Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Imaging Corporation

Masaki Higurashi

Yasuhiro Komiya

Akihiro Kubota

Tatsuo Nagasaki

Takashi Ishikawa

Hideaki Furukawa

Koutatsu Oura

Akira Ueno

Tetsuo Kikuchi

Tadashi Hirata

Tetsuya Toyoda

Yoshinao Shimada

Manabu Fujita

Hidetoshi Yamada

Ken Ioka

Susumu Kobayashi

Tadashi Nishio

Fujio Kosaka

Takashi Kondoh

GangLu Jing

Mitsuji Waki

Ganglu Jing

Akiro Ueno

Hideaki Fukukawa

An observation device includes: an illumination optical system that irradiates illumination light onto a sample, an objective optical system that has a phase modulation region and a light blocking region and that acquires an image of the illumination light transmitted through the sample, and an autofocus mechanism. The objective optical system selectively outputs the illumination light from a first output region disposed at a position where the illumination light is to be projected onto the phase modulation region and a second output region disposed at a position where a portion of the illumination light is to be projected onto the light blocking region. The autofocus mechanism causes the objective optical system to acquire an image of the illumination light while causing the illumination light to be output from the second output region, and detects the focus position of the objective optical system based on the contrast of the acquired image.

Observation device

An observation device, comprising an image sensor that forms an image of a specimen, and a processor having a focus control section and an analyzer, wherein the focus control section, in a case where image data for analysis of the specimen by the analyzer is obtained when a plurality of maximum values have been generated for change in contrast evaluation value corresponding to change in the focus position, controls focus position any focus position that corresponds to the plurality of maximum values, and the image sensor outputs image data that has been imaged.

Observation device and focus adjustment method

An imaging element includes a plurality of imaging pixels each with a light receiver and a plurality of focus detection pixels each with a light receiver including an opening position different from opening positions in the imaging pixels. The imaging element includes a reading unit and a reading range setting unit. The reading unit reads pixel signals from the imaging pixels or the focus detection pixels. The reading range setting unit sets a reading range for the reading unit to read the pixel signals from the focus detection pixels.

Imaging element, focus detection apparatus, and focus detection method

A focus detection apparatus generates a focus evaluation value based on image data corresponding to a predetermined focus detection area. The focus detection apparatus includes a filter circuit, a reset circuit, a multiplication circuit, a coefficient generating circuit, and an integration circuit. The filter circuit filters image data to be input. The reset circuit generates a reset signal to reset the filter circuit. The multiplication circuit multiplies the image data by a predetermined coefficient and supplies the filter circuit with the image data multiplied by the coefficient as image data to be filtered after the reset circuit generates the reset signal. The coefficient generating circuit generates the coefficient. The integration circuit generates the focus evaluation value within the focus detection area based on an output of the filter circuit.

Focus detection apparatus and focus detection method with a filter circuit for filtering image data multiplied by a coefficient after being reset

An imaging apparatus of the invention comprises a camera body and a lens unit which can be mounted on and removed from the camera body. The focusing lens of the lens unit is moved along the optical axis. The position of the focusing lens on the optical axis is detected by a position detection section in response to a synchronization signal according to the photographic timing of the imaging device. A second transmission section transmits position data on the focusing lens detected by the position detection section to the camera body.

Imaging apparatus

An image processing apparatus has a distortion correction processing unit. The image processing apparatus has a distortion correcting range calculating unit that calculates an input image range necessary for distortion correction processing of the distortion correction processing unit. Thus, the corrected image (output image) obtained by the distortion correction processing can be outputted without overs and shorts for the image output range. The distortion is corrected by effectively using input (picked-up) image data, serving as the original data. Further, the distortion including the pincushion distortion, the barrel distortion, and the curvilinear distortion is effectively corrected.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and distortion correcting method

An image processing apparatus applied to a digital camera, includes: a frame memory that inputs and stores, via a bus, image data obtained by capturing an optical image through an optical system by a CCD; a first data-order converting unit that reads and inputs the image data from the frame memory in units of a block in the row direction, and converts and outputs the image data in the column direction; an image processing unit that is connected to the first data-order converting unit for pipeline processing and performs image processing; a distortion correction processing unit that is connected to the image processing unit for pipeline processing and performs the distortion correction processing; and a second data-order converting unit that is connected to the distortion correction processing unit for pipeline processing, returns block data in the column direction into that in the row direction, and outputs the converted data to the frame memory.

Image processing apparatus

An image compressing method includes: separating image data obtained from an image pickup device into each primary color component; obtaining difference data between each piece of image data of color components of colors other than a reference color in the image data separated into each primary color component, and the image data of the color component of the reference color; encoding the difference data to obtain a variable-length code; and encoding the image data of the color component of the reference color to obtain a predicted code.

Image compressing method and image compression apparatus

This is an image processing device for predicting the lower-order bits of target pixel data, based on one or more pieces of pixel data constituting image data. The image processing device comprises a lower-order bit calculation unit for calculating the lower-order bits of the target pixel data, based on one or more pieces of pixel data constituting image data and specifying the data as corrected lower-order bits and a lower-order bit superimposition unit for superimposing the corrected lower-order bits calculated by the lower-order bit calculation unit on higher-order bits of the target pixel data.

Image processing device

In an image processing apparatus of the present invention, which displays image data, such as images photographed by imaging apparatus such as a digital camera and photographing conditions as images before correction and images after correction, on an image display section, distortion and color tone of images obtained from an unused camera are corrected and joined to each other as viewing images before and after correction, so that the parameters used in the correction are stored in accordance with its apparatus, and the stored parameters are read out and used to correct in images obtained from previously used camera, and the joined image and image data are displayed on a monitor and output by a printer, or stored in a recording medium.

Image processing apparatus for joining a plurality of images

A digital evidential camera system is for detecting the alteration of image data obtained by photographing an object. The system comprises the camera and an alteration detection unit. The camera includes an image pickup unit for picking up an image of the object and an encryption processing unit for generating the alteration detection data using an encryption key built therein from the image data obtained by the image pickup unit. The alteration detection unit decrypts the alteration detection data using a decryption key corresponding to the encryption key, and detects whether the image data is altered based on the result of decryption.

Digital evidential camera system for generating alteration detection data using built-in encryption key

In an image calibration device a calibration pattern is projected onto a screen from each projector under control of a personal computer or other calibration device , pictures are taken by a digital camera or other image pick-up device and the results are supplied to the calibration device . The calibration device uses the supplied picture data to calculate parameters in order to perform picture positioning, color adjustment, brightness adjustment and other adjustments and corrections, and based on the calculation results transforms the original picture data, generates and supplies signals indicating projection conditions to each of the projectors and performs image calibration control of the pictures projected by each projector Here at the time of taking pictures, by installing on the image pick-up device a shielding member formed into a tetragonal pyramid shape, the light-receiving part of the image pick-up device and the screen are completely shielded from ambient external light. By this means, the measurement precision of the image pick-up device is improved, and accurate and reliable image calibration is performed.

Image calibration device and image calibration method

In a system according to the invention, fine image data created and output by a personal computer is input to an image processing/dividing section . The image processing/dividing section determines, on the basis of parameters stored in a projector arrangement storage , which portion of the fine image data is output to which projector, thereby performing a predetermined processing. Digital signals from the image processing/dividing section are input to a plurality of D/A converters , respectively, where the signals are converted to analog signals. Images in the form of the analog signals are projected onto a screen from projectors . Thus, the image projected on the screen 8 is constituted of accurately positioned images, and hence is a very fine image.

Image projecting system

The present invention provides a multi-display device that has a plurality of projectors and constructs one image as a whole. Partial images projected on a screen from the projectors overlap to have the edges thereof superposed on edges of adjoining partial images in shared fields on the screen. A sheet interceptor intercepts part of light to be projected on a shared field so that the luminance level in the shared field will agree with the luminance levels in the other fields except the shared fields. An interceptor portion of the sheet interceptor, which intercepts light from the right-hand side of a range on the screen within which a partial image is projected, can be displaced horizontally relative to an interceptor portion thereof that intercepts light from the left-hand side thereof. Likewise, an interceptor portion of the sheet interceptor that intercepts light from the upper side of the projected range can be displaced vertically relative to an interceptor portion thereof that intercepts light from the lower side thereof.

Multi-display device and multi-display system

An image projection system includes projection means for projecting an image on a transmission type screen from a rear surface side of the screen, standard image information generating means for generating standard image information of a standard image, image capturing means for capturing an image on the rear surface of the screen from an inside of a casing in which the projection means is housed, the image capturing means capturing the standard image projected onto the screen from the projection means, which receives the standard image information from the standard image information generating means, removing means for removing influences of external light from the standard image projected from the projection means onto the screen, correction value computing means for computing a correction value on the basis of image information of the standard image from which the influences of the external light are removed by the removing means, correction value storage means for storing the correction value information obtained by the correction value computing means, and correction means for correcting image information from a picture signal source by using the correction value information stored in the correction value storage means, and supplying the corrected image information to the projection means.

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