Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Koichiro Wanda

Takashi Yagita

Koji Kikuchi

Hidekazu Morooka

Kenichi Shirai

Kei Kitagata

Hiroyuki Kayama

Noriyoshi Kurotsu

Masamichi Ohshima

Toshikazu Ohshima

Kazutaka Matsueda

Tadaki Watanabe

Akihiro Katayama

Kiyohide Satoh

Takaaki Endo

Masakazu Fujiki

Mitsuo Kimura

Takuji Nakatsuma

Junichi Takeda

Kanako Takeda

Takuya Kakehashi

Masamichi Oshima

There is provided a method including instructing a notification apparatus to issue a notification in a case where a video image capturing an entrance of a specific location includes an unregistered person moving toward the specific location, and deactivating the notification by the notification apparatus in a case where a video image capturing the specific location includes a pre-registered person.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

In an information processing device processing map information of a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a sensor information acquiring unit acquires output information of a sensor performing measurement relating to a movement amount or the surrounding environment of the vehicle. An error generation amount calculating unit calculates an error generation amount in position information of an element configuring map information on the basis of the acquired information. An accumulative error evaluating unit evaluates an accumulation degree of the calculated error generation amount. A correction determining unit determines need for an accumulative error correcting process relating to map information on the basis of an evaluation result of the accumulative error. In accordance with an instruction from the correction determining unit, a notification device notifies a user of need for correction using loop closure.

Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium

Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus, including: a light source; a detecting unit that detects an acoustic wave generated from an object which has received an irradiation light from the light source; a processing unit that generates characteristic information on the inside of the object by using the acoustic wave; and a memory unit that records the characteristic information in association with information on the irradiation light.

Object information acquiring apparatus and control method thereof

This invention provides a technique to dynamically set an imaging parameter appropriate for observing a region of interest on an object to generate a high-quality echogram while maintaining the operability to change the position and orientation of a probe. A region-of-interest acquisition unit acquires region information that defines the region of interest. A position and orientation acquisition unit acquires position and orientation information representing the position and orientation of a probe. A parameter deciding unit obtains an imaging parameter based on the positional relationship between an imaging range decided based on the position and orientation information and the region of interest defined by the region information, and outputs the obtained imaging parameter to an imaging unit.

Image diagnosis apparatus and method for dynamically focusing tracked ultrasound probe with multimodal imaging system

Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus including: an irradiating unit that irradiates an object with light; a probe that receives an acoustic wave generated from the object irradiated with the light; a generating unit that generates an image of the object interior on the basis of the acoustic wave; an imaging region input unit that receives an input of a designation of an imaging region, which is a region of the object in which the acoustic wave is received by the probe; a display region input unit that receives an input of a designation of a display region, which is a region of the object in which the image generated by the generating unit is displayed; and a display unit that displays the generated image in the display region.

Object information acquiring apparatus

An object information acquisition apparatus, configured to receive an acoustic wave from an object and acquire characteristic information of the object, includes a receiver configured to receive the acoustic wave and convert the received acoustic wave into an electric signal, a scan control unit configured to scan the receiver at least in one direction, and a display control unit configured to produce guide information for displaying a guide on a display unit, wherein the guide is in terms of the number of times the receiver is scanned in a first direction and wherein the guide information is produced using information associated with a specified region defined by a user as a region in which characteristic information is to be acquired.

Object information acquisition apparatus, object information acquisition system, display control method, display method, and program

An object information acquiring apparatus disclosed by this specification includes a detector configured to detect a photoacoustic wave generated from an object on which light is irradiated from a light source, a generator configured to generate, using the photoacoustic wave, an image indicating characteristic information in a photographing region in the object, an acquirer configured to acquire information concerning quantitativity of a measurement value of the photoacoustic wave in the photographing region, and an extractor configured to extract a region having quantitativity in the image on the basis of the information concerning quantitativity.

An image information acquiring apparatus of the present invention includes an acoustic wave detector having, disposed on a reception surface thereof, a plurality of elements that detect acoustic waves generated by an object corresponding to a reconstruction area; an acoustic signal generator that generates acoustic signals that are used in image reconstruction, from the detected acoustic waves; an element selector that selects elements that are used in image reconstruction; and a reconstructor that performs image reconstruction of a point of interest using acoustic signals based on the acoustic waves detected by the selected elements, the image information acquiring apparatus being configured such that, for each selected element, there exists another selected element located at a symmetrical position with respect to a point at which the reception surface is intersected by a perpendicular line drawn from the point of interest to the reception surface.

Image information acquiring apparatus, image information acquiring method and image information acquiring program

An imaging apparatus that captures an object that changes temporally includes: first acquisition means for acquiring an overview image of the object; determination means for determining a reference part in the overview image in which there is less temporal change than in other parts; setting means for setting, in a first overview image, a capturing position of the object where detailed capturing is to be performed; registering means for, in the case where a second overview image has been acquired for the same object as the object in the first overview image, registering the second overview image with the first overview image based on the reference parts in the first and second overview images; and second acquisition means for acquiring a detailed captured image of the object in a position corresponding to the capturing position of the first overview image in the registered second overview image.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method, program, and recording medium

There is disclosed an information processing apparatus which efficiently and effectively executes printing even when interruption of printing occurs in a printing apparatus. The apparatus which includes a plurality of print queues each functioning as one of a backup print queue and a basic print queue and executes output to a printing apparatus based on print job information with higher priority than output to a printing apparatus based on backup job information, comprising, output means for outputting a print job in accordance with schedule up of one of pieces of print job information and backup job information registered in the plurality of print queues, and registration means for, in accordance with interruption of printing based on job information registered in one of the basic print queue and the backup print queue, registering backup job information in the print queues except the print queue corresponding to the printing apparatus which has interrupted printing.

Method and apparatus for executing load distributed printing

This invention provides a load distributed printing technique which efficiently uses a plurality of printing apparatuses by using small resources. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus, which can transmit a print job to a plurality of printing apparatuses, is provided. The information processing apparatus comprises print queue setting means for setting one of a plurality of print queues corresponding to the plurality of printing apparatuses as a basic print queue and setting remaining print queues other than the basic print queue as backup print queues, print job registration means for registering print job information in the basic print queue, backup job registration means for generating backup job information corresponding to the print job information registered in the basic print queue and registering the backup job information in the backup print queue, and job control means for, when the print job information is registered in each of the basic print queue and the backup print queue, preferentially outputting a print job corresponding to the print job information to a corresponding printing apparatus, and when no print job information is registered, and a print job corresponding to the backup job information can be output, changing the backup job information to print job information and outputting the print job to a corresponding printing apparatus.

A CG image having a transparency parameter is superimposed on a shot image, which is an image picked up by an image-pickup device, to obtain a combined image. The combined image is displayed in a combined-image-display region. In the combined image, a mask region of the CG image is set based on parameter information used to extract a region of a hand. The transparency parameter of the CG image is set based on a ratio of the size of the region of the CG image excluding the mask region to the size of the shot image. By checking the combined image, which is displayed in the combined-image-display region, the user can set the parameter information by a simple operation.

Image processing method and image processing apparatus

In a print system including a print server and a plurality of printers, when the occurrence of a failure in a first printer is detected, the print job to be processed first from among the print jobs accumulated in the first printer is identified as the first print job. Print jobs other than the first print job in the first printer are transferred to a second printer, and then deleted from the first printer.

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Koichiro Wanda