Nikon Corporation

Keiichi Nitta

Hideo Hoshuyama

Hirotake Nozaki

Masakazu Sekiguchi

Setsu Mitsuhashi

Kazuya Umeyama

Takeshi Nishi

Hiroki Uwai

Hiroyuki Akiya

Hirofumi Hidari

Kenji Suzuki

Hiroyuki Tomita

Akira Ohmura

Nobuhiro Fujinawa

Kiyoshige Shibazaki

Tadashi Ohta

Junya Yamashita

Yuko Hattori

Mikiya Tanaka

Takaaki Hashimoto

Go Watanabe

Saeko Samejima

Kazue Minagawa

Masato Takeishi

Yasunobu Nakagawa

Takashi Matsukuma

To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.

Information processing device, portable device and information processing system

In a first step of a program, data of a plurality of still images generated by continuously imaging still images of a subject using an imaging apparatus is read into a calculating section. In a second step, the calculating section selects a specified image from among an object image group which includes the plurality of still images and in which respective images are continued in a time base direction. In a third step, the calculating section selects a first image to be added from images before the specified image in the time base direction among the object image group. Further, the calculating section determines an addition rate of the first image to be added to the specified image. In a fourth step, the calculating section records data of the addition rate of the first image to be added in association with data of the specified image.

Program recording medium, image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and image processing method

An imaging device includes a main photography means for photographing a photographic subject and acquires a photographic image, a preparatory image acquisition means for performing preparatory photography before or after the main photography means acquires the photographic image and acquiring preparatory images, a photographic information acquisition means for acquiring photographic information related to a circumstance of photography when the preparatory images are acquired by the preparatory image acquisition means, and a recording means for recording the photographic information and the photographic image upon a recording medium in mutual correlation.

Imaging device, image display device, and program with intruding object detection

An electronic camera is characterized by including an imaging part shooting a figure image; an area detection part detecting a flesh-colored area including a face portion and a portion other than a face; a color judgment part judging color information of the flesh-colored area; a color difference calculation part determining a color difference between first color information of the face portion and second color information of the flesh-colored area of the portion other than the face; a correction coefficient calculation part determining color correction coefficients based on the color difference; an area appointment part appointing an area on which a color conversion is performed; and a color conversion part performing, when the color difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the color conversion on the area appointed by the area appointment part by using the color correction coefficients.

Electronic camera and medium storing image processing program for skin color correction

An object recognition apparatus includes an image input unit capturing image data, an object dictionary unit storing conditions to specify a type of an object, and a processor collating the image data with the conditions and specifying the type of the object imaged in the image data, in which the object dictionary unit classifies the conditions into hierarchies and stores the classified conditions, and the processor performs collation while narrowing down object conditions positioned in lower hierarchies based on a collation result of object conditions positioned in upper hierarchies.

Object recognition apparatus, computer readable medium storing object recognition program, and image retrieval service providing method

An apparatus takes in a plurality of still image frames, to generate an interpolated image frame. Next, moving addition of the still image frame and an interpolated image frame is performed in time-axis direction, to generate a superimposed image frame. At this time, high spatial frequency components in the superimposed image frame are suppressed strongly as alienation of motion between the still image frames becomes larger. Movie is reproduced by sandwiching these superimposed image frames between the still image frames. As a result of this, the movie reproduction with smooth motion is made possible even from a group of the still images photographed by an electronics still camera and the like.

Image processing apparatus, program, and method for performing preprocessing for movie reproduction of still images

A portable telephone device with incorporated projectorstarts projection by a projection modulewhen a relative angle &#x3b8; is set to a projection attitude of 80&#xb0; and three seconds elapses. If a setting is made for performing vibration correction processing, then a camera unitis commanded to start image-capturing or photographing frame pictures continuously. The portable telephone device with incorporated projectorcalculates six movement vectors by comparing pictures between successive frames photographed by an image sensor. Along with deciding upon 'hand tremor' based upon the movement vectors which are calculated, moreover a representative vector is calculated. The portable telephone device with incorporated projectorfurther creates picture shift information for canceling the representative vector, and, if 'hand tremor' has been decided upon, suppresses vibration or wobbling of the contents projected by the projector module using the picture shift information.

Electronic device

A projector device that generates a projection image, photographs this projection image and performs various adjustments to the projection image.

Projector device, portable telephone and camera

An image processing system can realize a more accurate and high-quality correction of defective pixels by including an image pickup device, an obtaining unit obtaining information showing positions of defective pixels occurred at the image pickup device, a creating unit creating discrimination information showing the positions of the defective pixels in an image generated via the image pickup device, a detecting unit detecting a correlativity with neighborhood pixels by each defective pixel, and an estimating unit estimating a pixel value by each defective pixel in accordance with a detected result by the detecting unit. Incidentally, the image processing system is configured by an imaging device and a computer recording an image processing program, in which the imaging device includes the image pickup device, the obtaining unit, and the creating unit, and the image processing program may make the computer function as the detecting unit and the estimating unit.

Image processing system and image processing program for defective pixel correction

Image processing apparatus, program and method for performing preprocessing for movie reproduction of still images

A recursive noise reduction device which has adaptability with respect to changes in input image data which are not noise, resulting from, e.g., scene changes and subject movement, and in which a rise in the black level and a drop in the white level does not occur. The recursive noise reduction device includes a storage unit which stores image signals in field or frame units, and a computation unit which multiplies by an input image signal A by K (0&lt;K&lt;1), and multiplies by (1-K) an image signal B from a previous recursive calculation, which is output from the storage unit. The computation unit adds the input image signal A, which has been multiplied by K, to the signal B, which has been multiplied by (1-K), and the computation results are stored in the storage unit. A comparison device compares the signal A with the signal B. The value obtained by rounding the result of the addition upward to the next whole number is considered the computation result when A&gt;B, and the value obtained by rounding the result of the addition downward to the next whole number is considered the computation result when A&lt;B. The comparison device and the computation unit may comprise a Look-up Table.

Recursive noise reduction device having improved adaptability with

A recursive noise reduction device which reduces the noise component(s) of stationary region(s) in a moving image, successively cyclically calculating the coefficient (K) times of the present image signals and (1-K) times of the previous image signal having a correlation with the present image signal. The present image signal is a signal of an image of a frame or field that is presently entered and the previous image signal is a signal of an immediately previous image of the frame or field. The recursive noise reduction device includes a calculating unit to recursively calculate a sum of the coefficient K times the present image signal and (1-K) times the previous image signal, modifying the value of the aforementioned coefficient K according to the number of times of cyclic calculation, and a movement detection unit to detect the movement of an image within the stationary region(s) of the image. The value of the coefficient K is modified according to the output signal of the movement detection unit. Preferably, in the case that movement is detected by the movement detection unit, the value of the coefficient K is made equal to 1 as regards only the movement region of the image, and after this, the value of K is gradually made smaller.

Recursive noise reduction device for reducing noise of stationary

A color camera of a surface-sequence system comprises a rotational filter having a plurality of filtering parts respectively for red, green, and blue color signals, an image pick up for sequentially converting the incident light transmitted from an object image through the rotational filter into each of the electrical color signals, an amplifier capable of varying amplification factors for amplifying each of the color signals from the image pick up, and a correcting device for controlling the amplification factors of the amplifier in accordance with each of the characteristics of the plural filtering parts of the rotational filter when each of the color compositions of image signals is amplified.

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