Abstract: A vehicle door frame includes a door sash, a belt-line reinforcement member, and a bracket which connects the door sash and the belt-line reinforcement member to each other and is fixed to a door panel. The bracket is welded to the belt-line reinforcement member at a plurality of welding portions, each of the welding portions defining a welding line, where an extension of each of the welding lines are not aligned with one another.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a hand shape recognition unit that performs hand shape recognition on an input image to detect a position and a size of a hand with a specific shape in the input image, a determination region setting unit that sets a region in a vicinity of the hand on the input image as a determination region used to recognize a gesture performed using the hand, based on the position and the size of the hand, and a gesture recognition unit that recognizes the gesture by monitoring movement of the hand to the determination region.

Abstract: A fixing member includes a base member having a substantially cylindrical surface; an elastic layer provided around the substantially cylindrical surface and having, at each axial end thereof, a sloping surface that slopes such that an outside diameter of the elastic layer is gradually reduced toward an outer side in an axial direction; and a surface layer joined to an outer circumferential surface of the elastic layer and a portion of the sloping surface and having a higher modulus of elasticity than the elastic layer, each axial end of the surface layer being free of restraint by the base member.

Abstract: There is provided a fixing member to be used in a pressured state, the fixing member including: a base member that is rotated; a resilient layer that is formed on an outer periphery of the base member; and a surface layer that is formed on an outer periphery of the resilient layer, wherein an axial direction end face of the resilient layer includes an inclined portion that is inclined such that an axial direction length thereof is longer at the base member side than at the surface layer side, and that is exposed in the axial direction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a projection type image display apparatus, including: a projecting portion projecting an input image on an image projected body; a camera portion photographing the image projected body; a display control block controlling display of a projected image projected by the projecting portion; and a gesture recognizing unit recognizing a gesture manipulation of a user contained in the image photographed by the camera portion.

Abstract: An information processing system including a server apparatus and a client apparatus, the server apparatus including: a first storage unit; a first detection unit configured to detect installing of a program; a first conversion unit configured to convert a file including the program into a predetermined form; a first storage control unit configured to store the file in a first storage area; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the file to the client apparatus, the client apparatus including: a second storage unit; a second storage control unit configured to store the file transmitted from the server apparatus in a second storage area a second detection unit configured to detect storing of the file; a second conversion unit configured to convert the file into an installable form; and an installing unit configured to install the program included in the file in the client apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, method, and program that can extract an object from an input image more easily and more accurately. A face detecting unit (31) detects a face from an input image, a mask area setting unit (33) sets a mask area which masks a person in the input image based on a position of the face detected by the face detecting unit (31), a background model updating unit (51) updates a background image by learning areas other than the mask area in the input image as the background image, and a separating unit (54) separates the input image into the background image and a foreground image which is an area of the person in the input image based on the background image updated by the background model updating unit (51) and the input image. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that extracts a person from an input image.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a hand shape recognition unit that performs hand shape recognition on an input image to detect a position and a size of a hand with a specific shape in the input image, a determination region setting unit that sets a region in a vicinity of the hand on the input image as a determination region used to recognize a gesture performed using the hand, based on the position and the size of the hand, and a gesture recognition unit that recognizes the gesture by monitoring movement of the hand to the determination region.

Abstract: A client apparatus is coupled to a server apparatus via a network in an information processing system. In the server apparatus, installing of a plug-in file in a first storage apparatus is detected, binary image data of the detected plug-in file are written to a first storage area, and the binary image data of the plug-in file is copied to the client apparatus. In the client apparatus, copying of the binary image data of the plug-in file in a second storage area is detected, the binary image data of the plug-in file stored in the second storage area is written in an executable state within a second storage apparatus, and the plug-in file in the second storage apparatus is read as a program.

Abstract: A client apparatus is coupled to a server apparatus via a network in an information processing system. In the server apparatus, installing of a plug-in file in a first storage apparatus is detected, binary image data of the detected plug-in file are written to a first storage area, and the binary image data of the plug-in file is copied to the client apparatus. In the client apparatus, copying of the binary image data of the plug-in file in a second storage area is detected, the binary image data of the plug-in file stored in the second storage area is written in an executable state within a second storage apparatus, and the plug-in file in the second storage apparatus is read as a program.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a facial image detection unit which detects a facial image from an input image; a posture estimation unit which estimates a posture of a person in the input image from a position of the facial image; a hand position detection unit which detects positions of hands of the person based on the posture; a hand image extraction unit which extracts a hand image of the person from the input image based on information regarding the positions of the hands of the person; a hand shape specifying unit which specifies shapes of the hands of the person based on the hand image; a hand shape time-series storage unit which stores the shapes of the hands in a time-series; and a hand gesture recognition unit which recognizes a hand gesture based on information regarding the shapes of the hands.

Abstract: A vehicle door frame includes a door sash, a belt-line reinforcement member, and a bracket which connects the door sash and the belt-line reinforcement member to each other and is fixed to a door panel. The bracket is welded to the belt-line reinforcement member at a plurality of welding portions, each of the welding portions defining a welding line, wherein extended lines of a plurality of the welding lines do not coincide with one another.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image pickup unit, an extracting unit, an estimating unit, a categorizing unit, and a recording control unit. The image pickup unit captures an image of a subject. The extracting unit extracts a human figure from the captured image of the subject captured by the image pickup unit. The estimating unit estimates a posture of the human figure extracted by the extracting unit. The categorizing unit categorizes the posture of the human figure estimated by the estimating unit into a previously prepared pose. The recording control unit controls recording of the captured image on the basis of the pose that the posture of the human figure is categorized into by the categorizing unit.

Abstract: There is provided a fixing member to be used in a pressured state, the fixing member including: a base member that is rotated; a resilient layer that is formed on an outer periphery of the base member; and a surface layer that is formed on an outer periphery of the resilient layer, wherein an axial direction end face of the resilient layer includes an inclined portion that is inclined such that an axial direction length thereof is longer at the base member side than at the surface layer side, and that is exposed in the axial direction.

Abstract: A fixing device having at least a cylindrical base material, an elastic layer disposed on the base material, and a surface layer disposed on the elastic layer is provided. The cylindrical base material has a variation in thickness within about ±10% when the cylindrical base material is in an endless belt shape having flexibility, or within a variation in outer diameter within about ±0.5% when the cylindrical base material is in a circular cylinder tube shape having rigidity. The elastic layer has a variation in thickness within about ±5%. The surface layer has a variation, along the circumferential direction of the base material, in thickness of the surface within about ±5% and with a surface elongation percentage which increases from a center portion toward both end portions in the widthwise direction of the base material. A fixing apparatus and an image forming apparatus having the fixing device are also provided.