Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoyuki Ohno

Shuntaro Aratani

Katsuhiro Miyamoto

Takashi Yamamoto

Tomoyasu Yoshikawa

Atsushi Mizutome

Hideo Mori

Yoshikazu Shibamiya

Tetsu Fukuda

Yuichi Matsumoto

Akio Yoshida

Nobuhiro Hoshi

Kazuhiko Murayama

Nobuharu Ichihashi

Takashi Yoshida

Shigeki Mori

Kazunori Katakura

Teruki Kikkawa

Manabu Iwasaki

Satoshi Ukawa

Shinya Oda

Akio Saito

Masayoshi Tachihara

Hideaki Yui

Tomoya Asanuma

Koichi Sono

Satoshi Hanamitsu

Atsushi Morita

Seiji Kudo

Yoshinari Yoshino

Masaki Akamatsu

A display control device comprises calibration unit configured to display an image for colorimetry on a screen of a display panel and performing calibration processing of adjusting display quality of the display panel on the basis of a colorimetry result obtained by colorimetry with a sensor; detection unit configured to detect a predetermined event that can decrease an accuracy of colorimetry of the sensor while the calibration processing is executed; and determination unit configured to perform determination processing of determining whether or not to stop the calibration processing by comparing the colorimetry results before the detection and after the detection of the predetermined event with the sensor when the detection unit has detected the predetermined event.

Display control device and control method therefor

A light emitting apparatus having a plurality of light sources comprises a brightness sensor; a first malfunction detecting unit configured to detect any malfunction of each of the light sources; a second malfunction detecting unit configured to detect any malfunction of the brightness sensor; a storage unit configured to store a target value of a detected value of the brightness of each of the light sources; and a control unit configured to determine a light emission control value of each of the light sources so as to decrease a difference between the target value and the detected value of the brightness of each of the light sources; wherein the control unit allows the light emission control value to be set to a fixed value if the malfunction of at least any one of the light source and the brightness sensor is detected.

Light emitting apparatus and method for controlling the same

A display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an image; a light emission unit configured to individually control light emission for each of a plurality of divided regions; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each divided region, a characteristic value of the image displayed on each of the divided regions; and a control unit. The control unit controls light emission of the light emission unit such that: in a moving image region, in which only a moving image is displayed, among the plurality of divided regions, light is emitted at a brightness based on a characteristic value of the moving image region; and in a mixed region, in which both of the moving image and a still image are displayed, among the plurality of divided regions, light is emitted at predetermined brightness.

Display apparatus and control method thereof

A content player which receives a broadcast content and an information content and plays back a video image concerning a content, comprises a channel selection unit configured to select a channel to view the broadcast content; an acquisition unit configured to acquire location information of an information content corresponding to the broadcast content on the channel selected by the channel selection unit; a detection unit configured to detect that the broadcast content on the selected channel has been viewed starting halfway; a determination unit configured to, if the detection unit has detected that the broadcast content has been viewed starting halfway, determine whether to notify that it is possible to view, from the beginning, the broadcast content that has been viewed starting halfway; and a notification unit configured to generate a notification image for notification when the determination unit has determined to notify.

Content player and method of controlling the same

An image displaying method of displaying an image selected from images stored in an image storing apparatus onto a display has the step of displaying the image selected from the images stored in the image storing apparatus into a partial area on the display based on a relative positional relation between the image storing apparatus and the display.

Image displaying method, image displaying program, and display

A print control unitthat, once it receives a datacasting automatic activation notification or a datacasting manual activation notification, determines whether or not datacasting is present for a currently selected channel. In a case in which datacasting is present, the print control unitacquires maintenance information acquired from a printerthrough a maintenance information acquisition process. Based on the acquired maintenance information, the print control unitdetermines whether or not to issue a command to the printerrequesting execution of a maintenance process.

Digital broadcast receiver and digital broadcast receiver control method

A video recording and playing apparatus for recording and playing a broadcast program. The apparatus comprises a recording unit to record broadcast programs on a storage unit, and a deletion unit to automatically delete a broadcast program recorded on the storage unit. The deletion unit determines, from among a plurality of broadcast programs recorded on the storage unit, a broadcast program which becomes a target of deletion, based on an audio signal or a rating of each broadcast program, in cases where a video recording capacity of the storage unit becomes smaller than a predetermined value.

Video recording and playing apparatus and its control method

An image control apparatus is configured to input a plurality of image data associated with a plurality of image sources and to display a plurality of images on a same screen based on the plurality of image data. The image control apparatus includes an image quality determining unit configured to determine respective image qualities of the plurality of images based on a combination of image information associated with attributes of the plurality of image sources, and an image processing unit configured to process the plurality of image data to cause the plurality of images to have the respective image qualities determined by the image quality determining unit.

Image control apparatus and image control method

A table is allocated indexes corresponding to display positions on a monitor screen, respectively, and data indicating an unexposed part at each of the display positions is stored in each index of the table. Focal position information is acquired from Exif header information on image data of an image, and a location of one of the indexes in the table at which no image data is registered is searched in an ascending order of the indexes. According to the table, the images are arranged so that the focal position of each image differs from the unexposed part at the display position of the image.

Image display method, program, and image display apparatus

Additional information indicating photographic conditions for a received image signal is compared with additional information indicating photographic conditions for an access target image signal. If the both conditions satisfy a predetermined relationship, an access to the access target image signal is permitted.

Access control apparatus, access control method, and access control program

A controller () and target devices () are connected via a network. The controller () displays an operation panel for controlling the target device () at a display device () based on information from the target device (). The controller () is capable of changing an element and a user action of the operation panel based on data obtained by data broadcast.

Broadcast receiving device and method of controlling a broadcast receiving device with controller for updating a panel element in a display

A broadcast receiving apparatus determines whether a broadcast signal that is being played back and that includes print information is a broadcast signal that is being broadcasted or a broadcast signal that is played back by a recording apparatus. The broadcast receiving apparatus also determines whether the print information included in the broadcast signal that is being played back includes acquisition instructing information instructing acquisition of a print content item transmitted from an external server. If it is determined that the print information included in the broadcast signal that is being played back includes the acquisition instructing information and the broadcast signal that is being played back is played back by the recording apparatus, the broadcast receiving apparatus notifies a user that a print content item which the print information included in the broadcast signal that is being played back intended to acquire during broadcasting cannot possibly be acquired.

Broadcast receiving apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus

Partial data related to information data is received, image data corresponding to the received partial data is generated by sequentially processing the received partial data, and the generated image data is output to a display unit. Before output of the image data corresponding to the partial data to the display unit is completed, reception of the information data is started. Then, image data corresponding to the information data is generated by processing the received information data, and image data to be displayed on said display unit is switched to the image data corresponding to the information data from the image data corresponding to the partial data after the reception of the information data is started.

Receiving apparatus and method

A recording control apparatus for controlling execution of recording in a recording apparatus, comprising, a channel selection acceptance unit configured to accept a channel selection from a user, a display controller to control a display unit to display program data which is selected among received program data via broadcast signal and is corresponding to the accepted channel selection, an obtaining unit configured to obtain reserve-recording information to be executed, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the program displayed on the display unit corresponds to a program according to the reserve-recording information, wherein when the determination unit determines that the program displayed on the display unit corresponds to a program according to the reserve-recording information, the display controller controls the display unit to display a query screen to inquire of the user whether to erase recorded data corresponding to the reserve-recording information in the recording apparatus.

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Tomoyuki Ohno