Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Masahiro Matsushita

Yasuhiko Kaneko

Kimiko Tachikawa

Ayumu Isomura

Shinsuke Zetsu

Hideaki Yoshihara

Yasuyo Nenoki

Hiroyuki Funakura

Kenji Kojima

Shuji Ono

Hajime Shirasaka

Takumi Suzuki

Shiro Miyagi

Yasuyuki Nagata

Yoshifumi Shioe

Chihiro Motono

There is provided with an image searching apparatus. A searching unit searches a plurality of search target images for an image relating to a query image based on a first similarity to the query image by a first evaluation scheme. A first obtaining unit obtains a feedback indicating correct or incorrect regarding the searched image. A second obtaining unit obtains an evaluation of an effect of changing a similarity evaluation scheme to a second evaluation scheme from the first evaluation scheme in accordance with the feedback. A control unit controls, in accordance with the evaluation of the effect, a search of the plurality of search target images for the image relating to the query image based on a second similarity to the query image by the second evaluation scheme.

Image searching apparatus, image searching method, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a first search unit configured to search for a feature of an object extracted from a video image in a registration list in which a feature indicating a predetermined object to be detected and identification information for identifying the predetermined object are registered, a generation unit configured to generate a first list in which at least the ID information about the predetermined object corresponding to the extracted object is registered in a case where the feature of the extracted object is detected in the registration list and generate a second list in which the feature of the extracted object is registered in a case where the feature of the extracted object is not detected in the registration list, and a second search unit configured to search for a target object designated by a user in the first list or the second list.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time. The album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images by correlating with the image capturing time and position of the images, a importance judging section for judging importance of the image capturing time and image capturing position in the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, an image capturing time sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page in the album based on the image capturing time stored in the image storing section when the importance judging section judges that the importance of the image capturing time is greater than that of the image capturing position, an image capturing position sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page of the album based on the image capturing position stored in the image storing section when the importance judging section judges that the importance of the image capturing position is greater than that of the image capturing time and a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted per page by the image capturing time sorting section or the image capturing position sorting section to each page of the album.

Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program

There is provided an apparatus and a method for generating an album while adequately allocating images per page in accordance to image capturing-times. The album creating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images correlating with image capturing-times of the images, a distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section for calculating a distribution of image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section based on the image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, an image sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page in the album based on the distribution of image capturing-times calculated by the distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section and a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted by the image sorting section per page to each page of the album.

Album creating apparatus facilitating appropriate image allocation, album generating method and program

An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image; a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; an input notification section for notifying a user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted when the image determining section determines that the image includes the person; a personal identification information input section for causing the user to input personal identification information indicative of the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section by a predetermined timing after the input notification section notifies the user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted; and an image storage section for storing the personal identification information inputted by the personal identification information input section in association with the image captured by the image capturing section when the personal identification information input section inputs the personal identification information.

Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, album creating apparatus, album creating method, album creating system and computer readable medium

A scanner includes a plurality of laser stimulating ray sources, a sample stage on which a sample containing a labeling substance is to be placed, a scanning mechanism, a photomultiplier for photoelectrically detecting light released from the labeling substance and producing analog image data, an A/D converter for converting the analog image data to digital image data, and a pixel density signal intensity simulating section for effecting simulation based on pre-scan digital image data produced by setting a voltage value of the photomultiplier to a given photomultiplier voltage value G0 to simulate density signal intensity of each pixel of digital image data that would be produced by setting the photomultiplier to a voltage value G different from the voltage value G0. According to the thus constituted scanner, it is possible to determine the voltage value of the photomultiplier simply and rapidly without causing on the degradation of a sample.

Scanner and method for setting voltage value of photomultiplier

There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album in which a desirable combination of images is disposed in one and same page. The album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing a plurality of images, an object sampling section for sampling objects contained in each image stored in the image storing section, a relationship judging section for judging that a relationship of the first object with the second object is high when a number of images containing the first and second objects sampled by the object sampling section is larger than a reference number set in advance in the images stored in the image storing section, a main image selecting section for selecting a main image that is to be a primary object in the album out of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, a subsidiary image selecting section for selecting the image containing the second object that has been judged by the relationship judging section to be highly related with the first object contained in the main image selected as a subsidiary and a layout determining section for laying out the main image and the subsidiary image in the album based on contents of the main image and the subsidiary image.

Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium

An album generating apparatus that stores a plurality of images, sorts the plurality of images stored per event based on image capturing environments, selects a main image that is to be a primary image in the album out of the plurality of images stored per event sorted, selects subsidiary images that are to be images subsidiary to the main image selected in the album out of the plurality of images stored per event sorted based on the contents of the main image and determines a layout of the main image selected and the subsidiary images selected based on the contents of the main image selected and the subsidiary images selected.

A digital data producing system includes a keyboard, a mouse, a data saving memory for saving sets of produced digital data, an additional character string memory for storing at least two sets of additional character strings, and a data file name assigning section for assigning to the sets of produced digital data a data file names produced by selecting one set of additional character strings from among the at least two sets of additional character strings stored in the additional character string memory in accordance with instructions input using the mouse when a naming rule is selected and serially adding members of the thus selected set of additional character strings to a basic data file name. According to the thus constituted digital data producing system, it is possible to simply assign to sets of digital data correlated with each other file names composed of, for example, a common character string plus additional character strings to clarify the correlation between (among) the sets of digital data.

Digital data producing system

In an image recording/reproducing apparatus and its method which is capable of readily extracting a still image from a moving image for recording, a still image designated by the user is extracted from a moving image inputted from image input/output means (C C ) or from a moving image reproduced by moving image recording means ( ), and the extracted still image is recorded in still image recording means ( ); thereby making it possible to readily extract a still image from a moving image and record the extracted still image, without interconnecting a plurality of devices as required before, and highly improving the usability in consequence.

Image recording/reproducing apparatus and its method

An image position adjusting apparatus adjusts the position plurality of images such that the plurality of the images may overlap one upon another. An image display device reproduces the respective images from image signals, which represent the respective images, and displays the reproduced images. A transformation device transforms each of the images, which are displayed on the image display device, into a simple image. The simple image is represented by only the image signal components of the image signal representing each of the displayed images, which image signal components have signal values larger than a predetermined threshold value. A polygon display device displays an arbitrary polygon on each of the simple images. A shift device shifts the polygon displayed on each of the simple images. A deformation device deforms the polygon, which is displayed on one of the simple images, and deforms the polygons, which are displayed on the other simple images, so as to interlock with the deformation of the polygon, which is displayed on one of the simple images. A rotation device rotates the polygons, which are displayed on the other simple images.

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Masahiro Matsushita