Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Evident Corporation

Kazuhito Horiuchi

Nobuyuki Watanabe

Takao Tsuruoka

Hidetoshi Nishimura

Yoshioki Kaneko

Shunsuke Kurata

Osamu Koshiba

An information processing device includes: a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to cause a display to display a second image according to an input of an operation, the second image corresponding to a field of view corresponding to at least part of a first image contained in imaging data that is generated by capturing an observation subject, analyze change of the field of view over time to calculate an attention degree, and set a region of interest in the first image contained in the imaging data according to the attention degree.

Information processing device, information processing method and computer-readable recording medium

An information processing device includes: a storage configured to store display region information and a count value, the display region information indicating a position of a predetermined display region in a first image corresponding to image data, the count value indicating frequency of display of each predetermined region in the first image; and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to, based on the image data and an instruction signal for selecting the display region, generate a display image corresponding to the display region that is selected by the instruction signal, determine whether the display region information meets a first condition, add a predetermined value to the count value of the region on which it is determined that the first condition is met, and set, for a region of interest, a region that draws an interest in the first image based on the count value.

Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method and computer-readable recording medium

An information-processing apparatus includes a display displaying an image; a memory recording voice data having a voice pronounced at each of plural observation points of the image; a gaze detector generating gaze data by detecting a gaze of a user; a voice input device generating voice data associated with a time axis identical to that of the gaze data by receiving a voice of the user; and a processor to analyze a attention period where a attention degree of the gaze to each of the plural observation points is a predetermined value or greater, based on the gaze data, set a period where the voice is pronounced with respect to the voice data as an important voice period, based on the voice data, and generate calibration data based on a time lag between the attention period and the important voice period.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

An image processing device includes a computer that is configured to: detect edge-strength information expressing an edge strength in an acquired image; apply noise-reduction processing using spatial information to the image; apply noise-reduction processing using frequency information to the image; and composite a first processed image subjected to the noise-reduction processing using spatial information and a second processed image subjected to the noise-reduction processing using frequency information, by using weights in which a compositing ratio of the first processed image becomes higher than a compositing ratio of the second processed image, in a region where the edge strength, which is expressed by the detected edge-strength information, is greater than a predetermined threshold, and in which the compositing ratio of the second processed image becomes higher than the compositing ratio of the first processed image, in a region where the edge strength is less than the threshold.

Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program

An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes a hardware processor configured to, analyze an attention degree of a gaze of a user, on the basis of gaze data in which the gaze of the user is detected, the gaze data being input externally, and assign an important degree according to the attention degree that is analyzed with respect to speech data of the user, the speech data being input externally, and is associated with a time axis that is a same as that of the gaze data to be recorded in a memory.

An image processing apparatus includes a photographing condition estimation unit for estimating a photographing condition of the input image based on photometric information and focal information. A Y/C separation unit separates the input image into a luminance signal and a color difference signal; a luminance correction unit extracts an edge from the luminance signal and corrects the luminance signal by a gradation conversion curve; a color difference correction unit corrects the color difference signal based on luminance signals obtained before and after the gradation correction and a theoretical limit characteristic of color reproduction; a skin color correction unit performs skin color correction depending on the photographing condition; and a Y/C synthesis unit synthesizes the luminance signal and the color difference signal obtained after the correction. Gradation correction is performed on the input image such that appropriate hue and saturation are achieved while emphasizing a main object.

Image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus for generating a wide dynamic range image to enable contrast to be maintained in low luminance image areas and high luminance image areas when the image is displayed by a narrow density range display system having: an image data buffer in which short-time exposure image data is stored; an image area segmenting circuit for fractionating long-time exposure image data into areas of proper and improper exposure; a segmented area image information extracting circuit for segmenting the properly exposed area of the long-time exposure image data on the basis of the segmented information and segmenting the improperly exposed area as a properly exposed area by applying the short-time exposure image data; a gradation correcting circuit for gradation-correcting image data in the properly exposed areas of the long-time exposure and the short-time exposure images which have been segmented by the segmented area image information extracting means, respectively; and an image synthesizer for synthesizing the properly exposed areas after gradation correction to form a composite wide dynamic range image.

Image processing apparatus for generating a wide dynamic range image

An image pick-up device for producing a synthesized image signal having a wide dynamic range by partially exchanging a plurality of image signals from a solid state image sensing element in an image synthesizing unit (), said image signals being obtained by picking-up a subject moving on a bright background with different exposure amounts, including a synthetic unsuitable portion detecting unit () for detecting a synthetic unsuitable portion by comparing said plurality of image signals picked-up with different exposure amounts, a synthetic unsuitable portion correcting unit () for correcting a pixel signal of said synthesizing unsuitable portion to derived a corrected synthesized image signal, and a low pass filter () for combining said corrected synthesized image signal from said synthetic unsuitable portion correcting unit with said synthesized image signal from said image synthesizing unit to derive a corrected synthesized image signal. An image obtained from the corrected synthesized image signal is not influenced by the movement of the subject and does not cause any feeling of strangeness as compared with a conventional photographic image.

Image pick-up device and record medium having recorded thereon computer readable program for controlling the image pick-up device

The present invention provides an image-pickup apparatus such as a digital still camera. Herein, prior to actual photographing, pre-photographing is performed with a shutter speed set to a plurality of different values. A signal synthesizing circuit synthesizes the resultant image values to acquire information concerning a dynamic range required to photograph a photographic scene. A signal distribution arithmetic circuit produces a histogram using the acquired information. A signal distribution analyzing circuit analyzes the peak frequencies of the histogram. A shutter timing calculating circuit produces shutter timing signals optimal for actual photographing according to the result of the analysis. An image-pickup device or the like is driven in response to each of the produced shutter timing signals, whereby actual photographing is achieved.

Image-pickup apparatus with expanded dynamic range capabilities

An object image data obtained by image taking by an image taking device, while a distance between a stage, on which an object is placed, and the image taking device is varied, is captured by a focus processing device at each predetermined timing. The focus processing device retrieves contrast data indicating a maximum value from the captured respective object image data, and stores the object image data in the image information memory. The object image data of the contrast data indicating the maximum value is read from the image information memory, and outputted and displayed on a display section.

Imaging processing apparatus for generating a wide dynamic range image

An image pick-up device for producing a synthesized image signal having a wide dynamic range by partially exchanging a plurality of image signals from a solid state image sensing element in an image synthesizing unit ( ), said image signals being obtained by picking-up a subject moving on a bright background with different exposure amounts, including a synthetic unsuitable portion detecting unit ( ) for detecting a synthetic unsuitable portion by comparing said plurality of image signals picked-up with different exposure amounts, a synthetic unsuitable portion correcting unit ( ) for correcting a pixel signal of said synthesizing unsuitable portion to derived a corrected synthesized image signal, and a low pass filter ( ) for combining said corrected synthesized image signal from said synthetic unsuitable portion correcting unit with said synthesized image signal from said image synthesizing unit to derive a corrected synthesized image signal. An image obtained from the corrected synthesized image signal is not influenced by the movement of the subject and does not cause any feeling of strangeness as compared with a conventional photographic image.

An image processing apparatus includes a photographing condition estimation unit for estimating a photographing condition of the input image on the basis of photometric information of a photometric evaluation unit and focal information of a focal point detection unit; a Y/C separation unit for separating the input image into a luminance signal and a color difference signal; a luminance correction unit for extracting an edge from the luminance signal and correcting the luminance signal by a gradation conversion curve obtained by weighting depending on the photographing condition; a color difference correction unit for performing correction on the color difference signal on the basis of luminance signals obtained before and after the gradation correction and a theoretical limit characteristic of color reproduction; a skin color correction unit for performing skin color correction or the like depending on the photographing condition; a Y/C synthesis unit for synthesizing the luminance signal and the color difference signal obtained after the correction. The image processing apparatus performs gradation correction on the input image such that appropriate hue and saturation are achieved while emphasizing a main object.

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Kazuhito Horiuchi