Abstract: To be precisely extracted a house footprint. There is provided a geospatial information creating system for extracting a footprint of a house from an aerial photograph, comprising a processor for executing a program, a memory for storing data required for executing the program, and a storage unit for storing the aerial photograph. The processor detects edges of an image based on a characteristic quantity of neighboring pixels in the aerial photograph stored in the storage unit; extracts an orientation of the house by analyzing directions of the detected edges; and generates a polygon of an outline of the house by using linear lines of the extracted orientation of the house.

Abstract: A playback instruction data generator determines, for each type of exceptional and special playback, a portion of target content with specific details to be played back in exceptional and special playback of the target content, on the basis of a playback rule for the category of the target content, among playback rules defined for each category of content and for each type of exceptional and special playback, and generates playback instruction data in which portion-to-be-played information indicating that portion is associated with identification information identifying the target content. A data extracting unit extracts, from content specified by a user, a portion of the content with specific details indicated by the portion-to-be-played information for the type of exceptional and special playback specified by the user, the portion-to-be-played information being included in the playback instruction data and being associated with the identification information for the content specified by the user.

Abstract: To be precisely extracted a house footprint. There is provided a geospatial information creating system for extracting a footprint of a house from an aerial photograph, comprising a processor for executing a program, a memory for storing data required for executing the program, and a storage unit for storing the aerial photograph. The processor detects edges of an image based on a characteristic quantity of neighboring pixels in the aerial photograph stored in the storage unit; extracts an orientation of the house by analyzing directions of the detected edges; and generates a polygon of an outline of the house by using linear lines of the extracted orientation of the house.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus which, when a user searches through a plurality of contents for a desired content, causes a display device to display a plurality of indexes corresponding to the plurality of contents is provided. The apparatus includes: a content selection device that selects one of the plurality of contents; an approximation degree calculation device that calculates degrees of approximation between the selected content on the one hand and each of the other contents on the other hand; and a layout determination device that determines a layout of the index of the selected content and determines layouts of the indexes of the other contents relative to the index of the selected content in accordance with the degrees of approximation. The index of the selected content and the indexes of the other contents are displayed on the display device as laid out by the layout determination device.

Abstract: To provide a map generation device according to the present invention which extracts a polygon shape of a building having a complex upper portion structure from a wide area image. The map generation device includes an image appointment unit that receives appointment of at least one position in a building existing within an aerial photograph, a polygon extraction unit that extracts a building region based on a result of discriminating a color around the appointed position and extracts a polygon line of the building region, and a vector generation unit that generates a vector of the polygon line of the building region.

Abstract: A playback instruction data generator determines, for each type of exceptional and special playback, a portion of target content with specific details to be played back in exceptional and special playback of the target content, on the basis of a playback rule for the category of the target content, among playback rules defined for each category of content and for each type of exceptional and special playback, and generates playback instruction data in which portion-to-be-played information indicating that portion is associated with identification information identifying the target content. A data extracting unit extracts, from content specified by a user, a portion of the content with specific details indicated by the portion-to-be-played information for the type of exceptional and special playback specified by the user, the portion-to-be-played information being included in the playback instruction data and being associated with the identification information for the content specified by the user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus which, when a user searches through a plurality of contents for a desired content, causes a display device to display a plurality of indexes corresponding to the plurality of contents is provided. The apparatus includes: a content selection device that selects one of the plurality of contents; an approximation degree calculation device that calculates degrees of approximation between the selected content on the one hand and each of the other contents on the other hand; and a layout determination device that determines a layout of the index of the selected content and determines layouts of the indexes of the other contents relative to the index of the selected content in accordance with the degrees of approximation. The index of the selected content and the indexes of the other contents are displayed on the display device as laid out by the layout determination device.

Abstract: To provide a map generation device according to the present invention which extracts a polygon shape of a building having a complex upper portion structure from a wide area image. The map generation device includes an image appointment unit that receives appointment of at least one position in a building existing within an aerial photograph, a polygon extraction unit that extracts a building region based on a result of discriminating a color around the appointed position and extracts a polygon line of the building region, and a vector generation unit that generates a vector of the polygon line of the building region.

Abstract: A user ordering a customized product accesses a product order managing center via an Internet using a user PC. Then, the user specifies a product, and transmits picture information such as a photograph to be copied onto the product to the product order managing center. The product order managing center generates picture information for displaying a virtual reality space that displays a three-dimensional graphics image picture of the customized product formed by copying a photograph or the like corresponding to the picture information onto the specified product, and then provides the picture information to the user PC via the Internet.

Abstract: A solid state imager device having an electronic shutter function suitable for use in a video camera or an electronic still camera to suppress brightness differences on TV screens between open and closed periods of the shutter having a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a region of second conductivity type formed on the semiconductivity substrate of the first conductivity type and a signal charge accumulating region formed on the surface side of the second conductivity type region wherein, a predetermined voltage is applied to the semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type and the signal charges accumulated in the signal charge accumulating region are discharged to the semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type, whereby, the exposure time of the solid state imager device can be controlled so that when this imager device is used, for example, in a video camera, the video camera does not have to be provided with a mechanical shutter.

Abstract: A solid state image pick-up device includes means for cancelling a difference in impedance between photo-sensing areas in a photo-sensitive array. The impedance difference cancelling means cancels or makes the difference of impedance at each photo-sensing area ignorable to unify the charge handling in respective photo-sensing areas. In practice, the impedance difference cancelling means provides a resistance high enough to make the impedance difference between respective photo-sensing areas ignorable.