Abstract:
In an attachment stage 20 of an adapter device 10, a fastening unit 221 fastened to a main body device is provided on an attachment surface 21 in advance. A connector 55 is provided on a housing 50. Further, the adapter device 10 is provided with a movement direction conversion unit configured to convert a movement in an operation direction of an operation lever 41 into an insertion and detachment direction of the connector, and move forward and backward the housing 50 in the insertion and detachment direction of the connector 55 with respect to the attachment stage 20 in accordance with the operation force. In the movement direction conversion unit, a first link mechanism converts the movement in the operation direction of the operation lever 41 into a movement in a surface direction of the attachment surface 21 of a hook unit 321f, and a second link mechanism converts the movement in the surface direction of the hook unit 321f into the movement in the insertion and detachment direction of the connector of the housing 50 with respect to the attachment stage 20. The hook unit 221f of the fastening unit 221 is fastened to the main body device and the operation lever 41 is operated, so that the insertion and detachment operation of the connector can be performed in a stable manner.
Abstract:
In order to facilitate the correct insertion of an ink sheet into a reloadable cassette, an indicium of the same kind is placed upon a spool upon which the ink sheet is wound, the package in which it is provided, and the cassette into which it is to be loaded. As described, the spooled sheet is provided in a package together with a commensurate amount of paper to be printed upon, with both the end of the spool and the exterior of the package bearing the same colour code. The cassette (Fig 3) not only bears a coloured patch 34 commensurate with the spool and package, but also bears a machine readable code (28 to 30) having the same information content. Where a number of different kinds of ink-sheet are available, the colour coding assists in ensuring that the spools are loaded into a cassette bearing the correct encodements (28 to 30).
Abstract:
A mounting base (20) of an adapter device (10) is provided with an engaging part (221) which engages a main body device on an attachment surface (21) in advance. A connector (55) is provided in a housing (50). Furthermore the adapter device (10) is provided with a movement direction conversion part which converts the direction of operation of an operating lever (41) to the insertion and removal direction for the connector and makes the housing (50) move back and forth according to an operating force in the direction of insertion and removal of the connector (55) with respect to the mounting base (20). The movement direction conversion part converts the movement of the operating direction of the operating lever (41) into movement in the direction of the plane of an attachment surface (21) on a hook part (321f) with a first link mechanism and the movement in the direction of the plane of the hook part (321f) into movement in the direction of connector insertion and removal for the housing (50) with respect to the mounting base (20) with a second link mechanism. The connector insertion and removal operations can be carried out stably by engaging a hook part (221f) of the engaging part (221) to the main body device and operating the operating lever (41).
Abstract:
In a paper feed and eject control apparatus for a printer, a printing paper sheet is automatically fed by a paper feed roller through a paper feed guide and is ejected by a paper eject roller through a paper eject guide, both the rollers being driven by a single roller drive motor at predetermined timing. Since the paper feed and eject passages are arranged separately, the paper feed operation will not be disturbed by the paper sheet being ejected, thus realizing a high speed printing operation. Further, the paper feed roller is securely located at the stand-by position without use of an additional control sensor.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time for reading/writing image data from/to internal memory, and to image high-quality images at high speed. SOLUTION: Imaged image data is compressed in units of blocks which is composed of a specified number of adjacent pixels that have the same color component, and then stored in memory. Subsequently, the compressed image data is enlarged, and image quality correction is performed thereto. When the image data is compressed, a plurality of block types with two different quantization target areas are defined, and a dynamic range added value in an area of each block type is compared. In addition, a block type that has the smallest added value is selected, and data is quantized for every area in the block type corresponding to the dynamic range. Thereby, the most optimum block type is selected depending on the image state in the block so that image quality degradation due to quantization is controlled to the minimum, and quantization processing is executed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging device, an image processor, an image processing method, a program for the image processing method, and a recording medium where the program for the image processing method is recorded, wherein color noise included in RAW data can be removed by effectively preventing deterioration in picture quality in, for example, a digital camera. SOLUTION: According to the present invention, noise is removed by converting pixel values of respective target pixels to pixel values for noise removal based upon reference pixel values such that the respective target pixels have the same color signal component, and then the converted pixel values are converted to the original pixel values. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image pickup device which can change a color correction amount corresponding to photographing states and video to be photographed without affecting colors except a correction target when color correction is executed to a specific color. SOLUTION: The image pickup device is provided with a photographing mode selecting means; a color convergence parameter storage means in which a color convergence parameter value including position data for showing the position of a prescribed color on the color difference plane, correction area setting data for setting a prescribed area having the position of the prescribed color to be the central point as a correction area, and a convergence coefficient data for converging the specific color corresponding to the correction area to the position showing the prescribed color is stored; a color convergence parameter setting means for selecting a color convergence parameter value of the corresponding specific color from in the color convergence parameter storage means on the basis of the photographing mode information selected with the photographing mode selecting means and for setting it; and a color convergence correction processing means for correcting the specific color in the video signals to the prescribed color by the correction amount calculated on the basis of the color convergence parameter value set with the color convergence parameter setting means. As a result, only the specific color can be accurately corrected by setting a circular or an elliptical area, in which the position (a coordinate) of the prescribed color (a storage color or the like) on the color difference plane is made as the central point, as the correction area. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time for recording an image and a memory capacity required for compression processing. SOLUTION: A byte counter 302 calculates a number of bytes after compression according to an integration value of high frequency integration data supplied from a high frequency integration processor. A Q scale calculator 303 calculates a Q scale based on the calculated number of bytes for enabling an image data to be compressed to a predetermined data size by a single operation. A Q table creator 304 creates a Q table according to the Q scale. A DCT unit 321 performs discrete cosine transform to the input image data. A quantization processor 322 adjusts the compression ratio of the image data according to the latest Q table supplied from the Q table creator 304. A variable length coding processor 323 encodes the image data using a variable length code such as the Huffman code, and outputs the data as the compressed image data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To arbitrarily set the degree of signal processing in an ε-filter. SOLUTION: Level values a to h of peripheral picture elements of figure 1, a level value o of a target picture element, and a value of a reference level θare inputted, and level values a to h of peripheral picture elements with absolute values of differences to the level value of the target picture element smaller than the value of the reference level θ are outputted to output ports 3. A value of the number of output ports 3 outputted with the level values a to h is outputted to an output port 4. The level value o of the target picture element is supplied to a multiplier 9 and it is multiplied with a random gain set value α, the multiplied value is supplied to an adder 5 and it is added with the level values a to h from the output ports 3 of a selecting circuit 2, and the added value is supplied to an analog divider 7. The gain set value αis supplied to an adder 11 and it is added with a value from the output port 4 of the selecting circuit 2, and the added value is supplied to the analog divider 7. The value from the adder 5 is divided by the value from the adder 11, and a value of its calculation result is fetched into an output port 8.