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20100328319 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR PERFORMING PROCESS ADAPTED TO USER MOTION - A positional data acquisition unit of an action detector acquires positional data indicating the position of an image of a light-emitting part of a light-emitting device held by a user in an image frame at each time step, and also acquires curve data for the head contour at each time step estimated as a result of visual tracking by a tracking processor. A history storage unit stores a history of the positional data for an image of a light-emitting part and the curved data for the head contour. A determination criteria storage unit stores the criteria for determining that a predefined action is performed by referring to the time-dependent change in the relative position of the image of the light-emitting part in relation to the curve representing the head contour. An action determination unit determines whether the action is performed based on the actual data. | 12-30-2010 |
20110137907 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD OUTPUTTING INFORMATION ON MOVEMENT OF PERSON - In a position history analysis unit for analyzing a position history to acquire movement history information such as places of stay, a speed history computation unit refers to the position history to determine a speed occurring at each point of time and to obtain a speed history. A categorization unit organizes a time axis in the position history, and, ultimately, data for position coordinates occurring at respective points of time, into segments of stay and segments of movement, by checking the speed history against a threshold value. A merge unit detects segments of stay which occur at different points of time but which are identified as indicating stays in the same place, by feeding the time flow, categorized into segments of stay and segments of movement by the categorization unit based on the speed, back to the position coordinates in the respective segments. The merge unit merges the segments of stay as needed. An information generation unit evaluates a set of position coordinates and speed values in each segment of stay and in each segment of movement thus obtained and derives predetermined information on each segment. | 06-09-2011 |
20110279475 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An edge image of the image frame is created after it is determined to start tracking. Meanwhile, a particle is distributed in a space of a coefficient set for each control point sequence when the control point sequence of a B-spline curve representing the shape of the target object is represented in a linear combination of control point sequence of a B-spline curve representing a plurality of reference shapes that are made available in advance. A particle is also distributed in the space of a shape-space vector, the likelihood of each particle is observed, and the probability density distribution is acquired. A curve obtained by weighting parameters by the probability density distribution and then averaging the weighted parameters is created as a tracking result. | 11-17-2011 |
20110317874 | Information Processing Device And Information Processing Method - An image acquisition unit of an information processing device acquires data for a moving image including an image of a user and captured by an image capturing device. A tracking processing unit uses a particle filter to perform visual tracking in the moving image so as to estimate a head contour of the user. A gesture detection unit identifies a facial region in an area inside the head contour, acquires a parameter indicating the orientation of the face, and keeping a history of parameters. When time-dependent change in the orientation of the face meets a predetermined criterion, it is determined that a gesture is made. The output data generation unit generates output data dependent on a result of detecting a gesture. The output control unit controls the generated output data so as to display the data on the display, for example. | 12-29-2011 |
20120039507 | Information Processing Device And Information Processing Method - An image acquisition unit of an information processing device acquires data for moving image including an image of a user and captured by an image capturing device. An initial processing unit determines correspondence between an amount of movement of the user and a parameter defining an image to be ultimately output in a conversion information storage unit. A tracking processing unit uses a particle filter to perform visual tracking in the moving image so as to estimate the magnification and translation amount of the user's head contour. The input value conversion unit converts the amount of movement of the user into the parameter defining an image using the magnification and the translation amount as parameters. The output data generation unit generates an image based on the parameter. The output control unit controls the generated image so as to be displayed on a display device. | 02-16-2012 |
20120294533 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A face detection processing unit performs a face detection process by rotating an image in increments of a predetermined angle and acquires a rotation angle at which a face is detected. An angle correction unit acquires an angle between the face and a shoulder by pattern matching and corrects the rotation angle of the image. A human-image orientation identification unit identifies a correct orientation of a human image based on the rotation angle. An image-characteristic analysis unit analyzes a frequency distribution and a brightness distribution of a non-human image. A non-human image orientation identification unit identifies the correct orientation of a non-human image based on distribution characteristics of a frequency of brightness with respect to an axis in a predetermined direction. An image-data updating unit incorporates information regarding the correct orientation in the image data. | 11-22-2012 |
20130121528 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION REGISTRATION DEVICE, INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD, INFORMATION REGISTRATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An information presentation device includes an object information acquiring unit and an information presentation control unit. The object information acquiring unit acquires object identification information and relative positional information on the relative position between an object and a camera. The object identification information and the relative positional information are obtained by performing processing for detecting and identifying the object for image data. The information presentation control unit controls presentation of information on the basis of the object identification information and the relative positional information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124518 | INFORMATION REGISTRATION DEVICE, INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD, INFORMATION REGISTRATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, INFORMATON PRESENTATION METHOD, INFORMATON PRESENTATON SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An information registration device includes an object information acquiring unit and a content information registering unit. The object information acquiring unit acquires object information obtained by performing processing for detecting and identifying an object for image data. The content information registering unit registers target content information in a database in association with the object information. | 05-16-2013 |
20140344253 | TERMINAL DEVICE, EXTERNAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system that includes a sensor unit that collects information used for analyzing a life rhythm of a user; a life rhythm analyzing unit that analyzes the user's life rhythm based on the collected information; and a content transmitting unit that acquires an analysis result of the life rhythm of the user from the life rhythm analyzing unit and provides content based on the analysis result. | 11-20-2014 |
20150125046 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a shot image of a user, a registered user information holder that holds face identification data of a registered user, and a face authentication section that detects a face image of a registered user existing in the shot image by using face identification data held in the registered user information holder. The information processing device further includes an information processing section that executes information processing based on a detection result by the face authentication section, and a face identification data registration section that updates the face identification data based on a face image extracted from a shot image of a user at predetermined timings. The face identification data registration section determines whether or not to update the face identification data with a condition corresponding to a situation in which the timing is generated. | 05-07-2015 |
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20100128927 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - By a method such as foreground extraction or facial extraction, the area of a target object is detected from an input image, and the feature amount such as the center of gravity, size, and inclination is acquired. Using the value of a temporarily-set internal parameter, edge image generation, particle generation, and transition are carried out, and a contour is estimated by obtaining the probability density distribution by observing the likelihood. Comparing a feature amount obtained from the estimated contour and a feature amount of the area of the target object, the temporarily setting is reset by determining that the value for the temporary setting is not appropriate when the degree of matching of the both is smaller than a reference value. When the degree of matching is larger than the reference value, the value of the parameter is determined to be the final value. | 05-27-2010 |
20100296697 | OBJECT TRACKER AND OBJECT TRACKING METHOD - Referring to FIG. | 11-25-2010 |
20110058708 | OBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS AND OBJECT TRACKING METHOD - Candidate contour curves for a tracking object in the current frame are determined using a particle filter, based on the existence probability distribution of the tracking object in a frame which is one frame previous to the current frame. To match a candidate curve against a contour image of the current frame, a processing to search for the closest contour to the candidate curves is divided for each knot constituting the candidate contour curve and is executed in parallel by a plurality of processors. Each image data on a search region for each knot to be processed are copied from a contour image stored in an image storage to the respective local memories. | 03-10-2011 |
20120114173 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, OBJECT TRACKING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An edge extracting unit of a contour image generator generates an edge image of an input image using an edge extraction filter, etc. A foreground processing unites extracts the foreground from the input image using a background image and expands the foreground to generate an expanded foreground image. The foreground processing unit further generates a foreground boundary image constructed of the boundary of the expanded foreground region. A mask unit masks the edge image using the expanded foreground image to eliminate edges in the background. A synthesis unit synthesizes the masked edge image and the foreground boundary image to generate a contour image. | 05-10-2012 |
20120212410 | OPERATION INPUT DEVICE - To provide an operation input device capable of realizing operation input by changing the posture of the operation input device even without a posture determining sensor. This is an operation input device for use by a user while being held by his/her hand, for obtaining a captured image captured by an image capturing unit provided to the operation input device, and determining the posture of the operation input device, based on the result of analysis on the captured image obtained. | 08-23-2012 |
20120237090 | MUSIC RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A photograph classification unit classifies the photographs for each scene in a music-feature information determination unit. A photograph feature acquisition unit identifies a feature of the photograph based on additional information of the photograph and a result of face recognition of the image. A tempo determination unit determines a tempo of music based on a time zone of image capturing, a range of the number of people captured in a photograph, the degree of smile, activities, etc. A melody determination unit determines information that confines a title, a feature value, a genre, etc., based on an event, a time zone, and a season at the time of image capturing, a city and a country in which the image capturing has occurred, etc. Based on the determined feature of the music, a music data output unit extracts and then presents matching music. | 09-20-2012 |
20150124084 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a shot image of an object having a marker, a marker detector that detects an image of the marker from the shot image, and an information processing section that executes information processing based on a detection result by the marker detector. The marker detector identifies the image of the marker among color regions that are extracted from the shot image and have predetermined colors based on the positional relationship between a region that is assumed when one color region of the color regions extracted is a marker and is covered by an image of an object having the marker and another color region extracted. | 05-07-2015 |
20150125047 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a shot image of a user, a registered user information holder that holds face identification data of a registered user, a face recognition section that detects a face image of a registered user existing in the shot image by using face identification data held in the registered user information holder, and an information processing section that executes information processing based on a detection result by the face recognition section. The face identification data includes information on a face image of a user shot in advance and an after-processing image obtained by performing predetermined processing on the face image. | 05-07-2015 |
20150125048 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a shot image of a user, a registered user information holder that holds face identification data of a registered user, and a first authentication section that detects a face image of a registered user existing in the shot image by using face identification data held in the registered user information holder. The information processing device further includes a second authentication section that detects an image of an object having a predetermined positional relationship with a region of the face image detected by the first authentication section, and an information processing section that executes information processing based on detection results by the first authentication section and the second authentication section. The second authentication section uses information obtained in detection processing by the first authentication section for detection processing of the image of the object. | 05-07-2015 |
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20140309135 | REMEDY FOR DIABETES - A method of screening a compound having a hypoglycemic effect (hereinafter referred to as “hypoglycemic compound”), a remedy for diabetes which contains a compound having a novel function mechanism, etc. More specifically speaking, a method of screening a hypoglycemic compound capable of binding to the β subunit of a trimeric GTP-binding protein, a remedy for diabetes comprising a hypoglycemic compound, which is characterized by being capable of binding to the β subunit of a trimeric GTP-binding protein, as the active ingredient, etc. | 10-16-2014 |
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20080223434 | SOLAR CELL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a solar cell that is useful for industry and has high photoelectric conversion efficiency and a method of manufacturing the same. A solar cell according to an aspect of the invention includes: a substrate; a buffer layer that is formed on the substrate and is composed of a group-III nitride semiconductor; and a group-III nitride semiconductor layer (p-type layer/an n-type layer) that has a p-n junction therein and is formed on the buffer layer. At least one of the buffer layer and the group-III nitride semiconductor layer having the p-n junction therein has a compound semiconductor layer formed by a sputtering method. | 09-18-2008 |
20090205707 | SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The object of the present invention is to provide a solar cell which is industrially beneficial and has high light conversion efficiency; and a method for producing a solar cell; and the present invention provides a solar cell comprising a substrate, a power generation layer for converting received light into electrical power, a translucent electrode, and another electrode, when light travels through each member from a first surface thereof, a surface opposite to the first surface is defined as a second surface, the power generation layer is formed at a second surface side of the substrate, the translucent electrode is formed on one surface of the power generation layer, and another electrode is formed on the other surface of the power generation layer, wherein the translucent electrode comprises hexagonal In | 08-20-2009 |
20100261308 | SOLAR CELL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a solar cell, comprising forming a buffer layer comprising a group-III nitride semiconductor on a substrate using a sputtering method, and forming a group-III nitride semiconductor layer and electrodes on the buffer layer. The group-III nitride semiconductor layer is formed on the buffer layer by at least one selected from the group consisting of the sputtering method, a MOCVD method, an MBE method, a CBE method, and an MLE method, and the electrodes are formed on the group-III nitride semiconductor layer. | 10-14-2010 |