Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories

About: Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories is a company organization based out in Taipei, Taiwan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Image processing. The organization has 38708 authors who have published 63864 publications receiving 865637 citations.

Active-matrix display device and method of driving the same

Abstract: In an active-matrix display device and a method for driving the active-matrix display device, a fifth transistor is connected between a power line and a drain terminal of a first transistor so that a power-supply voltage, namely the fixed voltage required for the compensation of the threshold voltage, is supplied by the power line via a fifth transistor and not by a signal line Thus, a sufficient length of time for the threshold voltage compensation period can be maintained, and a second transistor of each pixel can accurately be compensated for threshold voltage irregularities

Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus

Abstract: A background image can be separated from an object image in accordance with a mixture state. A region identification block (103) identifies at a first time, an uncovered background region where a foreground object component and a background object component are mixed, identifies at a second time, a foreground region composed of only foreground object components and background region composed of only background object components, and identifies at a third time, a covered background region where the foreground object component and the background object component are mixed. A mixture ratio calculation block (104) detects a mixture ratio indicating a mixture ratio of the foreground object component and the background object component. A foreground and background separation block (105) separates the pixel data into a foreground object component and a background object component. The present invention can be applied to an image processing apparatus.

Electronic apparatus, charging control method, charging system, and data transmission system

Abstract: Even in a state in which the remaining capacity of a battery decreases, an apparatus operation is appropriately executed while charging efficiency of the battery is maintained. A processing unit 103 has a first operation mode in which an operation is enabled using only external power from a feeding device 120 and a second operation mode in which the operation is enabled by feeding from a battery 102 in addition to the external power from the feeding device 120 . When the remaining capacity of the battery 102 is sufficient, the processing unit 103 executes an apparatus operation in the second operation mode. However, when the remaining capacity of the battery 102 decreases, the processing unit 103 changes an operation mode to the first operation mode and executes charging of the battery 102 while continuously executing the apparatus operation.

Organic electroluminescent device

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device of the type which comprises an organic layer having a luminescent region, characterized in that the organic layer contains a distyryl compound represented by the following general formula (1):provided that, in the general formula (1), R1, R2, R3 and R4 may be groups which are the same or different and, respectively, represent a phenyl group or an aryl group of the following general formula (2):provided that, in the general formula (2), R13, R14, R15, R16 and R17, respectively, represent a hydrogen atom provided that at least one of them is a saturated or unsaturated alkoxyl group or an alkyl group, and at least one of R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and R12 represents a cyano group, a nitro group or a halogen atom.