Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090141982 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores information concerning model feature points and model feature quantities at the model feature points, a first acquiring unit that acquires an input moving image, a first feature-point extracting unit that extracts input feature points for recognizing an action from the input moving image, a first feature-quantity extracting unit that extracts input feature quantities at the input feature points, a feature-quantity comparing unit that compares the input feature quantities and the model feature quantities and generates candidate corresponding feature point pairs, a posture estimating unit that removes outliers from the candidate corresponding feature point pairs, estimates postures of models on the input moving image, and obtains a recognition corresponding feature point pair group corresponding to the postures, and a recognition-result generating unit that generates a recognition result on the basis of the recognition corresponding feature point pair group. | 06-04-2009 |
20090192861 | Client Apparatus, Server Apparatus, Meeting Arrangement System, and Meeting Arrangement Method - Disclosed is a client apparatus including a communication unit, a first generator to generate friendship information indicating a friendship between a first user of the client apparatus and each of second users of the plurality of other client apparatuses, a storage unit to store schedule information and meeting history information, a second generator to generate desired meeting date/time information of the first user, a third generator to generate desired meeting place information of the first user, a fourth generator to generate meeting member candidate information, and a controller to control the communication unit to transmit, to the server apparatus, the desired meeting date/time information, the desired meeting place information, and the meeting member candidate information. | 07-30-2009 |
20100278419 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a feature amount extraction unit extracting a feature amount of each frame of an image, a maximum likelihood state series estimation unit estimating maximum likelihood state series using the feature amount, a highlight label generation unit generating highlight label series with respect to the attention detector learning content, and a learning unit learning the highlight detector that is the state transition probability model using learning label series that is a pair of the maximum likelihood state series obtained from the attention detector learning content and the highlight label series. | 11-04-2010 |
20110029465 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain time-series data from a wearable sensor, an activity model learning unit configured to learn an activity model representing a user activity state as a stochastic state transition model from the obtained time-series data, a recognition unit configured to recognize a current user activity state by using the activity model of the user obtained by the activity model learning unit, and a prediction unit configured to predict a user activity state after a predetermined time elapses from a current time from the current user activity state recognized by the recognition unit. | 02-03-2011 |
20110060706 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device comprising: a likelihood calculating unit configured to take the time series of an observed value to be successively supplied as learned data to be used for learning, and with regard to each module making up a learning model having an HMM (Hidden Markov Model) as a module which is the minimum component, to obtain likelihood that the learned data may be observed at the module; an object module determining unit configured to determine, based on the likelihood, a single module of the learning model, or a new module to be an object module that is an object module having an HMM parameter to be updated; and an updating unit configured to perform learning for updating the HMM parameter of the object module using the learned data. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060707 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a hierarchy processing unit for generating a unit to connect the unit in a hierarchical structure, the unit including an input control unit for performing input control for storing an observed value, and outputting the time series of the observed value as input data to be given to a learning model having an HMM (Hidden Markov Model) as a minimum component module, a model processing unit for performing processing using the learning model, including a module learning unit for obtaining likelihood of the input data being observed with the module, to determine one module of the learning model, or new module to be an object module having HMM parameters to be updated, and to perform module learning processing for updating the HMM parameters, and a recognizing unit for recognizing the input data using the learning model, and an output control unit for performing output control. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060708 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: an object module determining unit for determining of a learning model having a time series pattern storage model for storing a time series pattern as a module which is the minimum component, a maximum likelihood module having the maximum likelihood, or a new module to be an object module that is a module having a model parameter of the storage model to be updated; and an updating unit for updating the model parameter of the object module using learned data to be used for learning that is the time series of an observed value; with the object module determining unit using the learned data to determine the maximum likelihood module or the new module to be the object module based on the posterior probability of the learning model in the case that learning of the maximum likelihood module or the new module has been performed. | 03-10-2011 |
20110137835 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes an acquisition unit acquiring a viewing log including information representing content of an operation for viewing content and time of the operation, a learning unit learning, based on the viewing log acquired by the acquisition unit, a viewing behavior model which is a stochastic state transition model representing a viewing behavior of a user, a recognition unit recognizing, using the viewing behavior model obtained through learning by the learning unit, a current viewing state of the user, a prediction unit predicting, using the viewing behavior model, the viewing behavior of the user after a predetermined period of time with the current viewing state of the user recognized by the recognition unit as a starting point, and a display control unit displaying information relating to content predicted to be viewed through the viewing behavior predicted by the prediction unit. | 06-09-2011 |
20110239118 | GESTURE INPUT DEVICE, GESTURE INPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a gesture input device including an input unit to which at least one of image information and voice information representing a user's action is input, a detection unit that detects the user's action based on the input at least one of the image information and the voice information, a prediction unit that predicts one or more gestures that the user desires to input based on a detection result of the action, and a notification unit that notifies the user of an action to be performed next by the user in order to input the predicted one or more gestures. | 09-29-2011 |
20120033933 | Display Control Device, Display Control Method, and Program - The present invention relates to a display control device, a display method, and a program, whereby a new thumbnail method can be provided. | 02-09-2012 |
20120057775 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a feature amount extracting unit configured to extract the feature amount of each frame of an image of a content for detector learning of interest that is a content to be used for learning of a highlight detector which is a model for detecting a scene in which the user is interested as a highlight scene; a clustering unit configured to use cluster information that is the information of the cluster obtained by performing cluster learning; a highlight label generating unit configured to generate a highlight label sequence; and a highlight detector learning unit configured to perform learning of the highlight detector. | 03-08-2012 |
20130054046 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an appliance power consumption estimating unit estimating power consumption of each of a plurality of appliances disposed inside a large region that is divided into a plurality of regions; an appliance presence probability estimating unit estimating appliance presence probabilities that are probabilities that the respective appliances are present in the respective regions; a responsible share deciding unit deciding responsible shares that are proportions for respective people when power consumption in each region is shared among people who may be present in the large region; and a power consumption allocating unit calculating an allocated amount of power consumption of each person based on the power consumption of each of the plurality of appliances, the appliance presence probabilities, and the responsible shares. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054166 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In some embodiments, a system comprising a first and a second computing device is disclosed. The first computing device, comprising at least one processor, is configured to obtain, from a second computing device, data related to power consumption by at least a first electrical device located in a first region of a plurality of regions, and classify the first region, based at least in part on the obtained data, into a first group of regions of a plurality of groups of regions. The second computing device, comprising at least another processor, is configured to transmit, to the first computing device, the data related to power consumption by at least the first electrical device, and receive, from the first computing device information related to power consumption by a second electrical device located in a second region, wherein the second region is in the first group of regions. | 02-28-2013 |
20130094831 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit displaying a segment map, in which segment-representing images representing video segments obtained by dividing content into video segments which are collections of frames of one or more temporally continuous frames, are arranged on a display apparatus and a reproduction control unit controlling reproduction of the video segments corresponding to the segment-representing image according to a reproduction operation of a user requesting reproduction with respect to the segment-representing image, in which, when, during reproduction of a video segment of content, a reproduction operation is performed with respect to a segment-representing image of another video segment of the content, the reproduction control unit reproduces the other video segment corresponding to the segment-representing image for which the reproduction operation was performed, while still maintaining the reproduction of the video segment being reproduced. | 04-18-2013 |
20130163860 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method and Program - The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily adding an annotation to content. | 06-27-2013 |
20130183022 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method and Program - The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily adding an annotation to content and providing an application, which utilizes the annotation. | 07-18-2013 |
20130257720 | INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS, INFORMATION INPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information input apparatus includes an observation unit that observes an environment including a user and one or more apparatuses to be controlled and includes a sensor; a learning unit that separates a foreground including the user and the one or more apparatuses to be controlled and a background including the environment except for the foreground from observation data obtained by the observation unit and learns three-dimensional models of the foreground and the background; a state estimation unit that estimates positions and postures of already modeled foregrounds in the environment; a user recognition unit that identifies fingers of the user from the foreground and recognizes a shape, position, and posture of the fingers; and an apparatus control unit that outputs a control command to the one or more apparatuses to be controlled on the basis of the recognized shape, position, and posture of the fingers. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259445 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a symbol string generating unit configured to generate a symbol string in which symbols representing attributes of a plurality of data are arrayed in time-series, based on time-series data configured of the plurality of data arrayed in time-series; and a dividing unit configured to divide the time-series data into a plurality of segments, based on dispersion of the symbols in the symbol string. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262998 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device includes a chapter point generating unit configured to generate chapter point data, which sections content configured of a plurality of still images into a plurality of chapters; and a display control unit configured to display a representative image representing each scene of the chapter, in a chapter display region provided for each chapter, based on the chapter point data, and display, of the plurality of still images configuring the content, an image group instructed based on a still image selected by a predetermined user operation, along with a playing position of the still images making up the image group in total playing time of the content. | 10-03-2013 |