Sony Corporation

Sony-kihara Research Center, Inc.

Naosuke Asari

Mitsuharu Ohki

Takahiro Ishii

Hidetoshi Nagano

Tomoo Mitsunaga

Takashi Totsuka

Kazumasa Ito

Yuji Yamaguchi

Kenji Kameda

Kei Ito

Masatoshi Imai

Masanori Ishigaki

Koji Takashima

Daichi Sasaki

Toshihisa Ueki

Toshiharu Noda

Sumito Arakawa

A signal processing apparatus able to raise a processing capability in processing accompanying access to a storing means is provided. Stream control units (SCU)toaccess data at an external memory system or local memoriestoaccording to a thread under control from a host processor. Processor units (PU) arraystoperform image processing by a different thread from the thread of the SCUsto

Signal processing apparatus with signal control units and processor units operating based on different threads

An image processing apparatus and method produce sectional image data of a specimen in an arbitrary direction without deterioration of picture quality. A re-construction process produces volume data such that one of coordinate axes of a volume coordinate system such as the z axis is aligned with the principal axis of inertia of a specimen. When sectional image data of the specimen on a certain section are to be produced, from among all voxels which compose the volume data, those voxels whose z coordinates have predetermined values are read out, and the read out voxels are regarded as pixels. As a result, it is not necessary to interpolate pixels, and the deterioration of picture quality arising from interpolation of pixels is prevented.

Image processing apparatus and method, program, and image processing system

A boundary line detection apparatus and method and an image processing apparatus and method as well as a recording medium by which the jaggy in the proximity of a boundary line is removed without increasing the sampling rate to remove are disclosed. The differences between pixel values between a noticed pixel and pixels in the proximity of the noticed pixel are compared with each other to detect whether or not a boundary is present in the proximity of the noticed pixel. Then, a length, a direction, and a start point and an end portion of the boundary line are determined. Then, the distance between the noticed pixel and the boundary line is calculated, and the pixel value of the noticed pixel is weighted using the distance. Then, the pixel obtained by the weighting is outputted.

Boundary line detection apparatus and method, and image processing apparatus and method as well as recording medium

The invention provides an image processing apparatus and method and an information providing medium by which a three-dimensional model can be plotted accurately. A model data production section performs a model data production process for shape data and surface color data of a measured object in a corresponding relationship to each other to produce model data and outputs the model data to a model data optimization program section. The model data optimization program section performs a model data optimization process for the model data supplied from the model data production section based on conditions such as a size on a display of the measurement object supplied from a model plotting section, an arithmetic processing performance and a data transmission performance to produce optimization model data, and supplies the optimization model data to the model plotting section. The model plotting section causes the optimization model data supplied from the model data optimization section to be plotted on a VRAM and to be displayed on a display unit.

Image processing apparatus and method, and information providing medium

An IR keyboard 1 generates key code information corresponding to key operated to add break flag information indicating distinction between in-operation and operation release to the key code information as operation status information of the key to add terminator code information indicating that the key code information corresponding to key operation every once is completed to the last portion of the key code information to transmit, as key operation information, the key code information, the break flag information and the key code information by an infrared ray signal from a light emitting unit 11. Further, a light receiving unit 2 receives the infrared ray signal transmitted from the light emitting unit 11 to input key operation information of the IR keyboard 1 to a computer unit 3. At the light receiving unit 2, a control is conducted such that in the case where receive signal is ceased to be received in the state where break flag information added to key code information included in the infrared ray signal transmitted from the light emitting unit 11 of the IR keyboard 1 indicates that the key is being operated, when clocking operation starts from the time point of occurrence of fault and a receive signal can be obtained within a predetermined time, the receive signal is considered to be continuously received.

Method and device for transmitting key operation information and

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Chiba, Japan

Naosuke Asari