Abstract: There is provided an image capturing method for use in an image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of an object to output image data. The method includes performing a first position adjustment between the image data obtained under the first image capturing control and the image data obtained under the second image capturing control, thereby calculating a first displacement, performing a second position adjustment between the image data obtained under the second image capturing control and the image data obtained under the third image capturing control, thereby calculating a second displacement, and performing an image composition of obtaining image data representing a composite image, by performing a position adjustment between the image data obtained under the first image capturing control and the image data obtained under the third image capturing control, using the first and second displacements.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a printed-circuit board which includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes and a semiconductor chip on which a plurality of first connection pads are aligned in a first line being disposed along an outer circumference side of a top surface and a plurality of second connection pads are aligned in a second line being disposed inside of and apart from the first line, when the semiconductor chip is seen from above, and any of the plurality of first connection pads are used for a power voltage terminal and a system reset terminal of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: A server sends to a client a message instructing movement of a display apparatus so that cameras comprising a view for creating a three-dimensional model can shoot a screen of a display apparatus. After movement is complete, the server causes an imaging parameter computation pattern image to be displayed on the screen of the display apparatus and instructs the client to cause the displayed pattern image to be shot by cameras. The server acquires images shot by the cameras from the client and seeks imaging parameters of the cameras on the basis of the pattern image included in the acquired images.

Abstract: To reduce the time for searching a similar image area to the first image area to speed up image coding, an image processing apparatus 100 includes: a range block processing section 51 to calculate a contrast value of a range block constituting an image; a domain block processing section 52 to calculate contrast values of a plurality of domain blocks; a contrast value judging section 53 to compare the contrast values of the domain blocks to the contrast value of the range block so as to specify a similar domain block candidate; and a coding processing section 54 to search the domain block similar to the range block out of the domain block candidates and to code a relation information of the searched domain block to the range block.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle, a capturing control section which performs a plurality of image capturing operations by the capturing section, a generation section which generates a composite image reproducing an image captured at a second viewing angle that is wider than the first viewing angle by combining a plurality of images acquired by the plurality of image capturing operations by the capturing control section, a judgment section which judges whether or not an uncaptured area that has not been captured by the capturing control section exists within the composite image with the second viewing angle generated by the generation section, and a notification section which notifies a user of a judgment result, when the judgment section judges that an uncaptured area exists.

Abstract: A control unit controls an image capture unit to perform a plurality of image captures of an object and acquires a plurality of mutually different image data based on a positional change of an image capturing device. Then, the control unit extracts a specified object image common to each of the acquired plurality of image data. The control unit synthesizes the acquired plurality of image data using the extracted specified object image as a reference, and thereby creates synthesized image data. The synthesized image data is an image equivalent to a captured image having a shallow depth of field such that only the specified object image is clearly photographed and the other portions are blurred.

Abstract: Disclosed is an application software generation device to generate an application software for a data collection device having a reading unit to read discrimination information to carry out collection of data based on the discrimination information including a table data generation unit to generate table data for defining arbitrary items, an application software generation unit to generate an application software which is executed by the data collection device in order to collect the data based on the item which is defined in the table data and a transfer unit to transfer the generated application software to the data collection device.

Abstract: When directed to transmit data in a personal computer (1), a document image data generating section (22) generates document image data obtained by imaging a document content based on document data for every page. An index image generating section (23) composites a file name of the document data and icon image data corresponding to application software by which the document data is created, and thereby generates index image data. The folder generating section (26) generates a PC folder based on the document image data, the index image data, and the management data, and generated by a management file generating section (24) transmits the PC folder to a digital camera (51) via a data transmitting section (27).

Abstract: A display drive apparatus drives a display panel, including display pixels, to carry out gradation display in accordance with display data. First gradation data with a first number of bits corresponding to the display data is supplied to the display drive apparatus, which generates second gradation data from the first gradation data with a second number of bits less than the first number of bits, third gradation data in which the second gradation data are eliminated from the first gradation data, and fourth gradation data corresponding to a gradation different from a gradation of the second gradation data. And, in each frame period, the display drive apparatus selectively outputs one of the second gradation data and the fourth gradation data to each of the display pixels based on the third gradation data, so as to display an intermediate gradation between the second gradation data and the fourth gradation data.

Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit 63, a light guiding device 75, a display device, a projection side optical system and a projector control means, the light source unit 63 includes a light source 72 which emits laser light in the wavelength band of blue, a light emitting wheel 71 disposed on an optical axis of the light source 72 and a wheel motor 73 for driving to rotate the light emitting wheel 71, and the light emitting wheel 71 is formed of a circular substrate having a diffusion layer on a predetermined surface thereof, the diffusion layer being made up of minute irregularities which are formed directly on a surface of the circular substrate.

Abstract: The interval designation section 222 sequentially alters and designates a movement interval D and a non-movement interval D? in an entire interval. Each time a movement interval D is designated, the value determination section 223 determines the average value of the image variation amount array E in the movement interval D as a function value a of the unit rectangular function r[x] and the average value of the image variation amount array E in the non-movement intervals D? as a function value b of the unit rectangular function r[x]. Each time a movement interval D is designated, a degree of divergence J between the function values a, b and the image variation amount array E is calculated by the divergence calculation section 224. Then, only the frame images contained in the movement interval D designated when the degree of divergence J is at a minimum are extracted.

Abstract: In a portable electronic apparatus, a memory is provided to store a plurality of groups of messages. Each group of messages includes messages having the same meaning, which are expressed in different languages such as Japanese, English, and French. A user designates a main language corresponding to a mother tongue of the user and a sub-language corresponding to a language used in a travel destination area. When a travel mode is set, for instance, a photograph request button is depressed and a photograph requesting message is, for example, displayed in the main language and in the sub-language on a display screen simultaneously. As a result, a user who is very weak in English can show the request messages to a third party to easily request the third party to the user, while at the same time the user can confirm the contents of the request messages.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a face detection unit 61 detects a face region in a target image. An age recognition unit 62 recognizes the age of a subject based on data of the face region. A similar image search unit 63 searches for data of an existing image having a face region similar to the detected face region as similar image data. A date comparing unit 65, when the age of the subject is confirmed to be within a first range by an age confirmation unit 64, acquires a time difference between the capture dates of the target image data and the similar image data and compares the time difference with a second range. A grouping unit 66, when the time difference is within the second range, classifies the target image data into the same group as the group to which the similar image data belongs.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes color filters, a display signal voltage application circuit, a common voltage application circuit, and a polarity inversion circuit. Each color filter corresponds to one of sub-pixels arranged two-dimensionally in a display section. The display signal voltage application circuit applies a display signal voltage to a pixel electrode of each of the sub-pixels. The common voltage application circuit applies a common voltage to a common electrode of each of the sub-pixels. The polarity inversion circuit inverts a polarity indicating a magnitude relationship between a pixel electrode voltage and the common voltage that is applied to the common electrode. The polarity inversion circuit makes the polarity of at least one of the sub-pixels arranged in a row of the display section different from the polarity of another sub-pixel of the same color arranged in the same row of the display section.

Abstract: An input device including: a first operation detecting section which is provided on one stick and detects acceleration based on movement of the one stick; a second operation detecting section which is provided on an other stick and detects acceleration based on movement of the other stick; a first strike judging section which judges whether or not the one stick and the other stick have struck against one another, based on the acceleration detected by the first operation detecting section and the acceleration detected by the second operation detecting section; and an instructing section which instructs to produce a sound corresponding to striking of the one stick and the other stick against one another, when the first strike judging section judges that the one stick and the other stick have struck against one another.

Abstract: A display unit 11 has a display area of a predetermined shape and displays an image on the display area. An image capturing unit 12 generates data of a captured image by capturing an image of an eye 2 of a user in which the display area is reflected. A reference detection unit 21 detects a moving reference point that moves along with the movement of user's eye-gaze and an unmoving reference point that can be assumed as approximately stationary regardless of the user's eye-gaze movement, and generates a vector drawn from the unmoving reference point to the moving reference point as a shift amount V(x,y). An eye-gaze detection unit 22 detects a movement vector ?V(?x,?y) as the user's eye-gaze movement amount based on a reference shift amount Vo(xo,yo) generated in the past and the shift amount V(x,y) currently generated.

Abstract: A semiconductor circuit design supporting method includes: reading Register Transfer Level (RTL) description circuit data; generating an equivalent circuit corresponding to the RTL description circuit data; extracting a plurality of arithmetic components included in the generated equivalent circuit; clustering some of the extracted arithmetic components as a single arithmetic component, wherein no storage element exists between said some of the extracted arithmetic components; reading a timing constraint on the RTL description circuit data; tracing an exception path of the RTL description circuit data when the timing constraint includes a timing exception; determining whether or not the timing exception is set for input pins of said some of the arithmetic components which are clustered as the single arithmetic component, based on the traced exception path of the RTL description circuit data; and separating a arithmetic component for which the timing exception is set, from said some of the arithmetic component

Abstract: A toner replenishing container includes a storage chamber, a hole and an identification member. The storage chamber stores a toner for replenishment. The hole is engaged with the toner replenishing container identifying portion of the mounting portion when the toner replenishing container is mounted on the mounting portion, is formed at a predetermined position on a front surface of the toner replenishing container in a mounting direction, and has a polygonal cross-section. The identification member is detachably inserted into the hole in a form corresponding to the polygonal shape of the hole when an orientation of the identification member is rotated about a center line of the hole.

Abstract: A time information acquiring apparatus includes: a first decoder which decodes a time code signal frame by frame so as to generate solo-decoded time information; a first determining section which determines consistency of the solo-decoded time information; a second decoder which combines detection data of the frames, and performs a code determination on the time code signal based on the combined detection data so as to generate sum-up-decoded time information; a second determining section which determines the consistency of the sum-up-decoded time information; and a controller which makes the first decoder generate the solo-decoded time information, the first determining section determine the consistency of the solo-decoded time information, the second decoder generate the sum-up decoded time information, and the second determining section determine the consistency of the sum-up-decoded time information in a predetermined order so as to extract time information having the consistency.

Abstract: A display that displays a graph corresponding to a function expression, an input unit that specifies a plurality of point positions on the graph displayed on the display unit, a processor that performs display control of a graph corresponding to a function expression on the display unit, does a specific calculation on the basis of positional information on a plurality of pointers displayed on the display unit and the function expression of the graph and performs display control of a result of calculation on the display unit, performs movement display control on the graph of an arbitrary one of the plurality of pointers displayed on the display unit according to an input from the input unit, and does the calculation again, updates the result of calculation, and performs display control of the updated result on the display unit, an storage area, and a work storage area, are provided.