Abstract: Disclosed is a solid-state image pickup apparatus including a semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric converter, a transfer gate, an insulating layer, a first silicon layer, and a pixel transistor portion. The photoelectric converter converts light energy of incident light into electrical energy and obtains a signal charge. The photoelectric converter is formed on a surface side in the semiconductor substrate. The transfer gate reads the signal charge from the photoelectric converter, and the transfer gate is formed on the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the photoelectric converter. The insulating layer is formed on the photoelectric converter in the semiconductor substrate. The first silicon layer is formed on the insulating layer. The pixel transistor portion amplifies and outputs the signal charge read by the transfer gate. The pixel transistor portion is formed on the insulating layer with the first silicon layer being an active region.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a bitplane expanding section, a coding section, a selecting section, and a selection controlling section. The bitplane expanding section expands image data into bitplanes as sets of bits at identical places in each unit of a predetermined number of pieces of data each having a bit depth of a plurality of bits. The coding section codes the image data expanded by the bitplane expanding section in each the bitplane in predetermined order. The selecting section selects compressed data and non-compressed data as a result of coding of the image data. The selection controlling section controls the coding section to stop a coding process and selecting the non-compressed data for a bitplane situated at a position subsequent to a bitplane for which the non-compressed data is selected by the selecting section in the predetermined order.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a transistor formed on a first surface of a silicon layer; a first insulating film formed on the first surface of said silicon layer and covering said transistor; a wiring section formed in the first insulating film and electrically connected to the transistor; a supporting substrate formed on a surface of the first insulating film with a second insulating film interposed between the supporting substrate and the first insulating film; and an adjusting insulating film for adjusting a threshold voltage of said transistor, the adjusting insulating film being formed on a second surface of said silicon layer opposing the first surface of said silicon layer. Some embodiments may include a probing electrode electrically connected to the transistor and an opening in the silicon layer for exposing the probing electrode.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section including, in a semiconductor substrate, plural photoelectric conversion sections that photoelectrically convert incident light to generate signal charges; metal wirings formed, on a first insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, above regions among the photoelectric conversion sections and above the periphery of the pixel section; a second insulating film formed on the first insulating film to cover the metal wirings; a first light shielding film formed on the second insulating film and having an opening above the pixel section; and a second light shielding film formed above the metal wirings above the pixel section and having thickness smaller than that of the first light shielding film.

Abstract: Methods and systems for playing video games with a controller having a display that shares content with a main display are provided. According to embodiments of the invention, a method is provided for interactive gameplay of a video game. The method initiates with executing a video game, the video game providing a virtual environment. A primary view of the virtual environment is rendered on a primary display. A location and orientation of a handheld device in a vicinity of the primary display are tracked. A secondary view of the virtual environment is rendered on the handheld device based on the tracked location and orientation of the handheld device.

Abstract: There are provided a drive unit, a lens module, an image pickup unit, a fuel cell, and an ion exchange resin, in which a characteristic deterioration depending on an ambient environment may be suppressed. The drive unit includes one or more polymer actuator devices. The polymer actuator device is configured using an ion exchange resin containing a moisturizing agent.

Abstract: A feature-quantity extraction unit extracts a feature quantity of a target pixel of a student image. The target pixel is classified into a predetermined class. Natural-image processing of the target pixel is performed. Artificial-image processing of the target pixel is performed. A sample of a normal equation is generated using a pixel value of the target pixel subjected to the natural-image processing, a pixel value of the target pixel subjected to the artificial-image processing, a pixel value of a target pixel of a teacher image, and a predetermined mixing coefficient for each class. The mixing coefficient is calculated on the basis of a plurality of generated samples.

Abstract: An image processing method includes the steps of extracting edges from each of a plurality of original images, thereby obtaining edge images; extracting straight lines from the edge images, thereby obtaining line images; assuming extensions of the straight lines constituting the line images and setting vanishing points on the basis of the extensions; and trimming the plurality of original images so that positions of the vanishing points in the respective original images mutually match, thereby obtaining final images.

Abstract: A noise cancellation unit includes: a duct connected to an outlet of an electronic apparatus and configured to pass an exhaust flow discharged from the outlet therethrough; a first microphone provided to the duct; a speaker provided to the duct downstream of the first microphone; a second microphone provided to the duct downstream of the speaker; a first windscreen wall configured to prevent the exhaust flow from colliding with the first microphone; a second windscreen wall configured to prevent the exhaust flow from colliding with the second microphone; and a signal processing circuit configured to generate, based on outputs of the first microphone and the second microphone, a sound signal for removing a noise included in the exhaust flow and supply the sound signal to the speaker.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: one or a plurality of pieces of first wiring having a main wiring section and a bifurcation wiring section; one or a plurality of pieces of second wiring having a trunk wiring section and a plurality of branch wiring sections within a gap region between the main wiring section and the bifurcation wiring section; one or a plurality of transistors each divided and formed into a plurality of pieces, the plurality of branch wiring sections individually functioning as a gate electrode and the one or plurality of transistors having a source region formed within the main wiring section and within the bifurcation wiring section and having a drain region formed between the plurality of branch wiring sections; and one or a plurality of pieces of third wiring electrically connected to the drain region of the one or plurality of transistors.

Abstract: An entertainment device for generating augmented reality environments comprises an input for a captured video signal, an image analyser to detect a predetermined marker object location within the captured video signal, a graphics generator to generate a graphics object for integration with the video signal at a selected position to generate an augmented reality image, a controller to positionally couple the graphics object to the detected marker object location within the captured video signal, and a detection failure logic to signal when the image analyser cannot adequately detect the marker object's location within the captured signal. If the logic signals the image analyser cannot detect the location of the marker object within the captured video signal, then the controller positionally decouples the graphics object from the last detected location of the marker object within the video signal, and instructs the graphics generator to modify a characteristic of the graphics object.

Abstract: An audio signal processing apparatus generates an audio signal having an omni-directivity in the whole circumferential direction, generates an audio signal having a directivity in the right-left direction, generates an audio signal having a directivity in the front-back direction, adds the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the whole circumferential direction by a predetermined coefficient, the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the right-left direction by a predetermined coefficient, and the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the front-back direction by a predetermined coefficient, and generates a unidirectional audio signal.

Abstract: In an X-Y address type solid state image pickup device represented by a CMOS image sensor, a back side light reception type pixel structure is adopted in which a wiring layer is provided on one side of a silicon layer including photo-diodes formed therein. and visible light is taken in from the other side of the silicon layer, namely, from the side (back side) opposite to the wiring layer. wiring can be made without taking a light-receiving surface into account, and the degree of freedom in wiring for the pixels is enhanced.

Abstract: A cell sorting apparatus includes a flow channel through which fluid including cells flows, an electric-field application section capable of applying an electric field having a gradient in a direction different from the flowing direction of the fluid at a first position on the flow channel in accordance with a cell sorting signal requesting an operation to sort the cells, and a flow splitting section configured to split the cells changing their flowing directions due to a dielectrophoretic force caused by application of the electric field at a second position on the downstream side of the first position on the flow channel.

Abstract: A display panel includes: a panel section including a display region where a plurality of pixels are arranged, and a gap region provided in a gap between the pixels; and a barrier section including a plurality of transmissive regions in a two-dimensional arrangement, and a light-blocking region to be around each of the transmissive regions. The transmissive regions are each configured to make entirely visible any one of the pixels therethrough when a viewer views the panel section not from a front but from a first or second direction via the barrier section, the pixels are each configured by a plurality of sub-pixels varying in type, and the sub-pixels in each of the pixels are arranged not in stripes but differently.

Abstract: A communication device that transmits data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. After receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic determines a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compares the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment if the sequence number of the data segment does not match the at least one pending sequence number.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a feature point detection processing unit configured to detect a feature point from an image, and a feature quantity generation processing unit configured to compare a pixel difference value of two pixels in an image region having a position of the detected feature point as a reference with a threshold and generate binary information indicating a result of comparison as a component of feature quantities corresponding to the feature point.

Abstract: The present invention permits a capacitance value of an electro-optical element such as organic EL element to be arbitrarily set without changing the light extraction efficiency of a pixel. That is, the present invention permits a capacitance value Coled of an organic EL element (21) to be arbitrarily set by adjusting the light emission area of the organic EL element (21) without changing the light extraction efficiency of a pixel (20) in an organic EL display device. The organic EL display device has the pixels (20) arranged in a matrix form. A light extraction opening (56) is formed on the surface of the pixel with a light-shielding film (black matrix) (57). The light extraction opening (56) has an opening area smaller than the light emission area of the organic EL element (21).

Abstract: A system may include a communication interface configured to communicate with a mobile device and processing logic. The processing logic may be configured to receive authorization from the mobile device, when the mobile device is located proximate to the system, for a first payment for a good or service, and transmit a communication to the mobile device subsequent to receiving the authorization from the mobile device, where the communication is transmitted when the mobile device is not located proximate to the system. The processing logic may further be configured to receive authorization from the mobile device for a second payment in response to the communication.