Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a filter unit configured to execute a filter process on each block area in the input image and output the filter processing result of each pixel in the input image; a supply unit configured to read out attribute information from the attribute map and supply attribute information for each pixel; and an image processing unit configured to perform the predetermined image processing for the filter processing result output by the filter unit based on the attribute information for each pixel supplied by the supply unit, wherein the pixel order in which the pixel value in the input image is received by the filter processing unit and the pixel order in which the filter processing unit outputs the filter processing result are different, and wherein the supply unit supplies the attribute information for each pixel according to the pixel order of the filter processing result.

Abstract: An encoding device comprises: a dividing unit configured to divide an encoding unit of an image into a plurality of regions; a header generation unit configured to generate, for each boundary that partitions each of the plurality of regions along a direction which crosses a line, a boundary header used to identify the boundary; a trajectory generation unit configured to generate a piece of trajectory information representing a displacement of the boundary associated with progress of a line; and an aligning unit configured to, when generating encoded data including generated boundary headers and generated pieces of trajectory information, change, in accordance with the number of boundaries, a manner in which the generated boundary headers and the generated pieces of trajectory information are aligned.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a filter unit configured to execute a filter process on each block area in the input image and output the filter processing result of each pixel in the input image; a supply unit configured to read out attribute information from the attribute map and supply attribute information for each pixel; and an image processing unit configured to perform the predetermined image processing for the filter processing result output by the filter unit based on the attribute information for each pixel supplied by the supply unit, wherein the pixel order in which the pixel value in the input image is received by the filter processing unit and the pixel order in which the filter processing unit outputs the filter processing result are different, and wherein the supply unit supplies the attribute information for each pixel according to the pixel order of the filter processing result.

Abstract: An encoding device comprises: a dividing unit configured to divide an encoding unit of an image into a plurality of regions; a header generation unit configured to generate, for each boundary that partitions each of the plurality of regions along a direction which crosses a line, a boundary header used to identify the boundary; a trajectory generation unit configured to generate a piece of trajectory information representing a displacement of the boundary associated with progress of a line; and an aligning unit configured to, when generating encoded data including generated boundary headers and generated pieces of trajectory information, change, in accordance with the number of boundaries, a manner in which the generated boundary headers and the generated pieces of trajectory information are aligned.

Abstract: This invention decodes image data without overwriting the decompression result of the first image data by that of the second image data when the first image data compressed by the first method and the second image data compressed by the second method coexist. To do this, when decoding the image data in which the first image data compressed by the first method and the second image data compressed by the second method different from the first method coexist, a lossy-decoding unit decodes the first image data. Based on boundary information indicating a compression region compressed by the second method, a lossless-decoding unit selectively outputs pixel data decoded by the lossy-decoding unit or pixel data obtained by decoding the second image data of the compression region.

Abstract: This invention decodes image data without overwriting the decompression result of the first image data by that of the second image data when the first image data compressed by the first method and the second image data compressed by the second method coexist. To do this, when decoding the image data in which the first image data compressed by the first method and the second image data compressed by the second method different from the first method coexist, a lossy-decoding unit decodes the first image data. Based on boundary information indicating a compression region compressed by the second method, a lossless-decoding unit selectively outputs pixel data decoded by the lossy-decoding unit or pixel data obtained by decoding the second image data of the compression region.

Abstract: A rendering control unit determines movie and graphic display modes with reference to a rendering processing command, and acquires maximum speed information indicating the maximum value of a read/write speed allowed for a memory. The rendering control unit decides a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the movie data and a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the graphic data with respect to the memory, of a maximum speed indicated by the maximum speed information, based on the determination result. The rendering control unit controls a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering processing command, in accordance with the decided speeds.

Abstract: A rendering control unit determines movie and graphic display modes with reference to a rendering processing command, and acquires maximum speed information indicating the maximum value of a read/write speed allowed for a memory. The rendering control unit decides a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the movie data and a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the graphic data with respect to the memory, of a maximum speed indicated by the maximum speed information, based on the determination result. The rendering control unit controls a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering processing command, in accordance with the decided speeds.

Abstract: A system LSI which is capable of precisely acquiring the status of a module which is referred to as a resource for debugging when a high-performance processor debugs a processing program executed by a small-scale processor. A function unit has a bus interface connected to a bus and a data processing unit. The function unit is controlled in accordance with a processing program. The processing program is debugged in accordance with a debug program. Functioning of the data processing unit is halted. The function unit control processor suspends execution of the processing program to assert a debug signal when the processing program satisfies a predetermined condition. The halting unit halts functioning of the data processing unit without halting the bus interface in the function unit when the debug signal becomes asserted. The debugging processor acquires a status of the data processing unit when the debugging processor detecting that the debug signal is asserted.

Abstract: There is provided a network system and its associated devices and techniques which allow a terminal device to utilize functions of another terminal device without the need to provide any dedicated interface or system switch. A server 12 receives a service request from a first terminal device 13 or a second terminal device 16 while the first and second terminal devices 13 and 16 are in voice communication with each other. Upon receipt of the service request, the server 12 searches position information on the second terminal device 16 from an identifier contained in the service request to specify a processor 18 located in the neighborhood of the second terminal device 16 on the basis of the position information. Then the server 12 establishes a new connection (communication lines 2B and 2C) for image communication. Thus the image data is transferred from the first terminal device 13 to a reception device 17 through the communication lines 2B and 2C, and displayed on a large screen of the processor 18.

Abstract: A rendering control unit determines movie and graphic display modes with reference to a rendering processing command, and acquires maximum speed information indicating the maximum value of a read/write speed allowed for a memory. The rendering control unit decides a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the movie data and a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the graphic data with respect to the memory, of a maximum speed indicated by the maximum speed information, based on the determination result. The rendering control unit controls a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering processing command, in accordance with the decided speeds.

Abstract: A system LSI which is capable of precisely acquiring the status of a module which is referred to as a resource for debugging when a high-performance processor debugs a processing program executed by a small-scale processor. A function unit has a bus interface connected to a bus and a data processing unit. The function unit is controlled in accordance with a processing program. The processing program is debugged in accordance with a debug program. Functioning of the data processing unit is halted. The function unit control processor suspends execution of the processing program to assert a debug signal when the processing program satisfies a predetermined condition. The halting unit halts functioning of the data processing unit without halting the bus interface in the function unit when the debug signal becomes asserted. The debugging processor acquires a status of the data processing unit when the debugging processor detecting that the debug signal is asserted.

Abstract: A switching power supply device may include a switching element for switching an input direct-current power, a smoothing section for smoothing and then outputting the direct-current power switched by the switching element, a square wave generating section for generating a square wave with a constant duty cycle to control switching by the switching element, and a control section for watching an output voltage of the smoothing section to control a period of generating the square wave generated by the square wave generating section so that the output voltage may be organized within a certain range.

Abstract: An image transmission apparatus for processing hierarchically encoded image information includes an accounting unit for performing accounting processing in correspondence with the resolution of the image information.

Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery boiler in which an exhaust gas discharged from a gas turbine into a boiler duct to recover a heat of the exhaust gas and ammonia is injected to and mixed with the exhaust gas to reduce nitrogen oxide contained in the exhaust gas, the exhaust heat recovery boiler comprising: a boiler duct of a horizontal installation type having an inner hollow portion along which an exhaust gas flows from an upstream side to a downstream side; a superheater; an evaporator; a denitration reactor; and an economizer, which are disposed inside the boiler duct in this order from the upstream side to the downstream side of the exhaust gas flow therein. A drum is disposed outside the boiler duct and connected to the evaporator and a downcomer pipe extending from the drum into the boiler duct.

Abstract: There is disclosed an image transmission system for transmitting MPEG data through a transmission path, capable of setting frames for the MPEG data to be transmitted, according to the traffic in the transmission path, and effecting an accounting process with a charge system corresponding to thus set frames.

Abstract: A combined cycle power generation plant includes a gas turbine plant, a steam turbine plant operatively connected to the gas turbine plant, an exhaust gas heat recovery boiler for generating steam for driving the steam turbine plant by an exhaust gas of the gas turbine plant, an evaporator unit accommodated in the exhaust gas heat recovery boiler, the evaporator unit being divided into a first evaporator and a second evaporator, and a superheater provided for at least one of an intermediate portion between the first evaporator and the second evaporator and a portion on a downstream side of the second evaporator.

Abstract: There is provided a network system and its associated devices and techniques which allow a terminal device to utilize functions of another terminal device without the need to provide any dedicated interface or system switch. A server 12 receives a service request from a first terminal device 13 or a second terminal device 16 while the first and second terminal devices 13 and 16 are in voice communication with each other. Upon receipt of the service request, the server 12 searches position information on the second terminal device 16 from an identifier contained in the service request to specify a processor 18 located in the neighborhood of the second terminal device 16 on the basis of the position information. Then the server 12 establishes a new connection (communication lines 2B and 2C) for image communication. Thus the image data is transferred from the first terminal device 13 to a reception device 17 through the communication lines 2B and 2C, and displayed on a large screen of the processor 18.

Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery boiler in which an exhaust gas discharged from a gas turbine into a boiler duct to recover a heat of the exhaust gas and ammonia is injected to and mixed with the exhaust gas to reduce nitrogen oxide contained in the exhaust gas, the exhaust heat recovery boiler comprising: a boiler duct of a horizontal installation type having an inner hollow portion along which an exhaust gas flows from an upstream side to a downstream side; a superheater; an evaporator; a denitration reactor; and an economizer, which are disposed inside the boiler duct in this order from the upstream side to the downstream side of the exhaust gas flow therein. A drum is disposed outside the boiler duct and connected to the evaporator and a downcomer pipe extending from the drum into the boiler duct.

Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery boiler in which an exhaust gas discharged from a gas turbine into a boiler duct to recover a heat of the exhaust gas and ammonia is injected to and mixed with the exhaust gas to reduce nitrogen oxide contained in the exhaust gas, the exhaust heat recovery boiler comprising: a boiler duct of a horizontal installation type having an inner hollow portion along which an exhaust gas flows from an upstream side to a downstream side; a superheater; an evaporator; a denitration reactor; and an economizer, which are disposed inside the boiler duct in this order from the upstream side to the downstream side of the exhaust gas flow therein. A drum is disposed outside the boiler duct and connected to the evaporator and a downcomer pipe extending from the drum into the boiler duct.