Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090087101 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING OPERATOR - An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a feature amount from information recorded on a recording medium, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an identification image identifying an operator of the recording apparatus, a storage unit configured to store the feature amount and the identification image, wherein the identification image is associated with the feature amount, a search unit configured to compare a feature amount extracted from a predetermined medium by the extraction unit with the feature amount stored in the storage unit, wherein, based on a result of the comparison, the identification image associated with the stored feature amount is associated with the predetermined medium, and an output unit configured to output the identification image associated with the predetermined medium. | 04-02-2009 |
20090195814 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Embodiments of the invention relate to an information processing system that is triggered by a detection of a medium removing action, detects a user's action of leaving a sheet discharge tray from which the user has removed the medium, and counts the number of carrying-away users. The information processing system counts as the number of outputting users the number of users who have issued an instruction to output a medium. Based on the number of users who removed and left and the number of outputting users, the information processing system sends a notification prompting to check a carried-away medium or a medium that the user is about to carry away from the sheet discharge tray. | 08-06-2009 |
20090220123 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COUNTING NUMBER OF OBJECTS - An image processing apparatus includes a first detecting unit configured to detect an object based on an upper body of a person and a second detecting unit configured to detect an object based on a face of a person. The image processing apparatus determines a level of congestion of objects contained in an input image, selects the first detecting unit when the level of congestion is low, and selects the second detecting unit when the level of congestion is high. The image processing apparatus counts the number of objects detected by the selected first or second detecting unit from the image. Thus, the image processing apparatus can detect an object and count the number of objects with high precision even when the level of congestion is high and the objects tend to overlap one another. | 09-03-2009 |
20090324086 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING OBJECT FROM MOVING IMAGE AND METHOD THEREOF - A face image is detected for each frame at a predetermined interval in moving image data, and the face image is traced using a frame in which the face image is detected and frames subsequent to the frame. A face sequence including an interval in which the face can be traced and motion velocity vectors of the face indicating a change in the position of the face image in the interval is generated based on the tracing result. Further, camera operation information about when the moving image data is acquired is generated from the frame image of the moving image data. When there is an overlap in the plurality of intervals in which the face images are traced, the face being tracked by the camera is determined using the face sequence and the camera operation information of each of the plurality of face images. The face determined to be tracked is then determined to be a key object. | 12-31-2009 |
20100104266 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - An information processing apparatus for extracting a more appropriate representative frame image from moving image data that includes a plurality of frames of image data arranged in a time series includes: an input unit configured to input moving image data; a detecting unit configured to detect a frame image, which includes an image similar to a prescribed image pattern; a tracking unit configured to detect a frame image, which includes an image similar to the image included in the detected frame image; a storage unit configured to store successive frame images that have been detected by the tracking unit; a splitting unit configured to split the moving image data into a plurality of time intervals; and an extracting unit configured to extract a representative frame image using different evaluation rules. | 04-29-2010 |
20100118205 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - An information processing apparatus for extracting a more appropriate representative frame image from moving image data that includes a plurality of frames of image data arranged in a time series includes: an input unit configured to input moving image data; a detecting unit configured to detect a frame image, which includes an image similar to a prescribed image pattern; a tracking unit configured to detect a frame image, which includes an image similar to the image included in the detected frame image; a storage unit configured to store the successive frame images in association with time information; a splitting unit configured to split the moving image data into a plurality of time intervals with starting time and end time of each of one or more image sequences; and an extracting unit configured to extract a representative frame image. | 05-13-2010 |
20100177159 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a photographing unit configured to generate a plurality of images by photographing a plurality of times a range which can be photographed, an object detection unit configured to detect a specified object from each of the plurality of images generated by the photographing unit, a position determination unit configured to determine an existing position of the specified object based on a detection result of the specified object in the plurality of images, and a range determination unit configured to determine a photographing range to be photographed within the range which can be photographed based on the existing position of the specified object determined by the position determination unit. | 07-15-2010 |
20100226538 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus includes a moving image input unit configured to input a moving image, an object likelihood information storage unit configured to store object likelihood information in association with a corresponding position in an image for each object size in each frame included in the moving image, a determination unit configured to determine a pattern clipping position where a pattern is clipped out based on the object likelihood information stored in the object likelihood information storage unit, and an object detection unit configured to detect an object in an image based on the object likelihood information of the pattern clipped out at the pattern clipping position determined by the determination unit. | 09-09-2010 |
20100284568 | OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD - An object recognition apparatus recognizes an object from video data for a predetermined time period generated by a camera, analyzes the recognition result, and determines a minimum size and moving speed of faces of the video image recognized from the received frame image. Then, the object recognition apparatus determines a lower limit value of a frame rate and resolution from the determined minimum size and moving speed of the faces. | 11-11-2010 |
20110090358 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises: an object detection unit to detect an object included in a frame image based on a feature amount of the frame image, and generate and output object information concerning the detected object; an event detection unit to detect an event of the object based on the object information output by the object detection unit, and generate and output event concern information concerning the detected event of the object; and a transmission unit to transmit the frame image, the event concern information, concerning the frame image, output by the event detection unit, and time information concerning the frame image, as associating them with others. Thus, even in a case where event detection timing and event occurrence timing are different from each other, it is possible to perform a display by which a user can easily confirm the event. | 04-21-2011 |
20120106849 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus acquires an image; sets a plurality of partial regions for the acquired image, and acquiring an image feature amount including a plurality of frequency components from each of the partial regions; compares the acquired image feature amount with an image feature amount of a background model which holds, for each of the partial regions, an image feature amount of an image as a background; updates, based on the comparison result, each of a plurality of frequency components included in the image feature amount held in the background model using the acquired image feature amount by a degree according to each of the frequency components; and detects, using the background model updated in the updating, for each of the partial regions, a region where a target object to be detected exists. | 05-03-2012 |
20120288153 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING OBJECT FROM IMAGE AND METHOD THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus stores a background model in which a feature amount is associated with time information for each state at each position of an image to be a background, extracts a feature amount for each position of an input video image, compares the feature amount in the input video image with that of each state in the background model, to determine the state similar to the input video image, and updates the time information of the state similar to the input video image, determines a foreground area in the input video image based on the time information of the state similar to the input video image, detects a predetermined subject from the foreground area, and updates the time information of the state in the background model. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288198 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus for detecting a foreground portion from an acquired image. Feature amount information of a past acquired image and likelihood information indicating a probability that a subject is represented is stored as background model information. A foreground region is detected based on the likelihood information and a result of comparing the feature amount extracted from the acquired image with the feature amount information contained in the background model information. For each of the detected foreground region, a likelihood indicating a probability that the region represents the subject is calculated based on information prepared in advance related to the subject. | 11-15-2012 |
20130094709 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SPECIFIC OBJECT PATTERN FROM IMAGE - A face area is detected from an image captured by an image pickup device, pixel values of the image are adjusted based on information concerning the detected face area, a person area is detected from the adjusted image, and the detected face area is integrated with the detected person area. With this configuration, it is possible to accurately detect an object even in a case, for example, where the brightness is varied. | 04-18-2013 |
20130129157 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING OBJECT FROM MOVING IMAGE AND METHOD THEREOF - A face image is detected for each frame at a predetermined interval in moving image data, and the face image is traced using a frame in which the face image is detected and frames subsequent to the frame. A face sequence including an interval in which the face can be traced and motion velocity vectors of the face indicating a change in the position of the face image in the interval is generated based on the tracing result. Further, camera operation information about when the moving image data is acquired is generated from the frame image of the moving image data. When there is an overlap in the plurality of intervals in which the face images are traced, the face being tracked by the camera is determined using the face sequence and the camera operation information of each of the plurality of face images. The face determined to be tracked is then determined to be a key object. | 05-23-2013 |
20130271667 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - An input video is compared with a background model. Based on the comparison result, a duration time during which a difference region different from the background model continues in the input video is measured. The difference region whose duration time is less than a predetermined threshold is determined as a foreground. A scene change in the input video is detected based on the comparison result. Upon detecting the scene change, the predetermined threshold is changed. | 10-17-2013 |
20140056473 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The object detection apparatus prevents or eliminates detection errors caused by changes of an object which frequently appears in a background. To this end, an object detection apparatus includes a detection unit which detects an object region by comparing an input video from a video input device and a background model, a selection unit which selects a region of a background object originally included in a video, a generation unit which generates background object feature information based on features included in the background object region, and a determination unit which determines whether or not the object region detected from the input video is a background object using the background object feature information. | 02-27-2014 |
20140301604 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LUMINANCE ADJUSTMENT OF IMAGES IN AN IMAGE SEQUENCE - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for adjusting a set of luminance values associated with a set of visual elements in a current frame ( | 10-09-2014 |