Abstract: An information processing system comprising a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus, wherein the transmitting apparatus comprises: a data embedding unit configured to generate a video signal by embedding image data in an effective display portion of the video signal and embedding control data for controlling processing to be executed using the image data in a portion of the video signal in which the image data is not embedded, and wherein the receiving apparatus comprises: a dividing unit configured to receive the video signal from the transmitting apparatus and divide the video signal into the image data and the control data.

Abstract: Provided is a sputtering target characterized by containing Ag and C. The sputtering target contains Ag in addition to Fe, Pt and C. By allowing the sputtering target to contain Ag, the sputtering target has high density. As a result, when the sputtering target is placed in a vacuum atmosphere in the sputtering process, the amount of a gas emitted from the sputtering target can be reduced, and the properties of a thin film formed by sputtering can be improved. Moreover, even when the sputtering target is produced by low-temperature sintering, it has high density.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing device including: a sample output unit to instruct a print device to successively print test images on a plurality of sheets of the recording paper; a profile preparing unit to prepare a plurality of profiles of the density unevenness in the sub-scanning direction in the plurality of sheets of the recording paper, from measuring data obtained by optically reading the test images; an analyzing unit to analyze the profiles by arranging the profiles in a printing order apart from each other so as to correspond to intervals of the sheets of the recording paper, and to detect a long period density unevenness in the sub-scanning direction, which has a long period extending through the plurality of sheets of the recording paper; and a correction data preparing unit to prepare correction data for removing the long period density unevenness.

Abstract: An image reading device includes: a document table on which a document G is placed; a line light source configured to illuminate the document G; an erecting equal-magnification lens array plate configured to receive light reflected from the document G and form an erect equal-magnification image on a predetermined image plane; and a line image sensor configured to receive the erect equal-magnification image formed by the erecting equal-magnification lens array plate. The erecting equal-magnification lens array plate includes: first and second lens array plates formed with a plurality of lenses on both sides thereof; a first shielding member provided on the first outer side surface of the first lens array plate; and a light-shielding wall provided upright on the top surface of the first light-shielding member and configured to shield light reflected by the document table.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming system, including: a conveying unit configured to convey recording paper; an image forming unit configured to print an image on the recording paper; an image reading unit configured to optically read the recording paper and to obtain a read image; and a correction control unit configured to control an execution of a test operation in which a test pattern including one or more thin lines are printed on the recording paper by the image forming unit and in which the test pattern is read by the image reading unit, to collect information indicting operation state of each unit in the execution of the test operation, to evaluate the thin lines in the read image obtained in the test operation in consideration of the collected information and to carry out a correction relating to printing of a specified thin line.

Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus according to an embodiment stops a touch sensitive panel and a display device in a super power saving mode and detects a predetermined touch operation by using a piezoelectric film in a state where the piezoelectric film is activated. The mobile terminal apparatus compares the detected predetermined touch operation with a first table stored in a storage unit to execute a function corresponding to the touch operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup apparatus including a pixel section in which plural pixels are arrayed two-dimensionally, an exposure amount control section that determines an exposure amount and controls the pixel section to be continuously exposed plural times, a memory section that can store a pixel signal from the pixel section for plural frames of an output image, a vertical scanning circuit that reads out the pixel signal of the pixel section and stores the pixel signal in the memory section, and a column processing section that reads out the pixel signal stored in the memory section. The vertical scanning circuit sequentially reads out respective pixel signals related to the plural times of exposures and stores the pixel signals in the memory section.

Abstract: The invention provides an image pickup apparatus including: an image pickup device including a memory portion for analog storage and a pixel portion; a first read-out control and processing portions that, in a first frame-period, read out a first-image-signal from a first-pixel-region of the pixel portion, and in a second frame-period longer than the first frame-period, read out a second-image-signal from a second-pixel-region of the pixel portion including the first-pixel-region, and store the read-out signals in the memory portion; a second read-out control and processing portions that read out from a memory portion an AF image signal related to the first-image-signal and a display image signal related to the second-image-signal; a focal point detecting portion that carries out contrast focal point detection based on the AF image signal; and an image display portion that displays an image based on the display image signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that makes it possible to conduct an operation for correcting density unevenness in a main-scanning direction of an image, while achieving both the accuracy and the efficiency thereof. The image processing apparatus includes: an outputting section to output data representing a test chart including a plurality of patches respectively having different gradation values and extended in the main-scanning direction; an acquiring section to acquire a measured result of measuring a density of each of the patches included in the test chart printed on the basis of the data outputted by the outputting section; and a control section that compares the density unevenness of a pair of patches being adjacent to each other and deriving from the measured result, so as to determine new data representing a next patch to be outputted on a next occasion, based on a comparison result thereof.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device having a pixel section with a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixels and a frame memory which temporarily stores, in an analog manner, analog image data read out from the pixel section and first to third readout control sections which perform first readout control that reads out image data of all pixels obtained through one exposure from the pixel section and stores the image data in the frame memory and perform second readout control that nondestructively reads out a piece of image data of a smaller number of pixels than all the pixels from the image data of all the pixels stored in the frame memory a plurality of times such that the piece of image data each has different object region size.

Abstract: This invention provides an image pickup apparatus that performs an image pickup operation that alternately repeats a long exposure LE and a short exposure SE. The image pickup apparatus drives an image pickup device in a first driving mode that makes a first time interval between an exposure end time of a pixel in an SE and an exposure start time of the pixel in an LE immediately thereafter and a second time interval between the exposure end time of the pixel in the LE and the exposure start time of the pixel in the SE immediately thereafter equal.

Abstract: When an input value is a standard value which is smaller than a maximum value (for example, 230), all pixels of a screen matrix is printed with the same output value (for example, 195), when the input value is within the range not more than the standard value, the output value is limited to not more than 195, and number of the pixels is changed so as to express graduation. In the range where the input value exceeds the standard value, the graduation is expressed by changing the output value of each pixel in the range above 195 while printing all the pixels of the screen.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing device including: a sample output unit to instruct a print device to successively print test images on a plurality of sheets of the recording paper; a profile preparing unit to prepare a plurality of profiles of the density unevenness in the sub-scanning direction in the plurality of sheets of the recording paper, from measuring data obtained by optically reading the test images; an analyzing unit to analyze the profiles by arranging the profiles in a printing order apart from each other so as to correspond to intervals of the sheets of the recording paper, and to detect a long period density unevenness in the sub-scanning direction, which has a long period extending through the plurality of sheets of the recording paper; and a correction data preparing unit to prepare correction data for removing the long period density unevenness.

Abstract: In an onboard gateway apparatus, when data is received from one network, the received data is stored in the buffer. The buffer includes a first storage area for storing data in the order of priority of an identifier (ID) attached to the data and a second storage area for storing data in the order in which the data is received. A control means stores the received data in one of the first and second storage areas based on the attached identifier, and sends the data to another network in accordance with the priority of the ID of the data. As to data passing through the first storage area, sending in the order of priority is ensured. As to data passing through the second storage area, sending in the order in which the data is received is ensured.

Abstract: Provided is a sputtering target characterized by containing Ag and C. The sputtering target contains Ag in addition to Fe, Pt and C. By allowing the sputtering target to contain Ag, the sputtering target has high density. As a result, when the sputtering target is placed in a vacuum atmosphere in the sputtering process, the amount of a gas emitted from the sputtering target can be reduced, and the properties of a thin film formed by sputtering can be improved. Moreover, even when the sputtering target is produced by low-temperature sintering, it has high density.

Abstract: An information processing system comprising a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus, wherein the transmitting apparatus comprises: a data embedding unit configured to generate a video signal by embedding image data in an effective display portion of the video signal and embedding control data for controlling processing to be executed using the image data in a portion of the video signal in which the image data is not embedded, and wherein the receiving apparatus comprises: a dividing unit configured to receive the video signal from the transmitting apparatus and divide the video signal into the image data and the control data.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup apparatus including a pixel section in which plural pixels are arrayed two-dimensionally, an exposure amount control section that determines an exposure amount and controls the pixel section to be continuously exposed plural times, a memory section that can store a pixel signal from the pixel section for plural frames of an output image, a vertical scanning circuit that reads out the pixel signal of the pixel section and stores the pixel signal in the memory section, and a column processing section that reads out the pixel signal stored in the memory section.

Abstract: The invention provides an image pickup apparatus including: an image pickup device including a memory portion for analog storage and a pixel portion; a first read-out control and processing portions that, in a first frame-period, read out a first-image-signal from a first-pixel-region of the pixel portion, and in a second frame-period longer than the first frame-period, read out a second-image-signal from a second-pixel-region of the pixel portion including the first-pixel-region, and store the read-out signals in the memory portion; a second read-out control and processing portions that read out from a memory portion an AF image signal related to the first-image-signal and a display image signal related to the second-image-signal; a focal point detecting portion that carries out contrast focal point detection based on the AF image signal; and an image display portion that displays an image based on the display image signal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming section to carry out image formation of a linear test pattern; a measurement section to measure a line width of one line of the linear test pattern at a plurality of measurement points; and a detection section to detect density unevenness, wherein the detection section converts the measured line width into density and, eliminates a measurement point where the measured line width thereof is at most a predetermined value to detect density unevenness in an extending direction of the linear test pattern.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that makes it possible to conduct an operation for correcting density unevenness in a main-scanning direction of an image, while achieving both the accuracy and the efficiency thereof. The image processing apparatus includes: an outputting section to output data representing a test chart including a plurality of patches respectively having different gradation values and extended in the main-scanning direction; an acquiring section to acquire a measured result of measuring a density of each of the patches included in the test chart printed on the basis of the data outputted by the outputting section; and a control section that compares the density unevenness of a pair of patches being adjacent to each other and deriving from the measured result, so as to determine new data representing a next patch to be outputted on a next occasion, based on a comparison result thereof.