Seiko Epson Corporation

Seiko Epson Corporaition

Seiji Aiso

Kenji Matsuzaka

Ayahiro Nakajima

Mitsuhiro Inazumi

Ryohei Kuri

Naoki Kuwata

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Kenji Fukasawa

Toshifumi Sakai

Michihiro Nagaishi

Yukihiro Yamaguchi

Junichiro Shinozaki

Nobuhiro Karito

Tatsuya Hosoda

Taro Ishige

Nobuyuki Setsuda

Kentaro Tsukamoto

Takao Ozawa

Fumiaki Mukaiyama

Kosuke Matsunaga

Mutsuto Tezuka

Yoshiyuki Kishi

Alan Rupert

A spectrometry method used with an apparatus including a spectrometry section, a spectroscopic controller, a spectroscopic image generator, and a display section, the method including generating a teaching-purpose spectroscopic image, generating and displaying a teaching-purpose visualized image, identifying a first teaching area in the teaching-purpose visualized image and generating a first teaching-purpose spectrum, displaying a first icon based on the display color of the first teaching area, accepting teacher data that teaches chromaticity in correspondence with the first icon, generating a conversion rule based on the relationship between the spectrum and the teacher data, generating a measurement-purpose spectrum, and calculating chromaticity based on the conversion rule.

Spectrometry method and spectrometry apparatus

A spectrometry method used by a spectrometry apparatus including a spectrometry section including a spectrometer and an imaging device that captures a spectroscopic image, a spectroscopic controller that controls the action of the spectrometer, and an image generator that generates the spectroscopic image, the method including generating the spectroscopic image, dividing the range of the spectroscopic image into a plurality of regions including at least a first region, determining a reference value of a color value, generating a first region spectrum based on the spectroscopic image of the first region, calculating first region tristimulus values based on the first region spectrum, calculating a first region color value based on the first region tristimulus values, and calculating a first region color difference that is the color difference between the first region color value and the reference value by using a color difference formula.

A spectroscopic camera according to the present disclosure includes a spectroscopic section configured by a variable wavelength interference filter that selectively transmits light at a predetermined wavelength and changes the light to transmitted light, a receiving section configured to receive sensitivity information indicating a sensitivity curve in a wavelength region of a predetermined color imaged by an RGB camera, a wavelength-table generating section configured to generate, based on the sensitivity information, a wavelength table indicating a relation between the predetermined wavelength and a transmission time, which is a time for transmitting the transmitted light, an imaging section configured to acquire a spectral image formed by the transmitted light transmitted through the spectroscopic section, and a control section configured to control the spectroscopic section and the imaging section based on the wavelength table.

Spectroscopic camera and inspection system

A robot control device that controls a robot and includes a processor which extracts a contour of a target based on an image of the target captured by an imaging device, generates a point sequence corresponding to the contour, and converts coordinates of the point sequence into coordinates in a robot coordinate system. Further, a robot control device that controls a robot includes a processor which extracts a contour of a target based on an image of the target captured by an imaging device and a predetermined instruction, generates a point sequence corresponding to the contour, and converts coordinates of the point sequence into coordinates in a robot coordinate system.

Robot control device and robot system

A spectroscopic inspection method is a spectroscopic inspection method of performing an inspection using a spectral image, including an imaging step of executing imaging processing of imaging an object within an imaging range of a spectral camera using the spectral camera and acquiring the spectral image, an inspection step of executing inspection processing of executing imaging processing on the spectral image and outputting a result of the image processing as an inspection result, a signal transmission step of executing transmission processing of transmitting a signal for operation of the object based on the inspection result, and a setting step of setting a work procedure of the imaging processing, the inspection processing, and the signal transmission processing, wherein the setting step sets the work procedure to execute the inspection step after the imaging step ends and execute the signal transmission step after the imaging step ends and before the inspection step ends.

Spectroscopic inspection method, image processing apparatus, and robot system

On the basis of received first region information indicating a first region, which is a region designated for an acquired picked-up image of a plurality of target objects, and second region information indicating a second region different from the first region, a robot control device causes a robot to grip the target object for which the second region not overlapping the first region of another of the target objects is designated and does not cause the robot to grip the target object, the second region for which overlaps the first region of the other target object.

Robot control device, robot, and robot system

An image processing device that detects a marker, in which the marker includes a first figure in which three or more figure centers are overlapped with each other and a data area provided on an internal or external portion of the first figure, and the image processing device detects the first figure and detects the data area based on the figure centers of the first figure.

Image processing device, robot, robot system, and marker

An image processing apparatus that performs inspection or measurement of an object included in an image, the image processing apparatus receiving operation from a user, selecting second image processing information, which is information indicating second image processing configured by a plurality of kinds of first image processing, on the basis of the received operation, and performing editing of the plurality of kinds of first image processing configuring the second image processing indicated by the second image processing information.

Image processing apparatus, robot system, robot, and image processing method

A robot system includes a processing apparatus that detects one work from a plurality of works, and a robot that operates the detected one work. The processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays image data containing an image of the plurality of works captured by an imaging apparatus, a selection unit that selects a first image and a second image from the image data, and a processing unit that generates a model based on the first image and the second image and detects the one work using the generated model.

Robot system

A robot includes a control unit that controls a movable unit of the robot to move an endpoint of the movable unit closer to a target position, and an image acquisition unit that acquires a target image as an image containing the end point when the end point is in the target position, and a current image as an image containing the end point when the end point is in a current position. The control unit controls movement of the movable unit based on the current image and the target image and output from a force detection unit that detects a force acting on the movable unit.

Robot controller, robot system, robot, robot control method, and program

A robot system includes a movable component with a mark thereon, a control unit that controls the movable component in a three-dimensional coordinate system on the basis of control information, a digital camera that outputs image data by imaging a range of movement of the mark, and a calibrator that creates a transformation parameter for correlating a two-dimensional coordinate system of the image data with the three-dimensional coordinate system on the basis of the image data obtained by imaging the mark at different positions and the control information.

Robot system, calibration method of robot system, robot, calibration device, and digital camera

When image data are input from a memory card or the like, a printing apparatus detects face region captured in these image data. Where the size and position of a face region fall within permitted ranges therefor set in advance in a permitted range table derived via sense evaluation testing, the input image data is selected as a printing target candidate. If the face region size and position do not each fall within their permitted range, however, the image data is not selected as a printing target. As a result, image data suitable for printing can be efficiently selected as printing targets from image data that contain human faces.

Image selection device and image selection method

An image display apparatus, that displays a digital image on a screen for check use, includes: an image data storage unit that stores image data of the digital image; an edge detection unit that detects an edge included in the digital image through analysis of the image data; and an image display unit that displays, when the edge being a detection result has a width wider than a predetermined first threshold width, the digital image in a state that the width of the edge is visible on the check screen.

Image display apparatus and method, and program

A printing apparatus that selects and prints images represented by candidate image data files to be output among a plurality of image data files includes an image data file acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of image data files, each having image data regarding an image and additional data regarding at least a photographing condition when the image was taken, and a candidate file selection unit that selects image data files, which have the additional data, not the image data, satisfying one of one or more predetermined selection conditions, among the plurality of image data files as the candidate image data files to be output, and a printing unit that performs printing of images represented by at least some of the candidate image data files.

Printing apparatus, image data file processing apparatus, method of selecting image data file, method of assisting selection of image data file, and computer program

The focusing information visualization system of the invention extracts an edge having an edge intensity of not less than a first reference value Thand an edge width of not greater than a second reference value Thin a photographic image and displays the extracted edge in a preset color at a position of the edge extraction to be overlapped with the original photographic image on a screen. A focused area defined by the extracted edge is displayed as N divisional areas. In response to a user's operational specification of one divisional area among the N divisional areas, an enlarged photographic image corresponding to the specified divisional area at a desired magnification ratio is displayed on the screen. This arrangement adopts the automatic rough judgment and the user's final visual check to accurately recognize the focusing status of the photographic image.

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Seiji Aiso