Abstract: An image processing device and method, where the device includes a data continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of detecting elements each having spatio-temporal integration effects, and a real world estimating unit configured to generate a gradient of pixel values of the plurality of pixels corresponding to a position in one dimensional direction of spatio-temporal directions as to pixels of interest within the image data.

Abstract: An image processing device and method, where the image processing device includes an angle detector configured to detect an angle between a reference axis of data continuity with image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of detecting elements each having spatio-temporal integration effects, and a real world estimating unit configured to estimate the light signals by estimating a continuity of the real world light signals which have been lost based on the angle detected by the angle detector.

Abstract: An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing device may include a computer configured to compute a product-sum coefficient and a recorder configured to record the product-sum coefficient. In another embodiment, the image processing device may include a data continuity detector, a recorder, and a pixel extractor.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus and method, where the apparatus includes a region selecting unit configured to select a region corresponding to a pixel of interest, a frequency detector configured to detect a frequency corresponding to pixels belonging to the region, a continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of the image data, and a real world estimating unit configured to estimate the light signals by estimating the continuity of the real world light signals which have been lost.

Abstract: An image processing device, method, and program are capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing device may include a setting unit, a real world estimating unit, a pixel value generator, and a difference computer. In another embodiment, the image processing device may include a data continuity detector including a setting unit, a real world estimating unit, a difference computer, and a detector.

Abstract: An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing device may include a computer configured to compute a product-sum coefficient and a recorder configured to record the product-sum operation coefficient. In another embodiment, the image processing device may include a data continuity detector, a recorder, and a difference computer.

Abstract: The present invention allows detection of an exposure time of an image that has already been captured. A motion detector 102 detects an amount of inter-frame movement of a foreground object in a designated frame based on the designated frame and a frame preceding or subsequent to the designated frame. A mixture-ratio calculator 104 detects a mixture ratio indicating the ratio of mixture of a foreground component and a background component in a mixed area of the designated frame. In accordance with the mixture ratio, the mixture-ratio calculator 104 detects the amount of movement of the foreground object within an exposure time in which pixel data is obtained. A shutter-time calculator 106 detects a ratio of a time interval between frames to the exposure time based on the amount of inter-frame movement and the amount of movement within the exposure time of the foreground object. The present invention is applicable to an image processing apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for generating an image having a high density in the direction of time and having a natural-looking motion blur. The correlation calculators 103 and 104 respectively calculate a correlation between pixel data of a target pixel in a target frame #n from among frames and pixel data of a corresponding pixel in a first frame #n?1 next to the target frame #n and a correlation between the pixel data of the target pixel in the target frame #n and pixel data of a corresponding pixel in a second frame #n+1 next to the target frame #n. The half-side pixel value generator 105 generates first pixel data in a first synthesis frame generated between the target frame #n and one of the first frame #n?1 and the second frame #n+1 containing the corresponding pixel having the pixel data with a larger correlation.

Abstract: A signal processor 12 acquires a second signal obtained by detecting a first signal, as a signal of the real world, having a first dimension. The second signal is of a second dimension lower than the first dimension and has distortion relative to the first signal. The signal processor 12 performs signal processing which is based on the second signal to generate a third signal alleviated in distortion as compared to the second signal.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system, a method, and a computer program for reproducing high-quality image free from jerkiness even when the content reproducing speed is varied. The clock frequency set at a high level according as the content reproducing speed ascends is outputted from the system clock, and such variable clock signal outputted from the system clock is inputted to each processing section in charge of processing of content reproduction such as the data storage section, decoding section, buffer control section, output control section, and output display section. In these sections, processing of data is carried out by regulating the processing speed in accordance with the clock signal having a frequency conforming to the content reproducing speed. Such configuration allows all-frame variable-speed display without needing frame decimation operation even at a high-speed reproduction, for example, resulting in realization of reproduction of jerkiness-free, high-quality image.

Abstract: A camera device includes: an iris unit for varying exposure; a shutter control unit for varying a shutter speed of an imaging element; and a control unit for controlling the signal processing unit and the entire device. The camera device further includes: an exposure target calculation unit for calculating a control value used for controlling the iris unit or the shutter control unit so that an exposure amount will be a target value based on information on a signal level from a signal processing unit; and a malfunction judgment unit for determining a malfunction in the device based on information on the control value obtained by the exposure target calculation unit and the signal level from the signal processing unit.

Abstract: The invention is a film of a vinyl alcohol polymer that contains from 0.01 to 20 mol % of cationic group-containing units and contains from 0.5 to 24 mol % of ?-olefin units having at most 4 carbon atoms. The polyvinyl alcohol film gives polarizing films and polarizer which are resistant to water and have good polarizing properties and which are free from a problem of irregular coloration.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a wavelength tunable DBR laser having the wider wavelength tuning characteristic, able to attain a 6 nm or more continuous wavelength shift and also higher in output power than a conventional wavelength tunable DBR laser. The DBR laser is constituted such that optical waveguides formed on a substrate, comprising an active region optical waveguide 22 having a light emitting function and passive region optical waveguides 23a and 23b provided on both ends of the active region 22, these passive region optical waveguides 23a and 23b have anterior and posterior DBR regions 24 and 29 with a wavelength tuning function, a posterior DBR region 29 is provided with a diffraction grating whose length is 95% or more in a saturated effective length value, and an anterior DBR region 24 whose length is shorter than the above length to take out the emitting light.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it possible to specify a background image area, a moving object image area, and an image area in which the mixture of the background image area and the moving object image area occurs. A mixture-ratio calculator 103 extracts pixel data of a peripheral frame corresponding to a designated pixel of a designated frame of the image data as background pixel data corresponding to a background object, and also extracts designated pixel data of the designated pixel contained in the designated frame so as to generate a plurality of relational expressions indicating the relationship between the designated pixel data and the background pixel data. The mixture-ratio calculator 103 detects the mixture ratio indicating the mixture state of the objects based on the relational expressions.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a mixture ratio indicating the state of mixture of a plurality of objects such as a background image and the image of an object is detected. A pixel value setter 502 extracts background pixel data while also extracting the date of a target pixel and a pixel in the vicinity of the target pixel. The pixel value setter 502 generates a plurality of relational equations indicating data of the target pixel and the pixel in the vicinity of the target pixel and the background pixel data. An arithmetic unit 503 calculates a mixture ratio indicating a mixed state of the plurality of objects in the real world with respect to the target pixel based on the relational equations. The present invention is applicable to an image processing apparatus that accounts for a difference between a signal detected by a sensor and the real world.

Abstract: A vinyl alcohol polymer is provided that is particularly useful for efficiently producing an inkjet recording material having an ink-receiving layer which is not cracked on its surface, which is highly glossy, which can absorb ink well and which is highly transparent, wherein the vinyl alcohol polymer has specific polyoxyalkylene group-containing monomer units and where the product of the viscosity-average degree of polymerization, P, of the vinyl alcohol polymer and the content, S (mol %), of polyoxyalkylene group-containing monomer units, P×S, and the number, n, of the oxyalkylene repeating units in the polyoxyalkylene group-containing monomer unit satisfy specific relational formulae.

Abstract: A polyvinyl alcohol polymer film includes a polyvinyl alcohol polymer and a plasticizer selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, glycerin, propylene glycol, diethylene glycol, diglycerin, triethylene glycol, tetraethylene glycol, and trimethylolpropane. The amount of the polyvinyl alcohol polymer eluted when a 10 cm square of the polyvinyl alcohol polymer film is left in 1 liter of water of 50° C. for 4 hours is from 1 to 100 ppm. The film has only a small number of defects and is useful as raw material for producing a polarization film.

Abstract: The present invention enables a movement vector of a moving object to the detected, by detecting a mixture ratio indicating the proportion of mixing with an image, or taking into consideration a region mixed with the image. A weighted frame difference computation unit 3423 outputs weighted difference. A movement compensation unit 3424 and a correlation value computing unit 3427 compute the correlation between a block of interest containing each pixel of interest of weighted difference image data, and a corresponding block of weighted difference image data of an adjacent frame. A maximum value judgment unit 3428 detects at least one of weight and a movement vector wherein correlation between weighted difference image data is greatest. The present invention can be applied to signals processing device s for processing images.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus in which a mixture ratio indicating the mixture state of a plurality of objects can be detected. A normal-equation adder 441 extracts mixed pixel data, and also extracts background pixel data corresponding to the mixed pixel data so as to generate relational expressions for the mixed pixel data and the background pixel data. A normal-equation calculator 442 detects a single mixture ratio in accordance with a predetermined number of consecutive frames based on the relational expressions. The present invention is applicable to an image processing apparatus in which a difference between a signal detected by a sensor and the real world is taken into consideration.

Abstract: The present invention enables processing results which are more accurate and which have higher precision as to events of the real world to be obtained. (An inverse gamma correction unit 5001 applies inverse gamma correction to an input image wherein light signals of the actual world have been projected and a part of the continuity of the light signals of the actual world has been lost, and which has been subjected to gamma correction. A data continuity detecting unit 101 detects, in the input image subjected to inverse gamma correction, data continuity corresponding to the continuity of light signals of the real world. An actual world estimating unit 102 estimates the light signals by estimating the continuity of the light signals of the real world, based on the data continuity. An image generating unit 103 generates an output image from the estimated light signals.