Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Ryu Narusawa

Takashi Yamamoto

Koichiro Kishima

Takamichi Yamakoshi

Norihiro Tanabe

Nobuhiro Hayashi

Fumiyasu Suzuki

Takuya Oshima

Nobuhiro Kihara

Yu Hirono

Shinya Kano

Yoshinori Takagi

Yoshihiro Wakita

Kunihiko Hayashi

Yoichi Mizutani

Hiroshi Kyusojin

Gakuho Fukushi

Goh Matsunobu

Junichi Sakagami

A digital microscope apparatus includes a first imaging unit including a first imaging device and a first optical system including an objective lens configured to enlarge first and second images of a preparation that holds a sample, the first image being formed on the first device through the first system, a second imaging unit including a second optical system that is branched from the first system and has a depth of field larger than the first system and a second imaging device on which the second image is formed through the second system, and a controller configured to calculate a provisional in-focus position of the lens based on the second image, determine an area of the first device, from which the first image is read, and search for, based on the read image, an in-focus position of the lens in a predetermined range based on the provisional in-focus position.

Digital microscope apparatus, method of searching for in-focus position thereof, and program

The present technology relates to an ID acquisition terminal apparatus and method, an information processing apparatus and method, and a program by which the convenience can be improved. A service A auxiliary system includes a communication unit that acquires a nonstandard ID different from a standard ID, which is used upon provision of a predetermined service, and authentication information, an authentication processing unit that performs an authentication process of the nonstandard ID with authentication information, and a table management unit that reads out the standard ID recorded in an associated relationship with the nonstandard ID. Upon utilization of a service in which an other-service IC card is used, the nonstandard ID and the authentication information read out from the other-service IC card are acquired by the communication unit of the service A auxiliary system, and an authentication process and reading out of the standard ID are performed. The present technology can be applied to a service provision system.

ID acquisition terminal apparatus and method and information processing apparatus and method

A digital microscope apparatus includes an illumination optical system configured to emit illumination light; a stage having an opening capable of transmitting the light therethrough, on which a preparation can be placed in accordance with a position of the opening; an enlarging imaging unit including an objective lens configured to enlarge an image and disposed to face the system with the stage disposed therebetween, and an imaging device configured to capture an image enlarged by the lens; a white image acquiring unit configured to open the opening, to cause the system to emit the light in a state where an image point of the system is aligned with a focal point of the lens, and to acquire, as a white image, an image formed on an imaging surface of the device; and a calculation unit configured to use the captured white image to calculate a shading correction coefficient.

Digital microscope apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program

To provide a shutter mechanism that has high durability and is capable of operating at high speed and a microscope that includes the shutter mechanism. A microscope according to the present technology includes an optical system, a first light-receiving element, and a shutter mechanism. The shutter mechanism includes a rotation power source that generates rotation power, a crank that converts the rotation power generated by the rotation power source into a back-and-forth movement, and a shutter connected to the crank, the shutter moving back and forth according to the crank between a first position at which a first optical path from the optical system to the first light-receiving element is blocked and a second position at which the first optical path is not blocked.

Microscope and shutter mechanism

An image acquisition apparatus includes an optical system, an imaging device, a movement controller, and a multiple exposure processing unit. The optical system includes an objective lens for magnifying a portion of an imaging target. The imaging device is capable of performing all-pixel simultaneous exposure and is configured to image the portion magnified by the optical system. The movement controller is configured to move a focal point of the objective lens in a thickness direction of the portion of the imaging target. The multiple exposure processing unit is configured to perform multiple exposure of the imaging device at a plurality of positions such that, for each of ranges sectioned by positions in a direction in which the focal point is movable, an average image that covers each of the ranges is obtained.

Image acquisition apparatus, image acquisition method, and computer program

An image obtaining apparatus includes: a light source configured to irradiate a biological sample having a fluorescent label with excitation light, the excitation light exciting the fluorescent label; an optical system including an objective lens, the objective lens being configured to magnify an imaging target of the biological sample; an image sensor configured to form an image of the imaging target magnified by the objective lens; a movement controller configured to move a focus position of the optical system in an imaging range including at least a range corresponding to the thickness of the imaging target; and a data processing unit configured to exposure the image sensor to light while moving the focus position in the imaging range and obtain a fluorescent image of the biological sample, to thereby calculate distribution information of the fluorescent label in a thickness direction of the imaging target based on the fluorescent image.

Image obtaining apparatus, image obtaining method, and image obtaining program

An information processing apparatus is provided that includes an obtaining section and a selecting section. The obtaining section obtains information of first and second images that each have an overlapped region where the first image and the second image are overlapped and constitute a taken image including an image part of a subject by being connected with each other with the overlapped region as a reference. The selecting section determines pixels other than the image part of the subject based on information of a plurality of pixels that belong to the overlapped region of the first image where the first image is overlapped with the second image, the information of the plurality of pixels being included in the obtained information of the first image, and selects, out of the determined pixels, a connection pixel corresponding to a position where the first image and the second image are connected in the overlapped region.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program therefor

A tissue-slice image acquirement and display apparatus includes: an entire-image acquirer that acquires a bright-field image of an entirety of a first slice of a tissue and a dark-field image of an entirety of a second slice of the tissue; a modifier that modifies a profile shape of a slice portion in the dark-field image on the basis of a profile shape of a slice portion in the bright-field image; a magnified-image acquirer that determines a range encompassing the second slice on the basis of the profile shape of the modified slice portion and that acquires, in a dark field, a magnified image of the second slice in the determined range; and a display controller that causes the bright-field image to be displayed and that causes a portion of the magnified image, the portion corresponding to a position selected in the bright-field image, to be displayed.

Tissue-slice image acquirement and display apparatus, tissue-slice image acquirement and display method, and tissue-slice image acquirement and display program

An image processing apparatus includes an output signal obtaining unit that is connected to a pixel group having a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel and obtains a first output signal, a second output signal, and a third output signal, a spectral sensitivity determination unit that determines a first spectral sensitivity, a second spectral sensitivity, and a third spectral sensitivity, which are spectral sensitivities of the first, second, and third output signals, respectively, with respect to a wavelength of incident light entering the pixel group, an output signal amplification unit that amplifies the first, second, and third output signals based on the first, second, and third spectral sensitivities, respectively, and an image generation unit calculates pixel values of the first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel from the first output signal, the second output signal, and the third output signal amplified, and generates an image.

Image processing apparatus and method for generating an image

A method for detecting the specimen region includes the first step for the first region detecting unit to detect the first region which is a region with contrast in the first image of an object for observation which is photographed under illumination with visible light, the second step for the second region detecting unit to detect the second region which is a region with contrast in the second image of the object for observation which is photographed under illumination with ultraviolet light, and the third step for the specimen region defining unit to define, based on the first and second regions mentioned above, the specimen region where there exists the specimen in the object for observation.

Method for detection of specimen region, apparatus for detection of specimen region, and program for detection of specimen region

Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a connection connecting to a microscope including a stage having a disposition surface on which a target object can be placed, and an image picking-up section including an objective lens for picking up an image of the object, the microscope being movable in first and second axis directions orthogonal to an optical axis of the objective lens and orthogonal to each other and in a third axis direction along the optical axis; a calculator calculating, as an undulation-correcting value, a value for correcting a misalignment of a position in the third axis direction for each predetermined image-capturing range smaller than the disposition surface; a correcting-value storage storing the calculated value; and a corrector correcting a relative distance between the stage and the objective lens on the basis of the stored value for each image-capturing range.

Information processing apparatus, stage-undulation correcting method, program therefor

A fluorescent image obtaining device includes a light source that irradiates light such that a fluorescent material marked on a target in a biological sample lies in a non-excited state and a fluorescent material marked on a control with the target lies in an excited state, and an imaging unit that takes an image including the entire biological sample.

Fluorescent image obtaining device, fluorescent image obtaining method and fluorescent image obtaining program

Disclosed herein is a microscope, including: an illumination optical system; a first image creation optical system; a second image creation optical system; an illumination-field-diaphragm focus adjustment section; and a characteristic-quantity computation block, wherein the illumination-field-diaphragm focus adjustment section adjusts the image creation position for the illumination field diaphragm on the basis of the characteristic quantity computed by the characteristic-quantity computation block.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ryu Narusawa