Olympus Corporation

Hisumi Esaki

Hidekazu Iwaki

Akio Kosaka

Arata Shinozaki

Mitsunori Kubo

Takayuki Nakatomi

A server system includes: a reception section that receives captured image information and metadata from a terminal device connected to the server system through a network, the captured image information being information about a captured image captured using the terminal device, and the metadata being added to the captured image; an insertion image selection section that selects an insertion image based on the received metadata, the insertion image being an image differing from the acquired captured image; and an image set generation section that generates image set information in which the insertion image is inserted into the captured image information.

Server system, terminal device, information storage device, method for controlling server system, and method for controlling terminal device

A noise-reduction processing device including: a part that calculates an edge strength indicating the edge amount at the pixel of interest based on the pixel of interest and surrounding pixels that surround the pixel of interest; a part that discriminates the edge direction at the pixel of interest; a first filter-processing part that subjects the pixel of interest to smoothing processing along a direction that is based on a direction-discrimination result and outputs a first filter-processing result; a second filter-processing part that subjects the pixel of interest to smoothing processing producing a lower low-pass effect than that of the first filter-processing part and outputs a second filter-processing result and a part that synthesizes the first and second filter-processing results, with the ratio of the first filter-processing result increased as the edge strength becomes higher and the ratio of the second filter-processing result increased as the edge strength becomes lower.

Noise-reduction processing device

An image processing apparatus which reduces an operation amount while maintaining accuracy in detecting a motion vector, includes a contrast value calculating circuit calculating a contrast value for each processing region including a pixel of interest at a center in a standard image which is one of input images, a bit length determining circuit determining a bit length for calculating a motion vector for the pixel of interest among the images to be smaller than a bit length when the contrast value is calculated, a quantization circuit converting a bit length of the processing region and a region corresponding to at least the processing region among the images to be the bit length determined by the bit length determining circuit, and a motion vector calculating circuit calculating a motion vector for the pixel of interest among the images in the processing region for which the bit length is converted.

Image processing apparatus, method and medium storing a program for detecting a motion vector

Provided is an image processing apparatus including an edge identifying portion that generates an edge image in which an edge is identified at each pixel in an input image; a mask-image generating portion that distinguishes an edge direction at a pixel of interest in the input image, that calculates a difference between pixel values of pixels that are positioned perpendicular to the edge direction and that are positioned symmetrically to each other, with the pixel of interest located at a center thereof, and that generates a mask image in which a pixel value of the pixel of interest is increased as that difference decreases; an enhancement-filter image generating portion that generates an enhancement-filter image by multiplying pixel values of pixels of the edge image by pixel values of the mask image; and a combining portion that generates an output image by combining the input image and the enhancement-filter image.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hisumi Esaki