Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi-Kokusai Electric Inc.

Other

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Clarion Co

Maxell, Ltd.

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.

Masahiro Kageyama

Tomokazu Murakami

Susumu Yoshida

Koichi Hamada

Tamotsu Ito

Hisao Tanabe

Akira Date

Muneaki Yamaguchi

Tsukasa Hasegawa

Shigeki Nagaya

Kenichi Yoneji

Osamu Komoda

Takuya Imaide

Keisuke Inata

Hiroaki Yoshio

Hiroyasu Ohtsubo

Yasuhiro Akiyama

Taku Nakamura

Hiroshi Yoshigi

Teruki Niki

Masaomi Ueda

Tomoyuki Okada

Takashi Matsubara

Kaoru Murase

Koji Nagata

Yasuyuki Kudo

Naruhiko Kasai

Hirotada Ueda

Junichi Maruyama

Toru Yokoyama

Shinichiro Fukushima

Seiichi Hirai

Taizo Kinoshita

Makoto Ohnishi

Takashi Tsutsui

Kazuo Ishikura

Toru Matsushita

Takahiko Fukinuki

Tomomi Takada

Nobuhiro Sekimoto

Yukio Kumagai

Teruki Takahashi

Tatsundo Suzuki

Akihiko Ohba

Yoshitaka Hiramatsu

Osamu Hasegawa

Norihiro Suzuki

A television receiveris connected to two or more wireless terminals via a communication line. A controllerand a network I/Fin the television receiversend pieces of login information entered from the two or more wireless terminals to the content distribution server and obtain pieces of content list information each generated by the content distribution server based on the pieces of login information. An aggregated content list in which the obtained pieces of content list information are aggregated is generated. The displaydisplays the aggregated content list. The content list information includes content available for viewing on the information terminal connected to the communication line. The aggregated content list includes content available for viewing on the two or more information terminals in which the pieces of content list information are aggregated.

Display apparatus, information terminal and information processing method

A computer constructs a neural network for executing image processing, the neural network being constituted of layers, each of which includes at least one node. The neural network includes a detection layer that realizes a process for detecting an object in an image. The computer is configured to execute: a first process of obtaining setting information for constructing the neural network including setting values relating to characteristics of a boundary of the object and a shape of the object, the setting values being values for calculating hyperparameters of the detection layer; a second process of constructing the neural network on the basis of the setting information. The second process includes a process of calculating the hyperparameters of the detection layer on the basis of the setting values.

Computer, neural network construction method, and computer system

To generate a color image exhibiting few blocked-up colors or little color saturation. It is provided a image processing apparatus for processing an original image that is picked up, comprising: an image input part for inputting N original images having different exposure levels, where N is an integer of two or more, which are obtained by picking up images of the same subject in one of a simultaneous manner and a time-series manner; and a composite processing part for generating M output images, where M is an integer of one or more and less than N, by composing the N original images. The composite processing part compares color component signals in each corresponding pixel position with each other between the N original images, and sets the color component signal that produces a higher chroma as a color component signal in each pixel position of the output image.

Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and storage medium for generating a color image

In order to transfer an image encoded at a high compression rate and suitably increase the resolution of the transferred image, it is provided an image transfer system, comprising: an image transmission unit that transmits an image; and an image reception unit that receives the image transmitted from the image transmission unit. The image transmission unit scales down the image, and transmits the scaled-down image to the image reception unit. The image reception unit calculates an angle between a line displayed in the image transmitted from the image transmission unit and a horizontal direction of the image in correspondence with pixels included in the image, scales up the image transmitted from the image transmission unit, and removes an aliasing component of the scaled-up image based on the calculated angle.

Image transfer system, image transfer method, image reception apparatus, image transmission apparatus, and image pickup apparatus

An object of the present invention is to provide a technique of appropriately compensating for loss of even an entire image frame due to data error such as a transmission error to allow display of a high quality image. An image display apparatus of the present invention comprises: a decoding unit which decodes an encoded bit stream into an image signal; an interpolation image generating unit which generates an interpolation frame based on frames of the decoded image signal; and a control unit which detects an error in the encoded bit stream and controls the interpolation image generating unit; wherein when a frame of the encoded bit stream is lost (that is, it has not been able to be decoded) due to an uncorrectable error, the above interpolation frame is displayed instead of the lost frame.

Image display apparatus

For providing a technology for preferably achieving high resolution of video signals of a video signal or moving video, with a small number of frames thereof, a video signal processing apparatus comprise an input unit to be inputted a plural number of video frames, a resolution converter unit, having resolution converting characteristics differing from each other, depending on a direction thereof, by composing 2 pieces of the video frames from the inputted video frames, thereby increasing a number of pixels making up the video frames, and a mixer unit for obtaining the output video frame by mixing output results of the resolution converter unit.

Video signal processing apparatus, video displaying apparatus and high resolution method for video signal

To provide a processing method for reducing motion blur while increasing resolution. By performing a super-resolution process, a resolution-increased image is obtained from an input image in multiple frames. By performing an enlargement process, an enlarged image is obtained from the input image in one frame. A high-frequency image is obtained by subtracting the enlarged image from the resolution-increased image. A high spatial frequency-emphasized image is obtained by adding the high-frequency image to the resolution-increased image. The enlarged image and high spatial frequency-emphasized image are displayed alternately every half frame.

Image display device, image processing circuit, and image processing method

A video signal recording and reproducing apparatus is provided that is capable of reducing the encoding amount required for video recording thereby to record a longer video signal while suppressing deterioration of image quality when the video is displayed. An apparatus is also provided that is similarly capable of efficiently transmitting the video signal with a smaller transmission capacity during transmission of the video signal. A structure constituting the present invention comprises: a decoding unit which decodes an inputted video signal into video frames; a decimation unit which decimates the number of video frames decoded by the decimation unit; an encoding unit which encodes the video frames decimated by the decimation unit into encoded video signals; and a storage device which stores the video signals encoded by the encoding unit, wherein the decimation unit performs decimation for each video signal.

Recording and reproducing apparatus, sending apparatus and transmission system

To perform an image processing for high resolution more suitably on even an image signal having images with different resolutions mixed therein. An image signal processing method of the present invention includes the steps of: performing a spatial low pass filter processing on a first image signal that is an input image; generating a second image signal by performing an image processing for high resolution on an image after the low pass filter processing; comparing corresponding regions in the first image signal and the second image signal; and selecting either of the first image signal and the second image signal with respect to the region based on this comparison result.

Image signal processing apparatus and image signal processing method

A technique is provided for reducing the size of each of images included in an image signal and generating a high-resolution image with minimized degradation in the image quality from the reduced images. Alias components and motion information that are included in the image signal having the reduced images are used for conversion of the images included in the image signal into a high-resolution image. Low pass filtering is performed on a frequency component in the direction of a motion included in the image signal and a frequency component in a direction other than the direction of the motion. The cut-off frequency of the low pass filter in the direction other than the direction of the motion is lower than the cut-off frequency of the low pass filter in the direction of the motion.

Method for transmitting and receiving image, receiving device, and image storage device

Data management information includes recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recoding the data, indicating a time difference between the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) and a standard time in a location where the data has been recorded; and data recording time information (REC_TM) indicating a recording time when the data has been recorded, in accordance with the standard time indicated by the time zone information (TM_ZONE) wherein the reproduction apparatus includes means for reproducing the data; and specifying means for specifying a local recording time in a location where the data has been recorded, and wherein the specifying means calculates the local recording time in the location where the data has been recorded, by (REC_TM)&#x2212;(TM_ZONE)+(REC_TM_ZONE) where (REC_TM) is the data recording time information, (TM_ZONE) is the time zone information, and (REC_TM_ZONE) is the recording time zone information.

Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium

The present invention relates to a technology of appropriately improving image resolution. According to an image signal processing method of the present invention, an input video signal contains an image signal whose pixel size is converted at a specified magnification scale. The input image signal is used to calculate sampling frequencies for image signals before and after the pixel size conversion. A ratio of sampling frequencies before and after the pixel size conversion is used to determine the specified magnification scale. A sampling phase for the image signal before the pixel size conversion is calculated from the input image signal after the pixel size conversion. A sampling carrier for the image signal before the pixel size conversion is generated from the sampling frequency and the sampling phase both before the pixel size conversion.

Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing method and video display apparatus

Total management information includes time zone information (TM_ZONE) indicating a time difference between a world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) and a standard time in a predetermined location, wherein the data management information includes recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recoding the data, indicating a time difference between the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) and a standard time in a location where the data has been recorded; and data recording time information (REC_TM) indicating a recording time when the data has been recorded, and wherein the reproduction apparatus further includes a unit for specifying a local time in a location where the data recording time has been recorded, while the data is reproduced, in accordance with the data recording time information (REC_TM), the time zone information (TM_ZONE), and the recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at the data recording time.

Data management information includes: recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recording data, first data recording time information indicating a recording time of data first recorded on the data group; second data recording time information indicating a recording time of data last recorded on the data group; and a flag indicating whether the recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at the time of recording the data specifies a time difference from the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) at the data recording time; specifying unit specifies the time difference from the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) in the location where the data has been recorded, at only a case where the flag indicates that the recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at the data recording time specifies the time difference from the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) in the location where the data has been recorded.

Data management information includes: recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recording data, indicating a time difference between the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) and a standard time in a location where the data of the group data for managing the data management information; first data recording time information indicating a recording time of data first recorded on the data group; and second data recording time information indicating a recording time of data last recorded on the data group, and wherein the reproduction apparatus further includes a unit for specifying respective local recording times in locations where the first recorded data and the last recorded data has been recorded, respectively, while the data is reproduced, in accordance with the first and second data recording time information, the time zone information (TM_ZONE), and the recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at the data recording time.

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Masahiro Kageyama