baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2008509774-A (JP)
Title: ２次元超音波トランスデューサアレイ
IPC: H01L21/60
Filed: 2005-08-15
Abstract: 超音波トランスデューサ（１００）は、集積回路（５２）、及び集積回路にフリップチップバンプ（７６、７８）を介して結合された音響素子（９２、９４、９６）のアレイを有する。フリップチップバンプは１：１より大きいアスペクト比を有する高アスペクト比バンプを有する。アスペクト比はバンプ高さ（８２）のバンプ幅（８４）に対する比から成る。
Patent JP-2008511653-A (JP)
Title: 芳香族ジカルボン酸の最適化製造
IPC: C07C51/487
Filed: 2005-08-29
Abstract: 芳香族ジカルボン酸（例えばテレフタル酸）を一層効率よく製造するための、最適化された方法及び装置が開示されている。一つの態様に於いて、この方法／装置は、最初の酸化スラリーの液相中に存在する残留テレフタル酸を回収し、そして精製することによって、コストを低下させる。別の態様に於いて、この方法装置は、水素化されていない酸粒子を含有する最終コンポジット製品を形成させることによって、水素化に付随するコストを低下させる。
Patent JP-2008512101-A (JP)
Title: インターカレート型擬似ヌクレオチド（ｉｐｎ）を含有するインターカレーティング核酸（ｔｎａ）を含む増幅ブロッカー
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 2005-09-09
Abstract: 核酸増幅をブロックする、あるいは低下させることが可能な２つ以上の内部インターカレート型擬似ヌクレオチド（ＩＰＮ）を含有するインターカレーティング核酸（ＩＮＡ）を含む増幅ブロッカー。核酸増幅をブロックする、あるいは低下させるための増幅ブロッカーの使用。
Patent JP-2008512995-A (JP)
Title: 抗ｏｘ４０ｌ抗体
IPC: C12N5/10
Filed: 2005-09-16
Abstract: 本発明は、抗ＯＸ４０Ｌ抗体、特にヒト起源に由来するＦｃ部分を含有しそして補体因子Ｃ１ｑに結合しない抗ＯＸ４０Ｌ抗体およびその変異体に関する。これらの抗体は、炎症性疾患に罹っている患者に有益な新規で発明的な性質を有する。
Patent JP-2008513672-A (JP)
Title: 内燃機関用ターボチャージャ装置
IPC: F02B37/02
Filed: 2004-09-22
Abstract: 本発明は、内燃機関の燃焼室からの排気ガスを排気するための少なくとも２つの排気ラインと前記燃焼室に空気を供給するための少なくとも１つの吸気ラインとを備える多シリンダ内燃機関用のターボチャージャ装置（１８）に関する。このターボチャージャ装置は、少なくとも１つの圧縮機（１９）と協働して内燃機関の排気流からエネルギーを抽出し内燃機関の吸気を加圧する少なくとも１つのタービン（１７）を備え、このタービンには、ウォーム状のハウジングが設けられ、このハウジングは、ハウジング内のタング（３５）により画定され静翼（３４）を介して互いに分離された排気流を少なくとも一つのタービンホイール（１７，２３）に導く少なくとも２つの流路（１５，１６）を備える。分離された排気流の運動エネルギーを維持するために、各対応するガイドタング（３５）が、該タングに向かって延びた静翼（３７）と直面している。 【選択図】図４
Patent JP-2008516221-A (JP)
Title: ガス検知システム
IPC: G01N21/77
Filed: 2005-10-07
Abstract: 本発明は、モニタリングされている雰囲気中のガス（標的ガス）と反応することができる材料（１２、１４）を有する基材（１０）を備え、この反応により、材料は、放射を吸収又は放射するその場所で放射を変化させる（色変化材料）、比色式ガス検知器を提供する。材料は、基材の少なくとも１つの離散領域（１２、１４）に設置される。離散領域に色変化材料を供給することにより、このような材料の量を低減させることができ、異なる種類の色変化材料を、共通の基材上に含ませ、２種又はそれ以上のガスを同時に検知することができる。
Patent JP-2008520292-A (JP)
Title: 使い捨て吸入器
IPC: A24D1/22
Filed: 2005-11-09
Abstract: 本発明の吸入器は、タバコまたは炭素を含む他の物質の代わりに燃焼体（３）の金属要素が燃焼するので，紙巻煙草と同じように機能するが発ガン性物質や一酸化炭素の形成はない。こうして加熱された空気は覚醒剤または活性成分を蒸発させるために使用される。燃焼金属は生理的金属であるマグネシウム及び鉄または成分ナトリウム，カリウム，カルシウム，亜鉛，及び燐を含む前記金属の合金である。本発明の使い捨て吸入器は覚醒剤（ニコチン）または医療用活性成分の投与に使用される。 【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2008520240-A (JP)
IPC: A61K35/12
Filed: 2005-11-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for evaluating a pancreas as a source of therapeutically useful islets. A scoring system is set forth whereby 5 criteria are listed. If three criteria are positive, then the pancreas is a suitable source of therapeutically useful islets.
Patent JP-2008523436-A (JP)
Title: 回転可能な双安定ディスプレイ
IPC: G02F1/16753
Filed: 2005-12-01
Abstract: システムは、ループを形成する回転可能なシート（SH）を有する。回転可能なシートは、第1の光アドレス処理が可能な双安定ディスプレイを形成する第1の区画（SH1）、および第2の光アドレス処理が可能な双安定ディスプレイを形成する第2の区画（SH2）を有し、前記第1の区画および前記第2の区画は、電気的に分離されている。回転ユニット（SP1、SP2、M1）は、前記シート（SH）を回転させ、第1の位置（P1）では、前記第1の区画（SH1）は視認できるが、前記第2の区画（SH2）は視認できず、第2の位置（P2）では、前記第2の区画（SH2）は視認できるが、前記第1の区画（SH1）は視認できない。変化ユニット（VG1、VG2、AD、CO）は、前記第2の位置（P2）のときには、前記第2の区画（SH2）に第2の画像を表示させたまま、前記第1の区画（SH1）の第1の画像を変化させ、前記第1の位置（P1）のときには、前記第1の区画（SH1）に前記第1の画像を表示させたまま、前記第2の区画（SH2）の前記第2の画像を変化させる。
Patent JP-2008524814-A (JP)
IPC: H01H33/66
Filed: 2005-12-14
Abstract: A vacuum switch chamber has first and second contact pieces (11;12) for switching an electric current flowing through the vacuum chamber. To remove heat arising from the electric current in the vacuum chamber, at least one heat tube (1) is provided.
Patent JP-2008525830-A (JP)
IPC: G03B35/18
Filed: 2005-12-22
Abstract: A method of computing a hologram by determining the wavefronts at the approximate observer eye (OE) position that would be generated by a real version of an object to be reconstructed. In normal computer generated holograms, one determines the wavefronts needed to reconstruct an object; this is not done directly in the present invention. Instead, one determines the wavefronts at an observer window (OW) that would be generated by a real object located at the same position of the reconstructed object (3D-S). One can then back-transform these wavefronts to the hologram to determine how the hologram needs to be encoded to generate these wavefronts. A suitably encoded hologram (HA) can then generate a reconstruction of the three-dimensional scene (3D-S) that can be observed by placing one's eyes at the plane (OP) of the observer window (OW) and looking through the observer window (OW).
Patent JP-2008531358-A (JP)
Title: 車両ホイールサスペンションに用いられるリンク、特にトランスバースリンク
IPC: B60G7/00
Filed: 2006-02-03
Abstract: 自動車ホイールサスペンションに用いられるリンク、特にトランスバースリンクであって、少なくとも２つの縦長の中空体構成部材と、中空体に位置固定されているほぼプレート状の少なくとも１つの結合エレメントとから成っている形式のものが提案される。当該リンクの場合、本発明によれば中空体構成部材（１，２）が、結合エレメントの一方の端部領域（７）を収容するための、構成部材長手方向軸線で延びている少なくとも１つの開口（４）を有していて、結合エレメント（３）の端部領域（７）が、中空体構成部材（１，２）の内室に押し込まれている。
Patent JP-2009162620-A (JP)
Title: Inspection apparatus and its method
Inventor: MOMOI YOSHIHARU
IPC: G01B11/00
Filed: 2008-01-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inspection apparatus for inspecting three-dimensional relative positional deviation and component precision of each component of a three-dimensional image reproduction device.  <P>SOLUTION: The inspection apparatus includes: a signal generation device 22 for displaying test patterns on the three-dimensional image reproduction device 100 including a liquid crystal display 101 on which a plurality of pixels are arranged two-dimensionally and a pinhole array 109; a lens 14 for transmitting light from an inspection position on images displaying the test patterns; an imaging lens 16; a camera 20; and an analyzing device 13 for analyzing the three-dimensional relative position of the pinhole array 109 and the liquid crystal display 101 at the inspection position based on a cycle and a position of brightness distribution of images imaged with the camera 20 and a distance from the lens 14 to the liquid crystal display 101.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008199880-A (JP)
Title: Actuator unit and drive method thereof, drive for information recording/reading head, and information recording/reading apparatus
Inventor: TANIMURA YASUTAKA
IPC: H02N2/00
Filed: 2008-01-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an actuator unit having a friction drive type actuator, capable of ensuring both precision and high speed, and to provide a drive for an information recording/reading head, an information recording/reading apparatus, and a method of driving the actuator unit.  <P>SOLUTION: After the friction drive type actuator is driven resonantly for high-speed movement, the convergence of residual vibration is awaited, or the residual vibration is forcedly converged. Then, the friction drive type actuator is expanded and contracted with precision for precise positioning, thus the actuator unit is provided which has the friction drive type actuator, capable of ensuring both the precision and high speed, the drive for an information recording/reading head, the information recording/reading apparatus, and the method of driving the actuator unit.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009162007-A (JP)
Title: Gate locking/unlocking device
Inventor: AOKI TAKAYORI
IPC: E05B49/00
Filed: 2008-01-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gate locking/unlocking device capable of locking and unlocking a gate by detecting the number of persons located in a control zone even if a person who enters a room does not carry a tag.  <P>SOLUTION: This gate locking/unlocking device comprises a locking control means, a characteristic storage means capable of storing voice characteristic data indicating the characteristics of the voices of the persons who enter and exit a room, a voice input means for accepting the voices of the persons who enter and exit the room, a characteristic acquiring means for acquiring the voice characteristic data from the voice signal converted by the voice input means, an entry display means for displaying the entry, an entry control means for storing the voice characteristic data on the persons who enter and exit the room in the characteristic storage means and unlocking an entry/exit gate, and an exit control means for (1) retrieving the voice characteristic data obtained by the characteristic acquiring means when the persons who enters and exit the room exit the room, and when (2) the identical entry voice characteristic data is found, deleting the data from the characteristic storage means and (3) when the entry voice characteristic data is absent, locking the entry/exit gate.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009161342-A (JP)
Title: Conveying element and conveying device
Inventor: UMEZAWA KAZUHISA
IPC: B65H5/02
Filed: 2008-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conveying element and a conveying device capable of correctly according a movement amount of a first rotary shaft with a movement amount of an conveyance object.  <P>SOLUTION: The conveying element 1 comprises an elastic conveying member 4 which is wound about at least the first rotary shaft 2 and a second rotary shaft 3 and is endlessly rotated by driving of the first rotary shaft 2, and is characterized by a transmission means 5 transmitting the driving of the first rotary shaft 2 to the second rotary shaft 3 so that the first rotary shaft 2 and the second rotary shaft 3 are synchronized with each other.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009165070-A (JP)
Title: Ad hoc network communication system, method therefor, and communication terminal
Inventor: SATO HIROTATSU
IPC: H04W74/08
Filed: 2008-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce terminal resources and communication resources of an ad hoc network system.  <P>SOLUTION: The ad hoc network communication system and a method therefor introduces a communication terminal with high priority as a management and integration terminal. If an entry application to a communication group from another communication terminal satisfies entry conditions, the management and integration terminal permits entry of the communication terminal to the communication group as a management object. If the communication terminal is not detected, it is placed under group management of a network as an object out of management.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009168895-A (JP)
Title: Faraday rotator
Inventor: HOSOKAWA TADATOSHI
IPC: G02B27/28
Filed: 2008-01-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily adjust a Faraday rotating angle.  <P>SOLUTION: A hollow magnet 16 is disposed in a reverse porality direction to columnar magnets 12, 20 between a first magneto-optical element unit formed of a magneto-optical element 10 fixed to a hollow part of the hollow columnar magnet 12 and a second magneto-optical element unit formed of a magneto-optical element 18 fixed to a hollow part of the hollow columnar magnet 20. The first magneto-optical element units 10, 12, the reverse porality magnet 16 and the second magneto-optical units 18, 20 are put in order in a case 22, and the distance between the reverse porality magnet 16 and the columnar magnet 20 is controlled by a cover 24.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009169624-A (JP)
Title: Information processor, information processing method, and computer program
Inventor: ITAI DAISUKE
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2008-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor and an information processing method for easily confirming the deviation of the required time of an operation to be caused according to the setting of a parameter in a processor.  <P>SOLUTION: This information processor is configured to process information about the operation of a processor for processing an object, and includes an arithmetic part which sums up the required time of operations for each of a plurality of periods, and calculates frequency distribution of the required time of the operations in each of the plurality of periods; and a display part which displays the frequency distribution of each period calculated by the arithmetic part in their mutually comparable form.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009176434-A (JP)
Title: Device for lighting discharge lamp
Inventor: HARA YOSHIAKI
IPC: H05B41/24
Filed: 2008-01-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a discharge lamp lighting device capable of reliably providing required lamp light quantity, and appropriately controlling a lighting cycle and illuminance of a lamp different in specification.  <P>SOLUTION: A voltage conversion pulse signal is calculated from a pulse length of a synchronization signal output to a voltage conversion circuit 2 being a chopper circuit, and a frequency conversion pulse signal is calculated from a frequency of the synchronization signal to be output to an inverter circuit 3 being a push-pull type inverter. The voltage conversion circuit 2 outputs a step-up controlled voltage to the inverter circuit 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009177378-A (JP)
Title: Solid-state imaging apparatus
Inventor: FUKUOKA NAOTO
IPC: H04N5/357
Filed: 2008-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state imaging apparatus capable of performing a blackening prevention operation without preparing a separate circuit, while making the impact of characteristic variation for each pixel hardly affect the operation.  <P>SOLUTION: The solid-state imaging apparatus includes a floating diffusion portion for accumulating a photodiode and signal charge, a plurality of pixels where the pixels composed of a transfer transistor, a reset transistor, an amplifier transistor, and a select transistor are arranged in shapes of matrixes, a vertical signal line 11 connected in common to the pixels arranged in the direction of a column, and a CDS circuit 12 for suppressing noise accompanied by a reset operation included in a pixel signal output to the vertical signal line. A pixel 10 (i+1) adjacent to an optical signal read-out pixel 10 (i) is used to generate a clip voltage for clipping vertical signal line voltage potential in order to prevent blackening generated at the time of high brightness light incidence.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008165816-A (JP)
Title: Control method, information processor, and computer readable recording medium
Inventor: NAKAGIRI KOJI
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2008-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display a preview of a layout after bookbinding in the case of bookbinding and printing.  <P>SOLUTION: Storage of intermediate data is indicated at the time of printing, intermediate data and a job setting file for output are stored in a spool file 302 by a spooler 302. When a stored job is selected, a preview of a print image is displayed by a previewer 306. In this case, a preview image is displayed on double-spread pages in a state of sheets put one over another and folded and bound in the case that bookbinding and printing have been set and furthermore preview has been indicated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008281986-A (JP)
Title: Active matrix substrate, its manufacturing method, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument
Inventor: KODAIRA YASUAKI
IPC: G02F1/1362
Filed: 2008-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an active matrix substrate capable of thinning and securing the maximum display region in a limited display region, and its manufacturing method, and further to provide an electro-optical device and an electronic instrument excellent in display characteristics and capable of downsizing.  <P>SOLUTION: A driving circuit layer 24 comprising a plurality of driving circuit parts 50, an insulative layer for flattening the driving circuit parts 50 to cover them, and a pixel circuit layer 25 comprising a plurality of pixel parts are laminated on a flexible substrate 20 in this sequence. The driving circuit parts 50 and a pixel circuit are connected via a connection formed on the insulative layer. A connecting terminal 42 constituting the connection together with wirings of the pixel circuit is exposed from the insulative layer toward the pixel circuit layer 25.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009174505-A (JP)
Title: Hydraulic pump/motor and fan driving equipment
Inventor: OGASAWARA KENICHI
IPC: F01P5/04
Filed: 2008-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydraulic pump/motor which can detect the number of rotations of a cylinder block accurately although rotation of the cylinder block includes vibration, and a fan driving device employing such a hydraulic pump/motor.  <P>SOLUTION: The hydraulic motor 10 is provided with a detected section 52 formed on an outer periphery surface of the cylinder block 14 and a rotating sensor 50 that is positioned opposite to the detected section 52 and detects the detected section 52. The rotating sensor 50 is installed at a position that corresponds between a deepest section 41 of a cylinder hole 29 and a back end surface 28 of the cylinder block in the shaft direction of the cylinder block. The fan driving device 60 is provided with the hydraulic motor 10, a bracket 61 on which the hydraulic motor is installed in a state of placing the end of a rotating shaft 13 on the surface side through a through-hole 64, and a fan 62 which is installed on the rotating shaft 13 and is driven by the hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor is installed on the bracket 61 in a way that the rotating sensor 50 is placed on the back side of the bracket 61.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008171011-A (JP)
Title: Display
Inventor: MITSUI SEIICHI
IPC: H01L51/50
Filed: 2008-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display with which displayed information can be well observed even outdoors under a clear sky or in a dark place without impairing thin and lightweight characteristics.  <P>SOLUTION: The display includes a polarizing member 16 and a reflective display element 14 behind the EL element 13. The EL element 13 self-emits light to display information and doubles as a display-use light source for the reflective display element. In a sufficiently bright environment, ambient light L3 enters a liquid crystal layer 23 after passing through a frontal substrate 21 of the reflective display element 14, and is reflected from a metal electrode 25 to produce displays. In addition to the direct light L1 from the EL element 13, light that enters the liquid crystal layer is simultaneously used. In a dark environment, the EL element 13 emits light, and displayed contents are visible owing to the reflection L2 from the metal electrode 11 as well as directly exiting light L1. The structure makes it possible to provide a novel type of display that allows a user to select one of various display modes at his/her own discretion according to surrounding conditions.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009178300-A (JP)
Title: Biological information reader
Inventor: TERAMURA KOJI
IPC: A61B5/117
Filed: 2008-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect the read information of a finger position to be inadequate with the aim of reading the correct biological information of the finger.  <P>SOLUTION: The finger 3 placed on a board 2 is photographed with a finger position detection camera 7, by which to detect the finger's position and determine whether it is right. If it is determined to be bad, then a right finger position image is indicated on a display to teach a user of the reader the correct position of his finger on the board 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009125578-A (JP)
Title: Reel type game machine
Inventor: SASADA YUJI
IPC: A63F5/04
Filed: 2008-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reel type game machine capable of generating ups and downs in the sense of expectancy of a player.  <P>SOLUTION: The operation of a disadvantageous condition to the player is executed based on the display of a combination of predetermined symbols. When a combination of special symbols is displayed, the operation of a special state is executed, and an internal winning combination which permits display of the combination of the predetermined symbols is determined at a prescribed probability. When the combination of specific symbols is displayed while the operation of the special state is executed, the operation of a specific state is executed, and the internal winning combination, which permits display of the combination of the predetermined symbols till the operation of the disadvantageous state is executed, is determined at a lower probability than the prescribed probability.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009180322-A (JP)
Title: Telescopic shaft and steering device with the same
Inventor: HARUNAGA MASAHIRO
IPC: F16D3/06
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telescopic shaft capable of maintaining smooth contact condition with an axial directional groove and capable of preventing an increase of sliding resistance and abrasion of a columnar pin by moving the columnar pin, following a curve of the axial groove, without using a plastic holder, and to provide a steering device with the same.  <P>SOLUTION: In the case wherein there is a curve in an axial directional groove 41 of a female intermediate shaft 16B due to an error in manufacture, a columnar pin 53 is guided in an end surface 531 thereof by a rotatable spherical body 55A, and moved in the circumferential direction, following the curve of the axial directional groove 41. Consequently, an increase of sliding resistance due to a contact failure between the columnar pin 53 and the axial directional groove 41 and abrasion of the columnar pin 53 can be avoided. A male intermediate shaft 16A is thereby smoothly moved in the right and left direction expressed in Fig.2 relative to the female intermediate shaft 16B, and can be moved at a stable sliding resistance for a long time without looseness.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009180676-A (JP)
Title: Analyzing apparatus
Inventor: KINOMURA ATSUSHI
IPC: G01N35/00
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an analyzing apparatus for applying calibration processing to a reagent of an old lot even when a measurement parameter for calibration is changed at a lot change timing of the reagent.  <P>SOLUTION: This analyzing apparatus 1 includes a database for storing a measurement parameter for calibration corresponding to each version of the reagent such as a lot number, and a parameter setting section 31a for acquiring the measurement parameter for calibration corresponding to the version of the actually used reagent from a storing means in the calibration processing. The analyzing apparatus performs the calibration processing based on the measurement parameter for calibration obtained by the parameter setting section 31a.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009188503-A (JP)
Title: Image processing apparatus
Inventor: MATSUI TSUTOMU
IPC: H04N19/625
Filed: 2008-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus capable of maintaining the reproducibility of the colors of a face region (in particular a flesh color) without significantly deteriorating coding efficiency in image coding processing.  <P>SOLUTION: The image processing apparatus having a coding processing section is provided with preprocessing sections, i.e., a format converting section for converting input image data into a luminance signal (Y) conforming to a predetermined image format and two color difference signals (Cr, Cb); and a face detecting section for detecting the face region of a person from the input image data. The format converting section converts a pixel region other than the face region detected by the face detecting section in accordance with a first image format (e.g. 4:2:0), and converts the face region in accordance with a second format (4:2:2) in which the information quantity of a color difference signal is larger than that of the first image signal. The coding processing section divides the region converted based on the same image format into macroblocks, and executes coding processing in macroblock units.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT