Abstract: An image processing device including an image processing section having: one or more image processing modules, each image processing module having an image processing engine and a control section; and one or more buffer modules having a buffer for storing image data. The image processing module is realized by a program, which corresponds to the image processing engine, and a program, which corresponds to the control section, being executed by a CPU of the image processing device, and a portion of or an entirety of the program corresponding to the control section is used in common for, among the plurality of types of image processing modules, image processing modules whose units of writing image data to the buffer of the buffer module connected at the following stage of its own module are the same.

Abstract: A load drive control circuit includes a drive circuit for driving a load. A control circuit, connected to the drive circuit by diagnostic lines, provides the drive circuit with a control command that specifies an operation state. The drive circuit drives the load in the operation state specified by the control command, generates a diagnostic output including diagnostic notification signals each having an H level or an L level, and provides the diagnostic notification signals of the diagnostic output to the control circuit. A signal output unit outputs first and second diagnostic outputs respectively in response to the first and second control command from the control circuit. A diagnostic line failure determination unit checks whether the first and second diagnostic outputs are both normal to determine whether the diagnostic lines includes a failure or not.

Abstract: A resin composition in which a polylactic acid resin (A) 95-5 wt %, an aromatic polycarbonate resin (B) 5-95 wt %, and, with respect to 100 wt parts of the total of the (A) and the (B), at least one compatibilizer selected from a polymer compound containing an acrylic resin or styrene resin unit as a graft (C), a polymer compound to which a glycidyl compound or an acid anhydride is grafted or copolymerized (D) and an oxazoline compound, an oxazine compound and a carbodiimide compound (E) are compounded.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, plural computational units execute computation relating to image processing. Plural image processing units cause the computational units to execute image processing on image information. A section number acquisition unit acquires a number of sections for sectioning the plural image processing units into groups. A sectioning unit sections the plural image processing units by causing the image processing units to belong to the respective groups based on the number of sections and the order of the image processing. A sequential storage processing unit receives requests for storage of the image information from image processing units belonging to the same group, and sequentially executes processing of the requests without performing exclusive access control.

Abstract: An auto focusing mechanism is provided in a surveying instrument, such as an electronic level, that is capable of automatically focusing a telescope on a sighted staff. As a focusing lens (21b) is moved by a motor (41) along the optical axis of a telescope (20), the image of a staff (1) sighted by the telescope (20) is converted into an electrical signal by a line sensor (24). The output signal of the line sensor (24) is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter (27) and stored in a RAM (28). Based on the data stored in the RAM (28), a microcomputer (3) monitors frequencies of the component signals, or wavelets, contained in the output signal of the line sensor (24) stored in the RAM (28). When a particular frequency of the output signal associated with the position of the focusing lens (21b) is detected a determination is made that the focusing lens (21b) is located at a focusing position, and the distance from the telescope (20) to the staff (1) is calculated.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a control unit, and a construction unit. A program of at least one module including a buffer module among modules of an image processing unit is stored in the first storage unit. An image processing program and a shared library can be additionally stored in the second storage unit. The image processing program is used to perform image processing and a program of a module generation unit is registered in the shared library. The control unit instructs at least one module in the image processing unit to perform image processing during construction of the image processing unit. The construction unit constructs the image processing unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus has an image processing section having modules and a storage resource management unit. The storage resource management unit determines whether or not a necessary capacity of a storage resource is equal to or less than a remaining amount of a memory when a module needs to be allocated with the storage resource, allocates the secured memory as the storage resource to the module when the capacity is equal to or less than the remaining amount or, when the capacity is larger than the remaining amount, secures a storage region of an external storage apparatus and allocates the storage region as the storage resource, or writes data written in a memory allocated to another module in the storage region and allocates the memory previously allocated to the other module as the storage resource to the module.

Abstract: An image processing device including a storage section, a parallel processing controller, a sequential processing controller, and a selection section which selectively operates the two control sections. The parallel processing controller connects one or more of the image processing modules such that first buffer modules are connected at least one of preceding and following each image processing module, to formulate a first image processing section, and controls such that individual image processing modules perform image processing in parallel with one another. The first buffer modules perform exclusive access control. The sequential processing controller connects one or more of the image processing modules such that second buffer modules are connected at least one of preceding and following each image processing module, to formulate a second image processing section, and controls such that the individual image processing modules perform image processing sequentially.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including an image processing unit structured to include one or more image processing modules and one or more buffer modules each having a buffer for storing image data, the respective modules being connected in a pipe line mode or a directed acyclic graph mode. Each of the buffer modules including a write unit that when image data to be written is input from the module at the proceeding stage, switches a write method depending on whether or not the input image data is compressed and writes the image data to the buffer; and a read unit that when image data is requested from the module at the following stage, switches an output method depending on whether or not the read image data is compressed, reads the image data from the buffer, and outputs the image data to the module at the following stage.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device. The image processing device includes an image processing section constructed by individual modules being connected in a pipeline form or a directed acyclic graph form, such that a buffer module is connected at least one of a preceding stage and a following stage of individual image processing modules. In the image processing device, the individual image processing modules are realized by corresponding programs being executed in parallel by a program executing resource provided at the image processing device. The image processing device further has a priority level controlling component which carries out initial setting of execution priority levels of the programs of the individual image processing modules, and changing of the execution priority levels in accordance with extents of progress of image processing.

Abstract: In a pipeline process operation including a branching process unit 25 as one of process modules, this branching process unit 25 is provided with an input management unit 251 for managing an input condition, a branching information management unit 252 for managing information as to branching destinations, a buffer unit 253 whose upper storage limit can be designated, and a branching control unit 254 for controlling an entire branching process unit. The branching process unit 25 may execute an arbitrary number of branching process operations without having such a buffer for an entire image.

Abstract: A processing device has plural processing modules executing a processing; and plural connectors each having a linking section, an associating section, and a controller. The linking section is able to link with at least one other connector at an input side or an output side. The associating section associates the connector with one of the processing modules. In accordance with a linked state, the controller controls the processing module associated by the associating section.

Abstract: A connector has a linking section, an associating section, and a controller. The linking section can link with at least one other connector at an input side or an output side. The associating section associates the connector with a processing module that executes a predetermined processing. The controller recognizes a linked state with other connectors, and, in accordance with the linked state, controls the processing module associated by the associating section.

Abstract: A document processing device comprises: an image capturing unit that captures an image and acquires image data; a region separating section that extracts from the image data, image data of a printed region and image data of a hand-drawn region; a printed text data acquiring section that acquires printed text data in the printed region; a hand-drawn text data acquiring section that acquires hand-drawn text data in the hand-drawn region; a printed language specifying section that specifies language of the printed text data; a hand-drawn language specifying section that specifies language of the hand-drawn text data; a translation processing section that generates translated text data by translating the printed text data to the language that has been specified by the hand-drawn language specifying section.

Abstract: An image processing device has an image processing module and a buffer module. The image processing module has an image processing engine that carries out an image processing on image data. The buffer module has a buffer that stores the image data and a buffer control section that controls the amount of the image data to input into a following image processing module.

Abstract: An image processing device has an image processing section and a processing managing section. The image processing section has one or more image processing modules and one or more buffer modules. Each image processing module has an image processing engine and a control section. The image processing engine carries out a predetermined image processing on image data in units of a unit processing data amount. The control section inputs image data which is acquired from a preceding stage of its own module, in data amount units needed in order for the image processing engine to carry out processing in units of the unit processing data amount. Also, the control section outputs, to a following stage of its own module, image data, which has undergone a predetermined image processing by the image processing engine, or a processing result of the predetermined image processing.

Abstract: An image processing device has one or more image processing modules and one or more buffer modules. The image processing module reads image data from a preceding module in units of a reading data amount, performs a image processing on the image data, and outputs the image data to a following module in units of a writing data amount. The buffer modules stores the image data outputted from the preceding image processing module and outputs the image data in units of a outputting data amount. The image processing module is connected to at least one of a preceding or following stage of the buffer module.

Abstract: An image processing section of an image processing device is constructed by plural image processing modules being connected in a pipeline form, such that a buffer module is connected at at least one of preceding and following stages of each module. A buffer control section of the buffer module: when image data is outputted from the preceding image processing module, causes the module to write, immediately or after completion of reading, based on weather the following image processing module is reading data from the buffer; and when image data is requested from the following image processing module, causes the module to read, immediately or after completion of writing, based on weather the preceding image processing module is writing data to the buffer.

Abstract: An image processing device including an image processing section and a memory managing section. The image processing section having: (A) one or more image processing modules, each having: an image processing engine and a control section; and (B) one or more buffer modules. The memory managing section (a) can execute, by a plurality of types of managing methods, memory managing processing in which, in accordance with requests from individual modules, the memory managing section reserves memories which are to be allotted to the individual modules from a memory provided at the image processing device, and allots the reserved memories to the individual modules, and, at a time of deleting the individual modules, releases the memories allotted to the individual modules, and (b) carries out the memory managing processing by a managing method which is instructed from the exterior among the plurality of types of managing methods.

Abstract: An image processing device including an image processing section having: one or more image processing modules, each image processing module having an image processing engine and a control section; and one or more buffer modules having a buffer for storing image data. The image processing module is realized by a program, which corresponds to the image processing engine, and a program, which corresponds to the control section, being executed by a CPU of the image processing device, and a portion of or an entirety of the program corresponding to the control section is used in common for, among the plurality of types of image processing modules, image processing modules whose units of writing image data to the buffer of the buffer module connected at the following stage of its own module are the same.