Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily retrieve desired content. SOLUTION: An information processor 11 makes a display part 24 display the thumb nail of a plurality of content stored in a content storage part 26. In this case, an approximate level calculating part 22 calculates the approximate level of content selected by a user among a plurality of content with the other content. A thumb nail arranging part 23 arranges the thumb nail according to the approximate level. This invention may be applied, for example, to an information processor for performing processing to retrieve the content. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a garbage collection suited to a specified application for handling the group of data to dynamically repeat generation and extinction. SOLUTION: A memory area for storing data is divided into first memory area for storing the data group of a first kind with comparatively short lifetime and second memory area for storing the data group of a second kind with comparatively long lifetime and when newly securing a memory block for storing data, it is decided whether the relevant data belong to the data of the first kind or to the data of the second kind. As a result of this decision, the data of the first kind are stored on the first memory area and the data of the second kind are stored on the second memory area. The performance frequency of the garbage collection to the first memory area is made high and the performance frequency of the garbage collection to the second memory area is made low.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate ordering of a customized article, to allow an orderer to more accurately grasp the image of the customized article and also to simplify work, in the case a plurality of users customizing an article in cooperation. SOLUTION: A user who orders the customized merchandise uses a user PC 101a and accesses a merchandise order receipt management center 102 via the Internet 100. The user designates merchandise and also transmits image information, such as a photograph to be transferred to the merchandise to the center 102. The center 102 constructs a virtual reality space, where the image picture of the customized merchandise obtained by transferring the photograph, etc., corresponding to the image information into the designated merchandise is displayed with three-dimensional graphics and provides the user PC 101a with the image picture via the Internet 100.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To decrease flicker that may appear on a picture by determining the speed of an electronic shutter at the time of receiving light based on the averaged light intensity of preceding plural fields. CONSTITUTION:An output signal from a camera part 1 provided with a CCD solid-state image pickup device is outputted via a signal processing circuit 2. The light quantity in (n-2)th, (n-3)th, ... (n-k)th fields i.e. luminance signals from the circuit 2 are sequentially supplied to a shift register 4 and to a driving circuit 3 simultaneously. The circuit 3 integrates said light quantity, then averages them in order to determined the electronic shutter speed for the n-th field of received light.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To avoid difference in hole-absorbing amount and to prevent variances in amount of electric charge stored among various charge storing regions, by electrically connecting a channel stopping region to a forward electrode arranged on the forward light-receiving face in one image pickup region over the section where a electric charge storing region is arranged. CONSTITUTION:A P-type first region 3 which is buried and a channel stopping region LCS provide a P-type region extending vertically from the region LCS to the region 3 at an end of extension of the region LCS, for example, so that the region LCS is electrically connected to the region 3. A required positive voltage of 10V for example is applied to a basic region 2 having a first type of conductivity. In this device, if electrons produced by a certain amount of light received by the device exceed an amount of electric charge to be stored by each storing region 5 and exceeds an overflow barrier produced by the P-type first region 3, these excessive electrons are absorbed by an N-type basic region 2 while holes are absorbed by a forward electrode 9 through the channel stopping region LCS.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the transmission amount of video data while maintaining a practical apparent high image quality feeling. SOLUTION: The system has a photographing device 1, a transmission processing apparatus 3 and a reception processing apparatus 4. The transmission processing apparatus 3 is provided with a separation processing part 31 for separating the video data (original video data D0) from the photographing device 1 into the object area and non-object area of computer graphics (CG), a CG data conversion part 32 for converting the video data of the object area into CG data, and a transmission part 34 for transmitting the CG data of the object area and the video data of the non-object area to a communication line. The reception processing apparatus 4 is provided with a reception part 41, a data restoration part 42A for restoring the video data before converted by the CG data conversion part 32 from the received CG data of the object area, and a composition processing part 44 for combining the restored video data of the object area with the video data of the non-object area for each image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PURPOSE: To improve the charge transfer efficiency of a vertical transfer register and to suppress a chip size in an interline-type CCD solid-state imaging device. CONSTITUTION: An interline-type CCD solid-state imaging device is provided with a plurality of light-receiving parts 1 which are arranged in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction and with a vertical transfer register 2 which is arranged via a read gate part 7 on one side part of the light-receiving parts 1. In the interline-type CCD solid-state imaging device, the vertical transfer register 2 is composed of a channel region 4 and of a plurality of transfer electrodes 5 formed on the channel region 4 via an insulating film. The read gate part 7 is formed so as to come into contact with at least the central part of a substantial region which contributes toward the channel formation of the respective transfer electrodes 5, and the channel width of the channel region 4 which is situated inside the respective transfer electrodes and which comes into contact with the read gate part 7 is expanded sequentially in a transfer direction at one stage or so as to be divided into a plurality of stages.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain a reproducing image with uniform contrast, by constituting a device so that a prescribed voltage is impressed on a conductive type semiconductor substrate in a horizontal blanking period. CONSTITUTION:A voltage VH, for example, 30(V) is impressed on an N-type silicon substrate 4 in the horizontal blanking period, and signal charge accumulated in a signal charge accumulating area 6 is swept to the N-type silicon substrate 4. In other words, the voltage 30V is impressed on the N-type silicon substrate 4 at every horizontal blanking period until just before exposure is started after reading by a read pulse P1, and the signal charge accumulated in the signal charge accumulating area 6 is swept, and in an exposure time=t2, the signal charge is accumulated by setting the voltage at 10V to be impressed on the N-type silicon substrate 4. Thus, since the period where the voltage VH, for example, 30V is impressed on the N-type silicon substrate 4 is set in the horizontal blanking period, no influence is given on the reproducing image even when the buffer amplifier of an output part, etc., receives modulation due to the varying of the voltage impressed on the N-type silicon substrate, and the reproducing image with the uniform contrast can be obtained.
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PURPOSE:To avoid the yield of delay due to the presence of resistance in a gate electrode effectively, by forming the gate electrode of an MOS transistor at least at a final stage in an output means by using electrodes constituting a charge transfer means and at least two layers, which are selected among light screening conductor films and interconnections. CONSTITUTION:On a semiconductor substrate 1, an image sensing means, a charge transfer means 3 and an output means are provided. A lightscreening conductor film 5, in which a light receiving hole part is provided, is formed on the arranging part of the image sensing means. In this solid-state image sensing device, a gate electrode 12 of an MOS transistor at least at a final stage in the output means 4 has the following laminated structure. A lower electrode layer 12A is formed by the same process for a first transfer electrode 8 constituting the charge transfer means 3. An upper electrode layer 12B is formed by other electrodes, e.g., a second transfer electrode 9 and electrodes 13 and 14, and other conducting films such as the light-screening conductor film 5, interconnections or the like. The electrode 12 is formed by the electrode layers 12A and 12B. Then, e.g., the lower electrode layer 12A and the upper electrode layers 12B are electrically connected at both ends.
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PURPOSE:To eliminate the so-called flicker of a reproduced picture by using a same waveform of a clock pulse before the read pulse signal of a 4-phase clock pulse signal for an even order field and an odd order field. CONSTITUTION:The clock pulse signal waveform before read pulse signals POA, POC of 4-phase clock pulse signals phiOA-phiODis made the same for an even number order field and an odd number order field. Even if a part of a signal electric charge remains in the electronic charge storage region 6 of a photoelectric conversion section 3, the depth of potential of the electric charge storage area 6 of the photoelectric conversion section 3 is made coincident for the even number field read and the odd number field read, and since the signal charge remaining in the charge storage region 6 at read is the same for the enven number field read and the odd number field read, no flicker is caused in the reproduced picture.