Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yutaka Irie

Akihiko Ohsuga

Masanori Hattori

Yasuo Nagai

Shinichi Honiden

Yasuyuki Tahara

Takahiro Kawamura

Tetsuo Hasegawa

Toshihiro Morohoshi

Naoki Kase

Yuichi Inoue

Shinzo Matsubara

Seiichiro Tanaka

Akira Kagaya

According to one embodiment, a video processing device includes a test pattern controller configured to output a test pattern to a display capable of displaying stereoscopically. The test pattern is indicative of whether a viewer is substantially at a center of a viewing area in which a video is viewed stereoscopically. The test pattern includes first to sixth parallax images corresponding to respective first to sixth viewing points arranged in a horizontal direction. The third parallax image and the fourth parallax image include a first mark The first parallax image and the sixth parallax image include a second mark different from the first mark. The second parallax image and the fifth parallax image include neither the first mark nor second mark.

Video processing device, video processing method and recording medium

According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector that performs face recognition using a video photographed by a camera and acquires position information of a viewer, a correction amount calculator that calculates a correction amount for compensating for an error of the position information involved in deviation of an attaching position of the camera, a position information corrector that corrects the position information using the correction amount calculated by the correction amount calculator, a viewing area information calculator that calculates, using the position information corrected by the position information corrector, a control parameter for setting a viewing area in which the viewer is set, and a viewing area controller that controls the viewing area according to the control parameter.

Video processing apparatus and video processing method

A software component library management system is provided, which can effectively support both a component utilization user and a component management user in carrying out their business tasks. The component management toolincludes a component retrieve/pickup function unitand a component administration/registration function unit. The component administration/registration function unitis adapted to make registrations of attribute information on software components stored in the component database, such as relation information items representing relations between the software component and other software components. The component retrieve/pickup function unitcan retrieve and pickup a batch of software components related to a specific software component, based on the relation information items. The relation information item includes a slave link used to identify a slave component which a certain software component uses (slave information item), and a master link used to identify a master component by which a certain software component is used (master information item).

Software component library management system

A planning means generates a plan to be executed by agents on a node. In the case where the plan generated uses an uncertain knowledge required to be processed in other nodes, a judging means judges the communication line connecting the node and a network is low or high in reliability. In the case where the reliability of the communication line is low, an agent management unit moves the agent for executing the plan to another node for processing the uncertain knowledge. In the case where the reliability of the communication line is high, on the other hand, a cooperation protocol realization means requests an agent on another node to process the uncertain knowledge. An agent execution means executes the plan generated.

Information processing apparatus and method and information processing program recording medium

A system smoothly performing information processing is realized by dynamically making a decision, when it becomes necessary for an agent currently located at a platform to make use of another platform, with regard to whether to cause the agent to move to the other platform or cause the agent to cooperate with another agent that exists at the other platform. The dynamic decision is made in response to situations, resulting in enabling the unified utilization of mobile and stationary agents. The decision of using either movement or cooperation is typically made based on platform information and agent information. Even if planning changes the plan of an agent and regardless of what agent is using which platform's resources, it is possible to easily establish whether movement or cooperation is to be used, based on the platform profile and agent attributes. Such a system can perform information processing in response to changing situations.

Agent system and information processing method for same

A planning section generates a plan to be executed by agents on a node. In the case where the plan generated uses an uncertain knowledge required to be processed in other nodes, a judging section judges the communication line connecting the node and a network is low or high in reliability. In the case where the reliability of the communication line is low, an agent management unit moves the agent for executing the plan to another node for processing the uncertain knowledge. In the case where the reliability of the communication line is high, on the other hand, a cooperation protocol realization section requests an agent on another node to process the uncertain knowledge. An agent execution means executes the plan generated.

Method and apparatus that improves the technique by which a plurality of agents process information distributed over a network through by way of a contract net protocol

In a data-processing apparatus, in local information storage L and R at each node, local information for the purpose of accessing a constituent element is stored, this information being updated. A plan is generated that represents the action that should be taken by an agent in order to satisfy request code that has been input, this being generated as a set of actions, based on agent information and local information. The operation of the agent is implemented at the nodes L and R, based on the various actions that make up the thus-generated plan, and an agent is migrated to another node, based on a go action within the plan. It is possible to perform replanning and generation of a child agent at a migration destination node, if necessary, because of the failure of plan execution, for example.

Data-processing apparatus, data-processing method, and storage medium

This invention provides a technology for using a plurality of databases each having dissimilar data structure with each other. A user specified, on a portable terminal P, a search condition based on a global ontology G, a list of data items common to the plurality of databases. An agent A is sent from an agent launcher L to a connection node S. In the connection node S, data used as a table or a dictionary containing information on a correspondence between the global ontology G and each of the databases is provided. A search condition based on the global ontology G is translated based on the data to a format compatible with the structure of each database. The agent A, with the translated search condition, moves to a node where each database is located, transfers the search result obtained at each node, and then returns to the connection node S.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yutaka Irie