Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.

Abstract: A metrology system includes front and back vision components portions, and is configured to have a workpiece positioned between the two portions. The back vision components portion includes a light source and a diffuser. The front vision components portion includes a variable focal length lens, an objective lens and a camera. The metrology system includes a movement mechanism portion configured to align relative positions between the front and back vision components portions and an aperture defined through the workpiece such that at least a portion of the light from the light source that passes through the diffuser passes through the aperture for providing the illumination for imaging the aperture. The camera acquires an image stack of images of the aperture at different focus positions. Based on an analysis of the image stack, measurements related to workpiece features of the aperture (e.g., including a distance between workpiece features) can be determined.

Abstract: A method includes determining a first streamer from a plurality of streamers that are streaming a first video stream, receiving the first video stream from the determined first streamer, timestamping the first video stream, transmitting the timestamped first video stream to a plurality of devices, transmitting a timestamped second video stream generated at a host device to the plurality of devices, and causing, at each of the plurality of devices, synchronized display of the first and the second video streams based on the time stamps.

Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a guide system, and a guide method that can set optimum movement routes depending on a situation. The guide method includes: a step of taking an image; a step of detecting persons from the taken image; a step of digitizing and estimating states of the detected persons; a step of creating map data in which the states of the persons are shown on a map according to positions of the persons in the taken image; a first area estimation step that estimates a first area on the basis of the map data; a step of setting movement routes for persons of the first area and/or persons of a second area other than the first area; a step of transmitting information about the set movement routes; and a step of receiving the transmitted information about the movement routes and presenting the received information about the movement routes and/or guidance information about routes based on the information about the movement routes.

Abstract: A multi-channel image receiving method includes receiving, from a network camera supporting a plurality of channels, access information for registering a first channel among the plurality of channels and profile information on a second channel other than the first channel, registering the first channel as a regular channel by using the access information, registering the second channel as a virtual channel by using the profile information, requesting the network camera to transmit an image through the second channel by using the profile information, and receiving and storing the image transmitted from the network camera through the second channel.

Abstract: A movable apparatus includes a camera unit including an optical system for forming an optical image with a high-resolution area and a low-resolution area on a light reception surface of an imaging unit, the camera unit being installed on the lateral side of the movable apparatus, and A tan(h1/(d1+x1))??v/2<?v<A tan(h1/(d2+x1))+?v/2, for example, is satisfied when a vertical angle of view of the high-resolution area is ?v, a vertical direction angle of an optical axis of the optical system is ?v, an offset between a viewpoint position of a driver in a long axis direction of the movable apparatus and the camera unit is x1, an offset in a height direction of the camera unit from the ground is h1, distances from the viewpoint position of the driver in a long axis direction are d1 and d2.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating content. The system identifies first and second objects in a plurality of frames of a source content segment. The system creates a data structure for each object, where data structures comprise attributes of the respective objects. Furthermore, the data structures are generated such that each object may be reconstructed based on the data of the respective data structure. Later, one of the data structures is modified by changing an attribute. Then, a resulting content segment is generated by a system that reconstructs a first modified object based on the first modified data structure and reconstructs the second object based on the second data structure.

Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a video effect processing method and a video effect processing device. The method includes: detecting audio of a video; acquiring a video frame in the video when the audio is detected at a preset rhythm; performing effect processing on the target object in the video frame to obtain an effect processed video frame; and displaying and playing the effect processed video frame.

Abstract: A method and a system for pollutant identifying and early warning based on cluster analysis include steps of: installing multiple high-definition cameras on a river or a sluice dam, capturing pollutant images in front of the sluice dam at certain intervals, and transmitting the pollutant images captured by the high-definition cameras to a computer; reading the pollutant images transmitted to the computer; extracting a main pollutant color in the pollutant images through cluster analysis; calculating a difference between the main pollutant color and RGB data in a pollutant color gamut database, and setting an aberration threshold to identify the pollutant color; performing scale conversion with two sets of common point image pixel coordinates and actual plane coordinates to calculate a current pollutant area; and judging whether a polluted area exceeds a critical value according to a preset pollutant area threshold, thereby realizing early warning.

Abstract: Cameras having storage fixtures within their fields of view are programmed to capture images and process clips of the images to generate sets of features representing product spaces and actors depicted within such images, and to classify the clips as depicting or not depicting a shopping event. Where consecutive clips are determined to depict a shopping event, features of such clips are combined into a sequence and transferred, along with classifications of the clips and a start time and end time of the shopping event, to a multi-camera system. A shopping hypothesis is generated based on such sequences of features received from cameras, along with information regarding items detected within the hands of such actors, to determine a summary of shopping activity by an actor, and to update a record of items associated with the actor accordingly.

Abstract: A method of providing an event-initiated video sequence, comprises a pre-event video sequence and a post-event video sequence. The pre-event image frames are stored in a non-processed format until such time that an event is taking place. By postponing the image processing of the pre-event video sequence, power savings are accomplished.

Abstract: Systems and methods for recording programs using a user's equipment and a network recording device are provided. An interactive television application may determine whether the user's equipment has sufficient resources (e.g., tuners or space) to record a program selected for recording. If the interactive television application determines that the user's equipment does not have sufficient resources, the interactive television application may select, automatically or in response to a user instruction, the program for recording with a network recording device. In some embodiments, the user may have to pay for the use of the network recording device, or may be required to purchase a given tier level of service. The interactive television application may play back programs from the network recording device as VOD offerings, or may direct the network recording device to transfer recorded programs to the user's equipment when it has sufficient resources.

Abstract: A mobile imaging unit includes a 360-degree camera disposed on a golf cart, a motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera on a motorized camera platform, a microphone, a GPS receiver, and a direction detector of a lens. The mobile imaging unit determines an imaging target area of the motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera by using a current position and golf course map information, drives the motorized camera platform, and stores video data captured in a magnified state, with the video data being accompanied by time information and area identification information. A digest creating device selects, as video data to be subjected to image analysis and extraction of a highlight scene, either video data from the 360-degree camera or video data from the motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera in accordance with the area identification information accompanying the stored video data.

Abstract: Described herein are techniques that may be used to automatically identify and index events within a media content file. Such techniques may comprise receiving, from at least one recording device, a media content, receiving sensor data determined to correspond to the media content, determine a context associated with the at least one recording device based on the sensor data, identifying, based on one or more data patterns detected within the sensor data and based on the contextual data, at least one event, generating an index corresponding to the identified event, and storing an indication of the generated index in association with the media content.

Abstract: The present application is directed to creating intrusion zones for security systems. For example, a client device may cause a graphical user interface (GUI) to be displayed on a display, the GUI configured for creating an intrusion zone for an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device. The GUI may include one or more motion zones associated with a field of view of the A/V recording and communication device. While displaying the GUI, the client device may receive a first input selecting a motion zone from the one or more motion zones, at least a portion of the motion zone being associated with the intrusion zone, a second input for setting a conditional setting for the intrusion zone, and a third input selecting an activation mode of the security system to associate with the intrusion zone.

Abstract: A monitoring camera video sharing system includes a user terminal for viewing of video data of a monitoring camera, and a server for storing access permission data including first user information and monitoring camera information. The first user information includes an access right to the video data of the monitoring camera, and the monitoring camera information indicates information of the monitoring camera. The server updates the access permission data by adding an access right to the video data of the selected monitoring camera to second user information based on sharing processing of the access permission data to the second user information, and sets the video data of the selected monitoring camera linked to the access permission data and specified by the monitoring camera information such that the video data of the selected monitoring camera is accessible by the user terminal based on the second user information.

Abstract: Monitoring operations of a polishing system includes obtaining a time-based sequence of reference images of a component of the polishing system performing operations during a test operation of the polishing system, receiving from a camera a time-based sequence of monitoring images of an equivalent component of an equivalent polishing system performing operations during polishing of a substrate, determining a difference value for the time-based sequence of monitoring images by comparing the time-based sequence of reference images to the time-based sequence of monitoring image using an image processing algorithm, determining whether the difference value exceeds a threshold, and in response to determining the difference value exceeds the threshold, indicating an excursion.

Abstract: The portable device is provided with a photograph unit to acquire, at a first time interval, images with a super wide angle of which a maximum value reaches all peripheral directions around the portable device; a traveling direction calculation unit to calculate a traveling direction of the portable device at a second time interval; an image segmentation unit to segment, as a traveling direction image, an image of a predetermined range where the traveling direction is positioned at a center thereof, from a latest acquired image every time the traveling direction calculation unit calculates the traveling direction; and a display control unit to display the traveling direction image on a predetermined traveling direction display region of a display of the portable device. The display control unit displays a video image designated by a user on a first display region, which is different from the traveling direction display region.

Abstract: An exemplary surveillance system is provided having a plurality of data generating devices, and nodes for data handling of the data streams generated form the data generating devices. The system may be configured to fragment the data streams and store the fragments among the plurality of nodes of the system. The system may be configured to redundantly transmit data through the nodes so the fragmented data stream arrive at the desired location for storage. The data transmission may permit redirection or retransmission based on node or data transmission failure.

Abstract: A detection section detects a position of a container in a vertical direction, and an imaging optical system controller acquires an adjustment value of an imaging position of an imaging optical system according to the detected position. A correction section corrects the adjustment value according to a change in a refractive index of the container according to a temperature of the container. The imaging optical system controller adjusts an imaging position of an observation target on the basis of the corrected adjustment value.