Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Xerox Corporation

Shingo Uchihashi

Jonathan T Foote

Patrick Chiu

Lynn D Wilcox

John Steven Boreczky

Andreas Girgensohn

Jun Shingu

Motofumi Fukui

Suresh Murali

Hiroyuki Miyake

Atsushi Ito

Yuji Kobayashi

Matthew L Cooper

Qiong Liu

Kei Tanaka

Todd A Cass

Hitoshi Ogatsu

Daisuke Matsumoto

Hai Tao

Shinji Kita

Nobuyuki Takeo

Don Kimber

Kazutoshi Ikeda

Akira Sekine

Sharath Vignesh Godhantaraman

A light emitting apparatus recognition system includes a light emitting apparatus, an image capturing apparatus, a recognition apparatus, and an electromagnetic wave emitting element. The light emitting apparatus includes a light source that blinks on the basis of identification information unique to the light emitting apparatus and an electromagnetic wave receiving element. The image capturing apparatus captures an image of light emitted by the light source of the light emitting apparatus. The recognition apparatus recognizes the light emitting apparatus on the basis of the light appearing in the image captured by the image capturing apparatus. The electromagnetic wave emitting element emits an electromagnetic wave from the image capturing apparatus or a vicinity of the image capturing apparatus. The electromagnetic wave receiving element receives the electromagnetic wave emitted by the electromagnetic wave emitting element.

Light emitting apparatus recognition system and light emitting apparatus

A display-information generating apparatus includes a shooting-area acquisition unit, an arrangement deriving unit, and a generating unit. For each of multiple imaging apparatuses, the shooting-area acquisition unit acquires information about a shooting area of the imaging apparatus. The arrangement deriving unit obtains a three-dimensional arrangement of the shooting area on the basis of the information about the shooting area. The three-dimensional arrangement is obtained when the shooting area is viewed in a three-dimensional space. The generating unit generates display information for a display apparatus displaying the three-dimensional arrangement.

Display-information generating apparatus, information processing apparatus, and imaging system

A teleconference system includes an audio data receiving section, a group information holding section, and an audio controller. The audio data receiving section receives audio data obtained by multiple terminal apparatuses of multiple users who participate in a conference. The group information holding section holds group information indicating multiple groups. The groups are obtained by grouping the users of the terminal apparatuses. Any of the terminal apparatuses is referred to as a certain terminal apparatus. Each of the groups includes one or more users. The audio controller controls volumes of sound output of the audio data independently for the respective groups based on the group information held by the group information holding section. The audio data is received by the audio data receiving section.

Teleconference system and terminal apparatus

A video search apparatus includes a storing unit, an input unit, and a search unit. The storing unit stores video data along with video attributes information indicating, for each concept, a confidence score that the concept is included in the video data. The input unit inputs, as preference information, a coefficient of each concept which is desired to be included in video to be searched for and a coefficient of a superordinate concept of the concept which is desired to be included in the video to be searched for. The search unit searches for, based on the preference information input by the input unit, video that matches the preference information from among the video data stored in the storing unit.

Video search apparatus, video search method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A video editing apparatus includes a storing unit, an input unit, a segment selection unit, and a generation unit. The storing unit stores video data along with video attribute information indicating, for each concept, a confidence score that the concept is included in each of segments into which the video data has been divided. The input unit inputs, as preference information, a coefficient of each concept desired to be included in summary information and a coefficient of a superordinate concept of the concept desired to be included in the summary information. The segment selection unit selects, based on the input preference information, at least one segment that matches the preference information, from among plural segments of the stored video data. The generation unit generates, based on video of the at least one selected segment, summary information representing contents of the video.

Video editing apparatus, video editing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A representative frame selecting system includes: an importance obtaining unit that obtains importance of each frame from calculating on the basis of a length of a similar frame interval formed of consecutive frames each of which has a value according to a similarity between each of the frames included in video information that is equal to or more than a standard; an evaluation value obtaining unit that obtains an evaluation value of each frame from calculating on the basis of an evaluation standard from frames adjacent to each frame; and a representative frame selecting unit that selects at least one representative frame among the frames included in the video information, on the basis of the importance and the evaluation value of each frame.

Representative frame selecting system and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image processing apparatus includes: an allocating unit that divides image information into components corresponding to the number of a plurality of apparatuses and allocates the components to the plurality of apparatuses; a information acquiring unit that acquires information of the allocated components from image information being reproduced by the plurality of apparatuses; and an image generating unit that combines the information of the components acquired from the plurality of apparatuses by the information acquiring unit and generates an image.

Image processing apparatus, image processing system and computer readable medium

An image processing apparatus includes a memory that memorizes a plurality of pickup images in which an object has been picked up by varying an irradiation direction of a light; an extracting portion that extracts an area image of an area indicated by a user from each of the pickup images memorized in the memory; a calculating portion that calculates at least one illumination parameter for each area image by one of calculating an amount of edges from each extracted area image, executing a clustering process to brightness of each extracted area image, and executing a totaling process of totaling differences in brightness between the extracted area images; and a generating portion that generates at least one synthetic image by synthesizing the extracted area images with the at least one illumination parameter.

Image processing apparatus, image processing system, computer readable medium, and image processing method

Apparatus, system, method, and program for optimizing an image using illumination parameter

An image processing device includes: a connecting unit that connects a projecting device and an image capture device, at least one of the projecting device and the image capture device having an adjustable position; an acquiring unit that acquires an image captured by the image capture device capturing an image of a reference pattern that is projected by the projecting device and indicates an effective projecting range of the projecting device; a color converting unit that extracts the reference pattern from the captured image, and performs a color conversion on the extracted reference pattern; an enlarging/reducing unit that enlarges or reduces the color-converted reference pattern in accordance with the ratio between the maximum effective imaging range of the image capture device and the effective projecting range of the projecting device; a superimposing unit that superimposes the enlarged or reduced reference pattern on a reference pattern yet to be projected; and an output unit that outputs the reference pattern superimposed by the superimposing unit to the projecting device.

Image processing device, computer readable recording medium, and image processing method

A computer assisted meeting capture system in which camera selection, camera control and sensor notification of candidate activity event for camera image changes are integrated. The information is displayed on a representation of a room layout. Camera switch suggestions are notified to the operator through the use of low-overhead cognitive cues such as changeable human sensible display characteristics.

Systems and methods for computer-assisted meeting capture

In a meeting held with employment of a plurality of materials, conditions of this meeting are recorded in the form of continuous data, and these materials are distributed to a user P who participates in this meeting by way of a printed matter and/or a screen output. Then, an analyzing unit analyzes the recorded continuous data so as to specify both a material and a place of the continuous data where this material was used. Also, an annotation/material relating unit specifies both an annotation which was added to a distributed material by the user in the meeting and this distributed material. A material matching unit judges a matching characteristic between these specified material and distributed materials. Then, are relating unit links the place of the continuous data where the material having the matching characteristic was employed with respect to the annotation of the distributed material.

User-data relating apparatus with respect to continuous data

A method, system, and apparatus for easily creating a video collage from a video is provided. By segmenting the video into a set number of video segments and providing an interface for a user to select images which represent the video segments and insert the selected images into a video collage template, a video collage may be easily created in a short amount of time. The system is designed to assign values to the video inserted in a video collage and compact the video based on these values thereby creating a small file which may be easily stored or transmitted.

Video production and compaction with collage picture frame user interface

Music videos are automatically produced from source audio and video signals. The music video contains edited portions of the video signal synchronized with the audio signal. An embodiment detects transition points in the audio signal and the video signal. The transition points are used to align in time the video and audio signals. The video signal is edited according to its alignment with the audio signal. The resulting edited video signal is merged with the audio signal to form a music video.

Method for automatically producing music videos

A method and apparatus for providing multi-resolution video to multiple users under hybrid human and automatic control. Initial environment and close-up images are captured using a first camera and a PTZ camera. The initial images are then stored in memory. Current environment and close-up images are captured and the an estimated difference between the initial and current images and the true image is determined. The estimated differences are weighted and compared and the stored images are updated. A close-up image is then provided to each user of the system. The close-up camera is then directed to a portion of the environment image having high distortion, and current environment and close-up images are captured again.

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