International Business Machines Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Kaneka Corporation

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Limited

Kyoto University

Masahiro Murakami

Hiroaki Kubo

Norio Fujita

Junka Okazawa

Masahiro Hori

Yuji Ueda

Yoshihiko Ito

Kuniyoshi Kobayashi

Takeyuki Hasegawa

Koji Shibuno

Seiji Sato

Hiroshi Iwakiri

Katsuyu Wakabayashi

Kazumi Kondo

Motonori Ogura

Satoshi Hayakawa

Hitoshi Tone

Shigeharu Tamada

Youichi Taniguchi

Noriaki Asamoto

Kohei Fukugawa

Yoshimasa Nakano

Yukitaka Tsuchida

Katsumi Tamura

Shinji Nishitani

Takenori Sakai

Hideaki Sato

Takehito Sakuragi

Tomoya Arai

Munehiro Hasegawa

Tomoyuki Kawaguchi

Osafumi Moriya

Naoko Takeda

Yasumitsu Tamura

Katsuyuki Sugita

Yasuyuki Kita

Shuji Akai

Hiromichi Fujioka

Katsuhide Matoba

Toshinori Kaneyasu

Tadaaki Akimoto

Hirokazu Kubota

Takashi Maeno

Naoki Ishida

Mizuna Narumi

Yoichi Arimoto

Tsuyoshi Goya

An imaging device includes an imager configured to capture a subject to generate a captured image; a recognizer configured to recognize the subject on the captured image; and a controller configured to control a focusing operation based on a focusing region set on the captured image, wherein the controller, when the subject is recognized to be present in a first determination region in a state where the focusing region is set on a predetermined region fixedly arranged on the captured image, sets the focusing region depending on a recognition result of the recognizer instead of the predetermined region.

Imaging device with focusing operation based on subject and predetermined region

An imaging apparatus includes: an imager configured to capture a subject image formed via an optical system including a focus lens to generate image data; a focusing driver configured to adjust a focus lens position at which the focus lens is positioned along an optical axis in the optical system; and a controller configured to perform image processing for scaling an image indicated by the image data based on the focus lens position, wherein the focusing driver moves the focus lens position back and forth in predetermined wobbling period, and wherein the controller controls a correction factor to follow a change in which the focus lens position swings in a period longer than the wobbling period, the correction factor defining the scaling of the image in the image processing.

Imaging apparatus with correction factor scaling of image

A computer system including a CPU and a memory subsystem connected via a system bus to communicate with each other, wherein the memory subsystem comprises a memory controller connected to the system bus, the computer system includes an up/down counter for counting a number of access requests and a number of requests other than access requests, a comparator for comparing the count of the up/down counter with a predetermined threshold value stored in a register, and a clock gate circuit for generating clock gate signals to decimate an operating clock of the memory controller in response to the comparison result of the comparator.

Memory subsystem and computer system

A method including estimating an access request frequency from a CPU to a memory subsystem by counting a number of CPU access requests and a number of requests other than CPU access requests, wherein the CPU is connected to the memory subsystem via a system bus, and the memory subsystem includes a memory controller connected to the system bus, and a DDR memory, including the estimated access request frequency with a predetermined threshold value stored in a register, generating a clock gate signal to decimate an operating clock of the memory controller in response to a result of comparing the estimated access request frequency with the predetermined threshold value, generating a dummy cycle signal to delay the timing of signal data output from the memory controller to the system bus, and generating a clock enable signal to decimate an operating clock of the DDR memory.

An imaging apparatus is an imaging apparatus including a camera shake correction function for correcting image blur in a captured image. The imaging apparatus includes a shake detector for detecting shaking of the imaging apparatus, a correction lens for correcting the image blur in the captured image, a lens driver for moving the correction lens on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis, an operating unit for receiving an instruction from a user, and a controller for generating a drive signal for the lens driver based on an output of the shake detector. The controller changes the drive signal according to a setting regarding an amplitude of shaking that is a target of camera shake correction and a setting regarding a frequency of the shaking that is the target of camera shake correction. Also, the controller changes the setting regarding the amplitude and the setting regarding the frequency based on an instruction from the user.

Imaging apparatus including a camera shake correction function for correcting image blur

An image capture device includes: a first and second optical system including a first and second focus lens, respectively; a first image sensor that outputs an electrical signal representing a subject image that has been produced through the first focus lens; a second image sensor that outputs an electrical signal representing a subject image produced through the second focus lens; and a drive controller that moves the first and second focus lenses along their optical axes. The drive controller has the second focus lens follow a position determined by a position of the first focus lens until the first focus lens reaches a position close to in-focus position, and then moves the first and second focus lenses to in-focus positions independently of each other once the first focus lens has reached the position close to the in-focus position.

Image pickup device and program

The present invention provides a computer system including a CPU with an L2 cache, a bus master device and a bus slave device. They are connected via a system bus to communicate with each other. The computer systemincludes: a transaction monitorfor monitoring first transaction states TrC-TrCn between a CPUand an L2 cache, and second transaction states from TrBto TrBn between a system busand the L2 cache, between the system busand a bus master deviceor between the system busand bus slave devices; and a clock generatorable to change the frequency FreqC-FreqSof the clock of the CPU, the system bus, and the bus slave devicesaccording to the first transaction and second transaction states received from the transaction monitor

Power saving based on clock management claim of priority

The present invention provides a computer system including a CPU and a memory subsystem connected via a system bus to communicate with each other. The computer systemincludes a bus monitorconnected to the system busto monitor the frequency of access requests from the CPUto the memory subsystem, and a latency changing meansfor sending a control signal to the memory subsystem to change the latency of the access requests in response to the frequency of the access requests received from the bus monitor.

Embodiments of the present invention relate generally packet processing and, more particularly, to a system and method for buffering packets which reduces power consumption during the power saving mode of a system without dropping packets. The system and method may include a buffer controller that controls: a buffer, so that the buffer inputs and hold packets until a memory is operated by a stable supply of power; and the memory, so that the memory inputs and holds packets after it is operated by a stable supply of power after returning to a normal operating mode from a power saving mode.

Packet buffering system and method

An image capture device includes: an image capturing section which captures a subject image and generates an image; an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration; an angular velocity sensor which detects angular velocity; a controller which determines, according to a result of detection obtained by the angular velocity sensor, a first correction angle that is based on a result of detection obtained by the acceleration sensor and a second correction angle that is based on a result of detection obtained by the angular velocity sensor; and an image processing section which rotates the generated image based on an angle obtained by adding together the first and second correction angles.

Image capture device, image processor and image processing method

An exemplary image capture deviceincludes: an image capturing sectionconfigured to generate an image based on a subject image formed; a first sensorconfigured to detect acceleration of gravity on the deviceitself to output a first detection signal; a second sensorconfigured to detect a variation in the device's own attitude to output a second detection signal; and a processorconfigured to calculate a first magnitude of correction based on a frequency component in the first detection signal, which is equal to or lower than a first frequency, configured to calculate a second magnitude of correction based on a frequency component in the second detection signal, which is equal to or higher than a second frequency, and configured to correct, based on the calculated first and second magnitudes of correction, tilt of at least one of the subject image and the image.

Image capture device

A method, device, and article for assisting in the design of a logic circuit. The method can be such that: logic circuit description data is acquired, a first netlist is generated which is logically integrated with a first frequency based on the acquired logic circuit description data, and a second netlist is generated which is logically integrated with a second frequency higher than the first frequency based on the acquired logic circuit description data, logical operation elements and the wiring for the logical operation elements are arranged based on the first netlist, and a timing report is outputted which is related to the execution timing for each block divided into a predetermined wiring unit, and any block not satisfying the desired operational speed based on the outputted timing report is extracted, the first netlist is replaced with the second netlist for any extracted block, and placement and routing is performed.

Optimization method and device for netlist used in logic circuit design for semiconductor integrated circuit

Ensuring real-time performance of multitask control and improving the processing efficiency of a system provided with a processor processing while switching between a plurality of tasks. The system includes an execution unit executing instructions on individual tasks while switching from one task to another, a distinguishing unit executing an instruction determined to be a predetermined instruction. The system further includes a determination unit set so that on condition that the instruction to be executed is the predetermined instruction, it determines whether to allow the execution unit to execute the predetermined instruction or to perform a task switching process without executing the predetermined instruction based on a predetermined condition.

Controlling the task switch timing of a multitask system

A circuit that transfers data between a first clock domain using a first clock and a second clock domain using a second clock synchronized with the first clock. The circuit comprises a data holding circuit operating at the first clock, an enable signal generation circuit connected to the data holding circuit. Preferably, the data transfer circuit includes an edge signal generation circuit connected to the data holding circuit, the edge signal generation circuit generating an edge signal allowing the data holding circuit to receive and send the data when edges of the first clock and the second clock align, and applying the edge signal to the data holding circuit.

Data transfer circuit and data transfer method for clock domain crossing

The present invention provides novel boron compounds which are useful, depending on their characteristics, as light-emitting materials, electron-transport materials, electron-injection materials, hole-blocking materials, or organic semiconductor materials, and which have new molecular structures quite different from those of the heretofore known boron compounds; their production processes; and functional electronic devices using the same. The novel boron compounds are, for example, those of the following formula (1): These boron compounds can be produced by, for example, reacting boron compounds of the following formula (4): with compounds of the following formula (5): in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of palladium, platinum, and nickel. These boron compounds are used for the functional electronic devices.

Boron compounds, their production processes, and functional electronic devices using same

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