Abstract: An object recognition processing apparatus includes: an image obtainment unit that obtains an image; a template matching unit that obtains a recognition result including a plurality of candidates for the object to be recognized by carrying out a template matching process on the image; a candidate exclusion processing unit that excludes a candidate that meets a predetermined condition by generating, for each of the plurality of candidates, a binary image of the object to be recognized, and finding a degree of overlap of each candidate using the binary image; and a recognition result output unit that outputs a candidate that remains without being excluded as a recognition result.

Abstract: A game machine controller, which is used in combination with a mouse and is connected to a game machine to be used is improved so that a user is free from feeling strange about its input. As illustrated in FIG. 6 (A), a game machine controller (1) and a mouse (2) are connected to a game machine (3) via an output cable (172) and a mouse cable (210), respectively. A signal output from the game machine controller (1) to the game machine (3) is a keyboard control signal generally output from a keyboard to the game machine (3). With this, the game machine (3) recognizes the game machine controller (1) as the keyboard. As a result, the game machine (3) receive and recognize WASD input in a vertical or horizontal direction from the game machine controller (1) and input from the mouse (2) in a direction that is not limited to the vertical or horizontal direction.

Abstract: A template creation apparatus includes a three-dimensional data acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional data of an object that is a recognition target, a normal vector calculation unit that calculates a normal vector at a feature point of an object viewed from a predetermined viewpoint that is set for the object, a normal vector quantization unit that quantizes a normal vector by mapping the normal vector to a reference region on a plane orthogonal to an axis that passes through the viewpoint, so as to acquire a quantized normal direction feature amount, the reference region including a central reference region corresponding to the vicinity of the axis and a reference region in the periphery of the central reference region, a template creation unit that creates a template for each viewpoint based on the quantized normal direction feature amount, and a template information output unit that outputs the template.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a scale-down factor determination unit that generates two-dimensional images of an object viewed from a plurality of viewpoints using three-dimensional data representing a three-dimensional shape of the object and determines a scale-down factor for each viewpoint, a template generation unit that scales down the generated two-dimensional image from each viewpoint using the scale-down factor determined for the viewpoint and calculates a feature quantity from a scaled-down image to generate a template, and a template information output unit that outputs, for each viewpoint, the template and the scale-down factor used for generating the template in a manner associated with each other.

Abstract: A viewpoint position-related parameter setting unit determines which approximate spherical shape to use in order to determine a viewpoint position. A viewpoint position creation unit creates a plurality of approximate spherical shapes set by the viewpoint-position-related parameter setting unit, and creates respective viewpoint positions. An optimal viewpoint position creation unit calculates a rotation angle at which the number of slave viewpoints associated with master viewpoints is substantially equal and a maximum distance between the master viewpoint and the slave viewpoint associated therewith is a minimum.

Abstract: To improve handheld controllers for game machines so that they hardly drop from the users' hand. A controller for game machines is held and manipulated with the left hand. The controller for game machines includes a main body 100 and a grip 120. The main body 100 is equipped with a first input device 130 that is manipulated with the thumb and a second input device 140 that is manipulated with the index finger and middle finger. To the main body 100, a loop-shaped band 200 is attached with both ends thereof secured to the main body 100. Users manipulate the controller for game machines while holding the grip 120 using the palm and the fingers other than the thumb of the left hand resting under the band 200.

Abstract: An inspecting device includes: an image acquiring unit which acquires a light-emitting surface image as a photographed image of the light-emitting surface; an inspecting unit which sets an inspecting range in a position of the light-emitting surface image in which the failure may appear, detects, from the inspecting range, a bright region which is brighter than a lower limit threshold value, calculates an evaluation value evaluating both the size and luminance of the bright region, and determines the presence or absence of the failure on the basis of the evaluation value; and an output unit which outputs information obtained by the inspecting unit.

Abstract: A game machine controller, which is used in combination with a mouse and is connected to a game machine to be used is improved so that a user is free from feeling strange about its input. As illustrated in FIG. 6(A), a game machine controller (1) and a mouse (2) are connected to a game machine (3) via an output cable (172) and a mouse cable (210), respectively. A signal output from the game machine controller (1) to the game machine (3) is a keyboard control signal generally output from a keyboard to the game machine (3). With this, the game machine (3) recognizes the game machine controller (1) as the keyboard. As a result, the game machine (3) receive and recognize WASD input in a vertical or horizontal direction from the game machine controller (1) and input from the mouse (2) in a direction that is not limited to the vertical or horizontal direction.

Abstract: An inspecting device includes: an image acquiring unit which acquires a light-emitting surface image as a photographed image of the light-emitting surface; an inspecting unit which sets an inspecting range in a position in the light-emitting surface image in which the failure may appear, generates a one-dimensional luminance profile representing change in a luminance value along the first side in the inspecting range, detects an extreme value in the luminance profile, calculates an evaluation value for evaluating the difference between adjacent extreme values, and determines the presence or absence of the failure on the basis of the evaluation value; and an output unit which output information obtained by the inspecting unit.

Abstract: Provided is a technology of allowing operation of four push buttons of a controller including the four push buttons provided in place of a cross key pad as if operating the cross key pad. The controller includes a third push-button input module (142) being a cylindrical recess including four push buttons (142A to 142D) on a bottom surface of the third push-button input module (142). A recessed portion (142E) is formed in the bottom surface. Meanwhile, the controller includes a cover member (200) having a circular plate portion (211) including a cross-key-pad portion (212). A column portion having a circular column shape is provided on a back surface of the cover member (200). The cover member (200) is fixed to the third push-button input module (142) through insertion of the column portion into the recessed portion (142E). When a user presses the cross-key-pad portion (212), freely selected one of the four push buttons (142A to 142D) positioned below the circular plate portion (211) can be pressed.

Abstract: To allow users who usually play games on a personal computer to enter input to game consoles for domestic use without being stressed. A controller system for game consoles is made up of a game console controller 100 and a mouse 200. The mouse 200 is identical to an ordinary mouse. The game console controller 100 has a structure resembling a part of a keyboard that is used for common personal computers and equipped with at least six keys 120 in a 2-by-3 array. The mouse 200 and the game console controller 100 can be attached to and removed from each other via a cable 210 extending from the mouse 200. The connection between them is an USB connection.

Abstract: A template creation device may include an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of templates from a plurality of images of different poses of a single object, or a plurality of images for a plurality of objects. The template creation device may further include a clustering unit configured to divide the plurality of templates into a plurality of groups on the basis of a similarity score; and an integration unit configured to combine the templates in a group into an integrated template. A new template set may be created from the plurality of integrated templates corresponding to each group in the plurality of groups.

Abstract: A reconstruction processing unit includes a filtering unit which applies a filter for correcting a motion blur attributable to a relative movement of an image pickup system and an object to a transmission image when performing an operation of back-projecting a pixel on the transmission image to a cell on a reconstructed image. A filter that the filtering unit uses when a pixel on a first transmission image is back-projected to a first cell on the reconstructed image is different from a filter that the filtering unit uses when the pixel on the first transmission image is back-projected to a second cell existing at coordinates that differ from those of the first cell.

Abstract: To improve handheld controllers for game machines so that they hardly drop from the users' hand. A controller for game machines is held and manipulated with the left hand. The controller for game machines includes a main body 100 and a grip 120. The main body 100 is equipped with a first input device 130 that is manipulated with the thumb and a second input device 140 that is manipulated with the index finger and middle finger. To the main body 100, a loop-shaped band 200 is attached with both ends thereof secured to the main body 100. Users manipulate the controller for game machines while holding the grip 120 using the palm and the fingers other than the thumb of the left hand resting under the band 200.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a determination unit configured to determine a plurality of measurement positions and/or orientations from which a 3D measurement sensor makes three-dimensional measurements; a controller configured to successively move the 3D measurement sensor to the plurality of measurement positions and/or orientations; a measurement unit configured to generate a plurality of 3D measurement data sets through three-dimensional measurement using the 3D measurement sensor at each of the plurality of measurement positions and/or orientations; and a data integration unit configured to integrate the plurality of 3D measurement data sets.

Abstract: An object recognition processing apparatus includes: a model data acquisition unit configured to acquire three-dimensional model data of an object; a measurement unit configured to acquire measurement data including three-dimensional position information of the object; a position/orientation recognition unit configured to recognize a position/orientation of the object based on the three-dimensional model data and the measurement data; a similarity score calculation unit configured to calculate a similarity score indicating a degree of similarity between the three-dimensional model data and the measurement data in a position/orientation recognition result of the object; a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate an index indicating a feature of a three-dimensional shape of the object, and calculate a reliability of the similarity score based on the index; and an integrated score calculation unit configured to calculate an integrated score indicating a quality of the position/orientation recognition

Abstract: An inspecting device includes: an image acquiring unit which acquires a light-emitting surface image as a photographed image of the light-emitting surface; an inspecting unit which sets an inspecting range in a position of the light-emitting surface image in which the failure may appear, detects, from the inspecting range, a bright region which is brighter than a lower limit threshold value, calculates an evaluation value evaluating both the size and luminance of the bright region, and determines the presence or absence of the failure on the basis of the evaluation value; and an output unit which outputs information obtained by the inspecting unit.

Abstract: A streak-like region detecting device includes: an image acquiring unit which acquires an image; a first filter operation unit which applies, to the image, a first filter responsive to increase in luminance in a first direction and acquires a first response value at an application position of the first filter; a second filter operation unit which applies, to the image, a second filter responsive to decrease in luminance in the first direction and acquires a second response value at an application position of the second filter; a detecting unit which detects a streak-like region having a width corresponding to the distance between the application positions of the first and second filters in the first direction on the basis of an integrated value obtained by integrating the first and second response values; and an output unit which outputs information obtained by the detecting unit.

Abstract: The coarse-to-fine search method includes: a first search step of detecting an object from a first image by means of template matching; and a second step of setting an area comprising n×m pixels within a second image having resolutions of horizontal n times and vertical m times as compared with the first image corresponding to a position detected in the first search step as a search range and detecting the object from the second image by means of template matching. During the coarse-to-fine search, data for the second image are rearranged on a work memory prior to the second search step such that data of the n×m pixels collated with same components of a template are stored in contiguous memory addresses, and n×m collation operations for the n×m pixels are executed in less than n×m calculation by SIMD commands in the second search step.