Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080222528 | Information display method, information processing apparatus, and recording medium recording information display program - A method of displaying item information related to a plurality of individuals having different properties onto a screen. The method includes the steps of: obtaining information indicating equivalent time in property, which is time corresponding to a property of each individual; setting a time axis on the screen such that equivalent time in property of each individual indicated by the obtained information has the same position and the same display length, or the same position or the same display length in a time axial direction; and displaying item information related to each individual on the screen in relation to the set time axis. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222557 | Method of displaying windows and display apparatus thereof - A method of displaying windows is disclosed. The method includes, when a first and second windows are displayed on a display screen of a display at the same time and display of the second window is changed with being interlocked with the first window by operating the first window, the steps of: forming a first data table in which input and output data forms are defined with respect to the first window; forming a second data table in which data forms transmitted from the first window to the second window are defined; receiving input to the first window from a user; performing processing of the first window according to the content of the received input; transmitting information of the processing in the first window to the second window associated in advance; and performing processing according to the transmitted information in the second window which received the transmission. | 09-11-2008 |
20090044689 | MUSIC EDIT DEVICE, MUSIC EDIT INFORMATION CREATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHERE MUSIC EDIT INFORMATION IS RECORDED - A music editing apparatus that can accomplish editing of superimposing or connecting whole or part of each of many songs such that their beats adjusted is provided. The music editing apparatus includes a remix processing section which performs a remix process based on both meta data that are pre-generated corresponding to song data and that contain at least a time-based beat position and a file for deciding a remix pattern; a synchronizing reproduction controlling section which generates a master beat, sends the master beat to the remix processing section, and reproduces a plurality of songs based on individual entries of the meta data according to the remix process that the remix processing section has designated corresponding to the remix pattern and the meta data; and a mixing section which mixes songs reproduced by the synchronizing reproduction controlling section. The remix processing section performs the remix process based on a remix pattern file structured as hierarchical layers each of which has a control parameter portion and a data entity portion. | 02-19-2009 |
20090133568 | MUSIC EDIT DEVICE AND MUSIC EDIT METHOD - A remix processing section performs a remix process based on both meta data that are pre-generated corresponding to song data and that contain at least a time-based beat position and a file for deciding a remix pattern. A synchronous reproduction controlling section generates a master beat, sends the master beat to the remix processing section, and reproduces a plurality of songs based on individual entries of the meta data according to the remix process which the remix processing section has designated corresponding to the remix pattern and the meta data. A mixing section mixes songs reproduced by the synchronous reproduction controlling section. A music editing apparatus that can accomplish editing of overlaying or connecting whole or part of each of many songs recorded in a record medium such as a hard disk or a flash memory with their beats matched is provided. | 05-28-2009 |
20100138228 | REGIONAL ATTRIBUTE DETERMINATION METHOD, REGIONAL ATTRIBUTE DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND REGIONAL ATTRIBUTE DETERMINATION PROGRAM - In a regional attribute determination method for determining a regional attribute representing an attribute of people gathering in each region, user information including the locations and attributes of a number of users is acquired from a number of portable information terminal devices used by the number of users, the acquired user information of the number of users is stored in a user information storage part, and the regional attribute is determined on the basis of the user information of the number of users stored in the user information storage part. | 06-03-2010 |
20110016149 | CONTENT USING METHOD, CONTENT USING APPARATUS, CONTENT RECORDING METHOD, CONTENT RECORDING APPARATUS, CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, CONTENT RECEIVING METHOD, CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND CONTENT DATA FORMAT - A method of using contents includes the steps of setting public time information and private time information, the public time information being associated with each content and defined universally for use by a large number of unspecified users, the private time being associated with the content and defined for use by a small number of particular persons, and searching for a content according to the public time information and/or the private time information and using the content detected in the searching. | 01-20-2011 |
20110119248 | TOPIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, TOPIC IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, CLIENT TERMINAL, PROGRAM, TOPIC IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a network device including a topic identification device including a collecting unit for collecting location information of Web data related to a target topic arranged on a network, a storage unit for storing identical topic identifying information in association with one or more than two pieces of location information related to an identical target topic, which have been collected by the collecting unit, and an topic identification unit for obtaining link information contained in certain Web data, for searching location information from the storage unit using the link information, and for identifying topic identifying information associated with the searched location information. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119356 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a data processing system including a server device for providing Web data having a data portion with a specific identifier, and a data processing apparatus having a receiving unit for receiving the Web data from the server device, an analysis unit for analyzing the Web data to extract the specific identifier from the Web data, and a data processing unit for changing the data portion with the specific identifier based on local data. | 05-19-2011 |
20110150339 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus includes a face image detector detecting a face image from an image, a reference mask generator generating a reference mask based on the arrangement of parts included in the face image detected by the face image detector, a face color area detector detecting a face color area from the image, and a face image searcher searching for the face image using the reference mask in the face area detected by the face color area detector. | 06-23-2011 |
20110274406 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SCENE METADATA EXTRACTION DEVICE, LOSS RECOVERY INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAMS - An information processing method includes the steps of analyzing moving-image content including image data and audio data, extracting scene metadata characterizing each scene for each scene constituting the moving-image content, deciding a reproduction mode of the moving-image content according to at least one of a reproduction environment of the moving-image content and setting information set by a user, generating loss recovery information for recovering loss information lost by changing the reproduction mode of the moving-image content using the scene metadata according to the decided reproduction mode, and outputting the generated loss recovery information in accordance with the moving-image content to be reproduced in the decided reproduction mode. | 11-10-2011 |
20110305432 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SAMENESS DETERMINATION SYSTEM, SAMENESS DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus which includes a subtitle processing unit for extracting a subtitle feature quantity representing a feature of a content from subtitle information included in the content, a subtitle feature quantity accumulation unit for associating and storing identification information capable of identifying the content and the subtitle feature quantity extracted from the content by the subtitle processing unit, a subtitle feature quantity collation unit for collating the subtitle feature quantity stored in the subtitle feature quantity accumulation unit and a subtitle feature quantity to be determined, thereby determining sameness between the content corresponding to the subtitle feature quantity stored in the subtitle feature quantity accumulation unit and a content corresponding to the subtitle feature quantity to be determined, and a collation result output unit for outputting a collation result of the subtitle feature quantity collation unit. | 12-15-2011 |
20120066637 | CONTENT PLAYBACK APPARATUS, CONTENT PLAYBACK METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A content playback apparatus includes: a display section that displays a plurality of indicators associated with a plurality of pieces of content, and a specifier to be used to specify one of the indicators; a playback section that plays back the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by the specifier; a switch section that switches, in accordance with a user's operation, what the specifier specifies to new the indicator; and a playback control section that controls the playback section such that if the user's operation switches, while the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by the specifier is played, what the specifier specifies to next the indicator and the user's subsequent operation switches, within a predetermined period of time from when the previous switch is completed, what the specifier specifies to subsequent the indicator, the playback section keeps playing back the piece of content. | 03-15-2012 |
20140016824 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ANGLE OF ROTATION FROM NORMAL POSITION OF IMAGE - An evaluation value indicative of the extent of lines in each direction is calculated for a pre-processed image in which 0s are filled in and extended in the lateral direction of the inputted image and which has been reduced ⅛th in the longitudinal direction. To obtain the angle of rotation of an image from the change in the evaluation value obtained while the angle relative to the lateral direction of the pre-processed image is modified in small steps, a parallel line is drawn for each direction, a projection is taken, and the sum of squares serves as the evaluation value of the direction. The direction having the highest evaluation value serves as the obtained direction of rotation from the normal position. The projection of each direction references the point of intersection between the parallel line drawn for each direction and the coordinate line of the horizontal axis. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016854 | PATTERN MATCHING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention aims at providing a pattern matching device that conducts pattern matching on an image including a plurality of regions having different features with high precision, such as a pattern image including a plurality of layers. | 01-16-2014 |
20140108444 | CONTENT LIST DISPLAY METHOD, CONTENT LIST DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTENT SELECTING AND PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONTENT SELECTING AND PROCESSING APPARATUS - A content list display method includes the step of displaying a list of private content owned by a user and public content not owned by the user on a screen by using a predetermined common attribute as a search key attribute for search and display such that a difference between the private content and the public content can be visually recognized. | 04-17-2014 |
20140219545 | SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTION SYSTEM - When the lengths of FEM wafers are automatically measured, not only the sizes of targets, the lengths of which are to be measured, are often varied from those in registration, but also the patterns of the targets are often deformed. Therefore, it is difficult to automatically determine whether the length measurement is possible or not. Therefore, the following are executed with a semiconductor inspection system: (1) a process of identifying the position of the contour line of an inspected image using a distance image calculated from a reference image, (2) a process of calculating a defect size image based on the position of the contour line with respect to the identified distance image, and detecting a defect candidate from the defect size image, and (3-1) a process of, upon detection of the defect candidate, calculating the size of the detected defect candidate, or (3-2) a process of detecting a portion different between the first and second contour lines as the defect candidate. | 08-07-2014 |
20140341461 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISTORTION-CORRECTED MAP CREATION APPARATUS, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - Image processing apparatus includes: interpolation process image acquisition means for acquiring an interpolation process image of prescribed size which includes an interpolation point of an inputted image; Fourier transform means for subjecting the interpolation process image which is acquired with the interpolation process image acquisition means to Fourier transform; phase change means for changing, a phase of each value of the transformed interpolation process image which has been subjected to Fourier transform by the Fourier transform means, such that the interpolation point migrates to a desired nearby integer coordinate position; inverse Fourier transform means for subjecting the interpolation process image whose phase has been changed by the phase change means, to inverse Fourier transform; interpolation value determination means for adopting an interpolation point, a value of a pixel at the integer coordinate position, from the transformed interpolation process image subjected to inverse Fourier transform by the inverse Fourier transform means. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344407 | CONTENT USING METHOD, CONTENT USING APPARATUS, CONTENT RECORDING METHOD, CONTENT RECORDING APPARATUS, CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, CONTENT RECEIVING METHOD, CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND CONTENT DATA FORMAT - A method of using contents includes the steps of setting public time information and private time information, the public time information being associated with each content and defined universally for use by a large number of unspecified users, the private time being associated with the content and defined for use by a small number of particular persons, and searching for a content according to the public time information and/or the private time information and using the content detected in the searching. | 11-20-2014 |
20140372942 | CHRONOLOGY PROVIDING METHOD, CHONOLOGY PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING CHRONOLOGY PROVIDING PROGRAM - A method for providing chronologic information that is generated by placing one or more pieces of related information according to information about elapsed time is provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining, by an obtaining unit, (i) basic information associating pieces of the related information with the information about time indicating positions on the chronologic information and (ii) information indicating a display form of the chronologic information; and providing, by a control unit, the chronologic information to a user by displaying the chronologic information in a display unit based on the information indicating a display form of the chronologic information by using the basic information. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379701 | CHRONOLOGY PROVIDING METHOD, CHRONOLOGY PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING CHRONOLOGY PROVIDING PROGRAM - A method for providing chronologic information that is generated by placing one or more pieces of related information according to information about elapsed time is provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining, by an obtaining unit, (i) basic information associating pieces of the related information with the information about time indicating positions on the chronologic information and (ii) information indicating a display form of the chronologic information; and providing, by a control unit, the chronologic information to a user by displaying the chronologic information in a display unit based on the information indicating a display form of the chronologic information by using the basic information. | 12-25-2014 |
20150058732 | CONTENT PLAYBACK APPARATUS, CONTENT PLAYBACK METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A content playback apparatus includes: a display section that displays a plurality of indicators associated with a plurality of pieces of content, and a specifier to be used to specify one of the indicators; a playback section that plays back the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by the specifier; a switch section that switches, in accordance with a user's operation, what the specifier specifies to new the indicator; and a playback control section that controls the playback section such that if the user's operation switches, while the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by the specifier is played, what the specifier specifies to next the indicator and the user's subsequent operation switches, within a predetermined period of time from when the previous switch is completed, what the specifier specifies to subsequent the indicator, the playback section keeps playing back the piece of content. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066983 | CONTENT USING METHOD, CONTENT USING APPARATUS, CONTENT RECORDING METHOD, CONTENT RECORDING APPARATUS, CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, CONTENT RECEIVING METHOD, CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND CONTENT DATA FORMAT - A method of using contents includes the steps of setting public time information and private time information, the public time information being associated with each content and defined universally for use by a large number of unspecified users, the private time being associated with the content and defined for use by a small number of particular persons, and searching for a content according to the public time information and/or the private time information and using the content detected in the searching. | 03-05-2015 |
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20090087103 | Inspection Apparatus and Method - There is provided an inspection apparatus and method that output an accurate matching position even if a search image contains a pattern similar to a template. An image search unit includes a relative position comparing unit which compares the relative position of a template in a template selection image with the relative position of a location currently being searched for in a search image and outputs the amount of position mismatch between the relative positions. A matching position determining unit determines a matching position by taking into consideration the amount of position mismatch in addition to search image similarity distribution information. | 04-02-2009 |
20110110597 | IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS - The present invention provides a unified template matching technique which allows an adequate matching position to be provided even in an image with a distorted pattern shape and a variation in edge intensity. A correlation value contribution rate map is created for the vicinity of each of top candidate positions obtained by applying a centroid distance filter to a normalized correlation map resulting from template matching. A corrected intensity image is created from the correlation value contribution rate maps. Luminance correction is performed based on the corrected intensity image. Local matching is performed again on the vicinity of each candidate position. The candidates are then re-sorted based on candidate positions and correlation values newly obtained. Thus, even in an image with a distorted pattern shape and a variation in edge intensity, an adequate matching position can be provided in a unified manner. | 05-12-2011 |
20120182415 | Pattern Matching Method, Pattern Matching Program, Electronic Computer, and Electronic Device Testing Apparatus - Disclosed is a pattern matching method whereby a testing point can be searched accurately while simplifying the work of presetting. An image region of a part of a captured image is extracted, and a divided image of the image region is set as a template image. A pattern matching is performed by rotating the template image. Moreover, the pattern matching determines whether a point-symmetric pattern exists inside the image region. | 07-19-2012 |
20120207397 | Pattern Matching Method and Pattern Matching Apparatus - Provided is a template matching method and a template matching apparatus, where the degree of matching between a template and the actual image upon template matching is maintained at a high level, without depending on a partial appearance of a lower layer. Proposed as one embodiment, is a method and an apparatus for template matching, where either an area is set in which comparison of the template and the image is not conducted, or a second area is set inside the template where comparison different from comparison conducted in a first comparison area is to be conducted, and the template matching is conducted on the basis either of comparison excluding the non-comparison area, or of comparison using the first and second areas. | 08-16-2012 |
20120257039 | Image Processing Device, Measuring/Testing System, and Program - The present invention provides a contour extraction technique capable of resolving not only spuriousness, duplication, or branches in the contours of a sample pattern, but also discontinuities in the contours. A thinning process is performed with respect to design data for generating a sample pattern, and pattern in/out definition information defining the inside and outside of a pattern formed on a target sample is generated. Then, based on the Marker Controlled Watershed Segmentation method, region segmentation is performed by expanding regions indicated by the pattern in/out definition information while referencing pixel values of an edge-enhanced image of a target sample image, and pattern contours are generated. | 10-11-2012 |
20130114898 | TEMPLATE MATCHING PROCESSING DEVICE AND TEMPLATE MATCHING PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention is a template matching processing device capable of evaluating a similarity degree which supports even a case of intensive morphological change between a design image and a photographic image. In the template matching processing device, matching processing between the design image and the photographic image is performed, a partial design image is obtained by clipping a portion having the highest correlation (step | 05-09-2013 |
20130148876 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The purpose of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus and a computer program such that correspondence points between design data and an edge line or between edge lines can be accurately identified for their matching. In an embodiment for achieving the purpose, when positioning between a first pattern formed by a first line segment and a second pattern formed by a second line segment is performed, a first correspondence point and a second correspondence point are set on the first line segment and the second line segment, respectively; a degree of alignment for performing the positioning of the first pattern and the second pattern is calculated on the basis of the distance between the first correspondence point and the second correspondence point; and the position of the first correspondence point and/or the second correspondence point is changed in accordance with a shape difference between the first line segment and the second line segment (see FIG. | 06-13-2013 |
20130170757 | METHOD FOR CREATING TEMPLATE FOR PATTERNMATCHING, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method for creating a template for the purpose of performing pattern matching on the basis of a template image having high contrast. Also disclosed is an image processing apparatus. In the method for creating the template, design data is partially extracted, and on the basis of the extracted partial region, the template for template matching is created. In the image processing apparatus, such method is performed. In the method and the apparatus, a density of edges that belong to a predetermined region in the design data equivalent to the region to be searched for in the template matching is obtained. | 07-04-2013 |
20130216141 | PATTERN MATCHING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In order to provide a computer program, an image processing device, and a pattern matching method that perform pattern matching at a high level of accuracy without relying on edge deformation, contrast fluctuations, etc., in one embodiment, the disclosed pattern matching method and device perform pattern matching over an image using a template produced on the basis of the below mentioned design data. The pattern matching method and device determine the characteristic quantities of the image for an inner region and/or an outer region that are divided by a line that defines the contour of a pattern, and determine positions at which said characteristic quantities satisfy predetermined conditions to be matching positions, matching position candidates, or erroneous matching positions. | 08-22-2013 |
20140023265 | PATTERN MATCHING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor inspection apparatus capable of well carrying out position alignment and correctly determining whether the position alignment has been carried out successfully or has ended in a failure without operator interventions even if an inspected image is an image having few characteristics as is the case with a repetitive pattern or the inspected image is an image having a complicated shape. | 01-23-2014 |