Abstract: A liquid crystal device has a pair of substrates arranged so as to face each other and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates and performs a display operation or an optical modulation operation by converting an alignment of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer from a splay alignment to a bend alignment. The liquid crystal device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on either one of the pair of substrates so as to correspond to a plurality of pixels, and an auxiliary electrode formed in a layer disposed under the pixel electrodes in a manner such that at least part thereof overlaps the pixels in a plan view and made of a light-transmissible conductive material.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine an encoded status of an encoded moving image data, an estimation unit configured to estimate a decoding load of the moving image data based on the encoded status of the moving image data determined by the determination unit, and a control unit configured to omit a part of a decoding process for decoding the moving image data based on the decoding load of the moving image data estimated by the estimation unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a moving image playback apparatus has a structure wherein a decoder is initialized when a CPU first detects an SPS-equipped I-picture in playback of a video stream of an HD DVD, and the decoder decodes the video stream.

Abstract: Provided is a decoding apparatus comprising a decoder configured to receive a series of encoded pictures and to decode each of the encoded pictures to produce a series of decoded pictures, each of the encoded pictures being either intra-encoded or inter-encoded, and each of the decoded pictures being either referred or nonreferred, a blocking noise suppressor configured to suppress blocking noise of each of the decoded pictures, and a controller configured to detect an amount of a load, to run each of the decoded pictures through the blocking noise suppressor if the detected amount of the load is lower than a given threshold, to have each of the decoded pictures being non-referred bypass the blocking noise suppressor if the detected amount of the load is no lower than the threshold, and to transmit each of the decoded pictures either having been run through or having bypassed the blocking noise suppressor.

Abstract: When a quantized DCT coefficient and a quantization parameter are input from an entropy decoder, a controller outputs them to a switch and gives a load detector an instruction to detect system load. The load detector requests system load information from OS. If the system load is light, the load detector controls the switch to execute first inverse quantization of general load by a general processor and obtain a DCT coefficient. If the system load is heavy, the load detector controls the switch to execute second inverse quantization whose processing load is lighter than the first inverse quantization by a specific processor and obtain a DCT coefficient.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus which decodes a compression encoded moving image stream, includes a filter processing unit which executes a deblocking filter process in order to reduce block distortion for each decoded picture, a detection unit which detects a load state of the information processing apparatus, and a control unit which causes the filter processing unit to execute the deblocking filter process without a process for a color difference signal in accordance with the load state detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus, including a decoding unit which decodes a moving image stream that is compressed and coded, a deblocking filtering unit which performs a deblocking filtering process for a picture included in the moving image stream to reduce a block distortion, a blending unit which performs a blending process of superimposing a second picture on a first picture with designated transparency, and a control unit which determines whether the blending process is performed for the picture included in the moving image stream and, when the blending process is performed, varies an amount of processing of the deblocking filtering process for at least one of the first and second pictures in accordance with the transparency.

Abstract: A video reproduction application program monitors whether or not blend processing for superimposing one of two images on the other is executed, and executes all decode processings (normal decode processings), when the blend processing is not executed. On the other hand, when the blend processing is executed, a specific processing is executed in which decoding of a color component is omitted from decode processing for decoding the images to be subjected to the blend processing. As a result, the load on the system is reduced.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a decoding unit which decodes a moving image stream that is compressed and coded, a processing unit which performs a deblocking filtering process for a picture included in the moving image stream to reduce a block distortion, and a control unit which varies an amount of processing of the deblocking filtering process in accordance with a given condition.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus having a decoder to decode encoded streaming data to be displayed to form a picture including a plurality of blocks comprises a filtering unit for filtering the decoded streaming data to reduce distortion of the block with respect to each picture, a detecting unit for detecting a size of the picture to be displayed, and a simplifying unit for simplifying the filtering by the filtering unit in response to the size of the picture detected by the detecting unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a unit that executes a de-blocking filter process for each of decoded pictures, a unit that executes a motion compensation prediction process that generates an inter-frame prediction signal, from one or more pictures that are subjected to the de-blocking filter process, a unit that executes an intra-frame prediction process that generates an intra-frame prediction signal, a unit that adds one of the inter-frame prediction signal and the intra-frame prediction signal to a prediction error signal corresponding to the to-be-decoded picture to decode the to-be-decoded picture, and a unit that executes, when a load on the information processing apparatus is greater than a predetermined reference value, a process that skips execution of the de-blocking filter process and generates the inter-frame prediction signal, which corresponds to the to-be-decoded picture, from the one or more decoded pictures that are not subjected to the de-blocking filter process.