Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Tsutomu Uenoyama

Daisaku Komiya

Ryouichi Kawanishi

Osamu Iwasaki

Tomohiro Konuma

Kazunori Yamada

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Minoru Etoh

Atsushi Ando

Takeshi Hatakeyama

Yoshimasa Honda

Masaharu Matsumoto

Masaaki Higashida

Masahiko Yamamoto

Kou Watanabe

Shutai Okamura

Hiroaki Yoshio

Toshio Oka

Yoshihiro Hayakawa

Hiroshi Yabu

Satoshi Ohyama

Ryota Miyanaka

Tomoyuki Karibe

Masao Kato

Yasutoshi Yamamoto

Akira Ishida

Akino Inoue

Toshimasa Takaki

Satoshi Kinoshita

Mamoru Higashimura

Tomoko Matsuzawa

Akira Inagaki

Yuta Hachiri

Yumiko Nakayama

Kenichi Yadani

Keiichi Miyazaki

Takuya Tanaka

Mitsuo Tamura

The communication device is installed in an aircraft and is capable of radio communication with a base station on the ground. The communication device comprises a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller. The controller acquires location information of the aircraft at a predetermined time, and communicates with the base station using an allocation pattern of communication resources according to the location information of the aircraft.

System and method for air-to-ground communication involving an aircraft

An image transmission apparatus is connected to a plurality of cameras that image the interior of a moving body, and includes a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The receiver receives, from an external device of the moving body, an image transmission request and imaging subject information that identifies a passenger to be imaged. The processor selects, based on the imaging subject information, an image captured by at least one camera of the plurality of cameras, and executes processing to remove, from the selected image, other image regions aside from the image region that covers the passenger to be imaged. The transmitter transmits the image that has been processed to the external device.

Image transmission apparatus, camera system, and image transmission method

A radar detection system according to the present disclosure is a radar detection system that detects an obstacle to an aircraft in an airport. The radar detection system includes a radar apparatus, and a control apparatus. The radar apparatus detects an obstacle by transmitting and receiving a radar signal, and acquires obstacle information regarding the obstacle detected based on the received radar signal. The control apparatus switches the operation of the radar apparatus according to the aircraft state of the aircraft. The control apparatus turns off the radar apparatus when the aircraft takes off, and turns on the radar apparatus when the aircraft makes a landing.

Radar detection system and radar detection method

The cooking control device is installed on a moving object and is configured to communicably connect to a plurality of content display devices and one or more cooking apparatuses, each of the content display devices configured to playback content on a screen. The cooking control device comprises a processor and a transmitter. The processor receives content playback information for the plurality of content display devices respectively, determines one or more of the plurality of content display devices that finish playback of content within a given time based on the content playback information, and produces a preparation/cooking instruction for the one or more cooking apparatuses according to a number of the one or more of the plurality of content display devices. The transmitter transmits the preparation/cooking instruction to the one or more cooking apparatuses.

Cooking control device, cooking control system, and cooking control method

A server is an image processing apparatus that is connectable to one or more cameras, which shoot images inside an aircraft, and distinguishes a crewmember from among a plurality of people present inside the aircraft. The server includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data output from the cameras and behavior patterns specific to the crewmember. The processor determines the crewmember from among the plurality of people by detecting a behavior specific to the crewmember from the image data stored in the memory based on the behavior patterns specific to the crewmember, and outputs a result of the determination.

Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method

A sound collecting system includes a plurality of sound collecting units that collect sound and a sound collecting device. The plurality of sound collecting units send sound collection data including audio data and time data to the sound collecting device. The sound collecting device includes a processor that manages time for the plurality of sound collecting units and receives an instruction specifying a sound collecting location, and an output unit. The processor of the sound collecting device synthesizes the audio data of the plurality of sound collecting units on the basis of the time data of the plurality of sound collecting units, and outputs, from the output unit, the audio data of the sound collecting location.

Sound collecting device capable of obtaining and synthesizing audio data

An image evaluation device pertaining to the present invention aims to realize evaluations matching the needs of each individual user, with respect to images shared on a network. The image evaluation device includes: image feature extraction unit extracting image features from a plurality of images; evaluation information acquisition unit acquiring evaluation information, the evaluation information containing results of evaluations of the images performed by users including a subject user; generation unit generating relational information based on the image features and the evaluation information, the relational information showing relationship between the images, the users, and image feature groups into which the image features are classified; and image social importance calculation unit calculating an image social importance degree of each image based on the relational information generated by the generation unit, each image social importance degree showing a degree of importance to the subject user of the corresponding image.

Image evaluation device, image evaluation method, program, and integrated circuit

Provided is an audio processing device comprising: a feature data generation unit which generates, for each unit section of an audio signal, section feature data expressing features of the audio signal in the unit section; a feature variation calculation unit which calculates, for each unit section, a feature variation value quantifying temporal variation of the features in the unit section, by setting the unit section as a target section and using section feature data of unit sections close to the target section; and a section judgment unit which judges, for each unit section, whether the unit section is a feature unit section including a variation point of the features, based on comparison of a threshold value and the feature variation value. Through the above, the audio processing device can detect feature unit sections from an audio signal of an AV content or the like.

Audio processing device, audio processing method, audio processing program and audio processing integrated circuit

An image recognition device including: a first recognition unit that performs image recognition within an image to find a first object; an obtaining unit that obtains an attribute of the first object found by the first recognition unit; an object specifying unit that refers to object correspondence information showing identifiers of second objects and associating each identifier with an attribute, and specifies an identifier of one of the second objects that is associated with the attribute of the first object; an area specifying unit that refers to area value information showing values that are associated with the identifiers of the second objects and are related to a first area occupied by the first object, and specifies a second area within the image by using a value associated with the identifier of the one of the second objects; and a second recognition unit that performs image recognition within the second area to find the one of the second objects.

Image recognition device, image recognition method, program, and integrated circuit

An interesting section identifying device for identifying an interesting section of a video file based on an audio signal included in the video file, the interesting section being a section in which a user is estimated to express interest, includes an interesting section candidate extracting unit that extracts an interesting section candidate from the video file, the interesting section candidate being a candidate for the interesting section, a detailed structure determining unit that determines whether the interesting section candidate includes a specific detailed structure, and an interesting section identifying unit that identifies the interesting section by analyzing a specific section when the detailed structure determining unit determines that the interesting section candidate includes the detailed structure, the specific section including the detailed structure and being shorter than the interesting section candidate.

Region of interest identification device, region of interest identification method, region of interest identification program, and region of interest identification integrated circuit

Provided is an image processing device for associating images with objects appearing in the images, while reducing burden on the user. The image processing device: stores, for each of events, a photographic attribute indicating a photographic condition predicted to be met with respect to an image photographed in the event; stores an object predicted to appear in an image photographed in the event; extracts from a collection of photographed images a photographic attribute that is common among a predetermined number of photographed images in the collection, based on pieces of photography-related information of the respective photographed images; specifies an object stored for an event corresponding to the extracted photographic attribute; and conducts a process on the collection of photographed images to associate each photographed image containing the specified object with the object.

Image processing device that associates photographed images that contain a specified object with the specified object

The image classification apparatus extracts first features of each received image (S) and second features of a relevant image relevant to each received image (S). Subsequently, the image classification apparatus obtains a third feature by calculation using locality of the extracted first and second features, the third feature being distinctive of a target object of each received image (S), and creates model data based on the obtained third feature (S).

Image classification apparatus, image classification method, program, recording medium, integrated circuit, and model creation apparatus

An interesting section extracting device extracts an interesting section of interest to a user from a video file with reference to an audio signal included in the video file such that a specified time is included in the interesting section. The interesting section extracting device includes an interface device that obtains the specified time; and a likelihood vector generating unit that calculates, in one-to-one correspondence with first unit sections of the audio signal, likelihoods for anchor models that respectively represent features of a plurality of types of sound pieces and generates likelihood vectors having the calculated likelihoods as components thereof. An interesting section extracting unit calculates a first feature section as candidate section, which is candidate for the interesting section to be extracted, by using likelihood vectors and extract, as the interesting section, part of the first feature section including the specified time.

Interesting section extracting device, interesting section extracting method

An audio processing device including a feature calculation unit, a boundary calculation unit and a judgment unit, detects points of change of audio features from an audio signal in an AV content. The feature calculation unit calculates, for each unit section of the audio signal, section feature data expressing features of the audio signal in the unit section. The boundary calculation unit calculates, for each target unit section among the unit sections of the audio signal, a piece of boundary information relating to at least one boundary of a similarity section. The similarity section consists of consecutive unit sections, inclusive of the target unit section, which each have similar section feature data. The judgment unit calculates a priority of each boundary indicated by one or more of the pieces of boundary information and judges whether the boundary is a scene change point based on the priority.

Audio processing device, audio processing method, program and integrated circuit

An image information processing apparatus comprising: an extraction unit that extracts an object from a photographed image; a calculation unit that calculates an orientation of the object as exhibited in the image; and a provision unit that provides a tag to the image according to the orientation of the object.

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Tsutomu Uenoyama