Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Tetsuji Makino

Keiichi Sakurai

Masaaki Sasaki

Kazuhisa Matsunaga

Yoshihiro Teshima

Kouichi Nakagomi

Masaru Onozawa

Shinichi Matsui

Jun Hosoda

Akihiko Nagasaka

Masao Sambongi

Mitsuyasu Nakajima

Kouichi Nakagome

Masatoshi Watanuki

Kazumasa Morichika

Michihiro Nihei

Katsunori Ishii

Masayuki Hirohama

Hyuta Tanaka

An image processing device includes an acquirer, a face detector, and a change detector. The acquirer acquires images captured in succession by an image capturer. The face detector executes a first detection processing (face detection processing) that detects a certain target (face of a person) from a central area of the acquired image. The change detector executes second detection processing to detect a change over time in a surrounding area other than the central area in the acquired image. The second detection processing has a smaller processing load required per unit pixel in the image than that of the first detection processing.

Image processing device, robot, image processing method, and recording medium

A determiner in a dialog control apparatus determines whether a reply can be made in response to an utterance made by the dialog partner. If the determiner determines that a reply cannot be made, a creator creates a reply sentence for connecting to a next topic. An utterer utters the reply sentence created by the creator.

Dialogue control apparatus, dialogue control method, and non-transitory recording medium

The purpose of the present invention is to make a facial expression when the eyes are moved more natural. An image processing device () is provided with the following: an image acquisition unit () for acquiring an image that includes the eyes; an iris detection unit () for detecting from the acquired image the iris region of the eyes; and an eye image generation unit () for supplementing a deficient portion of the iris region so that the shape of the detected iris region becomes substantially circular.

Image processing device, image display device, image processing method, and medium

An information processing apparatus of the present application includes a drawing unit that draws a line on an image in a drawing area displayed in a fixed mode, which displays an image by fixing a position of the image; a judgment unit that judges whether a position of the line during drawing by the drawing unit is positioned on a boundary indicating the drawing area; a mode switching unit that switches from the fixed mode to a predetermined mode other than the fixed mode in a case in which the position during drawing is judged as being positioned on the boundary indicating the drawing area by the judgment unit; and a display control unit that executes control to display the image based on the mode switched by the mode switching unit.

Information processing apparatus for automatically switching between modes based on a position of an inputted drag operation

Provided is a data processor for generating three-dimensional image data from two-dimensional original image data, the three-dimensional image data including depth value, the apparatus comprising: a first clustering processor for dividing the two-dimensional original image data into a first plurality of clusters based on brightness; a three-dimensional data generating unit for setting a predetermined direction as a brighter-to-darker direction, and for generating information, as first depth information, such that depth value for a first cluster among the plurality of clusters is set to be larger than depth value for a second cluster which neighbors the first cluster and is located nearer to a starting point of the brighter-to-darker direction than the first cluster where the brightness of the first cluster is darker than the brightness of the second cluster.

Data processor and computer-readable non-volatile recording medium for storing program for data processing

An image creation method, includes: first obtaining a subject image including a subject region; second obtaining skeleton information related to a skeleton of a subject in the subject image obtained by the first obtaining; specifying, based on the skeleton information obtained by the second obtaining, color information of a contour portion of the subject region; and creating a back-side-image, based on the color information of the contour portion of the subject region specified by the specifying, by drawing a subject correspondent region of the back-side image showing a back side of the subject in a pseudo manner.

Image creation method, image creation apparatus and recording medium

An image capture apparatus includes: an image capturing unit; a first image capture controller configured to control the image capturing unit to capture a set of a plurality of images while changing exposure time for each of the images; a second image capture controller configured to obtain a plurality of sets of the images; an addition combination section configured to perform image alignment on the images contained in each of the sets and to perform addition combination on the aligned images to generate a combined image; a combination controller configured to control the addition combination section to perform the image alignment and the addition combination for each of the sets to obtain a plurality of combined images; a selector configured to evaluate the combined images and to select one of the combined images most highly evaluated as a selected image; and a storage configured to store the selected image.

Image capture apparatus and image capturing method

A method includes specifying an image area which is contained in the subject-present image taken and in which nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value, determining whether or not a range of the specified image area in the subject-present image in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is greater than or equal to a predetermined range, generating an extraction background image used to extract a subject area in the subject-present image containing the subject, from the image area when the range of the image area in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is determined to be greater than or equal to the predetermined range, and extracting the subject area from the subject-present image based on information on a difference between each pixel in the extraction background image and a corresponding pixel in the subject-present image.

Image pickup device, image processing method, and storage medium storing program

A moving image reproducer includes a generation section, a calculation section, a determination section, a correction section and a control section. The generation section generates an interpolation frame image interpolating between two adjacent frame images among a plurality of frame images. The calculation section sequentially calculates a progress level of a predetermined musical piece between the two adjacent frame images reproduced in synchronization with the predetermined musical piece. The determination section determines whether the progress level has varied along with a change in a tempo of the predetermined musical piece defined in the tempo information. The correction section corrects the progress level so as to reduce the variation in the progress level along with the change in the tempo if the progress level is determined to have varied. The control section controls the generation section to generate an interpolation frame image corresponding to the corrected progress level.

Moving image reproducer reproducing moving image in synchronization with musical piece

An image composition device includes an obtaining section configured to obtain a downward-taken background image and a foreground image to be composed with the background image, a specification section configured to specify a position at which the foreground image is composed, in the background image obtained by the obtaining section, a composition section configured to compose the foreground image at the position in the background image which is specified by the specification section, to generate a composed image, and an image processing section configured to execute a smoothing process with a process intensity controlled based on the position, on the composed image.

Image composition device, image composition method, and storage medium storing program

An image capturing apparatus includes: a first image capturing unit that captures a subject existing image; a first nonflatness calculating unit that calculates nonflatness of a peripheral portion of the subject existing image; a first determination unit that determines whether the nonflatness of the peripheral portion of the subject existing image is higher than a threshold value; a background generating unit that generates an extracting background image from the peripheral portion of the subject existing image when the first determination unit determines that the nonflatness is not higher than the threshold value, the extracting background image serving to extract a subject region containing the subject in the subject existing image; and a subject extracting unit that extracts the subject region from the subject existing image based on difference information of each corresponding pixel between the extracting background image and the subject existing image.

Image capturing apparatus capable of extracting subject region from captured image

The image processing apparatus is provided with a subject movement data creation unit that detects the movement of subjects in a plurality of partitioned blocks that partition a screen area of moving images, and creates subject movement data that specifies a partitioned block where there is movement in the subject and the movement of the subject in that partitioned block; a still image acquisition unit that acquires still images; and a still image processor that causes the image of the still image blocks corresponding to the partitioned blocks specified by the subject movement data to move in accordance with the movement of the subject specified by the subject movement data, on the still image acquired by the still image acquisition unit using the subject movement data created by the subject movement data creation unit.

Image processing apparatus and storage medium

An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section configured to acquire a plurality of images that are consecutively taken in time series by an imaging device; a reference region setting section configured to employ one of the images acquired by the imaging section as a reference image and to set a region of the reference image as reference region, the region having high-frequency components; and an image processing section configured to combine the images including the reference image by positioning the images so as to overlap subject portions in each images, the subject portions being defined in the reference region set by the reference region setting section.

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Tetsuji Makino