Abstract: A target object detection apparatus (20) includes an acquisition unit (210), a likelihood information generation unit (220), and a determination unit (230). The acquisition unit (210) acquires an IF signal from an irradiation apparatus (10) at a plurality of timings. The likelihood information generation unit (220) executes, by processing the IF signal, processing of generating, with respect to each of a plurality of IF signals, likelihood information for a region (hereinafter, referred to as a target object region) having a possibility in that an accompaniment, i.e., a target object is present. The likelihood information indicates a distribution of presence probabilities of a target object in at least a height direction in a target object region. Then, the determination unit (230) determines a presence or absence of a target object, by using likelihood information generated for each of a plurality of target object regions.

Abstract: It is intended to make it possible to make a favorable display of, for example, images of low frame-rate content, with a high-luminance and high-contrast television set. On the basis of an image stream having a first frame rate, for each frame, an object having luminance exceeding a luminance threshold value and/or a motion amount exceeding a motion-amount threshold value is detected as a target object. An image stream having a second frame rate larger than the first frame rate is acquired by inserting, between every pair of two consecutive frames in the image stream having the first frame rate, a predetermined number of frames of interpolated images obtained by performing motion compensation for causing the target object to sequentially move.

Abstract: A wireless detonation system (1) includes a blasting operation device (40), a detonator (10), and a relay device (30). The blasting operation device (40) is disposed at a distance from a blasting face (71) and wirelessly transmits a first downstream signal at a first frequency. The detonator (10) is loaded in a blast hole (72) in the blasting face (71), and has a receiving coil (12) for wirelessly receiving a second downstream signal at a second frequency lower than the first frequency. A relay device (30) includes a first transmitting-receiving antenna (35) that wirelessly receives the first downstream signal, a relay processor (32) that wirelessly receives the first downstream signal and processes it into the second downstream signal to be wirelessly transmitted at the second frequency, and a second transmitting-receiving antenna (37) that transmits the second downstream signal.

Abstract: The present technology makes it easy to present an image having appropriate image quality at a receiver side that receives high-frame-rate moving image data. A video stream obtained by encoding moving image data having a high frame rate is generated. A container containing the video stream is transmitted. Blur control information for controlling blur is inserted into a layer of the container and/or a layer of the video stream. The blur control information gives, for example, weighting coefficients for individual frames in a blurring process for adding image data of neighboring frames to image data of a current frame.

Abstract: It is intended to make it possible to make a favorable display of, for example, images of low frame-rate content, with a high-luminance and high-contrast television set. On the basis of an image stream having a first frame rate, for each frame, an object having luminance exceeding a luminance threshold value and/or a motion amount exceeding a motion-amount threshold value is detected as a target object. An image stream having a second frame rate larger than the first frame rate is acquired by inserting, between every pair of two consecutive frames in the image stream having the first frame rate, a predetermined number of frames of interpolated images obtained by performing motion compensation for causing the target object to sequentially move.

Abstract: Provided is a device and a method in which an HDR image of which a setting luminance is higher than the highest allowable luminance of a display unit, can be displayed as a bright image in a bright audiovisual environment. An adjusted luminance for output is calculated by multiplying an output luminance calculated according to an input/output transfer function corresponding to an input HDR image, and a predetermined gain, together, and thus, a display image is generated. An image signal processing unit sets a reference point P to be in a position based on the highest allowable luminance of a display unit, and calculates the adjusted luminance for output by applying a gain function of setting a gain, based on the reference point P, to an input/output transfer function according to the input HDR image, and thus, generates the display image.

Abstract: The present technology makes it easy to present an image having appropriate image quality at a receiver side that receives high-frame-rate moving image data. A video stream obtained by encoding moving image data having a high frame rate is generated. A container containing the video stream is transmitted. Blur control information for controlling blur is inserted into a layer of the container and/or a layer of the video stream. The blur control information gives, for example, weighting coefficients for individual frames in a blurring process for adding image data of neighboring frames to image data of a current frame.

Abstract: Provided is a device and a method in which an HDR image of which a setting luminance is higher than the highest allowable luminance of a display unit, can be displayed as a bright image in a bright audiovisual environment. An adjusted luminance for output is calculated by multiplying an output luminance calculated according to an input/output transfer function corresponding to an input HDR image, and a predetermined gain, together, and thus, a display image is generated. An image signal processing unit sets a reference point P to be in a position based on the highest allowable luminance of a display unit, and calculates the adjusted luminance for output by applying a gain function of setting a gain, based on the reference point P, to an input/output transfer function according to the input HDR image, and thus, generates the display image.

Abstract: An image processing device for displaying an image in high quality on color image display using fixed pixels. The image processing device causes a display device making pixels of R, G and B arranged inside each of a plurality of areas on a screen emit light to display a designated color in unit areas. A signal generation circuit determines a pixel of which an arrangement position is not matched with a reference position of the unit area used for reference by a first pixel signal as a target to be interpolated among pixels of R, G and B, generates a second pixel signal which uses the arrangement position of the pixel to be interpolated as a reference on the basis of the first pixel signal.

Abstract: In a valve structure according to the present invention, a suction valve is formed with a suction valve main body, and an opposing part that is integrally formed on a suction valve main body, and faces a suction hole and a valve seat at the opening edge of the suction hole so as to be able to open and close the suction hole, and clearance forming means, which forms a predetermined clearance between the opposing part and the valve seat by isolating the opposing part from the valve seat by a predetermined distance, is formed on at least one of the valve plate and the suction valve.

Abstract: An image processing device able to display an image in high quality in a color image display using fixed pixels, which drives a display device making pixels of R, G and B arranged inside each of a plurality of areas on a screen emit light to display a designated color in unit areas, wherein a signal generation circuit determines a pixel of which an arrangement position is not matched with a reference position of the unit area used for reference by a first pixel signal as a target to be interpolated among pixels of R, G and B, generates a second pixel signal which uses the arrangement position of the pixel to be interpolated as a reference on the basis of the first pixel signal.

Abstract: A 90 percent electron gun aperture astigmatism is used in conjunction with a four-pole electromagnet to make a CRT electron beam just focus point and minimum beam width occur closer to the same focus voltage. A single grid may have the 90 percent astigmatism, or astigmatisms in two or more grids may combine to produce an effective 90 percent astigmatism. A four-pole electromagnet is positioned around the focusing grid and current driving the electromagnet is varied with beam position during normal operation.

Abstract: For controlling a displacement depending on a pressure differential between a crank chamber (9) and a suction chamber (4), a compressor is provided with a bleed passage (46) establishing communication between the crank chamber and the suction chamber and with a bleed control mechanism which fully closes the bleed passage while the compressor is stopped. The bleed control mechanism may be a suction valve (15) which controls the opening of suction holes of a valve plate (2) synchronously with a compressing operation of the compressor.

Abstract: A plurality of cylinder bores are circumferentially formed in a cylinder block around its center axis to receive a plurality of pistons, respectively. The cylinder block has one end closed by a front housing to define a crank chamber. The cylinder block has another end closed by a rear member in which a discharge chamber and a suction chamber are formed. A drive shaft penetrates the front housing and has one end supported by the cylinder block through a block-side bearing. Following a rotary motion of the drive shaft, a swash-plate element drives a reciprocating motion of the piston within the bore. A blowby gas leaking into the crank chamber is introduced into the suction chamber a gas passage through an gap inevitably left between the drive shaft and the block-side bearing back.

Abstract: A system to correct and adjust horizontal-direction pincushion and barrel distortions of scanning lines caused at upper and lower portions of a picture screen of a cathode-ray tube includes a pair of coils provided at a neck portion of the cathode-ray tube. An orbit of an electron beam made incident on a deflection center is shifted in the upper and lower directions by a magnetic field generated by the coils, thereby correcting distortion of scanning lines at upper and lower portions of a display screen of the cathode-ray tube.

Abstract: A swash plate type refrigerant compressor comprises a compressor housing enclosing therein a crank chamber, a suction chamber and a discharge chamber. A swash plate is tiltably connected to the drive shaft and has two sliding surfaces sides thereof. The swash plate includes a sliding surface which engages a plurality of pairs of shoes. The shoes couple the swash plate to the pistons so that the pistons may be driven in a reciprocating motion within the cylinder bores upon rotation of the swash plate. At least one groove is formed in the sliding contact surfaces between the swash plate and the shoes. The groove captures and retains lubricating oil in the refrigerant in response to the rotation of the swash plate.

Abstract: A piston type compressor includes a compressor housing enclosing a crank chamber, a suction chamber, and a discharge chamber therein. The compressor housing comprises a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinders. A drive shaft is rotatably supported in the cylinder block. A plate is tiltably connected to the drive shaft and is coupled to a plurality of pistons which may be driven in a reciprocating motion within the cylinders upon rotation of the drive shaft. Each of the pistons is provided with a rotation prevention mechanism which may include a first rotation prevention device formed on the center of the piston and second rotation prevention device disposed within the compressor housing, the first and second rotation prevention devices cooperating to prevent the piston from rotating about its own axis. The first and second rotation prevention devices each have at least one sliding surface formed thereon.

Abstract: In order to display a video signal having an aspect ratio of 4 to 3 on a video display screen having a 16 to 9 aspect ratio a nonlinear vertical deflection signal is used to compress the video image along the top and bottom edges of the 16 to 9 aspect ratio screen. The video image is compressed only along the top and bottom edges of the screen because it has been found that motion of the point of view of the viewer relative to the displayed image is generally horizontal but is infrequently vertical. One approach to providing the non-linear vertical deflection waveform is to detect whether the input video signal for display on a 16 to 9 aspect ratio screen is a 4 to 3 aspect ratio signal and, if so, to read out special, non-linear data from a memory. This special waveform data is used to generate the non-linear vertical deflection waveform.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveying and aligning various types of film packages recovered for recycling. A conveyer of the apparatus is constructed by a pair of parallel belts combined to form a V-shaped bearing gutter and driven in the same conveying direction. The film packages are conveyed on the conveyer and are slid downward through an inclined cylindrical tube which rotates about the longitudinal axis and has spiral ridges on the inner periphery. Thereby, the longitudinal direction of the film packages are aligned with the conveying direction. Then a posture discriminator discriminates between the upright posture and the upside-down posture of the film packages on a first conveying path, based on the position of the viewfinder. The film packages having the upright posture are caused to fall headlong from the first conveying path onto a second conveying path, so as to have the upside-down posture on the second conveying path.

Abstract: A lens-fitted photographic film unit has a film supply chamber preloaded with unexposed photographic film. A cassette-containing chamber contains a film cassette. The film after exposure is wound on a spool of the cassette. The film unit is provided with a mechanism for exposing the film in a succession of frames. An axial hole is formed in an upper end of the spool. Knurled inner teeth are formed inside the axial hole. A wind-up wheel is mounted on the film unit over the cassette-containing chamber to be externally operable for rotation. A drive shaft on the wind-up wheel protrudes into the cassette-containing chamber, and is received in the axial hole. Knurled outer teeth about the drive shaft mesh with the inner teeth on the spool. The drive shaft and spool will thus mesh with each other in any relatively rotated position thereof, which avoids loss of usable film.