Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080266410 | Imaging Apparatus, Integrated Circuit for Image Pickup Device and Image Data Processing Method - The present invention is applied to imaging apparatuses including video cameras for recording moving pictures, electronic still cameras, monitoring devices and such. An image pickup means | 10-30-2008 |
20080284788 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing apparatus for encoding image data, includes a filter unit for performing a filtering operation on the image data in a layer fashion to generate a plurality of subbands including coefficient data segmented on a per frequency band basis, an intermediate data storage unit for storing intermediate data generated in the middle of the filtering operation of the filter unit, a coefficient storage unit for storing the coefficient data generated in the filtering operation of the filter unit, and a coefficient rearranging unit for performing a rearranging operation to rearrange the coefficient data stored on the coefficient storage unit so that the coefficient data is output in a predetermined order. The intermediate data storage unit writes and reads data thereon at a speed higher than the coefficient storage unit and being smaller in storage capacity than the coefficient storage unit. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285865 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, a synthesis filtering process is performed on image data which has been subjected to hierarchical executions of an analysis filtering process, each execution of the analysis filtering process having caused frequency components of the image data to be divided into high-frequency components and low-frequency components, the total hierarchical executions of the analysis filtering process having caused the image data to be divided into a plurality of frequency bands, the synthesis filtering process involving synthesizing frequency components of frequency bands in each division level by performing a lifting calculation. The execution of the synthesis filtering process is controlled for each lifting calculation such that the lifting calculations are performed in an order that allows image data to be produced part by part, each part including a plurality of lines. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285869 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An information processing device includes: a synthesis filter processing unit to subject image data to analysis filtering for dividing the frequency components of the image data into highband components and lowband components hierarchically, and subject the frequency components of the image data divided into a plurality of frequency components to synthesis filtering for mutually synthesizing the frequency components of the frequency band of the same division level recursively; a frequency component holding unit to hold frequency components of a division level one order lower, generated by the synthesis filtering performed by the synthesis filter processing unit; and a control unit to cause the synthesis filter processing unit to recursively perform the synthesis filtering processing on each frequency component held in the frequency component holding unit, in an order whereby the image data is restored in order from the top of the image, a plurality of lines at a time. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285870 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An information processing device includes: an analysis filtering section that applies to image data an analysis filtering process of decomposing frequency components of the image data into each frequency band by lifting operations; an encoding section that performs an encoding process of encoding the frequency components decomposed into each frequency band by the analysis filtering section; and a control section that controls execution of the encoding process by the encoding section with respect to each of the frequency components, so that the encoding process with respect to each of the frequency components is executed during a period after the analysis filtering process is finished with respect to a plurality of lines of the image data that are inputted, until a plurality of lines of next image data are inputted. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285872 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An information processing device, configured to divide the frequency components of image data into a plurality of frequency bands, includes an analysis filtering unit configured to perform analysis filtering for dividing the frequency components into highband components and lowband components recursively, and a holding unit configured to supply, in sync with timing for holding data supplied as a computation result of the analysis filtering by the analysis filtering unit, the data already held, which is data necessary for computation of next analysis filtering to the analysis filtering unit. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285873 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING IMAGE DATA - A wavelet transformer performs an analysis filtering operation on image data while storing coefficient data generated in the middle of the analysis filtering operation onto an intermediate calculation buffer. The wavelet transform segments the generated coefficient data into subbands using write buffers and writes the coefficient data on a per subband by subband basis onto a ring buffer of a coefficient rearranging buffer in a main memory. An entropy encoder reads the coefficient data stored on the ring buffer of the coefficient rearranging buffer via read buffers in an order of a synthesis process, entropy encodes the read coefficient data, writes the encoded coefficient data onto the main memory via a write buffer and outputs the resulting coefficient data. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285874 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA - An image data processing apparatus includes a memory for storing coefficient data obtained by performing a wavelet transform on image data, a calculation unit for calculating a memory address of the memory storing the coefficient data, based on an encoding parameter of the image data and an amount of data of the coefficient data, a memory area reservation unit for reserving a memory area where the coefficient data is to be written, in accordance with the memory address calculated by the calculation unit, and a write unit for rearranging the coefficient data in the order of inverse wavelet transform and writing the order-rearranged coefficient data onto the memory area reserved by the memory area reservation unit. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288953 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An information processing device to execute programs performing encoding processing configured from a plurality of processes, includes: a program storage unit to store a plurality of encoding programs wherein an allocation pattern for a computation processing unit as to each of a plurality of processes comprising the encoding processes or the disposal pattern of memory utilized in the plurality of processes are each different; a program selecting unit to select an encoding program to be utilized in the event of executing encoding processing from a plurality of encoding programs stored with the program storage unit, as a utilized encoding program; and a program executing unit to execute the encoding processing employing a utilized encoding program selected with the program selecting unit. | 11-20-2008 |
20080298471 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - An inverse wavelet transformer causes a level-graded buffer to store one of two lines of coefficient data generated through a synthesis filtering operation. In order to adjust an output timing of image data, the inverse wavelet transformer causes an output buffer to store temporarily the other line of the two lines of coefficient data in a period throughout which the output buffer stores no baseband image data and then causes the level-graded buffer to store the other line of the two lines of coefficient data. In this way, the level-graded buffer stores coefficients generated through the synthesis filtering operation on a line-by-line basis. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304574 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing device includes: an accumulating unit for accumulating encoded data obtained by encoding image data; a reading unit for reading out the encoded data in data increments; a determining unit for determining whether or not a parameter indicating the accumulated state of the encoded data at the accumulating unit satisfies a predetermined accumulation condition; a forbidding unit for forbidding readout of encoded data to be read out following encoded data being read out by the reading unit in data increments, which serves as a reference, in the case of the determining unit determining that the parameter satisfies the accumulation condition; and a control unit for controlling the reading unit to omit readout of encoded data of which readout is forbidden by the forbidding unit in data increments, and performing readout of encoded data of which readout is not prohibited by the forbidding unit in data increments. | 12-11-2008 |
20090002507 | Image Pickup Device, Integrated Circuit if Image Pickup Element, and Image Pickup Result Processing Method - The present invention is applied to for example video cameras recording an image pickup result by moving picture, electronic still cameras, monitoring devices and the like. Image pickup means | 01-01-2009 |
20090074052 | ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, ENCODING PROGRAM, DECODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND DECODING PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, an encoding program, a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a decoding program for adaptively controlling an encoding bit rate. Coefficient data obtained using wavelet transform is quantized, and segmented into bit planes. The coefficient data is entropy encoded from the bit plane of the MSB in a direction from an upper bit position to a lower bit position. Entropy encoding is stopped at a bit position where an amount of code has reached a target amount. On the bit plane, the coefficient data is entropy encoded from a lower frequency region to a higher frequency region. Data greatly affecting subjective image quality of a decoded image is selectively output while the amount of code is easily controlled. | 03-19-2009 |
20090092326 | ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, ENCODING PROGRAM, DECODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND DECODING PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, an encoding program, a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a decoding program for encoding and decoding efficiently a video signal in interlace scanning. An adder | 04-09-2009 |
20090102686 | ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD, COMPOSITE DEVICE AND METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an encoding device and method, a decoding device and method, and a transmission system, wherein encoding and decoding can be performed at higher speeds. A maximum significant digit calculating unit | 04-23-2009 |
20090175548 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method which make it possible to transmit image data with high quality and low delay. A wavelet transform unit | 07-09-2009 |
20090185749 | Image Encoder, Image Encoding Method, Image Decoder, and Image Decoding Method - In an image encoder, a first quantization section which is selected when normal image quality is required performs quantization by dividing a wavelet transformation coefficient by a quantization step size and by thereafter rounding down a fraction thereof. On the other side, a second quantization section which is selected when high image quality is required performs quantization by dividing a wavelet transformation coefficient by a quantization step size, by adding 0.5 to the addition result, and by thereafter rounding down a fraction thereof. Therefore, the width of a dead zone where coefficients are quantized to a value of 0 is narrower than that in the first quantization section, and higher image quality is obtained accordingly. | 07-23-2009 |
20090245384 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a partial decoding block configured to generate picture data by partially decoding a reversibly encoded picture code stream; an irreversible encoding block configured to encode irreversibly the picture data generated by the partial decoding block; and a control section configured to control the partial decoding block to determine the picture code stream part to be decoded in such a manner that a target compression rate of the picture data generated by the partial decoding block constitutes the compression rate corresponding to a target code quantity for the irreversible encoding block. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245668 | PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus and a method for compressing a picture by wavelet transform and entropy coding, in which the processing load of arithmetic coding may be relieved and rate control may be carried out effectively, while still maintaining the picture quality. An encoding object prediction unit predicts bitplanes to be encoded and extracts only those bitplanes which are to be encoded. An EBCOT unit generates an encoding pass from one bitplane to be encoded to another to execute arithmetic coding. In controlling the code volume to a target code volume, a rate controller sums the arithmetic codes in a sequence from the arithmetic code with the highest bit position in the totality of the code blocks of an input picture to the arithmetic code of the lowermost bit, from one bitplane to another or from one encoding pass to another, and halts the summation when the predetermined target code volume is exceeded. | 10-01-2009 |
20090274378 | ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD, DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an encoding device and method, a decoding device and method, and a transmission system, wherein image data which is subjected to compression encoding and sent out can be output as decoded images at the receiving side in a short time. At the time of wavelet transformation, filtering processing is performed in increments of lines, with a number of lines, whereby coefficient data for one line worth of lowest band component is generated, as an increment. At the first time, processing of line No. | 11-05-2009 |
20090304273 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a partial decoder configured to decode a portion of a first code stream representative of coded image data into baseband image data; and an encoder configured to encode the baseband image data from the partial decoder into a second code stream having a format converted from the format of the first code stream, wherein the encoder encodes the baseband image data using a target value for parameters with respect to the second code stream, into the second code stream having the format thereof, and the partial decoder determines the portion to be decoded of the first code stream, using the target value, and decodes the determined portion of the first code stream. | 12-10-2009 |
20090316779 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method which make it possible to transmit image data with high quality and low delay in more versatile situations. A control unit | 12-24-2009 |
20100061643 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD - The present invention relates to an encoding device and an encoding method, and a decoding device and a decoding method which make it possible to obtain a decoded image with low delay upon transferring an encoded image. | 03-11-2010 |
20100092097 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a bitplane expanding section, a coding section, a selecting section, and a selection controlling section. The bitplane expanding section expands image data into bitplanes as sets of bits at identical places in each unit of a predetermined number of pieces of data each having a bit depth of a plurality of bits. The coding section codes the image data expanded by the bitplane expanding section in each the bitplane in predetermined order. The selecting section selects compressed data and non-compressed data as a result of coding of the image data. The selection controlling section controls the coding section to stop a coding process and selecting the non-compressed data for a bitplane situated at a position subsequent to a bitplane for which the non-compressed data is selected by the selecting section in the predetermined order. | 04-15-2010 |
20100142827 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a device for performing horizontal analysis filtering, a device for performing vertical analysis filtering, and a device for horizontal control. The information processing apparatus also includes a first control device. This device allows the device for horizontal control to repetitively perform the horizontal control until the horizontal analysis filtering is performed on all of columns of a processing object line. The information processing apparatus further includes a device for vertical control and a second control device that allows the device for vertical control to repetitively perform the vertical control until the vertical analysis filtering is performed on all of lines. | 06-10-2010 |
20100142837 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Analysis filter processing is recursively repeated on horizontal and vertical low frequency component coefficients obtained as a result of the analysis filter processing, until a predetermined decomposition level is reached. Coefficients obtained during a process of computation in the analysis filter processing and, except for a preset decomposition level, horizontal and vertical low frequency component coefficients obtained as a result of the computation in the analysis filter processing are stored in a first storage section independently for each decomposition level. The coefficients stored in the first storage section are read as appropriate and the read coefficients are supplied for the analysis filter processing. The horizontal and vertical low frequency component coefficients of the preset decomposition level are stored in a second storage section. The coefficients stored in the second storage section are read as appropriate. The read coefficients are supplied for the analysis filter processing. | 06-10-2010 |
20100150243 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a coding mechanism for generating hierarchical data hierarchized in descending order of importance with respect to resolution from image data, and coding the hierarchical data for each hierarchy; and a redundancy coding mechanism for blocking the hierarchical data for each of the hierarchies using a block size determined for each of the hierarchies on the basis of dependencies of the hierarchies between pieces of the hierarchical data generated by the coding mechanism or between the hierarchical data and the image data, and performing redundancy coding to generate redundant data of the hierarchical data for each of the blocks. | 06-17-2010 |
20100166053 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, program, and communication system, whereby encoded data can be transmitted with low delay. A data control unit | 07-01-2010 |
20100202705 | IMAGE COMPARING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR, IMAGE RETRIEVING APPARATUS AS WELL AS PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A coding parameter extracting unit extracts and supplies coding parameters of a code stream to an image characteristic amount output unit. A code stream characteristic amount extracting unit outputs a first vector calculated based on the number of zero bit planes for each code block extracted by analyzing the code stream. The image characteristic amount output unit uses the coding parameters other than a quantization step size of the code stream to output a second vector calculated based on the number of zero bit planes for each code block of a specific image. A comparing unit compares the first and second vectors for each code block and makes a matching decision between the code stream and the specific image. | 08-12-2010 |
20100254460 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a synthesis filter unit configured to execute synthesis filtering for coefficient data of each subband, obtained by decoding a code stream of a reversibly-encoded image and performing band division, in each predetermined number of lines or in each predetermined block to obtain baseband image data on a line basis; a storage unit configured to store the baseband image data obtained by the synthesis filter unit; an analysis filter unit configured to read the baseband image data stored in the storage unit and execute analysis filtering for the image data to divide the image data up to a predetermined division level; and a control unit configured to control the analysis filter unit to execute analysis filtering as soon as the amount of the baseband image data stored in the storage unit reaches a data amount allowing analysis filtering. | 10-07-2010 |
20100254619 | ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An encoding apparatus includes: a first processing unit performing predetermined first processing of image data to be encoded before performing encoding; an encoding unit performing the encoding of the image data of which the first processing has been performed by the first processing unit to generate a code stream; a second processing unit performing predetermined second processing of the code stream generated through the encoding of the image data performed by the encoding unit; and a control unit controlling a processing speed of the encoding performed by the encoding unit in accordance with a processing speed of the first processing by the first processing unit and a processing speed of the second processing by the second processing unit. | 10-07-2010 |
20110069897 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing device including: selecting section configured to select coded data corresponding to coefficient data of a subband necessary to generate a decoded image of a predetermined resolution from coded data generated by coding a line block including a coefficient data group of each subband, the line block being generated by decomposing image data of a predetermined number of lines into each frequency band by hierarchical analysis filter processing and including at least one line or more of coefficient data of a subband of a lowest-frequency component; decoding section configured to decode the coded data selected by the selecting means; and synthesis filter section configured to hierarchically perform synthesis filter processing, synthesize the coefficient data obtained by decoding the coded data by the decoding means, and generate the decoded image of the predetermined resolution. | 03-24-2011 |
20110091119 | Coding apparatus and coding method - A coding apparatus includes: a bit modeling section which performs bit modeling for coding for coefficient data of every sub-band obtained by wavelet-transforming image data; an expanding section which expands a plurality of data sets including a symbol, a context and control information obtained by the bit modeling section in a register as input data; a storing section which stores the input data expanded by the expanding section as buffer data; a integrating section which integrates the data set in which the control information is valid in the input data expanded by the expanding section and the data set in which the control information is valid in the buffer data stored in the storing section; and a coding section which codes the data sets in which the control information is valid, which are integrated by the integrating section. | 04-21-2011 |
20110091121 | Coding apparatus and method - Apparatus and method for image coding may group code units corresponding to an image based on a same at least one parameter of each of the code units. Each group of code units which is grouped includes code units of which values of the same at least one parameter are the same. In addition, the code units of each group of code units which is grouped are entropy coded in parallel. | 04-21-2011 |
20110091123 | Coding apparatus and coding method - A coding apparatus includes: a wavelet transform section which transforms image data into coefficient data for every sub-band; a code blocking section which divides a region of the sub-band of the coefficient data generated by the wavelet transform section into code blocks; a state transition section which transits a state of the coefficient data which is a process target according to the value and state of surrounding binary coefficient data adjacent to the coefficient data which is the process target; a selection section which selects a coding pass according to the state of the coefficient data transited by the state transition section; and a coding section which codes the coefficient data for every code block generated by the code blocking section according to the coding pass selected by the selection section. | 04-21-2011 |
20110176601 | Image processing apparatus and method - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus, including, a header information production section configured to produce, regarding each of divisional code streams obtained by dividing a code stream having a structure of a progression order produced by coding image data, header information at a start and an end of the divisional code stream, the header information including a characteristic amount of an image of the image data, and a packet production section configured to convert each of the divisional code streams into a packet using the header information produced by the header information production section. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176742 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: an analysis filtering section configured to transform a line block into coefficient data decomposed into frequency bands by performing an analysis filtering process hierarchically, the line block including image data of as many lines as needed for generating the coefficient data of at least one line in a subband of the lowest-frequency component; an encoding section configured to encode the coefficient data generated by the analysis filtering section; and an alignment section configured to align, in increments of a predetermined data length, the encoded data obtained by encoding the coefficient data by the encoding section. | 07-21-2011 |
20110182525 | IMAGE SEARCHING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - An encoded code stream is searched for a frame generally coincident with a specific frame without having to decoding the frame to its original image. The present invention provides an image search device that searches an object encoded code stream formed by compression coding of a plurality of frames for a frame generally coincident with a specific one, which includes a decoder for making entropy decoding of the object encoded code stream to generate quantization coefficients of each frame, a matching unit for making matching between the quantization coefficients of the specific frame and those of each frame which are generated by the decoder and correspond in sample position to those of the specific frame, and a judging unit for judging, based on the result of matching, whether the frame is generally coincident with the specific one. | 07-28-2011 |
20110188765 | Image processing device and method - An image processing device includes a supply unit that supplies a coefficient data group in each sub-band, in which image data of a predetermined number of lines is decomposed for each frequency band by a hierarchical analysis filter process and which includes coefficient data of one line or more in a sub-band of at least a lowest frequency component, a synthesis filter unit that synthesizes the coefficient data group and generates image data in a baseband, a supply control unit that controls the supply unit to supply the coefficient data at such a timing that the synthesis filter unit can generate the image data at a timing corresponding to a horizontal synchronization period, and a synthesis filtering control unit that controls the synthesis filter unit to synthesize the coefficient data group in the predetermined order and generate the image data at a timing corresponding to the horizontal synchronization period. | 08-04-2011 |
20110249907 | IMAGE COMPARISON APPARATUS, IMAGE COMPARISON METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A code block size comparison unit examines an inclusion relationship of code block size. A comparing target code block determination unit determines a comparing target code block based on an inclusion relationship of code block. A zero bit plane number comparison unit compares the numbers of zero bit planes of the comparing target code blocks and determines match or mismatch between a specific image and a comparing target code stream. The invention can be applied to, for example, an image comparison apparatus. | 10-13-2011 |
20120057788 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus which includes a division unit dividing an image into a plurality of images in a bit depth direction, and an encoding unit encoding respectively some or all of the plurality of images acquired by dividing the image in the bit depth direction by the division unit. | 03-08-2012 |
20120163725 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method configured to make it possible to improve the convenience of codestreams in which multiview images are encoded. | 06-28-2012 |
20120189223 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a rate control section that performs rate control of output data by preferentially deleting lower-level-side coded data, as necessary, from respective pieces of coded data where respective bit-planes with levels higher than a predetermined level of a bit-plane group, in which coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming image data is developed in a bit depth direction, are coded; and a synthesizing section that generates the output data by synthesizing the coded data, from which the lower-level-side coded data is preferentially deleted as necessary by the rate control section, and respective bit-planes with levels lower than the predetermined level of the bit-plane group. | 07-26-2012 |
20120213434 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a first color transform unit carrying out a color transform on a combination of color components with high correlation out of a plurality of color components included in image data; and a second color transform unit carrying out a color transform on a combination of color components aside from the combination of color components subjected to the color transform by the first color transform unit out of the plurality of color components included in the image data. | 08-23-2012 |
20120230598 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for improving the processing capacity per unit time in encoding and decoding images. | 09-13-2012 |
20120243784 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - There is provided an image processing device which transforms an image with a bit depth of N into an upper layer with a bit depth of M and a remaining lower layer, including a histogram unit that generates histogram indicating occurrence frequency of each pixel value of an image with a bit depth of N, a table unit that generates a table listing pixel values of which occurrence frequency in the histogram generated by the histogram unit is equal to or more than one, a reordering unit that reorders an arrangement of values in the histogram using the table generated by the table unit, an update unit that updates the table generated by the table unit and the histogram reordered by the reordering unit; and an index image unit that generates an index image with a bit depth of N using the updated table and the updated histogram. | 09-27-2012 |
20120328192 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The invention relates to an image processing apparatus, method, and program that can more improve coding efficiency. | 12-27-2012 |
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20140074626 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - The information processing apparatus includes: an extracting unit configured to extract predetermined feature information from an image; an order-information generating unit configured to generate order information for ordering competitive bidding for selecting output information, by using the feature information extracted by the extracting unit; a competitive-bidding unit configured to conduct the competitive bidding to select output information on the basis of the order information generated by the order-information generating unit; and an output unit configured to output the output information selected in the competitive bidding conducted by the competitive-bidding unit. | 03-13-2014 |
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