Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Takanobu Ujisato

Ritsuo Inaguma

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Nobuhiro Tsunashima

Takao Morita

Yasuto Masuda

Hideki Hama

Masayuki Imanishi

Masaaki Kurebayashi

Hiromitsu Baba

Jun Shinomiya

Tsukasa Kobayashi

Image processing apparatuses and information processing systems are disclosed. In one example, user information is generated on condition that a session is being established with a provision destination of a captured image, and the user information is provided to an information processing device that stores imaging location information. Alternatively, acquisition of imaging location information is permitted on the basis of permission information obtained from a provision destination on the condition that a session is being established with the provision destination of a captured image, the imaging location information provided from the information processing device associated with an imaging location is acquired in the permitted state, and the imaging location information and the user information are provided to an external device that verifies the user information.

Image processing that permits imaging operations with reference to user information

An image processing device includes: an entire image display control portion that performs control to display an entire image of a predetermined region in an entire image display window; and a cutout image display control portion that performs control to enlarge a plurality of tracking subjects included in the entire image and display the tracking subjects in a cutout image display window. The cutout image display control portion performs the control in such a manner that one cutout image including the tracking subjects is displayed in the cutout image display window in a case where relative distances among the tracking subjects are equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and that two cutout images including the respective tracking subjects are displayed in the cutout image display window in a case where the relative distances among the tracking subjects are larger than the predetermined value.

Image processing device and method, image processing system, and image processing program

An information management apparatus for managing mutual exchange of information performed by a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a network, including a receiving means for receiving a request for registration from the information processing apparatus connected to the network, as a representative apparatus; a determination means for determining presence or absence of the registration of the representative apparatus; a registration means for registering the information processing apparatus for which the request for the registration has been received, as the representative apparatus, when it is determined that the representative apparatus is not registered; and a rejecting means for rejecting the registration of the information processing apparatus for which the request for the registration has been received, as the representative apparatus, when it is determined that the representative apparatus is registered.

Information processing system and method, information management apparatus and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program product

Disclosed herein is an image-processing apparatus which may include an image holding section configured to store an input image; an image division section configured to divide the input image stored in the image holding section into a plurality of image portions having the same size and the same shape; a characteristic-quantity computation section configured to compute a characteristic quantity of each of the image portions generated by the image division section; and a difference computation section configured to carry out a difference computation process of computing a difference between the characteristic quantity computed by the characteristic-quantity computation section as the characteristic quantity of each individual one of the image portions generated by the image division section and a value determined in advance as well as a determination process of producing a result of determination as to whether or not the individual image portion is a portion of a background of the input image on the basis of the difference.

Image-processing apparatus, image-processing method and image-processing program

A camera system includes a camera apparatus for shooting an object to output an image signal and a camera control apparatus for controlling the camera apparatus such that the camera apparatus shoots a plurality of images constructing a panorama image in a predetermined order while changing zoom magnifications based on previously-determined setting and making a panorama image by joining a plurality of images with different zoom magnifications shot by the camera apparatus together.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takanobu Ujisato