Olympus Corporation

Evident Corporation

Olympuc Corporation

Takashi Miyoshi

Hidekazu Iwaki

Akio Kosaka

Kazuhiko Arai

Kazuhiko Takahashi

Nobuyuki Watanabe

Shinichi Takimoto

Arata Shinozaki

Shintaro Takahashi

Yasunobu Iga

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Tadashi Hirata

Kensuke Ishii

Saori Matsumoto

Takuji Horie

Takayuki Nakatomi

Takayoshi Togino

Satoshi Ishii

Toshihide Nozawa

Toshiyuki Hattori

Mitsunori Kubo

Naohiro Ariga

Akira Matsushita

Mina Kobayashi

Ayumu Sakurai

Isao Sakane

Masakazu Fujii

Yasunori Ohki

An observation apparatus includes a case having a transmissive window, an image sensor, an optical system, and a light source housed in the case, and an optical deflection unit. The optical system is configured to condense light incident inside the case to form an image of a sample inside a container. The light source is configured to emit light to the outside of the case without passing through the optical system. The optical deflection unit is configured to deflect light emitted to the outside of the case from the light source to a first direction proceeding toward the transmissive window. An angle of exit between the first direction and an optical axis of the optical system is different from an angle of incidence between a second direction in which light emitted to the outside of the case is incident on the optical deflection unit, and the optical axis.

Observation apparatus, optical deflection unit, and image formation method

A cell observation system according to the present invention includes: a first image-acquisition device disposed in an incubator and acquires a first image of cells in a culturing vessel; a second image-acquisition device disposed outside the incubator; a processing device connected to the first image-acquisition device and the second image-acquisition device; and a display displays at least a region of the first image, as well as the second image. The second image-acquisition device includes a second image-acquisition unit that acquires a second image of the interior of the culturing vessel, that removed from the incubator. The processing device extracts target cells in the first image, calculates positions at which the extracted target cells are present and stores the positions in the memory, and causes the display to display the positions at which the target cells are present in a superimposed manner on an indication indicating the culturing vessel.

Cell observation system

A cell observation system according to the present invention includes: a first image-acquisition device disposed in an incubator and acquires a first image of cells in a culturing vessel; a second image-acquisition device disposed outside the incubator; a processing device connected to the first and second image-acquisition devices; and a display. The second image-acquisition device includes a second image-acquisition unit that acquires a second image of the interior of the culturing vessel that removed from the incubator, a support that supports the second image-acquisition unit and the culturing vessel, and a position measuring unit that measures a position between the culturing vessel and the second image-acquisition unit at the time of acquiring the second image. The processing device extracts target cells in the first image, calculates positions of the target cells, and displays the relationship between the positions of the target cells and the second image.

Provided is an image-processing device that includes: a processor including hardware; the processor configured to: analyze an image of the inside of a culture vessel that cultures cells, and acquire quantitative data of living cells and quantitative data of dead cells inside the culture vessel; and generate comparison data that allows comparison of the acquired quantitative data of the living cells and the acquired quantitative data of the dead cells.

Image-processing device and cell observation system

An observation device including: an imaging element that captures images of cells contained in a culture vessel; an oblique illumination device that performs oblique illumination to the cells from a plurality of illumination directions, out of the optical axis of the imaging element; a controller that detects the relationship between the position of the culture vessel and the position of the imaging element and that selects the illumination directions of the oblique illumination device on the basis of the detected relationship between the position of the culture vessel and the position of the imaging element; and an image processor that applies, on the basis of the illumination direction of the oblique illumination device, processing for reducing shadows on the cells caused by the oblique illumination, to an image of the cells acquired by the imaging element.

Observation device and observation method

Provided is an observation apparatus and an observation method with which it is possible to observe imaging subjects, such as cells or the like, without labeling the imaging subjects and without causing an increase in the apparatus size. Provided is an observation apparatus including: a light-source unit that emits illumination light upward from below a sample; and an image-capturing optical system that has an objective lens that collects transmitted light, which is the illumination light emitted from the light-source unit that has passed through the sample by being reflected above the sample and that captures, below the sample, the transmitted light collected by the objective lens.

Observation apparatus and observation method to observe a sample with reflected light transmitted through the sample

An imaging method including: controlling luminance distribution of light such that the light continuously attenuates from an inner side toward an edge in a peripheral area within an imaging range of an imaging unit; emitting, in the imaging range, the light whose luminance distribution has been controlled; imaging an object within the imaging range where the light has been emitted to generate image data; sequentially moving the imaging range relative to the object such that peripheral areas where the light attenuates overlap with each other in adjacent imaging ranges; sequentially obtaining a plurality of images with different imaging ranges based on the image data; and creating a combined image by stitching the plurality of images in such a way that adjacent images of the plurality of images corresponding to the adjacent imaging ranges are stitched together such that image areas corresponding to the peripheral areas overlap with each other.

Imaging apparatus, microscope system, imaging method, and computer-readable recording medium

An image acquisition system according to the present invention includes: a display device including a display surface on which a subject can be mounted; and the image acquisition device that is disposed face-down at a position above the display device in a manner spaced apart from the display surface, the display device being disposed with the display surface face-up, and that acquires images of the display surface and the subject placed on the display surface, wherein the image acquisition device includes a transmission unit that transmits the acquired images, and the display device includes: a reception unit that receives the transmitted images; a relative-position calculation unit that calculates the relative position between the display device and the image acquisition device on the basis of the received image; and a display control unit that controls content displayed on the display surface on the basis of the calculated relative position.

Image acquisition system

Provided is an image acquisition system according to the present invention includes: a display device that has a display surface on which an image is displayed; a dome-shaped reflective member that is disposed so as to cover at least a part of the display surface of the display device, that includes a reflective surface reflecting light from the display surface, on an inner surface thereof, and has a through-hole that passes between an interior and an exterior; and a photographing device that photographs light radiated from the display surface via the through-hole, while a subject is disposed at a position between the reflective member and the display surface.

An image processing apparatus is configured comprising a necessary/unnecessary determination data generating unit configured to generate necessary/unnecessary determination data; an image encoding unit assigning identification information respectively to, and recording, in a recording unit, each piece of data after division of each moving image of a moving image after encoding, a necessary/unnecessary determining unit configured to determine an unnecessary moving image frame based on necessary/unnecessary determination data; and a moving image file managing unit configured to rewrite information indicating a state of data at a recording unit in the recording unit corresponding to a moving image frame determined as unnecessary moving image frame by the necessary/unnecessary determining unit into information that there is no data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image reading apparatus

An information processing device (first processing device) includes a captured image acquisition section that acquires a captured image from an imaging section (imaging device), a trimming range setting section that sets a trimming range to the captured image acquired by the captured image acquisition section, the trimming range corresponding to an image processing target area that is processed by a server system (second processing device), and a communication section that transmits image information to the server system via a network, the image information being information about an area of the captured image that has been set as the trimming range by the trimming range setting section.

Information processing device, server system, image processing system, and information storage device

An image pickup apparatus is provided with an imaging optical system (imaging lens), an image sensor for picking up a subject image formed by the imaging optical system, and a view division optical system (first mirror) which divides a view picked up by the image sensor into an environment imaging side view and an eyeball imaging side view.

Image pickup apparatus

A calibration apparatus which estimates a calibration parameter of an image acquisition apparatus, comprises a calibration jig which includes at least two planes and in which calibration markers having known three-dimensional positions are arranged in each plane based on a predetermined rule. The calibration apparatus further comprises a calibration marker recognition section configured to measure and number in-image positions of the calibration markers in at least one image obtained by photographing the calibration jig by the image acquisition apparatus, and a parameter estimate section configured to estimate the calibration parameters of the image acquisition apparatus by the use of the three-dimensional position and the in-image position of the calibration markers numbered by the calibration marker recognition section.

Calibration apparatus, calibration method, program for calibration, and calibration jig

A distance measuring apparatus includes a detecting unit which detects a distance to an object located in a predetermined detection range; an imaging unit which generates an image signal group corresponding to a predetermined imaging field; a calculating unit which calculates the distance to the object located in the imaging field based on the image signal group; and an interpolating unit which either interpolates a detection result by the detecting unit by using a calculation result by the calculating unit, or interpolates the calculation result by the calculating unit by using the detection result by the detecting unit.

Distance measuring apparatus, distance measuring method, and computer program product

A user activity support agent in a user support apparatus includes a target detection evaluation module configured to detect demand, desire, and/or instruction of the user in the form of a target based on a user's activity state and/or an environment situation detected by a sensor group, and to ask the user whether or not the target is desired by the user via a user information providing device to evaluate the user's reaction to the information, and an activity plan evaluation module configured to plan the detected target in such a manner as to realize the target by the user's activity group, and to provide the user with information suggesting the activity group via the user information providing device to perform monitoring and/or evaluation with respect to the user's reaction to the information from the user's activity state and/or the environment situation.

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Atsugi, Japan

Takashi Miyoshi