Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shinichiro Uno

Hitoshi Watanabe

Ryuichi Ebinuma

Yutaka Watanabe

Satoshi Ogiwara

Eiji Koga

Masayuki A Suzuki

Shunichi Uzawa

Atsushi Date

Noritaka Mochizuki

Yasuaki Fukuda

Michio Aizawa

Eiji Yamauchi

Makoto Mitsuda

Nobutoshi Mitzusawa

Yasushi Shikata

An arrangement determination apparatus for determining an arrangement of a plurality of cameras that is used for generation of a virtual viewpoint image acquires information indicating an imaging target region, and determines an arrangement of the plurality of cameras based on the information in such a manner that images of the entire region of the imaging target region are captured by two or more cameras of the plurality of cameras and images of the entire region of the imaging target region are captured by different two or more cameras of the plurality of cameras that are different from the two or more cameras.

Arrangement determination apparatus, system, arrangement determination method, and recording medium

A control apparatuscontrols the in-focus positions of a plurality of image capturing apparatuses that perform image capturing from a plurality of directions in order to generate a virtual-viewpoint image. Specifically, the control apparatusobtains an image capture parameter related to image capturing by one or more image capturing apparatuses included in an image capturing apparatus group. The control apparatuscontrols on the basis of the obtained image capture parameter, the in-focus position of a target image capturing apparatus corresponding to the image capture parameter such that the distance from the target image capturing apparatus to the in-focus position of the target image capturing apparatus is shorter than the distance from the target image capturing apparatus to a point of interest.

Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium

A cell type page which displays a fixed number of images at fixed positions with fixed size on a screen and a free type page which displays equal to or more than one image at arbitrary positions with arbitrary size on the screen are provided. In response to an image insertion order in the cell type page, images belong to the cell type pages behind that cell type page are sent astern without influencing positions of images belong to the free type pages behind that cell type image and blank pages are added if there is no blank cells. In response to an image deletion order from the cell type page, images behind an image to be deleted belong to the cell type pages behind that cell type page are closed ahead without influencing positions of images belong to the free type page behind that cell type page and the blank pages are deleted if the blank pages are appeared.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium

A recording apparatus for recording moving image data on a disk-like recording medium detects a defective area on the disk-like recording medium, determines a continuous data area for the moving image data on the basis of a data rate of the moving image data to be recorded and the detected defective area, and records the moving image data in accordance with the continuous data area.

Recording apparatus

An operation of a recording/reproducing portion is controlled by a control portion so as to record data in a predetermined recording region on a recording medium, and perform update recording in the predetermined recording region in accordance with occurrence of update information of the data. The control portion further has a function of controlling the recording/reproducing portion so as to record an update portion of data in a temporary storage region in a part of the recording medium and record an update flag showing whether the predetermined recording region has been updated with the update portion or has not been updated with the update portion in an update flag region, and in update recording with respect to the predetermined recording medium, successively performs operations of recording the update portion in the temporary storage region, setting the update flag in a non-updated state, recording the update portion in the predetermined recording region, and setting the update flag in an updated state.

Information recording apparatus and method for recording information on recording medium

An X-ray exposure apparatus includes an X-ray source; and a directing optical system for directing an X-ray beam from the X-ray source to a surface to be exposed, the directing optical system incuding a mirror having a reflection surface of a curvature radius R with respect to a predetermined sectional plane, for reflecting the X-ray beam and for expanding the diameter thereof with respect to the sectional plane; wherein the mirror satisfies the following conditions:

X-ray exposure apparatus

An exposure apparatus for exposing a substrate with X-rays is disclosed. The apparatus includes a radiation source for providing X-rays; and a convex mirror for reflecting the X-rays from the radiation source toward the substrate to expose a zone of the substrate with the X-rays; wherein the convex mirror and the substrate are so interrelated that a peak position of intensity distribution of the X-rays upon the zone deviates from the center of the zone.

An X-ray exposure apparatus for exposing a resist on a substrate to a pattern of an original includes a radiation source for providing X-rays; and an illumination system for irradiating the original and the substrate with the X-rays such that the resist of the substrate is exposed to the pattern of the original with the X-rays; wherein the illumination system has a convex mirror having a reflection surface of a shape like a cylindrical surface, for reflecting the X-rays from the radiation source to the original; and wherein the reflection surface of the mirror has such an aspherical surface shape that, with respect to a top of the reflection surface, a radiation source side and an original side are asymmetrical in shape, that, in the neighborood of the top, the radiation source side has a radius of curvature smaller than that of the original side, and that at a peripheral potion the reflection surface has a curvature of a radius larger than that at the top of the reflection surface.

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