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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a device to have provision for the case that a commercial program is desired to be viewed for a required number of times, e.g. once or for the case that only a prescribed genre of a commercial program is desired to be viewed. SOLUTION: A commercial program detection section 12 detects whether or not a television signal being an RF signal received from an antenna 2 at present is a commercial program. A write data processing circuit 9 generates commercial information attended with a commercial program detected by the commercial program detection section 12. A recording system control circuit 10 records the commercial information generated by a write data processing circuit 9 on a recording medium 11 with a video and an audio signal.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video camera device provided with a liquid crystal display monitor capable of detecting whether or not the liquid crystal display monitor is connected to a video camera main body and controlling automatically a power supply state of the liquid crystal display monitor. SOLUTION: This video camera device provided with a liquid crystal display monitor in which the liquid crystal display monitor 2 capable of monitoring a photographed image or a reproduced image by the video camera is attached detachably to a video camera main body 1, and the liquid crystal display monitor 2 monitors a video image with the video camera main body 1 while being separated from the video camera main body 1 in terms of an infrared ray signal is provided with connection detecting terminals 38c, 23c and 38d, 23d detecting the presence of connection of a connector jack 38 and a connector plug 23 connecting the video camera main body 1 and the liquid crystal display monitor 2 so as to control on/off the power supply of the liquid crystal display monitor 2 with a signal from a control circuit 53 in response to the removal state of the liquid crystal display monitor 2.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storage reproducer, a storage device, a reproducer, and a storage reproduction method for suppressing degradation of image quality in reproducing thinned-out frames. SOLUTION: A thinned-out frame detection part 2 detects a frame which can easily be interpolated when reproduced among frames of input animation data and a thinning-out processing part 3 thins out (deletes) the frame. Afterwards, an encoding part 5 encodes the animation data where the frame has been thinned out and a storage part 6 multiplies information about thinned-out data and the animation data to store them to a storage medium 20. In reproducing the animation data thinned out and stored, a thinning-out information reproduction part 7 reproduces information about the thinned-out frame, a decoding part 8 decodes frames which are not thinned out, and then a frame interpolation processing part 9 interpolates the thinned-out frame. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a signal recording/reproducing device and method, etc., of which the hardware configuration is simplified and also occurrence of underflow/overflow of a storage means can be suppressed. SOLUTION: The device is equipped with an integrated buffer memory 22 making an assignment of storage areas for a recording system and reproducing system to be variable, and a system controller 5 for controlling the assignment process of the storage areas of the integrated buffer memory 22 in accordance with a recording system mode or reproducing system mode desired by the user through a recording control signal input section 3 or a reproducing control signal input section 4. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correct discontinuous pixels caused around a border of blocks subjected to motion compensation. SOLUTION: A border correction section 6 converts pixels Pb to Pg laterally consecutively placed into pixels Pb' to Pg'. Specifically, the border correction section 6 calculates a difference Δ between the pixels Pd and Pe with the border of a block inbetween as an evaluation value of border correction and converts the pixels Pb to Pg into the pixels Pb' to Pg' by subtracting/adding a value multiplying the difference Δ with a prescribed coefficient getting smaller depending on a distance from the border from/to the pixels Pb to Pg when the evaluation (difference Δ) for the border correction is a prescribed threshold or over. For example, pixel Pb'=Pc-Δ×(1/2)×(2/3)×(2/3)×(2/3), Pc'=Pc-Δ×(1/2)×(2/3)×(2/3), and Pd'=Pd-Δ×(1/2)×(2/3). COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus that can discriminate whether a pixel of a field image belongs to a stationary part or a moving part with high accuracy. SOLUTION: A motion detection confirmation section 38 determines an evaluation value of a pixel of a motion detection object on the basis of an inter-frame difference received from an inter-frame difference calculation section 31 and an inter-field difference received from an inter-field difference calculation section 32. Further, the motion detection confirmation section 38 adjusts a threshold value used for motion detection on the basis of a detection result of an edge detection section 34, a discrimination result of a full image still discrimination section 35, a detection result of a repetitive pattern detection section 36, and a discrimination result of the still discrimination section 37. Moreover, the motion detection confirmation section 8 adjusts a threshold value used for motion detection on the basis of motion vector detection information received from a motion vector detection section 13. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the image quality of an image signal. SOLUTION: A noise reduction circuit 4 controls a noise reduction amount for each frequency band to suppress the noise reduction in a frequency band characteristic to a coded noise in the noise reduction processing before compression coding, and a noise reduction circuit 49 controls the noise reduction amount for each frequency band to enhance the noise reduction in a frequency band characteristic to the coded noise in the noise reduction processing after expansion decoding.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image recording and reproducing device that can select a sufficiently long scene and generate thumbnail pictures corresponding to the scene. SOLUTION: A system controller uniformly divides an entire display time of a title 1 into four and extracts long scenes by each divided time. For example, the system controller extracts scenes 12, 14 for a time T11. The system controller decides a scene considered to be proper to generate thumbnail pictures on the basis of the length of the extracted scenes and a feature point for the thumbnail pictures detected from a feature point detector. Furthermore, the system controller selects the thumbnail group consisting of the thumbnail pictures from the decided scene.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a signal processor and signal processing method that properly detects a noise level even from a video signal that is composited with video signals from two different video signal sources or over. SOLUTION: The signal processor has a noise level detection circuit 210 that detects a noise level of an input video signal and a nonlinear processing circuit 203 that applies nonlinear processing to the input video signal. The noise level detection circuit 210 controls detection of the noise level on the basis of a scene change signal 211 of the input video signal and controls the strength of the nonlinear processing in the nonlinear processing circuit 201 on the basis of the result of detection of the noise level.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To arbitrary set recording and reproducing start positions by holding the recording and the reproducing start position information on a record medium and independently conducting the start of recording and reproducing processes based on the information. SOLUTION: A video and audio signal recording and reproducing device 10 is provided with a recording system buffer 15B. The recording process, in which recording buffer output data D15 read from a recording system buffer 15A of a recording system are recorded in an optical disk, and the reproducing process, in which the data recorded in the disk are read as reproduced data D25 and stored in a reproducing system buffer 15B, are processed in parallel and in a time division manner. Thus, the process, in which input video signals VD10 and input audio signals AU10 continuously inputted to the recording system are recorded in the disk, and the process, in which reproducing video signals VD100 and reproducing audio signals AU100 are continuously reproduced and outputted from the reproducing system, are simultaneously conducted.