Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujitsu Corporation

Kazuki Taira

Tatsuo Saishu

Yuzo Hirayama

Rieko Fukushima

Ayako Takagi

Masaaki Yasunaga

Norimasa Ariga

Goh Itoh

Masahiro Baba

Haruhiko Okumura

Masaaki Tamatani

Kouhei Suzuki

Yoshiharu Momonoi

So Ishika

Takashi Nishimura

Yoshihiro Watanabe

Rei Hasegawa

Yasushi Kawata

Daisuke Ishikawa

Nozomu Harada

Hiroki Nakamura

Yujiro Hara

Miki Mori

Yukio Kizaki

Takaya Kitawaki

Tsutomu Sakamoto

Hirotaka Murata

Seiji Murakami

Hiroshi Suzuki

Masahiko Akiyama

Yasunobu Yamauchi

Masako Kashiwagi

Tsuyoshi Hioki

Atsushi Sugahara

Akira Kinno

Ryozo Akiyama

Isao Mihara

Takayuki Sawada

Daisuke Harayama

Yutaka Saitoh

Shunichi Numazaki

Ryoji Tsuda

Kenichi Kameyama

Yoshinori Higuchi

Norihiko Kamiura

Hisayuki Enbutsu

Shingo Yanagawa

Shigeki Uno

Kohei Suzuki

Yoko Fukunaga

Jyunichi Kamakura

Tadahiro Haraguchi

Takashi Hosoya

Yoshinobu Sasakawa

Yukitami Mizuno

A decolorizing apparatus includes a translucent heater, a casing, and a controller. The translucent heater is configured to generate heat according to an applied voltage. The casing is configured to support the translucent heater. The controller is configured to apply a voltage to the translucent heater. The voltage is associated with a temperature at which a thermochromic colorant.

Decolorizing apparatus

A freshness label in an embodiment includes a base material having a fluid retention capacity and a phosphor layer on a surface of the base material. The phosphor layer includes an aggregation-induced phosphor. The base material has a porous or mesh structure. The aggregation-induced phosphor comprises a phosphor having a polar functional group or the like. The freshness label can be used to detect spoilage and/or deterioration of fresh food according to changed in fluorescence intensity provided by the aggregation-induced phosphor.

Freshness label with aggregation-induced phosphor

According to one embodiment, there is provided a code generation method including acquiring, and generating a code. In the acquiring, class information correlated with each of code rankings based on a plurality of different cell configurations is acquired. In the generating, a plurality of codes including the acquired class information are generated based on the cell configurations according to the code rankings. Each of the plurality of codes includes information indicating the presence or absence of a code of a next related ranking.

Code generation method

According to at least one embodiment, a mobile printer includes a casing, a sensor, a print head, an interface, a controller, and a decolorizing device. The casing includes a power supply. The sensor detects the movement of the casing. The print head discharges ink containing a thermochromic colorant. The interface acquires image data. The controller discharges the ink from the print head based on the image data acquired by the interface and the movement of the casing detected by the sensor. The decolorizing device is coupled to the casing and includes a translucent film in which heat is generated by an applied voltage and a translucent substrate that is heated to a temperature at which the thermochromic colorant is decolorized by the heat generated in the translucent film.

Mobile printer

An autonomous inventory tracking apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, and a processor configured to detect a calibration plate in the image acquired from the image acquisition unit, calculate a color correction value for the image according to a color block of the calibration plate, the color block matching a reference value, correct color in the image using the calculated color correction value to provide a color-corrected image, and perform commodity recognition processing on the color-corrected image so as to identify the commodity in the image acquired from the image acquisition unit.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

According to one embodiment, a code recognition device includes a reader, a processor for region detection, for first extraction, and for second extraction. The reader photographs a code image. The processor detects a code region and a letter region included in the code image from the code image photographed by the reader. The processor extracts first code information indicating the code image from the code region. The processor also extracts second code information indicating the code image from the letter region.

Code recognition device

An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a cart having a first processor and a camera mounted on the cart. The camera photographs an object and generates an image. The first processor corrects focus of the camera based on correction information to bring the camera into focus with the object to be photographed. A second processor: calculates a standard deviation and an entropy based on tone information of pixels in the image, calculates a ratio between the standard deviation and the entropy, compares the ratio and a reference value, determines the correction information based on the comparison result, and provides the correction information to the first processor.

Image processing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium

According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an interface that receives a first image and a second image. A processor extracts a first character string appearing on the first image, and a second character string appearing on the second image. The processor determines that both the first character string and the second character string correspond to a photographed subject in the first image and second image. The processor cuts out each of the characters constituting the first character string, in units of a character. The processor cuts out each of the characters constituting the second character string, in units of a character. The processor calculates a first similarity degree group and a second similarity degree group. The processor recognizes a character string of the subject, based on the first similarity degree group and the second similarity degree group.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable storage medium

According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a dividing unit, a calculating unit, a determining unit, and an output unit. The dividing unit is configured to divide an image into a plurality of regions. The calculating unit is configured to calculate a standard deviation and an entropy per region divided by the dividing unit based on tone information of pixels comprising each region, and calculate a ratio between the standard deviation and the entropy. The determining unit is configured to determine a region in which the ratio exceeds a reference value. The output unit is configured to output information based on a determination result obtained by the determining unit.

According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit. The calculation unit is configured to calculate a first similarity degree group which is composed of similarity degrees between respective characters constituting a first character string appearing on a first image and respective candidate characters in a candidate character group, to calculate a second similarity degree group which is composed of similarity degrees between respective characters constituting a second character string appearing on a second image and the respective candidate characters, and to calculate a third similarity degree group which is composed of similarity degrees between respective characters constituting a third character string appearing on the second image and the respective candidate characters.

According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a recognition unit. The calculation unit is configured to calculate a first similarity degree group which is composed of similarity degrees between respective characters constituting a first character string appearing on a first image and respective candidate characters in a candidate character group, and to calculate a second similarity degree group which is composed of similarity degrees between respective characters constituting a second character string appearing on a second image and the respective candidate characters in the candidate character group.

According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an operation unit, a comparative determination unit, and an output unit. The operation unit is configured to calculate a standard deviation and an entropy based on tone information of pixels comprising an image, and calculate a ratio between the standard deviation and the entropy. The comparative determination unit is configured to compare the ratio and a reference value. The output unit is configured to output a comparison result obtained by the comparative determination unit.

In an apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional image, sub-pixels having color components are arranged in a longitudinal direction and in a lateral direction in a matrix form, in a display section for displaying a flat image, and a light ray control element is disposed so as to be opposed to the display section. In the light ray control element, linear optical openings extending in a vertical direction are arranged in the lateral direction. A sum of opening area lengths of opening areas of a plurality of sub-pixels adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction is varied in a single row, and the sum thereof in a plurality of rows becomes constant. Further, an arrangement of the sub-pixels is a color arrangement of a mosaic arrangement or a lateral stripe arrangement.

Three-dimensional image display apparatus for displaying three-dimensional image

It is made possible to satisfy such a condition that moire or color moire is suppressed and a fast image processing is made easy and such a condition that sufficient image quality can be obtained both at a flat image display time and at a stereoscopic image display time simultaneously. A vertical period of pixel rows having the pixels arranged in one row in a lateral direction is three times a lateral period of the pixels, the pixels developing red, green and blue are alternately arranged in a lateral direction in the same row, the pixels in one row of two rows adjacent in a vertical direction are arranged such that lateral positions thereof are shifted to the pixels in the other row by &#xbd; of the lateral period of the pixels, the pixels in rows adjacent in the same column through one row interposed therebetween are the pixels developing different colors of red, green and blue, and a pitch of the elemental images is equal to a width of 18n (n=1, 2, 3 . . . ) pieces of the pixels, and a lateral pitch of the beam control element is smaller than the width of the 18n pieces of the pixels.

Stereoscopic display device and display method

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Kazuki Taira