Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Jvc Kenwood Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Takeshi Yamazaki

Charles Ray Johns

Tadayoshi Nakayama

Hiroshi Kajiwara

Hikaru Ito

Seiko Kono

Yuji Takahashi

Hideyuki Saito

Hiroki Kishi

Takuji Teruuchi

Yuki Wada

Hiroki Takahashi

Toshiya Endo

Yoshinori Ito

Yoichi Takaragi

Yasutomo Suzuki

David John Krolak

Jeffrey Douglas Brown

Scott Douglas Clark

Hideki Mitsubayashi

Ryuichi Arai

Takatoshi Ohta

Hiroaki Sugiura

Yuki Shiraishi

Toshihiro Nakazawa

Munehiko Ohta

There is provided an on-vehicle display controller including a video data acquiring unit configured to acquire captured video data obtained through imaging by an imager that is configured to image surroundings of a vehicle, a detecting unit configured to detect at least one following vehicle in the captured video data, an identifying unit configured to identify a lower part of the following vehicle detected by the detecting unit, a display video data generating unit configured to set a clipping area of the captured video data so as to include the lower part of the following vehicle identified by the identifying unit, and generate display video data by performing clipping the clipping area from the captured video data, and a display controller configured to cause a display used in the vehicle to display the display video data generated by the display video data generating unit.

On-vehicle display controller, on-vehicle display system, on-vehicle display control method, and non-transitory storage medium

A vehicular display control device includes a video acquiring unit configured to acquire video data captured by a rear camera configured to capture a rear view of a vehicle, a frequency detecting unit configured to detect a frequency of a driver's action in the vehicle for changing a range of view with respect to a display installed in front of the driver, a video data generating unit configured to clip, when the frequency of the driver's action detected by the frequency detecting unit becomes high, a clipping range in the captured video data acquired by the video acquiring unit wider than a clipping range before the frequency of the driver's action becomes high to generate video data for a predetermined time, and a display controller configured to cause a display installed in front of the driver to display the video data generated by the video data generating unit.

Vehicular display control device, vehicular display system, vehicular display control method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing apparatus, which recognizes an operation input using a pointed position, includes a position acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one pointed position pointed on a display screen; a pressure acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to pressure corresponding to each pointed position, acquired by the position acquisition unit; and a recognition unit configured to, in a case where a plurality of pointed positions pointed on the display screen exist at a same point-in-time, use a pointed position of the plurality of pointed positions excluding a pointed position regarding which a decision is made based on information relating to pressure acquired by the pressure acquisition unit that the pointed position does not make up input used for an operation of the information processing apparatus, recognize the operation.

Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus configured to recognize a touch operation. The information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of touch positions touched on a display screen; a specifying unit configured to specify an object displayed at a position corresponding to each of the touch positions obtained by the obtaining unit on the display screen when at least one of the touch positions obtained by the obtaining unit is included in a predetermined range on the display screen; and a determination unit configured to determine, among the touch positions obtained by the obtaining unit, a touch position included in the predetermined range as an invalid input for a touch operation to the information processing apparatus when the object specified by the specifying unit is not a plurality of objects associated with each other.

Information processing apparatus and method for controlling the same

An apparatus capable of multi-touch operation useful for preventing a false operation despite a user's intention recognizes a touch operation and includes a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch point in a target area of the touch operation, a detection unit configured to detect a movement of the information processing apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine that, among a plurality of touch points detected by the touch detection unit, a touch point which begins to be detected before the apparatus moves and is being detected when the movement is detected, as not valid, and a recognition unit configured to recognize the touch operation based on, among the plurality of touch points detected by the touch detection unit, based on a touch point excluding the touch point determined as not valid by the determination unit.

Information processing apparatus and control method for recognizing a touch operation

In a case where a plurality of touch points touching on a touch panel is detected, a touch point changed from a previous state among the plurality of touch points is determined to be valid, whether a touch point not changed is valid is determined, and information regarding the touch point determined to be valid is recognized as an input.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program storage medium

An encoding apparatus encodes an image by tile in a smallest possible size while suppresses segmentation of a specific region in the image into tiles. Vertical lines at left and right ends of n-th face region are defined as boundary candidate vertical lines Lh(n) and Lm(n), and horizontal lines at upper and lower ends of the n-th region, as boundary candidate horizontal lines Lu(n) and Ls(n). A divider determines a horizontal line of another region existing within the range of the horizontal lines Lu(n) and Ls(n) of the n-th region as a line to be deleted. Further, the divider determines a vertical line of another region existing within the range of the vertical lines Lh(n) and Lm(n) as a line to be deleted. This processing is performed to the final region, then image data is divided using horizontal and vertical lines except the lines determined as lines to be deleted.

Image encoding apparatus and control method thereof

This invention provides a technique of easily encoding image data to generate encoded data having high image quality within a target code amount using a small memory capacity by image encoding processing of performing frequency transform and quantization of each pixel block. A frequency transform unit separates image data into low frequency band data and high frequency band data. A coefficient quantizing unit, coefficient encoder, and code amount controller operate to encode the high frequency band data within a predetermined amount. When the encoding processing of the high frequency band data has ended, the quantization parameter of the low frequency band data is set based on the generated code amount of the high frequency band data. A coefficient quantizing unit, coefficient encoder, code amount detector, and quantization parameter updating unit operate to encode the low frequency band data into codes within a low frequency band target code amount.

Image encoding apparatus and method of controlling the same

This invention enables to generate encoded data without noticeable image quality degradation when reproducing an image at a lower resolution not to mention the original resolution. To accomplish this, when setting is done to transmit an image captured by a digital camera to a network, code stream forming information CF is set to '2' to arrange the encoded data of each tile in a resolution order. To suppress image quality degradation when reproducing at an intermediate resolution, stream conversion information SC is set to '2'. When encoding image data in compression processing, block overlap processing of suppressing discontinuity of data at the boundary between adjacent blocks is executed as many times as the count set in the stream conversion information. The obtained encoded data is arranged in accordance with the code stream forming information CF and output.

This invention enables to generate encoded data without noticeable image quality degradation when reproducing an image at a lower resolution not to mention the original resolution. An image a digital camera can capture takes three sizes L, M, and S. When the size L is designated, stream conversion information SC is set to '2'. When the size M is designated, the stream conversion information SC is set to '1'. When the size S is designated, the stream conversion information SC is set to &#x201c;0&#x201d;. When encoding image data in compression processing, block overlap processing of suppressing discontinuity of data at the boundary between adjacent blocks is executed as many times as the count set in the stream conversion information.

There is provided a technique of accessing a memory of a processor from a peripheral device, thereby the security is ensured while efficiency is being pursued. An address converterincludes an address conversion table for converting an effective address into a physical address. The address conversion table stores the effective address to which an area in a memory of a processor unitis allocated to each peripheral deviceand identification information of an access source to which access permission is given, in association with each other. When the peripheral deviceaccesses, the address converterdetermines to permit access to the effective address under the condition that the device identification information, included in an access request packet, by which the peripheral devicecan be uniquely identified, matches the identification information of the access source corresponding to the effective address, in the address conversion table, designated by the access request packet.

Bridge, processor unit, information processing apparatus, and access control method

An information processing apparatus having a fat tree structure, in which signal transmission across node columns managed by respective processor units is performed through end point bridges included in bridge chips. In this transmission method, the bridge chips perform routing by using node IDs that are given to the respective node columns and levels that indicate the hierarchical depths of the bridge chips, thereby selecting the shortest routes of signals.

Signal transmission method, bridge unit, and information processing apparatus

An object of the present invention is to form an image effectively by reading the image from the same film on which the image and information concerning the image have been recorded in different methods. To attain the object, there is provided an image processing apparatus of the present invention comprising optical read means for optically reading image data from a film and magnetic read means for magnetically reading additional information concerning the image data from the film. Consequently, the image indicated by the image data can be formed effectively by automatically selecting the size of a paper, a zoom ratio of the image or the like on the basis of the additional information.

Image processing apparatus and method thereof

The primary objective of the present invention is the efficient performance of Golomb-Rice encoding. To achieve this objective, an encoding method comprises the steps of receiving image data for each predetermined unit, separately employing K types of k parameters to perform Golomb-Rice coding for the image data for each predetermined unit, and generating K types of Golomb-Rice coded data, holding the K types of Golomb-Rice coded data obtained at the generation step, based on the image data, selecting one of the k parameters for each predetermined unit, and employing the selected k parameter to select and output one of the K types of Golomb-Rice coded data that are being held.

Encoding apparatus and method, and storage medium

Disclosed is an arrangement for easily and quickly performing variable length coding for a multi-valued image, while estimating coding efficiency. To achieve the above objective, an encoding apparatus, which encodes a plurality of sets of multi-valued image data to produce code having variable lengths based on the multi-valued image data and a parameter k, comprises a bit shift unit for performing bit shifts for each of the multi-valued image data sets a different number of times in accordance with the parameter k and for outputting P sets of data, P accumulation adders for accumulating the P sets of data in correlation with the parameter k, for each of the multi-valued data sets, and comparators for comparing the results obtained by the accumulation adders to determine an optimal parameter k for each of the multi-valued image data sets.

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Yokohama, Japan

Takeshi Yamazaki