摘要:
An image capturing apparatus for obtaining information regarding a depth of a subject includes: an illumination unit operable to cast a first illumination light beam mainly having a first wavelength and a second illumination light beam mainly having a second wavelength and a third wavelength from optically different emission positions onto the subject, the second and third wavelengths being different from the first wavelength; and a depth calculator operable to calculate a depth-direction distance to the subject based on outgoing light beams from the subject.
摘要:
A method for recognizing an object image comprises the steps of extracting a candidate for a predetermined object image from an image, and making a judgment as to whether the extracted candidate for the predetermined object image is or is not the predetermined object image. The candidate for the predetermined object image is extracted by causing the center point of a view window, which has a predetermined size, to travel to the position of the candidate for the predetermined object image, and determining an extraction area in accordance with the size and/or the shape of the candidate for the predetermined object image, the center point of the view window being taken as a reference during the determination of the extraction area. A learning method for a neural network comprises the steps of extracting a target object image, for which learning operations are to be carried out, from an image, feeding a signal, which represents the extracted target object image, into a neural network, and carrying out the learning operations of the neural network in accordance with the input target object image.
摘要:
A cylinder apparatus includes a base plate, a piston fixed to the base plate and having a piston head and a piston rod connected thereto, a cylinder body having a cylinder chamber defined on one side of the piston head and a cylinder chamber defined on another side of the piston head around the piston rod, the cylinder body being supported for reciprocating movement with respect to the base plate in axial directions of the piston, an upper plate fixed to the cylinder body, and a bushing held in slidable contact with an outer circumferential wall surface of the cylinder body for guiding the reciprocating movement of the cylinder body.
摘要:
In a method for extracting an object image, an extraction area for extraction of a candidate for a predetermined object image from an image is determined. The center point of a view window, which has a predetermined size, is caused to travel to the position of the candidate for the predetermined object image. The extraction area is determined in accordance with the size and/or the shape of the candidate for the predetermined object image, the center point of the view window being taken as a reference during the determination of the extraction area. The extraction of the candidate for the predetermined object image is carried out by using a neural network. Even if a plurality of object images, which are to be extracted, are embedded in a given image, the object images are extracted efficiently such that an object image, which has already been extracted, may not be extracted again.
摘要:
A radiation image read-out apparatus comprises a microchannel spacial light modulator having a front surface closely contacted with a stimulable phosphor sheet carrying a radiation image stored thereon, and a stimulating ray source for irradiating nearly uniform stimulating rays simultaneously to the overall surface of the stimulable phosphor sheet from the side opposite to the microchannel spacial light modulator with respect to the stimulable phosphor sheet. A reading light source irradiates nearly uniform reading light simultaneously to the overall rear surface of the microchannel spacial light modulator after light emitted by the stimulable phosphor sheet upon exposure to stimulating rays has been detected by the microchannel spacial light modulator. A two-dimensional photodetector detects the reading light reflected and subjected to spacial modulation in accordance with the radiation image by the microchannel spacial light modulator.
摘要:
A laser beam emitted from a laser source is deflected by a light deflector such as a rotational polygonal mirror or a galvanometer mirror to scan a surface-to-be-scanned. A beam position detector detects the incident position of the laser beam on the light deflector, and a control circuit drives an optical path changing mechanism according to the output of the beam position detector to change the optical path of the laser beam upstream of the light deflector so that the laser beam impinges upon the light deflector at the regular position.
摘要:
An imaging device includes: an optical system, for focusing light from subjects; color imaging element including a plurality of types of light receiving sections that detect light of different wavelength bands, for imaging focused images of the subjects; and an image processing section, for performing filtering processes to remove blur caused by the optical system from data output by the imaging element. The pitch among specified light receiving sections that contribute most to brightness signals is set smaller than that among other light receiving sections. The point spread diameter of the optical system on the specified light receiving sections is set to be greater than the pitch among the specified light receiving sections for wavelengths detected thereby, and less than the pitches among the other light receiving sections for wavelengths detected thereby. The image processing section performs the filtering process only on data output by the specified light receiving sections.
摘要:
An image capturing apparatus that effectively extends a depth of field of an imaging unit by performing restoration processing on image data obtained by imaging a subject with the imaging unit, in which image data (A/D converted digital image signal) are corrected by a linear correction unit such that an input light versus output signal value characteristic of the image sensor becomes linear and the restoration processing for depth of field extension is performed on the linear corrected image data.
摘要:
An imaging device includes: a lens optical system, for focusing light from a subject; a single chip color imaging element equipped with a Bayer pattern color filter, for imaging an image of the subject focused by the lens optical system; and an image processing section, for performing a filtering process in which data output by the imaging element is passed through an image reconstructing filter having properties inverse blur properties of the optical system, and then performing a synchronization process. The image processing section collects data excluding zero elements for each of R, G, and B channels, to generate reduced data arrays in which the amount of data is ¼ for the R and B channels, and ½ for the G channel, and administers the filtering process using the image reconstruction filter onto data of the reduced data array for each of the R, G, and B channels.
摘要:
There is provided an image capturing apparatus including a light receiving section that receives light from an object, an optical system that passes the light from the object therethrough so as to cause the light receiving section to receive the light from the object, where the optical system includes an optical modulating section which causes an optical transfer function of the light from the object to remain substantially constant at a position where the light receiving section is provided on condition that an object distance of the object falls within a predetermined range in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical system, a diaphragm section that blocks at least partially the light from the object to be received by the light receiving section, a light quantity detecting section that detects a quantity of the light from the object, and an image capturing control section that, when the light quantity detected by the light quantity detecting section is smaller than a predetermined light quantity, (i) sets an aperture size of the diaphragm section so as to be larger than a predetermined value and (ii) causes the light receiving section to receive the light from the object at least part of which is modulated by the optical modulating section.