1. A process for the preparation of controlled release (CR) granules which contain micropores and are adapted for soil-application, and which are obtained by applying an active-ingredient-comprising coating to a solid carrier in a fluidized bed with a defined heat input of from about 11,864 to 25,000 kJkg of coating polymer, wherein the CR granules comprise, as coating polymer, a dispersion selected from the group consisting of: butyl acrylatestyrene copolymers, copolymer dispersions of acrylic and methacrylic esters, polyethylene wax emulsions, polyesters composed of the following units: 50 mol % dimethyl terephthalate+approximately 50 mol % adipic acid+150 mol % 1,4-butanediol and ethylenemethacrylic acid zinc salt,
which process comprises applying to the carrier in a fluidized bed:
first at least one active ingredient, and
then the coating comprising at least one coating polymer and optionally additives,
said micropores being generated in the coating by abrasion or by the use of water-soluble additives.
2. The process of claim 1, wherein the lower heat input level is about 12,927 kJkg.
3. Controlled release (CR) granules for soil-application, obtained by applying a coating comprising
one or more systemically acting strobilurin, as active ingredient, and
a coating material selected from the group consisting of: butyl acrylatestyrene copolymers, copolymer dispersion of acrylic and methacrylic esters, polyethylene wax emulsions, polyesters composed of the following units: 50 mol % dimethyl terephthalate+approximately 50 mol % adipic acid+150 mol % 1,4-butanediol and ethylenemethacrylic acid zinc salt
to a solid carrier in a fluidized bed with a defined heat input of from about 11,864 to 25,000 kJkg of coating material.
4. The CR granules defined in claim 3, wherein the coating comprises:
(a) 0.1-25% by weight of the one or more systemically acting strobilurin, as active ingredient,
(b) 1-40% by weight of the coating material, and
(c) 0-60% by weight of one or more additives, and
wherein the total of the % by weight of the components (a) to (c) amounts to 100% by weight.
5. The CR granules defined in claim 3, comprising, as solid carrier, water-soluble, water-insoluble or biodegradable granules.
6. Soil-applied CR granules as claimed in claim 3, wherein the coating further comprises one or more salicylate, as active ingredient.
7. Soil-applied CR granules as claimed in claim 3, wherein the coating further comprises one or more azole, as active ingredient.
8. Soil-applied CR granules as claimed in claim 6, wherein the coating further comprises one or more azole, as active ingredient.
9. The CR granules defined in claim 3, which wherein the CR granules are obtained by applying the polymer coating to the solid carrier with a heat input of from about 12,927 to 25,000 kJkg of coating polymer.
10. Soil-applied CR granules as claimed in claim 3 comprising, as active ingredient, at least one fungicidal compound of the formula I from amongst the class of strobilurins
in which the substituents have the following meanings:
A is NOCH3, CHOCH3, CHCH3;
Y is O, NH;
T is oxygen or oxymethylene;
Z is a group X, N\u2550C(R1)W or N\u2550C(R1)\u2014C(R2)\u2550NOR3;
X is unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl, unsubstituted or substituted hetaryl;
W is unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted alkenyl, unsubstituted or substituted alkynyl, unsubstituted or substituted cycloalkyl, hetaryl;
R1 is hydrogen, cyano, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloakyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-alkoxy-C1-C4-alkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl;
R2 is hydrogen, cyano, halogen, C(Rd)\u2550NOR3 or W, OW, SW or NRcW, where
Rc is hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl;
Rd is hydrogen or alkyl;
R3 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted alkenyl or unsubstituted or substituted alkynyl, or a salt thereof.
11. A method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, undesired vegetation, undesired attack by insects andor for regulating the growth of plants, which comprises applying the CR granules of claim 3 to the soil which contains or will contain seeds or plants therein.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An image processing device processing image data provided from outside and outputting the image data to a hold type display device, the image processing device comprising a correction processing section performing a correction process to correct a pixel value in the image data for each pixel through performing a spatial LPF (low pass filter) process on the image data in a frame to be displayed in the display device according to a magnitude of a motion vector in the image data, the LPF process allowing a slope of a changing edge portion in the image data to be more gentle.
2. The image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a signal characteristics detection section which detects, from the image data and based on the magnitude of the motion vector, predetermined signal characteristics information to be used in the correction process, wherein
the signal characteristics detection section detects the changing edge portion in the image data based on the magnitude of the motion vector, and detects minimum and maximum pixel values within a predetermined correction area of the pixel data as well as positions of pixels having the minimum and maximum pixel values, as the predetermined signal characteristics information.
3. The image processing device according to claim 2, wherein
the signal characteristics detection section determines a changing direction of the changing edge portion in the correction area, based on the minimum and maximum pixel values as well as the positions of pixels having the minimum and maximum pixel values, and
the correction processing section determines whether or not to perform the correction process, based on the changing direction determined by the signal characteristics detection section.
4. The image processing device according to claim 3, wherein the correction processing section determines:
to perform the correction process, when the changing direction is directed to a rising direction from a lower gradation to a higher gradation; and
not to perform the correction process, when the edge direction is directed in a falling direction from a higher gradation to a lower gradation.
5. The image processing device according to claim 2, wherein the correction area is determined based on the magnitude of the motion vector.
6. The image processing device according to claim 2, wherein the correction processing section includes a first edge replacement section replacing pixel values in a outside region which lies outside of a pixel region between the positions of pixels having the minimum and maximum pixel values in the correction area in the image data, with the minimum pixel value or the maximum pixel value detected by the signal characteristics section, and
the correction processing section performs the correction process on the image data subjected to replacement process by the first edge replacement section, through use of the LPF process.
7. The image processing device according to claim 2, wherein
the signal characteristics detection section performs a weighting process to weight a positive coefficient onto each pixel value according to a distance from a predetermined pixel of interest in the correction area to each pixel, prior to detection of the minimum pixel value and the position of the pixel having the minimum pixel value, and
the signal characteristics detection section performs a weighting process to weight a negative coefficient onto each pixel value according to a distance from a predetermined pixel of interest in the correction area to each pixel, prior to detection of the maximum pixel value and the position of the pixel having the maximum pixel value.
8. The image processing device according to claim 7, wherein
the positive coefficient or the negative coefficient or both thereof in the weighting processes is adjusted to increase with increase of a spatial frequency in the correction area.
9. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein
a tap number in a filter used for the LPF process changes according to the magnitude of the motion vector.
10. The image processing device according to claim 9, wherein
the tap number in the filter used for the LPF process is set to an odd number, irrespective of a value of the motion vector.
11. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein
magnitude of a gain in a filter used for the LPF process changes according to the spatial frequency in the correction area.
12. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein
magnitude of gain in a filter used for the LPF process changes according to the magnitude of the motion vector.
13. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein
the correction processing section performs the correction process through use of response time information which associates a response time in the display device with a magnitude of gray-scale variation, as well as use of the motion vector.
14. The image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:
a motion vector detection section detecting the motion vector in the image data.
15. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein
the correction processing section performs the correction process through executing a spatial HPF (high pass filter) process as well as the LPF process on the image data in the frame to be displayed, according to the magnitude of the motion vector, the HPF process allowing an overshoot region and an undershoot region to be provided in a vicinity of both ends of the changing edge portion in the image data.
16. The image processing device according to claim 15, further comprising a signal characteristics detection section detecting minimum and maximum pixel values within a predetermined correction area of the pixel data as well as positions of pixels having the minimum and maximum pixel values,
wherein the correction processing section includes a second edge replacement section replacing pixel values in a outside region which lies outside of a pixel region between the positions of pixels having the minimum and maximum pixel values in the correction area in the image data, with the minimum pixel value or the maximum pixel value detected by the signal characteristics section, and replacing the pixel value in the pixel region between the positions of pixels having the minimum and maximum pixel values in the correction area in the image data, with pixel values including three values of the minimum pixel value, the maximum pixel value, and a pixel value of a median pixel lying at a middle position between the positions of pixels having the minimum and maximum pixel values, and
the correction processing section performs the correction process on the image data subjected to replacement process by the second edge replacement section, through use of the HPF process.
17. The image processing device according to claim 15, wherein
each pixel in the display device has a sub-pixel structure, and
the correction processing section adjusts a gain in the HPF process to be closed to a gain in the LPF process, resulting decrease in the gain in the HPF process, when the changing direction of the changing edge portion to be corrected is directed to a rising direction from a lower gradation to a higher gradation.
18. The image processing device according to claim 15, wherein
the correction processing section performs the HPF process through use of a predetermined signal characteristics information in the image data, as well as use of the motion vector.
19. An image display system comprising:
an image processing device processing image data provided from outside; and
a hold type display device performing an image display based on processed image data outputted from the image processing device,
wherein the image processing device includes a correction processing section performing a correction process to correct a pixel value in the image data for each pixel through performing a spatial LPF (low pass filter) process on the image data in a frame to be displayed in the display device according to a magnitude of a motion vector in the image data, the LPF process allowing a slope of a changing edge portion in the image data to be more gentle.
20. The image display system according to claim 19, wherein
the correction processing section performs the correction process through executing a spatial HPF (high pass filter) process as well as the LPF process on the image data in the frame to be displayed according to the magnitude of the motion vector, the HPF process allowing an overshoot region and an undershoot region to be provided in a vicinity of both ends of the changing edge portion in the image data.