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20090254537 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An image search apparatus has: | 10-08-2009 |
20100318566 | BEHAVIOR HISTORY RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND BEHAVIOR HISTORY RETRIEVAL METHOD - A meta classification section assigns the degree of accuracy capable of identifying an individual to person feature information containing a face, color, shape, etc., and person passage information and stores the metadata of the person feature information and the person passage information for each degree of accuracy, a discrete retrieval section retrieves the person to be retrieved in the high accuracy metadata stored by the meta classification section, a dependence determination section determines a person having a dependence on the person to be retrieved using a plurality of retrieval results hit in the discrete retrieval and the high accuracy metadata, a query generation section regenerates a retrieval key from the identifier of the person having a dependence and the identifier of the person to be retrieved, and a discrete candidate-to-candidate retrieval section retrieves the person corresponding to the regenerated retrieval key in the low accuracy metadata. | 12-16-2010 |
20110087677 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF ANALOGOUS IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF ANALOGOUS IMAGE RETRIEVAL - A challenge to be met by the present invention is to provide an analogous image retrieval result display apparatus and a method for displaying a result of retrieval of an analogous image that make it possible to simply, accurately ascertain a behavior history of a person to be retrieved in various camera environments. Person characteristic data (a face, a color, a figure, and the like) extracted from a plurality of cameras ( | 04-14-2011 |
20110320463 | IMAGE SEARCH DEVICE AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide an image search device and an image search method by which search efficiency is improved. The image search device includes a personal characteristic database ( | 12-29-2011 |
20120150876 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An image search apparatus has: a dimension reducing unit for reducing dimensions of multidimensional feature data to be produced as approximate data; an approximate-data storing unit for storing the produced approximate data with corresponding to the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction; a search request receiving unit for receiving an identifier which identifies multidimensional feature data of a person to be searched, at least as a search key; an approximate-space searching unit for calculating distances between approximate data corresponding to the received search key, and plural approximate data stored in the approximate-data storing unit, and for arranging the distances in order of similarity; and a real-space final ranking unit for again performing a distance calculation with using the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction, on a group of results in which the similarity is high, and for determining final rankings. | 06-14-2012 |
20130010095 | FACE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND FACE RECOGNITION METHOD - A face recognition device includes: an image capture unit, an area detection unit, a feature amount extraction unit, a distance estimation unit and a feature amount update unit. The image capture unit is configured to capture an image of an object. The area detection unit is configured to detect a given area of the object based on an image obtained as an image capture result of the image capture unit. The feature amount extraction unit is configured to extract a feature amount within the given area detected by the area detection unit. The distance estimation unit is configured to estimate a distance between the image capture unit and the given area. The feature amount update unit is configured to update the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit based on the distance estimated by the distance estimation unit. | 01-10-2013 |
20130039590 | COLLATING DEVICE - A collating device includes a collation list, a collation unit and a comparison unit. The collation list is configured to retain a false alarm list including a registered image, a threshold value serving as a criterion for determining whether to perform alarm activation, and a false alarm person image. The collation unit is configured to collate an input image with the registered image and the false alarm person image managed by the collation list, thereby obtaining a similarity therebetween. The comparison unit is configured to compare: a larger one of a value of the similarity between the input image and the false alarm person image, which is obtained by the collation unit, and the threshold value; and the similarity between the input image and the registered image, which is obtained by the collation unit, thereby determining whether to perform the alarm activation. | 02-14-2013 |
20130129160 | FACE IMAGE REGISTRATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A face image registration device includes an image input unit that inputs face images of a subject person, and an others face retention unit that retains a plurality of others faces. The device further includes: a false alarm characteristic calculation unit that collates the face images of the subject person with the retained others faces, and calculates a false alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person; a correct alarm characteristic calculation unit that collates the face images of the subject person with each other to calculate a correct alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person; and a registration face image selection unit that selects a registration face image from the face images of the subject person by using the false alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person and the correct alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person. | 05-23-2013 |
20130177238 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY ASSESSING WHITELISTS - A white list inside or outside determining apparatus includes: a first feature data extracting unit which extracts first feature data from an image by using a first transformation formula created based on preliminary learning images; a second feature data extracting unit which extracts second feature data from an image by using a second transformation formula created from the preliminary learning images and application learning images; a first matching unit which performs matching between a registration image and a collation image by using the first transformation formula; and a second matching unit which performs matching between a registration image and a collation image by using the second transformation formula. Weights of a matching result of the first matching unit and a matching result of the second matching unit are changed according to the number of preliminary learning images and the number of application learning images. | 07-11-2013 |
20140037147 | NUMBER OF PERSONS MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A person extraction unit extracts a person from an image input into an image input unit. An attribute extraction unit obtains an attribute of the person extracted by the person extraction unit. A motion path creation unit creates a motion path of the person from positional information within the image of the person extracted by the person extraction unit. A measurement reference coordinate setting unit sets a measurement line (a first measurement line to a third measurement line) for the motion path corresponding to the person according to the attribute of the person extracted by the attribute extraction unit. A people number counting unit counts the number of people based on positional relation between the motion path of the person created by the motion path creation unit and the measurement line set within the image. | 02-06-2014 |
20140334718 | HUMAN ATTRIBUTE ESTIMATION SYSTEM, HUMAN ATTRIBUTE ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND HUMAN ATTRIBUTE ESTIMATION METHOD - To provide a human attribute estimation system capable of improving estimation accuracy irrespective of an environment-dependent attribute is provided. An age/gender estimation system as a human attribute estimation system is provided with: a monitoring camera photographing a human targeted by attribute estimation and generating an image; an age/gender estimating section estimating an attribute of the human shown in the image generated by the monitoring camera using an estimation parameter; and an environment-dependent attribute specifying section specifying an environment-dependent attribute, which is an attribute dependent on an installation environment of the monitoring camera. The age/gender estimating section uses a parameter generated on the basis of learning data having an environment-dependent attribute within a predetermined distance from the environment-dependent attribute acquired by the environment-dependent attribute specifying section in an environment-dependent attribute space, as the estimation parameter. | 11-13-2014 |
20140362215 | OPTIMUM CAMERA SETTING DEVICE AND OPTIMUM CAMERA SETTING METHOD - Provided are a camera that images a subject; a person tracking portion that detects a person from an image which is captured by the camera and tracks the detected person; a person interpretation portion that extracts items including a number of face detections, a movement direction, a facing direction, a focus, a dynamic range and a view angle as store visitor information with respect to the person who is tracked by the person tracking portion; a camera installation condition estimation unit that estimates whether installation conditions including an installation position, a height, the view angle and the focus of the camera are appropriate based on the store visitor information which is extracted by the person interpretation portion; and a user presentation unit that presents a result estimated by the camera installation condition estimation unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20150086110 | PERSON ATTRIBUTE ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND LEARNING-USE DATA GENERATION DEVICE - There is provided a person attribute estimation system capable of accurately estimating an attribute of a person according to an environment in which a person who is the target of attribute estimation is to be captured. The person attribute estimation system includes a camera, an attribute estimation unit for estimating an attribute of a person shown in the image generated by the camera, by using an estimation model, a pseudo-site image generation unit for generating a pseudo-site image by processing data of a standard image which is a person image according to image capturing environment data indicating an image capturing environment of the attribute estimation target person by the camera, and an estimation model relearning unit for performing learning of the estimation model by using the pseudo-site image. | 03-26-2015 |
20150091944 | MOVING OBJECT TRACKING DEVICE, MOVING OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM AND MOVING OBJECT TRACKING METHOD - A moving object tracking device for allowing a display device to display a movement line of a moving object superimposed on a real-time image of a monitored area includes: a detection unit that detects a moving object from images of the monitored area and outputs detection position information; a first movement line generation unit that removes erroneous detection information included in the detection position information and generates a determined movement line using the detection position information having the erroneous detection information removed; a second movement line generation unit that generates a provisional movement line interpolating an undetermined section between a substantially latest detection position indicated by the detection position information and an end point of the determined movement line; and a movement line information obtaining unit that obtains movement line information relating to an integrated movement line formed of the determined movement line and the provisional movement line integrated together. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095107 | STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE, STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT METHOD - A stay duration measurement device for measuring a stay duration in a measurement area for each moving object, includes: a movement line obtaining unit that obtains a movement line of each moving object detected from images including the measurement area; a movement line assessment unit that determines whether the movement line obtained by the movement line obtaining unit includes a missing part in the measurement area; and a stay duration obtaining unit that, in a case where it is determined by the movement line assessment unit that the movement line of a moving object of interest includes a missing part in the measurement area, obtains a stay duration compensated for the missing part based on a time period(s) required for movement(s) of one or more other moving objects in the measurement area. | 04-02-2015 |
20150120237 | STAYING STATE ANALYSIS DEVICE, STAYING STATE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND STAYING STATE ANALYSIS METHOD - A staying state analysis device measuring a stay frequency of moving objects in a target area and generating a heat map visualizing a state of distribution of the stay frequency includes: a position information sorter sorting pieces of position information of the moving objects according to a degree of possibility that the pieces of position information may include an error due to a missing part that may be in traffic lines of the moving objects; a missing part position detector detecting a position of the missing part in the traffic lines based on at least two groups of pieces of position information sorted by the sorter; a corrected distribution information generator generating corrected distribution information representing the stay frequency of the moving objects corrected based on a result of detection by the missing part position detector; and a heat map generator generating the heat map based on corrected distribution information. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120693 | IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - Provided is an image search system with which, while preserving search precision, it is possible to alleviate transmission volume. A search server acquires from a recorder only low-dimension data which normally has a low data volume. When the density of low-dimension image data within a feature space is greater than or equal to a prescribed threshold value, that is to say, when the number of dimensions for carrying out an inter-image identification with only the low-dimension data is insufficient, the search server acquires from the recorder high-dimension image data for the low-dimension data. Thus, while preserving search precision, it is possible to alleviate data transmission volume of a communication path. | 04-30-2015 |
20150278608 | STAY CONDITION ANALYZING APPARATUS, STAY CONDITION ANALYZING SYSTEM, AND STAY CONDITION ANALYZING METHOD - Provided is a stay condition analyzing apparatus including a stay information acquirer which acquires stay information for each predetermined measurement period of time on the basis of positional information of a moving object which is acquired from a captured image of a target area, a heat map image generator which generates a heat map image obtained by visualizing the stay information, a background image generator which generates a background image from the captured image, and a display image generator which generates a display image by superimposing the heat map image on the background image. The background image generator generates the background image by performing image processing for reducing discriminability of the moving object appearing in the captured image on the captured image. | 10-01-2015 |
20150366328 | MAKEUP ASSISTANCE DEVICE, MAKEUP ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, MAKEUP ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND MAKEUP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Provided is a cosmetic assist device that can extract a cosmetic technique for making a user's face look like a target face image. The device includes an image capturing unit for capturing a face image of a user, an input unit for inputting a target face image, a synthesized face image generating unit for generating a plurality of synthesized face images obtained by applying mutually different cosmetic techniques on the face image of the user, a similarity determination unit for determining a degree of similarity between each synthesized face image and the target face image, and a cosmetic technique extraction unit for extracting one of the cosmetic techniques that was used to obtain the synthesized face image determined to have a highest degree of similarity by the similarity determination unit. | 12-24-2015 |
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20100208119 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control apparatus that enables to reliably and quickly search for a desired image. When a wheel is operated by a user by an amount less than a predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a first display mode where a plurality of images are displayed on an image display unit. When the wheel is operated by the user by an amount equal to or greater than the predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a second display mode where a larger number of images than in the first display mode are displayed on the image display unit in a smaller size than in the first display mode. | 08-19-2010 |
20110074671 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - This invention provides a display apparatus which mounts a tilt sensor, and can control whether or not the user makes an image feed operation based on the tilt. An image display apparatus includes a display unit which displays image data recorded in a recording medium, an instruction accepting unit which accepts an instruction to make the image feed operation according to the tilt of the image display apparatus from the user, a tilt detection unit which detects the tilt of the image display apparatus with respect to a predetermined direction, and a display control unit which controls the display unit to display and switch the image data in accordance with a change in tilt detected by the tilt detection unit, when the instruction accepting unit accepts the instruction and the tilt detection unit detects the change in tilt. | 03-31-2011 |
20120200598 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control apparatus that enables to reliably and quickly search for a desired image. When a wheel is operated by a user by an amount less than a predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a first display mode where a plurality of images are displayed on an image display unit. When the wheel is operated by the user by an amount equal to or greater than the predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a second display mode where a larger number of images than in the first display mode are displayed on the image display unit in a smaller size than in the first display mode. | 08-09-2012 |
20140002505 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 01-02-2014 |
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20080222334 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DATA CORRUPTION PREVENTION METHOD - An electronic apparatus includes a main body, a panel unit removable from the main body, and an attachment unit configured to indirectly attach a removable memory device to the main body through the panel unit. The main body includes a control unit configured to logically disconnect a data line between the removable memory device and the main body at a time when a user operation for removing the panel unit from the main body is performed and before the panel unit is removed from the main body. | 09-11-2008 |
20130243390 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a content reproduction apparatus including: a reproduction block configured to reproduce video content; a display block configured to display the reproduced video content; a communication block configured to transmit the video content to a portable reproduction apparatus by wireless communication; a speaker block having at least one first speaker located in proximity and at least one second speaker located in the proximity of the portable reproduction apparatus; and an audio output control block configured to control a reproduction state of the speaker block. In a state where the video content is displayed on the display block, each of the first speaker and the second speaker reproduces audio content related with the video content. In a content non-share state, the audio output control block controls audio output such that the second speaker does not reproduce audio content related with the video content. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244637 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a terminal apparatus for offering information in more quantity and in further detail than before by having a plurality of devices linked with one another. The information processing apparatus includes a first device and a second device interconnected with each other. Application information about an application executing on the first device is acquired through a communication block included in the second device. Display on a display block included in the second device is controlled based on the application information. | 09-19-2013 |
20140304431 | INFORMATION-SHARING DEVICE, INFORMATION-SHARING METHOD, INFORMATION-SHARING PROGRAM AND TERMINAL DEVICE - There is provided an information-sharing device including, in a second device connected to a first device, an information obtaining unit which obtains, through a communication unit of the second device, first application information indicating an application possessed by the first device, a shared information generating unit which generates shared information shared by the first device and the second device, based on the first application information obtained by the information obtaining unit, and a transmission control unit which transmits the shared information through the communication unit to the first device. | 10-09-2014 |
20150082175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - An apparatus includes a receiver, a shared information unit, a transmitter, a voice recognition unit, and an application execution unit. The receiver is configured to receive a voice signal and information from a second apparatus. The shared information unit is configured to create shared information shared by both the apparatus and the second apparatus based on the information received from the second apparatus. The transmitter is configured to transmit the shared information to the second apparatus. The voice recognition unit is configured to analyze the voice signal. The application execution unit is configured to execute an application based on a result generated by the voice recognition unit. | 03-19-2015 |