Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Digital Vision Laboratories Corporation

Yuichi Kobayakawa

Hirotoshi Maegawa

Kenji Nagao

Mitsuaki Inaba

Tetsuhiro Chiba

A system in which a plurality of network nodes are connected through a network, wherein when a computation object of a first network node calls a function (facility) of a computation object of a second network node, the first network node obtains a facility identification codes (numeral) of the object and the function from a remote reference table and outputs the facility identification codes through the network as a message together with the arguments of the function to the second network node. The second network node uses the input facility identification code as a key to obtain the execution address of the facility from a local reference table and executes that facility.

Parallel distributed processing system and method of same

A rigidity checking method and apparatus is presented. A composite feature vector is first generated by combining three pairs of coordinates obtained for a feature point of a target object from three pictures of the target object. A covariance matrix of the compound feature vector is calculated by finding a product of a variance matrix comprising a variance of each element of the compound feature vector and the transposed matrix of the variance matrix. The rigidity of the target object is calculated by using the element of the covariance matrix and compared with a predetermined threshold to determine whether the target object is a rigid body. Thus, a rigidity checking is directly achieved from the joint distribution of feature points in the three pictures without assuming the coefficients of a set of constraint equations.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuichi Kobayakawa