Abstract: A reception device configured to receive a signal of a transmitted bit string transmitted from a transmission device which transmits a bit string includes: a receiving unit arranged to receive a signal from the transmission device and output a received bit string corresponding to the transmitted bit string; a storing unit arranged to store an error rate table wherein said received bit string is correlated with an error rate of post-data which is data of one bit or greater received following the received bit string being in error; and an error correcting unit arranged to perform error correcting of the post-data of the received bit string.

Abstract: A target-pixel-setting section (31) sets a target pixel in a target image to be predicted. A motion-direction-detecting section (32) detects a motion direction corresponding to the target pixel. A pixel-value-extracting section (36) extracts from peripheral images corresponding to the target image, in order to extract a main term that mainly contains component of the target pixel in a moving object that encounters a motion blur in the peripheral images, at least pixel values of pixels in the peripheral images whose space position roughly agree with space position of the target pixel. A processing-coefficient-setting section (37a) sets a specific motion-blur-removing-processing coefficient.

Abstract: Encoded data that is obtained by embedding subdata in advertisement information and embedding the subdata-embedded advertisement information in main data is provided to a user. At the user side, the encoded data is decoded to reproduce the main data and the subdata-embedded advertisement information, and the subdata-embedded advertisement information is decoded to reproduce the advertisement information and the subdata embedded therein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to image processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program for providing reliable tracking of a tracking point. When a right eye 502 of a human face 504 serving as a tracking point is tracked in a frame n?1 and when a tracking point 501 appears as in a frame n, the tracking point 501 continues to be tracked. When, as in a frame n+1, the right eye 502 serving as the tracking point 501 disappears due to the rotation of the face 504 of an object to be tracked, the tracking point is transferred to a left eye 503, which is a different point of the face 504 serving as the object including the right eye 502. The present invention is applicable to a security camera system.

Abstract: A method of obtaining directivity in an optical waveguide includes the steps of falling incident light on surface of diffuse reflection members arranged at a center portion of the optical waveguide, generating a first table relative to an amount of emitted light that is acquired at a circumference of the optical waveguide by controlling at least one of an image control factor for changing an image of the incident light and a coordinate control factor for changing coordinates of the incident light with them being changed, and generating a second table relative to a pattern of the light which is incident to the diffuse reflection member by seeking for a combination of the image and the coordinates of the light based on the generated first table.

Abstract: An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program where the device includes an image data continuity detector configured to detect continuity of image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by real world light signals being cast upon a plurality of detecting elements, and a real world estimating unit configured to estimate real world light signals by approximating image data with discontinuous functions.

Abstract: An optical selector switch contains an optical waveguide that includes a first optical waveguide portion having a first light-transmissivity, a second optical waveguide portion having a second light-transmissivity, reflecting members that reflect light, and a light-dividing device that reflects and transmits light; at least one light-emitting unit that emits the light toward the first optical waveguide portion of the optical waveguide; and at least one light-receiving unit that receives the light which is incident to the first optical waveguide portion of the optical waveguide from the light-emitting unit, based on a directivity due to an angle of the incident light to the first optical waveguide portion of the optical waveguide, wherein the incident light to the first optical waveguide portion is emitted radially toward the circumference of the second optical waveguide portion of the optical waveguide.

Abstract: Value-added information is generated by collecting information relating to apparatuses from a plurality of users, and service is automatically and adaptively provided in a manner that satisfies each user's own preference. Since a second electronic apparatus of a given user is controlled based on control information of a second electronic apparatus of another user to which first electronic apparatus information of the user is similar, electronic apparatus control service is performed in a manner adaptively matching preference of the user without complex signal processing such as user preference analysis. The electronic apparatus of the user is controlled based electronic apparatus information of the similar user with whom the user shares activity information such as transfer and purchases of apparatuses in common, electronic apparatus control service is performed in a manner adaptively matching preference of the user without complex signal processing such as user preference analysis.

Abstract: A shaking apparatus for shaking a seat where a user sits down, including actuators, wherein the seat is supported by supporting parts at least at a front side, a rear left side and a right side, or a rear side, a front left side and a right side. The seat is inclined left or right by complementarily operating the actuators mounted to the left and right supporting parts to complementarily vary the distance from a floor of the left and right supporting parts, and the seat is inclined forward or backward by equally operating the actuators mounted to the left and right supporting parts to equally vary the distance of the left and right supporting parts from the floor.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A broad-range feature extraction unit extracts broad-range features from pixels located in a predetermined area in relation to a subject pixel of a first image. A broad-range degree-of-artificiality calculator calculates, in a multidimensional space represented by the broad-range features, the broad-range degree of artificiality from the positional relationship of the broad-range features to a statistical distribution range of an artificial image of the first image. A narrow-range feature extraction unit extracts narrow-range features from pixels located in the predetermined area in relation to the subject pixel of the first image. A narrow-range degree-of-artificiality calculator calculates, in a multidimensional space represented by the narrow-range features, the narrow-range degree of artificiality from the positional relationship of the narrow-range features to a statistical distribution range of the artificial image.

Abstract: A display device for a composite image display apparatus includes: a self-state acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating a mounting position of a self device in the composite image display apparatus and a mounting state of the self device; an other-device's-state acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating a mounting position of each of other display devices in the composite image display apparatus and a state of each of the other display devices; and a display controlling unit configured to control display of an image to be displayed on a display section of the self device, on the basis of the information acquired by each of the self-state acquiring unit and the other-device's-state acquiring unit.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section configured to approximate one of color matching functions representing sensitivity of the human eye to color by a spectral sensitivity that is obtained as a difference in output between, from among mutually adjacent photoelectric conversion elements, the photoelectric conversion elements arranged at predetermined positions, the imaging section having the photoelectric conversion elements arranged at the predetermined positions; and a signal processing section configured to apply to an output of the imaging section signal processing for converting an output of a photoelectric conversion element into a signal of a color image.

Abstract: A transmission device configured to transmit a transmission bit string which is an arrangement of a unit bit string of multiple N bits includes: a conversion unit configured to convert the unit bit string into a converted bit string in accordance with a conversion table obtained by obtaining an error rate wherein a k'th bit out of the N bits is in error; obtaining an error expectancy which is an expectancy that a significant bit of the N bits in the unit bit string will err; and creating a conversion table that correlates the unit bit string and a converted bit string obtained by converting the insignificant bit of the unit bit string to a smallest error expectancy bit pattern which is a bit pattern that minimizes the error expectancy of the multiple bit patterns; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the converted bit string.

Abstract: A display apparatus that displays an image includes: an image converting unit converting a photographed image signal, which is an image signal from a photographing unit that photographs an object, into a high-quality image signal of an image higher in quality than an image corresponding to the photographed image signal according to an arithmetic operation between the photographed image signal and a tap coefficient obtained by learning performed in advance; and a display control unit causing a display to display the image corresponding to the high-quality image signal in a display format determined by learning performed using an image higher in quality than the image corresponding to the high-quality image signal.

Abstract: A luminance signal Ya and a color-difference signal Ua/Va constituting an input image signal is transferred to a frame memory (first memory) in the unit of line synchronously with its horizontal synchronous signal and written therein. A memory TG211 reads out a read-out request RRQ. The cycle of this request RRQ is a time computed based on a single vertical effective period of an output image signal Sc and the number of lines objective for rate conversion of an input image signal Sa. The luminance signal Ya and color-difference signal Ua/Va are transferred in the unit of line from the frame memory to rate conversion units (second memory) through buffers. There occurs no deflection in this transfer cycle and in each transfer cycle, the stable data transmission band can be secured.

Abstract: A communication system for providing data corresponding to a request from a user and charging the user for the data provided, when the user designates a result of a desired operation A usage management unit selects a processor, corresponding to the user's designation, which effect operations corresponding to a plurality of different algorithms, respectively. When the processor corresponding to the designation is selected, an algorithm processor makes an operation corresponding to the designation. A management center charges the user for the use of the algorithm.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a plurality of data recording areas is provided. The semiconductor device includes an input port that receives basic information; an additive data recording area on which additive data serving as information additive to the basic information is recorded; a processing unit which encodes the basic information based on the basic information and the additive data; and a calculation data recording area on which calculation data encoded by the processing unit is recorded such that the calculation data encoded by the processing unit is at a quality level higher than that of the basic information. The processing unit controls the additive data recording area in response to classifying the received basic information on the basis of a class classification adaptive processes.

Abstract: A rear projection type image display apparatus having a larger half-power angle and being capable of properly blocking a direct light from a projector for an observer is provided. The rear projection type image display apparatus includes a projector and a transmission type screen installed at an image formation plane of a projection light and made of a texture. The screen made of the texture is a diffusing material having a large half-power angle except for the direct light, and can prevent a gain from being decreased even at an angle of 60 degrees or larger. Also, a first polarizing plate is arranged in front of an exit pupil of the projector, and a second polarizing plate is arranged near a rear surface of the transmission type screen. Polarization axes of these polarizing plates are configured to be substantially orthogonal to each other, to eliminate the direct light.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication device, communication method, and program that realizes a collaboration wherein multiple facilities nearby having similar objectives work together, enabling prosperity of an entire community. Two facilities i1 and i2 and a control center exist in the community, wherein a communication device 11 is installed in the facility i1, a communication device 12 in the facility i2, and a control device 13 in the control center, respectively. The communication devices 11 and 12 have sensor means to sense and output a physical amount such as light. For example, the communication device 11 senses the physical amount by the sensor means thereof, and outputs for sending to another communication device 12.

Abstract: A signal processing system with multiple electronic apparatus. A controller checks and determines whether or not the electronic apparatus are electrically connected and are compliant for performing a cooperative signal processing. For example, when a TV signal processor is not connected to another apparatus, a signal processing circuit performs normal signal processing. When the TV signal processor is connected to another compliant apparatus, the TV signal processor cooperates with the compliant electronic apparatus as if they were a single apparatus and performs optimal processing of an input signal. In an ID table stored in the controller, processing information concerning processing tasks to be shared with the compliant electronic apparatus is associated with the function ID of the compliant electronic apparatus.