Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Olympus Imaging Corporation

Olympus Corporation

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

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University of Utah Research Foundation

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Company, Inc.

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Atsushi Maruyama

Osamu Nonaka

Hiroyuki Urata

Kazutaka Naka

Azuma Miyazawa

Hiroshi Terada

Yoichiro Okumura

Michio Nagai

Masaaki Iwanaga

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Kazuhiko Shimura

Toshihiro Akaike

Takashi Kobiki

Tatsuro Nakamura

Masaaki Takatsuji

Satoshi Miyazaki

Hiroshi Sano

Akira Watanabe

Masanori Ogino

Masataka Ide

Masaomi Tomizawa

Fumio Inoue

Toshiaki Ishimaru

Takeshi Suzuki

Masahiro Eto

Takahiro Kawai

Mineo Mukai

Yuji Imai

Takeshi Ito

Yoji Watanabe

Yoshinori Matsuzawa

Masataka Okushita

Naoki Fujii

Akiteru Kimura

Sung Wan Kim

Juro Kikuchi

Tsuyoshi Yaji

Kensei Ito

Hiroshi Miyama

Minoru Hara

Haruki Takata

Akira Inoue

Keiichi Tsuchida

Yasuyuki Sasaki

Tomomi Nakajima

Shigetoshi Okumura

Tetsuya Kokufu

Michi Toguchi

Masahito Mikawa

Naoto Miwa

Shoichiro Asayama

Masayuki Nogawa

Sunao Kawano

Yoshiyuki Takei

Akira Hibara

Michi Yokouchi

Kenichi Kishida

Kouji Mizobuchi

Touko Kobayashi

Jin-Seok Kim

A display apparatus (which may be included in an imaging apparatus) includes: a display unit; a guide display generation circuit which acquires an image file including image data and photographing posture data including information of an inclination and a height of an imaging apparatus performing an imaging operation when the image data was created by the imaging operation to generate a photographing posture guide display based on the photographing posture data; and a display control circuit which causes the display unit to display an image based on the image data and the photographing posture guide display. A data processing apparatus may include a signal processing circuit which creates an image file including image data and photographing posture data.

Imaging apparatus and methods for generating a guide display using imaging height posture information

Imaging apparatus and methods for generating a guide display showing a photographing technique for approximating a composition of a subject image to that of a sample image

An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit, an image processing unit, a database, a display unit, a coordinate acquisition unit, a shooting parameter decision unit and a control unit. The image capturing unit acquires image data. The image processing unit performs image processing. The database includes a relationship between a sensitivity word pair and a change in a control parameter. The display unit displays an operation position together with the sensitivity word pair. The coordinate acquisition unit decides a value corresponding to the sensitivity word pair as a selected value. The shooting parameter decision unit decides a value of a shooting parameter based on the selected value. The control unit controls the image capturing unit or the image processing unit based on the value of the shooting parameter.

Image capturing apparatus and control method of image capturing apparatus

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a sample acquisition unit, a photographing state determination unit, a guide display generation unit and a display unit. The imaging unit acquires a subject image which is an image of a subject. The sample acquisition unit acquires a sample image. The photographing state determination unit calculates position and posture information indicative of an inclination relative to a horizontal plane and a height of the imaging unit. The guide display generation unit creates a guide display showing a method for photographing for approximating a composition of the subject image to a composition of the sample image based on the position and posture information. The display unit displays the guide display.

A projection type image display device provided with an unauthorized use preventing system includes a button unit or a remote controller for operating the display device, a condition memory for storing information indicating at least one use condition in an authorized use of the display device, a password memory for storing a password for releasing a restriction on the use of the display device, a detector for detecting a used condition of the display device at a power on timing, and a processor for imposing restrictions on the use of the display device when the use condition detected by the detector does not match the at least one use condition indicated by the information stored in the condition memory and for relieving the restriction based upon input of the password.

Projection type image display device

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that generates image data of a subject image obtained via a lens unit, a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit, an input unit that receives input for specifying an area of a portion of the image displayed by the display unit, and a display controller that controls a display mode for confirming a specified image corresponding to the area of which input is received by the input unit.

Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and computer-readable storage medium for trimming and enlarging a portion of a subject image based on touch panel inputs

A camera detects a face portion of a subject from a shot image to determine whether a shot image is a good shot candidate image from the features of the face portion and a face portion-related image portion. As examples, the features include, but not be limited to, (1) the shape and variation in contour ranging from the vicinity of the face portion, (2) the position of a hand or leg to be determined by similarity to the skin tone of the face portion, and (3) determination made from the detection result of the face portion as to whether the subject is a half-length or full-length figure.

Camera

An image editing apparatus includes an image input unit including an image pickup circuit which takes a picture of a subject to obtain an image of a subject. A face detection circuit detects an image of a face of the subject from the image obtained from the image input unit. A face expression detection circuit detects at least any one of direction and expression of the face of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit. A pupil detection circuit detects images of pupils of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit. A catch-light composition circuit composes different catch-lights on the images of the pupils detected by the pupil detection circuit, according to any one of the direction and expression of the face detected by the face expression detection circuit.

Image editing apparatus, method for controlling image editing apparatus, and recording medium storing image editing program

There is disclosed a camera which detects a face portion of a subject from a shot image to determine whether a shot image is a good shot candidate image from the features of the face portion and a face portion-related image portion. As examples, the features include, but not be limited to, (1) the shape and variation in contour ranging from the vicinity of the face portion, (2) the position of a hand or leg to be determined by similarity to the skin tone of the face portion, and (3) determination made from the detection result of the face portion as to whether the subject is a half-length or full-length figure.

Camera for selecting an image from a plurality of images based on a face portion and contour of a subject in the image

A theft preventing system easy to operate and capable of implementing countermeasures to theft of a projection type image display device is provided. The projection type image display device is equipped with a unit for detecting a used condition of the device and a unit for registering a used condition of the device. By further equipping the device with a unit for inhibiting normal operations of the device in its used condition other than the registered condition, a simple and easy-to-operate unauthorized use preventing system can be realized and thus protection of the device against theft can be attained.

There is disclosed a camera in which, in a case where luminance of an acquired image signal is corrected and raised in accordance with luminance of each region, a correction amount of an image signal for use as a photographed image is smaller than a correction amount of an image signal for use as an image for monitoring.

Controlling operations of a camera to improve backlit scenes

An imaging apparatus is disclosed which analyzes image data of a subject acquired by an image pickup device to select an appropriate combination of exposure time, aperture, and exposure sensitivity upon shooting in order to perform exposure control. As an example of image data analysis methods, there is shown a method of detecting the movement of a characteristic point in an image, or a method of detecting luminance variations in a specific block or area in the image to detect the subject movement. As another exemplary method, a face of the subject is detected. The present invention can also be combined with a shake reduction mode.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a substance having a several ten to several hundred-fold exchange reaction accelerating activity as compared with that of conventional copolymers. In particular, the invention provides a preparation for accelerating an exchange reaction between a nucleotide sequence at specific site of a double stranded DNA or RNA for its homologous nucleotide sequence, the preparation comprising a cationic polymer having a guanidine group-containing main chain and a hydrophilic functional groups as an active ingredient. Thus, a substance having a several ten to several hundred-fold exchange reaction accelerating activity as compared with that of conventional copolymers can be provided. With this substance, the nucleotide chain exchange can be performed at a lower temperature and/or a higher rate than in the prior art.

Substance capable of accelerating nucleotide chain exchange reaction

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Atsushi Maruyama