Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Hitoshi Yashio

Mitsuru Endo

Masakatsu Hoshimi

Ikuo Inoue

Hiroshi Furuyama

Hirotaka Kamiyama

Jun Kikukawa

Namsoo Joo

Mike Yu

Gou Nakano

The invention provides a facial feature verification apparatus capable of synthesizing an image suitable for verification to identify a person subjected to surveillance whom surveillance staff desires to watch. The facial feature verification apparatus includes a plurality of pickup units, a pickup controlling unitfor controlling the pickup units, a displaying unitfor displaying images picked up by the pickup units, and a verifying unitfor detecting a person from the picked up images, extracting a facial image by determining a face area of the person, extracting a facial image from the images picked up by the pickup units, synthesizing a plurality of facial features by extracting facial features from the extracted facial images, and verifying the synthesized facial features with the facial features enrolled in advance in a facial image database

Face feature collator, face feature collating method, and program

An alarm management system includes an alarm receiver module receiving customized alarms from one or more of sensor devices and surveillance systems. A condition evaluation module performs an evaluation of one or more customized conditions for a customized alarm. An action handling module executes customized actions based on the evaluation.

Rule based intelligent alarm management system for digital surveillance system

The information provision system includes a terminal having a current position measurement section and a communications controller, which intermittently transmits information on the current position measured, a terminal position management section for managing the position of the terminal based on the current position information received, an accident/disaster information management section for collecting information on an accident or a disaster and managing the information according to occurrence location and time of the accidents, an warning information generator for generating warning information from the information on the accidents, an warning terminal identification section for identifying a terminal positioned in the neighborhood of the location of the accidents, and an warning transmitter for transmitting warning information to the identified terminal. The system prevents user who carries a terminal from sustaining a possible damage caused by the accidents.

Information provision system and apparatus and method therefor

A video retrieval data generation apparatus includes an extractor that is configured to extract a characteristic pattern from a voice signal synchronous with a video signal. The video retrieval data generation apparatus also includes an index generator that is configured to set the voice signal for a voice period as a processing target. The index generator is further configured to prepare standard voice patterns of a subword corresponding to a plurality of subwords, detect, for each subword, a characteristic pattern similar to a standard voice pattern at each of the voice periods, and generate, for each subword, an index containing time synchronization information corresponding to a position where the similar characteristic pattern is detected. The video retrieval data generation apparatus also includes a multiplexer that is configured to multiplex video signals, voice signals and indexes to output in a data stream format.

Method and apparatus for retrieving a video and audio scene using an index generated by speech recognition

A video retrieval apparatus includes a retrieval data generator that is configured to extract a characteristic pattern from a voice signal synchronous with a video signal to generate an index for video retrieval. The video retrieval apparatus also includes a retrieval processor that is configured to input a key word from a retriever and collate the key word with the index to retrieve a desired video. The retrieval data generator includes a multiplexor that is configured to multiplex video signals, voice signals and indexes to output in data stream format. The retrieval processor includes a demultiplexor that is configured to demultiplex the multiplexed data stream into the video signals, the voice signals and the indexes. A video reproduction apparatus may collate a visual pattern of the key word visual pattern data of the video signal at the time a person vocalizes a sound as the index for retrieval.

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Hitoshi Yashio