Abstract: A semiconductor-laminated substrate includes: a substrate; and a laminated structure that includes a first semiconductor laminate which is provided on the substrate and processed into a light emitting element and a second semiconductor laminate which is provided on the first semiconductor laminate and processed into at least one thyristor, in which the laminated structure is adjusted such that two resonant wavelengths due to an effect of the thyristor are located on both sides of a resonant wavelength of the light emitting element.

Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus comprising an acquisition unit which acquires information representing optical compression ratios in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction at a time of image capturing by an image capturing unit; a transform unit which wavelet transforms the image data to generate a plurality of sub-band data; a determination unit which determines quantization parameters for transform coefficients in a plurality of sub-bands obtained by the transform unit; and an encoding unit which quantizes the transform coefficients in the sub-band data obtained by the transform unit in accordance with the quantization parameters determined by the determination unit and to encode the quantized transform coefficients, wherein the determination unit performs weighting for each sub-band based on the information representing the compression ratios acquired by the acquisition unit to determine the quantization parameters.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a generating unit configured to generate a plurality of pieces of RAW data for respective exposure times from RAW data obtained from a sensor that can perform shooting at an exposure time that is different for each pixel, and an encoding unit configured to encode the generated plurality of pieces of RAW data.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a generating unit configured to generate a plurality of pieces of RAW data for respective exposure times from RAW data obtained from a sensor that can perform shooting at an exposure time that is different for each pixel, and an encoding unit configured to encode the generated plurality of pieces of RAW data.

Abstract: An encoding device that performs an encoding process on a moving image by using motion estimation according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a framerate of the moving image; a setting unit that performs setting of the number of reference frames on each frame of the moving image in accordance with the framerate; and an estimation unit that performs the motion estimation by using a frame to be encoded and a reference frame acquired based on the setting, and the setting unit performs the setting such that the number of reference frames is smaller when the framerate is higher.

Abstract: An encoding device that performs an encoding process on a moving image by using motion estimation according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a framerate of the moving image; a setting unit that performs setting of the number of reference frames on each frame of the moving image in accordance with the framerate; and an estimation unit that performs the motion estimation by using a frame to be encoded and a reference frame acquired based on the setting, and the setting unit performs the setting such that the number of reference frames is smaller when the framerate is higher.