Sony Corporation

Yasunobu Node

Tetsujiro Kondo

Kazutaka Ando

Masanori Machimura

Michimasa Obana

Masato Akao

Kei Hiraizumi

Takayoshi Fujiwara

Naoki Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Fujimori

Hideo Nakaya

Toru Miyake

Hisakazu Shiraki

Yoshinori Takagi

Yoshihiro Takahashi

Yoshihito Fujiwara

Toru Nakagawa

Tsutomu Ichikawa

Takeyuki Fujii

Katsuhisa Shinmei

Yusuke Kajio

Tsutomu Watanabe

Yoshiaki Nakamura

Nobuyuki Asakura

Masaaki Hattori

Hiroto Kimura

Shizuo Chikaoka

Toshihiko Hamamatsu

Yasuhiko Suga

Kel Hiraizumi

Yuuji Okumura

An information processing apparatus includes reproduction control means for controlling reproduction of a first parameter in order to reproduce an edit applied to a first image, generation means for generating a second parameter from a plurality of first parameters reproduced by the reproduction control means, and edit means for editing the first image based on the second parameter generated by the generation means, and generating a second image.

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

An image processing apparatus may include a feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity from an image, a setting unit configured to set setting information including a plurality of setting items used to perform processing upon the image so that a designated setting item can be changed among the setting items; and a recording unit configured to associate the setting information with a feature quantity of the image and record them.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain feature quantities of an image; and a detector configured to detect a gazing point at which a user gazes within the image, wherein the gazing point detected by the detector among the feature quantities obtained by the obtaining unit or the feature quantities extracted from the image in a predetermined range containing the gazing point is stored.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

An image processing apparatus may include a feature value extraction unit adapted to extract a feature value from an image, a setting unit adapted to set setting-information defining a process to be performed on the image, an editing unit adapted to edit the setting-information set by the setting unit, and recording unit adapted to record the setting-information edited by the editing unit, in association with the feature value of the image, on a data recording medium.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program

An image processing apparatus includes a feature value extractor configured to extract a feature value from an image; a setting unit configured to set setting information for applying a process to the image; and a recorder configured to record the setting information in association with the feature value of the image in a data recording medium.

Image processing apparatus and method, data recording medium, program recording medium, and program therefor

A signal processing device controls a plurality of signal processing units that process an input signal inputted via a signal line with wide bandwidth, via a control line with narrow bandwidth or the signal line, and includes: a storing unit configured to store correspondence information that associates instruction information indicating an instruction of control with respect to each of the signal processing units, with control information related to all of the plurality of signal processing units, among pieces of control information necessary for each of the signal processing units to execute content of control; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the control information associated with the instruction information by the correspondence information, to the plurality of signal processing units via the signal line, when control is instructed with respect to the plurality of signal processing units.

Signal processing device and control method, signal processing method, program, and signal processing system

An image processing system includes an image capturing apparatus, and an image processing apparatus. The image capturing apparatus is configured to capture an image including an object, to obtain status information of the object, and to record the image and the status information of the object. The image processing apparatus is configured to specify details of a modification to be applied to the image according to the recorded image and status information of the object, to set setting information for modifying the image on the basis of the details of the modification, to extract a feature value from the image, and to record the setting information in a setting-information recording medium in association with the extracted feature value of the image.

Image processing system and method therefor, image processing apparatus and method, image capturing apparatus and method, program recording medium, and program

The invention relates to a memory device and the like. The memory device comprises one or more memory block. The memory block has a memory cell array consists of multiple memory cells () arranged in a matrix form. A region of the multiple memory cells () includes multiple divisional domains (-) divided in the direction along word line (WL). Each of the word lines (WL) has multiple divisional selection lines (WLa-WLe) divided corresponding to the multiple divisional domains. The memory block has a switching mechanism () for switching the divisional word lines (WL) that are to be simultaneously activated in each of the divisional domains. Multiple memory cells () associated with each of the divisional word lines store a horizontal or vertical array of pixel data. The inventive memory device enables simultaneous access to multiple items of pixel data constituting a pixel block having an arbitrary configuration.

Memory cell circuit, memory device, motion vector detection device, and motion compensation prediction coding device

A picture processing apparatus for generating an output picture signal with higher quality than the input picture signal. A first signal processor has a storage device for storing a picture signal with the same quality as the output picture signal. The input picture signal and the stored picture signal are added to generate a first picture signal with higher quality than the input picture, which is stored in the storage device. A second signal processor performs a class categorizing adaptive process by extracting a feature of the input picture signal corresponding to the position of a considered pixel of the output picture signal, categorizing the considered pixel as one of a plurality of classes corresponding to the feature, and calculating the input picture signal using a predetermined calculating method corresponding to the categorized class, thereby generating a second picture signal with higher quality than the input picture signal. One of the first and second picture signals is selected as the output picture signal.

Image processing system, image processing method, program, and recording medium

In an image processing apparatus, an input image is synthesized with a stored image supplied from a storage unit and having been shifted so that the positions of the pixels in the image areas of the input image and of the stored image, associated with a telop, will coincide. The level distribution of the pixel values of the input image is maintained in the telop.

Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium therefor

A semiconductor device and an image data processing apparatus are capable of easily realizing address control, simplifying a circuit for address control, and easily realizing access to image data while reducing the volumes of pieces of image data of different resolutions in different hierarchies. In the image data processing apparatus, a memory cell array stores pieces of composite data, each containing a piece of pixel data and additional information data, for example, a motion vector associated with the pixel data. A designated pixel data and a motion vector associated with the pixel data are read out and a search region is suitably predicted and set up on the basis of the motion vector, and motion estimation is performed in the search region, for example, by a block matching process. Accordingly, motion estimation can be performed in a small search region equivalent to a large search region having been generally used for motion estimation, to realize high-speed, high-efficient motion estimation and improve the estimation accuracy.

Semiconductor device, image data processing apparatus and method

A storage picture generating unit () weight-adds an input picture and a storage picture to reduce the noise in a still picture portion. An area extraction unit () extracts a class tap from the input picture, while extracting a block from each of the input picture and the storage picture. A feature value detection unit () detects the dynamic range and the results of the waveform analysis from the class tap, while detecting the still/moving information of the subject pixel from the block. A class code detection unit () generates a class code which is based on the feature value. A table () outputs to an estimation calculating unit () sets of the prediction coefficients held by the table and which are associated with the class code. An area extraction unit () extracts prediction taps from the input picture and the storage picture. Using the sets of the prediction coefficients and the pixel information from the area extraction unit (), the estimation calculating unit () sequentially generates pixel values y of an output picture.

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