Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130206456 | CIRCUIT BOARD - There is provided a circuit board including a land provided on a mounting surface for joining a distal end portion of a connection terminal of a lead component by a solder, wherein the land is formed to extend in a predetermined direction such that the predetermined direction is a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction is a width direction, wherein the land includes a terminal-facing portion facing the distal end portion of the connection terminal and a distal end side continuous portion continuously extending from the terminal-facing portion in the distal end portion of the connection terminal, and wherein the land includes a narrow portion having a width smaller than a width of the distal end side continuous portion in the terminal-facing portion. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207138 | DISPLAY UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING UNIT, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A display unit capable of being simply designed and manufactured by using more simplified light emitting device structure while capable of high definition display and display with superior color reproducibility and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display unit is a display, wherein a plurality of organic EL devices in which a function layer including a light emitting layer is sandwiched between a lower electrode made of a light reflective material and a semi-transmissive upper electrode, and which has a resonator structure in which light emitted in the light emitting layer is resonated using a space between the lower electrode and the upper electrode as a resonant section and is extracted from the upper electrode side are arranged on a substrate. In the respective organic EL devices, the function layer is made of an identical layer, and an optical distance of the resonant section is set to a value different from each other so that blue, green, or red wavelength region is resonated. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207215 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device has: an imaging region in which a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element are arranged, and a color filter. The color filter includes: filter components of a first color ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130207271 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a semiconductor device, including a semiconductor substrate, an interlayer insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, a bonding electrode formed on a surface of the interlayer insulating layer, and a metal film which covers an entire surface of a bonding surface including the interlayer insulating layer and the bonding electrode. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207894 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a movement information acquisition part acquiring information which is based on movement of an operation device, and a control information generation part generating, based on the information, control information for changing a display status continuously in a non-linear manner according to the movement. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207989 | CHARACTER HIGHLIGHTING CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, HIGHLIGHTING DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention provides a character highlighting control apparatus including a character pixel extractor and a highlighting degree controller. The character pixel extractor is configured to extract a pixel corresponding to a character part from input image data. The highlighting degree controller is configured to carry out control in such a way that a maximum emission luminance of a display device is linked with input image data, to thereby selectively increase an emission luminance of an extracted pixel on a display screen and avoid increase of an emission luminance of a background part on the display screen. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207990 | IMAGING SERVICE FOR AUTOMATING THE DISPLAY OF IMAGES - An imaging service for automating the display of a plurality of images to create to create a visual presentation is disclosed. The imaging service accesses images of a location, arranges them such that they create a desired visual effect when displayed, and combines them in a visual presentation. The imaging service may employ a client/server system, in which case images and information are uploaded from a client, and the visual presentation is downloaded to the client. The imaging service may also receive compensation from a computer user for using the imaging service. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208004 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a display control device including an action information acquisition unit that acquires, at an action position of one actor, action information regarding a past action of another actor, an object generation unit that generates a virtual object for virtually indicating a position of the other actor during an action of the one actor based on the acquired action information, and a display control unit that causes a display unit displaying a surrounding scene to superimpose and display the generated virtual object during the action of the one actor. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208005 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a recommended angle-of-view parameter that represents a recommended angle of view for a subject in an environment that appears in an image, and a display control unit configured to overlay on the image a virtual object that guides a user so that an angle of view for capturing an image of the subject becomes closer to the recommended angle of view, using the recommended angle-of-view parameter. The recommended angle-of-view parameter is a parameter that represents a three-dimensional position and attitude of a device that captures an image of the subject at the recommended angle of view. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208025 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a display control device including a display control unit that performs display control of displaying an input pixel using display elements classified into high-luminance elements having luminance higher than reference luminance, which is luminance of the input pixel, and low-luminance elements having luminance lower than the reference luminance, and equalizing the number of display elements to which a driving voltage of positive polarity is applied with the number of display elements to which a driving voltage of negative polarity is applied, among the display elements belonging to the classification of the same luminance. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208149 | FLASH BAND CORRECTION APPARATUS, FLASH BAND CORRECTION METHOD, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A flash band correction apparatus includes a flash band detection unit and a frame rate conversion unit. The flash band detection unit is configured to detect a start line and an end line of a flash band in a frame on the basis of a difference in an exposure period for each line of an image signal output for each frame at a predetermined frame rate by an image pickup element with a rolling shutter system. The flash band is an unevenness in brightness level for each line which is generated in the frame due to flash light. The frame rate conversion unit is configured to determine a combination of the frames of the image signal before a frame rate is converted on the basis of the start line and the end line and convert the frame rate to 1/n thereof. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208162 | DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Provided is a method of driving a solid-state imaging apparatus including discharging a signal charge from a photoelectric transducer, by turning on a transfer section and turning on a reset section, at a first timing, in a shutter operation for starting an accumulation of the signal charge for the photoelectric transducer while a selection section is turned off, boosting a floating diffusion section, by turning on the transfer section and turning off the reset section, at a second timing which follows the first timing and taking in an electric signal output to an output signal line by a peripheral circuit section, in a state in which the transfer section is turned on, and generating a pixel signal from the taken in signal. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208707 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An autonomously dispersed type wireless network is suitably formed with communication stations avoiding collision of beacons transmitted one to another. In the event that the range of reach of airwaves change and a receivable state is created and beacons collide, a communication station changes the beacon transmission position of itself in response to receiving a beacon from another station at a timing immediately prior to transmission to its own beacon. Also, in the event that beacon collision is exposed due to emergence of a new communication which can perform reception from two systems out of airwave range of each other, the newly-participating station requests one of the communication stations of which the beacons are colliding to change the beacon transmission timing. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208747 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate made of a hexagonal Group III nitride semiconductor and having a semi-polar plane; and an epitaxial layer formed on the semi-polar plane of the semiconductor substrate and including a first cladding layer of a first conductive type, a second cladding layer of a second conductive type, and a light-emitting layer formed between the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer, the first cladding layer being made of In | 08-15-2013 |
20130209062 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control apparatus: in a virtual three-dimensional space in which is disposed a three-dimensional model of an object contained in a moving image picked up by performing successive imaging operations once by using an imaging device, draws a plurality of thumbnail images extracted from the moving image to the respective positions of the imaging device at the time when the thumbnail images were picked up and draws information that relates the thumbnail images in order in which they were picked up, thereby generating a bird's eye-display image which provides a bird's-eye-view drawing of the virtual three-dimensional space containing the three-dimensional model and the thumbnail images; and causes a display unit to display the bird's eye-display image. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209855 | BATTERY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND BATTERY SYSTEM - Disclosed is a battery device including a battery enclosure incorporating a battery cell. The battery device further includes an output terminal that outputs power of the battery cell. The battery enclosure includes a first surface, a second surface, a first step surface, a second step surface, a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, a first groove, and a second groove formed in the second step surface and the second engaging portion, and a recess is provided in at least one of the first step surface and the second step surface. | 08-15-2013 |
20130210249 | CONVERTER AND PROGRAM - There is provided a converter including a connecting terminal connectable to a connecting device, a communicating unit capable of carrying out communication, and a communication restricting unit configured to restrict the communication carried out by the communicating unit if the connecting device is removed from the connecting terminal. | 08-15-2013 |
20130210250 | CONVERTER AND PROGRAM - There is provided a converter including a converting unit converting a communication mode of a connecting device having a connecting terminal. | 08-15-2013 |
20130210312 | LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A light-emitting display capable of maintaining low power consumption and improving display quality irrespective of the configuration of an auxiliary wiring. A second electrode and an auxiliary wiring are electrically connected to each other through a conductive contact section. Moreover, only a part of the auxiliary wiring is connected to the contact section. Even if the surface of the auxiliary wiring is oxidized, an increase in connection resistance is prevented. Moreover, a restriction on layout is not imposed at the time of forming the contact section. | 08-15-2013 |
20130210360 | METHODS OF COMMUNICATING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND A RESPONSIVE COMMAND VIA SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATIONS, AND RELATED DEVICES - Methods of operating a short-range Radio Frequency (RF) device are provided. The methods may include transmitting identification information that identifies the short-range RF device and/or sensor information generated by a sensor associated with the short-range RF device, using a short-range RF communication protocol. The methods may include receiving a command, responsive to the identification information and/or the sensor information, from a server via a first device using the short-range RF communication protocol to control a second device associated with the short-range RF device. Related devices are also provided. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211606 | APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT METHOD - There is provided an appliance management apparatus including a connection state acquiring unit acquiring information generated due to an appliance terminal of an electronic appliance being positioned close to or connected to a power supplying terminal that supplies power, and a connection state management unit managing a connection state of the appliance terminal to the power supplying terminal using the information acquired by the connection state acquiring unit. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211607 | POWER SUPPLYING APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLYING METHOD - There is provided a power supplying apparatus including a terminal electrically connected to a terminal of another apparatus, an authentication information storage unit storing information regarding authentication of the other apparatus electrically connected to the terminal, and a power supplying control unit controlling supplying of power to the terminal. The power supplying control unit is operable, even when communication with an authentication apparatus that carries out authentication of the other apparatus electrically connected to the terminal is cut off, to continue supplying power to the other apparatus, operable, when an electrical connection between the other apparatus and the terminal is disconnected, to stop supplying power to the terminal, and operable when an apparatus is newly and electrically connected to the terminal, to control the supplying of power to the terminal by way of a comparison with the information stored in the authentication information storage unit. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212105 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a cluster information acquiring unit that acquires information of clusters into which users and items are classified, based on item use logs of the users, an item score calculating unit that calculates scores of the items with respect to the users, based on first scores showing attributions of the users with respect to the clusters and second scores being set for the respective clusters and showing attributions of the items with respect to the clusters, which are included in the information of the clusters, and an item selecting unit that selects at least one item from the items according to the scores of the items. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212643 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a transmission apparatus including a terminal electrically connected to a terminal of another apparatus, a body information acquiring unit acquiring body information of a user holding the transmission apparatus, and a transmission unit operable, by carrying out load modulation in accordance with the terminal contacting or being positioned close to the terminal of the other apparatus, to transmit, via the terminal, information on which the body information acquired by the body information acquiring unit is superimposed. | 08-15-2013 |
20130214301 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display device is provided including a plurality of light emitting devices formed on a substrate, a plurality of first members corresponding to the light emitting devices and formed directly on a portion of the respective light emitting device, and a plurality of second members formed in areas between adjacent first members. The first members and the second members are configured to reflect and guide at least a portion of light emitted from the light emitting sections through the first members. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214371 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE SENSOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IMAGE SENSOR, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of unit pixels each having a photoelectric converting unit to generate and store photocharges according to an amount of received light and a charge storage unit to store the photocharges are arranged on a semiconductor substrate. The charge storage unit is formed on a path along which light is incident on the photoelectric converting unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214377 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE WITH CHANNEL STOP REGION WITH MULTIPLE IMPURITY REGIONS IN DEPTH DIRECTION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Channel stop sections formed by multiple times of impurity ion implanting processes. Four-layer impurity regions are formed across the depth of a semiconductor substrate (across the depth of the bulk), so that a P-type impurity region is formed deep in the semiconductor substrate; thus, incorrect movement of electric charges is prevented. Other four-layer impurity regions of another channel stop section are decreased in width step by step across the depth of the substrate, so that the reduction of a charge storage region of a light receiving section due to the dispersion of P-type impurity in the channel stop section is prevented in the depth of the substrate. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214932 | Center Device - A center device communicates with a plurality of controller devices each having a light emitter, receives an instruction operation from a user of each device, and carries out a process based on the instruction operation, where light emission control is carried out such that each light emitter of the plurality of the controller devices emits light of a different color. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214940 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STATUS DISPLAY METHOD - There is provided an information processing device including a difference information acquiring unit that acquires, for one or a plurality of first vehicles that travel according to a content of reference information including a predetermined traveling speed or arrival time, difference information representing a difference between an actual traveling speed or arrival time in each of the first vehicles and the content of the reference information, and a road status analyzing unit that analyzes a road status in a predetermined region using difference information related to the first vehicles present in the predetermined region. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215098 | SCANNING DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a display device, including display elements two-dimensionally disposed in a matrix; scanning lines, initialization control lines, and display control lines extending in a first direction; data lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction; and a scanning drive circuit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215099 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device including a display unit including first and second lines, light emitting elements and pixel circuits; a first drive unit sequentially applying a selection pulse to the first lines; and a second drive unit applying a signal pulse including first to third voltages to each of the second lines. Each of the pixel circuits includes a first transistor sampling the signal pulse, and a second transistor driving one of the light emitting elements. The first drive unit applies the selection pulse when the first voltage is being applied by the second drive unit, before a correction of a threshold voltage of the second transistor is initiated and within a period that the one of the light emitting elements is being turned out, and the first drive unit applies the selection pulse when the second voltage is being applied by the second drive unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215107 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a depth map information estimation unit configured to estimate a depth in region units of a two-dimensional image and generate depth map information in which a depth estimation value in region units of a two-dimensional image is set, a reliability information generation unit configured to generate a depth map information reliability by determining a reliability of the depth value set in the depth map information, a depth map information correction unit configured to generate corrected depth map information by correcting the depth map information based on the depth map information reliability, and a 3D image generation unit configured to generate from the two-dimensional image an image for a left eye (L image) and an image for a right eye (R image) to be applied in a three-dimensional image display by applying the corrected depth map information. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215144 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a display control device including a display control unit that causes a reproduction image of content that includes a first section and a second section and a reproduction state display that indicates a reproduction state of the content to be displayed on a display unit, wherein the reproduction state display includes a first bar that indicates the first section, a second bar that is displayed in a continuation of the first bar and indicates the second section, or a first icon that is displayed on the first bar instead of the second bar so as to indicate that the second section is not reproduced. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215227 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a controller that sets type information, which represents that an application for executing a process using a dependent view video stream is an application for reproducing a 3-D image, in a clip information file which describes information on a transport stream including the dependent view video stream out of a base view video stream and the dependent view video stream obtained by encoding a plurality of video data according to the a predetermined video coding format. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215238 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SENSOR ARRAY - Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging lens, and an image sensor array of first and second image sensor units, wherein a single first image sensor unit includes a single first microlens and a plurality of image sensors, a single second image sensor unit includes a single second microlens and a single image sensor, light passing through the imaging lens and reaching each first image sensor unit passes through the first microlens and forms an image on the image sensors constituting the first image sensor unit, light passing through the imaging lens and reaching each second image sensor unit passes through the second microlens and forms an image on the image sensor constituting the second image sensor unit, an inter-unit light shielding layer is formed between the image sensor units, and a light shielding layer is not formed between the image sensor units constituting the first image sensor unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215251 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes: a first imaging area setting unit configured to divide an imaging range that includes a sample into a plurality of areas and set each of the plurality of areas as a first imaging area; a first imaging unit configured to capture a first image at an in-focus position of the first imaging area; a second imaging area setting unit configured to set an area that extends over adjacent first imaging areas as a second imaging area in a case where in-focus positions of the adjacent first imaging areas are so different from each other that the difference exceeds a predetermined value; a second imaging unit configured to capture a second image at an in-focus position of the second imaging area; and an image combining unit configured to combine the first image with the second image. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215302 | COMPARATOR, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTOR, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, CAMERA SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A comparator includes a first amplifier and a level holding part. The first amplifier includes differential-pair transistors and outputs a signal of a level corresponding to a comparison result from a first output node. The differential-pair transistors serve as a comparison part that receives a reference voltage, a signal level of which changes with a slope, at a gate of one of the differential-pair transistors, receives an input signal at a gate of the other of the differential-pair transistors, and compares the reference voltage with a potential of the input signal. The level holding part holds a level of the first output node such that the other transistor having an output part thereof connected to the first output node out of the differential-pair transistors of the first amplifier does not fall into a level at which a saturated operation condition is not satisfied. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215303 | COMPARATOR, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTOR, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, CAMERA SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A comparator includes a first amplifier, a second amplifier, and a level holding part. The first amplifier includes differential-pair transistors and outputs a signal of a level corresponding to a comparison result from a first output node. The differential-pair transistors compare a reference voltage with a potential of an input signal. The second amplifier gain up the signal output from the first output node of the first amplifier and outputs the signal from a second output node. The level holding part holds a level of the second output node at a predetermined level. The second amplifier includes a transistor for amplification and a transistor for a current source. The level holding part holds the level of the second output node of the second amplifier such that the transistor for the current source does not fall into a level at which a saturated operation condition is not satisfied. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215309 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a pixel part obtained by arranging a plurality of pixels performing photoelectric conversion, and a pixel signal readout part including a logic part and reading out a pixel signal from the pixel part, wherein the pixel part and the logic part are formed as a layered structure, wherein the layered structure includes a low hardness layer at least lower in hardness than another layer out of a plurality of layers, and wherein a dividing part different from the other layer is formed in a side portion of the low hardness layer. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215311 | CAMERA DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND FLEXIBLE CHASSIS - A camera device includes: a metal panel to be grounded; a main board on which a CMOS imaging device is mounted; a sub board having a ground plane obtained by leading out a ground pattern of the main board through a flexible portion and mounting the led-out ground pattern, which is connected to the main board through the flexible portion; and a metal support plate one surface of which is fixed to the main board through an adhesive layer, wherein the ground plane of the sub board is connected to the other surface of the support plate by bending the flexible plate, which electrically connects the ground pattern of the main board to the panel through the support plate to be grounded. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215505 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a cylindrical casing which is rotatably driven; and a plurality of curve-arranged displays which are installed inside the casing and have the same number as a plurality of slits formed in the casing, wherein the curve-arranged displays include a light housing which is an approximately semi-cylindrical column having a hollow structure, and a plurality of display device substrates installed on an arc-shaped side surface of the approximately semi-cylindrical column of the light housing. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215806 | BIDIRECTIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND BIDIRECTIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A bidirectional wireless communication system includes: a first wireless communication apparatus for bidirectional communication configured to multiplex a modulated signal obtained by modulating an input signal by a reference carrier signal having a predetermined carrier frequency, and transmit a resultant transmission signal; and a second wireless communication apparatus, having an oscillator configured to oscillate a signal having a free-running oscillation frequency, configured to inject a reception signal received from the first wireless communication apparatus into the oscillator, receive the reception signal while variably controlling the free-running oscillation frequency of the oscillator of the second wireless communication apparatus, detect whether the free-running oscillation frequency of the signal of the oscillator of the second wireless communication apparatus has entered the frequency range up to the injection locking to be frequency-locked with a carrier frequency of the injected reception signal, and generate a communication enable signal. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215910 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmission apparatus transmits a timestamp in increments of 10 | 08-22-2013 |
20130215945 | SIGNAL PROCESSING UNIT EMPLOYING A BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION ALGORITHM AND METHOD OF OPERATING A RECEIVER APPARATUS - A receiver apparatus receives a transmit signal through a plurality of transmission channels, wherein each transmission channel is described by its channel vector. A sparseness evaluation unit ( | 08-22-2013 |
20130215973 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes, using encoded streams produced by individually encoding macro blocks arranged in a horizontal direction into a same slice for a plurality of image contents, a stream combination section configured to generate an encoded stream of a multi-image playback image displaying the plurality of image contents at the same time. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216096 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an image management apparatus, in which an image conversion section is configured to generate a setup image, in a setup image format, within a first image pyramid structure for display, the setup image being converted from an object image, in an object image format, included within a second image pyramid structure in response to a request for the setup image. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218935 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a folder creation unit and a content registration unit. The folder creation unit creates a folder at a predetermined hierarchical level in a predetermined hierarchy of folders. The content registration unit stores content in the folder and associates the content with different content, so that the content is registered for the folder. The folder is created by the folder creation unit. The different content is stored in the same folder as the content. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219330 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a graphical user interface that displays information on a plurality of different types of content on a single screen. The graphical user interface includes an overview display area and a detail display area. The overview display area displays an overview of the information on the content in chronological order, based on time information for the plurality of the different types of content. The detail display area displays, in greater detail, the information on the content that corresponds to the time information that is selected in the overview display area. Scrolling the information that is displayed in the overview display area causes the information on the content that is displayed in the detail display area to be scrolled. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219420 | OBTAINING METADATA PROGRAM INFORMATION DURING CHANNEL CHANGES - An apparatus including a remote command receiver, a decode logic, and a database is described herein. The remote command receiver may detect a remote control command that selects a program. The decode logic may receive a video signal from an access device that is the target of the detected remote control command and separate from the apparatus. The decode logic may capture a video frame that is rendered by the apparatus based on the video signal from the access device, and may decode the captured video frame to generate metadata regarding the selected program. The apparatus may generate a user interface using the metadata stored in the database that is different from the user interface generated by the access device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219444 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND SUBTITLE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a receiving apparatus, including: a program receiving section configured to receive broadcast program data; a program reproduction section configured to reproduce the received program data; a clock functioning as a timer; a subtitle-data obtaining section configured to obtain subtitle data via a network, the subtitle data corresponding to the program data, time to display the subtitle data being previously specified; and a reproduction-time shifting section configured to delay, in a case where the time to display the obtained subtitle data is behind time of the clock, time to reproduce the program data by the program reproduction section for at least a time lag between time to display the subtitle data and time of the clock. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219708 | MOUNTING HEAD UNIT, COMPONENT MOUNTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SUBSTRATE - A mounting head unit includes a rotating body, a nozzle, and a valve mechanism. The rotating body includes a rotating shaft, a negative-pressure path provided within the rotating shaft to flow negative-pressure gas therethrough, a non-negative-pressure path for flowing non-negative-pressure gas therethrough, which is provided within the rotating shaft to be aligned with the negative-pressure path in an axial direction of the rotating shaft, and a partition provided within the rotating shaft to partition the negative-pressure and non-negative-pressure paths. The nozzle includes a flow path for flowing gas therethrough, is connected to the rotating body such that the flow path is in communication with the negative-pressure and non-negative-pressure paths of the rotating body, and is capable of sucking a component by being supplied with the negative-pressure gas from the negative-pressure path. The valve mechanism switches between negative-pressure and non-negative-pressure states of the gas to be supplied into the nozzle. | 08-29-2013 |
20130220159 | OFFSET PRINTING BLANKET CLEANING LIQUID, METHOD OF CLEANING OFFSET PRINTING BLANKET, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED MATERIAL, AND INK COMPOSITION AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - An offset printing blanket cleaning liquid includes: a solvent having a dipole moment of about 1.7 or more but less than about 4.1 and having a π covalent bond in a molecular skeleton thereof. Moreover, an ink composition includes: an organic material; and a solvent having a dipole moment of about 1.3 to about 3.0 both inclusive and having a π covalent bond in a molecular skeleton thereof. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221240 | FLUORESCENCE IMAGE PRODUCING METHOD, FLUORESCENCE IMAGE PRODUCING APPARATUS, AND FLUORESCENCE IMAGE PRODUCING PROGRAM - Method and apparatus for producing an image associated with a biological sample is provided. The biological sample is focused on the biological sample based on fluorescence of a first fluorescent material and the image is captured based on fluorescence of the second fluorescent material. A computer readable memory device storing instructions to cause a data processing unit is also provided. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221358 | TRANSISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE TRANSISTOR, SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT, DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a transistor includes: forming an oxide semiconductor film and a gate electrode on a substrate, the oxide semiconductor film having a channel region, and the gate electrode facing the channel region; and forming an insulating film covering the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor film. Infiltration of moisture from the insulating film into the oxide semiconductor film is suppressed by the substrate. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221408 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, PROTECTIVE ELEMENT, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes: an epitaxial substrate formed by stacking a plurality of kinds of semiconductors over one semiconductor substrate by epitaxial growth; a field effect transistor of a first conductivity type formed in a first region; a field effect transistor of a second conductivity type formed in a second region; and a protective element formed in a third region. The protective element includes: a first stacking structure formed by etching the epitaxial substrate by vertical etching that proceeds in a stacking thickness direction; and a second stacking structure formed by etching the epitaxial substrate by vertical etching that proceeds in a stacking thickness direction. The protective element has two PN junctions on a current path formed between an upper end of the first stacking structure and an upper end of the second stacking structure via a base part of the first stacking structure and the second stacking structure. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221416 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a gate electrode of a transistor on an insulator layer on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, forming an isolation region by performing ion implantation of an impurity of a first conductivity type into the semiconductor substrate, forming a lightly doped drain region by performing, after forming a mask pattern including an opening portion narrower than a width of the gate electrode on an upper layer of the gate electrode of the transistor, ion implantation of an impurity of a second conductivity type near the surface of the semiconductor substrate with the mask pattern as a mask, and forming a source region and a drain region of the transistor by performing ion implantation of an impurity of the second conductivity type into the semiconductor substrate after forming the gate electrode of the transistor. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221466 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A manufacturing method of a solid-state imaging device includes: preparing a photoelectric conversion device; forming an insulating layer on a surface of the photoelectric conversion device; forming a wire-grid polarizer on a support base; bonding a forming surface of the wire-grid polarizer on the support base to the insulating layer on the surface of the photoelectric conversion device and removing the support base from the wire-grid polarizer. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221841 | DISPLAY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display includes a first substrate including elements arranged on a main surface of the first substrate, a second substrate arranged so as to face the main surface of the first substrate on which the elements are arranged, a first sealing layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a second sealing layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to surround the first sealing layer. The second substrate has a peripheral projection, the entirety of which projects toward the side on which the elements are arranged, and the peripheral projection surrounds the first sealing layer. The second sealing layer is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to extend from the periphery of the first sealing layer to the peripheral projection. | 08-29-2013 |
20130221881 | DRIVING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD - A driving apparatus is configured to switch states in one modulation period so as to include a conductive state in a first drive direction, a conductive state in a second drive direction having a polarity different from the conductive state in the first drive direction, and a ground state at least when a motor output is in a low output region including a case where a duty ratio of a PWM control is at zero, in which the duty ratio is changed by changing periods of the respective states. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222421 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a display control apparatus configured to perform display control in a manner that a first frame indicating a region to be digitally zoomed in an input image and a second frame indicating a region to be enlarged in the input image are superimposed on the input image. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222612 | CLIENT TERMINAL, SERVER AND PROGRAM - There is provided a client terminal including a determination unit configured to determine whether an overhead view image is associated with a position indicated by a user, and a display control unit configured to perform control so that the overhead view image is displayed on a display unit in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determination unit. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222621 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD FOR AN IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a motion detection part detecting motion information of an object included in a moving image frame, and a cutout region decision part deciding a region to be cutout from the moving image frame using the motion information detected for each object by the motion detection part. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222648 | IMAGING METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging method includes a step of setting, when a digital zoom operation mode for enlarging an image imaged by a imaging part of an X-Y address type is selected, a zoom magnification and enlarging the image at the zoom magnification set. The imaging method includes the steps of: setting an imaging range in a vertical direction of the imaging part according to the zoom magnification set in the digital zoom step; outputting a driving signal for scanning the shutter signal and the readout signal to perform exposure in the imaging range set in the imaging range setting step and driving the imaging part; and discarding, when the zoom magnification is changed in the digital zoom step, images imaged by the imaging part before and after the change of the zoom magnification to prevent the images from being used. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222660 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND IMAGE PICKUP DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup section including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric converter device and a field-effect transistor; and a driving section reading out a signal charge with use of the transistor, the signal charge being accumulated in each of the plurality of pixels. The driving section turns off the transistor by applying an off-voltage to the transistor, the off-voltage being set in consideration of an off-leakage current between a source and a drain of the transistor. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222665 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a display control apparatus including an external memory accommodating unit for accommodating a removable external memory; a database recognizing unit for recognizing a database stored in the external memory, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other; a display method setting unit for setting either display method of a stored first display method or a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database based on a recognition result of the database recognizing unit; and a display controlling unit for displaying the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the set display method. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222687 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A lens barrel includes a cam follower, a first cam ring with a cam slide protrusion in which a cam groove engages with the cam follower, a second cam ring so supported by the first cam ring that both are unrotatable around an axis parallel to an optical axis, a rectilinear guide ring so supported by the second cam ring that the second cam and rectilinear guide rings are rotatable around the axis and unmovable in the optical axis direction, a rectilinear guide guiding the rectilinear guide ring in the optical axis direction, a rectilinear cam ring in which a cam slide groove engages the cam slide protrusion and which guides the rectilinear guide in the optical axis direction, and a rotary ring so supported by the rectilinear cam ring that the rectilinear cam and rotary rings are rotatable around the axis and unmovable in the optical axis direction. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222696 | SELECTING BETWEEN CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES - A method of operating at least one computing device. The method selects between a first clustering process and a second clustering process based on whether at least one condition is satisfied. If the first clustering process is selected, the first clustering process is performed on a first plurality of images to obtain a first clustering result. The first clustering process uses first coordinate axes that were used in a previous clustering process. If the second clustering process is selected, the second clustering process is performed on a second plurality of images to obtain a second clustering result, wherein the second clustering process uses second coordinate axes different from the first coordinate axes used in the previous clustering process. Some embodiments are directed to an apparatus capable of performing the above method. Some embodiments are directed to a computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform the above method. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222997 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes: a display portion including a display screen; a main body portion including upper and bottom surfaces; and a coupling portion to couple the display portion with the main body portion such that the display portion becomes rotatable between a first state where the display screen faces the upper surface and a second state where the display screen forms a predetermined angle with respect to the upper surface, the main body portion including a pair of side surfaces, and a first connector connectable with a first external connector and includes a lower surface exposed from the bottom surface, the display portion including a first leg portion that protrudes to be positioned lower than the bottom surface in the second state and comes into contact with a surface on which the main body portion is placed to form a predetermined tilt with respect to the surface. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223075 | LIGHT CONDENSING LENS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS - A light directing system including first and second relay lenses through which light passes, the first and second relay lenses being positioned at conjugate positions, the first relay lens being positioned between the second relay lens and a light source, a focal length of the first relay lens being longer than a focal length of the second relay lens. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223198 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - There is provided an recording apparatus including a light irradiation unit, a reference-plane tracking control unit, a recording unit that executes recording on the recording medium by independently modulating first and second recording beams when the recording beams radiated by the first and second objective lenses are designated as the first and second recording beams, respectively, a recording-layer tracking control unit that performs tracking control of the first objective lens based on reflected light of a first servo beam and tracking control of the second objective lens based on reflected light of a second servo beam when the servo beam radiated by the first objective lens is designated as the first servo beam and the servo beam radiated by the second objective lens is designated as the second servo beam, and a control unit that controls the reference-plane tracking control unit, the recording-layer tracking control unit, and the recording unit. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223648 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR SEPARATING MULTIPLE SOURCE SIGNALS FROM AT LEAST ONE SOURCE SIGNAL - An audio signal processing device is provided whereby, from two systems of audio signals in which audio signals of multiple audio sources are included, the audio signals of the multiple audio sources can be suitably separated. The audio signal processing device transforms the two systems of audio signals into frequency region signals, calculates a level ratio or a level difference between corresponding frequency division spectrums and extracts and outputs frequency band components of and nearby values regarding the level ratio or the level difference. Predetermined transfer coefficients for each of two output channels are multiplied by the frequency region signals and respective output signals are added together. The resulting summed signals are inverse transformed to generate time-sequence signals. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223742 | MOVING IMAGE EXTRACTING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND MOVING IMAGE EXTRACTING METHOD - There is provided a moving image extracting apparatus including a blur value obtaining unit to obtain a blur value which indicates a blur degree of each frame constituting a moving image, a segment determining unit to discriminate the moving image between a stable segment of which variance of the blur values obtained by the blur value obtaining unit is lower than a first value and an unstable segment which is not the stable segment, and an extracting unit to perform segment extraction from the moving image based on the stable segment or the unstable segment obtained by the segment determining unit. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223829 | DRIVE MOTOR, IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION UNIT, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A drive motor includes: an output shaft provided as an axis of rotation; a first attachment plate having a first fixing hole; a second attachment plate having a second fixing hole and located in a position separate from the first attachment plate in an axial direction of the output shaft; a magnet attached to one surface of the first attachment plate; a coil attached to one surface of the second attachment plate and facing the magnet; a first shaft holding member that is inserted into the first fixing hole and fixed to the first attachment plate and holds the output shaft; and a second shaft holding member that is inserted into the second fixing hole and fixed to the second attachment plate and holds the output shaft. | 08-29-2013 |
20130224563 | 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 carbon material and styrene-butadiene rubber. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate represented by the following Formula (1). | 08-29-2013 |
20130224573 | BATTERY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A battery charger includes a battery attachment section configured to have a rechargeable battery releasably attached thereto. The battery attachment section includes a flat attachment surface having a width corresponding to a width of a bottom surface of a case of the battery to be charged and a length greater than a length of the bottom surface of the case of the battery to be charged; a plurality of locking hooks provided on the attachment surface; a charger terminal configured to contact a terminal of the battery to be charged, the charger terminal including a plurality of plate-shaped contact pieces configured to be inserted into engaging grooves of the battery to be charged; and an attachment projection adjacent to the attachment surface and configured to secure the battery to the charger. | 08-29-2013 |
20130224577 | 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 an anode active material layer on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes a carbon material. The anode active material layer has a thickness from about 30 micrometers to about 100 micrometers both inclusive. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate represented by the following Formula (1). | 08-29-2013 |
20130224607 | SECONDARY BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER TOOL, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution, in which an open-circuit voltage under a fully-charged state per pair of the cathode and the anode is about 4.3 V or over, and the electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate represented by an expression (1): | 08-29-2013 |
20130225083 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A communication device includes a control unit that establishes a wireless communication between a communication unit and an external device by using setting data received from the external device. The device also includes a data processing unit that stores the setting data in a storage unit before the wireless communication is released. Further, the device includes a power input unit that receives power from outside. A communication releasing unit releases the wireless communication between the communication unit and the external device. The control unit uses the setting data stored in the storage unit at a time of re-performing a wireless communication between the communication unit and the external device. The communication releasing unit does not release the wireless communication when the power is being supplied via the power input unit even when a predetermined time has passed. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226599 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a signal processing apparatus including a first periodicity detecting section detecting periodicity information of an acoustic signal included in a first content, as first periodicity information, a second periodicity detecting section detecting the periodicity information of an acoustic signal included in a second content, as second periodicity information, a similarity calculating section calculating a similarity between the first periodicity information detected by the first periodicity detecting section and the second periodicity information detected by the second periodicity detecting section, and a synchronization information generating section generating synchronization information used at a time of synchronizing the first content and the second content, based on the similarity calculated by the similarity calculating section. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227324 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An electronic device includes an address acquisition unit that performs communication with an approaching communication terminal to acquire a unique address of the communication terminal, and a power control unit that shifts its own power state from a standby state where power is supplied only to a minimum function to a quick start state where power is supplied to a function other than a presentation function to a user, when the unique address acquired by the address acquisition unit matches a registered address. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227599 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECEIVING AND PROCESSING DIGITAL CONTENT - An intelligent device is configured to receive a DTV signal that includes audio/visual information as well as data signals in a datacast format. The datacast format includes web pages, e.g., in the HTML (hypertext markup language) format of the world wide web. An intelligent filter modifies itself based on user behavior and user preferences in terms of the web pages that a viewer routinely visits. The intelligent filter is then used to identify certain web pages of the pages that are being broadcast and these identified web pages are stored in a cache memory for later use by the viewer. A second tuner can be used to poll multiple channels when updating the cached contents. Cached web pages avoid broadcast latencies (due to periodic updating) and thereby are displayed faster to the viewer. | 08-29-2013 |
20130272397 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus, a method, and a program that enable an amount of code to be suppressed below a desired value with more reliability. An emergency mode determining section determines that the amount of code of a next picture is likely to exceed an upper limit if a target bit calculated by a rate controlling section exceeds a predetermined upper limit. If it is determined that the amount of code of the next picture is likely to exceed the upper limit, the code amount controlling section controls an orthogonal transducing section to replace a transform coefficient of a predetermined frequency component with zero, controls an intra predicting section to restrict intra prediction modes to be applied, and controls a mode determining section to restrict inter prediction modes to be applied. The prevent invention can be applied to an encoding apparatus. | 10-17-2013 |
20130285884 | HEAD MOUNT DISPLAY AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed is a head mount display including: a user operation section configured to determine one or more coordinates based on a first operation performed by a user via the user operation section while receiving content via the head-mount device; and a controller configured to: superpose, in response to detection of the first operation by the user, upon at least one of one or more display sections of the head-mount device, a screen including one or more items, each of the one or more items of the superposed screen being selectable by the user to control the content being received by the user; and highlight, based on the one or more coordinates determined upon detection of the first operation, at least one of the one or more selectable items of the superposed screen in comparison to other selectable items of the superposed screen. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293727 | SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a system including a housing configured to be grasped by a hand, a determination unit configured to determine whether an object point is present in a vicinity of an electronic apparatus, a recognition unit configured to recognize a relative relationship between the object point and a position of the electronic apparatus when the determination unit has determined that the object point is present in the vicinity, and a stimulation control unit configured to perform control in a manner that a stimulus is provided to a hand in accordance with the recognized relative relationship. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293735 | IMAGING CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING CONTROL DEVICE - An imaging control device includes a character recognition section, an object recognition section, an imaging condition determination section, and an imaging control section. The character recognition section is configured to recognize a predetermined character string in an image to be imaged, and the object recognition section is configured to recognize a predetermined object in the image. The imaging condition determination section is configured to determine an imaging condition for imaging of the image, the imaging condition being determined based on the recognized character string and the recognized object. The imaging control section is configured to control the imaging of the image in accordance with the determined imaging condition. | 11-07-2013 |
20130308049 | PICTURE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD, PICTURE DATA STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In an apparatus and a method for executing generation and reproduction processing of picture data suitable for picture display devices having differing processable frame rates, low frame rate picture data is generated on the basis of a plurality of temporally continuous pictures having a high frame rate to provide picture data having a plurality of layers. Decimated data may be set as the high frame rate layer data. In this manner, the quantity of data to be transmitted or stored is reduced. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308743 | SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT, DISPLAY PANEL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a shift register circuit that is formed on an insulating substrate with thin film transistors having channels of the same conductivity type and includes shift stages, each of the shift stages including: a first thin film transistor; a second thin film transistor; a 3(1)-th thin film transistor; a 3(2)-th thin film transistor; a 4(1)-th thin film transistor; a 4(2)-th thin film transistor; a fifth thin film transistor; and a sixth thin film transistor. | 11-21-2013 |
20130314575 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device is provided, which includes a pixel region in which pixels including a photoelectric conversion section and a plurality of pixel transistors are arranged. In the solid-state imaging device, a transfer transistor of the pixel transistors includes: a transfer gate electrode extended in a surface of the substrate formed on the surface of a semiconductor substrate; and a transfer gate electrode buried in the substrate which is electrically insulated from the transfer gate electrode extended in a surface of the substrate and is embedded in the inside of the semiconductor substrate in the vertical direction through the transfer gate electrode extended in a surface of the substrate. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325205 | CRUISE-ASSIST IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, CRUISE-ASSIST IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, IN-VEHICLE CAMERA AND EQUIPMENT-CONTROL ASSIST IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE - A cruise-assist image generation device includes a steering-angle information acquisition unit, an additional line generation unit generating a cruise assist additional line corresponding to acquired steering angle information and formed by combination of a given number of segments, and an additional line superimposing unit superimposing the generated cruise assist additional line on a taken image of the vehicle periphery to obtain a composite image. The additional line generation unit generates respective curved lines forming at least some of the segments by quadratic curve approximation using coordinate data corresponding to the acquired steering angle information and including coordinates of points representing each segment, and generating respective straight lines forming any remaining segments by collinear approximation using coordinate data corresponding to the acquired steering angle information. | 12-05-2013 |
20130344360 | SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery for electronic appliance to be installed in an electronic appliance includes a battery cell in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte are accommodated in a pack. A positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are lead out from one side face of the pack. The secondary battery may further include a metallic battery can accommodating the battery cell therein and a pair of lids made of a synthetic resin, each plugging an opening of the battery can. | 12-26-2013 |
20140028882 | PHYSICAL INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, A PHYSICAL INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS, AND A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A solid-state image sensor with one or more control lines driven at arbitrary dividing points along the control line. | 01-30-2014 |
20140077171 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY UNIT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY UNIT, AND COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE - A display device includes a first electrode, an organic layer including a light emitting region, and a second electrode. The display device also includes a conductive layer electrically connected to the second electrode and including an opening corresponding to the light emitting region. | 03-20-2014 |
20140108169 | ACTIVATING LICENSABLE COMPONENT OF CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICE AT POINT OF SALE - A purchaser of a CE device informs a retail clerk at the point of sale (POS) of features of the CE device the purchaser wishes to employ, some of which require a license. The CE device is vended without the licenses but the clerk can upload the desired features to a server, which correlates the features to licensable components and which returns to the POS the license codes needed to enable the components. The codes can be provided to the CE device using RFID at the POS, or storing the codes on a removable storage at the POS and giving the storage to the purchaser, or by printing the codes as bar codes in the sales receipt at the POS and giving the receipt to the purchaser, who later scans the codes past a camera of the CE device to enable the associated licensable components. | 04-17-2014 |
20140111752 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There is provided a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display element including a first alignment film and a second alignment film provided on opposing surfaces of a pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first alignment film and the second alignment film and including crystal molecules having negative dielectric constant anisotropy. At least the first alignment film includes a compound in which a polymer compound having a first side chain and a second side chain is crosslinked or polymerized. The first side chain has a crosslinkable functional group or a polymerizable functional group. The second side chain has a structure inducing dielectric anisotropy. The liquid crystal molecules are pretilted by the first alignment film. | 04-24-2014 |
20140126125 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a display displaying images on a display surface; a back chassis arranged in a position opposite to the display surface of the display; and a rear cover arranged in a position opposite to a surface of the back chassis which faces the display, wherein through holes piercing in a thickness direction are formed in the back chassis and reinforcing portions are provided in the back chassis. | 05-08-2014 |