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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-9,177,981 |
Solid-state imaging device having a metallic pad periphery guard ring Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device including: a sensor element having a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion section; and a... |
| US-9,177,980 |
Solid-state imaging device and electronic instrument Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device including, a first semiconductor region of the first conduction type, a photoelectric conversion part having a... |
| US-9,177,590 |
Recording apparatus, recording method, reproducing apparatus, and
reproducing method There is provided a recording apparatus including a light radiating unit that radiates light to an optical recording medium, a recording unit that performs... |
| US-9,177,563 |
Encoding device and method, decoding device and method, and program The present invention relates to an encoding device and method, and a decoding device and method, and a program which enable music signals to be played with... |
| US-9,177,532 |
Manipulating a display window within an image and providing enhanced
display features at the main image boundaries Provided is an image display device, including: display means for displaying on a screen a partial area image indicating a given area within an image to be... |
| US-9,177,501 |
Display apparatus having a bendable substrate and control method of the
display apparatus An apparatus includes a bendable substrate, light-emitting elements, a sensor, and a display controller. The display controller is configured to control the... |
| US-9,177,392 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method which allow the encoding efficiency to be improved. The image... |
| US-9,177,387 |
Method and apparatus for real time motion capture Methods for real time motion capture for control of a video game character is provided. In one embodiment, a method initiates with defining a model of a control... |
| US-9,177,386 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program There are provided an apparatus and a method for executing calculation of a global motion vector (GMV) with a high degree of reliability. Local motion vectors... |
| US-9,177,375 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and
program In one example embodiment, an information processing apparatus, for an observed image associated with an observation target object (e.g., a section of... |
| US-9,177,358 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and
program therefor An information processing apparatus is provided that includes an obtaining section and a selecting section. The obtaining section obtains information of first... |
| US-9,177,258 |
Implementing a learning algorithm and estimation function utilizing a
randomly selected prototype function with... There is provided an information processing method including inputting a feature quantity vector and an objective variable corresponding to the feature quantity... |
| US-9,177,194 |
System and method for visually distinguishing faces in a digital image A face is detected and identified in a digital image. A weight is calculated and assigned to the detected face based on characteristics of the face and social... |
| US-9,177,118 |
License management method and content processing system A content distribution system includes a content distribution server and a portable game terminal. The content distribution server retains a first license for... |
| US-9,176,811 |
Storage control apparatus, storage apparatus, information processing
system, and storage control method A storage control apparatus includes a standard read request unit, an error correcting unit, and a high-accuracy read request unit. The standard read request... |
| US-9,176,624 |
Information processing apparatus, stereoscopic display method, and program An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a determination unit configured to determine a... |
| US-9,176,594 |
Information display apparatus, image taking apparatus, and method and
computer program for controlling... An information display apparatus includes an input device adapted to input user operation information, a touch sensor adapted to detect the state of the input... |
| US-9,176,578 |
Control apparatus, control method, program, input signal receiving
apparatus, operation input apparatus, and... There is provided a control apparatus including an input signal receiving unit that receives a first input signal generated in accordance with an operation on a... |
| US-9,176,574 |
System and method for accessing and utilizing ancillary data with an
electronic camera device A system and method for accessing and utilizing ancillary data with an electronic camera device includes a data source that stores various selectable ancillary... |
| US-9,176,569 |
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... |
| US-9,176,542 |
Accelerometer-based touchscreen user interface A CE device for, e.g., displaying the time can incorporate an accelerometer to provide various features and enhancements. For example, tilting of the housing as... |
| US-9,176,367 |
Illumination device and display unit including a light source section,
first and second uniformization optical... An illumination device includes: a light source section including a laser light source; a first uniformization optical member receiving light from the light... |
| US-9,176,361 |
Optical analog to digital converter and method An optical analog to digital converter including a light source, a driver, an array of single photon avalanche diodes, and control circuitry. The light source... |
| US-9,176,341 |
Display apparatus A transmissive-type display device having a display area which is sequentially scanned; and a lighting device arranged on a rear face of the display device,... |
| US-9,176,311 |
Microscope control device and optical distortion correction method A microscope control device includes an offset processing unit that corrects phase contrast information regarding a phase contrast between corresponding phase... |
| US-9,176,308 |
Zoom lens A zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive... |
| US-9,176,265 |
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... |
| US-9,176,055 |
System and method for measuring narrow and wide angle light scatter on a
high-speed cell sorting device The various embodiments disclosed herein utilize multiple lasers that have different wavelengths and a single detection path. The lasers are mounted orthogonal... |
| US-9,176,042 |
Microchip and particulate analyzing device A microchip is provided which includes a first introduction channel, second introduction channels arranged to sandwich the first introduction channel and merged... |
| US-9,176,030 |
Substrate and target plate A substrate is provided, which comprises a structured surface including a regular pattern of a plurality of elevated structures that are elevated with respect... |
| US-9,175,961 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program,
and recording medium There is provided an information processing apparatus including, a track list generation unit that generates a track list that is a list of track groups... |
| US-9,175,826 |
Illuminating unit and display An illuminating unit includes: a light source section including a laser light source; a first uniformizing optical member on which light from the light source... |
| US-9,174,122 |
Game controller A technique which easily removes the motion element of the game controller which is attributed to the vibrating motion of a vibrator from the output data of an... |
| US-9,174,119 |
Controller for providing inputs to control execution of a program when
inputs are combined A controller provides inputs to control execution of a program by combining controller input information and supplementary information utilizing a value of a... |
| US-D742,384 |
Detachable part for electronic device |
| US-9,173,175 |
Information processing apparatus and communication apparatus An information processing apparatus and a communication apparatus for accurately recognizing at the base station the current receiving quality of the mobile... |
| US-9,173,142 |
Cellular communication system, apparatus and method for handover A method for handover of a wireless subscriber communication unit from a first base station to a second base station in a wireless network is described. The... |
| US-9,173,132 |
Method and apparatus for configuring communication resource sets and
method and system of resource management A method for configuring a wireless communication resource set, a resource set configuration apparatus, a method and system of wireless communication resource... |
| US-9,173,030 |
Speaker system and speaker driving method A speaker system includes: a display panel having a display screen; a structure having a plate part functioning as an acoustic diaphragm located outside of a... |
| US-9,173,004 |
Reproducing device, reproducing method, program, and transmitting device Disclosed herein is a reproducing device including: a receiving section configured to receive IP-distributed content data and caption data; a content decoding... |
| US-9,173,000 |
Automatic discovery and mirroring of server-client remote user interface
(RUI) session on a companion device... A server sends to a video device such as a TV a remote user interface (RUI) that is presented on the TV and manipulable to send control commands back to the... |
| US-9,172,989 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system,
information processing method, television... Of the types of content included in a broadcast signal, a type of content different from broadcast content is selectively stored. A broadcast signal reception... |
| US-9,172,958 |
Apparatus and method for coding picture data A coding apparatus for hierarchically (layering) coding top field data and bottom field data divided from each of a plurality of picture data composing a moving... |
| US-9,172,944 |
Image processing device, image processing method, non-transitory tangible
medium having image processing... An image processing device includes: a parallax control processing section performing an image processing for modifying a parallax magnitude, on each of a... |
| US-9,172,941 |
Moving image processing device and moving image processing method A moving image processing device is configured such that a frame data acquisition unit configured to acquire frame data in which a parallax image for the left... |
| US-9,172,877 |
Image pickup unit and electronic apparatus There is provided an image pickup unit capable of suppressing occurrence of false color and color mixture and acquiring a color image with high image quality.... |
| US-9,172,865 |
Image pickup apparatus, solid-state image pickup device, and image pickup
method A solid-state image pickup device includes a lens, a first light receiving element, a second light receiving element, and an element separation area. The first... |
| US-9,172,862 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and program An information processing device includes a detecting unit configured to detect a motion of a subject included in an image generated by an imaging device... |
| US-9,172,860 |
Computational camera and method for setting multiple focus planes in a
captured image Camera devices in form of a computational camera and corresponding methods are described wherein at least two different focus planes are set in an image. |
| US-9,172,858 |
Apparatus and method for controlling settings of an imaging operation An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control for selecting settings for an imaging operation of an imaging unit... |
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