Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoichi Kazama

Ikuo Watanabe

Michio Aizawa

Peter Alleine Fletcher

Keiichi Sakai

Matthew Raphael Arnison

Minoru Fujita

Eric Wai-Shing Chong

Katsushi Suzuki

Allen Peter Courtney

Disclosed is method of measuring the displacement between a reference region of a reference image and a sample region of a sample image. The method spatially varies the reference region using a one-dimensional filter having complex kernel values, wherein a length (radius) and direction (angle or tangent segment) of the filter is a function of position in the reference region. The method then measures a displacement between the reference region and the sample region by comparing the spatially varied reference region and the sample region.

Estimation of shift and small image distortion

A switching apparatus of a camera server switches to down-load advertisement for a predetermined period at predetermined intervals while down-loading an image sensed by a camera, in response to a request for the image sensed by the camera.

Image down-loading apparatus and system, and image down-loading method

An image sensing apparatus capable of separately performing image processing on odd-numbered fields and even-numbered fields for each of the image data from the left lens and right lens when a 3-D (stereoscopic) compatible lens is mounted, and when a normal lens is mounted, recording image data while correlating fields and reducing redundant data. When 3-D compatible lensis mounted to image sensing apparatus main bodythe mounting of the lens is informed to the image sensing apparatus main bodyIn response, the image sensing apparatus main bodyperforms image processing separately on the left and right images for each field. For instance, the image compression mode is switched from an every-field structure to an alternate-field structure.

Imaging sensing apparatus

A control device includes a command table provided with control commands for controlled equipment as a table corresponding to natural language and a control quantity table for determining a control quantity corresponding to a word indicative of a control quantity in the natural language and a kind of control, and generates a control signal for the controlled equipment by applying the inputted natural language to the command table and the control quantity table.

Control device and control method as well as storage medium which stores program which executes operational processing of the control device and the control method

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Machida, Japan

Yoichi Kazama