Nikon Corporation

Ibiden Company Limited

Sapporo Medical University

Tomotaka Shinoda

Katsuya Okumura

Takahiro Kitano

Hideki Ito

Muneo Harada

Yoshihiro Hirota

Shuichi Kawano

Yoshiki Yamanishi

Takashi Tanemura

Toshihiro Mitaka

Satoshi Mori

Tatsuzo Kawaguchi

Kinji Yamada

Kazuya Umeyama

Naoki Watanabe

Sato Tsutomu

Satoshi Iyama

An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject; a selection unit that selects, as a reference image, a single image from among a plurality of images that have been captured in succession by the image-capturing unit; a calculation unit that calculates an amount of positional deviation between the reference image and each of the plurality of images other than the reference image; and a generation unit that generates a combined image by positionally aligning and then combining the reference image and those ones of the plurality of images whose amounts of positional deviation are less than or equal to a predetermined amount of deviation. The selection unit selects the reference image so that the number of images for which the amount of positional deviation is less than or equal to the predetermined amount of deviation becomes large.

Image-capturing device, and image combination program

An imaging device includes an imaging element, a RAM, an adding synthesizing unit, and a high dynamic range synthesizing means. The imaging element captures an image of a subject and generates image data. The RAM temporarily stores plural pieces of image data that have been consecutively captured by the imaging element. The adding synthesizing means adds and synthesizes the plural pieces of image data stored in the RAM to generate synthesized image data. The high dynamic range synthesizing means synthesizes one of the plural pieces of image data with the synthesized image data to generate high dynamic range image data and outputs the generated high dynamic range image data.

High dynamic range imaging device and image synthesis program

An image processing device can explicitly distinguish cells to be observed from cells other than those to be observed with a simple configuration. To this end, the image processing device includes a color information obtaining part obtaining at least hue from color information of each pixel of a color image, a detecting part detecting a mode value of the hue on a color space, a range setting part setting a predetermined range on the color space including the mode value of the hue detected by the detecting part as a target range, a changing part changing hue of a pixel included in the target range by virtually performing extension on the target range, and an information converting part converting color information of a pixel having hue not included in the target range into color information indicative of an achromatic color.

Image processing device and medium storing image processing program

An inspection apparatus includes an imaging device and an image processing device. The imaging device photographs a specimen and outputs a color image of the specimen to the image processing device. The image processing device subjects the color image of the specimen to negative-positive reversal. After detecting a mode value of the hue the color image having been subjected to negative-positive reversal, the image processing device changes the hue of the color image in accordance with a difference between a boundary value of two predefined hues and the detected mode value. In accordance with the change of the hue, a plurality of target pixels different in the saturation is extracted and the saturation and the intensity of each pixel are changed, or the gradation of each pixel is converted so that the plurality of target pixels becomes most distant from one another in a color space.

Image processing device and recording medium storing image processing program

A capacitor having a high quality and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. A capacitor has a lower electrode formed on an oxide film, a dielectric layer formed on the lower electrode, an upper electrode formed so as to face the lower electrode with the dielectric layer between, and an upper electrode formed so as to cover the upper electrode, an opening portion of the upper electrode and an opening portion of the dielectric layer. By forming the upper electrode on the dielectric layer, it is possible to pattern the dielectric layer by using the upper electrode as a mask, and provide a capacitor having a high-quality dielectric layer by preventing impurity diffusion into the dielectric layer. By forming the upper electrode on the dielectric layer, it is possible to prevent the dielectric layer from being exposed to etching liquid, liquid developer, etc.

Capacitor and manufacturing method thereof

A dielectric film capacitor includes a lower electrode having an opening and formed of a material including platinum, a dielectric film provided over the lower electrode and including an oxide having an ABOx crystal structure, and an upper electrode provided over the dielectric film. The planar area of the lower electrode is 50% or more of the area of a formation region of the dielectric film. A dielectric film capacitor includes a lower electrode formed of a material including platinum and having a thickness of 10 to 100 nm, a dielectric film provided over the lower electrode and including an oxide having an ABOx crystal structure, and an upper electrode provided over the dielectric film.

Dielectric film capacitor and method of manufacturing the same

A microscope digital image acquiring systemincludes a microscopecomposed of a microscope unitforming an enlarged image of an object O and a microscope controllercontrolling movement of the microscope unit, an imaging instrumentcomposed of a camera head unitthat is attached to the microscopeand has an imaging device detecting the enlarged image of the object O and a camera controllerthat receives a detected signal output from the imaging device and outputs image information of the object O. The microscope controllerand the camera controlleroperate cooperatively in response to control commands sent externally. The systemhas a connecting cableconnecting with both instrumentsandto carry out communication with each other. Both instrumentsandoperate cooperatively by communicating control commands with each other through the connecting cable

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Tomotaka Shinoda