Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Shin Yamada

Hiroaki Yoshio

Teruo Fumoto

Akiyoshi Tanaka

Yoshimitsu Kanno

Katsuji Aoki

Kazuhiko Iwai

Takayuki Matsukawa

Yasuhiro Kikuchi

Toshikazu Fujioka

Toshiki Kindo

Katsuhiro Kanamori

Kenya Uomori

Takeshi Watanabe

Hajime Tamura

Hiroaki Kotera

Kenji Nagao

Tsuyoshi Mekata

Sonoko Hirasawa

Masaki Souma

Kaori Mori

Akihiro Nakanowatari

Jun Nishimura

Sadao Yamamoto

Kazutaka Manabe

Ryuta Itoh

Provided is a monitoring system configured such that, even when there is a deviation of a shooting region of a camera, if the deviation is within an acceptable level, an accurate vehicle detection using a recognition model can be performed without readjusting parameters or re-training the model. Based on an image of a no-entry zone and a platform zone, a processor performs a first operation for detecting a person in the no-entry zone and a second operation for detecting a vehicle in the no-entry zone; and based on detection results, determines whether an alert needs to be issued. When there is a deviation of the shooting region of a camera, the processor performs a conversion operation for converting an image of a current shooting region to an image that would be captured by the camera with an original shooting region and uses the converted image for the two detection operations.

Monitoring device and monitoring system

A surveillance device of the present disclosure includes an image analysis server that generates an alarm when detecting an alarm generation target that has entered an intrusion detection area, based on a camera image captured by a camera. The image analysis server acquires the camera image (basic image) to set a fixed object area (basic area) corresponding to a fixed object included in the basic image, acquires a camera image (live image) to extract a fixed object area (reference area) corresponding to a fixed object included in the live image, calculates a deviation amount of an angle of view based on a result of a comparison in standard position between the basic area and the reference area, and generates a surveillance screen including an adjustment screen for guidance on an operation for cancelling the deviation amount of the angle of view to display the surveillance screen.

Surveillance device, surveillance system, and surveillance method

Provided is a cosmetic assist device that can extract a cosmetic technique for making a user's face look like a target face image. The device includes an image capturing unit for capturing a face image of a user, an input unit for inputting a target face image, a synthesized face image generating unit for generating a plurality of synthesized face images obtained by applying mutually different cosmetic techniques on the face image of the user, a similarity determination unit for determining a degree of similarity between each synthesized face image and the target face image, and a cosmetic technique extraction unit for extracting one of the cosmetic techniques that was used to obtain the synthesized face image determined to have a highest degree of similarity by the similarity determination unit.

Makeup assistance device, makeup assistance system, makeup assistance method, and makeup assistance program

A face recognition device includes: an image capture unit, an area detection unit, a feature amount extraction unit, a distance estimation unit and a feature amount update unit. The image capture unit is configured to capture an image of an object. The area detection unit is configured to detect a given area of the object based on an image obtained as an image capture result of the image capture unit. The feature amount extraction unit is configured to extract a feature amount within the given area detected by the area detection unit. The distance estimation unit is configured to estimate a distance between the image capture unit and the given area. The feature amount update unit is configured to update the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit based on the distance estimated by the distance estimation unit.

Face recognition device and method that update feature amounts at different frequencies based on estimated distance

It includes a face detection unit that acquires an image from a camera and detects a person's face from the image, a region division unit that acquires an image from the camera and divides an imaging region of the image, a luminance calculation unit that calculates luminance of the person's face detected by the face detection unit and luminance of each divided region obtained by dividing by the region division unit, and a diaphragm adjustment information calculation unit that obtains the divided region having a difference between the luminance of the person's face and the luminance of the divided region which is larger than a predetermined value, calculates a region excluding the obtained divided region as a diaphragm adjustment region of an imaging unit, and outputs the obtained diaphragm adjustment region as diaphragm adjustment information to a diaphragm adjustment unit of the camera.

Exposure control device, imaging device, image display device, and exposure control method

To provide a human attribute estimation system capable of improving estimation accuracy irrespective of an environment-dependent attribute is provided. An age/gender estimation system as a human attribute estimation system is provided with: a monitoring camera photographing a human targeted by attribute estimation and generating an image; an age/gender estimating section estimating an attribute of the human shown in the image generated by the monitoring camera using an estimation parameter; and an environment-dependent attribute specifying section specifying an environment-dependent attribute, which is an attribute dependent on an installation environment of the monitoring camera. The age/gender estimating section uses a parameter generated on the basis of learning data having an environment-dependent attribute within a predetermined distance from the environment-dependent attribute acquired by the environment-dependent attribute specifying section in an environment-dependent attribute space, as the estimation parameter.

Human attribute estimation system, human attribute estimation apparatus and human attribute estimation method

A face image registration device includes an image input unit that inputs face images of a subject person, and an others face retention unit that retains a plurality of others faces. The device further includes: a false alarm characteristic calculation unit that collates the face images of the subject person with the retained others faces, and calculates a false alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person; a correct alarm characteristic calculation unit that collates the face images of the subject person with each other to calculate a correct alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person; and a registration face image selection unit that selects a registration face image from the face images of the subject person by using the false alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person and the correct alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person.

Face image registration device and method

An individual authentication information output apparatus, connectable to a plurality of information processing systems through a network, includes an input section for receiving an input from a user; an individual authentication section for outputting an individual authentication result of the user based on the input from the user; a specification section for specifying at least an information processing system selected by the user among the plurality of information processing systems; a database for managing individual authentication information in association with the individual authentication result provided by the individual authentication section and a specification result provided by the specification section; and a database access section for, based on the individual authentication result provided by the individual authentication section and the specification result provided by the specification section, reading the individual authentication information associated therewith, and outputting the read individual authentication information to the selected information processing system through the network.

Apparatus for outputting individual authentication information connectable to a plurality of terminals through a network

In an apparatus for detecting a human face from an input image, candidate areas for an eye and candidate areas for an interval between eyes are detected from the image, an area of the interval between eyes is determined from the positional relationship between the candidate areas for an eye and candidate area for an interval between eyes, and a face area is determined so that the face area includes the area of the interval between eyes.

Method for detecting a human face and an apparatus of the same

Video data is segmented into a plurality of scenes. For each of the segmented scenes, an index is produced as an assembly of section information required in a playback of each scene, scene number, and representative frame of scene. A title is added to each index according to search purpose. In a retrieving operation, a desired index is easily found according to the title. The scenes of the retrieved index are successively played back in order of scene number.

Apparatus for retrieving and administrating moving pictures and related network system

Every frame represented by a moving picture signal is divided into blocks. Calculation is made as to a number of pixels forming portions of a caption in each of the blocks. The calculated number of pixels is compared with a threshold value. When the calculated number of pixels is equal to or greater than the threshold value, it is decided that the related block is a caption-containing block. Detection is made as to a time interval related to the moving picture signal during which every frame represented by the moving picture signal has a caption-containing block. A 1-frame-corresponding segment of the moving picture signal is selected which represents a caption-added frame present in the detected time interval.

Moving picture search system cross reference to related application

A packing bag is easy to open and allows an end of an content to be easily exposed to the outside by separating heat-bonding portions of external an internal packing films from each other and tearing the external packing film. The packing bag includes two rectangular packing films each having a thermoplastic resinous layer formed on its inner surface. The external and internal packing films are laminated on each other, with surfaces of the thermoplastic resinous layers opposed to each other, a predetermined region extending inward from one side of each of the packing films is formed as a non-bonding portion; a U-shaped peripheral heat-bonding portion is formed on each of the packing films along other three sides thereof, a projected heat-bonding portion connecting both ends of the peripheral heat-bonding portion with each other and projected outward is formed; at least the projected heat-bonding portion is separable; and a notch is formed on at least one edge of an external one of the packing films such that the notch is located at a position adjacent to one end of the peripheral heat-bonding portion.

Easy-to-open packing bag

Method and apparatus for locating a caption-added frame in a moving picture signal

A scene change point detecting method which detects a scene change point by successively processing time series frame images I1, I2, I3, - - - sampled in this order from a processed video. The method includes at least one of the following four scene-change-point detecting methods: a first scene-change-point detecting method for detecting a video cut; a second scene-change-point detecting method for detecting a scene change similar to dissolve by processing a feature quantity to be calculated based on an edge intensity of each frame image; a third scene-change-point detecting method for detecting a scene change similar to wipe based on an intensity-changed pixel region representing a set of pixels whose brightness changes more than a predetermined threshold between a specific frame image In and an immediately preceding frame image In-1; and a fourth scene-change-point detecting method for detecting a scene change similar to page-translate or a scene change resulting from camera movement based on an intensity-changed pixel area representing a ratio of the number of pixels involved in the intensity-changed pixel region to the total number of pixels constituting a corresponding frame image.

Scene change detecting method for video and movie

An image judging device provided with a sampling unit for obtaining image data suitable for judging quality of an image by sampling image signals obtained by color separation, a calculation unit for calculating a statistic representing characteristics of a distribution of the sampled image data and a judgement unit for judging the quality of the image according to the calculated statistic. Thus, a statistical processing of the image data can be performed correctly. Further, an error rate, at which a wrong light source is deduced, can be decreased in comparison with a conventional device.

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