Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that receives image data in response to a photographic subject, a face detection unit that detects a human face from the received image data, a photometry unit that performs a photometry of the detected human face, an exposure control unit that calculates a target exposure amount in accordance with a photometry result to calculate an exposure control value, and an exposure correction control unit that determines an exposure in response to the target exposure amount, wherein an exposure correction unit performs an exposure correction by using an exposure target determined by the exposure correction control unit, as an area smaller than a domain of the human face detected by the face detection unit is set to the photometry area.

Abstract: Printed surface 202b and 204b in black color are formed on a second plate 2 and a fourth plate 4. The printed surface 202b covers almost the entire surface of the second plate 2 except for an area smaller than a diameter of a through-portion 71 of a third plate 3. A predetermined amount of reagent is applied to the part. The fourth plate 4 is configured in a similar manner to the second plate 2. The printed surfaces allows measurement with transmitted light blocked in the smallest diameter during measurement. This prevents inaccurate measurement due to position misalignment.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a plurality of antennas; a pre-processing unit that, according to an instruction from a higher-level layer, performs processing on each zone generated by time-division of a transmission frame and generates a transmitting signal; and post-processing units that transmit the transmitting signal generated corresponding to each zone via one or more of the antennas. Each post-processing unit includes transmission of a preamble via each of the antennas. Thus, each post-processing unit transmits the preamble in a format that enables a receiving side to correctly determine AGC power control amount.

Abstract: A communication device performing communications by an OFDMA system. The communication device includes a zone-boosting-amount calculating unit that obtains a segment number calculated in a synchronization process, obtains a sub-channel corresponding to the segment number by referring to a predetermined relationship between sub-channels and segment numbers, and calculates an amount of zone boosting based on an average power of a preamble and an average power of pilot sub-carriers included in the sub-channel. A demodulating unit estimates a transmission path after correcting a power value of a received signal based on calculated amount of zone boosting, and performs demodulation.

Abstract: When video data is reproduced by a recording/reproduction unit, an output unit outputs occurrence information on an object, which is not included in the video data being output by the output unit but is included the video data recorded on a recording medium, to a display unit. While the video data is being reproduced from the recording medium by the recording/reproduction unit, an instruction specifying a predetermined object condition including a non-reproduction object is input based on the occurrence information and the reproduction operation is performed by extracting video data satisfying the object condition.

Abstract: A hybrid video camera with a built-in hard drive and optical disk drive plus removable media read/write unit is disclosed. The video camera has a face detection function, which is used to split a video stream of a scene shot at the position of a frame containing no human face images, thereby realizing automatic scene-split dubbing without impairing the scene continuity. With this feature, it is possible, when watching a home video movie, to avoid sudden stop of playback of the scene otherwise occurring due to improper splitting of the scene at its run-on part during dubbing by letting the scene be dividedly recorded on a plurality of disks.

Abstract: A camera capable of compensating for facial field of a person to a proper brightness, and maintaining the luminance scale of the background, comprising an imaging portion for generating the picture data of the person; a gamma compensator for performing gamma compensation for the picture data; a facial field detecting portion for detecting a facial field from the picture data; a photometric portion for exposure metering value of the facial field detected by the facial field detecting portion; an exposure controlling portion for calculating a target exposure amount in response to the output of the photometric portion and controlling exposure depending on the target exposure amount; and a gamma compensation controlling portion for determining a luminance scale characteristic in accordance with the target exposure amount, wherein the gamma compensating portion is controlled on the basis of the luminance scale characteristic determined by the gamma compensation controlling portion.

Abstract: To provide a body fluid sampling method and its device capable of sampling a minimum necessary amount of blood without loss while reducing a burden on a subject to the minimum. The skin surface of a sampling site is made water repellent. A skin surface thus made water repellent is pierced. A body fluid held in a droplet shape on the pierced skin surface is then collected.

Abstract: A photographing apparatuses, enabling to keep dynamic resolution, as well as, to obtain an image being wide in dynamic range, with using a plural number of cameras therein, and further enabling to photograph a further wider range, comprises: a plural number of photographing devices overlapping photographing regions thereof with each other; a brightness distribution detecting portion for detecting brightness levels of image signals, which are photographed by means of the plural number of photographing devices; an area determining portion for determining an area where the brightness level detected by the brightness distribution detecting portion is appropriate, among photographing regions overlapping with each other, in relation with the image signals photographed by the plural number of photographing devices; and a synthesizing portion for synthesizing the image signals photographed by the plural number of photographing devices, with using the image signal of the area, the brightness level of which is determin

Abstract: A video recording/reproducing apparatus having an HDD to a mobile device using removable media such as a BD. Data can be removed and stored by copying and moving data recorded on the HDD onto these removable media or in the direction opposite thereto. When vibrations occurs on a recording medium inserted into the HDD, DVD drive, and BD drive due to foreign elements, a copy or movement of data tends to fail. To solve the problem, provided is an apparatus or method including a portable power source, a recording unit for recording information on a removable medium and a built-in medium, a dubbing unit for copying or moving data therebetween, and a detector for detecting acceleration, wherein when the acceleration detected by the detector has a predetermined value, the dubbing unit operates between the recording media.

Abstract: The present invention provides a scheduling method in which a communication apparatus belonging to an OFDMA-based wireless communication system communicates data with a plurality of users by preferentially allocating a data sequence to a default subchannel segment that is different from other-cell allocation subchannel segment that is preferentially used for data communication by adjacent communication terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a recording/reproduction apparatus capable of securing a backup area for management information on a recording medium without affecting the capacity of a user data area. Before a hard disk drive or a disc medium (recording medium) is finalized, metadata is recorded in a metadata area and when the hard disk drive or the disc medium are finalized, a user data area portion corresponding to the volume of metadata required for the finalizing is set as a metadata mirror area and then the metadata recorded in the metadata area is copied to the metadata mirror area.

Abstract: In a recording apparatus for a file system conforming to UDF 2.6, performance is improved when a MetaData file (MD) representing management information and its MetaDataMirror file (MDM) are recorded. The MDM file is not recorded before finalization is executed and when finalizing, a copy of the latest MD file is recorded as the MDM file.

Abstract: Based on interference electric power attributed to a delayed wave, interference electric power attributed to a signal from another non-targeted terminal or a base station, and noise electric power, in order to obtain an index for further exactly representing the signal quality, the combination of a desired-signal/undesired-signal ratio 1 (referred to as DUR1) that is a power ratio of a signal component to an interference component either from another terminal of a serving cell or from a terminal or a base station, etc. of neighborhood cells and a noise component, and a desired-signal/undesired-signal ratio 2 (referred to as DUR2) that is a power ratio of a signal component to an inter-symbol interference component and an inter-carrier interference component attributed to the delayed wave is included in the index of the signal quality.

Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a portable power source; a recording unit for recording information in a loadable/unloadable recording medium or the built-in recording medium; a dubbing unit for copying and transferring data between the loadable/unloadable recording medium and the built-in recording medium; and a detecting unit for detecting the amount of the remaining energy in the portable power source, wherein the dubbing process between the loadable/unloadable recording medium and the built-in recording medium is allowed when the detecting unit indicates that there is a predetermined amount of energy remaining in the portable power source.

Abstract: Related arts have failed to realize a data recording/reproducing apparatus having the ability to, while video-audio data is being recorded in a first recording medium, notify a user of the number of second recording media to which the recorded video-audio data is equivalent. For breaking through the situation, a data recording/reproducing apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a module which monitors an amount of video-audio data recorded in a first recording medium, and a module which displays an equivalent of the amount of recorded video-audio data in terms of the capacity of a second recording medium.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image correcting apparatus capable of performing zoom processing or mask processing on an image output from an imaging device, such as an image display device or an image monitoring/recording device, or on a reproduced image from an image recorder, in such a way as to adjust the exposure or luminance of the zoomed portion or the unmasked portion of the image to an optimum level and thereby allow display of a clear image. An image correcting apparatus of the present invention comprises: image input/output interfaces; zoom processing means for zooming an area of an input image; luminance histogram processing means for creating a luminance histogram of the zoomed area or an unmasked area of the image; and exposure correction processing means for adjusting the exposure or luminance of the zoomed area or the unmasked area to an appropriate level based on the luminance histogram created by the luminance histogram processing means.

Abstract: A photographing apparatuses, enabling to keep dynamic resolution, as well as, to obtain an image being wide in dynamic range, with using a plural number of cameras therein, and further enabling to photograph a further wider range, comprises: a plural number of photographing devices overlapping photographing regions thereof with each other; a brightness distribution detecting portion for detecting brightness levels of image signals, which are photographed by means of the plural number of photographing devices; an area determining portion for determining an area where the brightness level detected by the brightness distribution detecting portion is appropriate, among photographing regions overlapping with each other, in relation with the image signals photographed by the plural number of photographing devices; and a synthesizing portion for synthesizing the image signals photographed by the plural number of photographing devices, with using the image signal of the area, the brightness level of which is determin

Abstract: An image recorder is provided which assures recording even if its primary recorder is inoperable. The recorder includes an image compression processor to compress input images, a buffer to buffer the compressed image data, a first recorder to record the image data, and a second recorder for recording the image data if the first recorder is inoperable. The second recorder typically operates with a recording rate different from that of the first data recorder.

Abstract: In an imaging apparatus having two imaging devices, a converter module which synthesizes the two signals of each horizontal line produced from the two imaging devices to thereby convert the two signals into a single composite signal, a line memory which cooperates with the converter module to convert the signals, a line delay module which accumulates the output signals from the converter module, a line memory which cooperates with the line delay module to accumulate the signals, an exposure controller, an auto focus controller, a white balance controller, a color signal processor module, a luminance signal processor module, and an arithmetic processor module for stereo imaging process, the output signals from the plurality of imaging devices are converted to the single composite signal and processed on a one-channel processing basis.