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Hideo Nakaya

Tetsujiro Kondo

Masashi Uchida

Kazutaka Ando

Tsutomu Watanabe

Yasushi Tatehira

Toshihiko Hamamatsu

Satoshi Inoue

Nobuyuki Asakura

Hideki Ohtsuka

Takuo Morimura

Wataru Niitsuma

Takeharu Nishikata

Yasuhiro Fujimori

Hisakazu Shiraki

Takafumi Morifuji

Takeshi Kunihiro

Seiji Wada

Yasuaki Takahashi

Masaaki Hattori

Takashi Horishi

Takashi Sawao

Ryosuke Araki

Yuji Okumura

Takaya Hoshino

Hiroshi Sato

Takahiro Nagano

James J Carrig

Yoshihiro Takahashi

Sugata Ghosal

Koji Ohta

Tsugihiko Haga

Michimasa Obana

Takuro Kawai

Yasunobu Node

Shizuo Chikaoka

Tsutomu Ichikawa

Takeyuki Fujii

Toshiyuki Hino

Seiichi Inomata

Takashi Tago

Kohji Ohta

Takashi Nakamura

Akira Tange

Kenji Tanaka

Takao Inoue

Yoshiaki Nakamura

Toshihiro Ishizaka

Naoki Kobayashi

Hiroto Kimura

Katsuhisa Shinmei

Masanori Machimura

Yasuhiko Suga

Nobuyuki Yamaguchi

An information processing apparatus including a user-information analyzing unit which analyzes user information and calculates a variation in parameter. A procedure selecting unit classifies, based on the calculated amount, the user into a predetermined group, and acquires, from a procedure database, a procedure corresponding to the group of the user. A basic part producing unit records, in a product's ROM, various set values. Based on the result of analysis by the user-information analyzing unit, a unique part producing unit records an initial parameter value in the product's ROM. A system controller controls a storage unit to store a characteristic amount extracted by an image-characteristic-amount extracting unit and setting conditions on the image processing which are supplied from a remote control signal receiving circuit so that both are associated to each other.

Information management system and method, center processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium used therewith, and information processing apparatus and method, and program and recording medium used therewith

An information retrieval apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of a target object to be retrieved and dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of each of comparison objects to be compared with the target object, the dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the target object and the dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the comparison objects being obtained as a result of adaptive dynamic range coding; a distance computation unit configured to compute distances between the target object and the comparison objects using the obtained dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the target object and the obtained dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the comparison objects; and a comparison unit configured to compare the distances between the target object and the comparison objects to select one of the comparison objects having a minimum distance.

Information encoding apparatus and method, information retrieval apparatus and method, information retrieval system and method, and program

An information searching system includes an encoding apparatus and a searching apparatus. The encoding apparatus inputs information to be stored, encodes the input information in layers, and then stores the resulting per-layer encoding information in a database. The searching apparatus acquires information that has been thus encoded in layers in order from the upper layers thereof, compares the encoded information for an acquired search query to the encoded information for potential matches on a per-layer basis, decodes the information for the potential matches that resemble the search query on the basis of the comparison results, and then outputs the decoded information for the potential matches that resemble the search query. In so doing, searches are conducted rapidly and with reduced computational load.

Information encoding apparatus and method, information searching apparatus and method, information searching system and method, and program therefor

An image signal generated by a CCD image sensor is processed by the block-generating sectionprovided in an image-signal processing section. A class tap and a prediction tap are thereby extracted. The class tap is output to an ADRC process section, and the prediction tap is output to an adaptation process section. The ADRC process sectionperforms an ADRC process on the input image signal, generating characteristic data. A classification process sectiongenerates a class code corresponding to the characteristic data thus generated and supplies the same to an adaptation process section. The adaptation process sectionreads, from a coefficient memory, the set of prediction coefficients which corresponds to the class code. The set of prediction coefficients and the prediction tap are applied, thereby generating all color signals, i.e., R, G and B signals, at the positions of the pixels which are to be processed.

Image signal processing apparatus, and image signal processing method

A signal processing device controls a plurality of signal processing units that process an input signal inputted via a signal line with wide bandwidth, via a control line with narrow bandwidth or the signal line, and includes: a storing unit configured to store correspondence information that associates instruction information indicating an instruction of control with respect to each of the signal processing units, with control information related to all of the plurality of signal processing units, among pieces of control information necessary for each of the signal processing units to execute content of control; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the control information associated with the instruction information by the correspondence information, to the plurality of signal processing units via the signal line, when control is instructed with respect to the plurality of signal processing units.

Signal processing device and control method, signal processing method, program, and signal processing system

This invention relates to an information-signal-processing apparatus etc. for performing a series of processing pieces by using plural functional blocks in response to any information signals, in which functions can be easily upgraded through version upgrading of the functional blocks. Control blockissues a common command and transmits it to a control blockvia a control bus. Control I/Fof the functional blockconverts this common command into an intra-functional-block command if the common command is the common command related to its own functional block, and supplies the functional sectionwith it. This enables the functional blockto operate adaptively in accordance with the common command. When performing upgrade of the functions by the version updating of a predetermined function block, the common command need not be changed.

Apparatus and method for controlling plural functional blocks using common command

An information processing apparatus, including a user-information analyzing unit which analyzes user information and calculates a variation in parameter. A procedure selecting unit classifies, based on the calculated amount, the user into a predetermined group, and acquires, from a procedure database, a procedure corresponding to the group of the user. A basic part producing unit records, in a product's ROM, various set values. Based on the result of analysis by the user-information analyzing unit, a unique part producing unit records an initial parameter value in the product's ROM. A system controller controls a storage unit to store a characteristic amount extracted by an image-characteristic-amount extracting unit and setting conditions on the image processing which are supplied from a remote control signal receiving circuit so that both are associated to each other. The present invention may apply to television receivers.

An image processing apparatus detecting a noise area in image data generated by decoding encoded data encoded by a frequency transform method and a lossy compression method. The image processing apparatus includes a motion detection unit for detecting motion in an area having at least one pixel in the image data, a deviation detection unit for detecting the deviation of the image motion in the area having at least one pixel, and a noise detection unit for detecting the noise area in accordance with the deviation of the image motion.

Image-data processing apparatus

A plurality of processing portions sequentially performs a plurality of processing operation on an information signal. In this case, the plurality of processing portions is provided with a control-command-added information signal to which control commands are added for controlling the processing piece to be performed by some or all of the plurality of processing portions, for each predetermined unit of the information signal. The processing portions respectively separate the control command and the information signal from the control-command-added information signal. The information signal thus separated is then processed on the basis of the separated control command for controlling the processing to be performed by this processing portion. The separated control command is added to the post-processing information signal for each predetermined unit thereof, thereby determining a control-command-added information signal to be output.

Apparatus and method for processing information signal

An image signal generated by a CCD image sensor is processed by the block-generating sectionprovided in an image-signal processing section. A class tap and a prediction tap are thereby extracted. The class tap is output to an ADRC process sectionand the prediction tap is output to an adaptation process sectionThe ADRC process sectionperforms an ADRC process on the input image signal, generating characteristic data. A classification process sectiongenerates a class code corresponding to the characteristic data thus generated and supplies the same to an adaptation process sectionThe adaptation process sectionreads, from a coefficient memorythe set of prediction coefficients which corresponds to the class code. The set of prediction coefficients and the prediction tap are applied, thereby generating all color signals, i.e., R, G and B signals, at the positions of the pixels which are to be processed.

Image signal processing apparatus and method for performing an adaptation process on an image signal

Learning device and learning method for image signal processing

A data processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of signal processes. The data processing apparatus switches processes of a pre-processing portion, a data processing portion, and a post-processing portion with a control signal supplied from a function controlling portion corresponding to a command supplied from the outside. Thus, the data processing apparatus executes for example processes for increasing the resolution, generating a picture dedicated for a right eye and a picture dedicated for a left-eye, generating a luminance signal and color difference signals, changing the aspect ratio, generating pictures having difference resolutions, and converting the frame rate for input data corresponding to a request and outputs picture data generated as the processed result to an external device (for example, a displaying device and a record and reproduction device).

Information processing apparatus

A data processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of signal processes. The data processing apparatus switches processes of a pre-processing portion, a data processing portion, and a post-processing portion with a control signal supplied from a function controlling portion corresponding to a command supplied from the outside. Thus, the data processing apparatus executes for example processes for increasing the resolution, generating a picture dedicated for a right eye and a picture dedicated for a left eye, generating a luminance signal and color difference signals, changing the aspect ratio, generating pictures having difference resolutions, and converting the frame rate for input data corresponding to a request and outputs picture data generated as the processed result to an external device (for example, a displaying device and a record and reproduction device).

An image processing apparatus executes image processing on an original image. The image processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display adjusting images each corresponding to a part or the entirety of the original image; a setting unit allowing setting of values of parameters defining respective degrees of the image processing for the adjusting images such that the values differ among the adjusting images; and an operating unit allowing specification of one of the adjusting images by an external operation. When one of the adjusting images is specified using the operating unit, the setting unit modifies the values of the parameters defining the respective degrees of the image processing for the other adjusting images so that the values for the other adjusting images are approximated to the values for the specified adjusting image. The display unit displays the adjusting images according to the respective modified degrees of the image processing.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An image signal processing apparatus having three processing portions. A first processing portion generates a motion class that corresponds to a target position in an output image signal based on an input image signal. A second portion generates a space class corresponding to the target position based on the input image signal and synthesizes the space class and the motion class to generate one class. A third portion selects multiple items of pixel data positioned in a periphery of this target position based on the input image signal and generates pixel data of the target position in the output image signal according to an estimate equation using the multiple items of pixel data and coefficient data corresponding to the class. These processing portions are respectively constituted of integrated circuits (ICs) having the same configuration. These ICs have first and second functional blocks. Each of the functional blocks changes its functionality according to setting.

Integrated circuit and information signal processing apparatus having multiple processing portions

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