Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080198171 | Multi-dimensional texture drawing apparatus, compressing apparatus, drawing system, drawing method, and drawing program - As for a multi-dimensional texture constituted by a plurality of textures different in photographing environment such as a viewing position or lighting conditions, texture images constituting the multi-dimensional texture are rearranged block by block or pixel by pixel, and converted into an anisotropic texture expressing anisotropic variations of the multi-dimensional texture in an area corresponding to the block or the pixel. | 08-21-2008 |
20080267582 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus extracts plural image frames relevant to representative frames from among a series of the image frames constituting image data, allocates in time series of image times the plural image frames to plural medium frames laid out within a display virtual space, sequentially determines one attention frame from among the plural medium frames, and performs image processing of highlighting an image frame allocated to the attention frame, to the image frame allocated to each medium frame. | 10-30-2008 |
20090002483 | Apparatus for and method of generating image, and computer program product - An apparatus includes a stereoscopic display region calculator calculating a stereoscopic display region to reproduce a three-dimensional positional relationship in image data displayed on a stereoscopic display device, based on two-dimensional or three-dimensional image data, a position of a target of regard of a virtual camera set in processing of rendering the image data, and orientations of the light beams output from the stereoscopic display device. The apparatus also includes an image processor performing image processing on image data outside a region representing the outside of the stereoscopic display region calculated by the stereoscopic display region calculator. The image processing is different from image processing on image data inside a region representing the inside of the stereoscopic display region. The apparatus also includes an image generator generating stereoscopic display image data from the two-dimensional or three-dimensional image data after processed by the image processor. | 01-01-2009 |
20090079728 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING MULTIVIEW DATA - A multiview-data generating apparatus of the present invention generates, for each pixel index of each pixel included in a predetermined area, a color information group and a depth value group of a CG object corresponding to each viewpoint, derives an approximate function by approximating a relation between the viewpoint and the depth value based on the depth value group, and handles the depth value group in a state of a depth parameter array that is obtained by arranging parameters of the approximate function. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080698 | Image display apparatus and computer program product - A comprehensive degree of relevance of other moving picture contents with respect to a moving-picture content to be processed is calculated by using any one of or all of content information, frame information, and image characteristics, to display a virtual space in which a visualized content corresponding to a moving picture content to be displayed, which is selected based on the degree of relevance, is located at a position away from a layout position of the visualized content corresponding to the moving picture content to be processed, according to the degree of relevance. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083814 | Apparatus and method for outputting video Imagrs, and purchasing system - The video input unit inputs video data. The reference data input unit inputs a plurality of reference data relating to the video data. The extraction condition determining unit determines, from the identification information of the plurality of reference data, an item of identification information in correspondence with a period of time elapsed after receipt of an output request. The reference data extracting unit extracts the reference data having the determined identification information. The analyzing unit calculates the level of similarity between the frames in the input video data and the reference data, and extracts frames whose level of similarity is greater than a first threshold value. The video generating unit generates output video data that includes the extracted frames. The output unit outputs the generated output video data. | 03-26-2009 |
20100054703 | Display Processing Apparatus and Display Processing Method - According to one embodiment,a display processing apparatus includes: an operation receiver configured to receive operation to select a first key content as a search key; a relation calculator configured to calculate first relation between the first key content and each of other contents; and a display processor configured to display first list information including first display information at a predetermined position and other display information at positions corresponding to the first relation. The relation calculator calculates second relation between a second key content and each of other contents when the first display information is updated by second display information. The display processor displays second list information including the other display information at positions corresponding to the second relation. | 03-04-2010 |
20100057696 | Display Processing Apparatus, Display Processing Method, and Computer Program Product - According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes, an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content of a first type. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and each of second contents of a plurality of types including the first type. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and relation item information indicating a plurality of items involved in calculating the relation and display areas each corresponding to one of the items. In the list information, pieces of the second display information are arranged such that second display information of second content with higher relation to the key content is closer to the first display information. | 03-04-2010 |
20100058173 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content of a first type. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and each of second contents of a plurality of types including the first type. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and second display information. Pieces of the second display information are arranged to form a plurality of concentric polygons with the first display information as the center along directions of operation such that second display information of second content with higher relation to the key content is closer to the first display information. | 03-04-2010 |
20100058213 | Display controlling apparatus and display controlling method - A display controlling apparatus stores therein first position information of pieces of data in a predetermined n-dimensional virtual space displayed on a display device, specifies second position information in the virtual space indicating positions of the pieces of data obtained after performing a rearranging process thereon, specifies intermediate position information indicating positions in a m-dimensional virtual space corresponding to a period during which the data is rearranged from the first-position-information positions into the second-position-information positions, the m being smaller than the n by 1 or more, calculates first transition paths in transitions from the first-position-information positions to the intermediate-position-information positions, calculates second transition paths in transitions from the intermediate-position-information positions to the second-position-information positions, and outputs display screen information containing the pieces of data that go through the transitions in the virtual spaces according to the first and the second transition paths. | 03-04-2010 |
20100110068 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - A detecting unit detects at least one of a position and a posture of a real object located on or near a three-dimensional display surface. A calculating unit calculates a masked-area where the real object masks a ray irradiated from the three-dimensional display surface, based on at least one of the position and the posture. A rendering unit renders a stereoscopic image by performing different rendering processes on the masked-area from rendering processes on other areas. | 05-06-2010 |
20110231799 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a display processing apparatus includes an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content of a first type. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and each of second contents of a plurality of types including the first type. The display information generator generates first display information specific to the key content and pieces of second display information specific to the second contents, respectively. The display controller arranges the first display information at a center and the pieces of the second display information in at least one of the predetermined areas divided by each of the items in a radial direction from the center, based on the relation calculated by the relation calculator. The display controller displays the arranged first display information and the arranged pieces of the second display information. | 09-22-2011 |
20130135192 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A gesture recognition apparatus detects a locus of a fingertip position of a user from an acquired moving image; sets an effective range configured to set an effective range to detect a locus of the fingertip position of the user from the moving image flap action; determines whether or not the locus of the fingertip position is of the flap action when the locus of the fingertip position is included in the effective range; and recognizes a gesture of the user from the flap action when the locus of the fingertip position is of the flap action. | 05-30-2013 |
20130185288 | PRODUCT SEARCH DEVICE, PRODUCT SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a product search device includes an obtaining unit, a determiner, a first controller, a reception unit, a retrieval unit, and a second controller. The obtaining unit obtains a first image including plural items. The determiner determines to which group each of the items in the obtained first image belongs among plural groups into which products related to the items are categorized in accordance with a predetermined categorization condition. The first controller displays the group to which each of the items belongs on a display unit. The reception unit receives a user input specifying at least one of the groups displayed on the display unit. The retrieval unit searches a storage unit storing the groups and second images of the products in an association manner, and extracts the second image corresponding to the specified group. The second controller displays the extracted second image on the display unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130195367 | APPLIANCE CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An appliance control apparatus recognizes image features of an target appliance from an obtained image, calculates a degree of similarity between the image features of the target appliance and image features of a registered appliance, specifies the registered appliance corresponding to the image features in the case where the degree of similarity indicates a high similarity as the target appliance; calls up control information of the specified target appliance, and controls the target appliance. | 08-01-2013 |