Abstract: A computer extracts, by a processor, one or more registrants from among a plurality of registrants based on first biometric information detected by a first sensor. The computer acquires, by the processor, attribute information associated with each of the one or more registrants from among attribute information associated with each of the plurality of registrants. The computer outputs information in a mode corresponding to the attribute information associated with each of the one or more registrants. The computer performs, by the processor, authentication for second biometric information detected by a second sensor according to output of the information by using the second biometric information and registered biometric information associated with each of the one or more registrants.

Abstract: An authentication method for a computer to execute a process includes referring to a memory that stores biometric information of a person associated with feature information of a face image of the person; specifying a first biometric information group and a second biometric information group; specifying one selected from the first biometric information group and the second biometric information group, based on a similarity between feature information of a third face image included in third imaged data and each of the feature information of the first face image and the feature information of the second face image; and executing authentication processing according to a plurality of pieces of biometric information included in the specified biometric information group and the acquired biometric information.

Abstract: An apparatus for object identification includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a determination process that includes determining whether a hand is in contact with an object, execute an identification process that includes identifying a first shape of an area of the object hidden by the hand in accordance with a second shape of the hand when the hand is determined to be in contact with the object in the determination process, and execute a distinguishing process that includes distinguishing the object based on the first shape in the identification process.

Abstract: An apparatus for position and orientation estimation executes a process for detecting first point group indicating an object body based on model data of the object body from three-dimensional point group, a process for generating a pattern group including a plurality of second point group respectively representing patterns in which a position and an orientation of the model data are respectively changed at a position of the first point group, a process for converting the first point group and the second point group of the patterns of the pattern group into distance images, a process for comparing the distance image of the first point group with each of the distance images of the second point group of the patterns of the pattern group, and a process for selecting one of the distance images of the second point group of the patterns based on a result of the comparing.

Abstract: A fingertip position estimation apparatus includes a processor that executes a process. The process includes: identifying a first fingertip position of a finger included in an image, based on a color area model that defines a color of a finger; calculating dimensions of an area that is different from a background of the image, within an area of a prescribed size that is in contact with the first fingertip position and that is positioned in a direction in which a fingertip is pointing; and when the dimensions are larger than a prescribed threshold, estimating a second fingertip position that is positioned away from the first fingertip position in the direction in which the fingertip is pointing.

Abstract: A toy according to an embodiment includes a human sensor, a processor configured to change the operation mode to a suppression mode in which an operation for amusing a target is suppressed when the human sensor detects an object.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes a processor which is configured to: detect a finger region containing a finger and a fingertip position in a first image captured by a first camera; set a template containing the finger region and generate a plurality of sub-templates by dividing the template along a longitudinal direction of the finger region; obtain a region that best matches the template on a second image generated by a second camera placed a prescribed distance away from the first camera and divide the region into search regions equal in number to the sub-templates along the longitudinal direction of the finger region; perform template matching between a sub-template containing the fingertip position and a corresponding search region to find a matching point corresponding to the fingertip position; and compute the fingertip position in real space based on the fingertip position and the matching point.

Abstract: A flesh color detection condition determining apparatus includes a flesh color region detecting unit which detects, from an image on which a subject having a flesh color is represented, a group of pixels having colors included in a range of colors corresponding to the flesh color, as a flesh color region; an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates an evaluation value representing a size of the flesh color region; a condition alteration unit which narrows the range of colors until a difference between the evaluation value and a reference value representing a size of the subject on the image is not included in a predetermined allowable range; and a setting unit which sets a narrowest range of colors as a flesh color detection condition, among a range of colors satisfying that the difference is included in the predetermined allowable range.

Abstract: A toy according to an embodiment includes a human sensor, a processor configured to change the operation mode to a suppression mode in which an operation for amusing a target is suppressed when the human sensor detects an object.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes a processor which is configured to: detect a finger region containing a finger and a fingertip position in a first image captured by a first camera; set a template containing the finger region and generate a plurality of sub-templates by dividing the template along a longitudinal direction of the finger region; obtain a region that best matches the template on a second image generated by a second camera placed a prescribed distance away from the first camera and divide the region into search regions equal in number to the sub-templates along the longitudinal direction of the finger region; perform template matching between a sub-template containing the fingertip position and a corresponding search region to find a matching point corresponding to the fingertip position; and compute the fingertip position in real space based on the fingertip position and the matching point.

Abstract: An interactive projector includes: a base placed on a projection surface; a leg configured to raise with tilting from the base towards the projection surface; a projecting unit, mounted on the leg on the side of a projection surface, configured to project first image; a reflector, provided at a free-end portion of the leg, configured to reflect the image projected from the projecting unit towards the projection surface; and an image pickup unit, mounted on the reflector, configured to photograph the projection surface and output second image to an electronic device that outputs, to the projecting unit, the first image that is generated based on the second image.

Abstract: A fingertip position estimation apparatus includes a processor that executes a process. The process includes: identifying a first fingertip position of a finger included in an image, based on a color area model that defines a color of a finger; calculating dimensions of an area that is different from a background of the image, within an area of a prescribed size that is in contact with the first fingertip position and that is positioned in a direction in which a fingertip is pointing; and when the dimensions are larger than a prescribed threshold, estimating a second fingertip position that is positioned away from the first fingertip position in the direction in which the fingertip is pointing.

Abstract: An information processing device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring images which includes a target object, and the images captured by a plurality of cameras on a time series basis; calculating a plurality of distance from the plurality of each cameras to a target object by using the images; and correcting, in a case where the target object has reached a predetermined x-y plane and a difference in an area of the target object between the images is equal to or less than a predetermined first threshold, the distance that has been calculated to a distance from the cameras to the x-y plane.

Abstract: A movement distance estimating device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: determine, based on a first image and a second image included in images captured by an image capture device mounted on a moving body, an amount of relative movement of the moving body between a first time point at which the first image is captured and a second time point at which the second image is captured, determine a scale for the amount of relative movement, based on a relation in a three-dimensional space between a road surface and a spatial point corresponding to a feature point in an area other than a road-surface area in at least one image of the captured images, and determine a movement distance of the moving body between the first and second time points, based on the amount of relative movement and the scale.

Abstract: A gesture recognition device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: acquiring, on a basis of an image of an irradiation region irradiated with projector light, the image being picked up by an image pickup device, first color information representative of color information of a hand region when the projector light is not irradiated on the hand region and second color information representative of color information of the hand region when the projector light is irradiated on the hand region; and extracting, from the image picked up by the image pickup device, a portion of the hand region at which the hand region does not overlap with a touch region irradiated with the projector light on a basis of the first color information and extracting a portion of the hand region.

Abstract: A flesh color detection condition determining apparatus includes a flesh color region detecting unit which detects, from an image on which a subject having a flesh color is represented, a group of pixels having colors included in a range of colors corresponding to the flesh color, as a flesh color region; an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates an evaluation value representing a size of the flesh color region; a condition alteration unit which narrows the range of colors until a difference between the evaluation value and a reference value representing a size of the subject on the image is not included in a predetermined allowable range; and a setting unit which sets a narrowest range of colors as a flesh color detection condition, among a range of colors satisfying that the difference is included in the predetermined allowable range.

Abstract: A movement distance estimating device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: determine, based on a first image and a second image included in images captured by an image capture device mounted on a moving body, an amount of relative movement of the moving body between a first time point at which the first image is captured and a second time point at which the second image is captured, determine a scale for the amount of relative movement, based on a relation in a three-dimensional space between a road surface and a spatial point corresponding to a feature point in an area other than a road-surface area in at least one image of the captured images, and determine a movement distance of the moving body between the first and second time points, based on the amount of relative movement and the scale.

Abstract: An information processing device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring images which includes a target object, and the images captured by a plurality of cameras on a time series basis; calculating a plurality of distance from the plurality of each cameras to a target object by using the images; and correcting, in a case where the target object has reached a predetermined x-y plane and a difference in an area of the target object between the images is equal to or less than a predetermined first threshold, the distance that has been calculated to a distance from the cameras to the x-y plane.

Abstract: An interactive projector includes: a base placed on a projection surface; a leg configured to raise with tilting from the base towards the projection surface; a projecting unit, mounted on the leg on the side of a projection surface, configured to project first image; a reflector, provided at a free-end portion of the leg, configured to reflect the image projected from the projecting unit towards the projection surface; and an image pickup unit, mounted on the reflector, configured to photograph the projection surface and output second image to an electronic device that outputs, to the projecting unit, the first image that is generated based on the second image.