Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100027960 | VIDEO REPRODUCING DEVICE AND VIDEO REPRODUCING METHOD - A television personal computer | 02-04-2010 |
20100027963 | VIDEO REPRODUCING DEVICE AND VIDEO REPRODUCING METHOD - A television personal computer | 02-04-2010 |
20100050102 | SYMBOL DISPLAY METHOD AND SYMBOL DISPLAY DEVICE - A symbol display device that displays a symbol for data while disposing the symbol at a coordinate position indicated by the data concerned, includes a pre-movement image position obtaining unit that records into a recording unit a pre-movement coordinate position at which the symbol is disposed; an image moving unit that moves the symbol to a coordinate position indicated by an instruction upon reception of the instruction; a post-movement image position obtaining unit that records, into the recording unit, a post-movement coordinate position of the symbol moved by the image moving unit; and a connection line drawing unit that connects the post-movement coordinate position and a pre-movement coordinate position by a line, and changing the line thickness of the connecting line or the size of the symbol. | 02-25-2010 |
20100153449 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING IMAGE - An image retrieval method includes reading from a first database a first image group mapped to an object as a retrieval target, and extracting an image feature quantity of a plurality of images of the first image group. A second image group mapped to an object as a search key is read from a second database and an image feature quantity of a plurality of images of the second image group is extracted. Similarity is determined between the first image group and the second image group, based on the image feature quantity of the plurality of images of the first image group and the image feature quantity of the plurality of images of the second image group. On an output device, as retrieval results, the plurality of images of the first image group are displayed in order of similarity of the object as the retrieval target based on determined similarity. | 06-17-2010 |
20100250569 | APPARATUS FOR MULTIMEDIA INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A MULTIMEDIA INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL PROGRAM - A multimedia integrated retrieval apparatus includes a feature value extracting unit calculating a feature value of single media data; a media information storage unit storing the feature value and storing composite media data in association with the single media data; a retrieval processing unit identifying other pieces of single media data corresponding to the single media data; a retrieval controlling unit, generating structural body data that includes a first node indicative of the single media data, a second node indicative of the another piece of single media data, a first link connecting the first node to the second node, a third node indicative of another composite media data, and a second link connecting the third node to the second node, if the another piece of composite media data including the another piece of single media data is present; and a display unit displaying the structural body data. | 09-30-2010 |
20100272411 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND PLAYBACK METHOD - A playback apparatus that divides the content into scenes;
| 10-28-2010 |
20120230589 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program that causes a computer to execute a process includes acquiring the same object identification information included in a plurality of image data items by referring to a storage unit that stores each of the image data items, object identification information that identifies an object included in the image data item, and a location information item that identifies a location of the object in the image data item in association with one another; acquiring the location of the object identified by the acquired object identification information in each of the image data items by referring to the storage unit; computing a difference between the acquired location information items; comparing the difference between the location information items with a predetermined location threshold value; and determining whether the image data items are to be in the same group. | 09-13-2012 |
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 |
20150063651 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A binarization processing unit generates a binary image by comparing the visual feature of each pixel of an input image with a predetermined binarization threshold and binarizing the value of each pixel of the input image based on the comparison result. The binarization processing unit performs this process while changing the binarization threshold, thereby generating a plurality of binary images. A contour detecting unit calculates the area of a closed region having an overlap between the plurality of binary images, and determines the binarization threshold to be used for detecting a boundary of the corresponding closed region as a contour of an object, based on the area change rate of the corresponding closed region caused by changing the binarization threshold. | 03-05-2015 |