component based on the first number and excluding the second number. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159855 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes: a main unit operable by remote control using a remote controller, wherein the main unit includes a display section having a display screen, a main unit operation section performing input operation, and a main unit control section which performs both control operation corresponding to the operation of the main unit operation section and control operation corresponding to the operation of the remote controller, and the main unit control section displays a first guide screen for guiding the operation of the main unit operation section on the display screen as a first guide operation when detecting that the main unit operation section has been operated, and displays a second guide screen for guiding the operation of the remote controller on the display screen as a second guide operation when detecting that the remote controller has been operated. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159942 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a proximity panel, a communication module and a controller. The proximity panel receives first gesture information. The first gesture information is received in response to a trajectory of movement on the proximity panel. The communication module receives second gesture information from a computing device. The controller determines whether the first gesture information and the second gesture information correspond to predetermined gesture information. In the event that the controller determines that the first gesture information and the second gesture information correspond to the predetermined gesture information, the controller causes predetermined data to be communicated with the computing device. | 06-20-2013 |
20130161661 | CIRCUIT BOARD, DISPLAY MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A circuit board includes: a first substrate provided with a device section, the device section including one or a plurality of active devices; a plurality of first wiring layers each extending from the device section toward a periphery of the first substrate; and a plurality of second substrates each opposed to and bonded to the first wiring layer at the periphery of the first substrate and each having a second wiring layer, the second wiring layer being electrically connected to each of the first wiring layers. The first substrate has a cutout in one or more regions each facing one of the plurality of second substrates. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162054 | DETECTION APPARATUS, POWER RECEIVING APPARATUS, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND DETECTION METHOD - Disclosed herein is a detection apparatus including: a resonant circuit provided with a Q-factor measurement coil and one or more capacitors to serve as a circuit for receiving pulses; a response-waveform detecting section configured to detect the waveform of a response output by the resonant circuit in response to the pulses; and a Q-factor measuring section configured to measure a Q factor of the resonant circuit from the response waveform detected by the response-waveform detecting section. It is possible to increase the precision of detection of a metallic foreign substance existing between a power transmitting side and a power receiving side. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162475 | ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT AND BEAM FORMING DEVICE - An antenna arrangement comprises a first antenna array comprising a systematic arrangement of first antennas, at least two second antenna arrays, arranged adjacent to said first antenna array and each comprising a systematic arrangement of second antennas, at least two third antenna arrays each comprising at least one third antenna, wherein a third antenna array is arranged at a border area of said first antenna array and a second antenna array and replaces a first antenna closest to the adjacent second antenna array and a second antenna closest to the adjacent first antenna array. Said first or second antennas are transmitting and the other of said first or second antennas are receiving radiation. The at least one third antenna is transmitting and/or receiving radiation. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162490 | DUAL-POLARIZED OPTICALLY CONTROLLED MICROWAVE ANTENNA - An optically controlled microwave antenna that reduces the optical power consumed by the antenna and to enable polarimetric detection an optically controlled microwave antenna comprises an antenna array and a feed for illuminating said antenna array with and/or receiving microwave radiation. The antenna array comprises a plurality of antenna elements each including a waveguide, two optically controllable semiconductor elements arranged within the waveguide in front of the light transmissive portion of the second end portion, a controllable light source arranged at or close to the light transmissive portion of the second end portion for projecting a controlled light beam onto said semiconductor element for controlling its material properties, and a septum arranged within the waveguide in front of the light transmissive portion of the second end portion and separating said waveguide into two waveguide portions. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162638 | TIME CODE DISPLAY DEVICE AND TIME CODE DISPLAY METHOD - A time code display device includes a time code extraction unit that extracts a left image time code from a left image signal that constitutes a stereoscopic image and a right image time code from a right image signal that constitutes the stereoscopic image; a time code comparison unit that compares the left image time code with the right image time code and outputs a comparison result including information on agreement or disagreement between the left and right image time codes; and a display determination unit that determines to display the left and right image time codes in the same manner when the comparison result indicates agreement therebetween, determines to display the left and right image time codes in different manners when the comparison result indicates disagreement therebetween, and displays the left and right image time codes on a display unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162672 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a composite processing unit that generates a composite image for display by including a through image generated based on a captured image signal obtained by performing photoelectric conversion for light incident from a subject in an image for a compositing process and composites a captured image of a recording time point in the image for a compositing process in accordance with a compositing arrangement state of the through image in the composite image for display, and a display control unit that performs display control for the composite image for display. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162674 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing terminal includes a recognition unit that recognizes an identifier projected over an image, an acquisition unit that acquires data of an object corresponding to the identifier, a processing unit that changes the orientation of the object according to the positional relationship between the information processing terminal itself and the identifier specified based on the image and, when it is no longer able to recognize the identifier, changes the orientation of the object according to the positional relationship between the information processing terminal itself and the identifier specified based on sensor data, and a display control unit that causes the object of which the orientation is changed according to the positional relationship between the information processing terminal itself and the identifier to be displayed over the image in a superimposed manner. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162694 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, DISPLAY UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display unit includes: a display section displaying an image; and a light source device emitting light for image display toward the display section, the light source device including a first light source emitting first illumination light and a light guide plate, the light guide plate including a plurality of scattering regions that allow the first illumination light entering through a side surface of the light guide plate to be scattered and then to exit from the light guide plate, in which the scattering regions each are configured of a plurality of scattering patterns including a first scattering pattern with a width varying according to a distance from the first light source. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162784 | IMAGING DEVICE, AUTOFOCUS METHOD AND PROGRAM OF THE SAME - An imaging device includes a first imaging optical system; a first imaging unit that converts an optical image of a subject formed via the first imaging optical system into an electrical signal and produces an image signal of a first imaged image; a second imaging optical system; a second imaging unit that converts an optical image of the subject formed via a second imaging optical system into an electrical signal and produces an image signal of a second imaged image; and a control unit that independently control the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system and performs individually a focus adjustment of the first imaged image and the second imaged image. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162832 | CAMERA CONTROL APPARATUS AND CAMERA CONTROL METHOD - A camera control apparatus includes: an input section to which a plurality of cameras controlled by the apparatus are connected, each of the cameras including a first preset information storage section capable of storing up to n preset information on the state of the camera setting; a second preset information storage section capable of storing (n+1)-th to m-th preset information (n06-27-2013 | |
20130162883 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging lens including: in order from an object side thereof, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens formed in a meniscus shape having a negative refractive power with a concave surface faced to an image side; a third lens formed in a biconvex shape having a positive refractive power near an optical axis; a fourth lens formed in a meniscus shape having a positive refractive power with a concave surface faced to the object side near the optical axis; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power near the optical axis and a positive refractive power in a peripheral portion, the imaging lens satisfying the following conditional expression (a), 3.0≦f3/f4≦30.0 (a) where f3 is a focal length of the third lens, and f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162900 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - An audio signal processing apparatus including a selection signal acquisition unit acquiring a selection signal showing a selection of a predetermined moving image from a plurality of moving images imaged at different imaging positions in a predetermined environment; an audio signal generating unit generating an audio signal at the imaging position of the predetermined moving image, based on an audio signal picked up at an audio pick up position in the predetermined environment and a transmission function determined according to a relative position of the imaging position of the predetermined moving image and the audio pick up position according to the selection signal. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162904 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A signal processing device includes: a feature amount calculation unit calculating the respective feature amount of a first audio signal obtained through a first communication pathway and a second audio signal obtained through a second communication pathway corresponding to the first audio signal; an audio synchronization processing unit generating synchronization information of the first audio signal and the second audio signal based on the feature amounts calculated by the feature amount calculation unit; and an audio synthesis unit synthesizing the first audio signal with the second audio signal based on the synchronization information generated by the audio synchronization processing unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162905 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing device includes a feature amount calculating unit configured to obtain an audio feature amount of audio included in a content including audio; a synchronization information generating unit configured to generate synchronization information for synchronizing a plurality of content including the same or similar audio signal components, based on the audio feature amount obtained by the feature amount calculating unit; and a compositing unit configured to generate composited content, where a plurality of contents have been synchronized and composited using the synchronization information generated at the synchronization information generating unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163184 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a casing, a terminal electrode, a lock mechanism, and a driving unit. The lock mechanism includes an arm member movable between a lock position at which the arm member is engaged to an engagement portion of a storage medium and an unlock position at which it is disengaged from the engagement portion. The biasing member biases the arm member to the lock position. The arm member interferes with the storage medium moving in a first direction to move from the lock position to the unlock position and returns to the lock position at a position at which a connection terminal of the storage medium is connected to the terminal electrode to limit movement of the storage medium in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The driving unit moves the arm member from the lock position to the unlock position according to an input operation. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163186 | CONNECTION UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a connection unit, including: a connector unit having a connection connector to which a connector portion of a personal digital assistance is connected; an apparatus insertion opening into which the personal digital assistance is inserted; a cover which is pivoted between a closing position where the apparatus insertion opening is closed and an opening position where the apparatus insertion opening is opened, and which receives and holds the personal digital assistance connected to the connection connector in a state in which at least a part of the apparatus insertion opening is opened; and an adjusting mechanism having a manipulation portion, and adjusting a pivot position of the cover by a manipulation carried out for the manipulation portion. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163227 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a main body portion, a back surface portion, a movable portion, and a back surface member. The main body portion includes a display portion and is configured to process inputted information. The back surface portion is configured to cover a back surface of the main body portion on an opposite side of the display portion. The movable portion is mounted to a rear surface of the back surface portion on an opposite side of an opposite surface of the back surface portion, the opposite surface being opposed to the main body portion. The back surface member has stretch properties and is configured to cover the back surface portion and the movable portion. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163314 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY APPARATUS - A memory element includes a layered structure. The layered structure includes a memory layer, a magnetization-fixed layer, and an intermediate layer. The memory layer has magnetization perpendicular to a film face in which a direction of the magnetization is changed depending on information, and the direction of the magnetization is changed by applying a current in a lamination direction of the layered structure to record the information in the memory layer. The magnetization-fixed layer has magnetization perpendicular to a film face that becomes a base of the information stored in the memory layer, has a laminated ferri-pinned structure including at least two ferromagnetic layers and a non-magnetic layer, and includes an anti-ferromagnetic oxide layer formed on any of the at least two ferromagnetic layers. The intermediate layer is formed of a non-magnetic material and is provided between the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163315 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY APPARATUS - A memory element includes a layered structure. The layered structure includes a memory layer, a magnetization-fixed layer, and an intermediate layer. The memory layer has magnetization perpendicular to a film face in which a direction of the magnetization is changed depending on information, and the direction of the magnetization is changed by applying a current in a lamination direction of the layered structure to record the information in the memory layer. The magnetization-fixed layer has magnetization perpendicular to a film face that becomes a base of the information stored in the memory layer, and has a laminated ferri-pinned structure including at least two ferromagnetic layers and a non-magnetic layer. The non-magnetic layer includes Cr. The intermediate layer is formed of a non-magnetic material and is provided between the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163316 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY APPARATUS - A memory element has a layered configuration, including a memory layer in which a magnetization direction is changed corresponding to information; the magnetization direction being changed by applying a current in a lamination direction of the layered configuration to record the information in the memory layer, a magnetization-fixed layer in which a magnetization direction is fixed, an intermediate layer that is formed of a non-magnetic material and is provided between the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer, and a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy inducing layer, the memory layer including a first ferromagnetic layer, a first bonding layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, a second bonding layer and a third ferromagnetic layer laminated in the stated order. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163317 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY APPARATUS - There is provided a memory element having a layered structure, including a memory layer having magnetization perpendicular to a film face in which a magnetization direction is changed corresponding to information, and including a Co—Fe—B magnetic layer and at least on non-magnetic layer; the magnetization direction being changed by flowing a current in a lamination direction of the layered structure to record the information in the memory layer, a magnetization-fixed layer having magnetization perpendicular to the film face that becomes a base of the information stored in the memory layer, and an intermediate layer that is formed of a non-magnetic material and is provided between the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer, further including a laminated structure where an oxide layer, the Co—Fe—B magnetic layer and the non-magnetic layer are laminated is formed. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163889 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus processes encoded data obtained by encoding image data for each of line blocks obtained by dividing an image. The image processing apparatus includes: a body-partition generating unit configured to generate body partitions of a file with a predetermined format for each piece of encoded data for one of the line blocks, the body partitions containing the encoded data; and a partition merging unit configured to merge the body partitions generated by the body-partition generating unit, a header partition containing header information, and a footer partition containing footer information to thereby generate the file. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163890 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A significant digit number encoding unit designates a predetermined number of coefficient data items generated from image data as a set. The maximum number of significant digits that have the greatest absolute value in relation to each set every cycle is obtained and information is encoded regarding the maximum number. An absolute value is extracted for the maximum number of each coefficient data item in a set; and the absolute value is encoded at a cycle different from that of the significant digit number encoding unit. A sign encoding unit encodes a positive or negative sign of each coefficient data item in a set whose absolute value is not 0 at a cycle different from that of the absolute value encoding unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163892 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a number of significant digits coding unit encoding information concerning the maximum number of significant digits as the number of significant digits of coefficient data having the largest absolute value in each of groups set in units of the predetermined number of plural coefficient data generated from image data; a zero-run coding unit encoding zero-run formed by a group including only coefficient data a value of which is “0”; an absolute value coding unit encoding absolute values of respective coefficient data other than zero-run with respect to each group; and a sign coding unit encoding positive and negative signs of respective coefficient data other than zero-run with respect to each group. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163893 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes: a significant digit number encoding unit designating a set of a predetermined number of coefficient data items generated from image data. The maximum number of significant digits of coefficient data for each set every cycle is obtained, and information regarding the maximum number is encoded. A zero run encoding unit encodes zero runs formed by sets that include only coefficient data whose value is 0 at a cycle that differs from the cycle of encoding the significant digit number. The absolute value for the maximum number of significant digits other than the zero runs is extracted and encoded. The positive or negative sign of each coefficient data item whose absolute value is not 0 in a set at a cycle that differs from a cycle in relation to coefficient data other than the zero runs is encoded. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163949 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit controlling playback of an image of an edit target, and a generation unit generating edit information including information indicating multiple edit effects applied in combination with the image of an edit interval and information indicating the edit interval, where, in a playback interval of the image, the edit interval is an interval from a playback position at a time an instruction is given during the playback of the image to a position a predetermined time after the playback position. | 06-27-2013 |
20130164608 | SECONDARY BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, ELECTRIC POWER STORAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER TOOL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes a material including Si, Sn, or both as constituent elements. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate represented by the following Formula (1), | 06-27-2013 |
20130164630 | SECONDARY BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, ELECTRIC POWER STORAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER TOOL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and a gel electrolyte. The gel electrolyte includes an electrolytic solution and a polymer compound. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate represented by the following Formula (1), | 06-27-2013 |
20130165064 | RECEPTION DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A reception device includes first and second antennas that receive the same kind of electric wave; a third antenna that receives a different kind of electric waves from that of the first and the second antennas; an antenna switching switch that switches a first input mode of inputting the electric waves received by the first and second antennas and a second input mode of inputting the electric wave received by the third antenna; a first tuner circuit that receives the electric wave in each of the first and second input modes; and a second tuner circuit that receives the electric wave in the first input mode, wherein diversity reception for the first and second antennas is performed based on the signals output from the first and second tuner circuits in the first input mode, and wherein a signal is output from the first tuner circuit in the second input mode. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166559 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a transmission section which transmits, to an external device that has collected an index pertaining to a feature of an output of a sensor for each classification, classification information for specifying the classification, and a reception section which receives information about the index corresponding to the classification information. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166682 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Disclosed herein is a communication system including: a first apparatus and a second apparatus being communication terminals at least one of which resides on a mobile object; and a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes: a determination block configured to determine whether the first and the second apparatuses are in close proximity to each other based on position data of the first apparatus and on position data of the second apparatus; and a communication block configured such that if the determination block determines that the first and the second apparatuses are in close proximity to each other, the communication block transmits preinstalled content data to at least one of the first and the second apparatuses. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166698 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY PROVIDING CONTENT TO CLIENT DEVICES IN AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK - A system and method for effectively supporting content distribution in an electronic network includes a content server and a peer-to-peer network of client devices. The content server stores content items received from a content provider. A recommendation engine of the content server creates a global recommendation list to identify an optimal global candidate from among the stored content items for performing an automatic and transparent content download procedure. The recommendation engine creates the global recommendation list by analyzing selectable content-ranking criteria from a plurality of device users of the client devices. The content server then downloads the optimal global candidate from the stored content items to one or more identified target devices during the content download procedure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166912 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In order to limit use of content, when a source receives a request for transmitting content from a sink, the source performs an authentication process. When the authentication is successful, the source transmits to the sink key information necessary for decrypting the encryption applied to the content. The sink can receive the content by receiving the key information and by decrypting the encryption applied to the content by using the key information. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167171 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive AV content; a trigger acquisition portion configured to acquire trigger information for operating an application program to be executed in interlocked relation to the AV content; a table acquisition portion configured to acquire a correspondence table associating a command for controlling the operation of the application program with a valid time of the command; and a control portion configured such that when the time acquired from the trigger information as indicative of the progress of the AV content satisfies a predetermined condition of validity in reference to the valid time of the command on the basis of the acquired correspondence table, the control portion controls the operation of the application program in accordance with the command being valid. | 06-27-2013 |
20130169126 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to an information processing device which may include a housing made of metal. The housing may have a first surface and a mark formed on the first surface. The mark may be recessed relative to the first surface. At least one of a bottom surface and side surfaces of the mark may have different surface characteristics from that of the first surface. In the information processing device of the present disclosure, the mark is less prone to be abraded and is prone to be recognized. Further, the cost of the information processing device may be reduced by using the mark of the present disclosure. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169265 | VOLTAGE AMPLITUDE DETECTION CIRCUIT, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND VOLTAGE AMPLITUDE DETECTION METHOD - There is provided a voltage amplitude detection circuit including a first comparison unit configured to compare a voltage amplitude of an input signal with a predetermined voltage and output a comparison result; a first comparison result holding unit configured to hold the comparison result output from the first comparison unit in predetermined periods of a driving clock, and output the held comparison result; and a first comparison result evaluation unit configured to evaluate the comparison result output from the first comparison result holding unit in the predetermined periods of the driving clock and output an evaluation result. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169537 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit for extracting a feature point from a captured image; a recognizing unit for recognizing a position of the feature point; a display unit for displaying, based on the position of the feature point, a feature-point pointer indicating the feature point and a mirrored image of the captured image in a translucent manner; and an issuing unit for issuing, based on the position of the feature point, a command corresponding to the position of the feature point or a motion of the feature point. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169578 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that causes a display unit having a display screen to perform information display; a switching unit that performs switching between a touch input enable state, in which predetermined processing is performed in response to touch input, and a touch input disable state, in which the predetermined processing is not performed even when touch input is detected; and a detector that is disposed at a position different from a position of the touch position detector and that performs predetermined detection. The display unit can be switched between an inactive state and an active state. The switching unit includes a first controller that sets the touch input disable state when the display unit enters the inactive state, and a second controller that performs switching to the touch input enable state in accordance with the result of the predetermined detection. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169861 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup control portion which includes an image pickup portion and a processing portion performing a process of image picking-up; a position information acquiring portion which acquires position information; a time information acquiring portion which acquires time information; and a power management portion which controls supply of power to the portions, the power management portion and the time information acquiring portion are continuously supplied with power, when the time information corresponds to a predicted use time, the position information acquiring portion is supplied with power, and when the position information is separated from position information of a predetermined place by a predetermined distance or more, a memory for program execution is supplied with power. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170459 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a wireless communication device which includes a notification information transmitting unit for transmitting, via a wireless communication network, notification information of the wireless communication device, a notification information receiving unit for receiving notification information transmitted from another device, a frequency switching unit for successively switching, at random cycles, a frequency at which the notification information is transmitted or a frequency at which the notification information is received, and a transmission processing unit for performing a data transmission process after transmitting or receiving an acknowledgement to the notification information to/from such other device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170664 | HEADPHONE CABLE ARRANGEMENT, FILTER ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD OF FILTERING SIGNALS IN HEADPHONE CABLE ARRANGEMENTS - A headphone cable ( | 07-04-2013 |
20130170677 | SPEAKER UNIT - Disclosed herein is a speaker unit, including: a magnetic circuit having a magnet and a coil; a vibrating plate adapted to be vibrated by a drive force of the magnetic circuit; and a frame having a circuit mounting portion to which the magnetic circuit is mounted, an edge mounting portion to which an edge of the vibrating plate is mounted, and plural leg portions through which the circuit mounting portion and the edge mounting portion are coupled to each other and which are provided in spaced relation to one another in a circumferential direction, wherein irregularity portions are provided in the plural leg portions, respectively, and forms of the irregularity portions are made different from each other at least in two of the leg portions. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170703 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device for recognizing an object corresponding to a registered image registered beforehand from an imaged image, comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain the imaged image; a recognizing unit configured to recognize an object corresponding to the registered image from the imaged image; and a detecting unit configured to detect, based on a registered image corresponding to an object recognized from the imaged image thereof, an area where another object is overlapped with the object corresponding to the registered image thereof. | 07-04-2013 |
20130171756 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed herein is an organic EL display device including, on a substrate: lower electrodes; first hole injection/transport layers; second organic light-emitting layers of colors other than blue; a blue first organic light-emitting layer; electron injection/transport layers; and an upper electrode. | 07-04-2013 |
20130171760 | SOLID STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SOLID STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - Forming a back-illuminated type CMOS image sensor, includes process for formation of a registration mark on the wiring side of a silicon substrate during formation of an active region or a gate electrode. A silicide film using an active region may also be used for the registration mark. Thereafter, the registration mark is read from the back-side by use of red light or near infrared rays, and registration of the stepper is accomplished. It is also possible to form a registration mark in a silicon oxide film on the back-side (illuminated side) in registry with the registration mark on the wiring side, and to achieve the desired registration by use of the registration mark thus formed. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173660 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program storage medium which can present associated information related to a document to be processed to a user. An accumulation block accumulates a database of associated information. A presentation block presents to the user the associated information corresponding to the document to be processed at occurrence of an event. An agent control block controls the manner of displaying an agent for example. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174197 | VIDEO PREVIEW MODULE TO ENHANCE ONLINE VIDEO EXPERIENCE - A Video Preview Module, a fast and adaptable software module designed to generate an on-the-fly video storyboard that enhances the online video browsing experience of the user. The VP module is a client-side implementation. This allows the module to be scalable and adaptable in bringing a uniform online video browsing experience over multiple consumer devices. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174276 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND CLIENT TERMINAL - If the user of a first portable terminal intends to let a second portable terminal try out a certain content, the user sends to a distribution server trial permission information including the user's own user ID, a content ID of the content of interest, and a digital signature. The distribution server authenticates the received information before distributing a streaming data of a trial-oriented content with the content ID and user ID attached to it as search keys. This allows the content that can be used on a given user terminal to be tried out on another user terminal without the latter user having recourse to the steps of searching for the content in question. | 07-04-2013 |
20130175513 | SOLID-STATE ASSEMBLY OF LAYERS AND AN ELECTRIC DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH ASSEMBLY - The present invention relates to a solid-state assembly of layers and to an electric solid-state device comprising such assembly. In one aspect, such electric device is a field effect transistor. In another aspect, such device is a memory device. In yet a further aspect, the device is a sensor device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130175517 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic electroluminescence display device is provided. The organic electroluminescence display device includes plural organic electroluminescence elements. Each organic electroluminescence element includes: a lower electrode; an insulating layer having an opening, in which a lower electrode is exposed at the bottom of the opening; an auxiliary wiring; a stacked structure provided from a portion over the lower electrode exposed at the bottom of the opening to a portion of the insulating layer surrounding the opening, including a light emitting layer made of an organic light-emitting material; and an upper electrode. At least one layer of the stacked structure partially contacts the auxiliary wiring. The insulating layer and the auxiliary wiring are provided in common to the plurality of organic EL elements. The upper electrode covers the whole surface of the stacked structures and the auxiliary wiring. | 07-11-2013 |
20130175522 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer provided on one side of the gate electrode with an insulating film in between, the oxide semiconductor layer being provided in a region not facing the source electrode and the drain electrode and being electrically connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a low resistance oxide layer provided in a region facing the source electrode and in a region facing the drain electrode, the regions being adjacent to the oxide semiconductor layer, and the low resistance oxide layer having an electric resistivity lower than an electric resistivity of the oxide semiconductor layer. | 07-11-2013 |
20130175591 | CAPACITIVE DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A capacitive device includes: a first capacitive element including a first well region having a first conduction type, a first gate electrode, and first semiconductor layers each formed of an impurity layer having a second conduction type opposite to a conduction type of the first well region; and a second capacitive element electrically connected in parallel to the first capacitive element, the second capacitive element including a second well region having the first conduction type, a second gate electrode, and second semiconductor layers each formed of an impurity layer having the same first conductive type as a conduction type of the second well region. | 07-11-2013 |
20130175923 | ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB TYPE LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - An electric light bulb type light source apparatus includes a light source unit, a power source substrate, a drive substrate, a base, and a casing. On the power source substrate, a power source circuit is mounted, and the power source substrate has one of a through hole and a cutout. On the drive substrate, a drive circuit of at least the light source unit is mounted, and the drive substrate includes a part disposed in the one of the through hole and the cutout of the power source substrate. The base is used to supply power to the power source substrate. The casing is configured to contain the light source unit, the power source substrate, and the drive substrate, and the casing has a translucent cover. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176023 | DETECTING DEVICE, DETECTING SYSTEM, POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, NONCONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND DETECTING METHOD - A detecting device includes a reading coil configured to read a magnetic flux generated by a detecting coil for detecting a magnetic field of an electromagnetic wave output from an exciting coil according to the magnetic field. The detecting device further includes a Q-value measuring section configured to measure a Q-value of the detecting coil on a basis of a temporal transition of oscillation of a voltage obtained in the reading coil according to the magnetic flux generated by the detecting coil. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176283 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes: a display unit; an identification unit that optically identifies a kind of an operator positioned on a display face of the display unit; and a control unit that controls content of an operation for the display unit according to the kind of the operator identified by the identification unit. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176324 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a display device including: a sampling block sampling image data continuously inputted thereto at predetermined intervals; a gradation value/deterioration amount converting block converting a gradation value of an image based on the image data sampled in the sampling block into a deterioration amount; a deterioration amount storing block calculating and accumulating a difference in deterioration amount between a correction object pixel and a reference pixel by using the deterioration amount obtained through the conversion in the gradation value/deterioration amount converting block; a correction amount calculating block calculating a correction amount required for resolving the deterioration amount difference stored in the deterioration amount storing block based on an estimated deterioration amount within a correction period of time; and a deterioration amount difference correcting block correcting the gradation value of the corresponding pixel with the correction amount thus calculated. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176462 | SUPER-RESOLUTION DIGITAL ZOOM - When a user selects digital zooming in a camera such as might be included in a wireless telephone or PDA, a series of images are automatically obtained and superimposed using super-resolution techniques to produce an improved digital zoom image transparently to the user. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176492 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - An apparatus includes: a first operating system configured to execute a first function; a second operating system configured to execute a second function; and a display controller configured to select one of first image information and second image information, the first image information being based on execution of the first function, the second image information being based on execution of the second function, or to superimpose one of the first image information and the second image information on the other information, and to display one of the selected information and the superimposed information on a display unit. The display controller is configured to display one menu when one of the first operating system and the second operating system is running, one of first icon and second icon being selectable from the menu, the first icon indicating start of the first function, the second icon indicating start of the second function. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176501 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD OF VIDEO SIGNAL - Provided is a display apparatus including a first signal receiving unit that receives a non-compressed video signal from an external device via a first transmission path through a plurality of channels by means of a differential signal, an image display unit that displays images by processing the video signal received by the first signal receiving unit, a second signal receiving unit that receives a compressed video signal of a same video source as the non-compressed video signal by using a bi-directional communication path configured by predetermined lines of the first transmission path, and a signal transmitting unit that transmits a compressed video signal corresponding to the compressed video signal received by the second signal receiving unit to another external device different from the external device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176511 | DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a display device including a transmissive display panel composed of pixels arranged in a form of a two-dimensional matrix in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, a planar illumination device for illuminating the transmissive display panel from a rear surface thereof, and a parallax barrier disposed between the transmissive display panel and the planar illumination device, for dividing an image displayed on the transmissive display panel into images for multiple viewpoints. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176619 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Embodiments of the invention provide an electronic device, such as a display apparatus (e.g., a naked-eye type stereoscopic image display apparatus). The electronic device comprises a display panel, comprising a plurality of pixels; and a parallax barrier, comprising a plurality of light transmission sections and a plurality of light blocking sections. The electronic device is operable to switch between a first setting, in which at least one of the plurality of light transmission sections has a first width, and a second setting, in which the at least one of the plurality of light transmission sections has a second width different than the first width. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176629 | IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image blur correction device includes a lens unit having at least one lens and rotationally moving in a first direction which is a rotation direction of a first fulcrum axis and in a second direction which is a rotation direction of a second fulcrum axis relative to an outer casing, a first driving motor which causes the lens unit to pivot in the first direction, and a second driving motor which causes the lens unit to pivot in the second direction. An auxiliary axis is disposed opposite to the first driving motor with interposing of the lens unit, the lens unit pivots in the first direction and in the second direction by the rotation of output axes of the first and second driving motors, and each output axis is rotatably supported by a pair of first bearings and each auxiliary axis is rotatably supported by a second bearing. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177035 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER, EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATE - A nitride semiconductor laser comprises a conductive support base having a primary surface of gallium nitride based semiconductor, an active layer on the primary surface, and a p-type cladding region on the primary surface. The primary surface is tilted to a reference plane perpendicular to a reference axis extending in the c-axis direction of the gallium nitride based semiconductor. The p-type cladding region comprises a first p-type group III nitride semiconductor layer of an AlGaN layer anisotropically-strained, and a second p-type group III nitride semiconductor layer of material different from the AlGaN layer. The first p-type group III nitride semiconductor layer is provided between the second p-type group III nitride semiconductor layer and the active layer. The AlGaN layer has the largest bandgap in the p-type cladding region. The second p-type group III nitride semiconductor layer has a resistivity lower than the first p-type group III nitride semiconductor layer. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177185 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SPEAKER - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a speaker having speaker units of a speaker for a left channel that outputs left channel audio, a speaker for a right channel that outputs right channel audio, and a speaker for bass that outputs bass, wherein the speaker units are integrally formed with one another and the speaker is provided in a housing. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177197 | SPEAKER APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a speaker apparatus, including: a housing having a speaker disposition section in which a speaker unit is disposed, and an apparatus receiving section which receives a portable terminal apparatus mounted thereon. The speaker apparatus further includes a connector provided on the apparatus receiving section such that a connector section of the portable terminal apparatus is to be connected to the connector; a holder provided on the apparatus receiving section and supported for pivotal motion on the housing in such a manner as to be pivoted, in a state in which the portable terminal apparatus is connected to the connector, in a first direction to press down the portable terminal apparatus from the opposite side to the connector to hold the portable terminal apparatus; and a biasing spring provided on the apparatus receiving section and configured to bias the holder in the first direction. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177301 | IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image blur correction device includes a lens unit which has at least one lens, and can be pivoted in two directions, which are orthogonal to each other, with respect to an outer housing, and a first driving motor and second driving motor which pivot the lens unit in the directions, in which a coil body having a plurality of coil sections, and a magnet placed to face the plurality of coil sections, are provided in the first driving motor and the second driving motor, a placement area, in which the plurality of coil sections are placed and a non-placement area, in which there are no coil sections, are formed, and the outer circumference of the non-placement area is positioned to the inside of a virtual circle that links the outer circumferences of each coil section in each plurality of coil section. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177799 | ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION, SECONDARY BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, ELECTRIC POWER STORAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER TOOL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate and one or more selected from a group configured of aromatic compounds, dinitrile compounds, sulfinyl compounds, and lithium salts. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178089 | PLUG, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND PLUG RECEPTACLE - There is provided a plug which includes electrodes that transmit direct-current power and an electrode cover that covers the electrodes. The electrode cover includes a lock detection unit that electrically detects that the electrode cover is locked. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179076 | ELECTRONIC GUIDE SYSTEM, CONTENTS SERVER FOR ELECTRONIC GUIDE SYSTEM, PORTABLE ELECTRONIC GUIDE DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC GUIDE SYSTEM - Tour guide contents stored in a tour guide apparatus carried by a user at a tour destination are provided with points of interest information and map data. This information includes latitude and longitude information for the site of each point of interest, and information on the providers of the information and the categories of information. The latitude and longitude information is provided for each site in relation to map data. By matching these pieces of latitude and longitude information to the map data, points of interest information can be laid out on the map and displayed. This makes it possible to select interesting site information to be displayed on the map based on the information provider, for example, points of interest information provided by provider A for restaurants and another set of information provided by provider B for hotels. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179456 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTER- READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECORDING OR RECOMMENDING CONTENT - A program vector can represent attributes of a program to be generated. EPG data can be received, and metadata necessary for generation of a program vector PP can be extracted from the EPG data. A morphological analysis can be carried out on contents and title included in the metadata to disassemble the contents and the title into words. Items included in the metadata can be subjected to a vector creation process to generate the program vector PP. An effect vector can be extracted on the basis of a genre of a program associated with the metadata. The extracted effect vector can be associated with the generated program vector PP and the processing can be ended. This can be applied to a distribution server for distributing contents. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179540 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a control unit. The first communication unit is configured to be capable of communicating with a first apparatus via a predetermined communication path. The first apparatus has a predetermined sensing function and does not have an Internet connecting function. The second communication unit is configured to be capable of communicating with a second apparatus via the Internet. The control unit is configured to be capable of controlling the first communication unit to receive sensed data from the first apparatus and controlling the first communication unit to transmit the received data to the second apparatus. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179646 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE - A storage control device is disclosed including a write block and a read block. The write block establishes a high-speed access data count. If a plurality of data are to be written to high- and low-speed access storage blocks, the write block writes as many data as the high-speed access data count from among the plurality of data to the high-speed access storage block as high-speed access data while writing the remaining data to the low-speed access storage block as low-speed access data. If the plurality of data written to the low- and high-speed access storage blocks are to be read, the read block issues a request to the high-speed access storage block to read the high-speed access data and a request to the low-speed access storage block to start reading the low-speed access data after the high-speed access data have been read. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179699 | POWER CONTROL APPARATUS - There is provided a power control apparatus including a power supply control unit that executes power supply control with respect to a device connected to a power supply line, a connector that is connected to a cable to perform versatile communication between the power supply control unit and an external device, and a switch that is provided at a predetermined position of a circumferential portion of the connector and physically intercepts the versatile communication between the power supply control unit and the external device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130181249 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND LIGHT EMITTING UNIT - A light emitting device includes: a laminated body including a first-conductivity type semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, and a second-conductivity type semiconductor layer in this order; a contact layer provided in contact with the second-conductivity type semiconductor layer at least at a peripheral edge of the second-conductivity type semiconductor layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first-conductivity type semiconductor layer; a second electrode provided nearer to the first-conductivity type semiconductor layer than the second-conductivity type semiconductor layer; and a conductor electrically connecting the second electrode and the contact layer to each other. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181313 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An image pickup device and a method of the same are described herein. By way of first example, the image pickup device includes a seal member having a first surface, the first surface of the seal member including a concave portion, and an optical device coupled to a second surface of the seal member, the second surface of the seal member being opposite from the first surface of the seal member. By way of a second example, the image pickup device includes a seal member having a first surface, the first surface being a polished surface, and an optical device coupled to a second surface of the seal member, the second surface of the seal member being opposite from the first surface of the seal member. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181317 | SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A semiconductor unit includes: a first device substrate including a first semiconductor substrate and a first wiring layer, in which the first wiring layer is provided on one surface side of the first semiconductor substrate; a second device substrate including a second semiconductor substrate and a second wiring layer, in which the second device substrate is bonded to the first device substrate, and the second wiring layer is provided on one surface side of the second semiconductor substrate; a through-electrode penetrating the first device substrate and a part or all of the second device substrate, and electrically connecting the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer to each other; and an insulating layer provided in opposition to the through-electrode, and penetrating one of the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181607 | ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB TYPE LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - An electric light bulb type light source apparatus includes a base, an insulated power source circuit, a light source unit, a light source drive circuit, a speaker, a speaker drive circuit, a plurality of substrates, and a casing. The insulated power source circuit has a transformer that insulates a primary side circuit from a secondary side circuit, converts a voltage to a first DC power source voltage, and outputs the first DC power source voltage. The light source drive circuit drives the light source unit by using the first DC power source voltage output from the power source circuit. The speaker drive circuit drives the speaker by using the first DC power source voltage output from the power source circuit. On the plurality of substrates, the power source circuit, the light source drive circuit, and the speaker drive circuit are mounted. The casing contains the plurality of substrates. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181821 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus is designed so that a change in state of the operation key leads to a predetermined processing operation. In the electronic apparatus, a first detector detects operation keys being touched among a plurality of operation keys. A second detector detects an operation key being subjected to an operation of changing the state thereof among the operation keys. A device of notification signal generation generates a notification signal for providing the user with an explanation about processing corresponding to the operation key currently touched based on a detection result of the first detector. A first control device brings a hardware module and/or a software module, which corresponds to the operation key subjected to the change of the state thereof to an operation of changing a state is performed, into an execution state. The operation keys may be formed on a remote control transmitter. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181888 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - A head-mounted display includes a display portion, a support portion, and an input operation unit. The display portion is configured to present an image to a user. The support portion is configured to support the display portion and be mountable on a head of the user. The input operation unit serves to control the image and includes a touch sensor provided to the display portion. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181948 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is intended to simultaneously display video content obtained from two or more sources. In displaying video content obtained from two or more sources in parallel to each other or as superimposed on each other, an information processing apparatus normalizes each image by use of the information such as the scale of each image and the corresponding area thereof. In the normalization, image manipulation such as digital zooming for example is executed on digital images such as a still image and a moving image. If one of the images to be displayed in parallel to each other or as superimposed on each other is an image taken with a camera block, optical control such as panning, tilting, or zooming is executed on an actual camera. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182019 | METHOD OF CALCULATING CORRECTION VALUE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of calculating a correction value used when signal value correction is performed with respect to an image signal supplied to a display panel includes setting a target luminance value, which is not uniform in an overall surface of the display panel, as a target luminance value of one image signal value such that at least a portion of a distribution of target luminance values at each plane position of the display panel becomes a curved distribution, and calculating a correction value at each plane position of the display panel using luminance observed at each plane position of the display panel when one image signal value is given to the overall surface of the display panel and the target luminance value at each plane position of the display panel. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182123 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device configured to obtain a captured image corresponding to an object image, an object detecting unit configured to detect a specific object in the captured image, an position obtaining unit configured to obtain a position at which the specific object exists in the captured image, a composition specifying unit configured to specify a recommended composition on the basis of the existence position of the specific object when the specific object is viewed as a main object, and an instruction control unit configured to instruct the execution of a predetermined operation which notifies a user of the recommended composition. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182154 | IMAGE SENSOR, IMAGING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND IMAGING METHOD - There is provided an image sensor including at least three pixel transfer control signal lines, on a per line basis, configured to control exposure start and end timings of a pixel in order for exposure timings of a plurality of the pixels constituting one line in a specific direction to have at least three patterns. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182156 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a solid-state imaging device which includes a focus detection pixel that has a light shielding film, which is formed on a light receiving surface of a photoelectric conversion portion and shields light in a part of the light receiving surface, performs pupil division and photoelectric conversion of a received light flux and acquires a phase difference detection signal, where the light shielding film is formed avoiding a gate electrode of a reading gate portion to read a signal charge from the photoelectric conversion portion. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182165 | IMAGE SENSOR, IMAGING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND IMAGING METHOD - There is provided an image sensor in which a first pixel group in which one pair of pixels of first spectral sensitivity and one pair of pixels of second spectral sensitivity are diagonally arranged and a second pixel group in which one pair of pixels of the first spectral sensitivity and one pair of pixels of third spectral sensitivity are diagonally arranged are arranged in a lattice shape, and analog addition is performed on image signals from the pixels for each pair of pixels of spectral sensitivity constituting each pixel group, and an analog addition result is designated as an output signal. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182169 | IMAGING APPARATUS - According to an illustrative embodiment an imaging system is provided. The system includes a lens tube; a first polarizing filter; and a second polarizing filter; wherein the first polarizing filter and the second polarizing filter are adjacent each other, and wherein a polarizing imparted by the first polarizing filter is different from a polarizing imparted by the second polarizing filter. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182734 | LASER DIODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LASER DIODE - A laser diode includes: a semiconductor base made of a hexagonal Group III nitride semiconductor and having a semi-polar plane oriented along a {2, 0, −2, 1} direction; an epitaxial layer including a light-emitting layer forming an optical waveguide of laser light, and formed on the semi-polar plane of the semiconductor base, the epitaxial layer allowing a propagation direction of the laser light to be tilted, in an optical waveguide plane, at an angle ranging from about 8° to about 12° or about 18° to about 29° both inclusive with respect to a direction of projection of a c axis onto the optical waveguide plane, the optical waveguide plane including the propagation direction of the laser light and being parallel to the semi-polar plane; two resonator facets; a first electrode; and a second electrode. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182777 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a receiver that receives an encoded stream and a field coding flag indicating field coding or not that is transmitted for each sequence, and a decoder that generates an image by decoding an encoded stream received by the receiver according to the field coding flag received by the receiver. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182847 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention provides easy and prompt initiation of wireless communications in which security is ensured requiring additional hardware. A connection button of a PDA or first device is operated and a connection request is broadcast. If the PDA and a portable phone are in near each other, and a reception intensity of the connection request is equal to or higher than a threshold value, a request of the PDA is granted by the portable phone. Then, an encryption key is newly generated by the portable phone, and is transmitted to the PDA. An encryption key and communication parameter transmitted from the portable phone are acquired. Encrypted communications using the encryption key generated by the portable phone are established based on the communication parameter. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182857 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A sound processing apparatus includes a sound determination portion operable to determine whether an input sound includes a first sound emitted from a particular source based on location information of the source, a sound separation portion operable to separate the input sound into the first sound and a second sound emitted from a source different from the particular source if the sound determination portion determines that the input sound includes the first sound, and a sound mixing portion operable to mix the first sound and the second sound separated by the sound separation portion at a prescribed volume ratio. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182898 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a difference image generation unit which generates a difference image by obtaining a difference between frames of a cutout image which is obtained by cutting out a predetermined region on a photographed image; a feature amount extracting unit which extracts a feature amount from the difference image; and a recognition unit which recognizes a specific movement of an object on the photographed image based on the feature amount which is obtained from the plurality of difference images which are aligned in time sequence. | 07-18-2013 |
20130183567 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING ERRONEOUS LOADING OF COMPONENT-TO-BE-LOADED ON MAIN BODY SIDE APPARATUS, COMPONENT-TO-BE-LOADED AND BATTERY PACK - In case a similar component-to-be-loaded is erroneously loaded on a main body side apparatus, contact of terminals are avoided. To this end, a video camera (main body side apparatus) | 07-18-2013 |
20130183651 | SERVER, LEARNING TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND LEARNING CONTENT MANAGING METHOD - There is provided a server including a teaching material storage unit configured to store teaching material data, notebook templates, and link information indicating associations between the teaching material data and the notebook templates, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the teaching material data and the notebook templates associated with the teaching material data to a learning terminal apparatus according to a request from the learning terminal apparatus. The link information indicates association of a notebook template selected by a teacher for a designated page of the teaching material data. The notebook template is superimposed on another layer and displayed in the learning terminal apparatus. | 07-18-2013 |
20130183781 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An organic EL display including lower electrodes arranged on a substrate to correspond to first organic EL elements of blue and second organic EL elements of any other color, respectively; hole injection/transport layers arranged on the lower electrodes; second organic light-emitting layers of the other color arranged on the hole injection/transport layers for the second organic EL elements; a first organic light-emitting layer of blue arranged on whole surfaces of the second organic light-emitting layers and the hole injection/transport layers for the first organic EL elements; an electron injection/transport layer arranged on a whole surface of the first light-emitting layer, the electron injection/transport layer made of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound with an electron mobility of 1.0×10 | 07-18-2013 |
20130184001 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method provide logic for managing positional information within a communication network. In one implementation, an information management apparatus includes a history information registration unit, a registration determination unit, and a base station information registration unit. The history information registration unit may be configured to register first and second history information within a storage unit. The registration determination unit may determine whether a difference value between time information associated with the first and second history information is less than a threshold value. The base station information registration unit may subsequently register at least position information associated with a communications apparatus and a base station, when the difference value is less than the threshold value. | 07-18-2013 |
20130184844 | DISTRIBUTION BACKBONE - Digitally distributing media content using a distribution backbone system, including: receiving a request for media content from a client, the request including a client profile; performing inventory and analysis of source assets by iteratively progressing through the client profile to create output; performing a capability mapping in which a series of rules that allow the source assets to be mapped to the client profile; and planning a manufacturing process, which determines work items and execution steps from capabilities mapped in response to the request for media content from the client. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185025 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE GENERATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a method of generating a three-dimensional (3D) shape by specifying a boundary between materials, including acquiring numerical data of a boundary line of a two-dimensional (2D) shape in a plane, generating a next 2D shape by moving the 2D shape in a direction intersecting the plane based on numerical data specifying a shape of the boundary and also by copying or deforming the 2D shape, and configuring a solid based on data of a generated 2D shape. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185464 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DATA TRANSFER CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An electronic apparatus includes an information obtaining section that obtains performance information from an external storage device, and a control section that performs data transfer control based on the performance information that is obtained by the information obtaining section. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185584 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed herein is an information processor including: a processing section adapted to perform a predetermined process on a data signal output in synchronism with one of positive and negative edges of a clock signal and output an execution result thereof; a holding section adapted to hold the execution result in synchronism with the other of the positive and negative edges; a timing determination section adapted to determine whether a grace period lasting until the execution result is held by the holding section meets a setup time of the holding section; a clock control section adapted, if it is determined that the grace period does not meet the setup time, to control at least the timing of either the positive or negative edge in such a manner that the grace period meets the setup time; and a clock generation section adapted to generate the clock signal according to the controlled timing. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185637 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Program - An information processing apparatus capable of simultaneously executing a reproduction function of content data and a communication function with an external apparatus includes a reproduction section configured to execute the reproduction function, a communication control section configured to execute the communication function using a communication section, an operation input allocation section configured to allocate an operation input from a first operation section to the reproduction function or the communication function, an operation input acquisition section configured to acquire an operation input from a second operation section, and a display control section configured to cause a display section to display information relating to the reproduction function or information relating to the communication function. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185740 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IC CHIP, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus, including a multi-platform capable of managing a plurality of applications, and an operating system which operates on the multi-platform, and is capable of being activated by a command of the multi-platform. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185747 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOWLOADING CONTENT TO A CONTENT DOWLOADER - A content downloader system including a display for displaying a user interface enabling a user to select content to be downloaded and initiate downloading; a set-top-box coupled to the display for providing the user interface and for receiving an indication of the content to be downloaded; and a content downloader coupled to and separate from the set-top-box, the content downloader for receiving the content. The content downloader has at least one memory component for storing content, at least one input/output connection for communicating to electronic devices, optionally including a removable memory card and optionally including an encryption/decryption unit. The content downloader may have an identification whereby its identity is authenticated by the content provider. The content downloader downloads the content selected by the user after successful authentication whereby the selection is made using the display and the set-top-box, and the content downloaded to the content downloader separate than the set-top-box. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185758 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception block configured to receive AV content; a definition information acquisition block configured to acquire definition information defining the life cycle of an application program to be executed in linkage with the AV content; an application acquisition block configured to acquire the application program distributed over a network in accordance with the acquired definition information; and a control block configured to control the performance of the acquired application program. | 07-18-2013 |
20130187132 | DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, UNIT, TRANSFER PRINTING METHOD, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE UNIT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display includes: a first light emitting layer to be transferred to a first region on a substrate; a second light emitting layer to be transferred to a second region on the substrate; and a level-difference forming member forming a first level difference between the first region and the second region, the first level difference suppressing attachment of the first light emitting layer to the second region when the first light emitting layer is transferred to the first region. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187138 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SOLUTION USED IN METHOD - An organic electroluminescence display unit including: a lower electrode for each device; a first hole injection/transport layer provided on the lower electrode for each device; a second organic light emitting layer of the first color provided on the first hole injection/transport layer for the second organic electroluminescence device; a second hole injection/transport layer provided on the entire surfaces of the second organic light emitting layer and the first hole injection/transport layer for the first organic electroluminescence device, and being made of a low molecular material; a blue first organic light emitting layer provided on the entire surface of the second hole injection/transport layer; and an electron injection/transport layer having at least one of electron injection characteristics and electron transport characteristics, and an upper electrode that are provided in sequence on the entire surface of first organic light emitting layer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187139 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes, on a substrate, light emitting elements each formed by sequentially stacking a first electrode layer, an organic layer including a light emission layer, and a second electrode layer and arranged in first and second directions which cross each other, a drive circuit including drive elements that drive light emitting elements, and a wiring extending in the first direction, and an insulating layer disposed in a gap region sandwiched by the light emitting elements neighboring in the second direction and having a recess or a projection. The wiring is disposed in an overlap region overlapping with the recess or the projection in the insulating layer in a thickness direction, in the gap region, and the second electrode layers in the light emitting elements neighboring in the second direction are separated from each other by the recess or the projection in the insulating layer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187164 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, DISPLAY UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There are provided a thin-film transistor suppressing influence of light and having stable characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor, as well as a display unit and an electronic apparatus. The thin-film transistor includes: a gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film having a channel region that faces the gate electrode; and a protective film covering at least the channel region and containing an aluminum lower oxide (Al | 07-25-2013 |
20130187907 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an information obtaining unit configured to obtain parallax adjustment information with regard to a parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material and an image transform unit configured to perform an inverse transform processing on the parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material to be restored to a material before the parallax adjustment on the basis of the parallax adjustment information obtained by the information obtaining unit and generate a two-dimensional display material. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187938 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An image display device includes: a storing section configured to store associating information that associates information indicating one or more providing sources of image data with each of one or more display areas set within a display screen; an obtaining section configured to obtain image data from a providing source corresponding to each of one or more display areas on the basis of the associating information stored in the storing section; a forming section configured to form display image data of a display image to be displayed on the display screen on the basis of the image data being obtained by said obtaining section for each of one or more display areas; and a display processing section configured to display the display image corresponding to the display image data formed by the forming section on the display screen. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188072 | EYEPIECE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGING DEVICE - There is provided an eyepiece optical system including a lens, a surface nearest to an observer side of the lens disposed nearest to the observer side being formed in a convex shape on the observer side, and the eyepiece optical system satisfying a conditional expression (1) |RL/DH|<1.7, where RL is a radius of curvature of the surface nearest to the observer side, and DH is a shortest distance in a radial direction from an optical axis to an edge surface of the lens nearest to the observer side. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188074 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT, COLOR CORRECTION METHOD, AND COLOR CORRECTION PROGRAM - An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup device outputting an image signal based on incident object light; a dimming device adjusting a light amount of object light incident to the image pickup device; a color correction section adjusting color balance of the image signal; and a control section controlling the color correction section to be switched from one of a first adjustment mode and a second adjustment mode to the other, the first adjustment mode automatically adjusting the color balance following variations in color temperature of a light source, the second adjustment mode adjusting the color balance without following variations in color temperature of the light source. The control section controls a light amount adjustment value by the dimming device at a fixed value, when the color correction section is switched to the second adjustment mode. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188079 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a solid-state image sensor including pixels each at least including light receiving parts receiving light to generate charge, a transfer part transferring the charge accumulated in the light receiving parts, and memory parts holding the charge transferred via the transfer part, and a predetermined number of elements shared by the plurality of pixels, the predetermined number of elements being for outputting a pixel signal at a level corresponding to the charge, wherein one or some of the plurality of pixels is/are a correction pixel(s) outputting a correction pixel signal used for correcting a pixel signal outputted from pixels other than the one or some of the plurality of pixels, and one or some of the predetermined number of elements is/are formed on a wiring layer side of the light receiving parts included in the correction pixel(s). | 07-25-2013 |
20130188088 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refracting power and normally fixed in position, a second lens group having a negative refracting power and movable along an optical axis, and a third lens group having a positive refracting power and normally fixed in position, disposed in order from the object side to the image side. Two thirds or more of lenses of the first to third lens groups are formed from a resin material. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1) and (2): | 07-25-2013 |
20130188517 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a communication controller for determining, based on an influence of a second communication device on a communication network connected to one or more first communication devices, whether joining of the second communication device in the communication network is accepted. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188662 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor laser includes: a semiconductor layer including an active layer and a ridge portion, the ridge portion facing a current injection region of the active layer; and an embedded film covering a side surface of the ridge portion and a top surface of the semiconductor layer, wherein the embedded film includes a first layer configured of a silicon oxide film, a second layer made of a silicon compound having a refractive index lower than that of the active layer and having a silicon content higher than a stoichiometric ratio, and a third layer made of an inorganic insulating material in this order of closeness to the ridge portion and the semiconductor layer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188693 | CHROMA QUANTIZATION PARAMETER EXTENSION - The quantization parameters (QP) for Chroma are extended up to and more preferably to the same range as Luma QP (e.g., 0 to 51). Previous, values of Chroma QP only extended up to 39. Techniques are provided for determining extended Chroma QP values (e.g., for Cr and Cb) based on the Luma QP and picture level chroma offsets. In one preferred embodiment, slice level offsets are added making the method particularly well-suited for slice level parallel processing. The extension of Chroma QP enhances functionality, flexibility and friendliness of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard for various applications. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188695 | LOGICAL INTRA MODE NAMING IN HEVC VIDEO CODING - A method and apparatus of using logical mode numbers during both prediction and coding in the bit stream, such as for high efficiency video coders (HEVC). These logical intra mode numbers are sorted based on angle which as a result leads to improved coding designs with fewer and smaller look-up tables, and a small gain in coding efficiency. Furthermore, by using this type of naming, the number of most probable modes (MPMs) can be readily extended since no additional tables are required. The use of three MPMs achieves a larger gain of 0.25% and 0.31% for the AI_HE and AI_LC cases, respectively. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188728 | COMPLEXITY REDUCTION OF SIGNIFICANCE MAP CODING - The complexity of coding a significant_coeff_flag in video coding such as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is able to be reduced using the same mapping to select luma and chroma contexts for the coding of 4×4 significant maps. As a result, a 15 element lookup table and multiple branches are able to be removed to select the context index, and WD text is also simplified. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188737 | FLEXIBLE BAND OFFSET MODE IN SAMPLE ADAPTIVE OFFSET IN HEVC - A Flexible Band Offset (FBO) apparatus and method of performing Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) filtering within encoders and decoders, such as according to the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, and similarly configured coding devices. The number of Band Offset (BO) modes and the number of necessary offsets is reduced. The invention beneficially provides simpler coding, reduces temporary buffer size requirements, and can yield a small performance gain over existing SAO techniques of HEVC test model HM 5. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188867 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processor includes a phase shift section to shift, upon field encoding an image in an interlaced format having different vertical resolutions in a luminance signal and a color difference signal, a phase of the luminance signal in accordance with a type of current field, which is subjected to process, and a vertical resolution ratio of the luminance signal to the color difference signal; a prediction image generation section to generate an intra prediction image of the color difference signal using the luminance signal having the phase shifted by the phase shift section; and an encoding section to encode, using the intra prediction image generated by the prediction image generation section, the image. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188871 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The image processing apparatus may include: a feature acquiring device configured to acquire values of a plurality of features of each pixel block in an object region of an image frame, each pixel block containing N×M pixels, N≧1, M≧1; an estimating device configured to estimate capability, of each of the plurality of features of each pixel block, of reflecting difference between background and an object in the image frame according to the object region and the background in the image frame; and a feature weighting device configured to assign a weight to each of the plurality of features according to the capability of each feature reflecting difference between background and the object, to emphasize a feature corresponding to a stronger capability. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191118 | NOISE SUPPRESSING DEVICE, NOISE SUPPRESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a noise suppressing device including a framing unit that frames an input signal, a band division unit that obtains a band division signal, a band power computation unit that obtains a band power from each band division signal, a noise determination unit that determines whether each band is stationary noise or non-stationary noise, a noise band power estimation unit that estimates a band power of noise of each band, a noise suppression gain decision unit that decides a noise suppression gain of each band, a noise suppression unit that obtains a band division signal whose noise is suppressed, a band synthesis unit that obtains a framed signal whose noise is suppressed, and a frame synthesis unit that obtains an output signal whose noise is suppressed. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191124 | VOICE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a voice processing apparatus including a feature quantity calculation section extracting a feature quantity from a target frame of an input voice signal, a sound pressure estimation candidate point updating section making each frame of the input voice signal a sound pressure estimation candidate point, retaining the feature quantity of each sound pressure estimation candidate point, and updating the sound pressure estimation candidate point based on the feature quantity of the sound pressure estimation candidate point and the feature quantity of the target frame, a sound pressure estimation section calculating an estimated sound pressure of the input voice signal, based on the feature quantity of the sound pressure estimation candidate point, a gain calculation section calculating a gain applied to the input voice signal based on the estimated sound pressure, and a gain application section performing a gain adjustment of the input voice signal based on the gain. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191486 | TIME CONTROL APPARATUS, TIME CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A time control apparatus provided in a slave machine and synchronizing time information with time information of a master machine connected over a network includes: calculation units respectively calculating time difference candidates of the slave machine with respect to the master machine and network delays indicative of an average of times necessary for communication of first and second messages over the network based on transmission and reception times of the first messages which are transmitted from the master machine and received using the slave machine and transmission and reception times of the second messages which are transmitted from the slave machine and received using the master machine; a selection unit selecting one of the calculated time difference candidates as a time difference based on the calculated network delays; and an adjustment unit adjusting the time information of the slave machine based on the selected time difference. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191860 | RECEIVER, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiver including: a reception section operable to receive AV content transmitted by a broadcasting wave; a trigger acquisition section operable to acquire trigger information adapted to operate an application program to be executed in response to the received AV content; a table acquisition section operable to acquire a correlation table correlating the trigger information to commands adapted to control the operation of the application program; an application acquisition section operable to acquire, based on the acquired correlation table, the application program transmitted by the broadcasting wave when the command correlated to the trigger information indicates the acquisition of the application program; and a control section operable to control the operation of the acquired application program in accordance with the command correlated to the trigger information. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191876 | REPRODUCING DEVICE, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a reproducing device, including: an acquiring portion, a storage control portion and a reproducing portion. The acquiring portion acquires stream data on contents which are streaming-delivered through a network in which a band is changed. The storage control portion controls temporary storage of the stream data thus acquired in an external storage device detachably connected. The reproducing portion reproduces the contents based on the stream data read out from the external storage device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130193420 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor of a top-contact structure with suppressed deterioration by a process which is easy and suitable for increase in area without damaging an organic semiconductor pattern. The organic semiconductor pattern is formed on a substrate. An electrode material film is formed on the substrate so as to cover the organic semiconductor pattern. A resist pattern is formed on the electrode material film. By wet etching using the resist pattern as a mask, the electrode material film is patterned. By the process, a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193542 | IMAGE SENSOR, PRODUCTION APPARATUS, PRODUCTION METHOD, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image sensor includes a substrate formed of a material having a light absorption coefficient higher than that of silicon, and a photoelectric conversion element formed on the substrate for photoelectrically converting incident light. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193547 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging element including: a semiconductor layer; a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections arranged within the semiconductor layer; and a pixel separating section disposed in a shape of a same width from a light receiving surface of the semiconductor layer to an opposite surface of the semiconductor layer from the light receiving surface in a position of separating the photoelectric conversion sections from each other for each pixel, the pixel separating section being formed by a material including an impurity. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193949 | REFERENCE VOLTAGE CIRCUIT AND IMAGE-CAPTURE CIRCUIT - A reference voltage circuit for generating a reference voltage to be referred when a pixel signal is digitally converted, includes ramp voltage generating means for generating a ramp voltage which drops from a predetermined initial voltage at a certain gradient, a transistor for forming, together with the ramp voltage generating means, a current mirror circuit, and gain change means for changing a current value of a current flowing from a predetermined power supply via the transistor to change the gradient of the ramp voltage generated by the ramp voltage generating means. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a detection part configured to detect a contact position of a substance with a touch panel having a first area and a second area, the second area being set to an invalidation area in which an operation of touching the first area with a substance is disabled by a contact of a substance, a determination part configured to determine whether the contact position is present within the first area, and a setting part configured to set the second area to a validation area in which an operation of touching the first area with a substance is enabled by a contact of a substance, in a case where the determination part determines that the contact position is present within the first area. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194230 | SENSOR DEVICE, INPUT DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A sensor device includes a capacitive element and an input operation unit. The capacitive element has a first surface and is configured to change a capacitance thereof by an approach of an operating element to the first surface. The input operation unit is arranged on the first surface. The input operation unit has a second surface on which an operation of the operating element is received and is configured to allow the operating element brought into contact with the second surface to move toward the first surface. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194238 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a display unit; an object image obtaining unit configured to obtain images of objects to be displayed on the screen of the display unit; a real size obtaining unit configured to obtain information related to the real size of the objects to be displayed on the screen of the display unit; and a calculating unit configured to process the images of the objects, based on the real size of the objects obtained by the real size obtaining unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194471 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Provided is a solid-state image sensor including a pixel array portion formed from a two-dimensional array of ordinary imaging pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit and configured to output an electric signal obtained through photoelectric conversion as a pixel signal, and focus detection pixels for detecting focus. The focus detection pixels include at least a first focus detection pixel and a second focus detection pixel each having a photoelectric conversion unit and configured to transfer and output an electric signal obtained through photoelectric conversion to an output node. The first focus detection pixel and the second focus detection pixel share the output node. The first focus detection pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion unit, and a first transfer gate for reading out an electron generated through photoelectric conversion in the first photoelectric conversion unit to the shared output node. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194472 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided a solid-state image pickup device including a pixel area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged. The pixels include an accumulation section accumulating a charge acquired by photoelectric conversion, a plurality of detection sections detecting the charge accumulated in the accumulation section, a connection separation control section controlling connection or separation of the detection sections, an output section outputting a first signal corresponding to a potential of each detection section in a separation state in which the connection separation control section separates the detection sections, or outputting a second signal corresponding to a potential of each detection section in a connection state in which the connection separation control section connects the detection sections, and an output selection section selecting whether to output the first signal from the output section or output the second signal from the output section, based on a value of the first signal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194480 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a display control unit that, when an object frame showing an object included in an input image and the input image are displayed on a display unit and a trimming frame showing a trimming region of the input image is further displayed on the display unit, changes display of the object frame. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195149 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, DATA DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A mobile electronic device that includes a circuitry configured to acquire synchronization with a spreading code of an intermediate frequency signal that is obtained by converting a frequency of a received signal from a satellite in a global positioning system into a predetermined intermediate frequency, demodulate a message included in the intermediate frequency signal, output a primary signal to a predetermined signal line, and attach a predetermined header to a secondary signal and output the result to the predetermined signal line, and includes a display unit configured to display data corresponding to the primary signal and the secondary signal, such that the primary signal includes results of measuring one of position, velocity, and time of the mobile electronic device based on the message that is demodulated by the circuitry, and that the secondary signal includes the intermediate frequency signal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195159 | DATA REPRODUCTION CIRCUIT AND DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a data reproduction circuit including: a comparator configured to compare input data resulting from capacitive coupling with a comparison voltage as a threshold voltage and output a comparison result; and a comparison voltage variable section configured to change the comparison voltage along a mark rate of the input data and supply the changed comparison voltage to the comparator. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195162 | SYNCHRONIZATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYNCHRONIZATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A synchronization processing apparatus includes: a jitter amount calculating section that calculates a jitter amount on the basis of a synchronization packet including time information; and a frequency synchronization determining section that calculates an accumulation value of the jitter amounts, and determines whether frequency synchronization is present from the accumulation value. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195271 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device for performing communication by employing first and second communication units, includes: a reception unit for receiving a communication packet including a random number generated for every connection with another communication device, a certificate calculated with the random number, and authentication method information indicating whether or not an authentication method at the second communication unit is compatible with the public key system, through the first communication unit; and a method determining unit for determining whether or not an originator of the communication packet accepts public key encryption based on the authentication method information included in the communication packet; wherein in a case of the method determining unit determining that the originator of the communication packet does not accept the public key system, the random number included in the communication packet is replied to the originator as the identification information of the device itself. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195307 | HEADPHONE - A headphone includes a housing having a storage space in the interior thereof and a driver unit provided within the storage space movably with respect to the housing. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195347 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a modifying unit configured to modify depth information representing depths in individual pixels of an image in accordance with content included in the image, thereby generating modified depth information, and an enhancing unit configured to perform a stereoscopic effect enhancement process of enhancing a stereoscopic effect of the image by using the modified depth information generated by the modifying unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195351 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processor including: a feature point extraction section adapted to extract the feature points of an input image; a correspondence determination section adapted to determine the correspondence between the feature points of the input image and those of a reference image using a feature point dictionary; a feature point coordinate distortion correction section adapted to correct the coordinates of the feature points of the input image corresponding to those of the reference image; a projection relationship calculation section adapted to calculate the projection relationship between the input and reference images; a composite image coordinate transform section adapted to generate a composite Image to be attached from a composite image; and an output image generation section adapted to merge the input image with the composite image to be attached. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195374 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a composition setting unit that, when a first trimming region in which an object included in an input image is arranged with a first composition is beyond a range of the input image, sets a second trimming region in which the object is arranged with a second composition. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195419 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD, PLAYBACK CONTROL APPARATUS, PLAYBACK CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit configured to convert an image input through a lens system into image data, a stitching unit configured to generate a panoramic image from a plurality of the image data items of images captured during a time period from when a panoramic image capture is started to when the panoramic image capture is ended, an imaging direction detecting unit configured to detect an imaging direction during the time period from when a panoramic image capture is started to when the panoramic image capture is ended, a clock unit configured to detect image capture time information regarding image capture times of the panoramic image, and a recording unit configured to record, in association with the panoramic image generated by the stitching unit, the image capture time information detected by the clock unit and the imaging direction detected by the imaging direction detecting unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195425 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a receiving apparatus, including: a stream receiver unit configured to receive a broadcast transport stream; a partial-transport-stream recorder configured to create a partial transport stream from the received broadcast transport stream, and to record the partial transport stream in a recording medium; an event generating section configured to generate an event, the event relating to the received broadcast transport stream; and a private-descriptor inserting section configured to create a private descriptor, the private descriptor being information on the generated event, and to insert the private descriptor in a section of the partial transport stream. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195466 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - There is provided a transmission method including transmitting a first signal and a second signal, which is generated in a different manner from the first signal, via one transmission path having a solid-state element. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196190 | BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN VEHICLE, ELECTRICAL STORAGE DEVICE, AND ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM - Disclosed is a battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte including a fluidic electrolyte in which an electrolytic solution containing a solvent and an electrolyte salt is present while maintaining fluidity, and a non-fluidic electrolyte in which an electrolytic solution containing a solvent and an electrolyte salt is supported by a polymeric material. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196453 | PRESUMABLY DEFECTIVE PORTION DECISION APPARATUS, PRESUMABLY DEFECTIVE PORTION DECISION METHOD, FABRICATION METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a presumably defective portion decision apparatus, including: an arithmetic operation section configured to divide a level difference included in level difference data which indicate a level difference distribution on the surface of a semiconductor device into two or more unit level differences in the depthwise direction of the level difference and determine, for each of the unit level differences obtained by the division, a relationship between the height of a contour line at a level difference position of an upper face and an area of an opening surrounded by the contour line to decide presence or absence of a presumably defective portion. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198213 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reference position determination unit configured to determine a reference position on a time axis in content reproduction at time intervals corresponding to a reproduction speed of content, a search range setting unit configured to set a search range on the time axis based on the reference position and a selection unit configured to select a display picture to be displayed in the content reproduction based on metadata of the content in each search range. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198515 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing device including a receiving unit that receives a first random number from another information processing device; a generating unit that generates a second random number; a time-variant-key generating unit that generates a time variant key for encryption according to the second random number; an encrypting unit that encrypts the first random number with the time variant key; and a transmitting unit that transmits the first random number encrypted by the time variant key and the second random number to the other information processing device. | 08-01-2013 |
20130200252 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A solid-state image pickup element | 08-08-2013 |
20130200272 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR FLUORESCENCE DETECTION AND FINE PARTICLE ANALYZING APPARATUS - An optical system for fluorescence detection includes two parabolic mirrors, a first parabolic mirror and a second parabolic mirror, and fluorescent light beams that are incident from different directions are reflected by the first parabolic mirror as parallel light beams to the second parabolic mirror and are converged at one point by the second parabolic mirror. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200343 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF FORMING MULTILAYER SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILM - A semiconductor device including a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, source/drain electrodes, and a channel-forming region that are disposed on a base is provided. The method includes the steps of forming a thin film by application of a mixed solution including a polymeric insulating material and a dioxaanthanthrene compound represented by structural formula (1) below; and subsequently drying the thin film to induce phase separation of the polymeric insulating material and the dioxaanthanthrene compound, thereby forming the gate insulating layer from the polymeric insulating material and the channel-forming region from the dioxaanthanthrene compound: | 08-08-2013 |
20130200347 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE, DISPLAY UNIT INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, an organic layer formed on the first electrode and including a light-emitting layer, an intermediate layer formed on the organic layer; and a second electrode formed on the intermediate layer and having a thickness of 6 nm or less. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200364 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A thin-film transistor includes: a gate electrode; a gate insulating film disposed on the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the gate insulating film and having a channel region located to face the gate electrode; a channel protective layer disposed on the gate insulating film and the oxide semiconductor layer; and source and drain electrodes each connected to the oxide semiconductor layer through a connection hole formed in the channel protective layer, in which the oxide semiconductor layer has, in a part of the channel region, a narrow region with a narrower width than a width of the connection hole. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200409 | SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There are provided a semiconductor unit that prevents connection failure caused by a wiring substrate to improve reliability, a method of manufacturing the semiconductor unit, and an electronic apparatus including the semiconductor unit. The semiconductor unit includes: a device substrate including a functional device and an electrode; a first wiring substrate electrically connected to the functional device through the electrode; and a second wiring substrate electrically connected to the functional device through the first wiring substrate. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200479 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF PRODUCING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array portion in which multiple unit pixels are arranged on a semiconductor substrate, the multiple unit pixels each including a photoelectric conversion portion generating and accumulating a light charge based on a quantity of received light and a charge accumulation portion accumulating the light charge, wherein at least part of an electrode closer to an incidence side on which light enters the unit pixel of the charge accumulation portion, is formed with a metal film functioning as a light blocking film. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200720 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD - There is provided a power management system including a detecting apparatus configured to detect electromagnetic waves generated in relation to an operation of an appliance and a receiving apparatus including an appliance determining unit configured to determine a type of the appliance based on a power spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, an operation determining unit configured to determine the operation of the appliance based on the power spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, and a power estimating unit configured to estimate power consumption of the appliance based on the type and operation of the appliance. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201129 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position detecting unit detecting a contact position at which an input object has touched a touch panel, an area detecting unit detecting a contact area between the touch panel and the input object, and a selecting unit selecting any one of a plurality of objects based on the contact position and the contact area. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201159 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position detecting unit detecting a contact position at which an input object has touched a touch panel, and a selecting unit selecting any one of a plurality of objects based on the contact position and a last contact position. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201216 | SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a server including a reception unit configured to receive, from a client terminal, position information indicating a position of the client terminal, and direction information indicating a direction in which the client terminal is directed, and a search unit configured to search for image data provided with position information indicating an opposite position across a target object present in the direction indicated by the direction information with respect to the position of the client terminal based on the position information. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201366 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including an extraction unit for extracting a first still portion in an image based on a plurality of still images, and for extracting at least a part of a second still portion corresponding to a portion that is not extracted as the first still portion in an image based on the plurality of still images and a combining unit for combining the first still portion and the second still portion to generate a combined image. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201375 | A/D CONVERTER, SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING DEVICE, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An A/D converter includes: a first comparator that compares an input signal, with a first reference signal which is a ramp wave having a predetermined polarity, and that when the input signal matches the first reference signal, reverses an output signal thereof; a second comparator that compares the input signal, with a second reference signal which is a ramp wave having a different polarity from the first reference signal, and that when the input signal matches the second reference signal, reverses an output signal thereof; and a counter capable of counting up so as to measure the comparison times taken by the first comparator and second comparator, wherein when either of the output signal of the first comparator and the output signal of the second comparator is first reversed, the counter ceases a counting action. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201376 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD AS WELL AS ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes first and second sets of pixels. The first pixels have light reception elements and a discharging unit that discharges charge corresponding to light received by the first pixels. The second pixels have corresponding light reception elements but are covered with a light shielding film. Signals stored in the second light reception elements are read to a next stage when the discharging units corresponding to the first light reception elements are enabled. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201394 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A zoom lens and an image pickup apparatus having such a zoom lens are provided. The zoom lens includes a first lens group in which each lens has negative refractive power, a second lens group in which each lens has positive refractive power, a third lens group in which each lens has positive refractive power. These lens groups are arranged in this order from an object side to an image side. The first lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens which are arranged in this order from an image side to an object side. The third lens group includes a positive lens. Both surfaces of the negative lens of the first lens group are aspherical surfaces, respectively. Both surfaces of the positive surfaces of the third lens group are aspherical surfaces, respectively. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201399 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a program which are configured to provide application programs to be executed in response to AV content. The receiving apparatus includes: a receiving block; a trigger acquisition block; an application acquisition block; and a control block. The control block acquires trigger information and, on the basis of a command obtained from the acquired trigger information, acquires a data broadcast application from an application server on the Internet or a data broadcast application transmitted as NRT content of an NRT service using a FLUTE session by referencing an FDT identified by an SMT and an NRT-IT. In accordance with a command obtained from the acquired trigger information, the control block controls an operation of the acquired application program. The present technology is applicable to television receivers configured to receive digital television broadcast signals. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202131 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM,SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a provision control unit that provides choices expressed subjectively and associated with control for an acoustic signal, and an output unit that outputs a predetermined choice selected from the provided choices. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202158 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing device that detects a plurality of moving subjects from a plurality of frames captured at a predetermined timing, selects a predetermined moving subject from the detected plurality of moving subjects, and composites images on a trajectory of the selected moving subject and a still image. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202209 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing device including an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality on a per-recognizable scene of an image basis according to an instruction from a user, an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for each scene, an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired, and an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image based on the image quality configured for the recognized scene by the image quality configuring part. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202212 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire images captured from a plurality of observation points for a predetermined object, a feature point extraction unit configured to extract a feature point in each of the images acquired by the image acquisition unit, a correspondence relationship acquisition unit configured to acquire a correspondence relationship of the feature points based on images from among adjacent observation points, and an information presentation unit configured to quantitatively present information about the correspondence relationship acquired by the correspondence relationship acquisition unit. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202812 | DONOR SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY - A method in which donor material is used in forming a light emitting layer by forming a transfer layer containing light emission material, irradiating a radiation ray to the transfer layer while the transfer layer and a substrate to be transferred face each other, and sublimating or vaporizing the transfer layer so that the transfer layer is transferred to the substrate to be transferred. The donor material includes: a base; a photothermal conversion layer arranged on the base; and a heat interfering layer arranged between the base and the photothermal conversion layer, and including two or more layers with refraction index different from each other. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202840 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: a display layer; a surface film disposed to face a display surface of the display layer; and a moisture-proof film disposed between the display layer and the surface film and including a projecting section. The projecting section projects outwardly of an end face of the display layer and an end face of the surface film. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204563 | PRINTING INSPECTION APPARATUS, PRINTING INSPECTION SYSTEM, STATISTICAL METHOD FOR INSPECTION DATA, PROGRAM, AND SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A printing inspection apparatus includes a measurement unit and a controller. The measurement unit is configured to measure solder that is printed on a substrate with a squeegee of a screen printing apparatus, the screen printing apparatus including a plurality of squeegees that slide on a screen in different slide directions to print solder on different substrates. The controller is configured to determine a slide direction of the squeegee that prints the solder based on measured data of the solder, the measured data being obtained by the measurement unit, and execute statistical processing of inspection data of the solder based on the measured data of the solder for each of the slide directions of the squeegees. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205149 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING FREQUENCY OF CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT - The embodiment of the application provides an apparatus and a method for dynamically adjusting a frequency of central processing unit CPU. The apparatus is used for a computer system which executes a CPU bound application and a memory bound application, and comprises: a ratio acquiring unit for acquiring the ratio of memory access instruction as executing an application task set; a frequency calculating unit connected with the ratio acquiring unit for calculating an adjusted new frequency of CPU in inverse proportional to the ratio of memory access instruction acquired by the ratio acquiring unit; and a frequency adjusting unit connected with the frequency calculating unit for adjusting the frequency of CPU to the new frequency of CPU. With the apparatus and method for adjusting the frequency of CPU according to the embodiment of the invention, the frequency of CPU can be decreased in consideration of the ratio of memory access instruction so as to reduce the power consumption of the computer system. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205327 | INTERESTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS PROFILE FOR ADVANCED BROADCAST SERVICES - A digital broadcast receiver has a storage device and a processing device. The storage device is configured to store a questionnaire received from at least one service provider of a digital broadcast system, and answers to the questionnaire. The questionnaire comprises a data structure common to at least two service providers. The processing device is configured to manipulate the questionnaire and answers. The questionnaire pertains to viewer preferences, demographics, and interests (PDI) information. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205353 | HOME NETWORK SYSTEM WITH TRANSMISSION ERROR RECOVERY - A client TV in a home entertainment network receives and buffers an audio/video stream from a server, before playing the stream. In the case of buffer underflow, the client TV requests the server to raise the transmission rate. If this causes an ensuing buffer overflow, the client TV requests the server to reset the transmission rate or stop transmitting altogether for a short time. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205355 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, RECORDING/DELIVERY APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND RECORDING/DELIVERY METHOD - A recording/delivery apparatus includes a receiver, a recorder, an information map creating unit, an information map supplying unit, and a stream data reply unit. The receiver receives a broadcast data stream. The recorder records the received data stream in a recording medium. The information map creating unit creates an information map based on the data stream. The information map identifies a changed packet in a target stream of the data stream. The information map creating unit records the information map in the recording medium. The information map supplying unit supplies the information map to a reproduction apparatus coupled to the recording/delivery apparatus. The stream data reply unit provides, in response to a request for the data stream from the reproduction apparatus, a start position of the data stream. | 08-08-2013 |
20130222798 | METHOD OF MEASURING RAMAN SCATTERED LIGHT, AND CONTAINER FOR RAMAN SCATTERED LIGHT MEASUREMENT SPECIMEN - The present disclosure provides a method of measuring a Raman scattered light which is capable of detecting a Raman scattered light derived from a specimen at a high sensitivity, and a container for a Raman scattered light measurement specimen for use therein. The method of measuring a Raman scattered light includes radiating an exciting light to a specimen on a sheet member made of a material different from a material of an accommodating section and disposed within the accommodating section, thereby detecting a Raman scattered light. | 08-29-2013 |
20130313557 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a scanning line to which a scanning signal is input, a signal line arranged perpendicular to the scanning line to which an image signal is input, a storage capacity line arranged in parallel with the signal line, an insulating film having a gate insulating portion that covers a gate electrode of a transistor, a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, a capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode connected to the storage capacity line, the second electrode connected to the pixel electrode, and a protection film having a first insulating portion and a second insulating portion, the first insulating portion covering a source electrode and a drain electrode, the second insulating portion provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode arranged to face each other with the second insulating portion disposed therebetween. | 11-28-2013 |