Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

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Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

International Hashi, Inc.

Hideaki Matsuo

Kazuyuki Imagawa

Yuji Takata

Katsuhiro Iwasa

Tomoko Obama

Seiji Igi

Tetsurou Sugimoto

Shan Lu

Yuichi Yoshikawa

Hu Li

Yuichiro Tashiro

Tetsuya Yoshimura

Yusuke Satoh

Takaaki Nishi

Naruatsu Baba

Ikuo Fuchigami

Hiroshi Murakami

Yasuki Yamakawa

Shigehiro Sato

Akira Fujitaka

Satoshi Kajita

Hiroaki Nakai

Tomonori Kataoka

Fuminori Sakima

Kenji Takaichi

Akihiro Kyogoku

Fumihiko Yamada

Masakazu Matsuo

Toshiaki Ejima

Takeshi Ohashi

Yuji Nagashima

Terutaka Teshima

Takahiro Makino

Makoto Nishimura

Tetsu Hada

Eiji Fukumiya

Toshirou Eshima

The present invention includes a refrigeration cycle circuit that includes compressor, indoor heat exchanger, expansion valve, and outdoor heat exchanger that are connected to each other. A working fluid containing R1123 (1,1,2-trifluoroethylene) and R32 (difluoromethane) is used as a refrigerant sealed in the refrigeration cycle circuit, and an electric motor driving device that drives an electric motor of compressor includes a rotational speed estimator. The rotational speed estimator estimates rotational speed based on information on a detection value of an electric current input to the electric motor or a magnetic pole position of a rotor that constitutes the electric motor.

Refrigeration cycle device with motor speed estimator

A brushless motor capable of high speed rotation by field weakening operation is designed to reduce torque ripple at a maximum load point with current phase advance so that the torque ripple at the maximum load point is 1 to 1.5 times the torque ripple at a low speed load point.

Brushless motor and electric device mounted with same

A clutch mechanism moving together with an actuator allows coupling or decoupling an inner rotor to or from a power shaft, thereby controlling a rotation angle. This structure allows a polarity of a magnetic pole of the inner rotor to be the same as that of an opposing magnetic pole of an outer rotor when the motor is driven at a low rpm, so that magnetic fluxes inter-linking with windings can be increased, which results in greater torque. When the motor is driven at a high rpm, the structure allows the polarity of the magnetic pole of the inner rotor to be different from that of the opposing magnetic pole of the outer rotor, so that an amount of leakage flux is increased, and the magnetic fluxes inter-linking with the winding are decreased. As a result, an induction voltage is lowered and a high rpm range is widened.

Motor

An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing terminal that specifies emotions from a voice and audio outputs music suitable for the specified emotions to enable the emotions of a loudspeaker who uttered the voice to be recognized readily. In an information processing terminal according to the present invention, an emotion inferring unitdetects, from sound information, at least two emotions of an utterer who uttered a voice included in the sound information, and a music data generating unitsynthesizes music data, stored in a music parts databaseand corresponding to the emotions detected by the emotion inferring unit, and a controllerreproduces the music data generated by the music data generating unit

Information processing terminal and music information generating method and program

Information processing terminal and music information generating program

The present invention is to provide an information processing terminal which can use another expression means to indicate undesirable emotions directly transmitted to a party by a method of directly expressing talking person's emotions in real time, so that the whole image of a calling status can be reviewed afterward and grasped. An information processing terminalincluding: a voice signal output portionfor inputting a voice; an emotion estimation portionfor generating parameters of emotions from the inputted voice; and a notification portionfor giving notice of various kinds of information, wherein the information processing terminalfurther includes an emotion specifying portionfor specifying an emotion expressed by a distinctive parameter of the generated parameters, and the notification portiongives notice of the specified emotion.

Information processing terminal for notification of emotion

An image processing method for detecting an object from an input image using a template image, including inputting a specified image with respect to both a template image and an input image, calculating an edge normal direction vector of said specified image, generating an evaluation vector from said edge normal direction vector, subjecting the evaluation vector to orthogonal transformation, a step of performing a product sum calculation of corresponding spectral data with respect to each evaluation vector that has been subjected to orthogonal transformation and has been obtained for each of said template image and said input image, and a step of subjecting it to inverse orthogonal transformation and generating a similarity value map. The formula of the similarity value, the orthogonal transformation, and the inverse orthogonal transformation each have linearity. The pattern recognition is one in which the component of the similarity value is not subjected to positive/negative reversal through variations in brightness of the background.

Image processing method and apparatus for comparing edges between images

The present invention provides a videophone terminal by which the emotions and impressions of a user can be transmitted to and easily understood by a co-communicant. When a user performs a predetermined operation or when an audio processor identifies a predetermined keyword in the speech of the user, a picture of a virtual character is modified, or a completely different picture is displayed. To modify the picture of the virtual character, the size of each part of the face or the whole face is changed, or a pattern expressing an emotion is added thereto. And when a pending mode is released, the virtual character is recovered and displayed on the screen while a melody is played. At the end of a video conversation, in accordance with the user's selection, a picture indicating that the virtual character disappears from the screen is displayed before disconnecting the line.

Videophone terminal

The position of a body part area for a personal image in an input image is detected. According to the position of the detected body part area, the position of the origin of a coordinate system for an ornament image is defined. Based on the position of the defined origin, an ornament-arranged input image is outputted. When the personal image moves in the input image, the ornament image also moves by following the movement of the personal image. Even when both the personal image and ornament image move, the ornament image can be made not to interfere with the personal image. Therefore, the personal image can be clearly displayed. Moreover, the input image can be made to look more interesting by synchronizing the movement of the ornament image with the movement of the personal image.

Method and apparatus for image processing

A face detection device includes a face learning dictionary, which holds learned information for identification between a facial image and a non-facial image. An image input unit inputs a subject image. An edge image extraction unit extracts an edge image from the subject image. A partial image extraction unit, based on the edge image, extracts partial images that are candidates to contain facial images from the subject image. A face/non-face identification unit references the learning dictionary to identify whether or not each extracted partial image contains a facial image. Face detection of high precision, which reflects learned results, is performed.

Face detection device, face pose detection device, partial image extraction device, and methods for said devices

The present media editing device generates media including messages in an easy manner in a communication terminal such as a mobile terminal. Therein, a moving image data storage part stores moving image data recorded by a user. A region extraction part extracts any region including the user from the moving image data. A front determination part detects whether or not the user in the extracted region is facing the front. A sound detection part detects the presence or absence of a sound signal of a predetermined level or higher. A frame selection part determines starting and ending frames based on the results outputted from the front determination part and the sound detection part. An editing part performs, for example, an image conversion process by clipping out the media based on thus determined starting and ending frames. A transmission data storage part stores the resultantly edited media as transmission data.

Method and device for media editing

Device and method for recognizing hand shape and position, and recording medium having program for carrying out the method recorded thereon

A human tracking device according to the present invention stably tracks a human with good perception of the distance to a human with high resistance against disturbance. A camera image is divided into a human region and a background region. Then, each area of the image is judged whether or not the human region can be divided into a plurality of blob models corresponding to parts of a human. The parts of a human are preferably the head, trunk and legs. When the result of the judgment is &ldquo;YES&rdquo;, a plurality of human blob models are produced based on the human region. When the result of the judgment is &ldquo;NO&rdquo;, a single human blob model is produced based on the human region. The human is then tracked based on these human blob models. In this way, the human can be stably tracked with good perception of the distance to the human and with high resistance against disturbance.

Human tracking device, human tracking method and recording medium recording program thereof

In a broadly-applicable face image extraction device and method for defining a face by position and size in target images varied in type for face image extraction at high speed, an edge extraction part extracts an edge part from a target image and generates an edge image. A template storage part previously stores a template composed of a plurality of concentric shapes varied in size. A voting result storage part has voting storage regions for each size of the concentric shapes of the template so as to store the result obtained by voting processing carried out by a voting part The voting part carries out the voting processing utilizing the template at each pixel in the edge image, and stores the result obtained thereby in the corresponding voting storage region. After the voting processing, an analysis part performs cluster evaluation based on the voting results stored in the voting storage regions, and then defines the face in the target image by position and size.

Device and method for face image extraction, and recording medium having recorded program for the method

Two pictures of a subject obtained by objective lenses and from different locations of viewpoint are respectively rotated by dove prisms, 90 degrees clockwise, and then merged into a single picture by total reflection mirrors. The picture after synthesis is reduced at a predetermined ratio by a condenser lens, and then projected onto a pickup plane of a CCD. It is therefore possible to obtain stereoscopic pictures having parallax as a single picture using a single camera without narrowing the effective fields of view of right and left pictures of different viewpoints.

Stereoscopic picture obtaining device

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideaki Matsuo