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20130004081 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE, IMAGE RECOGNIZING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION - An image identifying device includes: a setting unit which sets a section having at least one image in a video; a first recognizing unit which calculates a plurality of feature amounts related to at least the one image and which acquires a plurality of identification results corresponding to each of the feature amounts from an identifier which may identify a plurality of objects belonging to a first category; a selecting unit which selects, based on the identification results, a second category of a third category ; and a second recognizing unit which calculates another feature amount related to an image included in another section and acquires another identification result corresponding to the feature amount from another identifier which may identify the objects included in the second category. | 01-03-2013 |
20130188880 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE ACCUMULATING PROGRAM, METHOD AND APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute an image accumulating procedure, the procedure includes: specifying a second image similar to a first image that is associated with text information; displaying the second image in an identifiable manner, and the text information on a display device; and storing the text information associated with image information that is related to the second image, based on instruction information that instructs a use of the text information with respect to the second image. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191407 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, DEVICE, AND METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a procedure for managing a system that retrieves a image corresponding to a first type specified by a retrieval request received from a terminal device and another image corresponding to a second type associated with the first type, from an image database storing a plurality of images associated with at least a number of a plurality of types, the procedure includes: referring to a learning state representing whether feature values of images corresponding to each of the plurality of the types have been obtained; retrieving an unlearned type in which the feature value has not been obtained, among the plurality of types; specifying an association type associated with the unlearned type; and outputting the unlearned type in accordance with the learning state of the association type. | 07-25-2013 |
20130308867 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a storage configured to store, for a plurality of areas in a target image, attributes and patterns associated with the attributes, each the attributes being assigned to each the plurality of areas, and each the pattern being created from areas having an identical attribute among the attributes; and a processor configured to: obtain an area that is specified in the target image and an attribute that is assigned to the specified area, search the storage for a pattern based on similarity between the pattern and a pattern created from a certain number of areas having the assigned attribute; and search for an area in the target image based on similarity between the area and the certain number of areas in accordance with the searched pattern. | 11-21-2013 |
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20130167071 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An embodiment provides an information processing apparatus having software running thereon, the software having a window as a user interface for displaying a plurality of objects on a display apparatus, the information processing apparatus performing: in response to a user selecting a desired region in a display region of the display apparatus, putting a mark on the region and an object which is present in the region; when the object of the marked region is not displayed in the window, displaying the object in the marked region in a periphery of the window as a sub-window; and closing the sub-window in response to the object in the marked region being displayed in the window. | 06-27-2013 |
20140250149 | IDENTIFYING ELEMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN A DOCUMENT - An information processing apparatus includes a text mining section configured to perform text mining on text data acquired from the outside and to output extracted information; an identification section configured to search a development database storing elements constituting a product and the relationship among the elements by using the information extracted by text mining to identify an element related to the information; and a notification section configured to notify the identified element to a user, a program for use in the information processing apparatus. | 09-04-2014 |
20140286581 | CLASSIFYING OBJECTS DISPLAYED ON A DEVICE - A method, system, and/or computer program product classifies a plurality of objects displayed on a display device and displays the classified plurality of objects. The method comprises: selecting one object from a plurality of objects as a selected object; and classifying the plurality of objects, where classification of each of the plurality of objects is based on a degree of association with the selected object. Classifying the plurality of objects comprises: reading a feature setting for computation of the degree of association; specifying a plurality of features that are subject to the computation of the degree of association; computing, for each of the plurality of objects, the degree of association based on a difference in feature value from the selected object with regard to the plurality of features; and dividing the plurality of objects into a plurality of groups, where each group is based on the degree of association. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289710 | MONITORING SOFTWARE EXECUTION - A method enables a computer to execute software and to monitor software execution, the method comprising: acquiring, by one or more processors, image data of a screen image displayed on a display device while monitored software is executed; acquiring, by one or more processors, peripheral information, wherein the peripheral information is a state of software and hardware in which the software is executed, at a time of acquisition of the image data; and adding, by one or more processors, the peripheral information to the image data and storing the image data having the peripheral information added thereto into a storage device, so that, in response to an image based on the image data being displayed on the display device, a content of the peripheral information acquired by the peripheral information acquiring unit is displayed along with the screen image. | 09-25-2014 |
20150346966 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM TO DISPLAY PRESENCE OF OFF-SCREEN OBJECTS USING SUB-WINDOW - Responsive to a user marking a region, identifying each object present in the region and storing an indication of the region and identified object(s), preserving a positional relationship in which the identified object(s) are displayed in the region; upon detecting that the identified each object is not displayed in the window, displaying the region as a sub-window located at the periphery, the displayed sub-window containing the identified each object in the preserved relationship; and upon detecting that the region subsequently shifts into the window, deleting the sub-window. Responsive to a user selecting a displayed object and marking a displayed region, storing an indication of the region and the object; while the object of the region is not displayed in the window, displaying a sub-window in a periphery of the window, the sub-window displaying the object in the region; and automatically closing the sub-window in response to the object being again displayed in the window. | 12-03-2015 |
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20090175140 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus which detects an envelope of a tracking error signal in a record or playback mode of an optical disc having recording layers of a multilayer structure, which quantifies a variation caused by multilayer interference (to ΔTES), and which restricts a recording or playback rate when a relationship ΔTES>Vth is satisfied for a predetermined threshold Vth. With such an arrangement, degradation of a recording or reproducing performance or generation of running-off-track resulting from a variation in the tracking error signal caused by stray light reflected by ones of recording layers of the optical disc which are not a recording or reproducing target layer can be suppressed, and a good recording or playback quality can be obtained even in such an optical disc having the plurality of recording layers laminated therein. | 07-09-2009 |
20100149952 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An optical pickup device and an optical disc apparatus which is capable to reduce variation of a detected signal due to unnecessary beam and detect a signal with high quality are provided. Amplification of sup PP signals necessary to produce a tracking error signal by a DPP method can be realized by an amplification factor smaller than a spectral radio of main and sub beams by the following structure. The optical pickup device includes an optical element having an area in which part of beam is diffracted and light shielding zones or insensitive zones having predetermined width are formed on center division lines in the light receiving planes of sub beams of the optical detector. The shape of a diffraction area is optimized to the shift amount of objective lens. The width of the light shielding zones or insensitive zones is optimized from the shift amount of objective lens and the shape of the diffraction area. With such structure, it is possible to suppress interferential disturbance component due to unnecessary light produced in sub PP signals from being amplified by an amplifier and the tracking error signal having less waveform fluctuation can be detected stably and satisfactorily even upon reproduction/recording of a multi-layered disc. | 06-17-2010 |
20100322047 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - When recording/reproducing an optical disc having a recording layer of multi-layer structure, an unwanted optical beam reflected from a recording layer other than a target layer for recording/reproduction is incident on a photodetector to cause an unwanted disturbance component to leak to a detection signal, giving rise to a degradation in the quality of a tracking control signal. In an optical pickup apparatus, for suppression of the degradation, an optical element is mounted having a diffraction area for diffracting part of the optical beam and light receiving planes for sub-optical beams are provided each of which has a light shielding zone or dead zone of a predetermined width on its central sectioning line. | 12-23-2010 |
20110051574 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE USING THE SAME - Of the beams reflected by an optical disk, only peripheral beams excluding the push-pull region are used to generate a DPD signal in order to optimize internal wire connections among the light receiving areas of the optical detector and thereby reduce the amplification factor of the lens error signal, required for generating the tracking error signal of the DPP method. A beam reflected from a multilayered optical disk is divided into some beam diffraction areas. The divided beam diffraction areas and the light receiving areas are so arranged that the divided beams focus at different positions on the optical detector and that, when a beam is focused on a target recording layer of the disk, stray light from other than the target recording layer being reproduced does not enter into the servo signal light receiving area of the optical detector. | 03-03-2011 |
20110063967 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A diffractive optical element having a diffraction region for diffracting a part of a luminous flux is mounted and an unwanted luminous flux generated in a multi-layer optical disc is suppressed from entering a photodetector surface. Using the above-described structure, fluctuation of a tracking error signal can be suppressed from being caused by the unwanted luminous flux and preferable recording or reproduction quality can be obtained also in the multi-layer optical disc. | 03-17-2011 |
20110182159 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup includes a light source, an objective lens, a diffraction grating that divides an optical beam reflected from a predetermined information layer, into a plurality of optical beams, and a detector having a plurality of photo-receivers to receive a plurality of optical beams. The diffraction grating has a predetermined region for dividing from a signal light beam a region including a central portion of a spot which the signal light beam will form on the diffraction grating. A distance from a central section of the detector to that of a spot center photo-receiver on the detector, the spot center photo-receiver being provided to receive the optical beams formed by division in a predetermined region of the diffraction grating, is equal to or greater than a spot radius of the unwanted light beams entering the predetermined region of the diffraction grating, on the detector. | 07-28-2011 |
20110182160 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD OF OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus, for executing recording or reproducing on an optical disc having at least two (2) or more of recording/reproducing layers, comprises an optical pickup, having: a sphere aberration compensating portion, which is configured to set up a compensation volume of the sphere aberration; an objective lens; and a driver portion, which is configured to drive the objective lens, wherein the sphere aberration compensating portion sets up the compensation volume to that corresponding to an intermediate position between a deepest layer and a most front layer from the optical pickup; the driver portion drives the objective lens to come close to the optical disc, when the compensation volume is set to that corresponding to the intermediate position; the sphere aberration compensating portion sets up the compensation volume to that corresponding to the deepest layer, when the objective lens is driven in a direction of coming close to the optical disc; and the driver portion drives the objective lens in a direction of separating from the optical disc, when the compensation volume is set to that corresponding to the deepest layer, and thereby executing an adjustment process at high accuracy within a short time-period. | 07-28-2011 |
20110182165 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS USING SAME - According to the present invention, of all beams of light reflected from the optical disc, only light in a peripheral region excluding a push-pull region is used to generate a DPD signal. In this method of signal generation that optimizes internal light-receiving surface interconnections in a photodetector, the lens error signal required for the generation of a tracking error signal in the DPP scheme is amplified at a lower amplification factor. In addition, the light reflected from the multilayered optical disc will be divided into a plurality of regions and the divided beam of light will be focused at different positions on the photodetector. When the beam is focused upon a desired layer, stray light from recording layers other than those to be subjected to information reproduction will not enter the photodetector light-receiving surfaces used for servo signals. | 07-28-2011 |
20110199883 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In recording or reproducing data on or from an optical disc with recording multi-layers, the focusing is likely to be out of control when an inter-layer jumping is carried out for changing a recording layer on or from which data is to be recorded or reproduced to another one. An optical disc apparatus is arranged to obtain an objective lens shift position that makes the focus signal S-character waveform better balanced in advance by learning and to carry out the inter-layer jumping at the shift position when jumping an optical pickup from one layer to another on a multilayered optical disc. The jumping at this shift position makes it possible to prevent out of focus and to stably make the recording or reproducing quality excellent. | 08-18-2011 |
20110310722 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup having a one-plane, two-wavelength diffraction grating and a two-wavelength laser generator is provided in which crosstalk noise caused by leakage of a track error signal into a focus error signal is reduced to improve focus control performance. A main beam and sub-beams generated by the one-plane, two-wavelength diffraction grating and reflected from the surface of an optical disc are incident on corresponding light receiving elements among which the one to receive the main beam and those to receive the sub-beams are relatively shifted in a linear-speed direction of the optical disc. The distance of the shifting is determined based on the characteristic, relative to the relative positions of the light receiving elements, of the leakage of the tracking error signal into the focus error signal detected based on the main beam and sub-beams. | 12-22-2011 |
20120287765 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL DRIVE DEVICE - The present invention provides a unit and method for implementing an optical head and optical drive device whose configuration is simple, and which allows the generation of a track error signal in which no offset is caused to occur. The optical drive device includes a light source for emitting light beams, an objective lens for converging the light beams onto an optical disc, an optical-signal generation element for dividing the light beams into at least four regions by using a division line extending in the radial direction of the optical disc, and a division line extending in the track direction of the optical disc, the light beams being reflected by the optical disc, and an optical detector for receiving the light beams divided by the optical-signal generation element, wherein the up and down or right and left areas of the four regions are made different from each other. | 11-15-2012 |
20130015320 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING FOCUS ERROR SIGNAL, OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL DRIVING APPARATUSAANM KAWAMURA; TomotoAACI YokohamaAACO JPAAGP KAWAMURA; Tomoto Yokohama JPAANM Oishi; KotaroAACI FujisawaAACO JPAAGP Oishi; Kotaro Fujisawa JPAANM Nakamura; ToshiteruAACI YokohamaAACO JPAAGP Nakamura; Toshiteru Yokohama JP - In a method and apparatus for generating a focus error signal, an optical head and an optical driving apparatus are configured such that a light beam is divided into at least two light beams, coma aberration of a predetermined direction is added to one of the divided light beams, and coma aberration of a direction different from the predetermined direction of the coma aberration is added to the other divided light beam to thereby generate the focus error signal. | 01-17-2013 |
20130176840 | Optical Pickup - An optical pickup includes a light source, an objective lens, a diffraction grating that divides an optical beam reflected from a predetermined information layer, into a plurality of optical beams, and a detector having a plurality of photo-receivers to receive a plurality of optical beams. The diffraction grating has a predetermined region for dividing from a signal light beam a region including a central portion of a spot which the signal light beam will form on the diffraction grating. A distance from a central section of the detector to that of a spot center photo-receiver on the detector, the spot center photo-receiver being provided to receive the optical beams formed by division in a predetermined region of the diffraction grating, is equal to or greater than a spot radius of the unwanted light beams entering the predetermined region of the diffraction grating, on the detector. | 07-11-2013 |