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| 20110091259 | Bookbinding system, bookbinding method, and bookbinding control program - A bookbinding system that includes: a center folding unit configured to perform center folding on an integrated sheet bundle; an additionally folding unit configured to additionally perform folding of a folded portion of the center-folded sheet bundle; a back surface forming unit configured to form a back surface on the sheet bundle by pressing a front end of the folded portion of the center-folded sheet bundle and both surfaces of the sheet bundle; and a control unit configured to change the content of additionally folding according to whether to perform the back surface forming or not. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110103863 | Conveying device, spine forming device, and image forming system - A conveying device that conveys a sheet bundle with a flattened back-face portion includes a first conveying unit, a driving unit, and a second conveying unit. The first conveying unit retracts to a position where no driving force is exerted on the sheet bundle before a leading end of the sheet bundle formed in a flat spine shape enters, and abuts on the sheet bundle to exert conveying force after the leading end of the sheet bundle passes a conveying position. The driving unit moves the first conveying unit to retract to the position and to abut on the sheet bundle. The second conveying unit is positioned on an upstream side of the first conveying unit in a sheet bundle conveying direction and conveys the sheet bundle towards the first conveying unit. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110220557 | Image forming system - An image forming system includes an SSP unit (sorting guide portion and envelope chuck portion) that functions as an enclosing unit or an enclosing device to enclose, in envelopes, paper on which an image is formed by a copy machine functioning as an image forming device, a weight measuring device that includes a load cell to measure the weight of the paper-enclosed envelopes, and a sorting device that sorts the paper-enclosed envelopes, on the basis of weight data of each of the paper-enclosed envelopes of which the weight is measured by the weight measuring device. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110277418 | Recording media sheet processing system, image forming system including same, and insertion method used therein - A recording media sheet processing system includes a folding device including a folding unit to fold a sheet and a squeezing unit to squeeze the folded sheet, an insertion device to insert in an envelope an enclosure, and a controller. The folding device. The controller includes an envelope selector, a selector for selecting whether to fold the sheet and a folding style of the sheet, a first storage unit for storing a folding-related equivalent quantity into which a quantity of each sheet is converted corresponding to the folding style and the number of times the sheet is squeezed, a second storage unit for storing a maximum quantity of sheets insertable, a calculator to calculate a total converted quantity of the enclosure, a determination unit to determine whether the selected envelope type accommodates the enclosure, and a squeezing setter to set the number of times of squeezing. | 11-17-2011 |
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| 20080232695 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHODS THEREFOR, AND PROGRAMS FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO PERFORM THE METHODS - An information processing apparatus includes a content storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of content; a background-image storage unit storing a background image corresponding to the plurality of pieces of content stored in the content storage unit; an attribute-information storage unit storing attribute information for each of the plurality of pieces of content in association with the plurality of pieces of content, the attribute information including a corresponding position in the background image; a classification unit classifying the plurality of pieces of content into one or more clusters on the basis of the attribute information; and a rendering unit rendering images indicating the classified pieces of content in a predetermined order on a cluster-by-cluster basis and rendering an area of the background image, the area including the corresponding position included in the attribute information of content corresponding to at least one of the images rendered. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080253663 | Content management apparatus, image display apparatus, image pickup apparatus, processing method and program for causing computer to execute processing method - Disclosed herein is a content management apparatus, including: content inputting means for inputting a content with which position information is associated; position information acquisition means for acquiring the position information associated with the content inputted by the content inputting means; tree production means for producing binary tree structure data corresponding to a binary tree having leaves to which contents inputted by the content inputting means correspond based on the position information of the contents acquired by the position information acquisition means; and determination means for extracting a node which satisfies a predetermined condition from among nodes of the binary tree structure data produced by the tree production means and determining those of the contents which belong to the extracted node as one group. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090115855 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090316962 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100092107 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a playback unit to play back music data, an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data, an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types, a storage unit to store one or more than one image, a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types, a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to perform image correction of an image stored in the storage unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit, and an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094441 | IMAGE SELECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE SELECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image selection apparatus, an image selection method and a program. The image selection apparatus includes a selection number designation portion to designate a selection number of images, an image analysis portion | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110050939 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and electronic device - An image processing apparatus detects one or more subjects set as detection targets from a shot image acquired by imaging. An image pyramid generator generates an image pyramid used to detect the one or more subjects, wherein the image pyramid is generated by reducing or enlarging the shot image using scales set in advance according to the distance from the imaging unit that conducts the imaging to the one or more subjects to be detected. A detection region determining unit determines, from among the entire image regions in the image pyramid, one or more detection regions for detecting the one or more subjects. A subject detector detects the one or more subjects from the one or more detection regions. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110135153 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a facial region extraction unit extracting a facial region, an identification information acquisition unit acquiring identification information for identifying a face in the facial region, and first and second integrated processing units performing integrated processing. The first and second integrated processing units determine a threshold value on the basis of a relationship between an estimated area and a position of the face being tracked, calculate a similarity between a face being tracked and a face pictured in an image to be stored in a predetermined storage period, and determine if the face being tracked and the stored face image are the face of the same person. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110150340 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: an extracting unit configured to extract a face from an image; a grouping unit configured to classify the image extracted by the extracting unit into a group; an adding unit configured to add to a group generated by the grouping unit a tag indicating relationship between persons within the group; a closeness calculating unit configured to calculate the closeness of the person of the face from distance between groups generated by the grouping unit; and a person correlation data generating unit configured to generate person correlation data including at least the tag and the closeness. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110239163 | DISPLAY SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a tree structure generation unit that generates a tree structure in which a leaf node represents content data associated with position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity, and a set of nodes whose distance in the feature space satisfies a predetermined condition is defined as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined condition, and a node extraction unit that, when any position information is specified, identifies a node in the tree structure to which the specified position information belongs, and extracts, according to a position of the identified node in the tree structure, one or a plurality of nodes, other than the node to which the specified position information belongs, from among the nodes in the tree structure. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110246939 | Information Processing Method and Graphical User Interface - There is provided an information processing method including the steps of: generating and displaying, in a display unit, a display screen having a color arrangement selection area in which color arrangement selection objects to select a combination of colors are displayed and a search result display area in which search results of content are displayed; generating color arrangement information in accordance with the combination of the color arrangement selection objects positioned in predetermined positions inside the color arrangement selection area; determining a color arrangement mood provided by the combination of colors represented by the color arrangement information based on the generated color arrangement information; searching for the content from the content associated with the color arrangement mood using the determined color arrangement mood; and displaying search results of the content in the search result display area. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110249904 | FACE CLUSTERING DEVICE, FACE CLUSTERING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a face clustering device that detects a face included in an image, detects a direction of the detected face, detects, taking into account the detected direction of the face, a face with a similar feature and forms a collection of pieces of face information showing a feature of this face, narrows down, for each collection of pieces of face information which has been formed, the number of pieces of face information to a number set in advance for each face direction and sets each collection of pieces of face information for which the number has been narrowed down as a unit group, and performs, with the set unit group as a unit, clustering based on pieces of face information included in each unit group. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110254691 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a display device including an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range in an image display direction, a moving body detection unit that detects whether or not a moving body is present in a predetermined range in the image display direction, an image analysis unit that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit to detect whether or not a face is present, and a power control unit that controls power consumption with different patterns according to a plurality of modes that are set by combining whether or not the face detected by the image analysis unit is present and whether or not the moving body detected by the detection unit is present. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110274346 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Program - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit in which a color arrangement database recording correspondences between color arrangement information about a combination of colors and a color arrangement mood concerning an atmosphere provided by the combination of colors is stored and a color arrangement mood analysis unit that analyzes the input color arrangement information based on the color arrangement database to determine the color arrangement mood corresponding to the combination of colors represented by the input color arrangement information. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120002883 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120039514 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person. | 02-16-2012 |
