Abstract: Provided is a method for peeling a PSA sheet adhered on a polarizing plate. The PSA sheet has a PSA layer. The PSA layer includes a layer A forming at least one surface of the PSA layer. Of the polarizing plate, the surface to which the PSA sheet is adhered is corona-treated or plasma-treated. The peeling method includes a water-peel step in which the PSA sheet is peeled from the polarizing plate, in a state where an aqueous liquid exits at the interface between the polarizing plate and the PSA sheet at the front line of peeling the PSA sheet from the polarizing plate, with the aqueous liquid allowed to further enter the interface following the movement of the peel front line.

Abstract: A difference detection device includes a difference detection unit configured to, based on association among a first image and a second image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space and encoding information of each of the first image and the second image, detect difference between a third image and a fourth image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space, and the encoding information is information acquired from data including the first image encoded and data including the second image encoded, before inverse transform processing is executed in decoding processing executed on each of the first image and the second image.

Abstract: The present invention is an airbag device equipped in a vehicle seat having a seat cushion forming a seat surface and a seatback forming a backrest, containing: an inflator; and an airbag that is stowed in the seatback and deployed by the expansion gas discharged from the inflator. The airbag includes a pair of left and right side chambers that deploy from the side parts of the seatback forward and an upper chamber that is provided continuously with the side chambers and deploys above the head of the occupant. The airbag, from a state of being spread out before stowing, is rolled or folded and compressed in a long rod shape in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction. The location corresponding to the upper chamber of the long rod-shaped airbag is stowed in a stowing part at the rear surface of the headrest at the upper part of the seatback.

Abstract: A reference region determination device is for determining a reference region to be stored in a reference image buffer, and includes: a motion vector acquisition portion configured to acquire a motion vector for each one of already encoded blocks; a position change amount derivation portion configured to derive a position change amount for the reference region based on the acquired motion vectors; and a reference region determination portion configured to determine a position of the reference region to be used in encoding of a next block for encoding after the already encoded blocks based on the position change amount.

Abstract: It is possible to estimate a slack level accurately in consideration of a shape of a deformed cable. A point cloud analysis device sets a plurality of regions of interest obtained by window-searching a wire model including a quadratic curve model representing a cable obtained from a point cloud consisting of three-dimensional points on an object, the region of interest being divided into a first region and a second region.

Abstract: A statistical data processing device includes: a first statistical image generation unit for generating statistical images including a first statistical image representing a first statistical value as a corresponding pixel value, and a second statistical image representing a second statistical value as a corresponding pixel value; a mask generation unit for generating a mask image, the mask image extracting, if one of a pixel of a first statistical image and a corresponding pixel of a second statistical image does not have a pixel value indicating a statistical value, a pixel not having a pixel value indicating the statistical value or other pixel; and a second statistical image generation unit for generating a third statistical image in which a pixel value of a pixel not having a pixel value indicating the statistical value is complemented with a pixel value of the other statistical image.

Abstract: An image evaluation device includes a determination result acquisition unit acquires a result of determining the presence or absence of a difference between an object image that is one of a plurality of images that include three or more images obtained by imaging substantially the same spatial region and each of reference images that are images other than the object image among the plurality of images and an evaluation index acquisition unit configured to acquire an evaluation index for the plurality of images on the basis of at least one of the number of determinations of the presence of the difference between the object image and each reference image and the number of determinations of the absence of the difference between the object image and each reference image.

Abstract: An evaluation device for evaluating coding quality of coded data of an image for a first viewpoint in a multi-viewpoint image, the evaluation device includes an evaluation unit that evaluates coding quality of coded data relating to the first viewpoint by associating a pixel value of an original image for the first viewpoint, a pixel value obtained from the coded data relating to the first viewpoint, a pixel value of an original image for a second viewpoint that is different from the first viewpoint and a pixel value obtained from coded data relating to the second viewpoint with one another.

Abstract: A learning data generation device of an embodiment includes a detection unit that detects a changed region in a space between a first map and a second map based on first map data which indicate the first map and second map data which indicate the second map which indicates a substantially same space as the first map and represents the space at a different time point from the first map and a changed region image acquisition unit that acquires images which correspond to the changed region detected by the detection unit from a first image in which the space represented by the first map is captured and a second image in which the space represented by the second map is captured.

Abstract: A prediction device for predicting a motion vector of a coding target block in coding of a composite image formed by combining multiple viewpoint images includes: a storage unit that stores a first predicted motion vector indicating a predicted motion vector candidate; and an update unit that if a predetermined condition is met, generates a second predicted motion vector that is a vector indicating a pixel in an adjacent viewpoint, the pixel being located at a position that is same as a position of the coding target block, and stores the second predicted motion vector the storage unit.

Abstract: A coding amount estimation device includes: a feature vector generation unit that generates a feature vector on the basis of a feature map generated by an estimation target image and at least one filter set in advance; and a coding amount evaluation unit that evaluates a coding amount of the estimation target image on the basis of the feature vector.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for writing data to a memory array are disclosed. When data is duplicative across multiple data lines, data may be transferred across a single line of a bus rather than driving the duplicative data across all of the data lines. The data from the single data line may be provided to the write amplifiers of the additional data lines to provide the data from all of the data lines to be written to the memory. In some examples, error correction may be performed on data from the single data line rather than all of the data lines.

Abstract: An image processing device that updates a pixel value of a processing target image and generates a new image generates a first feature vector based on the processing target image and a first feature map generated with at least one pre-decided filter; updates the processing target image to generate an updated image; generates a second feature vector based on the updated image and a second feature map generated with at least one pre-decided filter; performs quality evaluation of the updated image based on the first and second feature vectors and generates a quality feedback vector which is a vector based on a result of the quality evaluation; performs an encoding amount evaluation on the updated image and generates an encoding amount feedback vector which is a vector based on a result of the encoding amount evaluation; and determines an updating amount in updating of the updated image based on the quality feedback vector and the encoding amount feedback vector.

Abstract: A coding device executes coding having divided an image into blocks, and includes: a candidate obtainment unit that obtains a plurality of provisional motion vector candidates in a coding target block; an evaluation information obtainment unit that obtains a correspondence vector that is a vector having a same direction and a same magnitude as a direction and a magnitude of the obtained provisional motion vector candidates, and evaluation information of a search center indicated by the correspondence vector in a coded block; and a selection unit that, on the basis of the evaluation information, selects, from the plurality of provisional motion vector candidates, a number of motion vector candidates that is lower than the number of the plurality of provisional motion vector candidates.

Abstract: A predictive image acquisition device is a predictive image acquisition device for associating an observation signal, the observation signal being a signal obtained from an original image serving as a decoding target image and being a lower dimensional signal than the original image, a first predictive image having a high correlation with the original image, and a second predictive image having a high correlation with the original image with each other to obtain a combined predictive image, and includes an interpolation factor acquisition unit configured to obtain an interpolation factor set for each pixel of the combined predictive image from the first predictive image, the second predictive image, and the observation signal, and a combined predictive image acquisition unit configured to combine the first predictive image and the second predictive image for each pixel using the interpolation factor to obtain the combined predictive image, and the pixels constituting the observation signal are expressed by a

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for performing correction for each frame group including a predetermined number of frames into which video data is divided includes a decoding unit configured to obtain a corrected frame group by correcting a second frame group, which is a frame group continuous with a first frame group in time, using a feature quantity of the first frame group. The decoding unit performs the correction so that subjective image quality based on a relationship between the second frame group and a frame group subsequent to the second frame group in time is increased and so that a predetermined classifier classifies that a frame group in which the second frame group is concatenated with the frame group subsequent to the second frame group in time is the same as a frame group in which the corrected frame group is concatenated with a corrected frame group obtained by correcting the frame group subsequent to the second frame group in time.

Abstract: An encoding device includes a division unit that acquires three-dimensional data representing positions of a plurality of points distributed along a surface of an object in a three-dimensional space and divides a parent space including the points in the three-dimensional space into a plurality of child spaces and an encoding unit that changes, based on a position of a target space, which is the child space, to which a sign representing whether the points are included is allocated, according to whether the points are included in a first child space adjacent to the target space, processing for allocating the sign to the target space and a second child space adjacent to the target space.

Abstract: An image encoding method that generates and encodes a gram matrix representing an image feature when encoding an image to be encoded includes a feature map generation step of generating a plurality of feature maps from the image to be encoded; a gram matrix generation step of generating a gram matrix through calculations between/among the feature maps; a representative vector determination step of generating a representative vector and a representative coefficient value by singular value decomposition of the gram matrix; and a vector encoding step of encoding the representative coefficient value and the representative vector.

Abstract: An image encoding method that expresses an image using pixels or blocks, and colors assigned to the pixels or the blocks when encoding an image to be encoded, and encodes a block division tree and color information, the color information being assigned to all nodes including a root node, branch nodes, and leaf nodes of the block division tree, the method includes: a division tree generation step of dividing the image to be encoded using an arbitrary division tree and thereby generating the block division tree; a color information determination step of determining representative colors that represent interim blocks or final blocks and assigning the determined colors as color information corresponding to the respective nodes, the interim blocks or the final blocks corresponding to the nodes of the block division tree; a tree encoding step of encoding the block division tree; and a color information encoding step of encoding the color information.

Abstract: In a case where a second page is printed subsequent to a first page, in a case where a predetermined condition concerning recovery operation is met, a control unit in a printing apparatus causes, after completion of printing of the first page and prior to start of the printing of the second page, a recovery unit to perform the recovery operation after causing a cutting unit to cut a printing medium. In a case where the predetermined condition is not met, the control unit causes a printing unit to start the printing of the second page without causing the cutting unit to cut the printing medium after the completion of the printing of the first page.