Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130147972 | USER DETECTING APPARATUS, USER DETECTING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A USER DETECTING PROGRAM - A user detecting apparatus includes: a memory that stores a program including a procedure; and a processor that executed the program, the procedure including: obtaining an image captured by a camera, switching between a first mode in which a first user-associated area, which is associated with a user, is detected from the image according to a similarity between a color histogram of the image and a reference color histogram and a second mode in which a second user-associated area, which is associated with the user, is detected from the image according to a feature point extracted from the image, according to luminance of the image, and detecting, from the image, the first user-associated area in the first mode or the second user-associated area in the second mode. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148850 | USER DETECTING APPARATUS, USER DETECTING MEHTOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A USER DETECTING PROGRAM - A user detecting apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor that executes a procedure, the procedure including: obtaining a first image and a second image, extracting a user-associated area from the first image according to a given condition, dividing the user-associated area into a plurality of areas, storing a histogram of each of the plurality of areas in the memory, detecting from the second image a corresponding area that corresponds to an area that is one of the plurality of areas and has a first reference histogram according to similarity, and changing a reference histogram used for a third image from the first reference histogram to a second reference histogram. | 06-13-2013 |
20130342441 | CHARACTER INPUT METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A character input method to be executed by a computer, the character input method includes: acquiring a first image from an imaging device; detecting an object from the first image; specifying a character group corresponding to a first position of the object detected from the first image, based on correspondence information in which each of a plurality of character groups including a plurality of characters is associated with each of a plurality of regions set for the first image; acquiring a second image acquired from the imaging device at a time different from a time at which the first image is acquired; detecting the object from the second image; and designating one character from the specified character group, based on a second position of the object detected from the second image. | 12-26-2013 |
20130342463 | METHOD FOR INPUTTING CHARACTER AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method for inputting a character executed by a computer that inputs a character, the method includes: obtaining a first pressed position at which the pressing operation has been performed and a first key corresponding to the first pressed position; detecting deletion of a character input using the first key; obtaining, when the deletion is detected, a second pressed position at which a next pressing operation has been performed and a second key corresponding to the second pressed position; determining whether or not a distance between the first pressed position and the second key is smaller than or equal to a threshold; and correcting, when the distance is smaller than or equal to the threshold, a range that is recognized as the second key in the region on the basis of the first pressed position. | 12-26-2013 |
20140056487 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring a captured image; extracting first feature data and second feature data of a first user included in the image; calculating a first authentication decision value, which indicates a probability that the first feature data of the first user resembles first feature data of a second user; and authenticating the first user by using the first feature data or both the first feature data and the second feature data according to the first authentication decision value. | 02-27-2014 |
20140086488 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: acquiring a picked image; selecting pixels, which are adjacent to each other, to be connected based on value of the pixels in the image; generating a pixel connected area which includes the connected pixels; extracting a feature point from an outer edge of the pixel connected area; and calculating a moved amount of the feature point on the basis of the feature point of a plurality of images that have been picked at the first time and the second time by the acquiring. | 03-27-2014 |
20140169625 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: store information on a reference area that has been extracted from a first image not including a target object by using a condition regarding color, generate, by using the condition, information on a target area in a second image that has been captured at a point in time different from a point in time at which the first image has been captured, determine, by using the target area and the reference area, whether or not there is an overlap between the reference area and the target object, when the overlap exists, identify an overlap area, and extract, by using the difference area between the reference area and the target area, and the overlap area, the target object from the second image. | 06-19-2014 |
20140204018 | INPUT METHOD, INPUT DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An input method that is executed by a computer includes obtaining a first image of an object using an imaging device, detecting a first feature point of the object based on a shape of the object in the first image, calculating a first angle of the object with respect to a plane on which a pressing operation is performed based on the first feature point and information on a first area of the object in the first image, and selecting a first input item from a plurality of input items based on the first angle. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204120 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: acquiring an image including a first object captured by an image sensor; computing, from the image, flatness information on flatness of a projection plane of the first object on which a superimposed image is displayed; and defining a display position of the superimposed image on the basis of the flatness information. | 07-24-2014 |
20140292647 | INTERACTIVE PROJECTOR - An interactive projector includes: a base placed on a projection surface; a leg configured to raise with tilting from the base towards the projection surface; a projecting unit, mounted on the leg on the side of a projection surface, configured to project first image; a reflector, provided at a free-end portion of the leg, configured to reflect the image projected from the projecting unit towards the projection surface; and an image pickup unit, mounted on the reflector, configured to photograph the projection surface and output second image to an electronic device that outputs, to the projecting unit, the first image that is generated based on the second image. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292648 | INFORMATION OPERATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY METHOD - An information operation display system includes a camera, a projector, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image taken by the camera, a measurement unit configured to measure a 3-dimensional coordinate position of an operation object included in the image acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display unit configured to control the projector such that an image indicating a point on which a selection operation is performed by the operation object is displayed on an operation target object according to the 3-dimensional coordinate position of the operation object measured by the measurement unit. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294233 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring images which includes a target object, and the images captured by a plurality of cameras on a time series basis; calculating a plurality of distance from the plurality of each cameras to a target object by using the images; and correcting, in a case where the target object has reached a predetermined x-y plane and a difference in an area of the target object between the images is equal to or less than a predetermined first threshold, the distance that has been calculated to a distance from the cameras to the x-y plane. | 10-02-2014 |
20150055836 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring an image including a first region of a user; extracting a color feature quantity or an intensity gradient feature quantity from the image; detecting the first region based on the color feature quantity or the intensity gradient feature quantity; and selecting whether the detecting is detecting the first region using either the color feature quantity or the intensity gradient feature quantity, based on first information related to the speed of movement of the first region calculated from a comparison of the first regions in a plurality of images acquired at different times. | 02-26-2015 |
20150110364 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: obtaining a first image in which a user is included, a second image which is imaged in an imaging condition different from that of the first image, a third image which is continuously imaged at a different point of time from that of the first image, and in the same imaging condition as that of the first image, and a fourth image which is continuously imaged at a different point of time from that of the second image, and in the same imaging condition as that of the second image; extracting a first feature amount of a user which is included in the first image, a second feature amount of the user which is included in the second image, a third feature amount. | 04-23-2015 |
20150243016 | ORIENTATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, ORIENTATION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ORIENTATION ESTIMATION COMPUTER PROGRAM - An orientation estimation apparatus estimates a position and an orientation of an image capturing unit based on positions of a marker on the image and in the real space when the maker is detected; and based on positions of feature points on the captured image and in the real space, and initial values of the position and the orientation of the unit when the maker is not detected. Further, the apparatus calculates a failure index from a first image acquired while the position and the orientation are estimated by the position of marker, where the failure index indicates a possibility that the detection of the marker is failed. When the failure index satisfies a shift-preparation-start reference, the initial values are set from the position and the orientation estimated by the position of the marker on the image having been acquired in a predetermined period before the first image. | 08-27-2015 |
20150253861 | DETECTING DEVICE AND DETECTING METHOD - A detecting device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: specifying a region of a hand from a captured image; deciding, based on a movement amount of a region specified by the specifying, a first region with a first movement amount and a second region with a second movement amount that is larger than the first movement amount; if a first region and a second region decided by the deciding are captured in a joined state, deriving a region that remains after removing the first region from the captured image; and detecting a predetermined site in an image of a region derived by the deriving. | 09-10-2015 |
20150269748 | FLESH COLOR DETECTION CONDITION DETERMINING APPARATUS, AND FLESH COLOR DETECTION CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD - A flesh color detection condition determining apparatus includes a flesh color region detecting unit which detects, from an image on which a subject having a flesh color is represented, a group of pixels having colors included in a range of colors corresponding to the flesh color, as a flesh color region; an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates an evaluation value representing a size of the flesh color region; a condition alteration unit which narrows the range of colors until a difference between the evaluation value and a reference value representing a size of the subject on the image is not included in a predetermined allowable range; and a setting unit which sets a narrowest range of colors as a flesh color detection condition, among a range of colors satisfying that the difference is included in the predetermined allowable range. | 09-24-2015 |
20160004386 | GESTURE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD - A gesture recognition device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: acquiring, on a basis of an image of an irradiation region irradiated with projector light, the image being picked up by an image pickup device, first color information representative of color information of a hand region when the projector light is not irradiated on the hand region and second color information representative of color information of the hand region when the projector light is irradiated on the hand region; and extracting, from the image picked up by the image pickup device, a portion of the hand region at which the hand region does not overlap with a touch region irradiated with the projector light on a basis of the first color information and extracting a portion of the hand region. | 01-07-2016 |