Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kimihiko Higashio

Masazumi Ito

Kadotaro Nishimori

Yoichi Kawabuchi

Akio Kato

Takatoshi Mochizuki

Tomokazu Kato

Syuzi Maruta

Akira Murakawa

Shuhei Taguchi

Takao Shudo

Shinichi Ban

Hiroyuki Hanamoto

Tetsuji Abe

Kagumi Moriwaki

Kinya Hasegawa

Takahiro Fujii

Shuji Nakao

Masayuki Mukai

Takeshi Yoshikai

Masahiro Ariizumi

Takashi Matsuno

Takuma Masuda

Miyuki Ono

Masako Inoue

Information processing method, device and program product capable of retrieving image data suitable for certain image data as a color scheme by a simple operation, in which (1) a piece of image data is selected as a retrieval criterion from among a plurality of image data stored in a first memory device, (2) a color stored in combination with a feature color of the selected image data is extracted from a second memory device for storing a plurality of two-color combinations suitable as color schemes, and (3) image data having the extracted color as a feature color is extracted from the first memory device as a retrieval result.

Information processing method, device and program conduct

A retrieval apparatus allows keywords to be attached simply and automatically. A feature quantity extractor extracts feature quantities of a registration-target image to obtain a p-dimensional feature vector. A vector converter multiplies the p-dimensional feature vector with a canonical correlation coefficient matrix A so as to convert the feature vector into a k-dimensional feature composite variable vector, thus making a scale change. A keyword auto-setting processor obtains q neighboring images based on distances between the feature composite variable vector of the registration-target image and coordinate composite variable vectors of r pre-registered images stored in a vector conversion coefficient storage . Then, based on distances between positions of the resulting q neighboring images on the image space and positions of the pre-registered keywords on the keyword space, h neighboring keywords are obtained for each of the neighboring images. Thus, q&times;h keywords suitably attached to the registration-target image are automatically set with simplicity.

Information processing apparatus capable of automatically setting degree of relevance between keywords, keyword attaching method and keyword auto-attaching apparatus

To provide an information processing apparatus that selects decorations suitable for image data to display the decorations together with the images. In an information processing apparatus that manages image data together with its content information, a decoration that is suitable for an image assigned by the user, from predetermined decorations, is selected based on event information contained in the content information of the image data. The resulting image displays the selected decoration together with the image assigned by the user.

Apparatus and method of information processing and storage medium that records information processing programs

Provided is an information processing apparatus which stores and manages image data and is able to output image data in a size equal to the size in the data reading stage independently of the resolutions of an image input device and an image output device. The original size is stored together with the image data in an image data inputting stage. An image output magnification is calculated so as to output an image in a size equal to the size of the original based on the resolution of the image output device and the resolution of the image input device in an image data outputting stage, and enlarged or reduced image data is outputted at the calculated magnification.

Information processing apparatus

An information processing device and method and computer program product which allow users to easily determine whether retrieved objects are desired ones or not, by displaying the retrieved objects in a different manner, such as at different display densities, with frames of different thicknesses, according to degree of similarity between a retrieval constraint and the objects themselves or attribute information annexed thereto or words/phrases included therein.

User-friendly information processing device and method and computer program product for retrieving and displaying objects

Keyword attachment is easily achieved in a short time. An automatic key attachment function deriving section derives an automatic key attachment function from an image quantity of a keyword attached to a designated reference image and a feature quantity of the reference image and stores the function into an automatic key attachment function storing section. A feature quantity calculating section of an image data registering section calculates the feature quantity of a registered image. A keyword estimating section obtains an image quantity from the calculated feature quantity and the automatic key attachment function, estimates the keyword based on this obtained image quantity and attaches the keyword to the registered image data. Thus by preparatorily registering the keyword into a keyword storing section together with the image quantity, the deriver of the automatic key attachment function and the attachment of the keyword to the registered image can be automatically executed, thereby allowing the keyword attachment to be easily achieved in a short time.

Method of attaching keyword or object-to-key relevance ratio and

In image data retrieval, image data that becomes the base of search is specified. When the search is to be carried out according to the distance from the image data on an image map, an automatic setting process of retrieval information is carried out. Here, a keyword, icon, chromaticity and the like of that image data are automatically set as retrieval information. The position of that image data on the image map becomes the center of a range when the ambiguity is set. By setting the ambiguity of the image map, keyword, icon, chromaticity, and the like in this state, the range of ambiguity is displayed, and image data within that range is automatically retrieved. As a result, analogous image data can be searched for according to subtle and ambiguous information or information that cannot be quantified.

Data administration apparatus that can search for desired image data

An information processor system includes a control unit for controlling the entire system mainly formed of a CPU, a display for displaying image data to be edited, a keyboard for entering various inputs, a plurality of mice for applying simple instructions of editing work instead of input from the keyboard, and a printer for printing out image data displayed on the display onto a sheet of paper. The display has four types of images displayed. A plurality of cursors corresponding to each of the plurality of mice are displayed on the screen.

Information processor system allowing multi-user editing

A copying machine having an original feeding unit for feeding originals onto a platen glass which is operable in a two-original feeding mode where two originals are placed side by side in a particular position on the platen glass, and a sheet handling unit which is operable in a binding mode where copy sheets which copied images are bound. When the two-original feeding mode is selected, a selection of the binding mode is inhibited. When the two-original feeding mode is selected after the binding mode was selected, a warning is generated to inform that the sheet handling unit becomes impossible to be operated in the binding mode. When a copying operation is started without in spite of the generation of the warning, the binding mode is canceled.

Copying apparatus

A non-invasive glucose concentration measurement apparatus includes: a light source which projects at the sample radiation of a wavelength range including a wavelength at which absorption greatly changes with glucose concentration but does not greatly vary with temperature; a photosensor which receives the radiation which have been projected by the light source, and transmitted through or reflected by the sample, and generates an electrical signal corresponding to a through-transmitted or reflected level of the radiation of the wavelength; and a calculator which calculates a glucose concentration based on the electrical signal. A more accurate glucose concentration can be obtained without the influence of temperature.

Apparatus for measuring a glucose concentration

An image forming apparatus includes a main body having an image forming portion and a first indicating device for indicating an accumulated number of copies the image forming portion, and an IC card detachable from the main body. The IC card includes a second indicating device for indicating the accumulated number of copies when the IC card is attached. The IC card further includes an arithmetic operation key for inputting a numerical calculation expression. A numerical calculation will be carried out in accordance with the arithmetic operation key. Finally, the IC card will have first and second states and the image forming apparatus will be switched between operable and inoperable conditions depending on the first and second states

Image forming apparatus having detachable IC card

An image duplicating apparatus of the type having an IC-card controlled mode of operation in which are to be established standard conditions for copying operation when predetermined initial requirements are satisfied in the absence of an IC card set in the apparatus, and IC-card optional conditions for copying operation when the predetermined requirements are satisfied in the presence of an IC card set in the apparatus. The apparatus includes a control for selecting duplicating conditions within the apparatus and a memory for storing data representative of the selected duplicating conditions in responses to a first state in which the IC-card is not set in the apparatus, and for storing data fetched from the IC-card in response to a second state when the IC-card is set in the apparatus. The control is responsive to transition from one state to the other for establishing either the standard conditions or the optional conditions for a copying operation.

Image duplicating apparatus for use with an external data storage medium

A copying apparatus of the present invention includes an original tray on which a plurality of originals can be placed; a conveying mode selecting apparatus for selecting a first mode and the second mode; a conveying apparatus for taking out one original at a time out of the plurality of originals placed on the original tray in the first mode for setting the same to an exposure position and for taking two originals continuously out of the plurality of originals placed on the original tray in the second mode for setting the same to the exposure position; an automatic paper feeding apparatus for automatically feeding sheets of copy paper of a prescribed the size one by one; a manual paper feeding apparatus for manually feeding sheets of copy paper of an arbitrary size; a paper feeding selecting apparatus for selecting either the automatic paper feeding apparatus or the manual paper feeding apparatus; and a controlling apparatus for inhibiting simultaneous selection of the second mode and the manual paper feeding apparatus.

Copying machine capable of copying two originals on one sheet of paper

An electrophotographic copying apparatus including an image forming device for scanning an image of an original document so as to form an electrostatic latent image of the image of the original document on a photosensitive member, three or more developing devices for developing the latent image, a selecting device for selecting two of the developing devices, a region designating device for designating, for the two selected developing devices, regions of the latent image to be developed, respectively and a device for sequentially actuating, on the basis of the designated regions, the two selected developing devices during one scanning operation of the image forming device so as to form a two-color image.

Copying apparatus capable of copying in two colors simultaneously

A copying machine including a specifying unit movable along the document support for specifying a particular point and operable to divide an area of the document support into a first area, delimited between the exposure start position to the particular point, and a second area delimited between the particular point and the exposure terminating position; a first developing unit with a mass of developing material of first color therein and operable to develop an electrostatic latent image into a visible powder image, a second developing unit with a mass of developing material of second color therein and operable to develop the electrostatic latent image into a visible powder image, and an erasing unit for erasing the electrostatic latent image before the electrostatic latent image is developed by one of the first and second developing unit; a mode specifying unit for specifying relative to the first and second areas one of a first mode in which the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive medium is developed into the visible powder image of first color with the use of the first developing unit, a second mode in which the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive medium is developed into the visible powder image of second color with the use of the second developing unit, and a third mode in which the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive medium is erased with the use of the erasing unit.

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Osaka, Japan

Kimihiko Higashio