Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tohru Ishibashi

Yoshimasa Araki

Yuichi Takahashi

Tsuyoshi Arai

Yutaka Mita

Yasuyuki Tamura

Akio Saito

Koichi Ito

Takashi Kawakami

Koji Nozato

Mineo Uchida

Koichi Kitakami

Nobuyuki Furukawa

Emi Kondo

Takashi Gyotoku

Takuya Imaizumi

Takumi Ishikawa

Takuma Yamazaki

Akari Hayashi

Kensuke Tone

A wearable image pickup apparatus that eliminates manual change of an image pickup direction during picking up an image and can easily obtain an image that records experience while focusing attention on the experience. An image pickup apparatus includes an observation direction detection unit that is worn on a body other than a head of a user, an image pickup unit that is worn on the body of the user, a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: detect an observation direction of the user by the observation direction detection unit, pick up an image by the image pickup unit, and output an output image corresponding to the observation direction based on the image picked up by the image pickup unit.

Wearable image pickup apparatus, portable device and calibrator that communicate with image pickup apparatus, control methods therefor, and storage media storing control programs therefor

An image pickup apparatus that eliminates manual change of an image pickup direction during an image picking up operation and can easily obtain an image that records experience while focusing attention on the experience. A detection unit is worn on a body part other than a head of a user. An image pickup unit is worn on a body of the user. A memory device stores instructions. A processor executes the instructions to: detect an observation direction of the user by the detection unit, pick up an image by the image pickup unit, output an image in an image recording frame corresponding to the observation direction, determine the image recording frame so that a part of the body of the user will not appear in an output image.

Image pickup apparatus used as action camera, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of continuous images, an extraction unit configured to extract a difference between two images among the plurality of continuous images, a first image processing unit configured to acquire a third image by removing a difference between portions smaller than a predetermined size from the difference extracted by the extraction unit, and a first combining unit configured to combine the two images by using the third image acquired by the first image processing unit. The image processing apparatus may implement the aforementioned units using a processor(s) that execute(s) a program of instructions stored in memory.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium

A liquid discharge apparatus comprises a head including a discharge port surface, a first reservoir that stores the liquid to be supplied to the head, a flexible member, separating an inner space of the first reservoir into a first chamber that stores the liquid and a second chamber that stores an operation liquid, a second reservoir communicating with the second chamber, the second reservoir storing the operation liquid to be supplied to the second chamber, the second reservoir being disposed in such a manner that a liquid surface of the operation liquid stored in the second reservoir is positioned below the discharge port surface, and an adjustment unit that performs adjustment in such a manner that a position of the liquid surface of the operation liquid in the second reservoir falls within a predetermined range in a state where the second reservoir is opened to atmosphere.

Liquid discharge apparatus, imprint apparatus and part manufacturing method

A image signal processing circuit acquires a plurality of images captured while an image capturing direction is sequentially changed. A microcomputer calculates the amount of movement along image capturing direction at the time when the plurality of images is sequentially captured, and calculates a projective transformation coefficient for each of the plurality of images based on a posture of an image capturing apparatus at the time when each of the plurality of images is captured. Then, the image signal processing circuit performs a projective transformation using the coefficient to correct trapezoidal distortions in the images, and, performs alignment between the images of neighboring image capturing direction after the projective transformation is performed, based on the amount of movement, and combines the images on which the alignment has been performed by joining the images together in the order in which the image capturing direction is changed.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Provided is a liquid discharge apparatus, including: a head having an discharge port surface in which an discharge port array is provided, the discharge port array including a plurality of discharge ports which discharges liquid and is arranged along a first direction; a suction port performing a suction operation for the discharge port surface; and a control unit causing the suction port to move in a second direction intersecting the first direction under a state in which the suction port is spaced away from the discharge port surface.

Liquid discharge apparatus, imprint apparatus, and method of manufacturing a component

Provided is a liquid discharging apparatus, including: a head having a discharging port surface on which discharging ports are formed, and configured to perform a discharging operation for discharging liquid through the discharging ports; a suction port configured to perform a suction operation for the discharging port surface; a pressure changing unit configured to change a pressure in the head; and a control unit configured to perform the suction operation under a state in which the pressure changing unit has changed the pressure in the head in a positive pressure direction with respect to a pressure that is set during the discharging operation and the suction port is spaced away from the discharging port surface.

Liquid discharging apparatus, imprint apparatus, and method of manufacturing a component

An image processing apparatus configured to generate a panoramic image by combining a plurality of images includes a first acquirer configured to acquire information of a first moving amount of the image based on a common area of the plurality of images, and an aligner configured to align the plurality of images based on difference information between the first moving amount and a second moving amount of the image acquired based on position information of an image-capturing apparatus configured to capture the plurality of images, and information of the second moving amount.

Image processing apparatus, image-capturing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A liquid discharge apparatus comprises a head having a discharge port surface on which a discharge port is provided for discharging a liquid, and a liquid moving unit arranged apart from the discharge port surface and configured to be movable along the discharge port surface, wherein, the liquid moving unit moves a liquid on the discharge port surface to a collection position in which the discharge port is not provided, with a moving of the liquid moving unit.

Liquid discharge apparatus and method for controlling the same

The present invention provides an imaging apparatus capable of facilitating a user's check of a focus adjustment state at the time of multiple exposure shooting, and also allowing a user to easily check in what kind of composition an image to be shot now will be combined with an already captured image immediately before shooting. The imaging apparatus includes a display control unit configured to perform control to display a through-the-lens image captured by an imaging unit on a display unit while sequentially updating the through-the-lens image during a focus adjustment, and display a multiple image combination result image generated by combining the through-the-lens image captured by the imaging unit and at least one already captured image on the display unit while sequentially updating the multiple image combination result image after completion of the focus adjustment.

Imaging apparatus for facilitating a focus adjustment check at the time of multiple exposure shooting

An electronic apparatus has a first sending unit that sends predetermined data to an external apparatus, the predetermined data is generated by mixing video data and first error data; a second sending unit that sends second error data to the external apparatus without mixing video data and the second error data; and a selecting unit that selects one of the first sending unit and the second sending unit based on a state of the external apparatus to cause the external apparatus to notify an error associated with the electronic apparatus.

Electronic apparatus

The present invention provides an imaging apparatus capable of performing a live view display showing a multiple image combination result image generated by combining a through-the-lens image with an already captured image at a more suitable combination ratio according to a user's intended operation during multiple exposure shooting. The imaging apparatus switches a multiple image combination result image displayed as a live view from a multiple image combination result image combined at a first combination ratio to a multiple image combination result image combined at a second combination ratio allowing a user to preliminarily check a combination ratio for generating a multiple image combination result image to be recorded into a recording medium, according to a user's operation.

Imaging apparatus and control method thereof

A probe-bearing substrate in which a probe capable of specifically binding to a target substance is immobilized on a substrate, characterized in that the probe-bearing substrate further includes a device for detecting an environmental change that may cause a change in the probe-bearing substrate such as probe deterioration or change in a substrate-protecting member.

Method for judging change in probe-bearing substrate, probe-bearing substrate and detecting apparatus

A target nucleic acid contained in a sample solution is hybridized with a probe nucleic acid capable of binding specifically to the target nucleic acid and immobilized on a substrate. The process includes hybridizing the target nucleic acid with the probe nucleic acid, collecting the sample solution that has undergone the hybridization, amplifying the target nucleic acid contained in the collected sample solution, and hybridizing the amplified nucleic acid with the probe nucleic acid.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tohru Ishibashi