Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Technology Research Association of Medical and Welfare Apparatus

Masayuki Misaki

Teruyuki Takizawa

Junichi Tagawa

Masao Hiramoto

Takashi Kawamura

Masaaki Suzuki

Keiji Icho

Kuniaki Isogai

Ryoji Suzuki

Noriaki Horii

Hiroaki Yamane

Takashi Fujii

Masahiro Inata

Kozo Ezawa

Ryouichi Kawanishi

Yasutoshi Nakama

Yoshiaki Sugitani

Michio Matsumoto

Yasunori Ishii

Katsuhiko Hayashi

Takeshi Norimatsu

Masaki Yamauchi

Kenichi Terai

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Yuri Nishikawa

Jun Ohmiya

Toshihiko Date

Nobuaki Minakuchi

Seiichi Ishikawa

Tsuneo Tanaka

Ryoichi Yagi

Yoshiyuki Yoshizumi

Koji Watanabe

Tsuyoshi Mekata

Hiromichi Nishiyama

Yoshinori Yamada

Masako Ono

Hirotsugu Taniguchi

Toshihiko Nagano

Kazue Kita

Syuji Miyasaka

Masaharu Morita

Haruyo Ohkubo

Meiko Masaki

One or more sensor devices detect a condition of each of users. With regard to a user set including at least two of the users as elements, an information processing apparatus calculates an agreement degree representing a degree of agreement between the at least two users being the elements in the user set, based on the condition information on the at least two users which is in the obtained condition information on all the users. An information presentation device provides presentation information based on a result of the agreement degree calculation.

Information processing method, information processing system, and information processing apparatus

A parallax image generation device includes: a depth value correction unit which performs correction processing on a depth value, from among a plurality of depth values which define a depth image, to shift a position corresponding to the depth value to be closer to a display screen as the depth value is located closer to an end of the depth image, the display screen being for displaying a parallax image; and a parallax image generation unit which generates a first parallax image and a second parallax image having mutual parallax, using a two-dimensional image and the depth image corrected through the correction processing.

Parallax image generation device, parallax image generation method, program, and integrated circuit

A data input unit is configured to receive an input image, depth data and a shooting parameter. A parameter input unit receives a transformation parameter as a parameter on projective transformation of a three-dimensional model, a transformed image generating unit that generate a transformed image by performing projective transformation based on the transformation parameter in the three-dimensional model obtained from the input image, the depth data, and the shooting parameter. A blank area detecting unit detects a blank area in the transformed image, the blank area being a group of blank pixels having no corresponding pixel in the input image, and an output unit is configured to output the transformed image in the case where a blank value indicating size of the blank area is smaller than or equal to a threshold value.

Image processing device and image processing method

The present invention provides an image capturing technique for obtaining, at the same time, multiple images with parallax and an image that would cause no sensitivity problem even without mechanically operating any part of its image capturing system. The 3D image capture device of this invention includes: a light transmitting memberhaving a polarizing area A that transmits only a light ray polarized in a particular direction and a non-polarizing area C that transmits any light ray irrespective of its polarization direction; a solid-state image sensorarranged to receive the light ray transmitted through the light transmitting member; an imaging sectionfor producing an image on the imaging areaof the solid-state image sensor; and an image generating section for generating images based on signals supplied from the image sensor, which includes a filter array including a polarization filter. The image generating section generates images based on the light rays that have entered the polarizing area A and the non-polarizing area C, respectively.

Three-dimensional image capture device

A 3D image capture device includes: a light transmitting memberwith polarizing areas and a non-polarizing area; a solid-state image sensorfor receiving the light transmitted through the member; an imaging sectionfor producing an image on the imaging areaof the sensor; and an image generating section. The memberhas n polarizing areas P(), P(), . . . and P(n) (where n is an integer and n&#x2267;2), each of which transmits only a light ray polarized in a particular direction, and a non-polarizing area P(n+1) that transmits any light ray irrespective of its polarization direction. Those n polarizing areas have mutually different transmission axis directions. The sensorincludes a pixel array, divided into pixel blocks each consisting of (n+1) pixels, and a filter array including n polarization filters arranged so as to face n out of the (n+1) pixels and having different transmission axis directions. The image generating section generates images based on the light rays that have entered the n polarizing areas and the non-polarizing area using pixel signals supplied from those pixels.

An image capture device includes: an array of pixelsincluding a plurality of pixelswhich are arranged two-dimensionally on an imaging area; a pixel signal reading sectionfor reading a pixel signal from each pixel; and an image generating sectionfor generating an image based on the pixel signals having been read by the pixel signal reading section. The array of pixels is divided into M unit pixel blocks(where M is an integer of 2 or more) each containing N pixels (where N is an integer of 2 or more). The pixel signal reading section reads the pixel signals from the N pixelscontained in each unit pixel blockat every time interval T, with respectively different timings.

Imaging device, solid-state imaging element, image generation method, and program

A color separating filter array has a configuration in which unit elements, each having a triangular pyramid shape, are arranged two-dimensionally. Each unit elementincludes: first, second, and third filtersR,G,B arranged to form the three lateral faces of the triangular pyramid; and a reflective region. The first, second and third filtersR,G andB are designed to transmit visible radiations falling within first, second and third wavelength ranges, respectively, and reflect visible radiation falling within any other wavelength range. The reflective region is arranged to further reflect a light ray that has been incident on a region surrounded with the first, second and third filters and reflected from any of the first, second and third filters and to guide the reflected light ray to another one of the first, second and third filters that is different from the one that has already reflected the light ray once.

Color separation filter array, solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and display device

The 3D image capture device of this invention includes: a light-transmitting sectionwith light-transmitting areas C, Cand Cthat have mutually different transmission wavelength ranges; a solid-state image sensorarranged to receive the light that has been transmitted through the light-transmitting section; and an optical systemconfigured to produce an image on an imaging area of the solid-state image sensor, which includes a photosensitive cell array and a color filter array on the imaging area. The transmission wavelength ranges of the light-transmitting areas and the color filters are defined such that the light that has been transmitted through at least one of the light-transmitting areas C, Cand Cis transmissible through at least two of the color filters. A signal processing section generates data of at least two images with parallax by generating signals representing at least two of the respective intensities of light rays that are incident on the light-transmitting areas based on the output signals of the photosensitive cells.

Three-dimensional image pickup device

A video editing apparatus includes: a selection unit which receives a first editing point and a second editing point; a representative value generation unit which generates a representative value of first disparity information on disparities of the first editing point and a representative value of second disparity information on disparities of the second editing point; a comparison value calculation unit which calculates a first depth difference by a comparison between the representative value of the first disparity information and the representative value of the second disparity information; a determination unit which determines whether or not the first depth difference is less than or equal to a predetermined value; and a presenting unit which presents a message prompting a user to change at least one of the first editing point and the second editing point when it is determined that the first depth difference is greater than the predetermined value.

Video editing apparatus, video editing method, program, and integrated circuit

A solid-state image sensor according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor layer (with first and second surfaces (), the second surface () being opposite to the first surface (); a plurality of photosensitive cells (, etc.), which are arranged two-dimensionally in the semiconductor layer () between the first and second surfaces thereof (); a first array () of micro condenser lenses, which are arranged on the same side as the first surface () to focus incoming light onto a first group of photosensitive cells that are included in those photosensitive cells; and a second array () of micro condenser lenses, which are arranged on the same side as the second surface () to focus incoming light onto a second group of photosensitive cells that are also included in those photosensitive cells but that are different from the first group of photosensitive cells.

Two sided solid state image sensor and an image capture device

A camera driving apparatus according to the present invention includes a camera section; a fixed unit including a protrusion sectionat least partially formed of a magnetic member and has a shape of at least a part of a spherical face; a movable unit, the movable unit including an attracting magnetfor generating a magnetic attracting force, and a conical contact face with which the protrusion section of the fixed unit is loosely engageable and contactable by the magnetic attracting force, the movable unit being freely pivotable with respect to a sphere center of the spherical face of the protrusion section; a panning driving section; a tilting driving section; a rolling driving section; a detector; and a line' spirally wound around the protrusion sectionfor connecting the camera section and an external circuit provided on the fixed unit to each other.

Camera drive device

A wearable device is worn by a person participating in an event in which a plurality of other people are participating and wearing other wearable devices. The wearable device includes a request unit for transmitting a request signal to other wearable devices that are in a predetermined range, and receiving a response to the request signal from each of the other wearable devices, and a communication unit for determining, with use of the received responses, one or more of the other wearable devices to be a communication partner, and performing data communication with the determined one or more other wearable devices. The data received in the communication is data collected by the one or more other wearable devices determined to be communication partners, and the data is used as a profile component when creating a profile of the event.

Wearable device

The solid-state image sensor of this invention includes an array of pixels and light-transmitting portions. The array is divided into unit pixel blocks, each of which is made up of N pixels (where N is an integer that is equal to or greater than two). The light-transmitting portions are arranged so that each light-transmitting portion faces an associated one of the pixels. Each of the light-transmitting portions is divided into M striped areas (where M is an integer that is equal to or greater than two). The respective areas have had their optical transmittances set independently of each other. The arrangement pattern of the optical transmittances of the light-transmitting portionsvary from one block to another. The image capture device of the invention further includes a shifting section for shifting the image in a first direction on an imaging area, and reads pixel signals before and after the image is shifted, thereby generating an image, of which the resolution is higher than what is defined by the pixel pitch.

Image pickup device and solid-state image pickup element

A data processing apparatus acquires images captured by cameras. A data processing apparatuscalculates relative positional relationship between the camera that captured an image and a camera that is captured in the captured image, by image recognition of the captured image. The data processing apparatusaggregates positional relationships calculated for the captured images, respectively, and by having one camera as reference, calculates the relative positions and directions of other cameras. Based on the calculated results, a user interface for supporting selection of the captured image by a user is generated.

Data processing apparatus and method, and recording medium

The present invention aims to provide a display device that can display relationships between a plurality of users in an easy-to-visually-acknowledge manner. The present invention is a system composed of a data sensing unit, a positional relationship detection unit, a user groping unit, and a positional relationship display unit. The user grouping unitgroups the users into a plurality of groups based on information pieces relating to positional relationships between the users, which are detected by the positional relationship detection unit. Based on information pieces relating to the groups extracted by the user grouping unit, the positional relationship display unitarranges and displays the groups on a screen in conformity with a positional relationship between the groups.

Display, display method, and display program

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