Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Araki Matsuda

Yosato Hitaka

Katsutoshi Nagato

Kozue Kozakura

Koichi Tanabe

Kazuteru Tani

Asami Takenaga

Yoko Hirotani

Hiroyuki Owatari

Yumiko Kuno

An electronic apparatus connected to an image capture apparatus receives an image capture instruction for requesting the image capture apparatus to perform image capture processing, in response to a user operation. If the image capture instruction is received, the electronic apparatus performs control to display a first image recorded by the image capture apparatus performing the image capture processing according to a capture request based on the image capture instruction from the electronic apparatus on a screen without a second image recorded by the image capture apparatus automatically performing the image capture processing according to satisfying a predetermined condition for automatic capturing. If the image capture instruction is not received, the electronic apparatus performs control to display both the first image and the second image on the screen.

Electronic apparatus, image capture apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium

There is provided a technology for enabling a user to recognize gradation of a captured image with high accuracy, when the user checks a substitute image displayed in substitution for the captured image. An electronic apparatus divides a captured image into a plurality of partial areas, generates each of histograms for the respective partial areas, the histograms each representing a number of pixels of each gradation, and outputs the generated histogram to an apparatus that displays a substitute image having a data size smaller than a data size of the captured image.

Electronic apparatus enabling a user to recognize gradation of a raw image with high accuracy by checking the displayed raw histogram

An electronic device: calculates, for each image, length of a side in a first direction when resizing length of a side in a second direction to a specific length; arranges images such that the number of images arranged in the first direction is not more than a threshold number and a total of lengths of sides in the first direction of the images arranged in the first direction is not more than a threshold length; executes, for each image, resize processing for resizing the images arranged in the first direction such that the total of the lengths is approximated to the threshold length and lengths of sides in the second direction of the images arranged in the first direction are approximated; and displays the images, on which the resize processing is executed, in the display area side by side in the first and second directions.

Electronic device

The present invention provides a technique for, when there are multiple images, attaching an appropriate (neither too large nor too small) number of tags to each image. An information processing apparatus of an embodiment of the present invention includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the information processing apparatus to: detect a subject from each of a plurality of images; determine a tag corresponding to the detected subject; calculate, for each image, a value based on an image quality of an area of the subject corresponding to the tag; select, based on the value calculated for each image, at least one of the plurality of images from which the subject corresponding to the tag is detected; and store the tag in association with the selected image.

Information processing apparatus, method, program and storage medium

An apparatus which searches for an image containing an object requested from a distribution destination apparatus, and manages an object of an image and a user of a distribution destination apparatus by categories; a unit which receives information about the user of the distribution destination apparatus and information about the requested object; a unit which determines a distribution destination user category to which the user of the distribution destination apparatus belongs; a unit which determines an object category to which the object requested from the distribution destination apparatus belongs; a unit which decides a search condition of an image based on the distribution destination user category and the object category; and a unit which searches for an image based on the decided search condition.

Image search apparatus, image search method, and system

A camera generates a main image and a sub image of which data size is smaller than that of the main image, and stores them in association with an image ID. The camera transmits the image ID and the sub image to a tablet device, and transmits the image ID and the main image to the PC. The tablet device executes a development process on the sub image and generates an adjustment value, and transmits the adjustment value together with the image ID to a server. The PC receives the adjustment value based on the image ID from the server and uses the adjustment value for a development process on the main image.

Information setting apparatus, information management apparatus, information generation apparatus, and method and program for controlling the same

There is provided a device management system. In the system, a first communication device sends a device ID and an owner identifier to a device management apparatus, and receives a first confirmation code. The device management apparatus receives the device ID and the owner identifier, generates the first confirmation code and provisional registration information, records the received and generated information items, sends the first confirmation code to the first communication device, and sends the provisional registration information to a second communication device. The second communication device receives the provisional registration information, obtains a second confirmation code, and sends the second confirmation code to the device management apparatus. The device management apparatus receives the second confirmation code, and records registration completion information if the second confirmation code matches the corresponding first confirmation code.

Device management system, communication device, device management apparatus, and control method

An image processing process includes classifying an Object-related information indicating a feature of an object into an attribute, generating feature information of a partial area of an image, calculating a degree of similarity between the object and the partial area based on the object-related information and the feature information, estimating, based on the degree of similarity, the object for each of the partial areas, calculating, for a combination of the estimated objects, a total of the degrees of similarity between the object classified into the attribute and the partial area for each of the attributes, selecting, based on the total, at least one of the combinations of the estimated objects, and storing the object included in the selected combination in association with the image.

Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium computer-readably storing program therefor

A system includes a first apparatus which transmits identification information to a second apparatus and records management information from the second apparatus, the second apparatus which, if the management information has been received, compares the management information with management information recorded, and if the management information acquired from the first apparatus is different, transmits the management information to the first apparatus, if the management information has not been received, transmits an issuance request of management information to the information processing apparatus, and transmits the management information received from the information processing apparatus to the first apparatus, and records the transmitted management information and the received identification information, and an information processing apparatus which generates the management information and transmits the management information to the second apparatus.

Communication apparatus, information processing apparatus, control methods therefor, and system

Moving image editing device, method, and storage medium storing a program provide a smart rendering scheme to minimize the variation of playback time, even when editing moving image data that does not match the save format. The format of the moving image data is compared with the save format. The moving image data is converted into the save format. The moving image data is sequentially joined and saved. A portion or the entirety of the moving image data itself is output if the format of the moving image data matches the save format, or the data encoded into the save format after decoding a portion or the entirety of the moving image data is output if the format of the moving image data does not match the save format. The device repeats sequential joining so that the difference in the playback time with the moving image data is minimized.

Apparatus, method, and medium storing a program, that reduce playback time differences when joining moving images of different formats

A distributor's apparatus generates distribution information including basic distribution information and extended distribution information which sets the correspondence between a plurality of output modes and a plurality of operating states of a predetermined application program in a recipient's apparatus and transmits the distribution information to the recipient's apparatus via a network. The recipient's apparatus receives the distribution information and detects the operating state of its own. The recipient's apparatus determines the output mode based on the detected operating state and the extended distribution information and outputs the distribution information in accordance with the determined output mode.

Information delivery system, distributor's apparatus, recipient's apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium

A server apparatus capable of preventing unauthorized use of services by a third party through an electronic appliance that stores information used for user authentication by the server apparatus. The server apparatus receives, from an information processing apparatus, pieces of user identification information, pieces of appliance identification information, and pieces of use permission/prohibition information representing on a per service type basis whether uses of services are permitted or prohibited, and stores them so as to be associated with one another. When determining based on use permission/prohibition information, which is associated with a combination of user identification information and appliance identification information that are accepted from an electronic appliance, that use of a service represented by service type information accepted from the electronic appliance is permitted, the server apparatus transmits screen information for use of the service to the electronic appliance.

Server apparatus, and control method and computer-readable storage medium therefor

Automatic sorting reflecting a user's intention is performed without prompting the user to perform a complicated sorting criterion setting operation. Images are sorted into groups in accordance with user's sorting operations. For each group, statistics of feature values of the sorted images are calculated. On the basis of the result of statistics, a feature value satisfying a predetermined criterion is determined as an automatic sorting criterion. The determined automatic sorting criterion is displayed. Thereafter, a plurality of contents are automatically sorted into the respective groups on the basis of the automatic sorting criterion.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A moving image editing device which uses a smart rendering scheme whereby the variation of playback time is minimized even when editing material data with a minimum time unit that does not match that of the save format. A material format which is a moving image format of the material data is acquired, and then it is determined whether or not the material format acquired by the material format acquisition unit matches a save format which is the moving image format to be saved. The material data is converted into the save format. The moving image data acquired by the format conversion unit is sequentially joined, and then the moving image data which is the save result is generated. The format conversion unit outputs a portion or the entirety of the material data itself regarding the material data determined to be matched by the format determination device, on the other hand, outputs data encoded into the save format after decoding a portion or the entirety of the material data regarding the material data determined not to be matched, and the joining unit repeats sequential joining so that the difference in the playback time with the material data may be minimized.

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Araki Matsuda