Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080229360 | Content Recommendation Device - Preferences of a user are analyzed with respect to each of a plurality of pieces of content. already viewed by the user, and a piece viewing motivation information that is a combination of attribute entities of the piece of content is generated. A primary viewing motivation-portion and a secondary viewing motivation portion are determined in the generated pieces of viewing, motivation information, and pieces of viewing motivation information having a common primary viewing motivation portion are grouped together. Content having the determined primary viewing motivation portion and secondary viewing motivation portion is selected from content not yet viewed by the user, and content information about the selected content is presented to the user in correspondence with the primary viewing motivation portion and secondary viewing motivation portion. | 09-18-2008 |
20090058611 | WEARABLE DEVICE - A wearable device is worn by a person participating in an event in which a plurality of other people are participating and wearing other wearable devices. The wearable device includes a request unit for transmitting a request signal to other wearable devices that are in a predetermined range, and receiving a response to the request signal from each of the other wearable devices, and a communication unit for determining, with use of the received responses, one or more of the other wearable devices to be a communication partner, and performing data communication with the determined one or more other wearable devices. The data received in the communication is data collected by the one or more other wearable devices determined to be communication partners, and the data is used as a profile component when creating a profile of the event. | 03-05-2009 |
20090077633 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM, ITS RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - It is an object of the present invention to provide technology capable of presenting information for selecting an introducer of content. A communication device is provided, the communication device sending content or content identification information to another communication device and receiving content or content identification information from another communication device, comprising: an evaluation value calculation unit | 03-19-2009 |
20100097483 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data processing apparatus acquires images captured by cameras. A data processing apparatus | 04-22-2010 |
20100134626 | DISPLAY, DISPLAY METHOD, AND DISPLAY PROGRAM - The present invention aims to provide a display device that can display relationships between a plurality of users in an easy-to-visually-acknowledge manner. | 06-03-2010 |
20100202766 | CAMERA DRIVER - A camera driving apparatus according to the present invention includes a camera section including an imaging element, a lens for forming a subject image on an imaging plane of the imaging element, and a lens barrel for holding the lens; a fixed unit at least partially formed of a magnetic member and having a protrusion section having a shape of at least a part of a spherical face; a movable unit including a first movable section having an attracting magnet for generating a magnetic attracting force in the magnetic member and a conical contact face with which the protrusion section is loosely engageable by the magnetic attracting force and is contactable, the first movable section being freely pivotable around a sphere center of the spherical face of the protrusion section; and a second movable section having the camera section mounted thereon and fixed to the first movable section, the second movable section having a fall preventive regulation face in a state where a prescribed gap, along which the second movable section is freely pivotable with respect to the fixed unit when the first movable section pivots, is sandwiched between the fall preventive regulation face and the fixed unit; a detector for detecting an inclining angle of the camera section with respect to the fixed unit and a rotating angle of the camera section around an optical axis of the lens; a first driving section for inclining the camera section with respect to the fixed unit; and a second driving section for rotating the camera section around the optical axis with respect to the fixed unit. | 08-12-2010 |
20110254985 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT - The solid-state image sensor of this invention includes an array of pixels and light-transmitting portions | 10-20-2011 |
20110316983 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - The present invention provides an image capturing technique for obtaining, at the same time, multiple images with parallax and an image that would cause no sensitivity problem even without mechanically operating any part of its image capturing system. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317053 | IMAGING DEVICE, SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image capture device includes: an array of pixels | 12-29-2011 |
20120002018 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - A 3D image capture device includes: a light transmitting member | 01-05-2012 |
20120105598 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE - An image capture device according to the present invention includes an imaging lens | 05-03-2012 |
20120112037 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE - An image capture device according to the present invention includes an imaging lens | 05-10-2012 |
20120133743 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - The 3D image capture device of this invention includes: a light-transmitting section | 05-31-2012 |
20120182472 | CAMERA DRIVE DEVICE - A camera driving apparatus according to the present invention includes a camera section | 07-19-2012 |
20130127846 | PARALLAX IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, PARALLAX IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A parallax image generation device includes: a depth value correction unit which performs correction processing on a depth value, from among a plurality of depth values which define a depth image, to shift a position corresponding to the depth value to be closer to a display screen as the depth value is located closer to an end of the depth image, the display screen being for displaying a parallax image; and a parallax image generation unit which generates a first parallax image and a second parallax image having mutual parallax, using a two-dimensional image and the depth image corrected through the correction processing. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135502 | COLOR SEPARATION FILTER ARRAY, SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A color separating filter array has a configuration in which unit elements | 05-30-2013 |
20130136342 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There are provided an data input unit configured to receive an input image, depth data, and a shooting parameter, a parameter input unit that receives a transformation parameter as a parameter on projective transformation of a three-dimensional model, a transformed image generating unit that generate a transformed image by performing projective transformation based on the transformation parameter in the three-dimensional model obtained from the input image, the depth data, and the shooting parameter, a blank area detecting unit that detects a blank area in the transformed image, the blank area being a group of blank pixels having no corresponding pixel in the input image, and an output unit configured to output the transformed image in the case where a blank value indicating size of the blank area is smaller than or equal to a threshold value. | 05-30-2013 |
20130170817 | VIDEO EDITING APPARATUS, VIDEO EDITING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A video editing apparatus includes: a selection unit which receives a first editing point and a second editing point; a representative value generation unit which generates a representative value of first disparity information on disparities of the first editing point and a representative value of second disparity information on disparities of the second editing point; a comparison value calculation unit which calculates a first depth difference by a comparison between the representative value of the first disparity information and the representative value of the second disparity information; a determination unit which determines whether or not the first depth difference is less than or equal to a predetermined value; and a presenting unit which presents a message prompting a user to change at least one of the first editing point and the second editing point when it is determined that the first depth difference is greater than the predetermined value. | 07-04-2013 |