Hitachi, Ltd.

Clarion Co

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Tsutomu Usui

Hirotomo Sai

Norihiko Nakano

Haruhiko Higuchi

Haruhiko Miyao

Daisuke Yoshida

Nozomu Shimoda

Akinobu Watanabe

Shinichiro Hirooka

Toshihiro Kato

Hiroyuki Marumori

Junji Kamimura

Hiromi Nishiura

Teruki Takahashi

Mari Ohbuchi

Takahide Kojima

Takayuki Negishi

Hitoshi Takagi

Yuko Arai

Hiromasa Shinsha

Satoshi Ikegaya

A white balance adjustment device includes a statistics acquisition portion and a correction portion. The statistics acquisition portion includes an area setting portion including a luminance area setting portion configured to set a plurality of luminance ranges, and an average value calculation portion configured to calculate an average value of color difference values of the image signal in each of the plurality of luminance ranges set by the luminance area setting portion. The correction portion includes a correction function determination portion configured to determine a correction function of the color difference values of the image signal based on the average value of the color difference values calculated by the average value calculation portion, and a color difference correction portion configured to correct the color difference values of the image signal based on the correction function determined by the correction function determination portion.

White balance adjustment device and white balance adjustment method

In a vehicle-mounted camera system, an appropriate white balance correction processing according to a situation is executed to a long exposure time image and a short exposure time image shot in variously changing illumination environments. A vehicle-mounted camera system includes a vehicle-mounted camera that performs relatively long exposure time shooting and short exposure time shooting, a signal processing device (signal processing device) that executes a white balance correction processing for each of a long exposure time image and a short exposure time image, composes these images after the white balance correction processing, and generates a high dynamic range image, and a system control part (processing switch device) that obtains an illumination environment in which the vehicle is placed, and switches the white balance correction processing for the long exposure time image and the white balance correction processing for the short exposure time image according to the illumination environment.

Vehicle-mounted camera system

Provided is an on-vehicle imaging device installed onboard a vehicle, and equipped with: an imaging unit for capturing an image of a subject, and having sensitivity to at least to the entire visible light spectrum of the red range (R), the green range (G), and the blue range (B), and to the infrared range (Cir); a signal processing unit for carrying out signal processing on video signals of at least a plurality of different bandwidths from a video image captured by the imaging unit; a pixel signal distribution processing unit for extracting pixel signal distribution information of one or more signals among video signals processed by the signal processing unit; a white balance processing unit for performing signal processing using a predetermined gain, so as to bring a video signal to a desired value; and a system control unit for performing control of the white balance processing unit and control of assessment area information for the purpose of extraction of pixel signal distribution information by the pixel signal distribution processing unit. In accordance with the pixel signal distribution information extracted by the pixel signal distribution processing unit, the system control unit performs control to set the gain of the white balance processing unit to a predetermined value.

On-vehicle image capture device

An in-vehicle imaging device is provided with a detection region setting unit for setting a detection region, which corresponds to a predetermined object to be detected within an imaging screen; a color signal determination unit for setting a specific color corresponding to the object to be detected, and for determining whether the color data of pixels contained in the detection region are close to the specific color; and a gain control unit for averaging the color data of pixels (approximate color pixels) that were determined to be close to the specific color within the detection region and for adjusting the color gain of the image signal on the basis of a differential value of the color data of the specific color and the average value of the color data of the approximate color pixels.

In-vehicle imaging device

When video data is reproduced by a recording/reproduction unit, an output unit outputs occurrence information on an object, which is not included in the video data being output by the output unit but is included the video data recorded on a recording medium, to a display unit. While the video data is being reproduced from the recording medium by the recording/reproduction unit, an instruction specifying a predetermined object condition including a non-reproduction object is input based on the occurrence information and the reproduction operation is performed by extracting video data satisfying the object condition.

Information processor

An on-board wireless communication apparatus using an OFDMA scheme includes: a position information acquisition unit which estimates a position after a predetermined time period based on base station position information, mobile station position information, and speed information of mobile station as estimated mobile station position information; a transmission path information storage unit which determines a transmission rate to be applied based on the estimated position information and a distribution of the transmission rate determined by a distance from the base station; a reception buffer unit which stores received data; a reception buffer amount adjustment unit which determines a data amount to be received based on a data storage amount from the buffer unit and a type of the data therein; and a band allocation unit which determines a band requested to the base station by the transmission rate from the storage unit and the data amount from the adjustment unit.

On-board wireless communication apparatus and on-board wireless communication system

An image signal processing system according to the present invention has a function to perform image quality control in photographing a subject having a large difference in brightness in the surrounding environment so that the entire photographed image, in particular a subject which a user desires to view, has an adequate brightness and an adequate gradation. Specifically, this image signal processing system comprises: a video input unit, a video signal processing unit for performing signal processing on a signal output from the video input unit, and generating a video signal; an input-output characteristic control unit for controlling a characteristic of the video signal which the video signal processing unit generates; and a subject recognition unit for performing image processing on the video signal which the video signal processing unit generates, and recognizing and detecting subject information.

Image signal processing system

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that receives image data in response to a photographic subject, a face detection unit that detects a human face from the received image data, a photometry unit that performs a photometry of the detected human face, an exposure control unit that calculates a target exposure amount in accordance with a photometry result to calculate an exposure control value, and an exposure correction control unit that determines an exposure in response to the target exposure amount, wherein an exposure correction unit performs an exposure correction by using an exposure target determined by the exposure correction control unit, as an area smaller than a domain of the human face detected by the face detection unit is set to the photometry area.

Imaging apparatus

Provided is a recording/reproduction apparatus capable of securing a backup area for management information on a recording medium without affecting the capacity of a user data area. Before a hard disk drive or a disc medium (recording medium) is finalized, metadata is recorded in a metadata area and when the hard disk drive or the disc medium are finalized, a user data area portion corresponding to the volume of metadata required for the finalizing is set as a metadata mirror area and then the metadata recorded in the metadata area is copied to the metadata mirror area.

Information recording/reproduction apparatus, information recording method and information recording medium

A scheduling method in which a communication apparatus communicates data with a plurality of users by preferentially allocating a data sequence to a default subchannel segment that is different from another-cell allocation subchannel segment. As many data sequences as can be allocated to the default subchannel segment are selected and the selected data sequences allocated to the default subchannel segment. In downlink scheduling, the data sequences are selected in order from a data sequence subjected to a maximum level of interference from an adjacent base station. In uplink scheduling, the data sequences are selected in order from a data sequence that causes a maximum level of interference to the adjacent base station because of data communication. A data sequence not allocated to the default subchannel segment is allocated to the other-cell allocation subchannel segment when allocation of all the data sequences to the default subchannel segment fails.

Scheduling method and communication apparatus

A camera capable of compensating for facial field of a person to a proper brightness, and maintaining the luminance scale of the background, comprising an imaging portion for generating the picture data of the person; a gamma compensator for performing gamma compensation for the picture data; a facial field detecting portion for detecting a facial field from the picture data; a photometric portion for exposure metering value of the facial field detected by the facial field detecting portion; an exposure controlling portion for calculating a target exposure amount in response to the output of the photometric portion and controlling exposure depending on the target exposure amount; and a gamma compensation controlling portion for determining a luminance scale characteristic in accordance with the target exposure amount, wherein the gamma compensating portion is controlled on the basis of the luminance scale characteristic determined by the gamma compensation controlling portion.

Related arts have failed to realize a data recording/reproducing apparatus having the ability to, while video-audio data is being recorded in a first recording medium, notify a user of the number of second recording media to which the recorded video-audio data is equivalent. For breaking through the situation, a data recording/reproducing apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a module which monitors an amount of video-audio data recorded in a first recording medium, and a module which displays an equivalent of the amount of recorded video-audio data in terms of the capacity of a second recording medium.

Data recording apparatus

In an imaging apparatus having two imaging devices, a converter module which synthesizes the two signals of each horizontal line produced from the two imaging devices to thereby convert the two signals into a single composite signal, a line memory which cooperates with the converter module to convert the signals, a line delay module which accumulates the output signals from the converter module, a line memory which cooperates with the line delay module to accumulate the signals, an exposure controller, an auto focus controller, a white balance controller, a color signal processor module, a luminance signal processor module, and an arithmetic processor module for stereo imaging process, the output signals from the plurality of imaging devices are converted to the single composite signal and processed on a one-channel processing basis.

A photographing apparatuses, enabling to keep dynamic resolution, as well as, to obtain an image being wide in dynamic range, with using a plural number of cameras therein, and further enabling to photograph a further wider range, comprises: a plural number of photographing devices overlapping photographing regions thereof with each other; a brightness distribution detecting portion for detecting brightness levels of image signals, which are photographed by means of the plural number of photographing devices; an area determining portion for determining an area where the brightness level detected by the brightness distribution detecting portion is appropriate, among photographing regions overlapping with each other, in relation with the image signals photographed by the plural number of photographing devices; and a synthesizing portion for synthesizing the image signals photographed by the plural number of photographing devices, with using the image signal of the area, the brightness level of which is determined to be appropriate in the area determining portion, among the image signals photographed by the plural number of photographing devices, in relation with the photographing regions overlapping with each other.

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Tsutomu Usui