Sony Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd.

Alcare Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Food & Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd.

Laserfront Technologies, Inc.

Sony Group Corporation

Atsushi Ueda

Jun Minakuti

Daisuke Satou

Daisuke Tanaka

Minoru Danno

Hideo Yamakoshi

Kenichi Okamoto

Yuji Asahara

Kohichi Tamura

Seiji Goto

Yasue Takeuchi

Kohichi Aoki

Yukio Morishige

Wataru Nishimura

Takashi Minamihonoki

Sugihiko Yui

Toshimichi Matsuzaka

Atsushi Tsuo

Kenji Mizukawa

Yoshiyuki Takesako

Provided is a novel container sterilization method in which no liquid agent is used. A container sterilization method is a method of performing sterilization by supplying a sterilization component to a container that is continuously conveyed along a predetermined conveyance path, the container sterilization method including supplying a humid ozone gas to a sterilization area, the humid ozone gas being an ozone gas that has humidity, the sterilization area being partitioned by a sterilization chamber that contains the conveyance path. The humidity of the humid ozone gas to be supplied to the sterilization region is regulated, depending on a temperature of the containers to be conveyed to the sterilization region.

Container sterilization method and container sterilization system

Provided is a novel container sterilization method in which no liquid agent is used. A container sterilization method is a method of performing sterilization by supplying a sterilization component to a container that is continuously conveyed along a predetermined conveyance path, the container sterilization method including supplying a humid ozone gas to a sterilization area, the humid ozone gas being an ozone gas that has humidity, the sterilization area being partitioned by a sterilization chamber that contains the conveyance path. It is preferable that the humid ozone gas to be supplied to the sterilization area have a higher temperature than the container to be conveyed to the sterilization area and the sterilization chamber have a higher temperature than the container to be conveyed to the sterilization area.

A wound dressing having a perforated material including through-holes. The perforated material having a first and second face. A low adhesive resin coating at least the first face of the perforated material without closing the through holes. The perforated material is a knitted fabric or a woven fabric formed of a multifilament. The perforated material has an average opening area of the through-holes of 0.02 to 1.2 mmand an average number of through-holes of 40 to 220 cm.

Wound dressing

An image processing apparatus with at least one circuit provided to perform a process of determining a candidate color region including at least a partial region in an image using color information of an input image signal, prompt a user to select an extraction color region in case a plurality of color regions are determined as the candidate color region, and perform image processing on at least one of the extraction color region of the input image signal and the remaining region of the input image signal excluding the extraction color region, to obtain an output image signal.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program and imaging apparatus

An image processing device includes a color temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a color temperature of a light source in imaging, a white balance adjusting unit configured to perform first white balance adjustment in which white balance of an image signal is adjusted on the basis of the estimated color temperature when the estimated color temperature is within a predetermined color temperature range, and perform second white balance adjustment in which the white balance of the image signal is adjusted on the basis of the estimated color temperature even when the estimated color temperature is not within the predetermined color temperature range, and a color region extracting unit configured to extract a color region of a specific color by using the image signal to which the second white balance adjustment is applied.

Image processing device, image processing method, and program which correctly and easily extracts a color region of a specific color

An apparatus includes an attention region determining unit and a blurring unit. The attention region determining unit is configured to determine an attention region of an image that includes an intended subject of the image. The blurring unit is configured to blur all of the image regions outside of the attention region.

Image processor, image processing method, and computer readable medium

Provided is an image processing apparatus, including an extraction color region determination unit which performs a process of determining an extraction color region including at least a partial region in an image using color information of an input image signal, and an image processing unit which performs image processing on the extraction color region of the input image signal determined by the extraction color region determination unit and/or the remaining region of the input image signal excluding the extraction color region, to obtain an output image signal.

An imaging apparatus includes an image analysis unit obtaining brightness information for respective hue regions from an image signal of a picked-up image and an exposure control unit carrying out exposure control based on the brightness information obtained in the image analysis unit.

Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program

An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit which obtains an image signal; an extraction position information obtaining unit which obtains information about an extraction position, where an image is extracted, from the image signal; a correction target value calculating unit which calculates a correction target value for correcting the image signal in accordance with the position information from an image center based on the extraction position information; an image correcting unit which corrects the image signal based on the correction target value; and an image extracting unit which extracts the image based on the extraction position information.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program

An image processing apparatus includes: a conversion section converting a moving object image being an image in a region corresponding to a moving object included in a reference image and other images constituting images generated under different exposure conditions. The image processing apparatus also includes a substitution section substituting the generated exposure level converted moving object image with a region corresponding to an exposure level converted moving object image of each of the other images corresponding to an exposure level as a reference exposure level at the time of generating the exposure level converted moving object image to generate a substitute image for each of the other images. A combination section combines the substitute image and the reference image to generate a combined image.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

In an imaging apparatus, an imaging unit generates an acquired image of a subject. A luminance information acquirer acquires the subject's luminance information. A detector detects the subject's luminance range on the basis of the acquired luminance information. An imaging controller sets a range of exposure control values having a step that corresponds to a value obtained by multiplying the detected luminance range by a predetermined coefficient k (where 0&#x3c;k&#x3c;1), and then uses the imaging unit to take multiple shots (i.e., multiple imagings) set with respectively different exposure control values within the range of exposure control values. An image compositor generates a composite image by compositing image portions extracted from the plurality of images obtained via the multiple shots. When just one shot is taken, the single exposure control value set for the one shot is contained within the range of the exposure control values.

Imaging apparatus and imaging control method

An inner electrode for barrier film formation is an inner electrode for barrier film formation that is inserted inside a plastic container having an opening, supplies a medium gas to the inside of the plastic container, and supplies high frequency power to an outer electrode arranged outside the plastic container, thereby generating discharge plasma on the inner surface of the plastic container to form a barrier film on the inner surface of the plastic container, and that is provided with a gas supply pipe having a gas flow path to supply a medium gas and an insulating member screwed into an end portion of the gas supply pipe to be flush therewith and having a gas outlet communicated with the gas flow path.

Inner electrode for barrier film formation and apparatus for film formation

To provide a wound dressing having absorbability and improved so as not to be adhere to wounds, a wound dressingis provided, which includes a perforated materialhaving a top face and a bottom face and having plural through-holes, and an absorbent materialdisposed on the top face of the perforated material, and in which at least the bottom face of the perforated materialis coated with a silicone resinexcept leaving at least a part of the through-holes so as not to block up all the through-holes, and at least a partof the absorbent material facing the through-holes of the perforated material is coated with the silicone resin, and to allow fluid penetration from the bottom face side of the perforated material into the inside of the absorbent material.

Wound dressing and method for producing it

An inner electrode for barrier film formation is an inner electrode for barrier film formation that is inserted inside a plastic container having an opening, supplies a medium gas to the inside of the plastic container, and supplies high frequency power to an outer electrode arranged outside the plastic container, thereby generating discharge plasma on the inner surface of the plastic container to form a barrier film on the inner surface of the plastic container, and that is provided with a gas supply pipe () having a gas flow path () to supply a medium gas (G) and an insulating member () screwed into an end portion of the gas supply pipe () to be flush therewith and having a gas outlet () communicated with the gas flow path ().

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Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Ueda