Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Other

Kabushiki Kaisha Kaisha

Ricon Company, Ltd.

Akihiko Fujiwara

Mika Hirama

Shigeo Uchida

Masaaki Yasunaga

Hajime Tomizawa

Koji Nagai

Koichi Yano

Shunichi Megawa

Masami Takahata

Yu Yoshiie

Kohichi Yano

Kenji Ito

Hiroyuki Kato

Kazuhiro Ogura

Takeshi Ogaki

Tetsuya Nobuoka

Akinori Iwase

Kazunori Hirabayashi

Kazuaki Kidokoro

Masateru Mitani

Ryuichi Aoyama

Yoshiko Suenaga

Naoki Watanabe

Hiroyo Tanaka

Nobuhisa Yoda

Tomonori Ikumi

Hideyuki Aota

Yoshiko Takeda

Norifumi Yamamoto

Toshio Oosugi

Toshio Ohsugi

An image processing apparatus includes a display, an input device, and a processor configured to accept, through the input device, a user input of identification information about a package for delivery, acquire information about a plurality of document types used in a delivery service, generate a screen displayed on the display, the screen showing a preview of a print image for each of the document types, upon selection of a previewed print image, encode the identification information into a code, and output the selected print image together with the code for printing. The previewed print image includes a signature field and a code field in which the code is to be printed.

Image processing apparatus configured to encode identification information about a package for delivery

An information processing device includes a memory that stores a known position of a marker, a camera, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether the image includes the marker, calculate a relative position of the marker with respect to the camera and store the calculated relative position in the memory if image includes the marker, and determine a position of the camera using the known position of the marker and two or more relative positions calculated for the marker stored in the memory.

Information processing device, method performed thereby, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a camera acquiring an image, a memory storing a feature value of an image associated with a location, and a processor. When a current location of the apparatus is not stored in the memory, the processor extracts a first area from an acquired image, acquires a first feature value of the first area, and when a feature value that is substantially identical with the first feature value is stored in the memory, determines the current location using a location stored in the memory in association with the feature value. When the current location is stored in the memory, the processor extracts a second area from an acquired image, acquires a second feature value of the second area, determines a location corresponding to the second area using the current location, and stores in the memory the determined location in association with the second feature value.

Information processing apparatus configured to determine a location of a candidate for a marker for augmented reality

A positioning apparatus comprises an acquiring section which acquires an azimuth angle and an angular velocity of a moving object from values measured by sensors of the moving object moving in a positioning area; a storage section which stores a coefficient of a relational expression established between a moving speed and a standard deviation of the angular velocity of the moving object in association with each of a plurality of division areas for dividing the positioning area; and a positioning section which specifies a division area where the moving object is positioned per unit time to acquire the stored coefficient in association with the division area, and calculates the moving speed in the division area from the coefficient and the standard deviation of the acquired angular velocity to measure a position of the moving object in the positioning area from the moving speed and the acquired azimuth angle.

Positioning apparatus and positioning method

An information providing apparatus including a detection unit of at least one computer, a decision unit of the at least one computer, and a sound control circuit. The detection unit detects a position and a movement direction of a moving object in an area in which an article, corresponding to information that is provided, is disposed. The decision unit decides a direction in which the information is provided to the moving object from a relationship between the position of the moving object, the movement direction of the moving object, and a position in the area of the article. The sound control circuit controls a sound output attached to the moving object to localize a sound image according to the information in the direction decided.

Information providing apparatus and information providing method using virtual sound image localization processing

A content providing apparatus includes a selecting unit, a setting unit, and an output unit. The selecting unit selects additional information output while being superimposed on content output to a display device. The setting unit sets the additional information selected by the selecting unit in any position overlapping the content. The output unit outputs the content, for which the additional information is set by the setting unit, to the display device.

Content providing apparatus and computer program

A position measuring system includes s server and radio wave emitting stations positioned at different locations across a position measuring area. A storage device stores, for each of the plurality of radio wave emitting stations, a beacon identifier that uniquely identifies the radio wave emitting station and a first threshold time. A processor receives, from a portable device, reception information including a reception time indicating when the portable device received a signal from one of the radio wave emitting stations. The processor determines, based on the received signal strength identifier, a position of the reception station in the position measuring area. The processor determines an operation state of the radio wave emitting station corresponding to the received signal. A display device displays information indicating the determined operation state of each of the plurality of radio wave emitting stations.

Position measuring system including a server and a plurality of beacons

An image forming apparatus includes a printer, an input device configured to receive a user input, and a processor configured to acquire identification information that specifies a task in a predetermined service and is input through the input device, acquire document type information about document types used in the predetermined service based on the acquired identification information, generate a code for the task by encoding the acquired identification information, and control the printer to print an image of one of the document types and the generated code on a sheet of paper.

Image forming apparatus for printing an image according to one of document types used in a predetermined service

According to one embodiment, a base station as a verification target and a partner base station to be a set of a two-point positioning scheme with the base station as the verification target are detected from a list. It is determined whether the partner base station is already selected as the base station as the verification target. When the detected partner base station is not selected yet, and the detected partner base station is already selected, it is determined whether the base station as the verification target is included in the adjacent candidate base stations with respect to the partner base station. When the base station as the verification target is included in the adjacent candidate base stations, the base station as the verification target and the partner base station, which is determined to be already selected, are confirmed as a pair of base stations.

Evaluation apparatus and method

In accordance with an embodiment, a positioning apparatus comprises a first interface and a processor. The first interface receives a positioning signal. The processor sets an interval for searching the positioning signal with a first interface to a first searching interval, sets the interval for searching the positioning signal to a second searching interval which is shorter than the first searching interval if it is determined that the positioning signal is received through searching in the first searching interval and uses the positioning signal received through searching in the second searching interval to specify a position of the positioning apparatus.

A positioning server determines a location of a mobile device within an area including a plurality of base stations. The positioning server includes a communication circuit through which positioning data is received, a display device, an input unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to: (i) generate a user interface for display by the display device, the user interface including a user interface element through which a positioning mode of base stations can be defined, and an image of a map of an area in which the mobile device is to be located and icons representing the base stations that are within the area, (ii) store the positioning mode of the base stations in response to the inputs made through the input unit, and (iii) determine the location of the mobile device based on the positioning data and the stored positioning modes of the base stations.

Positioning device and program

A positioning device includes a processor configured to calculate a first neighboring time at which the mobile device becomes closest to a first base station in the plurality of base stations based on the received signal strength data and a second neighboring time at which the mobile device becomes closest to a second base station of the plurality of base stations, and convert the relative movement data in the second storage device into position coordinates data specifying an absolute position of the mobile device in an absolute coordinate system using the first base station as a reference point from the first neighboring time to the second neighboring time.

Positioning device and positioning system

A method for providing information related to information displayed on a signage device to a mobile device carried by a user includes displaying on a screen of the signage device one or more images, establishing a connection between a mobile device and the signage device, displaying on the screen of the signage device a mark unique to the user, after the connection has been established, moving the mark on the screen in accordance with an operation of the mobile device by the user, and transmitting, to the mobile device, information related to an image at which the mark is located.

Information providing method and system using signage device

A positioning device includes a first storage device having stored therein received signal strength data in time series according to mobile device data, a second storage device having stored therein relative movement data of the mobile device in time series within a relative coordinate system, and a processor configured to calculate a first neighboring time at which the mobile device becomes closest to a first base station in the plurality of base stations based on the received signal strength data and a second neighboring time at which the mobile device becomes closest to a second base station of the plurality of base stations, and convert the relative movement data in the second storage device into position coordinates data specifying an absolute position of the mobile device in an absolute coordinate system using the first base station as a reference point from the first neighboring time to the second neighboring time.

An information processing apparatus comprises a recording module; an extraction module which extracts maximum radio wave intensity from the radio wave intensities recorded in the same time zone and extracts the radio wave intensities of other first communication devices arranged in the vicinity of a position where the first communication device with the maximum radio wave intensity is installed; and a positioning module which measures a position of the second communication device based on the plurality of the radio wave intensities extracted by the extraction module, wherein the positioning module determines that the second communication device is present at a position where the first communication device with the maximum radio wave intensity is installed on condition that the maximum radio wave intensity extracted by the extraction module is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akihiko Fujiwara