Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenji Hatori

Hideo Takiguchi

Tatsushi Katayama

Kotaro Yano

Fumiaki Takahashi

Takashi Aizawa

Akira Mamiya

Akira Suga

Hideaki Kawamura

Koji Hatanaka

Yosato Hitaka

Atsushi Kumagai

Yasumi Tanaka

Koutaro Yano

Yoshinobu Kitamaru

Keiichiro Yuasa

Kataro Yano

An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a face dictionary for performing face authentication, and a processing unit configured to update the face dictionary stored in the storage unit, wherein the processing unit controls updating of the face dictionary based on the number of images from among stored images corresponding to a person registered with the face dictionary.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

To provide a function of easily preventing burn-in at low cost without disturbing mixed reality being experienced by a user, a mixed reality presenting system includes a display control unit configured to display a confirmation image on a display unit when a first time period has elapsed since the display control unit had performed control to start display on the display unit, and to control display on the display unit in response to an operation performed on the confirmation image by a user of the mixed reality presenting system.

Mixed reality presenting system, virtual reality presenting system, display apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method, and program

A personal computer holds data of a plurality of types in a content storage unit and transfers items of data related across the types of data to a digital camera as group data. The digital camera stores the group data, which is received from the personal computer, in a content memory unit.

Information processing apparatus and method

An information processing apparatus is arranged to determine whether or not the software is installed from any one of the updater from the recording medium and the downloaded updater, in accordance with a type of the updater determined by a server based on version information of the software stored in the external recording medium and is also arranged to operate such that when the updater type includes a full updater, the software in the external recording medium is not installed but the full updater is downloaded from the server apparatus and installed, and when the updater type does not include the full updater, the software in the external recording medium is installed and a difference data is downloaded from the server and installed concurrently with it.

Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program

A boot control method of a program in an information processing apparatus to which a device can be connected, the method including a search step of searching for a running program that is running on the information processing apparatus when the device is connected, a determination step of determining whether the running program found in the search step includes a program unfit for concurrent running that is unsuited for concurrent running with preset device-corresponding software that is booted in response to connection of the device, and a boot step of booting the device-corresponding software if the running program does not include the program unfit for concurrent running and performing control so as not to boot the device-corresponding software if the running program includes the software unfit for concurrent running.

System and method for booting device corresponding software if it does not conflict with a program currently running when a device is connected to an information handling system

An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.

Image synthesis method, image synthesis apparatus, and storage medium

A control system comprises a plurality of peripheral devices represented as objects, and a controller connectable to the plurality of peripheral devices via a common communication line for unitarily controlling the plurality of peripheral devices. The controller is arranged to be connected to an arbitrary number of peripheral devices selected from among the plurality of peripheral devices, read control information stored in the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line into a predetermined memory area of the controller in a predetermined format so that the controller can control the arbitrary number of peripheral devices. The controller is also arranged to issue a command and transmit the command to each of the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line.

System using description information to generate control panel for controlling a network device

Information processing apparatus, data storage device, data transfer system and data transfer method, program and recording medium

An information management apparatus includes a determination unit which determines the type of information designated by an input unit, and a display control unit which controls, in accordance with the type of information determined by the determination unit, the display form of an information presentation portion presenting explanatory information on the designated information. When the information designated by the input unit is an image in a folder, the explanatory information contains explanatory information on the image, and when the input unit designates an object other than an image in a folder, contains explanatory information on the folder.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method using image attribute information and thumbnail displays for display control

System using icons representative for controlling data input and output relationship between a network of multimedia devices

An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the plurality of images that are input, and of determining whether or not an image in the partially overlapping image area of each of images that are indicated by the plurality of image data sets includes mainly characters an image processing step of performing, for the plurality of image data sets that are input, image processing in consonance with a result of a determination performed at the determination step and an image synthesization step of synthesizing images that are indicated by the resultant plurality of image data, for which the image processing has been performed at the image processing step. With this arrangement, a plurality of images can be easily and effectively synthesized.

Image synthesization method

A control device for controlling a network device connected to a network. The control device comprises a communication interface adapted to receive description information of the network device from the network device via the network, and a controller adapted to automatically generate an object for the network device using the description information after the description information is received from the network device. The object is adapted to generate a control panel for controlling the network device.

System for receiving description information from a network device and automatically generate a control panel at a controller for controlling the device

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Yokohama, Japan

Kenji Hatori