Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Om Digital Solutions Corporation

Kazuhiko Osa

Osamu Nonaka

Tetsuya Toyoda

Hideaki Yoshida

Yoichi Yoshida

Zhen Li

Koichi Shintani

Yoshiyuki Fukuya

Tatsuya Kino

Yoshihisa Ogata

Nobuyuki Nagasawa

Masaru Ikeda

Dai Ito

Kenji Kawasaki

Kensei Ito

Takuya Matsunaga

Kazuhiro Haneda

Yasushi Aono

Minoru Sukekawa

Hisashi Yoneyama

Nobuyuki Shima

Atsushi Kohashi

Kei Tsuyuki

Daisuke Tainaka

Yoshihiro Shimada

Koji Sakai

Shigeru Kato

Hidekazu Iwaki

Naoki Fujii

Kazuhiko Shimura

Keito Fukushima

Tetsuya Shirota

Kazuo Kajitani

Katsuhisa Kawaguchi

Toshikazu Hayashi

Tatsuyuki Uemura

Kazumi Ito

Yoshiharu Saito

Akinobu Sato

Keiji Okada

Hisao Kitagawa

Yoshihisa Tanikawa

Katsuyuki Abe

Tsuyoshi Mochizuki

Chikara Nagano

Akira Tani

Hisayuki Harada

Masayuki Nakatsuka

Takeshi Asaka

Ryuhi Okubo

Kiyonobu Kurata

Hideto Yamashita

Kenji Homma

Yosuke Kishi

Hirokazu Nozaki

Seiichiro Sakaguchi

Kazutaka Tanaka

Makoto Shigehara

Kouji Suzuki

Kanako Inoue

Masahiro Fujimoto

Eisuke Arinobe

An imaging system, comprising a shooting operation interface that operates to form an image of a subject, and a processor that has a bio-information acquisition section and a stress determination section, wherein the bio-information acquisition section acquires bio-information of an operator when, during shooting awaiting action where an instant for acquiring still images is awaited, the shooting operation interface is operated, and the stress determination section determines stress conditions that shooting actions place on the operator based on the bio-information that has been acquired using the bio-information acquisition section.

Imaging system and control method for imaging system

An image pickup system includes an input/output modeling section, the input/output modeling sectioncreating, as a population, an image group obtained when a specific target is photographed, (access image), and generating an inference model by using, as teacher data, sequential images selected from the image group created as the population, based on whether the specific target can be accessed, wherein each image of the image group is associated with date and time information and/or position information, and the input/output modeling sectiongenerates an inference model for determining based on the date and time information and/or the position information whether a process to the specific target is good or bad.

Learning device, image pickup apparatus, image processing device, learning method, non-transient computer-readable recording medium for recording learning program, display control method and inference model manufacturing method

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

A mobile image pickup instruction apparatus judges an image pickup result and an image pickup condition to acquire photographing tendency information showing a tendency of photographing of a predetermined image pickup target, generates target object identification information for identifying the predetermined image pickup target by inference using the photographing tendency information, and transmits the generated target object identification information to the mobile image pickup apparatus and a mobile image pickup apparatus controls an image pickup unit provided on a mobile body to pick up an image of the image pickup target based on the target object identification information received.

Mobile image pickup system, learning method, mobile image pickup apparatus, information acquisition control apparatus, information acquisition control method and recording medium storing information acquisition control program

An image processing device includes a signal processing device, and the signal processing device is configured to perform distance determination processing of determining, based on a depth map concerning an image displayed on a display, an image portion inside a target distance range which is a predetermined distance range in the image, and an image portion outside the target distance range, and perform image processing of subjecting at least the image portion outside the target distance range to image processing of monotonizing visibility based on a determination result of the distance determination processing and displaying the image on the display.

Image processing device, image processing method, recording medium storing image processing program and image pickup apparatus

An image processing apparatus generates a left-eye viewpoint image and a right-eye viewpoint image, detects one or more pairs that are each a pair of a partial image of the left-eye viewpoint image and a partial image of the right-eye viewpoint image that are similar to each other, performs, for each of the one or more pairs, image adjustment processing for adjusting the three-dimensionality of one of or both of the partial images of the left-eye and right-eye viewpoint images, displays the left-eye viewpoint image or the left-eye viewpoint image after the image adjustment processing in a manner such that this image is capable of being observed with a left eye, and displays the right-eye viewpoint image or the right-eye viewpoint image after the image adjustment processing in a manner such that this image is capable of being observed with a right eye.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium having image processing program recorded therein

A peripheral device communicates with a central control device. The peripheral device includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to acquire, from another peripheral device, first information including a topic provided for the central control device or a user of the central control device, integrate the first information with second information which is included in the peripheral device and includes a topic provided for the central control device or the user of the central control device, to generate third information, and transmit the third information.

Peripheral device, communication system, central control device, communication method, and recording medium recording communication program

A learning management device comprising an inference engine that is input with image data and acquires output for performing guidance display to a user using an inference model that has been specifically learned, and a processor that confirms if there is a specified relationship between a trial input image and trial guidance display for this trial input image under conditions that have been assumed at the time of use, and that determines whether or not it is necessary to relearn the inference model that has been learned based on the result of this confirmation.

Learning management device, learning management method, and imaging device

An image file creation apparatus includes an acquisition circuit configured to acquire a picked-up image, and a processor configured to create an image file in recording the acquired image, in which the processor includes cooperation participation information for clarifying a relationship between the picked-up image and a cooperation image cooperating with the picked-up image as metadata in the image file, and the cooperation participation information includes at least one of (a) request information for requesting to provide the cooperation image cooperating with the picked-up image, and (b) provision information indicating whether or not the picked-up image can be provided as the cooperation image.

Image file creation apparatus, image file creation method, recording medium storing image file creation program, and content creation system

A work assistance apparatus includes: a display panel configured to form a virtual display area within a field of view of a user; a camera configured to pick up an image in front of the user and output a picked-up image; and a processor configured to move at least one display component for operation within a display image in the virtual display area when a finger of the user alternately moves in a frontward direction and a backward direction of the user within the picked-up image.

Work assistance apparatus, work assistance method, and computer-readable, non-transitory recording medium recording work assistance program executed by computer

An imaging device, comprising an image sensor that images a shooting target and outputs image data, a memory that stores inference models for performing guidance display or automatic control, when shooting the shooting target, an inference engine that performs inference for the control of the guidance display or automatic control, using the inference model, and a controller that determines whether or not the inference model is suitable for shooting a shooting target that the user wants, and if it is determined that the inference model is not suitable for shooting, requests generation of an inference model that is suitable for a shooting target the user wants to an external learning device.

Imaging device, information terminal, control method for imaging device, and control method for information terminal

An information apparatus for communicating with a portable information terminal includes a processor including hardware. The processor determines state information regarding a state of the information apparatus when the power state is switched, by the power switch, from the on state to the office state. The processor also determines whether the manually set parameter has been changed before and after the power state is switched from the on state to the off state, based on the use history information of a manually set parameter in the information apparatus. Finally, the information apparatus transmits, to the portable information terminal, the state information indicating that the set parameter in the information apparatus has been changed when the processor determines that the set parameter has been changed while keeping the processor energized after the power state is switched from the on state to the off state.

Information apparatus, control method, and computer readable recording medium determining state information of the information apparatus across a power switch and transmitting such state information to an external, portable information terminal

A medical support system supporting medical services even at a remote location, by a first information terminal apparatus operated by a doctor that gives medical examination to a patient and a second information terminal apparatus by which a helper can photograph an image of the patient at a location away from the doctor sharing information about the patient, the medical support system including: the first information terminal apparatus configured to transmit information that is information corresponding to request information from the helper and is photographing condition information for the helper to photograph the patient; and the second information terminal apparatus configured to acquire information about the photographing condition information received from the first information terminal apparatus to photograph the patient.

Medical support system, information terminal apparatus, patient image data acquisition method and patient information acquisition method

An image processing device includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit acquires a plurality of images, generates a synthesis image by synthesizing the images, generates a synthesis image file in which additional information indicative of a relationship between the images is recorded together with the synthesis image, and records the synthesis image file in a recording medium.

Image processing device, image processing method, and recording medium which records image processing program for generating a synthesis image file

A sound collection apparatus includes: a sound collection unit including a microphone configured to collect sound; a noise determination unit configured to determine noise in dictation based on voice collected by the sound collection unit; and a presentation unit configured to perform presentation based on a determination result by the noise determination unit. With this configuration, presentation is performed to indicate environmental noise at sound collection for dictation, which leads to improved efficiency of dictation work.

Sound collection apparatus, sound collection method, recording medium recording sound collection program, and dictation method

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Kazuhiko Osa