Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080199044 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Program - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus for recognizing, from a taken image, an object corresponding to a registered image registered in advance, including, an image taker configured to take an image of a subject to obtain the taken image of the subject, a recognizer configured to recognize, from the taken image, an object corresponding to the registered image, a first specified area tracker configured to execute first specified area tracking processing for tracking, in the taken image, a first tracking area specified on the basis of a result of recognition by the recognizer, and a second specified area tracker configured to execute second specified area tracking processing for tracking a second specified area specified on the basis of a result of the first specified area tracking processing. | 08-21-2008 |
20090073117 | Image Processing Apparatus and Method, and Program Therefor - An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit configured to extract a feature point from a captured image; a recognizing unit configured to recognize a position of the feature point; a display control unit configured to perform control, based on the position of the feature point, to display a feature-point pointer indicating the feature point; and an issuing unit configured to issue, based on the position of the feature point, a command corresponding to the position of the feature point or a motion of the feature point. | 03-19-2009 |
20090092336 | Image Processing Device and Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing device for recognizing an object corresponding to a registered image registered beforehand from an imaged image, comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain the imaged image; a recognizing unit configured to recognize an object corresponding to the registered image from the imaged image; and a detecting unit configured to detect, based on a registered image corresponding to an object recognized from the imaged image thereof, an area where another object is overlapped with the object corresponding to the registered image thereof. | 04-09-2009 |
20100066860 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DYNAMIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM IN THEM - An optical-flow calculating unit ( | 03-18-2010 |
20100073519 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a first image storing unit that stores a first history image including a first picked-up image forming a picked-up moving image; an image transforming unit that transforms, on the basis of transformation information concerning the first picked-up image and a second picked-up image forming the picked-up moving image located after the first picked-up image on a time axis of the picked-up moving image, the second picked-up image; and an image combining unit that causes a second image storing unit different from the first image storing unit to store the transformed second picked-up image, overwrites the first history image stored in the first image storing unit on the second picked-up image stored in the second image storing unit, and combines the first history image and the second picked-up image. | 03-25-2010 |
20100097398 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING-IMAGE PLAYING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - To allow a viewer to easily understand the details of a moving image shot by an image capturing apparatus in the case where the moving image is browsed. A camerawork detecting unit | 04-22-2010 |
20100103290 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a transformation information calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the motion information of an imaged image making up an imaged moving picture, transformation information relating to a plurality of compositing target images serving as compositing targets of an imaged image making up the imaged moving picture; and a decoration image determining unit configured to calculate a shift quantity between a first compositing target image that is the compositing target image, and a second compositing target image that is the compositing target image after transformation according to the transformation information to determine a decoration image to be added to the periphery of the second compositing target image based on the shift quantity. | 04-29-2010 |
20100104217 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a front-most image information storage unit configured to store information relating to a front-most image that is one image of a plurality of compositing target images serving as compositing targets of an imaged image making up an imaged moving picture; a transformation information storage unit configured to store transformation information used for transforming another compositing target image of the plurality of compositing target images with the front-most image as a reference; an image transforming unit configured to transform the plurality of compositing target images sequentially toward the front-most image from the compositing target image positioned at the forefront or last of the temporal axis based on the transformation information; an image compositing unit configured to overwrite-composite the transformed compositing target images sequentially to generate a composited image; and a display control unit configured to display the composited image sequentially. | 04-29-2010 |
20100104256 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a calculating unit configured to calculate motion information relating to between two images that make up an imaged moving picture; and a selecting unit configured to select compositing target images serving as compositing targets from a plurality of images that make up the imaged moving picture based on reliability that indicates the likelihood of the calculated motion information. | 04-29-2010 |
20100111499 | PICTURE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH, AND PROGRAM - A picture conversion information supply section | 05-06-2010 |
20100118160 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - When picked up images picked up by an image pickup apparatus are accessed, the contents of the picked up images are grasped readily. A dynamic picture storage section | 05-13-2010 |
20100118161 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DYNAMIC PICTURE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - A dynamic picture storage section ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100135635 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - In viewing a moving image taken by an image taking apparatus, contents of that moving image are easily understood. A feature quantity extraction block | 06-03-2010 |
20100208051 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image pickup part; a display part; a position detecting part for detecting a position of a target relative to the display part; a face detecting part for detecting a face from a taken image; an attribute obtaining part for obtaining attribute information of the target; a group determining part for determining a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the detected target; a content determining part for determining a content to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information of the target and the attribute information of the target; and a display processing part for displaying content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target. | 08-19-2010 |
20100315522 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DYNAMIC PICTURE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An object image transformation information calculation section ( | 12-16-2010 |
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 |
20110099002 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold, in advance, presentation data to be presented to a person; a detection unit configured to detect, in a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a photographic subject, the photographic subject; a reading unit configured to read presentation data associated with a detection result of the photographic subject from among items of presentation data held in advance; and an output unit configured to output the read presentation data. | 04-28-2011 |
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 |
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 |
20120056898 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including: a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users present in an input image captured by an imaging device; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire display information to be displayed in association with each user recognized by the recognition unit; a weight determination unit configured to determine a weight of each user recognized by the recognition unit; and an output image generation unit configured to generate an output image by determining a display position of the display information associated with each user on the basis of the weight of each user determined by the weight determination unit and overlaying the display information on the input image in the determined display position. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057746 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processing device and method are provided. According to illustrative embodiments, the device and method are implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, processing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to determine whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and performing processing corresponding to the predetermined action when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057792 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processing device and method is provided. According to an illustrative embodiment, the device and method is implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, comparing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to the detection information for purposes of determining whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and generating a notification when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057794 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESING METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users being present in an input image captured by an imaging device, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire display information to be displayed in association with each user recognized by the recognition unit, and an output image generation unit configured to generate an output image by overlaying the display information acquired by the information acquisition unit on the input image. The output image generation unit may determine which of first display information associated with a first user and second display information associated with a second user is to be overlaid on a front side on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a distance of each user from the imaging device. | 03-08-2012 |
20120093486 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system including a first apparatus that reproduces content, acquires behavior data corresponding to a viewer of the reproduced content, and stores the acquired behavior data and synchronization data indicating a timing of the reproduced content with respect to the acquired behavior data. The system also includes a second apparatus that reproduces the content with the behavior data based on the stored synchronization data. | 04-19-2012 |
20120114137 | Acoustic Control Apparatus and Acoustic Control Method - Disclosed herein is an acoustic control apparatus including: a speaker-position computation section configured to find the position of each of a plurality of speakers located in a speaker layout space on the basis of a position computed as the microphone position in the speaker layout space based on a taken image of at least any of the microphone and an object placed at a location close to the microphone position, and a result of sound collection to collect a signal sound each generated by one of the speakers; and an acoustic control section configured to control a sound generated by each of the speakers by computing a user position in the speaker layout space based on a taken image of the user, computing the distance between the user position and the position of each of the speakers, and controlling sounds generated by the speakers according to the computed distances. | 05-10-2012 |
20120218179 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A display apparatus and a control method capable of preventing its user from viewing an image in an improper viewing position. The display apparatus includes: an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range with respect to an image display direction; an image analyzer that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit, and calculates a position of a target that should be guided to a proper viewing position; and a display controller that causes a display unit to perform display to guide the target to the proper viewing position when the target position calculated by the image analyzer is at an improper viewing position. | 08-30-2012 |
20120224043 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image of a user positioned near a display unit on which video of content is displayed, a viewing state determination unit for determining a viewing state, of the user, of the content based on the image, and an audio output control unit for controlling output of audio of the content to the user according to the viewing state. | 09-06-2012 |
20120227063 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a communication unit for receiving, from an external device, degree-of-attention information including information on a degree of attention, for each part of first content, calculated based on a state of viewing of a user, and a priority information generation unit for generating, using the degree-of-attention information, priority information including information on a priority for viewing for each part of second content. The communication unit transmits the priority information to the external device. | 09-06-2012 |
20120299958 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DYNAMIC PICTURE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An image processing apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method that include synthesizing each frame of a dynamic picture so that each synthesized frame of the dynamic picture is displayed on a display, controlling the display to display a plurality of representative images, each of the plurality of representative images corresponding to a dynamic picture, and controlling the display to display a representative image, which corresponds to a dynamic picture that can be synthesized by the synthesizing step with a currently reproduced dynamic picture, in a distinguished fashion from other representative images. | 11-29-2012 |
20120321218 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a calculating unit configured to calculate motion information relating to between two images that make up an imaged moving picture; and a selecting unit configured to select compositing target images serving as compositing targets from a plurality of images that make up the imaged moving picture based on reliability that indicates the likelihood of the calculated motion information. | 12-20-2012 |
20130057718 | PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM, PATTERN DETECTION SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A photographing system includes: a photographing section photographing a subject to acquire a frame image including a subject image; and a matching section repeats image search through pattern matching between a template image and a subject image while sequentially changing a size ratio of the template image to the subject image, and obtains one or more size ratios at which patterns match each other, in a certain order of image search, and holds a size ratio having a largest value among such obtained size ratios as a first size ratio, and thereafter performs image search in a manner that pattern matching is performed at a first frequency in a range of a size ratio equal to or larger than the first size ratio, and is performed at a frequency lower than the first frequency in a range of a size ratio smaller than the first size ratio. | 03-07-2013 |
20130063564 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processor including: a first emission section for emitting light at a first wavelength to a subject; a second emission section for emitting light at a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength to the subject; an imaging section for capturing an image of the subject; a detection section for detecting a body region representing at least one of the skin and eyes of the subject based on a first captured image acquired by image capture at the time of emission of the light at the first wavelength and a second captured image acquired by image capture at the time of emission of the light at the second wavelength; a calculation section for calculating viewpoint information; and a display control section for controlling a display mechanism adapted to allow the subject to visually recognize an image as a stereoscopic image. | 03-14-2013 |
20130169537 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit for extracting a feature point from a captured image; a recognizing unit for recognizing a position of the feature point; a display unit for displaying, based on the position of the feature point, a feature-point pointer indicating the feature point and a mirrored image of the captured image in a translucent manner; and an issuing unit for issuing, based on the position of the feature point, a command corresponding to the position of the feature point or a motion of the feature point. | 07-04-2013 |
20140022455 | PICTURE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH, AND PROGRAM - A picture conversion information supply section | 01-23-2014 |
20140092274 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DYNAMIC PICTURE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - A synthetic dynamic image is output by first transforming each frame of a first dynamic image based on a relative positional relationship between each frame of the first dynamic image to create a first transformed dynamic image. Next, each frame of a second dynamic image is transformed based on a relative positional relationship between at least one frame including the first dynamic image and at least one frame including the second dynamic image, and a relative positional relationship between each frame of the second dynamic image to create a second transformed dynamic image. Finally, the synthesized dynamic image is synthesized by aligning, for each frame of the first transformed dynamic image and the second transformed dynamic image, a position in the first transformed dynamic image with a position in the second transformed dynamic image. | 04-03-2014 |
20140112641 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - To easily understand the contents of a moving image taken by an image taking apparatus. An image conversion block | 04-24-2014 |
20140237433 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processing device and method is provided. According to an illustrative embodiment, the device and method is implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, comparing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to the detection information for purposes of determining whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and generating a notification when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed. | 08-21-2014 |
20140292645 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292809 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition part configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging part, and a display controller configured to cause a virtual object to be displayed in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in the image. The display controller controls the virtual object on a basis of a size of the real object in a real space. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292810 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion state of a real object, and a display control unit configured to display a virtual object according to the acquired motion state. | 10-02-2014 |
20150035752 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit for extracting a feature point from a captured image; a recognizing unit for recognizing a position of the feature point; a display unit for displaying, based on the position of the feature point, a feature-point pointer indicating the feature point and a mirrored image of the captured image in a translucent manner; and an issuing unit for issuing, based on the position of the feature point, a command corresponding to the position of the feature point or a motion of the feature point. | 02-05-2015 |
20150054738 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A display apparatus and a control method capable of preventing its user from viewing an image in an improper viewing position are provided. The display apparatus includes: an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range with respect to an image display direction; an image analyzer that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit, and calculates a position of a target that should be guided to a proper viewing position; and a display controller that causes a display unit to perform display to guide the target to the proper viewing position when the target position calculated by the image analyzer is at an improper viewing position. | 02-26-2015 |