Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nobumasa Gingawa

Masato Takahashi

Tomoyuki Goto

Kazuki Kitazawa

Koji Kuwata

Kiyoto Igarashi

Hiroaki Uchiyama

Miku Hakamatani

An information processing apparatus includes a video data processor configured to process video data output from an imaging unit; a drawing data processor configured to process drawing data written onto an input display unit; and a mode switch controller configured to set a first mode for a period during which a writing action is not performed onto the input display unit and a second mode for a period during which a writing action is performed onto the input display unit. The video data processor reduces an amount of the video data in the second mode so as to be smaller than an amount of the video data in the first mode. The drawing data processor reduces an amount of the drawing data in the first mode so as to be smaller than an amount of the drawing data in the second mode.

Information processing apparatus, conference system, and control method of information processing apparatus

A video delivery terminal includes: an image capturer configured to perform image capture to generate an image of a subject; and a developing processor configured to crop an area of a portion of the image to generate a cropped image, perform first adjustment regarding the cropped image based on characteristics of the cropped image, and perform second adjustment regarding settings of the image based on characteristics of the image having undergone the first adjustment.

Video delivery terminal, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and video delivery method

A device performs to: generate second correspondence information indicating a correspondence relation between coordinates of a projection area and coordinates of a captured image based on first correspondence information indicating a size of the projection area indicating an area to which an image is projected by an image projection device, a size of a basic area indicating an area predetermined as the area to which the image is projected, and indicating a correspondence relation between the coordinates of the basic area and the coordinates of the captured image obtained by an imaging unit; transmit coordinate information indicating a range, of the projection area, specified by a user and the second correspondence information to other device; and output, when receiving output information including voice whose directivity is controlled according to an area corresponding to the coordinate information of the captured image from the other device, the received output information.

Communication system, communication device, and communication method

An information processing apparatus for transmitting image data to an information terminal, the information processing apparatus being capable of performing communication with the information terminal via a network is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine persons from the image data captured by an imaging unit; a speaker estimating unit configured to estimate a speaker among the persons captured in the image data; a measurement unit configured to measure a speech time of the speaker estimated by the speaker estimating unit; an acquisition unit configured to obtain from the image data, based on the speech time measured by the measurement unit, a speaker image including the speaker that continuously speaks for a certain duration; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the speaker image obtained by the acquisition unit to the information terminal.

Information processing apparatus and image processing system

An apparatus includes: an acquirer acquiring an image; a locator that, upon receiving coordinate information of a specified area being a part of a video displayed on an output device connected to the other apparatus, locates coordinates on the image corresponding to the coordinate information based on association information, in which coordinates on the video and coordinates on the image are associated; a cropping part that crops, from the image, an image of an area defined by the coordinates on the image; a controller that controls directionality of a microphone array including a plurality of microphones on the apparatus so that the directionality of one microphone related to the coordinates on the image is focused to a position indicated by the coordinate on the image; and a first transmission controller that controls transmitting output information containing the cropped image and voice captured with the controlled directionality to the other apparatus.

Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system

An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit, a voice input unit, a cutting-out unit, a transmitting unit, an acquiring unit, and a cutting-out control unit. The voice input unit switches a sound pickup direction for voice. The cutting-out unit cuts out, as a cut-out image, a cutting-out area which is at least a part of an image captured by the imaging unit. The transmitting unit transmits video information including the cut-out image and voice data of voice input to the voice input unit. The acquiring unit acquires setting information including layout information indicating arrangement of seat areas at a time of a conference and priority information indicating a priority of each of the seat areas indicated by the layout information. The cutting-out control unit controls the sound pickup direction of the voice input unit and the cutting-out area of the cutting-out unit in accordance with the acquired setting information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product

A communication apparatus includes: an area dividing unit that divides, of an output image which is an image that the communication apparatus has output and includes at least a shot image obtained by shooting the surroundings of another communication apparatus which communicates with the communication apparatus, a display area indicating an area where the shot image is displayed into as many unit areas as the number of people captured in the shot image; a transmission control unit that controls transmitting coordinate information which indicates, of the output image, a unit area corresponding to a position pointed by a user to the other communication apparatus; and an output control unit that, when the communication apparatus has received output information including a voice subjected to directivity control according to, of the shot image, an area corresponding to the coordinate information from the other communication apparatus, controls outputting the received output information.

Communication system, communication apparatus and communication method

An imaging apparatus includes a storage unit to store information about one or more persons, the information about each of the persons including a direction in which the person exists, and permission for imaging the person by an imaging unit, and the information about each of the persons being associated with identification information to uniquely identify the person; a detection unit to detect a direction in which a person who speaks exists; a determination unit to determine whether the person in the detected direction is permitted for imaging, based on the information about the person stored in the storage unit; and a control unit to control an imaging direction of the imaging unit to turn towards the detected direction of the person, in a case where the determination unit has determined that the person in the detected direction is permitted for imaging.

Imaging apparatus, medium, and method for imaging

A communication apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an image through a network so that the communication apparatus displays at least a part of the received image received from the receiver on a display unit; a reception unit configured to receive the number of images to be displayed as clipped images on the display unit and a type of display order in which the clipped images are displayed; an area clipping unit configured to provide the clipped image including a speaker from the received image; and a control unit configured to give the display unit an instruction to display as many clipped images provided from the area clipping unit as the number of images to be displayed in the type of display order received by the reception unit.

Communication apparatus, conference system, computer-readable recording medium, and display control method

A video image processing apparatus including, a generation unit configured to generate a video image frame from an image area to be used included in a video image captured by a camera, a spatial area in the video image being defined by the image area to be used, an encoding unit configured to encode the video image frame into any one of a first video image frame and a second video image frame, and a detection unit configured to detect a trigger for changing the image area to be used to report the detection of the trigger to the generation unit, wherein the encoding unit reports a encoded video image frame type to the generation unit in advance, and in response to receiving the detection of the trigger, the generation unit changes the image area to be used in a video image frame based on the reported type.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Nobumasa Gingawa