Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuichi Bannai

Tsuneyoshi Takagi

Hiroaki Sato

Kunihiro Yamamoto

Kazuko Tsujimura

Takashi Oya

Hiroshi Okazaki

Takahiro Kurosawa

Akihiro Yoshitani

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Yoshihiro Ishida

Kenichi Okada

Keiichi Murai

Hidefumi Osawa

Katsutoshi Ushida

Kenichiro Tanaka

Norio Shimura

Takeshi Kawazome

Toshihiko Sato

Eiita Ono

Shutaro Aiba

A system includes a first acquisition unit adapted to acquire a first position/orientation of a first viewpoint of a first observer, a first manipulation unit used by the first observer to manipulate a virtual object, and a second manipulation unit used by a second observer to manipulate the virtual object. A generation unit generates an image of the virtual object viewed from the first viewpoint based on the first position/orientation, and generates an image of the second manipulation unit based on a relative position of the second manipulation unit from a second viewpoint position of the second observer, a second acquisition unit acquires an image of a physical space viewed from the first viewpoint, and a combining unit combines the images generated by the generation unit and the image acquired by the second acquisition unit. In addition, an output unit outputs the combined image to a first head mounted display worn by the first observer and a second head mounted display worn by the second observer, with the manipulation results by the first manipulation unit and the second manipulation unit being reflected in the image of the virtual object.

System, image processing apparatus, and information processing method

An information processing method and apparatus enables one or more further users to share a mixed reality space image including a virtual object superimposed in a space where a first user exists. A first stereo image is acquired based on a stereo video captured by a first stereo capturing section mounted on the first user and a virtual object image created based on the position and orientation of the first stereo capturing section. A second stereo image is acquired based on a stereo video captured by a second stereo capturing section provided in the space where the first user exists and a virtual object image created based on the position and orientation of the second stereo capturing section. An image is selected from the first stereo image and the second stereo image according to an instruction of the further user. The selected image is presented to the further user.

Information processing method and apparatus

In a perfume information processing system, a WEB server that provides contents containing perfume information, a perfume inquiry server that generates a perfume conversion table, and multiple clients that each includes a perfume emitting device are connected to a network. Each client sends information showing a perfume that should be emitted and information showing each stored perfume of its corresponding perfume emitting device to the perfume inquiry server and retrieves a perfume conversion table for converting the perfume that should be emitted into information showing a stored perfume. The client converts the perfume information contained in the contents retrieved from the WEB server into perfume information by referring to the perfume conversion table and controls perfume emission by the corresponding perfume emitting device based on the perfume information, thereby performing perfume emission.

Perfume information processing device, perfume information processing system, and perfume conversion table generating method

Herein provided is a control system capable of efficiently and assuredly performing a remote-control of a plurality of instruments. When the plurality of instruments, which are connected to a networkand controllable by a computer, namely a first cameraand a second cameraas shown in FIG., are remotely and simultaneously controlled, the present system is constituted so that a control right of the second cameraacquired by a certain client enables the client to control even the first camera while disenables other clients except for the client which acquires the control right to control both the first cameraand second camera. Accordingly, it turns unnecessary to individually acquire all of the control rights to control the related instruments, first cameraand the second camera

Control apparatus, control system, control method and storage medium of the same

In a compact information terminal apparatus including display means having a displaying function equivalent to that of a personal computer, a browser for browsing a hyper text can easily be manipulated without altering the hyper text formed for the personal computer. When a position other than a hot spot of the hyper text on a browsing view is designated by using a position designating input device which can be manipulated by one hand, a group of operation buttons of the browser for the hyper text is displayed in the vicinity of a designated position.

Compact information terminal apparatus, method for controlling such apparatus and medium

There is provided a communication apparatus which makes it possible to properly process data acquired by an external device even if the data is difficult to process by the external device that acquired the data. Information is acquired from an external apparatus by communication. It is determined whether the acquired information is suitable for processing by the communication apparatus. Processing of information determined to be unsuitable for processing by the communication apparatus is delegated to an information apparatus.

Communication apparatus and control method therefor, information apparatus and control method therefor, communication system, and control programs

An information terminal comprises display means for performing a large-screen display via a sculptured surface prism. The information terminal connects to a cellular telephone using Bluetooth technology, obtains information held by a WWW server on the Internet through cooperation with the cellular telephone, and displays a screen for viewing the obtained information on the display means. Also, button operations made at the cellular telephone can be taken as input of the information terminal for performing operations on the screen of the display means. Thus, a portable information terminal which enables viewing of information on a network with a large screen can be provided, without compromising portability or operability.

Portable information terminal, information viewing method, and program

Herein provided is a control system capable of efficiently and assuredly performing a remote-control of a plurality of instruments. When the plurality of instruments, which are connected to a networkand controllable by a computer, namely a first cameraand a second cameraas shown in FIG., are remotely and simultaneously controlled, the present system is constituted so that a control right of the second cameraacquired by a certain client enables the client to control even the first camera while disenables other clients except for the client which acquires the control right to control both the first cameraand second cameraAccordingly, it turns unnecessary to individually acquire all of the control rights to control the related instruments, first cameraand the second camera

An image retrieval method and apparatus for searching a plurality of images stored in an image file for a desired image are disclosed. When a designated image for designating an image to be retrieved for is input, and its color is designated, the sizes and colors are compared between description information which stores the feature of each of regions obtained by dividing each of images to be searched stored in the image file, and feature data of the designated image. In this manner, the regions, which are determined to be included in the designated image, of image data are obtained, and the similarities between the obtained regions of image data and the designated image are calculated. Image data having higher similarities are read out from the image file, and are displayed while being sorted in the descending order from the highest similarity.

Image retrieval method and apparatus using a compound image formed from a plurality of detected regions

An image retrieval method and apparatus for searching a plurality of images stored in an image file for a desired image are disclosed. When a designated image for designating an image to be retrieved is input, and its color is designated, the sizes and colors are compared between description information which stores the feature of each of regions obtained by dividing each of images to be searched stored in the image file, and feature data of the designated image. In this manner, the regions, which are determined to be included in the designated image, of image data are obtained, and the similarities between the obtained regions of image data and the designated image are calculated. Image data having higher similarities are read out from the image file, and are displayed while being sorted in the descending order from the highest similarity.

Image retrieval method and apparatus

There are provided image processing apparatus and method, in which an image signal expressed by a plurality of bits is continuously inputted every pixel, the input image signal is compared with a reference image signal, a change in image is detected, and when the change in image is not detected as a detection result, a quality improving process of the image signal is executed by using a plurality of image signals which are obtained for a period of time when the image change is not detected, and when the image change is detected as a detection result, the input image signal is outputted without performing the quality improving process, and when the image change is not detected as a detection result, the image signal which was subjected to the quality improving process is outputted.

Image processing apparatus and method for performing image processes according to image change and storing medium storing therein image processing programs

A window management system makes it possible to collectively control plural application programs by a common user interface, regardless of whether each program is so constructed as to respond to the message from the user interface. The system is provided with an acquisition unit for acquiring display information of the program, a collective operation instruction unit for instructing a collective operation to the program, a transmission unit for transmitting the instructed operation to the program and a display control unit for displaying the status of the instructed operation in a specified display area.

Window management system with recording status display

When an object region of data has been assigned through an input unit, an object assigning unit writes the assigned object in a picture surface information region in an assigned object information region. When a cutting command has been input, the assigned region is stored in a nonshared clipboard region or a shared clipboard region according to instruction by the command. A shared clipboard is connected to shared clipboards of other systems via a shared clipboard communication unit. When a position has been assigned and a pasting command has been input, a pasting processing unit takes out data from an assigned clipboard, and connects the data to the assigned position. Thus, an operation of cutting and pasting data between systems is simplified.

Method and apparatus for selective control of data transfer between

A window sharing system of a server client method in which a client application communicates with a plurality of servers by distributing a message and an operation is executed by switching an operation right for the client application. The system includes a window ID obtainer for obtaining a window ID of a common window formed by the client application and storing the window ID into a first memory; an operation right information obtainer for obtaining information of the operation right for the client application and storing the information into a second memory; an operation pointer display controller for displaying an operation pointer to operate the client application to the common window on the basis of the window ID stored in the first memory; an operation right information display controller for adding the operation right information stored in the second memory to the operation pointer and displaying the information; and an operation right information switching unit for storing information regarding the user who performed a click operation by a mouse-cursor on the operation pointer into the second memory and switching the operation right.

Window sharing system

When enlargement processing is performed, binary image data inputted from a data line 100 is subjected to contour smoothing by a contour smoothing and enlarging circuit 2 and the data is enlarged by a factor of n (where n is an integer) in the main scanning direction and m (where m is an integer) in the subordinate scanning direction. When reduction processing is performed, the binary image data is outputted as is from a selector 6 to a multivalue-converting circuit 3 via a signal line 200. In the multivalue-converting circuit 3, the binary image is stored temporarily in a memory, the image data of any area is extracted, image data of multivalued density is calculated based upon a window outputted from a weighting table with reference to an area comprising a pixel of interest and its peripheral pixels, and the multivalued data is outputted to a variable-power circuit 4 via a signal line 300. In the variable-power circuit 4, the multivalued-density image data is zoomed down to any size by thinning-out processing based on an image clock and line synchronizing signal, and the resulting data is outputted to a binarizing circuit 5 via a signal line 400. The binarizing circuit 5 converts the image data of multivalued density into binary data and outputs this data on a data line 500.

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Yuichi Bannai