Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hisashi Kazama

Kazuhiro Fukui

Takeshi Chujoh

Yasuhiro Taniguchi

Osamu Yamaguchi

Kaoru Suzuki

Masayuki Maruyama

Eiji Tanaka

Masahiro Fujita

Kei Sakamoto

Satoshi Uchida

Kazunori Onoguchi

Mayumi Yuasa

Tsukasa Ike

Takahisa Yoneyama

Yasukazu Okamoto

Hiroto Yoshihara

Satoru Ishigaki

A gesture recognition apparatus including a detector, a controller and a gesture recognizer, and is able to detect a portion to be detected using an image captured at a first resolution without reducing the number of images to be entered per unit of time to an object detector by detecting an auxiliary portion instead when the portion to be detected is not detected at a second resolution, estimating the position of the auxiliary portion based on the position of the auxiliary portion, and extracting the periphery thereof from the image captured at the first resolution.

Gesture recognition apparatus and method thereof

A video contents display system has a contents information display section that allows pieces of contents information on a plurality of recorded video contents to be displayed along a time axis on a screen, and a video contents display section that displays the plurality of video contents at a specified time on the time axis as motion pictures or still images.

Video contents display system, video contents display method, and program for the same

An image storage device according to an example of the invention comprising a first storage unit which stores first image, a second storage unit which stores second image to be determined whether the second image includes detection target data which is the similar to data included in the first image, parallel comparison units which perform a process of comparing pixel values between a frame of the first image and a frame of the second image, and determining, based on a comparison result between the frame of the first image and the frame of the second image, whether the detection target data is included in the second image in parallel, and a third storage unit which stores, when it is determined that the detection target data is included in the second image, the detection target data.

Image storage device and method

An object recognition apparatus comprises a moving picture decoding section which decodes data obtained by encoding a moving picture. A background image producing section produces a background image based on encoding information and a reproduction image. An object recognizing section sets a predetermined region to detect a feature quantity of an object, and carries out matching between the reproduction image and the background image, thereby recognizing the object in the moving picture.

Object recognition apparatus and object recognition method

A security apparatus. A service is supplied to a user while maintaining the security of the service. A person discrimination section discriminates the user to be supplied the service. A user situation decision section decides whether the user is under a situation to use the service. An infringement situation decision section detects whether a non-user intrudes into a use area of the service in order to decide whether the security of the service is infringed. A service control section supplies the service to the user in case the person discrimination section discriminates the user, and controls a supply of the service if the use situation decision section decides the user is not under the situation to use the service or the infringement situation decision section decides that the security of the service is infringed.

Security apparatus and method

An input unit for controlling a device. The input unit first determines whether a user is actively operating the device. If such a detection is made, the input unit then determines whether the user performs an act that corresponds to a command. User attention may be indicated by a user observing the device, approaching the device, facing the device, or speaking. An input command may be indicated by touch, gesture, speech, or line of sight.

Apparatus and method for controlling an electronic device with user

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Yokohama, Japan

Hisashi Kazama