1267 results about "Image selection" patented technology

An object of the present invention is to provide a device and a method for recognizing hand shape and position even if a hand image to be provided for recognition is rather complicated in shape, and a recording medium having a program for carrying out the method recorded thereon.A hand image normalization part 11 deletes a wrist region respectively from a plurality of images varied in hand shape and position before subjecting the images to normalization in hand orientation and size to generate hand shape images. An eigenspace calculation part 13 calculates an eigenvalue and an eigenvector respectively from the hand shape images under an analysis based on an eigenspace method. An eigenspace projection part 15 calculates eigenspace projection coordinates by projecting the hand shape images onto an eigenspace having the eigenvectors as a basis. A hand image normalization part 21 deletes a wrist region from an input hand image, and generates an input hand shape image by normalizing the input hand image to be equivalent to the hand shape images. An eigenspace projection part 22 calculates eigenspace projection coordinates for the input hand shape image by projecting the same onto the eigenspace having the eigenvectors as the basis. A hand shape image selection part 23 compares the eigenspace projection coordinates calculated for the input hand shape image with each of the eigenspace projection coordinates calculated for the hand shape images, and then determines which of the hand shape images is closest to the input hand shape image. A shape / position output part 24 outputs shape information and position information on the determined hand shape image.

A system, computer readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method presents video search results responsive to a user keyword query. The video hosting system uses a machine learning process to learn a feature-keyword model associating features of media content from a labeled training dataset with keywords descriptive of their content. The system uses the learned model to provide video search results relevant to a keyword query based on features found in the videos. Furthermore, the system determines and presents one or more thumbnail images representative of the video using the learned model.

A method of generating one or more new digital images using an original digitally-acquired image including a selected image feature includes identifying within a digital image acquisition device one or more groups of pixels that correspond to the selected image feature based on information from one or more preview images. A portion of the original image is selected that includes the one or more groups of pixels. The technique includes automatically generating values of pixels of one or more new images based on the selected portion in a manner which includes the selected image feature within the one or more new images.

An image processing apparatus having a display unit includes: an operation section configured to generate an operation signal based on a user's contact with the display unit; a posting area display control section configured to display a posting area in which an image is posted on the display unit and displaying previously-generated images in the posting area; an operation detail recognizing section configured to recognize an operation detail on the images posted in the posting area on the basis of the operation signal from the operation section; and a selection section configured to select an image corresponding to the operation detail recognized by the operation detail recognizing section as an operation object.

A capsule endoscope system includes a capsule endoscope, swallowable in a body, for forming an image. A receiver is positioned on the body, for wirelessly receiving the image from the capsule endoscope, to store the image. A workstation as information manager operates for image filing of the image from the receiver. A first wireless interface is incorporated in the receiver, for wirelessly transmitting the image during imaging with the capsule endoscope. A second wireless interface is positioned on the workstation, for wirelessly receiving the image from the first wireless interface. Furthermore, an image selector selects the image for image filing in the workstation among plural images received by the receiver. The first wireless interface transmits the selected image to the workstation. The receiver includes an image compressor for reducing a data size of the image received from the capsule endoscope before transmission in the first wireless interface.

Disclosed is a system and method for using optical flow to detect objects moving past a camera and to select images of the moving objects. A shopping cart, for example, may be detected by subdividing an image into a plurality of image blocks; comparing the blocks to a preceding image to determine the motion of the portion of the object pictured; associating the most common motion with the shopping cart. The motion of the cart may also be integrated over time for purposes of tracking cart motion and selecting a subset of the captured images for object recognition processing. Detection of the cart and image selection improves computational efficiency an increase merchandise throughput.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for automated tracker-driven image selection. The method includes determining a location of a tracked device and automatically sorting an image set based at least in part on the location of the tracked device.

A method and apparatus are provided to enable a server to determine if a client connecting to the server is doing so by means of human user interaction, as opposed to an automated process. In order to authorize access to services, the option of determining user identity, such as by means of a graphical shared secret, is also provided. Three aspects are described: (i) image formation from an object model; (ii) presentation of image choices to a user, and (iii) user action. Image formation includes the creation of one or more categorized 2-dimensional images with object regions for each image automatically qualified. These one or more categorized images can be created by means of a Randomizable Image Generation Object for Human Recognition, comprised of (i) a 3-dimensional object model, (ii) a plurality of rendering threshold and constraint parameters, and (iii) categorization and qualitative metadata. The one or more 2-dimensional images are preferably transmitted to the user for authentication without the image metadata, which may be retained on the server. Related inquiry text can be sent when human user interaction is being determined and not user identity authentication.

The invention provides a multi-site television conference system which provide natural video images and acoustic images which provide a good feeling of presence to participants who participate in a conference through respective conference terminals. A plurality of cameras are connected to each of conference terminals located at different sites remote from each other and pick up video images of a participant who uses the conference terminal. A central control unit receives, at a multi-site image inputting section thereof, from the conference terminals, video images of participants of the respective conference terminals picked up in multi-directions. An image selection section of the central control unit selects video images of the participants of the conference terminals taking it into consideration how the other conference participants looks to each participant in a virtual conference space and synthesizes the video images into the virtual conference space, and then transmits resulting video images to the conference terminals so that the conference terminals may present computer graphics images to the participants.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved identification of significant images using visual tracking. Certain embodiments of the system include a visual tracking system capable of tracking a user gaze with respect to a display device and a significant image selector for identifying at least one significant image based on user viewing time. The visual tracking system identifies an image at which a user is gazing records a viewing time during which the user is looking at the image. In an embodiment, the visual tracking system records viewing times for one or more users. In an embodiment, meta-data is associated with one or more significant images to identify the images as significant images, for example. The system may further include a database or table storing significant image information.

An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate a control signal in response to a measurement of inter-picture motion between a current picture and a first reference picture. The second circuit may be configured to select the first reference picture or a second reference picture as a better reference picture for motion estimation in response to the control signal.

A sequence of templates (22) is determined. Each of the templates (22) defines a spatiotemporal layout of regions in a display area (38). Each of the regions is associated with a set of one or more image selection criteria and a set of one or more temporal behavior attribute values. For each of the templates (22), an image layer for each of the regions of the template is ascertained. For each of the layers (18), an image element (30) is assigned to the region in accordance with the respective set of image selection criteria. For each frame (20) in a frame sequence, a set of rendering parameter values is produced, where each set specifies a composition of the respective frame in the display area (38) based on a respective set of the image layers (18) determined for the templates (22) and the respective sets of temporal behavior attribute values.

A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, method, and program capable of reducing a possibility of overlap between a detection object and a background object in a standard image when detecting objects around the vehicle from images obtained by a plurality of image sensors so as to detect the objects accurately. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus detects the objects existing around the vehicle (10) from the images obtained by the image sensors (2R, 2L) mounted on the vehicle (10). The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus includes an object extraction process unit (1) which performs a process of extracting the objects for a predetermined standard image of the images obtained by the image sensors (2R, 2L), a driving environment detection process unit (1) which detects a driving environment of the vehicle (10), and a standard image selection process unit (1) which selects the standard image for use in the process of the object extraction process unit (1) anew according to the detected driving environment.

A mobile terminal including a touchscreen display configured to display a video and to receive a touch input; and a controller configured to display a first video on the touchscreen display as a main image, display a progress bar indicating a progress of the first video being displayed on the touchscreen display, receive a first subimage selection signal requesting a first subimage be displayed with the progress bar, said first subimage corresponding to one of a still picture and a video portion of the first video, and display the first subimage on the touchscreen display with the progress bar.

Technology for sharing media objects includes receiving image selection data associated with a first media object, where the first media object is a television broadcast video. A media server maybe included for storing a second media object. In one embodiment, the second media object is a recording of the broadcast of the first media object. In another embodiment, the second media object may be loaded into a media object database within the media server separate from the television broadcast. The media server may then identify a segment of the second media object by comparing the image selection data with data representing at least a portion of the second media object. The media server may then send the segment to a second user. In one embodiment, sending the segment to a second user may include sending a web-link reference to the segment. The media server may also send or cause the transmission of advertising data related to the image selection data.

An image transmission apparatus comprises: a transmission section that transmits images to an image processing apparatus for applying an image processing to the images upon a decision of processing contents; an image selection section that select an image from among the images transmitted from the transmission section in accordance with operation; a processing content obtaining section that obtains from the image processing apparatus the processing contents determined by the image processing apparatus for the image processing applied by the image processing apparatus to the image selected by the image selection section; and an image recording section that stores in a predetermined storage location the image selected by the image selection section and the processing contents obtained by the processing content obtaining section with respect to the image with their association therebetween.

An image control processing section controls a game playback device to employ an advertising image being an image for advertising a product or a service, as a character image used in a game screen. The image control processing section comprises an advertising image information database that stores advertising image information, which is information related to a product or service including advertising image data, and an advertising image selection device that selects an advertising image of a product having a better advertising effectiveness from the advertising image database, by referencing information from among; information related to a store where a user terminal is installed, a period of time, a date, a day of the week, and a time elapsed from when a user using a user terminal sits down, taken as a start time.

A position measurement device is provided that can precisely measure the photographing position or posture of a photographing device or the coordinates of an object based on sequentially changing photographed images. A position measuring device 100 of the invention comprises: an image acquisition section 2 for acquiring a series of photographed images changing continuously or little by little along with position displacement relative to an object to be photographed; a positional relationship measurement section 9 for measuring position displacement and posture change of the image acquisition section 2; a feature extraction section 3 for extracting feature points from the photographed images obtained with the image acquisition section 2; a feature point tracking section 4 for tracking the feature points by searching corresponding points corresponding to the feature points on a plurality of the photographed images; an image selection section 61 for selecting an image to be processed from the series of photographed images based on a measurement result made with the positional relationship measurement section 9; and a position measurement section 7 for measuring the photographing position and the photographing posture of the image acquisition section 2 based on the image to be processed selected with the image selection section 61.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved identification of significant images using visual tracking. Certain embodiments of the system include a visual tracking system capable of tracking a user gaze with respect to a display device and a significant image selector for identifying at least one significant image based on user viewing time. The visual tracking system identifies an image at which a user is gazing records a viewing time during which the user is looking at the image. In an embodiment, the visual tracking system records viewing times for one or more users. In an embodiment, meta-data is associated with one or more significant images to identify the images as significant images, for example. The system may further include a database or table storing significant image information.

An apparatus including an autostereoscopic image selection device and an overcoat opaque material applied to the autostereoscopic image selection device. The autostereoscopic image selection device and overcoat opaque material operate together to provide a self-locating aperture in association with the autostereoscopic selection device. The associated method entails applying an opaque overcoat material to an image selection device comprising a plurality of lenticules and removing selected portions of the opaque overcoat material from the image selection device. The applying and removing operate together with the image selection device to reduce a numerical aperture for at least one lenticule.

System and methods for computer animations of 3D models of heads generated from images of faces is disclosed. A 2D captured image that includes an image of a face can be received and used to generate a static 3D model of a head. A rig can be fit to the static 3D model to generate an animation-ready 3D generative model. Sets of rigs can be parameters that each map to particular sounds or particular facial movement observed in a video. These mappings can be used to generate a playlists of sets of rig parameters based upon received audio or video content. The playlist may be played in synchronization with an audio rendition of the audio content. Methods can receive a captured image, identify taxonomy attributes from the captured image, select a template model for the captured image, and perform a shape solve for the selected template model based on the identified taxonomy attributes.

To generate navigation directions for a driver of a vehicle, a route for guiding the driver to a destination is obtained, visual landmarks corresponding to prominent physical objects disposed along the route are retrieved, and real-time imagery is collected at the vehicle approximately from a vantage point of the driver during navigation along the route. Using (i) the retrieved visual landmarks and (ii) the imagery collected at the vehicle, a subset of the visual landmarks that are currently visible to the driver is selected. Navigation directions describing the route are provided the driver, the navigation directions referencing the selected subset of the visual landmarks and excluding the remaining visual landmarks.

An image comparative display method having displaying two images; that is, a first image and a second image, on a monitor screen in a side-by-side arrangement, wherein the first image is selected by a first set of images, and the second image is selected by a second set of images, wherein the monitor screen is split into a first region that displays the first image; a second region that displays the second image; a third region adjacent to the first region, the third region displaying at least one first thumbnail image corresponding to at least one image from the first set of images; and a fourth region adjacent to the second region, the fourth region displaying at least one second thumbnail image corresponding to at least one image from the second set of images.

According to the present invention, a digital camera capable of displaying a list of a plurality of images has a selection assist function for assisting an operator in selecting a desirable image from the images listed. As an example of the selection assist function, the digital camera can analyze plural images captured under different shooting conditions to display an image that seems optimum (or images that seem improper) in a way different from the other images. As another example of the selection assist function, the digital camera can have a function for displaying images while scaling up them around an area that can be an image selection point (e.g., focusing point or a point selected by the operator).

A method for managing an original image data file uploaded from a terminal of a client and a system for materializing the method. The method includes storing the original image data file in a database; generating a preview image data file by using the original image data file, wherein the preview image data file has a predetermined file size smaller than that of the original image data file; storing the preview image data file in the database; and linking the preview image data file with the original image data file. The system includes a storage device a storage device, an image management device, a retrieval device and an image process device. The storage device stores information of a client, original image data files and preview image data files each linked with corresponding one of the original image data files. The image management device generates a preview image data file by using a corresponding original image data file. The retrieval device reads out an original image data file from the storage device, on the basis of search data externally provided. The image process device provides an image selection page to the client terminal and generates the search data for the preview image data file selected by the client.

An apparatus including an autostereoscopic image selection device having a plurality of lenticules is provided. The autostereoscopic image selection device has an opaque material applied thereto in gaps between the plurality of lenticules. The opaque material is applied to the autostereoscopic image selection device in a soft aperturing manner, the soft aperturing manner comprising applying the opaque material such that the opaque material is tapered from the gaps over the plurality of lenticules. The opaque material can be applied in accordance with a windowing function.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for selecting an application for processing an electronic image file based upon the content of the image file. Certain embodiments provide an image selector selecting an image from an image storage device, an identification module providing a label to the image based on the content of the image, an application selector choosing at least one application from a plurality of applications to process the image, and a learning unit maintaining a record of image labels and the applications presently and previously processing the images.

A face image registration apparatus comprising: a face video image acquiring unit configured to acquire a front face image and at least one or more moving video images corresponding to predefined face pose changes; a similarity measurement unit configured to measure a similarity of the acquired front face image and each of the acquired at least one or more moving video images; an image selection unit configured to select at least images from the at least one or more moving video images based on the measured similarities;and an image storage unit configured to store the selected at least one or more images on the user basis.