Olympus Corporation

Olympus Imaging Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Oympus Corporation

Sumio Kawai

Hiroyuki Takizawa

Osamu Nonaka

Takashi Miyazawa

Yoshinori Matsuzawa

Junichi Ito

Kazuhiro Sato

Manabu Ichikawa

Toru Miyajima

Yusuke Rimmi

Tatsuya Suzuki

Masataka Ide

Hiroshi Kodama

Shinji Kaneko

Tamotsu Koiwai

Kaoru Matsuki

Yasuzi Ogata

Shinsuke Homma

Sadayuki Ueha

Motoaki Kobayashi

Tsuyoshi Togawa

Koji Kato

Yuichi Sato

Shinya Takahashi

Toshio Takahashi

Hisashi Goto

Akira Watanabe

Yuji Imai

Kunio Yamamiya

Hideaki Yoshida

Yukio Nakajima

Yasuo Asakura

Shigeru Kato

Hiroshi Terada

Masaomi Tomizawa

Tomoki Funakubo

Katsuhiko Tsunefuji

Takashi Okamura

Minoru Matsuzaki

Yuta Sato

Kunio Yokoyama

Tetsuo Miyasaka

Yuichi Torikoshi

Yuji Kobayashi

Masaki Tokui

Takashi Muroi

Shigeru Iwase

Masaharu Hamada

Kento Kokubu

Tatsuro Masugi

Koji Sakatani

Wataru Hashimoto

Katsumi Motohashi

Tatsuo Kitazawa

Yoichi Washizu

Kimitaka Watanabe

Hironori Ichihara

Yoshiki Nishihara

Mitsuhiro Haga

Atsushi Nakamae

Koji Suzuki

An information management system, comprising a first vessel having a first memory that stores first information, a second vessel having a second memory that stores second information, a detection circuit capable of detecting a proximity signal corresponding to approach of the second vessel to the first vessel, and a processor that adds the first information to the second memory that stores the second information, based on the proximity signal that has been detected by the detection circuit.

Information management system, vessel, information management method and operation method

An information discriminating device includes an information acquiring unit, an information discriminating unit, and an information superimposing unit. The information acquiring unit acquires private information to be privately used by a user of the information discriminating device. The information discriminating unit discriminates a public information portion that is also usable as public information accessible by a special majority in the private information acquired by the information acquiring unit from a private information portion unusable as the public information. The information superimposing unit superimposes the private information portion on the public information.

Information discriminating device, information discriminating method, and non-transitory storage medium storing information discriminating program

An imaging apparatus including an imaging unit, an index determining unit, a predetermined image detecting unit, and a notification unit. The imaging unit has a preset imaging range and which images a target within the imaging range. The index determining unit determines whether an image of a particular index image has intruded into the imaging range. The predetermined image detecting unit detects a predetermined image part within the imaging range. The notification unit notifies that the index determining unit determines that the index image overlaps the predetermined image part. The predetermined image detecting unit is configured to determine a change direction of a changed part of image information and a no-change direction, and the notification unit notifies in accordance with the relation between a change direction of the index image and a change direction of image information.

Operation apparatus

An image management server including a receiver configured to receive an image file. The image file includes image data, copyright information, and tag information including route information for transmitting the image data. The image file is transmitted by an external device in accordance with the route information. The image management server further includes a processor configured to add digital watermark information to the image data to make the image file in a state in which the copyright information is protected or waived, and a transmitter configured to transmit the image file to an image display server in the state in which the copyright information in the image file is protected or waived.

Image file management system and imaging device with tag information in a communication network

The information device includes an imaging unit that images a subject and generates image data of the subject, a meta information generating unit that generates meta information related to the image data generated by the imaging unit, a possibility information generating unit that generates, with respect to the meta information, possibility information setting whether or not change of original information is possible by an external device when the meta information is transmitted to the external device, and an image file generating unit that generates an image file associating the image data generated by the imaging unit, the meta information generated by the meta information generating unit, and the possibility information generated by the possibility information generating unit with one another.

Information device, server, recording medium with image file recorded thereon, image file generating method, image file management method, and computer readable recording medium

An image file recorded on a non-transitory computer readable recording medium is presented. The image file is readable by a transmitting device in communication with a plurality of transceiving devices. The image file includes electronic image data, and tag information including transmission route information for transmitting the image file to at least one of the plurality of transceiving devices.

Image file communication system with tag information in a communication network

A driver includes a piezoelectric sheet, a fixing frame, a moving frame, and a control circuit. The piezoelectric sheet includes a first piezoelectric body portion which bends in a first direction, a second piezoelectric body portion which bends in a second direction that intersects at right angles with the first direction, and a connection portion which connects the first and second piezoelectric body portions. The fixing frame is fixed to the connection portion. The moving frame is supported on the first and second piezoelectric body portions. The control circuit applies voltage signals to the first and second piezoelectric body portions to bend the first and second piezoelectric body portions and which moves the moving frame in one of the first direction and the second direction or in a composite direction of the first direction and the second direction.

Driver and image instrument

A touch operation device includes a piezoelectric element, a touch detection unit, and a piezoelectric body control circuit. The piezoelectric element has a piezoelectric property and flexibility. The touch detection unit is disposed to correspond to the piezoelectric element and detects a touch operation. The piezoelectric body control circuit selectively applies a signal to a part of the piezoelectric element corresponding to the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit and then bends the part of the piezoelectric element.

An image capturing apparatus includes a main body and a rotatable image capturing unit. The main body includes a spherical portion having at least three support points. The rotatable image capturing unit includes an image capturing optical system, and is configured to rotationally move while being supported by the support points. In the rotatable image capturing unit, a gravitational point is located so as to overlap a center of gravity of a polygonal plane formed by connecting the support points and present on a side closer to an image sensor the polygonal plane in a direction perpendicular to the polygonal plane.

Image capturing apparatus

A driving control device according to the present invention includes: a fixed member; an operation member arranged to be manually rotatable with respect to the fixed member; a transducer arranged in one of the fixed member and the operation member and arranged to come into contact with an opposed surface of the other of the fixed member and the operation member; a position detecting section for detecting a position of the operation member with respect to the fixed member; and an operation force amount control section for controlling driving of the transducer to change contact friction force generated when the transducer contacts with the fixed member or the operation member. The operation force amount control section controls the transducer such that the contact friction force applied to the operation member when the operation member is manually rotated with respect to the fixed member changes to a sense of click.

Driving control device and operation device

An imaging apparatus comprises an optical system that includes a plurality of lens groups, each lens group including one or more lenses, at least one of the lens groups being independently movable with respect to the other lens groups and including a focus lens group for focusing the subject and a lens control unit that controls movement of the plurality of lens groups to bring into focus based on a feeding position of the focus lens group.

Optical system and lens control system having focus adjustment used for imaging apparatus

An operation apparatus includes a touch detection section, a vibration section, a setting section and a control section. The touch detection section is provided on an exterior part, and outputs a signal when touched by an user. The vibration section is provided on the touch detection section in an overlapping manner, and vibrates when the touch of the user is detected by the touch detection section. The setting section is configured to set a function to be carried out when the touch detection section is touched. The control section is configured to determine a touch position of the touch detection section, provided on the touch detection section of the determined touch position, and configured to cause the vibration section to vibrate, and output a signal used to cause the function.

Operation apparatus, display device, and imaging apparatus

A vibration apparatus includes a plate-shaped dust prevention member, a vibration application member, and an electrode. The vibration application member includes a flexible thin plate-shaped piezoelectric member, and vibrates the dust prevention member. The electrode formed of a conductive thin plate or film, disposed to part or entire holding the piezoelectric member, and partly extends outward relative to the dust prevention member.

Vibration apparatus and imaging appliance

An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging optical system having a variable power lens and a focus lens; an imaging element that generates image data via the imaging optical system; a movable frame that holds the focus lens and is movable along an optical axis of the imaging optical system; a first driving unit that causes the movable frame to move toward an in-focus position along the optical axis direction; a focus sensitivity determination unit that, based on a zoom position of the variable power lens, determines whether a focus sensitivity indicating a ratio of a change amount of the in-focus position to a movement amount of the focus lens is equal to or smaller than a specified value; and a driving controller that drives the first driving unit to move the movable frame to the in-focus position if the focus sensitivity is larger than the specified value.

Imaging apparatus

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Sumio Kawai