Fujitsu Corporation

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Akira Nakagawa

Kimihiko Kazui

Eishi Morimatsu

Satoshi Shimada

Hidenobu Miyoshi

Junpei Koyama

Taizo Anan

Akihiro Yamori

Takashi Itoh

Shunsuke Kobayashi

Kiichi Matsuda

Atsushi Ichiki

Takao Awazu

Yutaka Mabuchi

Ryuta Tanaka

Makiko Konoshima

Takahiro Shimizu

Masayuki Morita

Kensuke Kuraki

Jing Zhou

Kiyoshi Kohiyama

Atsuko Tada

Kiyoshi Sakai

Zhiming Tan

Taku Hamamoto

Sihan Wen

Hisanari Kimura

Jun Takahashi

Shinji Kikuchi

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Seiji Okura

Atsushi Oguchi

Kohji Yamada

Akinori Taguchi

Kentaro Murase

Takuya Kamimura

Toshiyuki Fukuoka

Hidetoshi Matsumura

Yasuhiro Kawakatsu

Shin Fujita

Tsuyoshi Miura

Noriyuki Ihara

Guillaume Denis Christian Barroux

Keizo Kato

Kazuya Kodama

Mitsugu Iwasa

Mitsuo Sano

Noriaki Tsukuda

Chikara Imajo

Hiroshi Harashima

Junichi Koizumi

Robert Hsu

Junya Saito

Lalitha Bhavani Susarla

Bahavani Lalitha Susarla

Yoshihiro Terashima

Wolfgang Niem

Koich Tanaka

Embodiments of this disclosure provide a training method, an image encoding method, an image decoding method and apparatuses thereof. The image encoding apparatus includes: an image encoder configured to encode input image data to obtain a latent variable; a quantizer configured to perform quantizing processing on the latent variable according to a quantization step to generate a quantized latent variable; and an entropy encoder configured to perform entropy coding on the quantized latent variable by using an entropy model to form a bit stream.

Training method, image encoding method, image decoding method and apparatuses thereof

An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: determine an angle of intra prediction for a block to be encoded in an image included in a video, and encode the block to be encoded using the angle of intra prediction; generate a bit value indicating an estimation result of the angle using a locally decoded pixel value of an encoded pixel adjacent to the block to be encoded; generate a bit string indicating the angle of intra prediction and generate flag information indicating whether a partial bit value of the bit string matches the bit value indicating an estimation result of the angle; and encode the flag information by a first encoding method and encode a remaining bit value of the bit string by a second encoding method.

Information processing device and video encoding method

Embodiments of this disclosure provide an image coding method and apparatus and an image decoding method and apparatus. The image coding method includes: performing feature extraction on to-be-processed image data by using a convolutional neural network, to generate feature maps of the image data; quantizing the feature maps to generate discrete feature maps; preprocessing the discrete feature maps to generate preprocessed data, an amount of data of the preprocessed data being less than an amount of data of the discrete feature maps; calculating probabilities of to-be-coded data in the discrete feature maps according to the preprocessed data; and performing entropy coding on the to-be-coded data according to the probabilities of the to-be-coded data.

Image coding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus

An apparatus receives, via an input device, query input data including a word or a phrase, and acquires search result set data using the query input data. The apparatus acquires, for a value indicating a strength of a relationship between each impression word included in an impression word group and each word included in the query input data, and extracts the first feature word group according to the value indicating the strength of the relationship with each word, from the impression word group. The apparatus displays the search result set data using the first feature word group as an item.

Search method and search device

A reproduction device is configured to receive light emitted based on a plurality of signals having a specific amplitude in a specific color space on which information is superimposed, and to reproduce the information based on the received light. The reproduction device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: generate a plurality of signals in the specific color space from the received light, correct the generated plurality of signals based on the specific amplitude, and acquire the information based on the corrected plurality of signals.

Reproduction device, method, storage medium, and system

A video decoder decoding an encoded stream includes a parallel entropy decoding part to entropy decode the stream of blocks in block lines in parallel, a parallel QP prediction part to compute prediction values of the blocks in the block lines in parallel, and a parallel decoding processing part to generate decoded pixels of the blocks in the block lines in parallel, the decoded pixel being obtained utilizing data decoded by the parallel entropy decoding part and the prediction value. When performing computing processing in parallel per unit of N block lines, the processing is performed on a processing block in a (K&#x2212;1)th block line preceding a processing block in a Kth block line by at least one block in a horizontal position to compute the prediction value of the processing block by referring to a block already processed corresponding to the processing block.

Video decoder and video decoding method

A video decoding apparatus includes a reference picture list storing unit configured to store picture information of pictures; a motion vector information storing unit configured to store motion vector information including motion vectors of blocks that are spatially and temporally adjacent to a target block to be decoded and reference picture identifiers indicating pictures that the motion vectors refer to; and a vector predictor generating unit configured to scale a vector predictor candidate for a motion vector of the target block based on the picture information and the motion vector information and to correct the scaled vector predictor candidate toward 0 by a predetermined amount.

Video coding/decoding system, video coding/decoding method, and storage medium

Video encoder and video encoding method

To provide a pesticidal composition having a stable and high pesticidal effect. The pesticidal composition comprises a pyridine compound represented by the formula (I): (wherein Ris CHCN or and each of Rand Rwhich are independent of each other, is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, Calkyl or Calkoxy) or its salt and at least one potency-enhancing component selected from the group consisting of a nonionic surface active agent, an anionic surface active agent, a cationic surface active agent, an amphoteric surface active agent, an animal or plant oil, a mineral oil, a water-soluble polymer, a resin and a wax.

Pesticidal composition, and method for controlling pests

A video transmission method for transmitting, to a video playback device, a video data file group that corresponds to a selected scene from among a plurality of scenes included in video data, the video transmission method includes causing a processor to execute a process including making a length of time corresponding to each data file in a predetermined number of data files shorter than a length of time corresponding to a data file to be transmitted next after the transmission of the predetermined number of video data files, in which the predetermined number of video data files include a video data file to be first transmitted and are sequentially transmitted when sequentially transmitting video data files to the video playback device.

Video transmission method and video transmission apparatus

A signal transmission device, includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: irradiating incoming light, which includes one or more symbols with which the incoming light has been varied in response to a signal to be transmitted, on an arbitrary object with a first intensity; and controlling an amplitude of the first intensity on a basis of a reflectance of the incoming light irradiated on the object.

Signal transmission device, signal transmission method, signal reception device, and communication system

A method includes determining a group to which each of a plurality of blocks belongs, the plurality of blocks being obtained by dividing each picture included in video image data; adding, to an output stream, group information expressing the group to which each of the plurality of blocks belongs; calculating an output time for each of the groups; determining output delay for each of the groups; adding, to the output stream, an output delay time from a decode time of each of the groups; controlling an encode amount so that data used for outputting all of the blocks included in one of the groups arrives at a decoding buffer of a decoding device and decoding is completed by an output time expressed by the output delay time; and performing encoding based on the encode amount that has been controlled.

Video image encoding device and video image encoding method

A water-based pesticidal suspension comprises (a) flonicamid, (b) a polycarboxylate surfactant, (c) a sulfonate surfactant, and (d) water. The sulfonate surfactant (c) is at least one member selected from the group consisting of an alkyl sulfosuccinate, a lignosulfonate, a Calkyl benzene sulfonate and a Calkyl diphenyl ether disulfonate. An average particle size of the volume distribution of (a) flonicamid is preferably from 0.5 &#x3bc;m to 10 &#x3bc;m. The polycarboxylate surfactant (b) is preferably a sodium salt of maleic acid/olefin copolymer.

Water-based pesticidal suspension

Video decoder, video encoder, video decoding method, and video encoding method

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