Abstract: A laminate including: a paper substrate; a coating layer containing a polyolefin resin; and a plurality of particles fixed to the coating layer, in which a particle diameter of the particles is greater than a thickness of the coating layer.

Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises cubic boron nitride particles and a bonding material, wherein the bonding material comprises at least one first metallic element selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, vanadium, niobium, hafnium, tantalum, chromium, rhenium, molybdenum, and tungsten; cobalt; and aluminum; the cubic boron nitride sintered material has a first interface region sandwiched between an interface between the cubic boron nitride particles and the bonding material, and a first virtual line passing through a point 10 nm apart from the interface to the bonding material side; and when an element that is present at the highest concentration among the first metallic elements in the first interface region is defined as a first element, an atomic concentration of the first element in the first interface region is higher than an atomic concentration of the first element in the bonding material excluding the first interface region.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises one or more processors and one or more memories containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to function as a specification unit configured to, based on a parameter of an image capturing unit, specify a region captured by the image capturing unit in a display screen in which display panels are arrayed, and a correction unit configured to, based on a direction from a pixel in the region to the image capturing unit, obtain a correction amount of a luminance value of the pixel, and based on information for correcting an individual difference regarding a luminance of a display panel, correct the correction amount.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus that processes a video signal includes a signal conversion unit configured to convert a first video signal quantized according to a first characteristic to represent a video image with a relative luminance, into a second video signal quantized according to a second characteristic to represent the video image with an absolute luminance in an output of a display device based on a predetermined conversion correspondence relationship, and a signal output unit configured to output information representing the conversion correspondence relationship in association with at least one of the first video signal and the second video signal.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus that processes a video signal includes a signal conversion unit configured to convert a first video signal quantized according to a first characteristic to represent a video image with a relative luminance, into a second video signal quantized according to a second characteristic to represent the video image with an absolute luminance in an output of a display device based on a predetermined conversion correspondence relationship, and a signal output unit configured to output information representing the conversion correspondence relationship in association with at least one of the first video signal and the second video signal.

Abstract: An image display device includes: a color gamut determining unit configured to determine a color gamut of pixels constituting an image; an image separating unit configured to separate the image into a low chroma image component and a high chroma image component based on a color gamut determination result; and a display unit configured to divide one frame period into subframe periods and temporally separate the low chroma image component and the high chroma image component in each subframe period to form an image. A backlight driving unit causes a broadband light source to emit light when the low chroma image component is being displayed and causes a narrowband light source to emit light when the high chroma image component is being displayed.

Abstract: An image display device includes: a color gamut determining unit configured to determine a color gamut of pixels constituting an image; an image separating unit configured to separate the image into a low chroma image component and a high chroma image component based on a color gamut determination result; and a display unit configured to divide one frame period into subframe periods and temporally separate the low chroma image component and the high chroma image component in each subframe period to form an image. A backlight driving unit causes a broadband light source to emit light when the low chroma image component is being displayed and causes a narrowband light source to emit light when the high chroma image component is being displayed.

Abstract: A recording mode control circuit controls a first recording mode in which still image data having a first image size corresponding to the number of pixels of an image sensing element is generated and recorded and a second recording mode in which moving image data having a second image size smaller than the first image size is generated and recorded. In generating the moving image data in the second recording mode, a camera signal processing circuit executes electrical zoom processing to obtain the second image size. At this time, a maximum magnification ratio setting circuit sets the maximum variable magnification ratio of electrical zoom processing in the camera signal processing circuit. With this processing, an image recording apparatus which allows a user to select a zoom mode with a small degradation in image quality in electrical zoom processing can be implemented.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus which generates, for an image reproducing apparatus, an application program that is executable by the image reproducing apparatus, the image reproducing apparatus operating under a basic program that is capable of executing an application program recorded in a first area of a recording medium but that is incapable of reproducing image data that is recorded in a second area of the recording medium, and the information processing apparatus comprising: a program generation unit which generates a reproducing program for the image reproducing apparatus to reproduce the image data recorded in the second area of the recording medium, as an application program executable by the image reproducing apparatus; and a recording unit which records the reproducing program generated by the program generation unit into the first area of the recording medium.

Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus capable of optimal code amount control corresponding to an input source. The apparatus includes a first input unit which inputs the first moving image data, a second input unit which inputs the second moving image data, a selection unit which selects one of the first and second moving image data, a coding unit which encodes the first or second moving image data selected by the selection unit, a recording unit which records encoded moving image data output from the coding unit on a recording medium, a code amount control unit which controls the generated code amount of the encoded moving image data output from the coding unit, and a change unit which changes the control procedure of the code amount control unit in accordance with the selection result of the selection unit.

Abstract: A scenario editing apparatus which generates and edits scenario data to be referred at an image capturing, comprises: a first recording unit which records first scenario data appended with identification numbers for respective captured contents; a read-out unit which reads out image data captured with reference to the first scenario data and identification numbers for the respective captured contents; a selection unit which selects image data to be re-captured; a generation unit which generates second scenario data to be re-captured while reproducing the selected image data; and a second recording unit which records the generated second scenario data.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing apparatus is configured so as to record moving image data in which AV data contents recorded on a disk-shaped recording medium are referred to one by one by first reference type data which can attain time synchronization between the contents, and further to record a play list in which one or the plurality of the first reference type data and one or the plurality of AV data contents are referred to by second reference type data which can attain time synchronization between the contents.

Abstract: A recording mode control circuit controls a first recording mode in which still image data having a first image size corresponding to the number of pixels of an image sensing element is generated and recorded and a second recording mode in which moving image data having a second image size smaller than the first image size is generated and recorded. In generating the moving image data in the second recording mode, a camera signal processing circuit executes electrical zoom processing to obtain the second image size. At this time, a maximum magnification ratio setting circuit sets the maximum variable magnification ratio of electrical zoom processing in the camera signal processing circuit. With this processing, an image recording apparatus which allows a user to select a zoom mode with a small degradation in image quality in electrical zoom processing can be implemented.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to effectively reduce a luminance flicker caused by noise while suppressing an adverse effect such as an afterimage and a decrease in the resolution upon smoothing as much as possible even when the S/N ratio of an image photographed at an increased gain is low. An image signal processing apparatus includes a smoothing circuit (124) to execute smoothing processing of an image signal, a compression encoding circuit (112, 113) to compression-encode the image signal, a setting circuit (126) capable of setting, for the compression encoding circuit, the code amount for each picture type, and a control circuit (116) that controls in accordance with a gain setting value acquired from a camera (102) to change the intensity of smoothing processing and the assignment ratio of code amount for each picture type.

Abstract: A scenario editing apparatus which generates and edits scenario data to be referred at an image capturing, comprises: a first recording unit which records first scenario data appended with identification numbers for respective captured contents; a read-out unit which reads out image data captured with reference to the first scenario data and identification numbers for the respective captured contents; a selection unit which selects image data to be re-captured; a generation unit which generates second scenario data to be re-captured while reproducing the selected image data; and a second recording unit which records the generated second scenario data.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to effectively reduce a luminance flicker caused by noise while suppressing an adverse effect such as an afterimage and a decrease in the resolution upon smoothing as much as possible even when the S/N ratio of an image photographed at an increased gain is low. An image signal processing apparatus includes a smoothing circuit (124) to execute smoothing processing of an image signal, a compression encoding circuit (112, 113) to compression-encode the image signal, a setting circuit (126) capable of setting, for the compression encoding circuit, the code amount for each picture type, and a control circuit (116) that controls in accordance with a gain setting value acquired from a camera (102) to change the intensity of smoothing processing and the assignment ratio of code amount for each picture type.

Abstract: In an image projection apparatus, a sensed image obtained by sensing a projection surface, which contains a projected image, is obtained. Then, a difference image obtained by removing the projected image from the sensed image is used to detect a region corresponding to a predetermined object such as a user's hand or a pointer. Then, a user operation is determined based on the position and temporal variations of a particular portion of the region corresponding to the predetermined object.

Abstract: In an image projection apparatus, a sensed image obtained by sensing a projection surface, which contains a projected image, is obtained. Then, a difference image obtained by removing the projected image from the sensed image is used to detect a region corresponding to a predetermined object such as a user's hand or a pointer. Then, a user operation is determined based on the position and temporal variations of a particular portion of the region corresponding to the predetermined object.

Abstract: This invention provides a method and apparatus for processing video data containing a plurality of video tracks. According to an aspect of this invention, new modified data is generated by modifying part of the plurality of video tracks. After that, play list data to control the video data playback sequence to play back the generated modified data in place of data of the part is generated.

Abstract: A recording mode control circuit controls a first recording mode in which still image data having a first image size corresponding to the number of pixels of an image sensing element is generated and recorded and a second recording mode in which moving image data having a second image size smaller than the first image size is generated and recorded. In generating the moving image data in the second recording mode, a camera signal processing circuit executes electrical zoom processing to obtain the second image size. At this time, a maximum magnification ratio setting circuit sets the maximum variable magnification ratio of electrical zoom processing in the camera signal processing circuit. With this processing, an image recording apparatus which allows a user to select a zoom mode with a small degradation in image quality in electrical zoom processing can be implemented.