Abstract: An information processing system 10 includes an imager 14 and a controller. The imager 14 generates an image by performing image capturing. The controller estimates an object contained in the image based on the image. The controller is able to estimate an object and a category of the object by performing recognition processing on the image. The controller generates an instruction regarding the object based on the estimated category of the object when estimation of the object fails in the recognition processing.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an imager and a controller. The controller performs processing on a basis of an image captured by the imager. The controller performs a process for recognizing an object included in the image and, when the recognition process fails, performs a process for estimating a cause of the failure of the recognition process. The imager performs post-processing in which the imager at least changes an imaging condition of the imager or notifies a user in accordance with a result obtained through the estimation process.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first imaging unit and a controller configured to perform processing relating to an image that is captured by the first imaging unit. The controller performs the processing based on an image captured at a first stage at which an object is put into a container and an image captured at a second stage at which the object is taken out of the container.

Abstract: An image data registration system including a first storage unit and an image processing unit, wherein the first storage unit stores images input from an input unit, and the image processing unit acquires at least one image satisfying a predetermined condition from the images stored in the first storage unit and links the acquired image with the input product code.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an imaging unit that generates an image signal by imaging and an information processing device. The information processing device performs at least any one of plural kinds of image processing on a taken image corresponding to the image signal. The information processing device specifies an object corresponding to a partial image included in the taken image on the basis of a state of the object corresponding to the partial image included in the taken image or a degree of reliability given to a processing result of the performed image processing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an information recognition unit, an acquiring unit, and a recording unit. The information recognition unit recognizes a description written in each of one or more description areas. The acquiring unit acquires attribute information of the description area in which the description is written. The recording unit records the description written in the description area or a recognition result obtained through the recognition performed by the information recognition unit in accordance with the attribute information acquired by the acquiring unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a boundary between a target area and a non-target area from an image; a setting unit configured to set an undefined area on the periphery of the boundary in a width based on feature quantities of peripheral pixels of the boundary; and a generating unit configured to define an area excluding the undefined area from the target area as the foreground area, define an area excluding the undefined area from the non-target area as the background area, and generate area information that specifies the foreground area, the background area, and the undefined area.

Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A setting unit sets a parameter indicating a likelihood of being foreground or a likelihood of being background for each pixel of the input image. A selection unit selects a first cluster, wherein the first cluster has color information indicating a color similar to a color which is indicated by color information of any cluster out of the second group of clusters. An adjustment unit configured to adjust the parameter of each of pixels which belong to the selected first cluster. An estimation unit estimates a region corresponding to the foreground part using the parameters associated with respective pixels after adjustment of the parameters by the adjustment unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a boundary between a target area and a non-target area from an image; a setting unit configured to set an undefined area on the periphery of the boundary in a width based on feature quantities of peripheral pixels of the boundary; and a generating unit configured to define an area excluding the undefined area from the target area as the foreground area, define an area excluding the undefined area from the non-target area as the background area, and generate area information that specifies the foreground area, the background area, and the undefined area.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an information recognition unit, an acquiring unit, and a recording unit. The information recognition unit recognizes a description written in each of one or more description areas. The acquiring unit acquires attribute information of the description area in which the description is written. The recording unit records the description written in the description area or a recognition result obtained through the recognition performed by the information recognition unit in accordance with the attribute information acquired by the acquiring unit.

Abstract: For the problem of blurring at a boundary in a scanned illustration, a method of separating and vectorizing color regions accurately is realized by identification of a labeled region corresponding to the blurring and combining processing with another neighboring region. An image input unit, a color region dividing unit dividing an input image into the color regions, a labeling unit providing an individual label to the color region, a labeled region shape analysis unit obtaining labeled region shape information including information representing a shape feature of a labeled region which is the color region provided with the label, a micro-region determination unit determining whether the labeled region provided with the label is a micro-region or not according to the labeled region shape information, and a micro-region combining unit combining the region determined to be the micro-region with a neighboring region, are comprised.

Abstract: A technique capable of more suitably extracting a foreground region from an image including the foreground region and a background region is provided. The image processing apparatus comprises: a reliability derivation unit configured to derive a reliability of a distance information of a pixel of interest based on a color information and the distance information of the pixel of interest and a neighbor pixel of the pixel of interest; a parameter derivation unit configured to derive a parameter concerning a type of a region for the pixel based on the color information and the distance information of the pixel and the obtained reliability of the distance information; and a determination unit configured to determine a foreground region in the image using the derived parameter for each pixel of the image.

Abstract: Illumination information indicating the center of illumination and lightness change direction is acquired from an image, and the image is divided into regions for respective colors based on the acquired illumination information and color information of respective pixels included in the image. Especially, thresholds in clustering are set step by step in accordance with the lightness change direction from the center of the illumination information, and the image is clustered to the regions for respective colors according to the thresholds which are set step by step.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines an attribute of a block image based on the attribute of the block image determined based on a color distribution characteristic amount of the block image and the attribute of the block image determined based on an edge characteristic amount of the block image.

Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A setting unit sets a parameter indicating a likelihood of being foreground or a likelihood of being background for each pixel of the input image. A selection unit selects a first cluster, wherein the first cluster has color information indicating a color similar to a color which is indicated by color information of any cluster out of the second group of clusters. An adjustment unit configured to adjust the parameter of each of pixels which belong to the selected first cluster. An estimation unit estimates a region corresponding to the foreground part using the parameters associated with respective pixels after adjustment of the parameters by the adjustment unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a block background/foreground determination unit which determines, based on a block attribute and quantized color information, whether each connected area is a foreground or a background, a block background/foreground attribute determination unit which determines, based on the block attribute, the attribute of a connected area determined to be the foreground of the block and the attribute of a connected area determined to be the background of the block, and a block background/foreground attribute information recording unit which records and holds information of the attribute of the block and the attribute of each connected area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises an attribute determination unit that divides image data into a plurality of blocks each having a predetermined number of pixels and determines an attribute of each of the divided blocks that indicates whether or not the block includes a character; a connected area extraction unit that extracts a connected area in which pixels having the same pixel characteristic are connected sequentially, from each of the divided blocks; and a foreground/background determination unit that selects a foreground/background determination method to be used for a processing target block, based on the attribute of the processing target block, the attribute of a first adjacent block that is adjacent to the processing target block, and the extracted connected areas, and determines whether a connected area of the processing target block among the extracted connected areas is the foreground or the background, using the selected foreground/background determination method.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines the attribute of a pixel block, which is composed of a prescribed number of pixels extracted from image data, and the attribute of an area in which each pixel of the pixel block belongs. Then, based upon the determined attribute of the image block and the determined attribute of the area in which each pixel belongs, the apparatus subjects the image data to processing, pixel by pixel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a separation unit which determines the attribute of data contained in input document image data and separates the document image data into areas by attributes, an extraction unit which extracts, from the separated areas, an area of a graphics image as a target of vectorization processing, a determination unit which determines whether the attribute of the area of the graphics image is a clipart area or a line drawing area including a line drawing, and a vector conversion unit which performs vectorization processing corresponding to the attribute of the graphics image based on the determination result of the determination unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a color region segmentation unit configure to segment a processing object image into color regions, a linkage information acquisition unit configured to acquire information about linkage regions in each segmented color region, a determination unit configured to determine whether the processing object image is graphics based on the information acquired by the linkage information acquisition unit.