Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Minehiro Konya

Masayuki Fujisawa

Yutaka Shigi

Hajime Takezawa

Hideaki Tanaka

Masafumi Takahashi

Katsuo Doi

Azusa Umemoto

Susumu Hasegawa

Mitsunori Nojima

Yohei Iwami

Yoshiko Imaki

Ryuji Funayama

Mitsuhiro Hakaridani

Morihiro Katsurada

Hiroki Takaha

Satoru Inoue

Hiroshi Yoneda

Shigeto Yoshida

Masaharu Nakatsuchi

Takuya Kinoshita

Toshiaki Morita

Tatsuo Sudo

Kei Okuda

Aya Enatsu

Takashi Yasumoto

Kumiko Yamaguchi

Kenji Mameda

Harunobu Mori

Yusuke Miyata

Takashi Nakajima

Masako Nakanishi

Megumi Ito

Hideaki Tanka

Morihiro Katurada

Atsuro Matsuoka

Toshihide Hagawa

A television () includes: an image data receiving section () for receiving, from the outside, image data storing therein process specifying information; and a controlling section () for controlling an image processing section () so as to carry out a process specified by the process specifying information stored in the received image data. Thus, it is possible to cause the television () to carry out the desired process by causing the television () to receive the image data including the process specifying information for specifying the process which should be carried out by the television ().

Operating system that includes an image data receiving device and an operation device for processing image data sets

An electronic device () constitutes a remote control system () together with a remote control device () and at least one controlled device ('), and the electronic device () includes: a first reception section () that receives, from the remote control device, a direct command signal (&#x2032;) broadcasted to the electronic device and the controlled device; a second reception section () that receives, from the controlled device, an indirect command signal () having been generated by the controlled device according to the direct command signal having been received from the remote control device; and a control section () including signal selecting means () that selects one intended command signal to which a response is needed from a signal group according to a predetermined rule, the signal group consisting of the direct command signal having been received by the first reception section and the indirect command signal having been received by the second reception section. This makes it possible to properly select and process a signal to be followed in the electronic device where a plurality of command signals are redundantly supplied with respect to one command signal from the remote control device.

Electronic device, remote control system, signal processing method, control program and recording medium

A reproducing apparatus () of the present invention receives information of a WEB site from a service-providing server () that administrates the WEB site, and reproduces the information. The service-providing server () holds identification information () of a user of a portable communication apparatus () that is permitted to access the WEB site. The reproducing apparatus () includes: a data receiving section for receiving, from the portable communication apparatus (), invitation information (), identification information (), and transmission time point information (); a reproducing apparatus infrared communication section; a destination determination section that establishes a connection to the service-providing server () based on the received invitation information (), and transmits the invitation information (), the identification information (), and transmission-instruction time (); and a reproducing apparatus communication control section. This allows the administrative server to confirm an authorized destination, based on the content request information received from the portable communication apparatus, when a content is provided from the administrative server managing the content.

Reproducing apparatus, portable communication apparatus, administrative server, and content distribution system

The present invention provides a mobile phone that includes a single camera for picking up a 2D image and provides the 2D image with parallax information to create a 3D image. The 3D image is displayed on a display unit.

Mobile equipment with three dimensional display function

An image processing device for generating a 3-D character image of the present invention includes: an image input section for inputting a face image; a storage section for prestoring of 3-D models, body images, and information on a direction, position, and size of a face conforming to the body images; a user input section having a position designation means and a body selection means; an image processing section, including a textured image generation means for generating a textured image so as to paste the input image onto the 3-D model, a textured image storage means, a face image generation means, and a combining means for combining a body image and an image generated by the face image generation section so as to generate a 3-D character image; and a display section.

Image processing device and method for generating three-dimensional character image and recording medium for storing image processing program

An image processing device of the present invention is provided with an area position specifying device and a computing device. When the user specifies a desired object by using the area position specifying device, the computing device generates an emphasized image, in which the specified object is emphasized, and a line image, and the computing device further produces a composite image of these images so as to achieve an illustration image. In addition to the line image, the emphasized image is produced so that it is possible to emphasize an object desired by the user regardless of a state of the line image; consequently, it is possible to generate a natural illustration image in accordance with the actual image.

Image processing device and image processing method

An image processing apparatus includes a designating section for designating an arbitrary region or an arbitrary position of an image; a specifying section for specifying an object region which is present in the designated region or position, and which can additionally be in a vicinity of the designated region or position, from pixel information in the designated region or position; a determining section for determining an image region to be cut out from the image, based on the specified object region; and a cutting section for cutting out the determined image region from the image.

Image processing apparatus

The present image processing device includes an image obtaining device which obtains an electronic image (still image) or a series of electronic images (moving image), an image extraction processing device which performs image extraction processing for extracting from the image obtained by the image obtaining device a specified object domain an operator wishes to cut out, and a result output device which outputs an image extracted by the image extraction processing device. The image extraction processing device sets two mutually exclusive provisional domains in the obtained image, and, based on separability of the provisional domains, extracts a partial image containing the specified object domain.

Image processing device

An image-displaying apparatus that is provided with a display section which is constituted of a plurality of pixels disposed in the form of a matrix and which is capable of displaying images that are different depending on viewing angles from which they are viewed. This arrangement makes it possible to select desired images by changing the viewing angles from which the display section is viewed. This eliminates the necessity of having to wear conventional glasses with a shutter and their inherent inconveniences. Further, this apparatus is suitable for public use as well as for private use, even when only one apparatus is used.

Two-dimensional image display device and driving circuit

A character and symbol pattern generator includes a skeleton data storage device for storing beforehand, for every skeleton pattern. Skeleton data includes coordinate data of each skeleton point at which changes occur at least in the stroke direction of skeleton pattern for forming characters and symbols, two thickness data which represent lengths of two thickness segments of a stroke on the start and end points of the skeleton pattern, and two angle data which represent angles of the two thickness segments with respect to the stroke direction or the horizontal direction. An input device is used to designate the kind and size of the character and symbol. A thickness data calculating device calculates thickness data of each skeleton point from the two thickness data of the start and end points and the coordinate data of each skeleton point. An angle data calculating device calculates angle data of the thickness segment of each skeleton point from the two angle data of the start and end points and the coordinate data of each skeleton point. An outline data generating device generates outline data from the skeleton data and from the thickness data and the angle data of each skeleton point calculated by the calculating devices respectively. A character and symbol pattern synthesizing device synthesizes character and symbol patterns based on the outline data. An output device outputs the character and symbol patterns.

Character and symbol pattern generator based on skeleton data including

A character generating device which is capable of creating a clear thickened or thinned (wider or narrower) character by eliminating an improper portion of an outline of a character. According to a character code input from an input portion, a CPU obtains outline font data for one character from a font data storage and transfers the data into a RAM. On the basis of the character code input from the input portion, the CPU searches a head address of a memory storing data for a required character and transfers the data from the address into the RAM. A character thickness processing portion performs character thickening or thinning operations on each point sequence composing each outline of the outline-font character and a point-sequence transferring portion determines, by use of functions or a table, a correct destination and transfers thereto the improper point-sequence on the thick or thin processed outline of the outline-font character.

Thickened and thinned character generating device including elements for

A character pattern generating apparatus includes a memory and a CPU. The memory stores, in advance, character skeleton data representing the skeleton shapes of characters and element outline data representing the outline shapes of the elements constituting the characters for each character style. The CPU obtains outline shape data corresponding to one constituent element in character skeleton data from the element outline data, extracts therefrom element skeleton data for the constituent element, transforms the extracted element skeleton data based on the character skeleton data, and modifies the outline shape data in accordance with the transformation so as to generate a character pattern by using the modified outline data. The character pattern generating apparatus of the present invention generates multiple kinds of high quality fonts involving no design restrictions in a smaller number of steps.

Character generation with extracted and transformed skeleton data

A character generation device that easily implements a multiple-font system without increasing the data amount is provided. Character data of a basic font is stored in a character data storage while paste component data is stored in a paste component data storage. A shape recognizer determines a length and an angle of a process-target element as well as an angle of a stroke to which the process-target element belongs, by referring to a font attribute storage based on a font code and character number specified from a keyboard. A paste component data modifier performs scaling up/down processing and rotation processing with the selected paste component data by referring to the font attribute storage. A data synthesizer generates character data that paste components, subjected to the scaling up/down process and the rotation process, are applied onto the process-target element. Thus, by applying paste components to the process-target element in the basic font, a multiple-font system can be implemented with small amounts of data.

Character generation device

A method and device for generating a character line of uniform width throughout character size conversion includes predetermining an offset value corresponding to a target line width; adjusting a line width of each character part to the target value without consideration of respective line widths; obtaining coordinate data by reading coordinates of a dot sequence of each character part; reading an offset value corresponding to a character size after coordinate transformation on the basis of the read-out coordinate data. A reference point for a character part from the coordinate data is selected and coordinates of the dot sequence of the character part are transformed to a specified size. A character part font is generated using the transformed dot sequence and superimposing a character part font onto another character part for plotting a character.

Method and device for generating a character line of uniform width

To efficiently process character blocks including mutually contacting characters by an optical character reader, not only are histograms prepared in a known manner but after candidate positions are determined from a histogram according to a specified set of criteria, their combinations are considered and the characters which are recognized corresponding to each combination of candidate positions are used to obtain average similarity values. Spellcheck routines and these average similarity values are considered together to identify characters which are contacting each other.

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Minehiro Konya