Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Morpho

Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises

Sega Corporation

Tetsuya Hamada

Toshiki Shiino

Yasushi Tanase

Yasuyo Yasuda

Makoto Tanaka

Takashi Suzuki

Katsumi Kobayashi

Takeshi Miura

Masaki Hiraga

Kensuke Habuka

Atsushi Ohyama

Susumu Murata

Hiroyuki Kawahara

Shingo Tatsumi

Yasuhiro Todoroki

Mitsuru Todaiji

Takashi Semuna

Kazuhiro Hagino

An image forming apparatus comprises a conveyance unit configured to convey a long-shaped print medium in a longitudinal direction, an image forming unit configured to form an image on the print medium, a drying unit configured to dry the print medium on which an image has been formed in the image forming unit, and a control unit configured to, after interrupting image formation on the print medium by the image forming unit, control the image forming unit and the conveyance unit so as to convey and then stop at an ejection position a portion of the print medium, on which image formation has been performed, from inside of the drying unit.

Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium

A printer of the present invention prohibits print-media replacement or operations of the printer, when executing a profile creation mode of creating profile data that is used for color conversion processing performed on image data that is to be printed by a print unit.

Printer for creating a print profile

The invention provides an image identification device uses a separating plane to classify block images into the categories. The image identification device includes a target image input unit inputting a target image, a block image generation unit generates block images, a feature quantity computing unit computes feature quantities of the block images, and a category determination unit determines whether the block images are classified into the categories or not. The feature quantity computing unit uses local feature quantities of the block images and a global feature quantity of the target image as a whole, and also in a feature quantity space using features of the block images as coordinate axes, uses coordinate positions of feature quantity vectors optional areas in the feature quantity space to count the block images and causes the global feature quantity to include the number of the block images thus counted.

Image identification device, image identification method and recording medium

An image identification method for classifying block images of input image data into one of predetermined categories; the method includes the steps of: dividing image data into multiple blocks to produce block images, processing the feature quantity of each block image by their color space information and frequency component, learning separating hyperplanes that indicate boundaries of each category by reading in training data image that have labeled categories for each block and processing image feature quantity for each block of an training data image, and classifying respective block image to a category according to the distance from the separating hyperplane of each category for a newly acquired image to obtain the image feature quantity of block images. An imaging apparatus implementing the image identification method noted above is also disclosed.

Image identification method and imaging apparatus

A roulette-shaped big monopoly unitis disposed at the center of a casing, and a triangular pointerfor pointing a partition of the annular boardis disposed at the summit of the big monopoly unit. The players playing in the satellitessatisfy prescribed conditions to thereby to play in a big monopoly game using the big monopoly unit. In the big monopoly game, the players sequentially revolve the annular board. The game is advanced in accordance with contents of a partition pointed by the pointerwhich is common among all the players when the revolving annular boardstops. The game can be played closely related among the satellites.

Game device

Provided is a game device using game tokens with a newly added element not found in conventional game devices. In the present token game device, the token game processing system and the video game processing system are linked. That is, the processing of the video game in the satellite unit ( ) is commenced in accordance with whether or not a token hit the target ( ). The processing contents of the video game are altered in accordance with the player's operation of the lever ( ). Then, tokens are paid out to the player in accordance with the processing results of such video game. Therefore, the player is able to enjoy various operations, and provided is a game in which the player will not lose interest.

Game device using game token

It is controlled that working such as image editing or the like is not reflected on the part concerning copyright information or the like never intended to be overwritten or erased by a user, so that image data such as the copyright information or the like can be effectively protected. To achieve this, an image processing apparatus comprises an image editing unit and an image change unit as image editing means for editing the image data, and further comprises an image change exception unit for performing control not to apply the image change by the image editing to the image data representing a specific area or specific image data, such that the editing does not influence the image data of the specific area (e.g., image part in which copyright information, logo information, date information or the like has been written) or the specific image data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium

An image input device having: an image pickup unit to photograph an object and generate an image signal; an optical axis control unit to enable an optical axis of the image pickup unit to be moved; and a control unit to interlockingly control the optical axis control unit and the image pickup unit is described. The image input device may also have signal processing means for performing predetermined processes on the image signal, such as white balancing and automatic focusing. The image input device in accordance with the present invention is particularly suited for use in a television conferencing system.

Teleconference image input device

Remote control system and method for preventing the mixing of signals from remote manipulation devices and consolidately operating controlled devices including the remote manipulation devices comprise controlled devices including a plurality of remote manipulation devices, an image input device, a monitor device and a record device, and a computer. The computer transmits a transmission permission signal for permitting the transmission of the remote manipulation device having an ID code through the controlled device, and the remote manipulation device having the coincident ID code responds to the reception of the transmission permission signal to transmit a control signal to the controlled device. The computer 107 interprets a control command from the control signal received through the controlled device and transmits the control command to the controlled device. The controlled device responds to the control command to execute it. Accordingly, the simultaneous transmission of control commands by more than one remote manipulation devices is avoided and the mixing of the signals is prevented.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuya Hamada