Fujifilm Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Hiroki Watanabe

Tomohiro Mizuno

Hiroaki Takano

Ryota Kimura

Tomonori Sato

Hideyasu Ishibashi

Naoyuki Hayashi

Fumio Teraoka

Hirofumi Kasai

Masanobu Ito

Kazuki Hayashi

Jun Aoyama

The present invention relates to an imaging device including a camera body configured to attach, to a barrel body, a lens barrel including a collapsible barrel in which a barrel holding at least one lens can be in a stored state and in an extended state by manual operation, and a control unit configured to perform control to execute a display of information indicating a state of the imaging device in a case where the lens barrel attached to the camera body is detected to be in the stored state.

Imaging device and imaging method

There is provided an image processing device comprising a processor, in which the processor acquires a plurality of endoscopic images obtained by picking up images of an observation target with an endoscope, calculates a raw score related to a determination of a severity or a stage of a disease of the observation target, on the basis of each of the endoscopic images, decides a final score on the basis of the raw score, and performs control to display the final score and/or a change over time of the final score in real time on a display.

Image processing device, endoscope system, and image processing method

Provided is a communication device that operates as a management node in a first zone being a management domain on a network, the communication device including a communication unit that executes communication with another node and a control unit that controls communication executed by the communication unit. The control unit operates such that, when having received, from a user, a request regarding an application that chains one or more application functions (AFs) to act on a packet flowing in the network, the control unit acquires information regarding the application from a second zone being a management domain other than the first zone, and then calculates a deployment destination of the AFs in the network including the first zone and the second zone based on the information.

Communication device and communication method

An image processing device includes a processor, and the processor decides whether or not to perform image processing on the medical image on the basis of an imaging condition of the medical image and/or an image analysis result obtained by analyzing the medical image. The processor performs, for the medical image on which the processor has decided to perform the image processing, at least one of calculation of an index value related to a stage of ulcerative colitis, determination of the stage of the ulcerative colitis, or determination of remission or non-remission of the ulcerative colitis on the basis of denseness of superficial blood vessels, intramucosal hemorrhage, and extramucosal hemorrhage that are obtained from the medical image.

Image processing device capable of accurately determining ulcerative colitis by using a medical image and method of operating the same

A biopsy support device that supports an inspection using a living tissue sampled by a sampling instrument which is used by being inserted into an endoscope having an imaging element, the biopsy support device including a processor configured to recognize that the living tissue has been sampled by the sampling instrument on the basis of captured image data obtained by capturing an image using the imaging element; and generate identification information corresponding to the living tissue in a case where the living tissue is recognized to have been sampled.

Biopsy support device, endoscope device, biopsy support method, and biopsy support program

In order to support determination of a disease stage, there are provided a medical image processing system, an endoscope system, a diagnostic support apparatus, and a medical service support apparatus for reliably acquiring an index value relevant to visibility with respect to the state of red blood cells or the degree of irregularity of a gland duct structure according to the disease stage determination accuracy desired by a doctor. A light source unit emits a plurality of illumination light beams having different wavelength bands and different visibilities for red blood cells. An image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of medical images corresponding to respective illumination light beams by imaging an observation target illuminated with the respective illumination light beams. A red blood cell index value acquisition unit acquires a red blood cell index value, which is obtained by indexing the visibility of red blood cells, from each of the medical images.

Medical image processing system, endoscope system, diagnostic support apparatus, and medical service support apparatus

Provided is an endoscope system capable of preventing a detection target from being overlooked in the case of using an automatic detection function for the detection target, and an operation method for the endoscope system. A comparison processing unitperforms comparison processing of comparing first-diagnosis identification information acquired at a first diagnosis with second-diagnosis identification information acquired at a second diagnosis that is different from the first diagnosis. A notification control unitperforms, if a determination is made that there is a difference in a detection target between the first diagnosis and the second diagnosis as a result of the comparison processing, control to make a notification about an oversight of the detection target.

Endoscope system and operation method therefor

There are provided a medical image processing apparatus, an endoscope apparatus, a diagnostic support apparatus, and a medical service support apparatus capable of detecting red blood cells using an endoscope image. A medical image processing apparatus includes: a medical image acquisition unit that acquires short wavelength medical images, which are medical images including a subject image and which are obtained by imaging a subject with light in a shorter wavelength band than a green wavelength band; and a red blood cell detection unit that detects red blood cells using the short wavelength medical images. The light in the short wavelength band is, for example, light in a blue band or a violet band of a visible range. The red blood cell detection unit detects, for example, a high-frequency, granular, and high-density region as red blood cells.

Medical image processing apparatus, endoscope apparatus, diagnostic support apparatus, and medical service support apparatus

There are provided an image forming apparatus and an image forming method in which the deformation of an image caused by the deformation of a medium is suppressed in the image formation on a medium to which tension is applied. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming liquid-application amount-information acquisition unit that acquires information about the amount of applied image forming liquid, a tension-information acquisition unit that acquires information about tension applied to a medium, an elastic modulus acquisition unit that acquires an elastic modulus of the medium calculated using the information about the amount of applied image forming liquid, a medium deformation amount-calculation unit that calculates the amount of deformation of the medium using tension information and the elastic modulus, and an image conversion section that converts the image data into converted image data, which represents a converted image to be formed on the medium in a state where the tension is applied. The image forming apparatus forms an image on the medium, to which the tension is applied, on the basis of the converted image data.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

Provided are a thermoelectric conversion element and a thermoelectric conversion module which can efficiently generate power by preventing heat from being accumulated in a cooling side even in a naturally cooled environment. The thermoelectric conversion element includes a substrate having a sheet-like low thermal conduction portion, a first high thermal conduction portion, and a second high thermal conduction portion, a thermoelectric conversion layer provided on the substrate, a coating layer covering the thermoelectric conversion layer, a third high thermal conduction portion which is provided on the coating layer, has thermal conductivity higher than that of the coating layer, and does not completely overlap the first high thermal conduction portion in a plane direction, and a pair of electrodes, in which the second high thermal conduction portion is thinner than the first high thermal conduction portion and separated from the first high thermal conduction portion in the plane direction, and at least a portion of the second high thermal conduction portion overlaps the thermoelectric conversion layer and the third high thermal conduction portion.

Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module

Provided is an ink image matter generating method for selecting a fluorescent ink by performing (a) a process of color-measuring a target color which is a target of color reproduction on a medium and the medium on which an inkjet color ink for color reproduction of the target color is printed; (b) a process of calculating a difference between a colorimetric value of the target color and a colorimetric value of the medium on which the color ink is printed; and (c) a process of selecting a fluorescent ink for reducing the difference between the colorimetric value of the target color and the colorimetric value of the medium on which the color ink is printed, from fluorescent inks that are set in advance, and jetting droplets of the selected fluorescent ink together with the color ink, or after the droplets of the color ink are jetted to cause the fluorescent ink to exist on a surface of an ink image matter, thereby making it possible to select and use an appropriate fluorescent ink with respect to a specific color of which the color reproducibility cannot be ensured using only a color ink in inkjet printing on a medium which is a printing substrate and to ensure high color reproducibility ensuring high color reproducibility for the specific color.

Ink image matter generating method

A position deviation order detection method according to the invention calculates a difference between input image data of an original image used for printing an image using an inkjet printer and output image data acquired by reading the image using a scanner for each pixel, and compares the calculated difference with a first threshold value to extract pixels for which the difference is equal to or larger than the first threshold value, and detects the size of a position deviation of the image by the number of pixels of a closed pixel group among the extracted pixels.

Position deviation order detection method, image position deviation correction method, streak unevenness correction table creation method, and streak unevenness correction method

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