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| US-8,578,237 |
Data processing apparatus and data processing method The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method which can improve the tolerance to errors of data. A demultiplexer... |
| US-8,577,962 |
Server apparatus, client apparatus, content recommendation method, and
program A server apparatus includes a first storage, a second storage, a communication unit, and a controller. The first storage is configured to store statistical... |
| US-8,577,944 |
Signal processing device, signal processing method, and signal level
display device A signal processing device includes a bit-pattern output unit and a look-up table storage unit which are configured as follows: The bit-pattern output unit is... |
| US-8,577,808 |
Methods for securely distributing computer software products A product distribution and payment system for limited use or otherwise restricted digital software products. Digital content data comprising a software product... |
| US-8,577,800 |
Data sending/receiving method and apparatus, data receiving apparatus and
data sending apparatus A sending receiving method for data, such as musical data, in which plural data stored in a first storage unit are retrieved based on the request information... |
| US-8,577,513 |
Power system, power receiving apparatus, and power transmission control
method There is provided a power system including a power transmitting apparatus and a power receiving apparatus. The power transmitting apparatus includes: a power... |
| US-8,577,479 |
Power transmitting apparatus, power receiving apparatus, power
transmission method, program, and power... There is provided a power transmitting apparatus including a power transmission side communication unit for communicating with a power receiving apparatus, a... |
| US-8,577,417 |
Methods, devices, and computer program products for limiting search scope
based on navigation of a menu screen A method of operating an electronic device includes displaying a search field in a menu screen including a plurality of icons representing respective... |
| US-8,577,406 |
Communication device, transmission power control method, and program There is provided a communication device including: a communication unit that receives a beacon for a second communication service making secondary usage of a... |
| US-8,577,293 |
Communication system and communication device A communication apparatus includes a short-range communication unit that receives an inquiry signal from a short-range external communication apparatus and... |
| US-8,577,219 |
Imaging apparatus and method of calculating usable time of imaging
apparatus An imaging apparatus includes a usable time calculation unit which calculates a usable time of a battery device having a secondary battery, wherein the usable... |
| US-8,577,210 |
Image editing apparatus, image editing method and program Method and information processing apparatus for generating an edited work including a subset of a plurality of scenes in an image material. The information... |
| US-8,577,207 |
Information signal processing apparatus and method, information signal
processing system and method, and... An information signal processing apparatus comprises: data playback unit for playing back data from a recording medium on which featured data is recorded... |
| US-8,577,200 |
Content editing apparatus, content editing method and program There is provided a content editing apparatus, content editing method and program capable of easily and rapidly extracting sections corresponding to a... |
| US-8,577,152 |
Method of and apparatus for classifying image A method and apparatus that classify an image. The method extracts a feature vector from the image, wherein the feature vector includes a plurality of first... |
| US-8,577,146 |
Methods and devices that use an image-captured pointer for selecting a
portion of a captured image An electronic device includes a camera that is configured to generate a visual data signal that corresponds to dynamically captured graphic content that... |
| US-8,577,142 |
Image processing device, image processing method and program with improved
image contrast An image processing device calculates a frequency of a pixel value for each block, generates a first histogram formed by N bins, mixes the first histogram of a... |
| US-8,577,138 |
Color rolling detection method and detection device The present invention discloses a color rolling detection method and detection device for an input image, which can detect a phenomenon of color rolling in the... |
| US-8,577,137 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and program The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of more easily identifying an area of a subject in an... |
| US-8,577,082 |
Security device and system A security device and system is disclosed. This security device is particularly useful in a security system where there are many security cameras to be... |
| US-8,577,076 |
Speaker device A speaker device includes: an acoustic diaphragm having a given shape and made of a material having physical anisotropy; and an excitation means attached to the... |
| US-8,577,054 |
Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program A signal processing apparatus includes a source separation module for producing respective separation signals corresponding to a plurality of sound sources by... |
| US-8,577,040 |
Data transmitting method and apparatus, and data communication method and
apparatus A data communication system and method in which a need to store a frame count value in a non-volatile memory and update the frame count value is obviated, and... |
| US-8,577,023 |
Encryption processing method, apparatus, and computer program utilizing
different types of S-boxes A common-key blockcipher processing configuration with enhanced immunity against attacks such as saturation attacks and algebraic attacks (XSL attacks) is... |
| US-8,576,950 |
Reception apparatus, reception method, demodulation apparatus,
demodulation method, and program Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception section configured to receive a signal modulated by a predetermined system defined by a... |
| US-8,576,902 |
Receiving device and method, demodulating device and method, and program The present disclosure provides a receiving device including, a receiver configured to receive a signal that is transmitted via a propagation path and is... |
| US-8,576,681 |
Optical information recording medium, optical information recording
apparatus and optical information recording... An optical information recording medium includes a recording layer in which a track is formed, the track having recording marks linearly arranged thereon. Each... |
| US-8,576,608 |
Memory apparatus A memory apparatus includes: a plurality of memory cells which includes a first resistance change element; and a read-out circuit which determines the size of a... |
| US-8,576,499 |
Imaging lens and imaging apparatus An imaging lens includes: an aperture stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power which is formed in... |
| US-8,576,486 |
Optical film, antireflection optical element and master An optical element includes a base and a large number of structures arranged on the surface of the base, the structures being projections or depressions. The... |
| US-8,576,484 |
Display apparatus A display apparatus includes: a display unit in which sub-pixels are periodically arranged at a first sub-pixel pitch in a first direction of a screen, each... |
| US-8,576,483 |
Microscope and focusing method Disclosed herein is a microscope, including: an illumination optical system; a first image creation optical system; a second image creation optical system; an... |
| US-8,576,344 |
Projection control device, projection control method, and program An information processing apparatus that includes a main body, a member movably attached to the main body, a first detector configured to detect an orientation... |
| US-8,576,340 |
Ambient light effects and chrominance control in video files Methods and systems for controlling ambient light effects associated with video content are provided. The method includes providing a receiving device... |
| US-8,576,328 |
Image pickup apparatus and display control method An image pickup apparatus uses an image pickup device. A manual focus adjusting unit is configured to control a focus lens in response to a user's input... |
| US-8,576,321 |
Imaging apparatus, method of controlling the same, and computer program An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit that respectively generates, with imaging devices different from one another, a first captured image with a... |
| US-8,576,317 |
Solid-state image pickup apparatus signal processing method for a
solid-state image pickup apparatus, and... Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup apparatus, including a pixel array section in which a unit pixel including a photoelectric conversion section and... |
| US-8,576,315 |
Imaging device and imaging apparatus for performing focus alignment An imaging device including: image generation pixels generating signals for image generation; and phase difference detection pixels generating signals for focus... |
| US-8,576,311 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method and manufacturing
apparatus An image processing apparatus having a plurality of Bayer arrays each including 4 pixels sharing a common electrode connected to a vertical signal line wherein:... |
| US-8,576,309 |
Pixel defect correction device, imaging apparatus, pixel defect correction
method, and program A pixel defect correction device includes: a defect determining section determining whether a pixel of interest of an image, in which pixels each having a pixel... |
| US-8,576,305 |
Image pickup apparatus and method of correcting captured image data An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array, a circuit necessary... |
| US-8,576,302 |
Imaging apparatus comprising color image pickup device and monochrome
image pickup device There is provided an imaging apparatus including an optical elements that disperses an incoming light from a subject into a first light composed of wavelength... |
| US-8,576,299 |
Solid-state imaging device with pixels having photodiodes with different
exposure times, signal processing... A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section and a signal processing section. The pixel array section is configured to include a plurality of... |
| US-8,576,287 |
Methods and apparatus for jiggling correction in images Disclosed herein is an image capturing apparatus including, an optical zoom lens, an actuator for driving said optical zoom lens, an imaging device, a jiggling... |
| US-8,576,284 |
Monitoring system, monitoring apparatus and monitoring method In a monitoring system for monitoring parking of a vehicle in a specific area by a monitoring image pick-up device, and a monitoring apparatus, the monitoring... |
| US-8,576,228 |
Composite transition nodes for use in 3D data generation Several embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for use with node-based compositing to assist in the generation of a second eye or camera of a stereoscopic... |
| US-8,576,219 |
Linear interpolation of triangles using digital differential analysis An image processing apparatus able to continuously generate region data, able to eliminate wasteful processing due to invalid regions, and able to efficiently... |
| US-8,576,213 |
Display apparatus and driving controlling method Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels disposed in rows and columns, a number of power supply... |
| US-8,576,168 |
Input apparatus, control apparatus, control system, control method, and
handheld apparatus A 3-dimensional operation input apparatus, a control apparatus, a control system, a control method, and a handheld apparatus are provided with which planar... |
| US-8,576,165 |
Input device and method, information processing apparatus and method,
information processing system, and program An input device includes: an operating section which is held by a user and operated in a three-dimensional free space in order to operate an information... |
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