Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Clarion Co

Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Engineering, Ltd.

Daisuke Matsubara

Hitoshi Yabusaki

Masahisa Shinoda

Kenichi Yoneji

Atsushi Hiroike

Kazuho Miki

Naoto Akira

Tomoaki Yoshinaga

Yuki Watanabe

Yukiko Takeda

Yasushi Nagai

Kenya Nakai

Gen Tsuchida

Hironori Nakahara

Yoji Ozawa

Yasushi Fukuda

Yasutsugu Morimoto

Haruhiko Sawajiri

Nobuo Nukaga

Kyousuke Tsurusu

Hiroshi Kurihara

Akio Nagasaka

Akihiko Takase

Naoto Miura

Akira Omachi

Norihiko Moriwaki

Katsuhiko Tsunehara

Satoshi Yoshizawa

Hidenori Inouchi

Yoshihiro Iwama

Kazuma Yumoto

Masashi Yano

Seishi Hanaoka

Hideya Yoshiuchi

Yusuke Matsuda

Noritaka Tanabe

Hideki Takano

Tatsuhiko Kagehiro

Kenji Kataoka

Tsuneya Kurihara

Yusuke Daimon

Hiroto Nagayoshi

Masaru Oda

Satoshi Kiyoto

Tsukasa Yamauchi

Kenji Fujihira

Tomohiro Baba

Quan Kong

Yuto Komatsu

Miyako Iida

Kota Kawahara

Satoshi Nagano

Kyosuke Tsurusu

Kenichi Otsuki

Satoshi Someya

Hiroko Hasebe

Narihiro Oomoto

Provided is an information processing system, including a processor, a storage device and a display device. The storage device stores images captured by imaging devices. If an image of a moving object is selected as a search query, then the processor executes a similarity search on the images stored in the storage device, with the selected image as the search query. The display device displays images attained as results of the similarity search. If an image of a moving object is added as a search query, then the processor executes a similarity search with all selected images as search queries. The display device updates images to be displayed such that images attained as results of the similarity search performed with all the selected images as the search queries are displayed.

Information processing system, method for controlling information processing system, and storage medium

Provided is technique of object recognition that can accurately recognize an object. An object recognition apparatus (i) generates property data that highlights a specific property based on target data, (ii) extracts a discrimination-use feature amount used for discrimination of each piece of the property data, (iii) calculates discrimination information used for discrimination of the property data, (iv) extracts a reliability feature amount used for estimation of reliability of the discrimination information calculated for each piece of the property data, (v) estimates the reliability of the discrimination information, (vi) generates synthesized information acquired by synthesizing the discrimination information calculated for each piece of the property data and the reliability calculated for each piece of the property data, and (vii) performs processing related to the object recognition.

Object recognition apparatus, object recognition system, and object recognition method

An image search apparatus including: an accumulation unit that accumulates search target images; an area detector that learns search priority by analyzing first information extracted from a plurality of first areas included in a plurality of the search target images, analyzes second information extracted from a plurality of second areas included in a query image, and detects the second areas, the search priority of which is high, as conspicuous areas by using the second information; and an image search unit that searches for the search target images by using an image feature extracted from the conspicuous areas.

Image search apparatus, system, and method

The present invention suitably determines how is congestion in an area. A congestion analysis device includes: a person classifying unit that is configured to determine, based on a moving image in which persons are photographed, the number of the persons; a motion trajectory determination unit that is configured to determine a motion trajectory of each of the persons; and a congestion information analysis unit that is configured to determine a state of each of the persons based on the motion trajectory thereof photographed in the moving image and also determine a congestion degree in accordance with the number of the persons and the state of each of the persons.

Congestion analysis device, congestion analysis method, and congestion analysis program

Provided is a content delivery system which includes an in-vehicle terminal and a content delivery server connected via wireless communication. The content delivery server includes a pre-sending unit which identifies a content that is likely to be used by the in-vehicle terminal in a dead spot where a communication status of the wireless communication is inferior, and sends the identified content to the in-vehicle terminal before a vehicle mounted with the in-vehicle terminal reaches the dead spot. The in-vehicle terminal includes an in-vehicle terminal storage unit which stores the content sent from the pre-sending unit.

Content delivery system, content delivery server, in-vehicle terminal, content delivery method

A video surveillance system, including motion information from a plurality of surveillance cameras even when the installation conditions of the cameras are different, is equipped with an extraction unit which, upon receiving video images from the plurality of cameras, extracts motion feature quantities from a plurality of frames which constitute the video images, a storage unit for storing extraction results from the extraction unit, a conversion unit for converting the extracted motion feature quantities, and an analysis unit for analyzing the converted motion feature quantities, wherein the conversion unit retains virtual coordinate axes which are different from the coordinate axes of the plurality of cameras and converts the feature quantities by calculating virtual viewpoints on the virtual coordinate axes.

Video surveillance system and video surveillance device

A biometric authentication device including a housing, a light source unit that is installed on an upper surface of the housing and includes a light source, and an opening that is provided in the upper surface of the housing and located below the light source, and an imaging unit that is disposed inside the housing is disclosed. In the device, an optical axis of the light source intersects with a longitudinal direction of the housing, and the imaging unit images a user's biometric feature irradiated with an irradiation light from the light source through the opening.

Biometric authentication device and system

An image search system comprising an video taking unit that takes a video, a search unit that contains a processor and a storage unit and searches for an image contained in the video, an input unit that receives information that is input to the search unit, and a display unit that displays information that is output from the search unit. The storage unit holds information indicating the shapes of trajectories that represent the travel paths of a plurality of moving objects extracted from the video. When information indicating the shape of a trajectory is input from the input unit, the search unit searches the plurality of moving-object trajectories held in the storage unit for trajectories that are similar to the input trajectory shape, and if such a trajectory is found, the search unit displays, on the display unit, images of the moving objects that have traveled along the found trajectories.

Image search system, image search apparatus, and image search method

An in-vehicle terminal and a mobile terminal receive a request and a first identifier for identifying the request and store the first identifier in a buffer, the mobile terminal sends the request to a server, which stores the first identifier in a buffer when the request includes the first identifier and generates a second identifier when the request does not include the first identifier. When an event occurs, the mobile terminal generates and stores a message and a message code related to the second identifier together with the second identifier, transfers a response including the first identifier, the message and the message code to the mobile terminal when the first identifier exists in the buffer, and transfers a response including the message and the message code to the mobile terminal when the first identifier does not exist in the buffer. The mobile terminal displays the message and the message code.

In-vehicle information system and information processing method thereof

A first apparatus inquires the second apparatus about whether a first data can be transmitted, in a case where the transmission is approved by the second apparatus, transmits the data to the second apparatus, and in a case where the transmission is not approved by the second apparatus, receives data from the second apparatus and outputs the data with its own data to a storage medium, and the second apparatus determines that a data is transmitted from the first apparatus on the basis of a condition pertaining to a second data communications channel, and upon having determined to approve the transmission from the first apparatus, receives the data from the first apparatus and transmits the data with its own data to a server via the second data communications channel, and upon having determined not to approve the transmission from the first apparatus, transmits its own data to the first apparatus.

Computer system, data output method, and computer program

It is an objective of the present invention to reduce processing loads for video analysis utilizing information throughout the facility. A video monitoring system according to the present invention simulates a flow of a moving object within a video captured by multiple monitoring cameras, calculates a parameter correlated with a processing load for movement analysis of the moving object according to the simulation result, and specifies a processing scheme that is capable of reducing the processing load according to a correspondence relationship between the parameter and the simulation result (refer to FIG.).

Video monitoring system, video monitoring method, and video monitoring system building method

A passage channel is calculated by taking into account a plurality of requirements having different importance degrees. A channel calculation unit () of a transport control server () calculates a plurality of passage channel candidates with respect to a passage setting request wherein an active passage candidate and a standby passage candidate are paired in the passage channel candidate; and calculates the occurrence number of phenomena that violate a predetermined requirement relating an operation of the active passage and the standby passage, or a value of a network element for determining whether the requirement is violated, with respect to each passage channel candidate. A cost calculation unit () calculates the cost of a passage channel from the calculated number of occurrence, network element value, and a predetermined cost calculation coefficient corresponding to the requirement. A GUI control unit (display control unit)displays identification information of the passage channel candidate, the number of occurrences or the network element value, and the cost, as a list on, for example, a management terminal.

Transport control server, transport control system, and transport control method

Transport control server (TCS) in a network system including a first backup path (FBP) with predetermined first bandwidth (PFB) secured or reserved between any node pair, second backup path (SBP) with predetermined second bandwidth (PSB) secured or reserved between any node pair, the FBP and SBP sharing a link, each node forwards data according to path setting information. The TCS including: a storage section storing, for each path, an identifier for each node through which the path passes; and a control processing section performing: upon switchover of first active path to FBP, judging whether PSB of SBP can be secured or reserved by the bandwidth of the shared link through which the FBP passes, by referring to the storage section; if not, identifying nodes through which the SBP passes, by referring to the storage section; and transmitting a setting change notification to delete the SBP to the identified nodes.

Transport control server, transport control system, and backup path setting method

It is intended to shorten the time required for a path recalculation and a path switching upon occurrence of a failure. A path generation unit of a transport control server (TCS) S-generates the normal path information in accordance with the topology information of a network and the resource information which are set. Also, the path generation unit generates in advance the backup path information for occurrence of the failure based on the prediction topology information and the prediction resource information which have been modified in accordance with a predicted failure position. The path generation unit stores the generated backup path information in a data storage unit. A path information notification unit of the TCS (S-) notifies nodes N of the generated normal path information. A failure information acquisition unit of the TCS (S-) detects the occurrence of the failure. If the failure information acquisition unit detects the occurrence of the failure, the path information notification unit notifies the nodes N of the backup path information stored in the data storage unit.

Transport control server that calculates routing information

An image monitoring technology for accurately collecting information about a monitoring target is provided. An image monitoring apparatus according to the present invention tracks the monitoring target on the basis of images sent from an overhead camera and images sent from gazing cameras, and switches gazing targets for the gazing cameras on the basis of the position and event information of the monitoring target, and tracking information about the monitoring target.

Image monitoring apparatus, image monitoring system, and image monitoring system configuration method

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Daisuke Matsubara