Abstract: A coding apparatus for embedding second data into first data without deteriorating the first data includes a memory for storing at least partial data of the first data. An embedding coder embeds the second data into the first data by rearranging, according to the second data, at least partial data of the first data stored in the memory. A decoding apparatus for decoding coded data in to the original first data and the original second data without deteriorating the quality of the data includes a relation calculating unit for calculating a relation between first partial data and second partial data of the coded data. A decoder decodes the coded data into the original first data by moving the first partial data and the second partial data of the coded data based on the relation calculated by the relation calculating unit, and decodes the second data that is embedded in the coded data according to the movement.

Abstract: A backlight unit includes a light-source substrate having mounted thereon a plurality of light-emitting elements emitting illumination light; a light guide plate having a side surface with the light-source substrate attached thereto so as to receive the illumination light from the light-emitting elements, the light guide plate also having a first surface extending substantially perpendicular to the side surface, and a second surface; a reflective sheet attached to the first surface and reflecting the illumination light towards the second surface; and an optical sheet layer attached to the second surface and including a plurality of stacked optical sheets. The side surface has a reflective portion that reflects at least a part of the illumination light. The at least a part of the illumination light to be reflected at the reflective portion is incident on the reflective portion at an incidence angle equal to or above a critical angle.

Abstract: A security module is provided in a data recording medium, data to be written to the data recording medium is encrypted with an content key different from one data to another, and the content key is safely stored in the security module. Also, the security module makes a mutual authentication using the public-key encryption technology with a drive unit to check that the counterpart is an authorized (licensed) unit, and then gives the content key to the counterpart, thereby preventing data from being leaked to any illegal (unlicensed) unit. Thus, it is possible to prevent copyrighted data such as movie, music, etc. from being copied illegally (against the wish of the copyrighter of the data).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus having an input configured to receive a first operation and a second operation input by a user, a playback unit configured to obtain predetermined data and play back the data based on the operation input by the user from the input; and a display control unit configured to control, in correspondence with a virtual hierarchical structure for classifying the predetermined data, a display of a display screen indicating each hierarchy level, and for controlling a display of a predetermined mark in the display screen. The display control unit also controls the display of the predetermined mark corresponding to the predetermined data which is played back by the playback unit in a manner different from other non-selected marks while the predetermined mark is being selected.

Abstract: In a service providing system, a live-distribution service for live-distributing contents supplied according to a reservation, and a chat service for providing the use of a chat space corresponding to the reservation for the live distribution are provided. When a personal computer and another personal computer use the live-distribution service and the chat service, they need to be authenticated by a streaming server and a communication server. For authentication, both the streaming server and the communication server use a shared password registered in a reservation data base when the live distribution is reserved.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide headphones having no headband in which left and right driver units are connected by a cord passed behind the neck, wherein the headphones will not slip off if hung on the shoulders when not being used and are intended to improve fashionableness; in headphones 10 having no headband in which left and right driver units 2L, 2R are connected by a cord 4 passed behind the neck, the middle part of this cord is inserted into a cylindrical belt 11a, and also end members 12, 12 which fix the cord 4 and this cylindrical belt 11a are provided at both ends of this cylindrical belt 11a to form a belt-like strap portion 11; and further this cylindrical belt 11a is provided with a print or decoration which is pliable and flexible when being bent, for example.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device including an N channel MIS type transistor and a P channel MIS type transistor. The semiconductor device includes a first inter-layer film formed on the NMIS transistor and having a tensile stress, and a second inter-layer film formed on the first inter-layer film and a PMIS transistor and having a compressive stress, and the compressive stress in the second inter-layer film is relaxed on the upper side of the first inter-layer film.

Abstract: The present invention provided a content delivery system that can deliver content by way of the Internet. In the system, a browser requests a content server to deliver a startup file. The content server transmits the startup file to the browser. The startup file describes that the content is to be delivered by streaming or that it is to be delivered by downloaded files. A content reproducing section determines if the content is that to be delivered by streaming or that to be delivered by downloaded files according to the description of the startup file it receives from the browser. A television receiving set may be used as content processing apparatus for receiving the delivery of the content from a content delivery apparatus of such a system.

Abstract: A single-wall carbon nanotube heterojunction is provided. In the single-wall carbon nanotube, a semiconductive single-wall carbon nanotube and a metallic single-wall carbon nanotube are joined with each other in a longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A method for use in operation of a game apparatus includes obtaining a time series of samples containing information usable to determine activity of a plurality of predetermined objects used for controlling the game apparatus, processing the time series to determine whether one of the plurality of predetermined objects has been inactive during a game already in progress, and adding a new player to the game already in progress in response to a determination that one of the plurality of predetermined objects is currently active after determining that it was inactive. A system for use in operation of a game apparatus includes means for performing these steps.

Abstract: A imaging device includes an image pickup region composed of a plurality of light-receiving portions (2) and vertical transfer registers (3) including a plurality of transfer electrodes containing a transfer electrode (8) serving as a read electrode as well and other transfer electrode (7), the vertical transfer registers (3) being arrayed at every column of light-receiving portions (2). Each transfer electrode (8) serving as the read electrode as well disposed within the vertical transfer register (3) is formed such that it may be separated from the transfer electrode (8) serving as read electrode as well and other transfer electrode (7) which are adjoining each other in the horizontal direction. In this imaging device including a plurality of light-receiving portions (2) regularly arrayed, it is possible to prevent color mixture from occurring between the light-receiving portions (pixels) (2) which are adjoining each other in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a device for performing horizontal analysis filtering, a device for performing vertical analysis filtering, and a device for horizontal control. The information processing apparatus also includes a first control device. This device allows the device for horizontal control to repetitively perform the horizontal control until the horizontal analysis filtering is performed on all of columns of a processing object line. The information processing apparatus further includes a device for vertical control and a second control device that allows the device for vertical control to repetitively perform the vertical control until the vertical analysis filtering is performed on all of lines.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, a driving circuit disposed in each of the plurality of light emitting elements, scanning lines, emission control lines, and data lines. Here, each driving circuit includes a driving transistor supplying current to the corresponding light-emitting element, changes the emission control signal from a first voltage value to a second voltage value to make the light-emitting element be in a non-emission state, and changes the emission control signal from the second voltage value to the first voltage value to correct the threshold voltage of the driving transistor, and the emission control signal has the first voltage value in a period other than a period of the second voltage value for correcting the threshold voltage of the driving transistor in a subsequent non-emission period.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells arranged in arrays; a plurality of bit lines formed correspondingly to a column arrangement of the memory cells; a plurality of word lines formed correspondingly to a row arrangement of the memory cells; a plate line having one of a configuration in which the first electrodes of the respective memory cells are included in the plate line and a configuration in which the first electrodes are connected to the plate line; a column switch used to connect a selected bit line and a data access line; and a pre-charge portion that performs a pre-charge operation to pre-charge a non-selected bit line not selected by the column switch to potential of the plate line.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that images an object image through an optical system; an image signal processing section having a function of combining a plurality of imaged images into a combined image piece, the imaged images being obtained while the imaging apparatus is swept; a position sensor capable of obtaining position information of the imaging apparatus; and a controller that processes information of the position sensor, wherein the controller sends a notification of an appropriate value of a sweeping angular velocity based on the detection information of the position sensor and outputs a warning signal when the sweeping angular velocity exceeds an appropriate range.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device including a first transfer electrode portion and a second transfer electrode portion having a pattern area rate higher than that of the first transfer electrode portion. The first transfer electrode portion includes a plurality of first transfer electrodes having a single-layer structure of metal material. The second transfer electrode portion includes a plurality of second transfer electrodes having a single-layer structure of polycrystalline silicon or amorphous silicon.

Abstract: An imaging device including: an electronic shutter and a pixel array part. The pixel array part has a plurality of pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity arranged in an array and which converts light transmitted through the pixel into an electric signal. The pixel array part has a plurality of color pixels and at least one clear pixel, the plurality of color pixels including (i) a first color filter pixel having a peak of spectral sensitivity characteristics in red, (ii) a second color filter pixel having a peak in blue, and (iii) a third color filter pixel having a peak in green. At least a portion of the plurality of color filter pixels is arranged in an oblique pixel array system and at least one clear pixel having a high transmittance is arranged in the oblique pixel array system at a given position of a given row and a given column with respect to the first color filter pixel, the second color filter pixel, and the third color filter pixel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display device; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of image data having information corresponding to a search key; a search key specifying unit configured to specify a search key used for image search; a search unit configured to search and extract image data having information relating to the search key specified by the search key specifying unit from the storage unit; and a display control unit configured to control the image corresponding to image data extracted by the search unit to be displayed on the position corresponding to the degree of association as to the search key on the display screen of the display device.

Abstract: An imaging device including: a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity are arranged in an array and which converts light transmitted through the pixel into an electric signal. The pixel array part has a plurality of color pixels and at least one clear pixel, the plurality of color pixels including (i) a first color filter pixel having a peak of spectral sensitivity characteristics in red, (ii) a second color filter pixel having a peak in blue, and (iii) a third color filter pixel having a peak in green.

Abstract: A latent curing agent (30) of the present invention includes a core member (31) and a capsule (37) covering up the surface of the core member (31). The core member (31) includes a secondary particle (32) and a curing agent (35) retained in a gap (38) of the secondary particle (32). The curing agent (35) is liquid at ambient temperature. When the capsule (37) is destructed so that the curing agent (35) is emitted into an adhesive, the curing agent (35) is mixed with other ingredients in the adhesive. A metal alcoholate which is liquid at ambient temperature or a metal chelate which is liquid at ambient temperature is used as the curing agent (35), while a silane coupling agent is added to the adhesive. A reaction takes place between the curing agent (35) and the silane coupling agent to yield cations. By these cations, the epoxy resin undergoes cation in polymerization.