Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Shuichi Ohtsuka

Kazuo Shiota

Nobuyoshi Nakajima

Akira Yoda

Norihisa Haneda

Shinji Itoh

Akinori Kimura

Hiroshi Tanaka

Sugio Makishima

Yoshinori Usami

Keiichi Yamana

Yoshimitsu Sato

Wataru Ito

Shuji Ono

Yasuo Aotsuka

Akito Ohkubo

Isoji Takahashi

Kazuki Nakajima

Masaru Imai

Shigeaki Fukada

Masamichi Sato

Masahiko Yamada

Kazuhiro Mino

Masahiro Ohnishi

Satoru Honjo

Ayumu Isomura

Takeshi Okano

Keishi Kato

Eiichi Saito

Seiichi Taguchi

Hajime Tachibana

Shigeo Harada

Izumi Watanabe

Hiroshi Matsuoka

Etuo Shiozawa

Makoto Moritake

Yutaka Kohrogi

A printing method includes a step of supplying a first aggregating agent that induces an aggregation reaction of the white particles contained in the white particle ink, to the colored printing medium; a step of supplying, by the inkjet method, the white particle ink onto the colored printing medium having been supplied with the first aggregating agent such that aggregation of the white particles brings about increase in optical reflectance in a printing area; a step of supplying a second aggregating agent that is charged with same charge as that for the first aggregating agent and that induces an aggregation reaction of dye contained in dye ink, to the white particles aggregated; and a step of supplying, by the inkjet method, the dye ink to the white particles aggregated.

Printing method using white particles

An ink jet printing method includes the steps of: shooting an ink containing a color material in a penetrant by ink jet method to a surface of a print medium; and supplying only a penetrant containing no color material at a position on the print medium corresponding to a position at which the ink has been shot to diffuse the supplied penetrant in the print medium in order to control distribution of the color material supplied in the print medium as the ink is shot at the print medium.

Method and device for achieving color development on a print medium by ink jet printing

By providing a network photograph service, prompt service can be provided to a customer without losing the advantages of easier understanding of where to access when placing an order and easier collective data management. A service center receiving an order of a printing service, and a minilab or a special laboratory spread across a plurality of places, are able to communicate through a network. A center server in the service center selects and assigns which photo-finishing laboratory will print the ordered picture, in response to order information transferred from a customer via the network. Thus, the printing processing can be carried out by a photo-finishing laboratory specified by the customer, instead of at the center server.

Network photograph service system

It is possible to appropriately select an image important for a user than ever before among various images taken by an image capturing apparatus. An image capturing apparatus that records a plurality of captured images and an album information file for designating a display order making a display apparatus display at least one the captured image in a recording medium as files different from each other. The image capturing apparatus includes: an operation acquiring section that acquires an operation before or after a user of the image capturing apparatus takes the captured images; and an operation recording section that records operation information showing the operation in the album information file in order to displays the captured image with a level of importance according to the operation before or after capturing the captured image, in association with the captured image to be displayed on the display apparatus.

Image capturing apparatus, display apparatus, image capturing method, displaying method and program therefor

An image displaying system for displaying an image operable to change a displayed image according to a direction of a image displaying apparatus, including: an image storing unit storing thereon the image; a displaying unit operable to display the image, the displaying unit being carried by a user; a photographing unit operable to photograph exterior as a plurality of photographed images, the photographing unit being carried with the displaying unit all together; a travel distance computing unit operable to compute a travel distance of the displaying unit by analyzing the plurality of photographed images which are photographed by the photographing unit at different times; and a display control unit operable to change the image, which is different from the photographed images, based on the travel distance computed by the travel distance computing unit and to causes the displaying unit to display the image.

Image displaying system and apparatus for displaying images by changing the displayed images based on direction or direction changes of a displaying unit

There is provided an image capturing apparatus that automatically registers a taken object. The image capturing apparatus according to the present invention includes an object extracting section that extracts an object included in a captured image, a characteristic amount computing section that computes an amount of characteristic of the object based on the image with the object extracted from the object extracting section, a characteristic amount storing section that stores the amount of characteristic of the object computed from the characteristic amount computing section in association with object identification information identifying the object, a characteristic amount comparing section that compares an amount of characteristic of an object included in an image newly taken by an image capturing section and the amount of characteristic of the object stored on the characteristic amount storing section to compute a degree of coincidence of the objects, and an object identification information storing section that stores the object identification information stored on the characteristic amount storing section in association with the image newly taken by the image capturing section when it is judged that the degree of coincidence of the objects computed from the characteristic amount comparing section is not less than a predetermined reference value.

Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer readable medium in which an image extracted in association with selected object information is displayed

An image transmitting system is provided, wherein the system includes: a first image storing module storing a plurality of images included in a first electronic album; a second image storing module storing a plurality of images included in a second electronic album; a feature extracting module for extracting a feature amount of an object included in each of the plurality of images stored in the second image storing module; an image selecting module for selecting an image including an object showing correspondence with the object included in the image stored in the second image storing module, which is higher than a predetermined reference value, out of the plurality of images stored in the first image storing module on the basis of the extracted feature amount; and an image transmitting module for retrieving the selected image from the first image storing module and storing the image in the second image storing module to transmit the image from the first image storing module to the image storing module.

Image transmitting system, an image transmitting method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program for transmitting images

An electronic album display system for displaying a plurality of images included in an electronic album having an image storing unit for classifying each of the plurality of images into a plurality of groups and storing each image, an image selecting unit for selecting an image to be displayed, an image display unit for displaying the image selected, an operation unit for receiving a display operation for said image display unit controlled by a viewer when one image is being displayed, an interest detecting unit for detecting an interest of the viewer in the one image on the basis of the display operation received by the operation unit, and an interest storing unit for storing the interest for each of the plurality of images, wherein the image selecting unit selects an image classified in a group including an image in which the viewer has an interest based on the interest stored in said interest storing unit.

Electronic album display system, an electronic album display method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program for displaying an electronic album

The displaying apparatusdisplays a plurality of display data sequentially by updating its display. On a surface of the frame, the displaying apparatusincludes a display panel, a bend member, and a bend memberand both the bend memberand the bend memberhave elasticity. Each of the bend memberand the bend memberis provided at an edge of the surface of the frame. The user bends each of the bend memberand the bend memberwhen he wants to update the display of the display panel. The displaying apparatusupdates the display in the display panelbased on the deformation volume in the bend member

Displaying apparatus and control method

It is an object to improve convenience of browse and search of a plurality of images. an electronic album display system for displaying a plurality of images included in an electronic album is provided, wherein the system includes: an image storing unit in which the plurality of images are stored; a person recognizing unit for recognizing a plurality of persons included in each of the plurality of images; an image grouping unit for classifying the plurality of images into a plurality of groups by the kind of a combination of persons included in an image on the basis of the recognition result by the person recognizing unit; a representative image selecting unit for selecting a representative image from each of the plurality of groups; and an image display unit for displaying each of the selected representative images consecutively.

Electronic album display system, an image grouping apparatus, an electronic album display method, an image grouping method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program

An image processing apparatus for processing image data including: appending information generating unit for receiving image data and generating an appending information based on contents of the image data; correlativity judgment unit for judging correlativity between the received image data and another image data, including the appending information based on the appending information; and correlativity information assignment unit for assigning correlativity information indicating the correlativity to both the received image data and the other image data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable medium storing program

A print order reception system for receiving an order for print services is provided with a recording medium reception port for receiving a recording medium on which image data of pictures and print order information including printing conditions for pictures to be printed are recorded in the form of electronic data in a predetermined format. A display system reads out from the recording medium received in the recording medium reception port the image data on the pictures to be printed and the print order information on the pictures to be printed and displays the image data and the print order information as an image.

Print order reception system

According to the present invention, the progress of the proceedings is supported by making the contents of the conference understand easily to the attendant of the conference. A conference support system for supporting progress of proceedings, including: speaker's gaze direction detection means for detecting a gaze direction of a speaker of a conference; image receiving means for receiving an image in which object gazed by the speaker in speaker's gaze direction is photographed; and displaying means for displaying the image received by the image receiving means on a display provided for each attendant of the conference.

Conference support system, information displaying apparatus, machine readable medium storing thereon a plurality of machine readable instructions, and control method

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shuichi Ohtsuka