International Business Machines Corporation

Nec Corporation

Sony Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Mitsumi Electric Company Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Electronics Inc

Jamco Corporation

Nippon Closures Co., Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Renesas Technology Corp.

Sony Group Corporation

Arkray, Inc.

Hitachi Ulsi Systems Co., Ltd.

Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.

Hiroaki Kikuchi

Tomoaki Yamabayashi

Takashi Fukuda

Osamu Takahashi

Masaki Komedani

Masaki Hirose

Fumihiko Terui

Tomohiro Hamajima

Jun Onuki

Katsunori Kondo

Tohru Hasegawa

Koji Kamiya

Shunsuke Ishikawa

Asako Ono

Kenichi Asano

Yutaka Moriya

Hiroshi Kiriyama

Tomoyuki Endo

Hideyuki Imaida

Tomokiyo Kato

Shimpei Yotsukura

Takuya Goto

Mitsuyoshi Suzuki

Tetsuo Ogawa

Mitsuru Sakamoto

Xiangning Liu

Tsutomu Kubo

Motonori Nakamura

Hirohiko Urushiyama

Satoshi Oosuga

Luke Freeman

Agus Subagyo

Yoshiaki Tanaka

Tokumichi Murakami

Hirofumi Nishikawa

Issei Yoshida

Kenichi Arai

Yuichi Suzuki

Yukinori Noguchi

Kensuke Okonogi

Toshihiko Kaku

Takayuki Ishihara

Hiroshi Shimomura

Hirohiko Yamamoto

Kenta Watanabe

Seiichi Shishiguchi

Masashi Kuranoshita

Toru Amano

Yusuke Sugimoto

Katsumi Hashimoto

Shigeru Shinohara

Hiroaki Uetsuki

Hideo Kuroda

Yasuyuki Tominaga

Takuma Murakami

Yuki Makino

Noriyuki Kodama

Nobuyuki Sakai

Daisuke Tsuchimoto

Sei Nakagawa

Kazunari Tanimura

Norio Ookubo

Hideo Hashimoto

Yuhei Yonekawa

Okikazu Tanno

Satoshi Osuga

Yoshihiro Inamoto

Yoshihito Ueda

Yuichi Naitou

Yuusuke Kawamura

Tomio Hayakawa

Naofumi Goda

Kunio Ogasawara

Tadashi Ishigaki

Yutaka Hienuki

Toshiaki Sawada

In one aspect, an imaging assistance apparatus includes: a laser light projection device having a laser light source that generates laser light and a laser head provided with an optical element that projects the laser light as patterned light having a determined pattern; a reception device that receives a first operation; a projection instruction device that instructs the laser light projection device during laser light projection to end the projection of the patterned light, on the basis of the first operation; and an imaging instruction device that instructs an imaging device to image a subject on which focusing control is performed, on the basis of the first operation.

Imaging assistance apparatus, imaging system, imaging assistance method, and imaging assistance program

An estimation apparatus includes a processor, in which the processor is configured to acquire positional information of a plurality of reference stations each having a light emitter that emits light in wavelength bands different from each other, acquire image data obtained by imaging an imaging scene including the light emitter via an imaging apparatus mounted on a moving object, and estimate at least one of a position of the moving object or a posture of the moving object based on an in-image position, which is a position of the light emitter in an image indicated by the image data, and the positional information of the plurality of reference stations.

Estimation apparatus, imaging apparatus, moving object, estimation system, estimation method, and program

To enable HDR video signals of a plurality of signal interfaces to be satisfactorily handled. [Solution] A processing unit processes a linear high dynamic range video signal and obtains a high dynamic range video signal that has undergone a grayscale compression process. The processing unit is able to perform grayscale compression processes of a plurality of signal interfaces. For example, when a grayscale compression process of another signal interface other than a reference signal interface is performed, the processing unit further performs a process of adding characteristics of system gamma of the reference signal interface and a process of cancelling out characteristics of system gamma of the other signal interface.

Signal processing device, signal processing method, camera system, video system, and server

Provided are a structure management device, a structure management method, and a structure management program capable of suppressing deterioration of image quality of a mapped captured image and easily performing comparison with past inspection result. A structure management device includes an image acquiring unit () that acquires an image group, a damage detecting unit () that analyzes images in the image group to detect damage of the structure, a three-dimensional design data acquiring unit () that acquires three-dimensional design data indicating the structure, a combined information calculating unit () that tracks point group data of feature points common in the overlap area between the images in the image group to calculate combined information including a camera position and a camera posture in a case of capturing the image by the camera and a three-dimensional position of the point group data, and a mapping unit () that maps the detected damage on a surface of the structure indicated by the acquired three-dimensional design data based on the combined information calculated by the combined information calculating unit.

Structure management device, structure management method, and structure management program

A method for a multi-channel search includes receiving a specific post selection submitted in a first channel and query text associated with the specific post in the first channel, where the query text includes one or more words for performing a query evaluation. The method receives a query location which includes a plurality of channels for performing the query evaluation. Responsive to extracting one or more ranking factors from the specific post selection, the method performs the query evaluation at the query location to collect a plurality of potential matching posts based on the one or more ranking factors. The method reorders the plurality of potential matches according to a plurality of determined scores for the plurality of potential matches. The method displays two-dimensional search results based on a timeline and channel relevancy, where the plurality of channels is ordered according to channel relevancy compared to the first channel.

Multi-channel search

A first user request which specifies a target document set wherein a first subset of the documents is flagged by a user. A primary flag table is created for the target document set. A first document subset is created matching the first user request. It is determined whether a number of flagged documents exceeds a first threshold. If so, a secondary flag table is created for the first document subset and flag data corresponding to the first document subset is stored in the secondary flag table. The flag data in the secondary flag table is merged into the primary flag table.

Document flagging based on multi-generational complemental secondary data

A method for recommending a plurality of alternate search keywords is provided. The method may include executing a first search query using a plurality of user-entered search text. The method may also include identifying a highest contribution keyword to a plurality of search results of the executed first search query. The method may further include identifying a highest correlation alternate keyword to the identified highest contribution keyword. The method may also include creating an alternate keyword group by replacing the identified highest contribution keyword with the identified highest correlation alternate keyword. The method may further include executing a second search query using the created alternate keyword group. The method may also include displaying the plurality of search results associated with the executed first search query with a plurality of statistics associated with the executed second search query.

Recommending documents sets based on a similar set of correlated features

There is provided a video signal processing apparatus, including: a first interface configured to obtain a first video signal imaged within a first dynamic range; a second interface configured to obtain information for specifying a partial area of the obtained first video signal; and an arithmetic processing circuit configured to calculate a representative value of brightness of the first video signal of the partial area, to compress a dynamic range of the first video signal depending on the calculated representative value, and to generate a second video signal, a dynamic range of the second video signal being restricted to a second dynamic range narrower than the first dynamic range.

Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and program

Storage pools having categorized archival storage tapes according to content of files stored on each tape. Archiving new files into the storage pools according to content of the new files for efficient retrieval of files from storage tapes organized by category of content. Recall of multiple files from archival storage tapes to primary storage of an hierarchical storage management system is efficiently performed such that tape mounting operations are minimized.

Content driven storage and retrieval of files

To enable HDR video signals of a plurality of signal interfaces to be satisfactorily handled. A processing unit processes a linear high dynamic range video signal and obtains a high dynamic range video signal that has undergone a grayscale compression process. The processing unit is able to perform grayscale compression processes of a plurality of signal interfaces. For example, when a grayscale compression process of another signal interface other than a reference signal interface is performed, the processing unit further performs a process of adding characteristics of system gamma of the reference signal interface and a process of cancelling out characteristics of system gamma of the other signal interface.

The present invention is directed to providing an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of easily obtaining a combined image and a developed image in a case where a construction formed of a plurality of planes is divisionally imaged. An image processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of captured images obtained by respectively imaging different portions of a construction formed of a plurality of planes, a plane specifying unit that specifies common planes common to the plurality of captured images, an image conversion unit that performs projection conversion on images including the common planes among the plurality of captured images, to generate a plurality of converted images in which the common planes are aligned with each other, a combined image generation unit that generates a plane combined image in which the plurality of converted images are combined with each other on an identical plane, and a developed image generation unit that generates a developed image of the construction by connecting a plurality of the plane combined images to each other.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An object of the present invention is to provide an index generating method and index generating apparatus capable of accurately and stably generating an index for measuring a width of a subject, and a measuring method capable of accurately and stably measuring a width of a subject. An index generating method according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: an image input step of inputting an image obtained by imaging a linear subject; a density distribution acquiring step of acquiring, from the input image, a plurality of density distributions along a direction orthogonal to a width direction of the linear subject, which are density distributions in the width direction of the linear subject; a function calculating step of calculating a probability distribution function corresponding to the acquired plurality of density distributions; and an index generating step of generating an index indicating a width of the subject based on the calculated probability distribution function.

Index generating method, measuring method, and index generating apparatus

A system, computer program product, and method are provided to selectively index one or more subsets of documents or files. As data is extracted from a document or file, extracted text is organized into data portions and subject to evaluations. Meta characteristic data is leveraged to assess the extracted text. One or more subsets of the organized data portions are selectively identified and subject to enrichment processing, which creates and returns enriched and indexed subsets of the documents or files.

Text extraction and processing

Facet-based query refinement based on multiple query interpretations is provider through a process that includes receiving a query for querying documents, of a whole document set, that deviate by one or more facet values. The process generates different query interpretations from query text of the query. The process executes the different query interpretations to obtain resulting document sets. For each different query interpretation, the executing executes the query interpretation to obtain a resulting document set corresponding to that query interpretation, and identifies facet values represented in the resulting document set. The process builds and presents to a user a query refinement interface, presenting the different query interpretations and properties of the resulting document sets, as well as, for each of the one or more facet values, and relative to each other, facet value representation of the facet value in each of the resulting document sets.

Facet-based query refinement based on multiple query interpretations

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Hiroaki Kikuchi