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20080286454 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PATTERN FORMING BODY AND PATTERN MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - The main object of the present invention is to form an even pattern. In order to achieve the object, in the present invention, patterns P | 11-20-2008 |
20090031145 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A data processing apparatus capable of using, without change, a password used at the time of backup as a password at the time of restoration to thereby realize backup and restoration which are high in security and user-friendliness. Upon being backed up into an external storage medium, data stored in a box in the data processing apparatus and protected by password information is encrypted with an encryption key generated based on the password information and is stored into the external storage medium. Upon restoration of the encrypted data from the external storage medium to a multifunction peripheral, password information input by a user is set as a new password, and the data decrypted with a decryption key generated based on the password information is protected with the new password. | 01-29-2009 |
20090061167 | INKJET INK COMPOSITION FOR COLOR FILTER, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR COLOR FILTER, AND COLOR FILTER - An ink-jet composition for a color filter excellent in storage stability, straightness and sustainability at the time of ejection from a head, wherein a cured layer thereof is excellent in heat resistance, adhesive property, and solvent resistance. The ink-jet ink composition for a color filter is a specific epoxy group-containing polymer (A), a specific epoxy group-containing compound (B) having two or more specific epoxy groups and a polycarboxlic acid derivative (C) in which specific carboxylic acid (cl) having alicyclic hydrocarbon is rendered latent by vinyl ether (c2), wherein the equivalence ratio of carboxyl groups rendered latent by the polycarbonoxylic acid derivative (C) to the total epoxy groups contained in the epoxy-group containing polymer (A) and the epoxy-group containing compound (B) is in the range from 0.7 to 1.1. | 03-05-2009 |
20090276266 | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT METHOD USING AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus determines whether workflow information is included in a received print request. When the workflow information is included in the received print request, the image forming apparatus analyzes the workflow information and calculates a limit date/time to be notified to workers taking charge of respective steps of a workflow. The image forming apparatus prepares E-mail data including information that indicates the limit date/time. The image forming apparatus sends the prepared E-mail by referring to mail addresses of the workers taking charge of the respective steps of the workflow. | 11-05-2009 |
20100134828 | FILE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, METHOD AND FILE VERSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A file transmission apparatus ( | 06-03-2010 |
20100245904 | IMAGE TRANSFER SYSTEM, DATA TRANSFER METHOD AND PROGRAM - A first image processing apparatus makes a request to the second image processing apparatus to issue identification information to transfer second image data that a second image processing apparatus has received from the communication apparatus to the first image processing apparatus, and transmits first image data to be transmitted to the communication apparatus, and transmission destination information for identifying the communication apparatus, to the second image processing apparatus via a network. | 09-30-2010 |
20110122435 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image reading apparatus requests an external apparatus to issue an image read instruction, receives the image read instruction which is sent from the external apparatus in response to the request, and generates image data by reading an image in accordance with the image read instruction. The image reading apparatus accepts an instruction as to whether or not to transfer the image data to the external apparatus. The image reading apparatus transfers the image data to the external apparatus when it accepts the transfer instruction. | 05-26-2011 |
20110167151 | EVENT PROXY NOTIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND PROGRAM - When a notification request for an event is received from a client apparatus, information about the type of the event, an event notification apparatus, and the client apparatus included in the notification request are registered. Upon reception of issuance of an event from an event notification apparatus, it is determined whether the event notification apparatus, the type of the event, and a client apparatus that has requested notification of the event have been registered. If it is determined that the event notification apparatus, the type of the event, and the client apparatus have been registered with respect to the event, the event is transmitted to the registered client apparatus. | 07-07-2011 |
20120036403 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which make it possible to confirm an error recovery event. A device proxy server as an information processing apparatus is connected to a printer and a client PC via a network. The device proxy server receives an event message indicative of an event having occurred in a printer. The received event message is transferred to a client PC. When the event message transferred to the client PC is related to an error event indicative of an error having occurred in the printer, the device proxy server monitors whether or not the error event has been eliminated in the printer. When the error event is eliminated in the printer, the device proxy server sends an error recovery message indicative of elimination of the error event to the client PC. | 02-09-2012 |
20120147436 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT PREVENTS ERRONEOUS TRANSMISSION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus capable of preventing erroneous transmission due to a change in destination information in a shared address book. A CPU acquires destination information including at least an identifier and a destination, and a destination of the image data is designated from the acquired destination information. Information on the designated destination of the image data is stored in a destination usage history table. The CPU determines whether or not the acquired destination information has been changed by comparing the designated destination information and the destination information stored in the destination usage history table. If it is determined that the destination information has been changed, a screen for confirming the destination information is displayed. The destination information is designated from the acquired destination information according to a user's confirming operation on the displayed screen. | 06-14-2012 |
20120290658 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHODS OF CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A first communication apparatus generates export data, which includes an address book indicating data transmission destinations and indication information indicating that it is necessary to communicate with a server in order to transmit data to an address contained in the address book, and transmits the export data to a second communication apparatus. The second communication apparatus receives the export data transmitted from the first communication apparatus and sets an address book and indication information of the second communication apparatus in accordance with the export data. | 11-15-2012 |
20130128308 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus at a client side communicates with a server to update remote one-touch keys each time because a remote one-touch key can be deleted or added in a communication apparatus at the server side. However, a remote one-touch key selected to specify a transmission destination can be used to deselect the transmission destination. Consequently, the communication apparatus at the client side does not update the remote one-touch keys while the remote one-touch key is selected to specify the transmission destination. With the configuration, the one-touch keys provided from the communication apparatus at the server side can be used while the operability of the one-touch keys is maintained. | 05-23-2013 |
20130308167 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit configured to accept an input of user information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an e-mail address of a user identified based on the user information accepted by the acceptance unit, a first setting unit configured to set a destination of a first e-mail transmitted with an attachment of image data, a second setting unit configured to set a destination of a second e-mail for making notification of completion of transmission of the first e-mail, and a control unit configured to perform control such that a destination of the first e-mail is restricted to the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit, but a destination of the second e-mail is not restricted to the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit. | 11-21-2013 |
20150049363 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT TRANSMITS AND RECEIVES MAINTENANCE WORK DATA TO AND FROM INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus without bothering a user, even when it is necessary to disconnect and restart the image forming apparatus which has been connected to the information processing apparatus so as to transmit and receive maintenance work data for performing the maintenance work on the image forming apparatus. When the image forming apparatus is required to be disconnected and reconnected after restarting the image forming apparatus during connection with the information processing apparatus, identification information for identifying an information processing apparatus to be reconnected is stored in a storage section. The image forming apparatus is reconnected to the information processing apparatus identified by the identification information stored in the storage section after the image forming apparatus is restarted. | 02-19-2015 |
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20090110303 | OBJECT RECOGNIZING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An object is identified by detecting an object area image of an object to be recognized from a degraded image, converting the object area image to a frequency area, extracting a feature vector which indicates the amount of blur, comparing the feature vector and a classified plurality of blurred images, obtaining a cluster which is the most similar to the feature vector, selecting one point spread function corresponding to the similar cluster, restoring the object area image to the image before being blurred using the point spread function, and comparing the restored image and a target image. | 04-30-2009 |
20150034725 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a detection unit, an extraction unit, and a reading unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an input image including a marker having a position detection pattern. The detection unit is configured to detect the position detection pattern using identification data used for detecting the position detection pattern included in the input image, the identification data being from a plurality of position detection patterns having different forms from each other. The extraction unit is configured to extract, from the input image, the marker corresponding to the detected position detection pattern. The reading unit is configured to read data associated with the extracted marker. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036932 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an obtainer, a setter, a first calculator, a second calculator, and a third calculator. The obtainer obtains an image. The setter sets a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions on the image. Each of the first regions and the second regions includes two or more pixels, and at least one of the second regions is different in position or size from the first regions. The first calculator calculates first feature data representing an image feature of the first regions. The second calculator calculates second feature data which is a luminance gradient between the second regions. The third calculator calculates relative feature data representing a relative relationship between the first feature data and the second feature data. | 02-05-2015 |
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20080317350 | PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A image recognition apparatus includes a face input unit, an input subspace calculation unit, a dictionary subspace calculation unit, an eigenvalue calculation unit, a diagonal matrix generation unit, a transformation matrix calculation unit, a transformation unit, a similarity degree calculation unit, a recognition unit. The recognition unit, based on a similarity degrees calculated by the similarity degree calculation unit, recognizes which of a plurality of categories each of a plurality of input patterns belongs to. | 12-25-2008 |
20130033591 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an embodiment, an image processing device includes: a first calculating unit; a selecting unit; an extracting unit; a second calculating unit; a determining unit; and a generating unit. The first calculating unit calculates posture information of a subject from a first image including the subject. The selecting unit selects a second image associated with the posture information from a plurality of second images including clothing. The extracting unit extracts a first feature of the subject from a first contour in the first image and extracts a second feature from a second contour in the second image. The second calculating unit calculates a first difference between the first feature and the second feature. The determining unit determines a transparency that is higher as the first difference is larger. The generating unit generates a composite image combining the first image and the second image with the determined transparency. | 02-07-2013 |
20130127906 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF AND PROGRAM THEREOF - An information display apparatus creates determination image which indicates the fact that a reference object in a plurality of objects arranged in a row satisfies a predetermined rule or that the reference object does not satisfy the rule, creates an image to be displayed by superimposing the determination image on the acquired image, and displays the image to be displayed. | 05-23-2013 |
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 |
20130306733 | READER, READING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a reader includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image containing a code; a detecting unit configured to detect a plurality of local regions containing parts of the code from the image; an integrating unit configured to integrate the local regions to obtain an integrated region; and a reading unit configured to read the code on the integrated region. | 11-21-2013 |
20140064556 | OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an object detection system includes an obtaining unit, an estimating unit, a setting unit, a calculating unit, and a detecting unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain an image in which an object is captured. The estimating unit is configured to estimate a condition of the object. The setting unit is configured to set, in the image, a plurality of areas that have at least one of a relative positional relationship altered according to the condition and a shape altered according to the condition. The calculating unit is configured to calculate a feature value of an image covering the areas. The detecting unit is configured to compare the calculated feature value with a feature value of a predetermined registered object, and detect the registered object corresponding to the object. | 03-06-2014 |
20140085330 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a first calculator to calculate, when a photographic subject image is determined to satisfy a first condition, a first position of the clothing image such that the position of a feature area matches with the position of the feature area; a second calculator to calculate a second position of the clothing image in the photographic subject image such that the position of a feature point in the clothing image matches with the position of the feature point in the photographic subject image; a deciding unit to decide, when the photographic subject image is determined to satisfy the first condition, on the first position as a superimposition position, and decide, when the photographic subject image is determined not to satisfy the first condition, on the superimposition position based on the difference between the first position and the second position. | 03-27-2014 |
20140122068 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a signal processing apparatus includes an ambient sound estimating unit, a representative component estimating unit, a voice estimating unit, and a filter generating unit. The ambient sound estimating unit is configured to estimate, from the feature, an ambient sound component that is non-stationary among ambient sound components having a feature. The representative component estimating unit is configured to estimate a representative component representing ambient sound components estimated from one or more features for a time period, based on a largest value among the ambient sound components within the time period. The voice estimating unit is configured to estimate, from the feature, a voice component having the feature. The filter generating unit is configured to generate a filter for extracting a voice component and an ambient sound component from the feature, based on the voice component and the representative component. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129329 | SERVER, ANALYSIS METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a server includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, an analyzing unit, and an output unit. The first acquiring unit is configured to acquire recognition information includes a product identification information for identifying the product. The second acquiring unit is configured to acquire combination information including the product identification information of the product to be combined with an object image including an object. The analyzing unit is configured to calculate product priorities for respective products by analyzing the recognition information and the combination information. The output unit is configured to output information based on the product priorities. | 05-08-2014 |
20140152851 | Information Processing Apparatus, Server Device, and Computer Program Product - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image capturing module, an estimation module, a content obtaining module, and a display module. The image capturing module is configured to capture a subject to be captured. The estimation module is configured to estimate a state of the subject to be captured based on a capturing method for the subject to be captured by the image capturing module. The content obtaining module is configured to obtain the content based on the state of the subject to be captured and relating to the subject to be captured. The display module is configured to display the obtained content. | 06-05-2014 |
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20120194545 | INTERFACE APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an interface apparatus for displaying a GUI object according to a position and a direction of a pointing object comprises a display unit, an image capturing unit, a detection unit, and an additional display unit. The display unit displays a movie based on a first image frame group. The image capturing unit obtains a second image frame group by capturing an image of a surface on which the movie is displayed. The detection unit detects a position and a direction of the pointing object based on the first image frame group and the second image frame group. The additional display unit displays a specific shape which is superimposed to the first image frame group, so that the detected position of the pointing object is irradiated with light of no less than a predetermined illuminance and the light attenuates according to a distance from the position. | 08-02-2012 |
20140180685 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a signal processing device includes a background calculator, a signal generator, an extractor, a similarity calculator, and a mixer. The background calculator is configured to calculate a first background signal in which a speech signal is removed, based on the acoustic signals. The signal generator is configured to generate a reference signal from at least one of the acoustic signals. The extractor is configured to extract a second background signal by removing a speech signal from the reference signal. The similarity calculator is configured to calculate a similarity between feature data of the background signals. The mixer is configured to calculate a weighted sum of the background signals in such a way that a greater weight is given to the first background signal as the similarity is higher and a greater weight is given to the second background signal as the similarity is lower. | 06-26-2014 |
20140247997 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing system includes a determination unit, a selection unit, and a display control unit. The determination unit is configured to determine whether a first feature value extracted from a first image and a second feature value extracted from a second image are identical or similar. The selection unit is configured to select content data from a plurality of content data so that the selected content data is different between when it is determined that the first feature value and the second feature value are identical or similar and when it is determined that the first feature value and the second feature value are not identical or similar. The display control unit is configured to display the selected content data on a display unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140286530 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, and a calculator. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an image. The setting unit is configured to set a plurality of sampling points in a sampling area of the image, each sampling point being associated with a calculation area. The calculator is configured to calculate feature values of the image in the calculation area. The setting unit is configured to set the sampling points to provide at least one of an arrangement in which distances between the adjacent sampling points change with distances from a center of the sampling area, and an arrangement in which the sampling points exist on circumferences of a plurality of circles different in diameter. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293092 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first image acquisition unit, a first information acquisition unit, a reception unit, a generation unit, and a writing unit. The first image acquisition unit is configured to acquire a first image obtained by imaging by an imaging unit. The first information acquisition unit is configured to acquire any of multiple pieces of information capable of being associated with the first image. The reception unit is configured to receive a first input. The generation unit is configured to associate the first image acquired in the first image acquisition unit with the information piece acquired in the first information acquisition unit to generate an association data piece when the reception unit receives the first input. The writing unit is configured to write the association data piece into a storage unit. | 10-02-2014 |
20150138199 | IMAGE GENERATING SYSTEM AND IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an image generating system generates an image of a target object virtually disposed inside a target space. The system includes a storage unit, a calculating unit and a presentation unit. The storage unit stores target object data representing a three-dimensional configuration and an external appearance of the target object. The calculating unit generates a three-dimensional model of the target space, a lighting model indicating a lighting region of the target space, a shading image based on the target object data and the lighting model, and a synthesized image of the shading image and the three-dimensional model. The shading image represents shading appearing at the target object. The generating of the shading image is performed by a selection of the target object, an arrangement position of the target object, and a position of a viewpoint. The presentation unit presents the synthesized image. | 05-21-2015 |
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20140078592 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device, includes an image projection unit and an optical unit. The image projection unit includes a laser beam source configured to emit a laser beam including image information, and a scanning unit configured to scan the laser beam. The optical unit includes a reflecting unit. The reflecting unit includes a plurality of half mirrors stacked with each other. The scanned laser beam is sequentially incident on the plurality of half mirrors. Respective reflected laser beams produced by being reflected by each of the half mirrors pass through a plurality of mutually-different points. | 03-20-2014 |
20140139899 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes an image display, an optical component, a light control component. The image display emits light including an image. The optical component has a focal distance D1. The light control component is provided between the image display and the optical component on an optical path of the light. The light control component includes a central aperture transmitting a first portion of the light emitted, and a peripheral aperture provided around the central aperture and transmitting a second portion of the light. The light control component blocks a portion of the light other than the first and second portions. The focal distance D1, a distance D2 between the optical component and the light control component, and an aperture spacing d0 between the central aperture and the peripheral aperture satisfy a relationship: d0·D1/D2>2. | 05-22-2014 |
20140240222 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a photographing image including a user region is acquired. The user region is detected from the photographing image. The user region in the photographing image is changed so that a user's direction in the user region cannot be decided, and the photographing image in which the user region is changed is acquired as a change image. A position of the user region in the photographing image is calculated. An image of a back side-cloth is compounded with the user region in the change image at the position. | 08-28-2014 |