Abstract:
An optical recording medium having a plural number of recording layers includes a n-th recording layer (23) (n≧1), made up by a substrate (20) and a semi-reflective layer (21) carried by the substrate (20) and adapted for partially reflecting and partially transmitting the incident light, a (n+1)th recording layer (28), made up by another substrate (25) and a reflecting layer (26) carried by the substrate (25) and adapted for reflecting the incident light, and a light condensing layer (24) for condensing the light incident via the n-th recording layer (23) on the (n+1)th recording layer (28).
Abstract:
A frame interpolation device includes: a unit dividing two temporally different reference frames of moving image signal into block units; a unit detecting motion vectors in block units in accordance with correlation between blocks of the reference frames; a unit obtaining at least first and second motion vectors from the statistical amount of the motion vectors; a unit estimating the first or second motion vector for each block in accordance with the obtained first and second motion vectors; a unit translating the first and second motion vectors through a generated pixel in an interpolated frame between the reference frames, setting local areas at four points of the start and end points of the first and second motion vectors as search areas, and identifying the first or second motion vector from the search areas; and a unit performing motion compensation on the pixel by using the first or second motion vector.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method which takes into consideration the real world where data was acquired, and enables obtaining of processing results which are more accurate and more precise as to phenomena in the real world. A data continuity detecting unit detects the continuity of data of second signals, having second dimensions that are fewer than first dimensions had by first signals which are real world signals and are projected whereby a part of the continuity of the real world signals is lost, wherein the continuity to be detected corresponds to the continuity of the real world signals that has been lost. An actual world estimating unit estimates a real world image by estimating the continuity of the real world image that has been lost, based on the continuity of the data detected by the data continuity detecting unit.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a signal processing system, a signal processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program in which high frequency components of a narrow-range signal having suppressed high frequency components can be restored with high accuracy. A narrow-range audio signal having low frequency components is divided into frames by a frame-unit dividing unit 11, and is spectral-transformed into a signal on a frequency domain by a DCT transform unit 12. A learning-produced-data table 14 extracts, at an address corresponding to a class code supplied from a classifying unit 13, high-frequency-component DCT spectrum data. In a spectrum combining unit 16, the extracted high-frequency-component DCT spectrum data is combined with low-frequency-component DCT spectrum data output from the DCT transform unit 12. Subsequently, a broad-range audio signal having combined high frequency components and low frequency components is output. The present invention can be applied to cellular phones.
Abstract:
In a television set, image quality is adjusted in accordance with parameters calculated on the basis of adjustment values used in the past, depending on a feature of an image and an environmental status. A weight calculator determines a weight depending on the manner in which a user performs a volume control operation. A cumulative weight memory outputs a cumulative weight corresponding to the feature value. Output volume values used in past are stored in a volume value generator. The volume value generator calculates output volume values corresponding to a feature value on the basis of parameters indicating final adjustment values, the feature value, the weight, and the cumulative weight. The calculated volume values are stored in the volume value generator. Under the control of a system controller, the volume values stored in the volume value generator are output to a coefficient generator.
Abstract:
An information-processing apparatus is provided. For example, an information-processing apparatus has a noise-reduction-processing unit configured to reduce noise included in a received informational signal, an adjustment unit configured to allow a user to adjust a value of a noise reduction level in the noise-reduction-processing unit, a noise-amount-detecting unit configured to detect an amount of the noise contained in the received informational signal, and a storage control unit configured to control at least any one of an amount of noise that is detected by the noise-amount-detecting unit and paired data relative to data on a value of the noise reduction level that is adjusted by the adjustment unit and data on an amount of noise that is detected by the noise-amount-detecting unit at the adjustment by the adjustment unit.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an image processing device that can reproduce a state in which, using a first display device, an image is displayed on a second display device having a characteristic different from that of the first display device, an image processing method, and a program. A motion detecting unit 100 detects motion of an image from an input image signal. A sub-field developing unit 200 develops the input image signal over sub-fields. A light-intensity integrating unit 300 calculates, in a simulated manner, the light intensity integrated on the retinas of a person at the time the person sees the input image signal, from the direction of the motion of the image and a light emitting pattern of the sub-fields, and displays the image with the calculated light intensity on the first display device. The present invention is applicable to the case where, for example, using an LCD, a state in which an image is displayed on a PDP having a characteristic different from that of the LCD is reproduced.
Abstract:
A remote control device includes a polyhedral housing, an operation section provided on each of a plurality of surfaces of the housing, a main operation surface determination signal generation section for generating a determination signal for setting one of the surfaces in a predetermined direction as a main operation surface irrespective of an orientation of the housing, a transmission section for transmitting a remote control signal, and a control section for setting the main operation surface on the basis of the determination signal, generating a remote control signal for a control function assigned to the operation section provided on the main operation surface in response to an operation of the operation section, and causing the transmission section to transmit the remote control signal.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus which allows high-quality contents to be easily obtained. A WWW browser section 81 sends search request information which includes a keyword for web pages, input by the user, to an evaluation and search server 7. A search section 92 of the evaluation and search server 7 receives the search request information through a transmitting and receiving control section 91, and searches a WWW data base 96 for web pages corresponding to the reported keyword. The search section 92 reports the URLs, access information, of web pages obtained as a search result, to an evaluation section 95 to request the calculation of an evaluation value for each web page. The search section 92 generates search result information including evaluation from the access information of the web pages obtained as a search result and the evaluation value for each web page, reported by the evaluation section 95, and sends it to the WWW browser section 81 through the transmitting and receiving control section 91.
Abstract:
An information presenting device includes: a first image generating unit configured to extract, from video data input by way of an input unit, a portion of the video data, and generate multiple main images; a second image generating unit configured to generate multiple sub-images from information correlated to the video data; and an image output unit configured to generate a display image, wherein the plurality of main images are placed in time sequence, and each of the plurality of sub-images are displayed in time sequence corresponding to the main images.