Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Other

Sap Ag

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Takayuki Sawada

Kazuki Taira

Hiroki Kanno

Shinsaku Ito

Sunao Tabata

Mami Tanaka

Yuma Yoshida

Naofumi Yamamoto

Haruko Kawakami

Takahiro Fuchigami

Yuishi Takeno

Tetsuya Nobuoka

Hiroki Umezawa

Tadanobu Kamiyama

Satoshi Namematsu

A communication device communicates, in a first cycle, with sensors connected through a network to acquire, from the sensors, measurement data measured by the sensors in data acquisition cycles longer than or equal to the first cycle and store the data in a storage. The communication device includes a grouping section to classify the sensors into groups based on the data acquisition cycles and acquire the measurement data from the classified sensors, and reclassify one of the sensors into a different group when determining that a maximum size of data to be received per first cycle exceeds a threshold for a communication band of the network, and a memory map generator to calculate a timing and an address to store the measurement data based on the data acquisition cycles and the groups resulting from the classification.

Communication device, communication method, and recording medium

A commodity management device includes a camera interface circuit connectable to a camera to capture an image of one of commodities arranged in a row along a first direction from a back plate to a front of the shelf. The device includes a sensor interface circuit connectable to a sensor measuring a distance to the commodities in the row. A processor is configured to detect a change in the distance measured by the sensor, identify the commodities based on the image, then acquire a thickness of each commodity in the row, and calculate the number of the commodities removed from the shelf based on the distance change and the thickness of the commodities.

Commodity management device and commodity management system

According to one embodiment, an article recognition apparatus includes an image interface, a weight interface and a processor. The image interface acquires an image captured by photographing a predetermined place where a plurality of articles are disposed. The processor acquires a first image, acquires a second image after detecting a predetermined event, recognizes an article, based on an image of an article area of an article which is absent in the second image, among article areas extracted from the first image, acquires a registered weight of the recognized article from an article database, and outputs an error if total of the registered weights disagrees with a difference weight between a first weight which a weight scale measures at a time of photographing the first image, and a second weight which the weight scale measures at a time of photographing the second image.

Article recognition apparatus and article recognition method

An image processing apparatus and an image processing method notify a user of an object region from which an object cannot be recognized. The image processing apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface receives an input image. The processor extracts a first target object region from the input image and reads first identification information from the first target object region. If the first identification information fails to be read, the processor outputs an output image which includes the first target region and information representing read failure of the first target region.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

In accordance with one embodiment, an image processing apparatus which is accessible to at least one storage device, the apparatus includes a decision unit, a generation unit and a determination unit. The decision unit estimates a separation distance from the first camera to the display shelf. The decision unit decides a search distance, based on the separation distance. The generation unit generates a template image by converting a number of pixels of single item image acquired by photographing the product as a single piece and stored in the storage device, with a magnification corresponding to a ratio between the search distance and a known photographing distance. The determination unit determines an area, which is similar to the template image, within a shelf image stored in the storage device.

Image processing apparatus, display state determination apparatus, and image processing method

According to one embodiment, a color correction apparatus includes an input portion, a storing portion and a correction portion. The input portion inputs color image signals which correspond to recording color material amounts. The storing portion stores a standard color reproduction parameter for calculating a standard color reproduction chromaticity and reference chromaticity deviation amounts at a plurality of reference color points in recording color material amount coordinate space. The correction portion estimates chromaticity deviation amounts of the input color image signals on the basis of the reference chromaticity deviation amount, calculates a standard chromaticity which corresponds to the input color image signals on the basis of the standard color reproduction parameter and corrects the input color image signals on the basis of the estimated chromaticity deviation amounts and the standard chromaticity.

Color correction apparatus and color correction method

According to one embodiment, a print server includes an acquisition portion, an analysis portion, a selection portion, and a control portion. The acquisition portion acquires target color gamut information from print data and acquires printer color gamut information from each of a plurality of printers. The analysis portion analyzes the target color gamut information and the printer color gamut information of each printer. The selection portion selects one or more printers from among the plurality of printers on the basis of the analysis result. The control portion instructs the selected printer to print the print data.

Print server and print control method

A CRM server sends to a client terminal activity data that has been read from a DB server, and directs the display thereof. When the activity data has been received from the CRM server, a client terminal obtains the screen data of a calendar screen is generated. Then a screen data for the activity detail screen that displays the activity data, screen data for an activity calendar screen is generated after display data for displaying information about a portion of the content of the activity has been added to screen data for a calendar screen in a field corresponding to a date and time shown by the activity data, and these generated screens are output on one screen.

Activity management system and method, active management apparatus, client terminal and computer program

A color conversion apparatus includes: an original data analyzing unit configured to extract background color information of an original and color information of a character and line drawing object on the background; a background color changing unit configured to change the background color of the original when necessary, on the basis of the result of comparing the background color information acquired from the original data analyzing unit with a preset threshold value; and a character and line drawing color correcting unit configured to change lightness of the character and line drawing color in a way that increases a lightness difference between the background color for printing and the character and line drawing color on the background when necessary, on the basis of the background color information of the original acquired from the original data analyzing unit, the background color information for printing acquired from the background color changing unit, and the character and line drawing color information on the background acquired from the original data analyzing unit. The color conversion apparatus contributes to saving of color material, reduction in load on a printer engine, prevention of stripping of color material, and prevention of deformation of paper.

Color conversion apparatus and color conversion method

Activity management system and method, active management apparatus, client terminal, and computer program

A color conversion section in an image processing apparatus converts input colors at positions of interest in input color document data to a limited number of colors, on the basis of page layout information that is updated on a page-by-page basis and delivered from a page layout analysis section, a color-assignment table that is updated on a page-by-page basis and delivered from a color-assignment table generating section, and color category attribute information relating to the positions of interest in the input color document data, which is delivered from a color categorizing section.

Color image processing apparatus

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus having, a first color conversion unit which executes first color conversion with respect to an image, a first image output unit which reproduces/outputs the image based on an output of the first color conversion unit, a second color conversion unit which executes second color conversion with respect to the same image, and a color conversion output synthesis unit which synthesizes a third color conversion output using outputs of the first and second color conversion units, wherein the apparatus selects one of outputs of the first color conversion unit and the color conversion output synthesis unit to thereby restore the color of the original image before the compression from the compressed image.

Color image processor

A color image processing apparatus uses a layout analysis section, a character/background color extraction section, an input image character/background color difference calculation section, an output image character/background color difference estimation section and a color conversion parameter correction section, thereby executing a process (pre-process) for generating a second color conversion parameter, and then uses a first color conversion section, a second color conversion section and a color conversion switching section, thereby executing color conversion (main process) of input color image data.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Sawada