Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kazuhiro Tsubota

Mikio Morioka

Ryoji Ogino

Kojiro Iwasaki

Kenya Uomori

Hiroyuki Izumi

Yasuki Yamakawa

Junya Kuwada

Eiji Yamamoto

Yota Toguchi

A shipping assistance device which enables a delivery service operator to quickly confirm that the size of an item has been properly measured and there is no need to re-measure the size, and proceed to operations for transportation, comprises a table to place items, upper and side shooting devices for shooting images of an item on the table, a storage chamber for storing items, front-facing and upward-facing displays a printer for printing a shipping label, and a processing controller configured to measure the size of the item on the table based on shot images, determine if the item is acceptable to be put in the storage chamber based on the measured size, display a determination result on the displays, and when the item is determined acceptable, instruct the printer to print a shipping label with an acceptance signature for the item.

Shipping assistance device and shipping assistance system

A method for processing an image includes receiving an input image having distortion, receiving position information input by a user on the received input image, generating a first image by correcting the input image having distortion, and translating a position on the input image having distortion indicated by the received position information into a position on the generated first image. The method further includes setting, on the generated first image, a first mask area having a predetermined shape and including the position on the generated first image translated from the position on the input image having distortion, and performing mask processing on the set first mask area on the generated first image.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A three-dimensional information reconstraction device includes a corresponding point detector that detects a plurality of corresponding point pairs to which a first feature point included in a first image captured by a first image capturing device and a second feature point included in a second image captured by a second image capturing device correspond, and a three-dimensional coordinate deriver that, based on the plurality of corresponding point pairs, reconstructs three-dimensional coordinates to which the first feature point is inverse-projected.

Three-dimensional information restoration device, three-dimensional information restoration system, and three-dimensional information restoration method

The information presentation device has an image acquisition unit, a parameter deriving unit, an abnormality detection unit, and the presentation unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a first image which is captured by a first imaging device and a second image which is captured by a second imaging device. The parameter deriving unit derives parameters for deriving three-dimensional coordinates from the first image and the second image. The abnormality detection unit determines presence or absence of an abnormality in a relative positional relationship or a relative relationship of pose between the first imaging device and the second imaging device according to the derived parameters. In a case where an abnormality is determined, the presentation unit presents warning information including an instruction that there is an abnormality.

Information presentation device, stereo camera system, and information presentation method

An image display method includes displaying an input image having distortion on a display, receiving a plurality of points which are specified on the displayed input image in response to a user input, calculating a first processing area having a first shape according to the points specified on the displayed input image so that the first shape becomes a predetermined shape when distortion of the first processing area having the first shape is corrected, and displaying the first processing area having the first shape together with the input image on the display.

An example image processor provides a distortion-corrected image including a masking area having improved appearance. The image processor includes: a masking area retaining section that retains a masking area set for an image having distortion; a masking execution section that performs masking processing for the image having distortion using the masking area retained in the masking area retaining section; a distortion correction section that corrects the image having distortion that is subjected to the masking processing using a correction parameter for correcting distortion of the image having distortion; and a masking area shaping section that shapes the masking area of the corrected image into a predetermined shape.

A camera device includes an imaging unit generating an imaging area image in which an imaging area is captured from above, and a display-image generation unit generating a display image of an imaging object moving in the imaging area by use of an clipped image clipped from the imaging area image. In this case, an clipping reference position P corresponding to the imaging object in the imaging area image is determined, and a reference distance r between an imaging reference position O corresponding to the imaging unit and the clipping reference position P in the imaging area image is calculated. When the reference distance r is short, a rotation angle &#x3b8;for rotating the clipped image in generating the display image is calculated based on a reference angle &#x3b8; corresponding to an inclination of the imaging object in the imaging area image and the reference distance r.

Camera device, image processing system, image processing method and image processing program

An image special effect apparatus capable of realizing the illumination effects corresponding to various image special effects if an illumination effect pattern is not previously determined and the shape of the effect face changes rapidly is provided. An image special effect apparatusfor adding an illumination effect using light from a light source when viewed from an arbitrary eye point in a face having a curved face to image information concerning an input image and outputting a video signal provided by mapping the image information to the face generates a normal vector at a position of the face based on rectangular coordinate data and the shape of the face, a normal vector generation section, generates reflectivity of the light in an eye point direction by calculation of A (2(L&#xb7;N)N&#x2212;2L)&#xb7;V of an expression using the normal vector, a light source direction unit vector, an eye point vector V, and an arbitrary value A, and creates the image information based on the image and the reflectivity.

Image special effect apparatus and image special effect method

A wipe pattern generation apparatus that can generate wipe patterns of various shapes at high speed and moreover can be miniaturized. is provided. A wipe pattern generation apparatusincludes a sin &#x3b8; generation sectionfor calculating sin &#x3b8; from input angle information &#x3b8;; a multiplierfor multiplying the calculation result of sin &#x3b8; by a first coefficient; a cos &#x3b8; generation sectionfor calculating cos &#x3b8; from the angle information &#x3b8;; a multiplierfor multiplying the calculation result of cos &#x3b8; by a second coefficient; a multiplierfor multiplying the result of adding output of the multiplierand output of the multiplierby a third coefficient and outputting as the reciprocal of the distance from the polar coordinate center to an arbitrary line on a display screen; a multiplierfor multiplying output of the multiplierby distance information r; and a comparatorfor making a comparison between output of the multiplierand a fourth coefficient, and generates wipe pattern output datafrom the angle information &#x3b8; and the distance information r.

Wipe pattern generation apparatus

To decode voice data coded in a coding system on a specific standard (for example, ADPCM or a different standard), the voice data is previously sorted by a data sorter,and is stored in a second data storage,. Voice data read from a third data storage,is decoded by a decoder,and is converted from parallel data into serial data by a parallel/serial data converter,. The resultant data is transferred to a D/A converter, whereby the voice data coded on one standard and the voice data coded on a different standard can be decoded and transferred to the D/A converter by circuit change on a small scale without the need for a separate voice control system for each coding system.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuhiro Tsubota