Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Jokoh Co., Ltd.

Masaki Ishii

Yasushi Abe

Kenji Namie

Teruo Hieda

Akira Kinoshita

Takashi Yamada

Takahiro Imai

Toshimasa Suzuki

Junko Tajima

Hironobu Minai

Noriyuki Tanaka

An apparatus includes a sensor, at least one processor; and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory having instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform to acquire lens information related to a lens apparatus, acquire array information related to an optical apparatus, acquire aberration correction information based on the lens information and the array information, cut out a plurality of images in a tile form from an image signal output by the sensor picking up a light beam incident from an object through a filter of the optical apparatus, and correct an aberration in the plurality of images, based on the aberration correction information.

Apparatus, optical apparatus, image pickup method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An electronic apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select any one of a plurality of parameters generated in advance, and an analysis unit configured to receive light reflected from food to be analyzed and perform an analysis of spectral data by using the parameter selected by the selection unit, the spectral data indicating spectral intensities of a plurality of spectral components, wherein the selection unit is configured to select any one of the plurality of parameters based on at least any one of a type of the food to be analyzed, a demanded accuracy of the analysis, and processing to be performed after the analysis.

Electronic apparatus, analysis system and control method of electronic apparatus

A model containing a plurality of model edges is acquired, and a position that matches the model is searched for within a search image. Within the search image, a plurality of edge extraction regions including the respective plurality of model edges when the model is moved to the position searched for are set, and an arithmetic operation of extracting an edge in each of the plurality of edge extraction regions is performed. If there is an edge extraction region where no edge has been able to be extracted, of the model moved to the position searched for, a model edge located in the edge extraction region where no edge has been able to be extracted is incorporated into an edge set, and fitting is performed to the edge set.

Image processing method, image processing apparatus, recording medium, and method of manufacturing assembly

To improve a search accuracy in template matching based on a coarse-to-fine search method, a first pyramid is generated by hierarchizing a plurality of template images having different resolutions from each other in order of the resolution, a second pyramid is generated by hierarchizing a plurality of search target images having different resolutions from each other corresponding to the same resolutions as the template images in the first pyramid in order of the resolution, and a search process of searching for a feature image included in the template image of the first pyramid from the search target image in the second pyramid in a hierarchy of the same resolution. When the first pyramid is generated, the number of stages of the first pyramid is set such that a size of the feature image included in each of the template images is not smaller than a previously set threshold.

Image processing method, image processing apparatus, program, and recording medium

A video processing apparatus includes an image capturing apparatus and a processing apparatus connected to the image capturing apparatus. The image capturing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit that obtains a frame image; a frame image transmitting unit that transmits the frame image to the processing apparatus; a transformation parameter setting unit that sets transformation parameters received from the processing apparatus in the image capturing apparatus; an image transforming unit that applies an image transformation to the frame image using the transformation parameters thus set; and a transformed frame image transmitting unit that transmits a transformed frame image to the processing apparatus. The processing apparatus includes a transformation parameter calculating unit that calculates the transformation parameters for the image transformation, using the frame image received from the image capturing apparatus; and a transformation parameter transmitting unit that transmits the transformation parameters to the image capturing apparatus.

Video processing apparatus, video processing system, and video processing method

An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires an image; an information acquiring unit that acquires image information indicative of a content of the image; and a correcting unit that corrects the image based on the image information such that some of warping of the image is left. The horizontal direction component of the warping may be completely or nearly completely eliminated while a predetermined portion of a vertical direction component of the warping is left, when the image information indicates the content of the image is a person. Alternatively, there is an analyzer which generates the image information indicating that the content of the image is a erson when the analyzing determines that the image contains two or more persons.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium which corrects an image such that some of warping of the image is left

An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires image data, an additional-data generating unit that generates additional data, a first-code-image generating unit that generates first-code image data, a first-superimposed-image producing unit that combines the first-code image data with the image data, thereby producing first-superimposed image data, a detecting-data generating unit that generates data for use in detecting modification made to the first-superimposed image data, a second-code-image generating unit that generates second-code image data, and a second-superimposed-image producing unit that produces second-superimposed image data by clipping a portion of the second-code image data, the portion corresponding to an image area of the first-superimposed image data where the first-code image data is provided, and combining the first-superimposed image data with the second-code image data from which the portion has been clipped.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product

Tools are provided for (i) obtaining image data in which information is embedded by printing multiple types of patterns in a matrix, (ii) calculating multiple vertical-line-segment sequences and multiple horizontal-line-segment sequences, obtained by connecting vertically arranged patterns and horizontally arranged patterns, respectively, in the image data with polygonal lines, (iii) searching for a vertical line segment and a horizontal line segment intersecting with each other for each combination of one of the vertical-line-segment sequences and one of the horizontal-line-segment sequences, (iv) calculating an intersection point between the thus-found vertical line segment and the horizontal line segment as a position of a pattern, and (v) extracting the information embedded in the printed material by identifying types of patterns at the calculated intersection points.

Information extraction apparatus, information extraction method, information-extraction computer program product, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a first information acquisition unit, a second information acquisition unit, a third information acquisition unit, and an information embedder. The first information acquisition unit obtains target information. The second information acquisition unit obtains given information to be embedded in the target information. The third information acquisition unit obtains control information for accessing the given information. The information embedder generates embed information from the given information and the control information and embeds the embed information in the target information.

Information processing apparatus, method, program, and storage medium

In an information processing device, error detection information is generated from additional information and a header is generated from error detection information. An encoded header is then generated by appending a header-error correction code to the header and encoded additional information is generated by appending an information-error correction code to the additional information. Finally, an information-appended image is generated by integratedly appending the encoded header and the encoded additional information to the target image.

Information processing device and method

An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires an original image data containing first data, and a data processing unit that edits the first data in the original image data thereby generating edited original image data, and outputs the edited original image data.

Image processing apparatus, method, and computer program product that generates and encodes coupled information identifying image copying and processing devices

A first-information obtaining unit that obtains first information and a second-information obtaining unit obtains second information. The second information has a higher degree of importance than that of the first information. A generating unit generates watermark image data including a group of first dot patterns including the first information and a group of second dot patterns including the first information and the second information and having a dot size enlarged from a dot size of the first dot patterns. A superposing unit superposes the generated watermark image data on a target image data.

Information embedding apparatus, information embedding method, information extracting apparatus, information extracting method, computer program product

An image processing apparatus for extracting embedded information that is embedded in an image is provided. The image processing apparatus includes: an information extraction unit configured to extract the embedded information from the image; an executable function determination unit configured to determine one or more executable functions according to the embedded information that is extracted; a display unit configured to display a list of the one or more executable functions determined by the executable function determination unit.

Image processing apparatus, method, program and recording medium for extracting embedded information

Provided is a tissue piece treating apparatus comprising an automatic controlling means for feeding back the temperature of the treatment liquid or molten paraffin in the bath inside detected by a temperature sensor to switch a heating mode and a cooling mode alternately to control the temperature; a heating means for turning OFF in an air-cooling fan of the ultrasonic vibrator and ON in a plane heater at the heating mode, thereby transferring the heat generated by the ultrasonic vibrator and the plane heater; and, a cooling means for turning ON in the air-cooling fan of the ultrasonic vibrator and OFF in the plane heater at the cooling mode, thereby blocking the heat transfer from the ultrasonic vibrator and the plane heater to the bath inside. These means can suppress the excessive heating of a tissue piece so that they can suppress the heating modification of the tissue piece.

Tissue piece treating apparatus

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide an image processing apparatus, system, method, computer program and product, capable of generating verification data for detecting document alteration, generating a protected document embedded with the verification data, and detecting document alteration using the verification data. Other exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide an image processing apparatus, system, method, computer program and product, capable of generating verification data for detecting image alteration or document duplication, generating a protected document embedded with the verification data, and detecting image alteration or document duplication using the verification data.

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Masaki Ishii