Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Om Digital Solutions Corporation

Hisayuki Harada

Yuichi Tsuchimochi

Osamu Nonaka

Masatoshi Ida

Yutaka Yunoki

Toshikazu Hayashi

Yoshio Fukuda

Manabu Inoue

Akira Katoh

Hideaki Yoshida

Keiji Okada

Masahide Kanno

Hiroki Hibino

Takao Rokutan

Kazuhiko Osa

Akira Matsueda

Kowji Tanikawa

Tadashi Kato

Zhen Li

Seiichiro Sakaguchi

Hiroyuki Yashima

Toshitsugu Tomita

Mikiko Sato

Isao Hirosawa

An annotation device, comprising: a display that performs sequential playback display of a plurality of images that may contain physical objects that are the subject of annotation, and a processor that acquires specific portions that have been designated within the images displayed on the display as annotation information, sets operation time or data amount for designating the specific portions, and at a point in time where designation of the specific portions has been completed for the operation time, a time based on data amount, or data amount, that have been set, requests learning to an inference engine that creates an inference model by learning, using annotation information that has been acquired up to the time of completion as training data representing a relationship between the physical object and the specific portions.

Annotation device and annotation method

An information processing apparatus includes: a visual field determination sectionthat determines, for a predetermined subject distance and on the basis of two images with different parallaxes that have been captured by a plurality of imaging units that perform three-dimensional image shooting, a common visual field range of the two images with different parallaxes; and a display controllerthat displays, on a display, information on the determined common visual field range.

Information processing apparatus

An image retrieval apparatus includes a processor, and the processor performs a process including: determining an image in which a first characteristic object is included in a subject to be a first image, and determining an image that is captured after the first image and in which a second characteristic object is included in the subject to be a second image, from among a series of captured images; specifying images as an image group, the images being captured during a period after the first image is captured before the second image is captured from among the series of captured images; and extracting a representative image from the image group.

Image retrieval apparatus, computer readable medium, and method for specifying an image group and extracting a representative image

An information acquisition apparatus includes: a configuration information acquisition section that acquires configuration information that indicates a configuration of a plurality of portions to be photographed; a determination section that determines a photographing state of a portion indicated in the configuration information; and a photographing guide screen creation section that creates the photographing guide screen, wherein the photographing guide screen creation section includes the acquired configuration information in the photographing guide screen, and adds, to the portion indicated in the configuration information, state information that indicates a photographing state based on the determination performed by the determination section.

Information acquisition apparatus

An image capturing system includes: an information processing apparatus that includes a display-board-image generatorthat generates a display-board image, a construction-related-information generatorthat generates construction-related information, and a communicatorthat transmits the display-board image and the construction-related information to an imaging apparatus; and the imaging apparatus that includes a communicatorthat receives the display-board image and the construction-related information that are transmitted from the information processing apparatus, and an image synthesizerthat synthesizes the display-board image into a captured image so as to generate a captured image with a display board.

Image capturing system

A customer and merchandise image data are picked up by an image generator and are stored in a customer data storage section and a merchandise data storage section in a data storage section together with link data and key data about each customer and each merchandise. Sales data of a merchandise for each customer is stored in a sales data storage section. In accordance with an instruction from an instruction input section, a processor searches the customer data and merchandise data storage sections and displays one of data about a specific customer and data about a specific merchandise with an image on a display, or retrieves data about a specific customer and data about each merchandise purchased by this customer from the customer data and merchandise data storage sections based on the sales data stored in the sales data storage section and displays those data with images on the display in association with each other.

Image storing managing apparatus and method for retreiving and

A DB interface is provided between each subscriber database, which stores information associated with each goods including an aesthetic/sensuous attribute unique to each subscriber, and a basic DB, which stores support information for supporting goods planning of each subscriber by electronic processing. The DB interface converts the aesthetic/sensuous attribute to data corresponding to a unified classification and a unified evaluation axis of the basic DB so as to cause the basic DB to fetch the information of each subscriber database as part of the support information.

Information processing apparatus operated by using feeling expression

An electronic camera includes three detachable units, a photographing unit, a record/play-back unit and a picture monitor unit. The photographing unit converts an output signal from a camera into a luminance signal and color difference signals. The record/play-back unit records an output signal from the photographing unit on a disk and is capable of reading a signal previously recorded on a disk. The picture monitor unit displays a picture responsive to a signal from the photographing unit or a signal from the record/play-back unit. The aforesaid units are provided with arrays of terminals electrically connected to electrical devices within their unit. A group of unique connectors establish electrical connections between the terminals of two of the one units. The connectors are designed to be coupled between any one of the associated arrays of terminals. One type of connector provides direct electrical connections between terminals of the associated arrays. A second of connector type includes electrical connections similar to those provided in the first connector type and further includes a built-in sync generator for generating a plurality of sync signals, said second connector having terminals for connecting said signals to predetermined ones of the terminals in an array of terminals provided along the housing of a unit. The use of these separate connectors reduces the number of sync generators required for the camera system and eliminates the need to build generators into each camera unit.

Detachable unit electronic camera

A detachable unit electronic camera includes three detachable units, namely, a photographing unit, a record/playback unit and a picture monitor unit. The photographing unit has the function to convert an output signal from a camera into a luminance signal and color difference signals. The record/playback unit has the function of magnetically recording an output signal from the photographing unit on a magnetic disc and also the function of reading a signal which is previously recorded on the magnetic disc. The picture monitor unit has the function of displaying a picture in response to an output signal from the photograping unit or a signal which is reproduced from the record/playback unit. record/playback unit includes switches for selectively coupling external dubbing signals to the magnetic disc or for coupling signals from the record/playback unit to a detachably mounted dubbing unit including a recording medium which may receive dubbing signals from the record/playback unit.

A marking apparatus has a marking designation switch which is depressed when an image of interest appears on a monitor while a plurality of image data from a photographic unit are displayed on the monitor. In response to a marking designation signal generated upon depression of the marking switch, a mark signal is added to the image data corresponding to the marking designation signal and is stored in a frame memory.

Electronic marking apparatus for identifying a selected image from a

A detachable unit electronic camera includes three detachable units, namely, a photographing unit, a record/playback unit and a picture monitor unit. The photographing unit has the function to convert an output signal from a camera into a luminance signal and color difference signals. The record/playback unit has the function of magnetically recording an output signal from the photographing unit on a magnetic disc and also the function of reading a signal which is previously recorded on the magnetic disc. The picture monitor unit has the function of displaying a picture in response to an output signal from the photographing unit or a signal which is reproduced from the record/playback unit.

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Hisayuki Harada