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An encoding / decoding device corrects errors by concatenated codes of an ECC code and a parity code to prevent an increase in the circuit scale and to improve error correction performance. The device has encoders for creating a concatenation type encoded data by interleaving a data string into a plurality of blocks at every m (m≧2) bit, adding a parity of an error correcting code and adding a parity bit at every predetermined number of bits for preventing an increase in the circuit scale even if the data string is interleaved into a plurality of blocks, and a parity of error correcting code is generated. Also ECC decoding circuits for correcting an ECC decoded data string using the likeliness of a soft output decoder and parity check result are provided, so a deterioration of correction performance can also be prevented.

An encoding / decoding device corrects errors by concatenated codes of an ECC code and a parity code to prevent an increase in the circuit scale and to improve error correction performance. The device has encoders for creating a concatenation type encoded data by interleaving a data string into a plurality of blocks at every m (m≧2) bit, adding a parity of an error correcting code and adding a parity bit at every predetermined number of bits for preventing an increase in the circuit scale even if the data string is interleaved into a plurality of blocks, and a parity of error correcting code is generated. Also ECC decoding circuits for correcting an ECC decoded data string using the likeliness of a soft output decoder and parity check result are provided, so a deterioration of correction performance can also be prevented.

An image processing apparatus is disclosed which carries out correction processing of an image signal made up of a plurality of bits. The apparatus includes: a correction processing unit configured to perform gamma correction of an input image signal; and a fine control processing unit configured to establish as desired a plurality of types of correction data in accordance with a plurality of fixed gray-scale levels of the input signal in order to fine-control a transmittance characteristic, known as a V-T curve, regarding an applied voltage by performing computations on the input image signal gamma-corrected by the correction processing unit using the established correction data.

An analog / digital converter has a charge circuit that has a charge capacitor storing an electric charge commensurate with an input current, and first and second discharge circuits that discharge the electric charge stored in the charge capacitor. While the charge capacitor is charged for a predetermined charge period, every time a predetermined amount of electric charge is stored in the charge capacitor, the electric charge stored there is discharged by the first discharge circuit. After the charge period, the electric charge remaining in the charge capacitor is discharged by the second discharge circuit. Based on the number of discharges performed by the first discharge circuit and the discharge duration of the second discharge circuit, a digital value of the voltage commensurate with the amount of electric charge with which the charge capacitor has been charged is outputted. This offers a wider input dynamic range combined with an enhanced minimum resolution without requiring complicated external control, and in addition allows measurement to be performed in less time.

Disclosed is a canceller device comprising a subcanceller for compensating the sampling phase shift of a plurality of analog-to-digital convert circuits for receiving a common input analog signal, converting the analog signal into digital signals responsive to respective sampling clock signals with different phases to each other, and for outputting the digital signals, a main canceller for canceling echo / cross-talk from the signal output from analog-to-digital convert circuits whose the sampling phase shifts have been compensated, and a compensation range selection circuit for determining the range of the sampling phase shift for being compensated by the subcanceller based on the tap coefficients of the main canceller.

A semiconductor device is provided in which function modes thereof can be changed without difficulty and failure analysis can be conducted in an apparatus in which the semiconductor device is mounted. A semiconductor device uses a ball grid array package and includes: a semiconductor chip that is provided within the semiconductor device and has a pad; a detection via hole connected to the pad; a solder ball that is attachable to and detachable from the detection via hole and connects or disconnects a power supply electrode of a substrate on which the semiconductor device is mounted and the detection via hole in correspondence to attachment or detachment of the solder ball to or from detection via hole, respectively; and a mode switching unit that detects a voltage level of the pad connected to the detection via hole and switches function modes in the semiconductor device depending on the voltage level.

The radiation imaging apparatus includes: a correction data acquiring unit configured to acquire, from image data captured in a predetermined imaging mode, offset correction data corresponding to the predetermined imaging mode; a switching unit configured to switch an acquisition mode for acquiring the image data, depending on the predetermined imaging mode; and an image processing unit configured to subtract the offset correction data from a radiation image of an object to perform an offset correction process.

A switching power supply apparatus, including a power converting device body configured to switch DC input power through a first switching element to thereby store the DC input power in an inductor, and to transfer the stored power to an output capacitor through a second switching element by use of resonance of the inductor, a control circuit configured to drive the first and second switching elements to alternately turn ON or OFF the two switching elements, to thereby resonate the inductor, and an overload detecting circuit configured to detect a load state of the power converting device body based on a peak value or an effective value of a resonance voltage generated from the resonance of the inductor, to thereby control operation of the control circuit.

The subject of the invention is a plasma treatment apparatus and light detection method capable of detecting multiple optical signals obtained from multiple measurement locations and capable of analyzing condition of each of the measurement locations using an apparatus having the advantage of having a more simplified structure. Interference light L1 passes through optical fiber 222 and is transmitted to spectroscopic component 230. Plasma light L2 passes through optical fiber 224 and is transmitted to spectroscopic component 230. These lights separately undergo respective spectroscopic separation. Interference light spectrum L1g obtained by spectroscopic separation of interference light L1 passes through first light path 226 and strikes an interference light photoreception region of photoelectric conversion component 240. Plasma light spectrum L2g obtained by spectroscopic separation of plasma light L2 passes through second light path 228 and strikes a plasma light photoreception region of photoelectric conversion component 240.

An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor including a pixel region including a plurality of pixel units, arranged in a matrix, each having first and second photoelectric conversion units, and a storage unit provided for each column; and a driving unit configured to drive the image sensor by, for each pixel unit to be read of the plurality of pixel units, exclusively selecting an operation of combining a signal of the first photoelectric conversion unit and a signal of the second photoelectric conversion unit for each pixel unit and outputting the combined signal to the storage unit, an operation of reading a signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit of each pixel unit to the storage unit, or an operation of reading a signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit of each pixel unit to the storage unit.

A moving image signal is coded so that a coded stream is generated. Coded pictures are periodically eliminated from the coded moving image signal so that another coded stream associated with another moving image signal having a frame rate different from the coded moving image signal is generated.

An analog / digital converter has a charge circuit that has a charge capacitor storing an electric charge commensurate with an input current, and first and second discharge circuits that discharge the electric charge stored in the charge capacitor. While the charge capacitor is charged for a predetermined charge period, every time a predetermined amount of electric charge is stored in the charge capacitor, the electric charge stored there is discharged by the first discharge circuit. After the charge period, the electric charge remaining in the charge capacitor is discharged by the second discharge circuit. Based on the number of discharges performed by the first discharge circuit and the discharge duration of the second discharge circuit, a digital value of the voltage commensurate with the amount of electric charge with which the charge capacitor has been charged is outputted. This offers a wider input dynamic range combined with an enhanced minimum resolution without requiring complicated external control, and in addition allows measurement to be performed in less time.

Among a plurality of radio base stations, to a radio base station whose transmission delay time between a base station control device and its own station will be the longest, down data from the base station control device is transmitted to have a buffering time of zero, while to the other radio base stations, data is transmitted with a buffering time corresponding to the degree of relative shortness of a transmission delay time applied, and the buffering time is modified by monitoring a change of a difference in delay time of up data from the radio base station.

Disclosed is a canceller device comprising a subcanceller for compensating the sampling phase shift of a plurality of analog-to-digital convert circuits for receiving a common input analog signal, converting the analog signal into digital signals responsive to respective sampling clock signals with different phases to each other, and for outputting the digital signals, a main canceller for canceling echo / cross-talk from the signal output from analog-to-digital convert circuits whose the sampling phase shifts have been compensated, and a compensation range selection circuit for determining the range of the sampling phase shift for being compensated by the subcanceller based on the tap coefficients of the main canceller.

A computation device according to the present invention includes: a first data storage unit that stores operation target data; an operation processing unit that executes an operation by using data; a data permutation unit that selects indicated data among the operation target data stored in the first data storage unit and data operated by the operation processing unit, provides predetermined delay for data received a delay indication among the indicated data based on a parameter, does not delay data not received a delay indication, executes permutation of indicated data based on a parameter, and outputs data operated in the operation processing unit and operation result data of the operation processing unit; and second data storage unit that stores the operation result data output by the data permutation unit.

An image processing apparatus is disclosed which carries out correction processing of an image signal made up of a plurality of bits. The apparatus includes: a correction processing unit configured to perform gamma correction of an input image signal; and a fine control processing unit configured to establish as desired a plurality of types of correction data in accordance with a plurality of fixed gray-scale levels of the input signal in order to fine-control a transmittance characteristic, known as a V-T curve, regarding an applied voltage by performing computations on the input image signal gamma-corrected by the correction processing unit using the established correction data.

Information processors operate independently of each other. Memories are associated with the information processors, respectively, and connected to address and data lines of the information processors, for storing boot programs for the respective information processors. A selector assigns, in an address space as viewed from each of the information processors, the memory associated with another one of the information processors to an address represented by the sum of the address of the memory associated with the information processor and a predetermined offset, and outputs a resultant address produced by subtracting the offset from a specified address to the address and data lines of the other information processor when the memory associated with the other information processor is accessed.

An image coding apparatus includes a coding unit 100 for generating a code A, a coding unit 110 for generating a code B, an image reproduction unit 200, an image reproduction memory 204, and a motion vector detection unit 300. The motion vector detection unit 300 detects a motion vector using an image in the image reproduction memory 204, whereby the coding unit 100 generates the code A, while the image reproduction unit 200 reconstructs an image on the basis of output from the coding unit 100 and stores the image in the image reproduction memory 204. In the operation for generating the code B, the coding unit 110 is employed as a coding unit for generating the code B, while commonly employing the image reproduction memory 204, the motion vector detection unit 300, and the image reproduction unit 200 as employed in the generation operation for code A.

An LCD device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a receiver, which receives color image data by frame in series, a generator generating gray image data, which are displayable at the liquid crystal display panel, a selector inserting the gray image data as a frame image between two frames of the color image data, which are next to each other on time base and an accelerator increasing a frame rate by which the color and gray image data are transmitted.

In a noise canceller device, interference signal adjustment units adjust delay, phase and amplitude of a signal received by a sub antenna under different conditions to obtain adjustment signals, and subtract the adjustment signals from a signal received by a main antenna to obtain differential signals. An average power calculation unit calculates an average power for each of the differential signals. An optimal condition search unit determines the values of delay, phase and amplitude that result in the minimum average power, and sets the values in an optimal interference signal adjustment unit. The optimal interference signal adjustment unit adjusts the signal received by the sub antenna using optimal values for delay, phase and amplitude to obtain an optimal adjustment signal. A cancellation unit subtracts the optimal adjustment signal from the signal received by the main antenna to remove interference signals, and outputs a desired signal to a host device.

Disclosed are an image processing device, a printing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program capable of making processing common among printing modes to simplify an entire image processing flow in image processing based on a plurality of printing modes with different definition. An image processing unit 14 includes an image size adjustment unit 20 which adjusts the size of an input image, and a halftone processing unit 24 which performs halftone processing on the input image size-adjusted by the image size adjustment unit 20 to generate a halftone image. The image size adjustment unit 20 adjusts the input image to the same size in two or more printing modes among a plurality of printing modes with different definition, and the input image of the same size is subjected to halftone processing in the halftone processing unit 24.

A detection circuit (physical quantity detection circuit) includes a ΔΣ modulator (A / D converter) that digitizes a detection signal corresponding to a physical quantity and outputs detection data, an arithmetic operating portion that includes at least one of adders and a multiplier, a main sequence counter (counter) that counts the number of clocks of a clock signal and initializes a count value periodically, and a control circuit (control portion) that causes the arithmetic operating portion to perform a plurality of arithmetic operation processes, having types different from each other, for generating arithmetic operation data according to a magnitude of the physical quantity on the basis of the detection data, in accordance with the count value.

A switching power supply apparatus, including a power converting device body configured to switch DC input power through a first switching element to thereby store the DC input power in an inductor, and to transfer the stored power to an output capacitor through a second switching element by use of resonance of the inductor, a control circuit configured to drive the first and second switching elements to alternately turn ON or OFF the two switching elements, to thereby resonate the inductor, and an overload detecting circuit configured to detect a load state of the power converting device body based on a peak value or an effective value of a resonance voltage generated from the resonance of the inductor, to thereby control operation of the control circuit.

A data transmission system is made up from: a transmission circuit (100) for generating and transmitting a data sequence in which the abundance ratio of each value for each prescribed data length is fixed, and a reception circuit (101) for, based on the abundance ratio of each value of a data sequence transmitted from the transmission circuit (100), correcting the offset voltage of a signal detection circuit (3) that detects values of the data sequence.

A calculator performs in parallel gamma correction calculations on gray level values 1 to Z depending on each of target nozzles for each of target pixels containing gray level values other than zero of pixels in image data to be printed by a multi-drop inkjet head including nozzles and having a maximum droplet number Z per pixel, the nozzles of the multi-drop inkjet head including the target nozzles for ink ejection on the respective target pixels. A selector selects a calculation result corresponding to a gray level value of the target pixel from calculation results of the gamma correction calculations performed on the gray level values 1 to Z by the calculator, for each of the target pixels.

The video processing circuit includes a boundary detection unit that detects a specific boundary, which is a part of a boundary of a first pixel for which an applied voltage designated by the video signal is less than a first voltage, and a second pixel for which the applied voltage is more than a second voltage larger than the first voltage, the specific boundary being determined by tilt azimuth of the liquid crystal, and a replacement unit that replaces an applied voltage to a liquid crystal element corresponding to the first pixel with a predetermined voltage from the applied voltage designated by the input video signal when the applied voltage designated by the video signal is less than a third voltage smaller than the first voltage with respect to the first pixel adjacent to the specific boundary.

An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor including a pixel region including a plurality of pixel units, arranged in a matrix, each having first and second photoelectric conversion units, and a storage unit provided for each column; and a driving unit configured to drive the image sensor by, for each pixel unit to be read of the plurality of pixel units, exclusively selecting an operation of combining a signal of the first photoelectric conversion unit and a signal of the second photoelectric conversion unit for each pixel unit and outputting the combined signal to the storage unit, an operation of reading a signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit of each pixel unit to the storage unit, or an operation of reading a signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit of each pixel unit to the storage unit.