Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Shoji Sakamoto

Hiroyuki Miyake

Tsutomu Abe

Jun Shingu

Tetsuo Iyoda

Kiwame Tokai

Koushi Kawamoto

Meng Shi

Yoshinori Yamaguchi

Masao Morita

Tohru Fuse

Yasuji Seko

Kazuto Hayashi

Yuichi Oneda

An information sharing support system includes a first information processor connected to a projector that projects an image on a projection area including an object, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitter that transmits the second annotation image to the projector device; a receiving unit that receives a picked-up image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion.

Information sharing support system, information processing device, computer readable recording medium, and computer controlling method

There is provided a non-transitory computer readable medium. An imaging unit captures an image. A search request unit requests a search by using identification information for identifying a person described in the image or a medium having the image printed thereon. A reception unit receives image feature values corresponding to the identification information, as a result of the search. An acquisition unit acquires information for accessing a content or content information when the received image feature values and image feature values extracted from the captured image correspond to each other.

Method for searching captured images using identification information

Provided is a photographing apparatus that includes a photographing section that photographs a subject, and a controller that controls a photographing range of the photographing section based on a range specification image that is projected onto the subject.

Projected-image based photographing apparatus control system

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires encoded information at a position specified on a medium, the medium having the encoded information and an image printed thereon, the encoded information including identification information of the medium, first coordinate information identifying in a first coordinate system a position where the encoded information is printed, and alignment determination information determining an alignment of the encoded information, and the image, printed on the medium, at a position predetermined by second coordinate information in a second coordinate system, an identifying unit that identifies the image corresponding to the encoded information by checking the first coordinate information included in the encoded information acquired by the acquisition unit against the second coordinate information of the images printed on the medium, and a determining unit that determines whether the first coordinate system matches the second coordinate system in alignment.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable medium storing program for processing information

An information processing system includes an acceptance section, a first processing section, a conversion section and a second processing section. The acceptance section accepts first storage location information that is indicative of where a first electronic file in a first storage unit is stored. The first processing section processes the first electronic file in accordance with a first processing content. The conversion section converts the first storage location information to second storage location information that is indicative of where a second electronic file in a second storage unit is stored. The second electronic file has an identical content as that of the first electronic file. The second processing section processes the second electronic file in accordance with a second processing content.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer readable medium

An information sharing support system is provided. The system includes a first information processing device connected to a projector device for projecting an image on a projection area, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image as the remaining part of the first annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitting unit that transmits the second annotation image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion.

Information sharing support system providing corraborative annotation, information processing device, computer readable recording medium, and computer controlling method providing the same

An information processing method using a terminal apparatus, including: applying light with a concentric ring-like interference fringe pattern on one of subjects by using a pointer provided in the terminal apparatus; detecting the interference fringe pattern by using a detector; calculating an optical axis of the pointer on the basis of a detection signal obtained from the detector; specifying attribute information of the subject on the basis of arrangement information of the subject intersected by the optical axis in the condition that arrangement information of the subjects and attribute information of the subjects are stored in a storage device in advance while the arrangement information of each subject and the attribute information of the subject are associated with each other; and displaying the attribute information of the specified subject on the terminal apparatus.

Information processing method and system using terminal apparatus

A high-speed image forming apparatus may alleviate a load imposed upon the drawing processing of the gradation. A drawing unit writes data in a page buffer while executing the drawing processing by using the drawing data stored in a drawing data storage unit. At that time, when generation of the gradation is instructed, the drawing unit accesses a gradation generation unit. The gradation generation unit sets a plurality of adjacent band-like regions which are perpendicular to a straight line connecting a start point with an end point and in which color values therein become uniform by using the vector of the changing direction of the transferred color and the color information at the start and endpoints, obtains the intersection point between the boundary of the band-like region and the scanning line, and sets such intersection point as the color changing point. At every scanning line, the color changing point and the color between the color changing points are successively obtained, and the gradation pattern in the scanning direction is generated successively.

Image forming apparatus and method of generating gradation pattern

In an image forming apparatus which forms an image by parallel-processing an instruction set described in a page description language and in which image data can be efficiently processed by properly dividing the sequence of instructions for parallel-processing, interpreting means generates an intermediate representation independent of a language by interpreting an image plotting instruction described in a page description language according to a grammar of a page description language. The intermediate representation is divided into blocks according to a particle size designated by particle size designating means. Divided blocks are distributed by distributing means to converting means which can operate in parallel to each other and thereby converted into pixel representations. Partial converted pixel representations are synthesized by synthesizing means into a page image. Since the intermediate representation which results from interpreting the page description language is divided into blocks as described above, blocks of intermediate representations sharing an attribute can be correctly discriminated from each other.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

When an instruction sequence is divided into a plurality of subsequences and executed by a plurality of painting instruction operators, an effective parallel schedule can be drawn up even if there may exist image elements overlapped one another, thus enabling high-speed painting instruction to be executed. There are provided a control information configuror for giving a directed branch to a subsequence having order dependence upon receipt of subsequences divided by a sequence divider and for excluding, when the subsequence with the branch given has another subsequence having order dependence, the subsequence from the determination targets for order dependence; and a scheduler for processing, when on allocating subsequences to a painting instruction operator at the execution target, the subsequences to be allocated are dependent upon subsequences to be executed outside of the allocatee, after the processing of subsequences at the host is awaited.

Image forming apparatus and method of forming images by interpreting a

An overlap judgment device writes job sequence divided by a job sequencing device to map memory constituted at coarser resolution than the resolution of a final generated image. At this time, if an image element where a job sequence number is already written is overwritten, the dependence of the job sequence upon processing order is extracted and if an image element is not overwritten, the independence of the job sequence is extracted. A number allocated to job sequence is written to the map memory, if an image element is overwritten, the number of the preceding job sequence is allocated to the overwritten job sequence and referred to when a final image is generated. To reduce overhead for preprocessing to judge overlap between image elements if an image formation instruction is processed in parallel as much as possible, the map memory is constituted by a plurality of planes different in resolution and overlap is judged by first writing to a plane with lower resolution and rewriting to a plane with higher resolution by one level if an image element is overwritten.

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Shoji Sakamoto