Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Masako Ikeda

Shinji Uchida

Toshiya Arai

Takashi Ogura

Tomomi Matsuoka

Kazue Fusakawa

A control method for controlling an information processing deviceincluding a camerafor receiving an image and a displayhaving a display surface on the same side as an image-receiving side of the cameraaccording to an embodiment causes a computerA of the information processing devicefor receiving an image of a faceof a subject from the camera, horizontally inverting the received image, and displaying the horizontally-inverted image on the display, to execute: detecting a distance between the information processing deviceand a reference portion included in the faceof the subject; determining a scaling factor based on a ratio between a reference distance used for evaluating the image of the faceof the subject and the detected distance; and displaying, on the display, as a guide imagefor guiding the subject in such a direction as to change a distance between the information processing device and the subject, an image corresponding to at least one part included in an image obtained by enlarging or shrinking the horizontally-inverted image of the face based on the determined scaling factor.

Information processing device and method for controlling information processing device

A control method for controlling a skin analysis device is a control method for controlling a skin analysis device including a camera for obtaining a face image of a subject, a display for displaying the face image of the subject, and a computer, wherein the control method causes the computer of the skin analysis device to execute: obtaining the face image of the subject; determining a target extraction criterion for each of a plurality of skin areas of the face image based on a position on the face image; and extracting a target that satisfies the determined extraction criterion from the face image; and displaying the extracted target on the display of the skin analysis device.

Skin analysis method, skin analysis device, and method for controlling skin analysis device

A speaker identification system () includes a microphone () which acquires speech information of a speaker; a sex/age range information acquisition unit () which acquires age range information relating to a range of the age of the speaker, based on the speech information; a specific age information acquisition unit () which acquires specific age information relating to the specific age of the speaker, based on the speech information; a date and time information acquisition unit () which acquires date and time information representing the date and time when the speech information has been acquired; and a speaker database () which accumulates the specific age information, and the date and time information in association with each other.

Speaker identification method, and speaker identification system

An ultrasonic transducer includes: a piezoelectric transducer () emitting ultrasonic waves; and a backing layer () provided in contact with a back side of the piezoelectric transducer () and attenuating ultrasonic waves that are emitted toward the back side of the piezoelectric transducer () and have an opposite phase to the phase of ultrasonic waves emitted toward a front side of the piezoelectric transducer (). The acoustic tubes () are disposed in the backing layer () such that a longitudinal direction of each acoustic tube () is in line with a traveling direction of the ultrasonic waves emitted by the piezoelectric transducer () toward the front and the back side. The acoustic tubes () have mutually different lengths on the basis of a principle of an acoustic wave synthesis, and attenuate in whole or in part the ultrasonic waves emitted by the piezoelectric transducer () toward the backing layer ().

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Osaka, Japan

Masako Ikeda