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| 20120126100 | Photoelectric Switch - A photoelectric switch can be widely applied with a function to sensuously and intuitively display a light-receiving amount as an artificial numeric value in a given range. A preset display value “100” is set to an average value of sampled light-receiving amounts (S | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120106788 | Image Measuring Device, Image Measuring Method, And Computer Program - Provided are an image measuring device, an image measuring method, and a computer program, capable of performing accurate calibration and accurately measure a desired physical quantity even in a case of an object to be measured having a shape in which selection and tracking of target points are difficult or an object to be measured moving as time elapses. Frame images are played back frame by frame, and selection of a plurality of frame images is accepted from frame images played back frame by frame. A synthesized image in which the selected and accepted frame images are superimposed is generated. The generated synthesized image is displayed, and a predetermined physical quantity is measured on the displayed synthesized image. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105722 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, And Image Processing Program - The invention provides an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program, which enable immediately and easily searching for images showing certain states of subjects. Image data of a plurality of frames for displaying images of the plurality of frames, and a plurality of evaluation values associated with the image data of the plurality of frames are stored in a storage unit. The image data of a frame is selected, out of the stored image data of the plurality of frames. The images based on the image data of the respective frames are displayed. A thumbnail image corresponding to the image data of the selected frames is displayed in a thumbnail display area in the display unit. If a thumbnail image is selected, an image of a frame corresponding to this thumbnail image is displayed. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105717 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, And Image Processing Program - The invention provides an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program which enable accurately observing a moving image of an object within a time interval within which the object is in a desired state. A control unit performs an analysis process after the elapse of every defined time period. As the analysis process, the control unit acquires evaluation values corresponding to image data of a plurality of frames stored within a latest defined time period and, based on the acquired evaluation values, selects a group of reproduction data formed from image data of a certain number of frames, out of the image data of the plurality of frames stored within the latest defined time period. After the completion of the analysis process, the control unit starts reproduction of a moving image based on the group of reproduction data selected through the analysis process. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105664 | Moving Image Pickup Apparatus, Method For Observing Moving Image, Moving Image Observing Program, And Computer-Readable Recording Medium - A moving image is divided with imaging timing aligned without using a synchronous input. A moving image pickup apparatus to pick up a moving image of one or more objects as an imaging target includes an image obtaining unit for obtaining an input moving image composed of a plurality of frames containing a scene of the object making a periodic motion, a representative image selecting unit for selecting a representative image representing a cycle, a standard timing selecting unit for selecting a standard timing based on the representative image, in order to divide the input moving image obtained by the image obtaining unit with respect to each cycle, and a cycle extracting unit for dividing the input moving image with respect to each cycle, based on the standard timing selected by the standard timing selecting unit. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120068629 | External Illumination Apparatus For Optical Information Reading Apparatus - There is provided an external illumination apparatus capable of increasing flexibility of illumination, the external illumination apparatus including a CPU and a memory so as to control lighting of a plurality of illumination LEDs with reference to a lighting pattern stored in the memory, wherein this lighting control is executed by a lighting command from an optical information reading apparatus. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120067957 | Illumination Setting Support Apparatus Of Optical Information Reading Apparatus - There is provided an illumination setting support apparatus that enables a user to easily set an optimal lighting pattern while visually checking. A schematic diagram of the illumination unit is displayed in the setting screen, so that clicking on a desired area inside this schematic diagram allows the arbitrary area to be selected from eight areas in the circumferential row of the “outermost circumference” of the external illumination unit. Lighting pattern information is transmitted to a bar code reader and is transferred to the external illumination unit. Imaging is performed while executing illumination control in accordance with the lighting pattern to thereby immediately display a live image on a PC. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120067952 | Code Quality Evaluating Apparatus - Quality of a code provided in a test piece of a work is evaluated, using a sample processing function of a marker that gives the code to the work to present suggestion for setting of a processing condition to a user. Images picked up by a bar code reader are taken in to create a list of readable codes from these picked-up images, and images of these readable codes are displayed in a list. Tuning processing is performed to all the listed-up codes. In this tuning processing, the reading is tried while changing brightness, and a barometer of readability (easiness of decoding) in each of the reading trials is found to calculate a score indicating a level of reading stability based on a value of integral of this barometer, and this score is displayed as a numeric value and in a graph. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120062972 | Method Of And System For Setting Laser Processing Conditions, Laser Processing System, Computer Program For Setting Laser Processing Conditions, Computer Readable Medium and Recording Device On Which Laser Processing Conditions Are Recorded - A method of setting processing data for a computer-assisted laser processing apparatus is disclosed, along with a system for setting a laser processing data. The method comprises a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, a function of generating processing data representing the processing conditions for the object, and a function of visually displaying a two dimensional representation of the processing data on a display screen and a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, wherein it is enabled to set the three-dimensional profile and the processing pattern while displaying the object in two dimensions on the display screen disposed within a processing zone. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061360 | Method Of And System For Setting Laser Processing Conditions, Laser Processing System, Computer Program For Setting Laser Processing Conditions, Computer Readable Medium and Recording Device On Which Laser Processing Conditions Are Recorded - A method of setting processing data for a computer-assisted laser processing apparatus is disclosed, along with a system for setting a laser processing data. The method comprises a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, a function of generating processing data representing the processing conditions for the object, and a function of visually displaying a two dimensional representation of the processing data on a display screen and a function of setting a three-dimensional profile of a object and a processing pattern as processing conditions, wherein it is enabled to set the three-dimensional profile and the processing pattern while displaying the object in two dimensions on the display screen disposed within a processing zone. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120027307 | Image Measurement Device, Method For Image Measurement, And Computer Readable Medium Storing A Program For Image Measurement - An image measurement device capable of recognizing a relative position and easily identifying a measurement result is provided, the device including: a measurement configuration data storage section that holds characteristic amount information, information for portions to be measured, and setting value information; a placement state detection section that detects a position and a posture of each workpiece; an edge detection section that detects an edge of portions to be measured; a pass-fail determination section that calculates size values of the portions to be measured and performs pass-fail determination of the portions to be measured and the workpiece; a measurement result display section that displays a result of the pass-fail determination of the workpiece over the workpiece image; and a workpiece selection section for selecting any of the workpieces. The measurement result display section displays the result of the pass-fail determination for the portions to be measured of the selected workpiece. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027289 | Image Measurement Device, Method For Image Measurement, And Computer Readable Medium Storing A Program For Image Measurement - Present invention is an image measurement device capable of easily identifying a degree of disagreement between contours for a plurality of workpieces, and including: an edge extraction unit that extracts an edge line from a workpiece image; an image comparison unit that compares the workpiece image with the previously held master image, an error calculation unit that calculates, based on the comparison result, an error indicating an amount of displacement between an edge position of the workpiece image and a position of the master image corresponding to this edge position; a statistical information calculation unit that calculates statistical information of the calculated error for a plurality of workpiece images and for each edge position; a statistical information display unit that displays the statistical information along the edge line extracted from the workpiece image or the master image in a display mode suitable for the values of the statistical information. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120001070 | Magnifying Observation Apparatus - Work to obtain an optical and an electron microscope images at an identical display size is facilitated. A magnifying observation apparatus includes: an electron beam imaging device that obtains an electron microscope image in a chamber; an optical imaging device that obtains an optical image in the chamber; a moving device that moves the both devices such that an optical axis direction of one of the both devices is aligned with an optical axis direction of the other device; a display section that displays the electron microscope and the optical images; and a magnifying power conversion section that recognizes a magnifying power of an image obtained by one of the imaging devices and converts the magnifying power, which is used to obtain an image having a display size substantially identical to that of the image, by the other device into a magnifying power on a basis of the other device. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001069 | Magnifying Observation Apparatus - Observation fields of an electron microscope image and an optical magnifying observation image are smoothly switched. A magnifying observation apparatus includes: a pair of end-face plates closes end faces of a body portion; an electron beam imaging device mounted on a first position of a cylindrical shaped outer surface of the body portion; an optical imaging device mounted on a second position being different from the first position in the outer surface; a rotating device that rotates the both imaging devices along the outer surface such that a distance from each of the both imaging devices to a common rotation axis of the both imaging devices is kept constant and optical axes of the both imaging devices are oriented toward the rotation axis; a specimen stage that is disposed in the chamber, and arranged to a position that is substantially the same to a height of the rotation axis. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110309148 | Code Reading Device - Provided is a code reading device capable of reducing a time from start of reading of a symbol code until a decoded result is transmitted to an external device. The code reading device includes first and second CPUs that access a shared memory, an imaging element that optically reads the symbol code to generate a read image, and a DMAC that transfers the read image from the imaging element to the shared memory. The first CPU decodes the read image in the shared memory based on a command of the second CPU. The second CPU selectively executes any one of an imaging control task, a decode control task, and a decoded result transmission task, in which the imaging control task is given priority over the decode control task, and the decode control task is given priority over the decoded result transmission task. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110286659 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Computer Program - A plurality of first multivalued images of non-defective items picked up by an image pickup device are obtained, and a plurality of characteristic amounts at least including a pixel value of a color component and edge intensities in two different directions are extracted for each pixel in the obtained first multivalued images. Selection of any one of the plurality of extracted characteristic amounts is received, and the characteristic amount of which selection is received is extracted, whereby a distribution range for determining the non-defective item is calculated. A second multivalued image of a determination target object is obtained, and the characteristic amount of which selection is received is extracted for each pixel in the obtained second multivalued image, whereby determination is made as to whether the characteristic amount is included in the distribution range corresponding to the extracted characteristic amount. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285843 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Computer Program - The invention provides an image processing apparatus, capable of detecting even a defect that exists in proximity to a contour line with high accuracy and determining a non-defective item with high accuracy. Edge intensities in two different directions are calculated for each pixel in the obtained first multivalued images, and a mean value of the edge intensities is calculated for each pixel in the first multivalued images. An intercorrelation distribution region of the edge intensities is calculated for each pixel in first multivalued images with the calculated mean value being the center. Edge intensities are calculated for each pixel in a second multivalued image of a determination target object, and determination is made as to whether the calculated edge intensities for each pixel in the second multivalued image are included in the calculated intercorrelation distribution region of the edge intensities for each pixel in the first multivalued images. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110226938 | Multi-Optical Axis Photoelectric Sensor - The invention provides a multi-optical axis photoelectric sensor capable of improving workability of wiring. The sensor outputs to an external apparatus a safe signal generated based upon an interrupted state of at least one optical axis among optical axes formed between the phototransmitter and the photoreceiver. The photoreceiver includes a first cable connecting section (end section case), connected with a cable including a power line for receiving power supply from the external apparatus and an output line for outputting a safe signal to the external apparatus, and a second cable connecting section (end section case), connected with a cable including a power line for performing power supply to the phototransmitter and a communication line for transmitting or receiving a timing signal that defines timing for light projection of the light projecting elements. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110129154 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Computer Program - The distortion correction is carried out by acquiring the calibration pattern image by an imaging device and executing calibration based on the acquired calibration pattern image. A plurality of calibration pattern images in which feature points arranged in an imaging range from which images can be picked up by the imaging device are provided at a regular interval is acquired, and a feature point group is extract from each image. The calibration is executed based on the feature point groups respectively extracted from areas with different imaging ranges. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128398 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Computer Program - In the case of executing image processing on a multivalued image obtained by picking up an image of an imaging object with a camera, the invention calculates a predetermined projective transformation parameter for projectively transforming a multivalued image before image processing, calculates a projected area obtained by projectively transforming an area where pixels of the multivalued image before image processing exist to an output area where pixels of a multivalued image after image processing exist based upon the calculated projective transformation parameter, specifies as an effective area an area in which the calculated projected area is overlapped with the output area where the pixels of the multivalued image after image processing exist, and performs coordinate transformation based upon the specified effective area and the calculated projective transformation parameter, to generate the multivalued image after image processing from the multivalued image before image processing. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110102617 | Image Processing Device And Image Processing Method - The invention provides an image processing device and an image processing method which can efficiently make use of memory resources, and can also edit and simulate a registered image or the like so as to reflect the registered image or the like after editing in a normal operation without stopping the normal operation, and further to enhance production efficiency. When data for image processing edited in a second processing section is to be reflected in image processing (normal operation) that is continuously executed in a first processing section, the edited data for image processing is transmitted from a third data storage area to a second data storage area, and the edited data for image processing is read from the second data storage area when image processing is executed by use of the edited data for image processing in the first processing section. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110068174 | Optical Information Reader - In an optical information reader, an entire size is reduced while a space for accommodating an imaging unit, a space for accommodating a cable of an external interface, and a space for accommodating plural boards in which circuits of a signal processing unit are accommodated are secured. An entire size of a housing is determined based on sizes of a main board and an imaging unit to realize an optical information reader having a minimum shape. The main board has the largest area as a board, and a CPU and a memory are mounted thereon. The imaging unit includes a camera module, a lighting LED unit, and a marker. The main board is disposed near an internal wall of a housing. Other functions are functionally divided into sub-boards and disposed around a frame body, and a connection portion to the cable is accommodated in the frame body to achieve miniaturization. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110043621 | Image Processing Device And Image Processing Method - The invention aims to execute image processing in synchronization with predetermined procedures with a single controller and eliminate an image pickup inhibit period for preventing incomplete image pickup. Pickup completing conditions of a plurality of types that are established when the image data is obtained from a predetermined image pickup unit (one of a camera | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110018722 | Photoelectric Sensor And Photoelectric Sensor System - There are provided a photoelectric sensor and a photoelectric sensor system in which received light quantities of a plurality of photoelectric sensors are displayed in an integrated manner, and slight variation in the received light quantity that has nothing to do with a detected condition of a workpiece is ignored and a photoelectric sensor with abnormity is easily found out. Upon acceptance of an instruction to execute scaled display by a control unit of a photoelectric sensor, a scaling adjustment ratio is calculated by assigning the received light quantity to a target value set to be greater than a display upper limit while executing the scaled display. A received light quantity that is subsequently obtained is scaled based on the calculated scaling adjustment ratio to obtain a received light quantity after the scaling. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110018688 | Connected Sensor System, Network Unit, And Sensor Unit - The present invention provides a connected sensor system which can be easily used by the user and which can give an external input to each sensor unit without making the wiring complicated, and also provides a network unit and a sensor unit used for the connected sensor system. A cyclic communication memory of a network unit is arranged with an external input request region, and an external input signal is stored to a corresponding memory in a host control apparatus. By performing cyclic communication between the network unit and the host control apparatus, the external input signal is stored to the cyclic communication memory of the network unit. Accordingly, the external input signal is transmitted to each sensor unit connected to the network unit, and each sensor unit executes the external input function. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110000316 | Coriolis Mass Flow Meter - A Coriolis mass flow meter targeted for measurement of a fluid with a minute flow rate is reduced in weight and size, the flow meter being in which a subframe supporting a vibration exciter and first and second detectors has an outer peripheral wall, a notch and an inner peripheral wall, a circuit board supported by a main frame is positioned in the portion of the notch, the circuit board is housed in a board case penetrating the main frame, and a liquid crystal monitor is mounted in the portion of the circuit board adjacent to supply/discharge portions of a pair of vibration tubes. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110000315 | Coriolis Mass Flow Meter - For reducing an influence due to an external vibration, a frame has: a main frame that supports a vibration tube in a cantilever state; and a subframe that extends from the main frame toward a measurement portion side of the vibration tube, a detector and a vibration exciter are arranged on this subframe, and the outer case that surrounds the frame, the vibration tube and the like is engaged with the frame through the vibration isolating member. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100271638 | Transmissive Dimension Measuring Device - There is provided a transmissive dimension measuring device in which a user can intuitively and easily adjust optical axes of a projector and an optical receiver, and in which a suitable action can be immediately taken when contamination is attached to a light projecting surface of the projector and a light receiving surface of the optical receiver. An incident light position display unit provided on the optical receiver expresses a light projecting spot in a pseudo manner by making an LED corresponding to an incident light position turn on, the light projecting spot being incident on the optical receiver arranged with a predetermined interval to the projector which projects light. The incident light position display unit is provided on an upper surface side opposite to a bottom surface that is a surface on which the optical receiver is installed on a base. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100243870 | Main Body Unit Of Optical Fiber Photoelectric Sensor And Optical Fiber Photoelectric Sensor - The present invention provides a main body unit of an optical fiber photoelectric sensor and the optical fiber photoelectric sensor, which improves optical coupling efficiency of a light emitting element and a light projecting side optical fiber and is capable of making uniform light incident on the light projecting side optical fiber without highly accurately positioning the light emitting element and a condenser lens. The main body unit of the optical fiber photoelectric sensor makes light emitted from an LED chip converge by the condenser lens and incident on the light projecting side optical fiber; and also makes light not incident on the condenser lens and emitted around the condenser lens reflect by a reflecting surface provided around the condenser lens, then refract the reflected light by a refractive surface, and incident on the light projecting side optical fiber. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100198365 | Safety Photoelectric Switch - A photoelectric switch reduces a cost load of a user while ensuring its protection function inherent to safety equipment without impairing its safety function, and an optical scanning type photoelectric switch is provided with a muting function settable by the user, which is a function of temporarily invalidating sensing of part or the whole of a protection area, and is provided with two output systems, with respect to each of which the muting function is settable and on each output of which an inspection signal is superimposed at a different timing in a time-division manner. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100194583 | Safety Photoelectric Switch - There is provided an optical scanning type photoelectric switch capable of preventing interference with another photoelectric switch by use of its own capability, wherein, as for light projection pulse periods of the first and second optical scanning type photoelectric switches, the period is set to 30 μs in the first optical scanning type photoelectric switch while the period is set to 33 μs in the second optical scanning type photoelectric switch | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100193668 | Optical Scanning Type Photoelectric Switch - There is provided an optical scanning type photoelectric switch capable of facilitating control of holding a set detection sensitivity, wherein first and second reflection surfaces with different reflection factors are built as reference objects in the optical scanning type photoelectric switch, and arranged in a measurement invalid range in rotation of a scanning mirror, a light projection path, a light reception path, a laser light source LD and a light receiving element, which are used for scanning in the measurement area, are shared, and when a light reception intensity of the white second reflection surface is smaller than a “reference light reception intensity (white)”, a light projection driving section is controlled to increase the light projection intensity. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100189308 | Image Measuring Apparatus and Computer Program - An image of a measurement object is displayed, and specification of a feature image and a measurement position is received on the displayed image. The feature image, the specification has been received, and information on relative positions for the feature image, which represents the measurement position and a display position of a dimension line, are stored. A newly acquired image of the measurement object is compared with the feature image to identify information on the attitude and the position of the image of the measurement object. A measurement position is set for the image of the measurement object with the identified attitude and position, and then predetermined physical quantities are measured. Based on the stored information on the relative position for the feature image displaying the dimension line, a dimension line indicating a measurement position and a measurement result are displayed at predetermined positions. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100185418 | Continuously-Arranged Sensor System, Network Unit, and Sensor Unit - A continuously-arranged sensor system is provided that can recognize a time of a determination signal provided by each sensor unit so that a host control apparatus can use the time to perform timing control. The continuously-arranged sensor system includes a network unit and a plurality of sensor units, which are connected by a serial transmission line. In accordance with a command sent from the network unit, each sensor unit transmits the determination signal to the network unit via the serial transmission line. The network unit stores the time information and the determination information to a table memory. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100176965 | Continuously-Arranged Sensor System, Network Unit, and Sensor Unit - A continuously-arranged sensor system is provided that can eliminate a shift in timing between a determination signal of each sensor unit and sensor information relating to the determination signal. The continuously-arranged sensor system includes a network unit and a plurality of sensor units, which are connected by a serial transmission line and a parallel transmission line. In accordance with a command sent from the network unit, each sensor unit transmits the determination signal and the sensor information, provided at the same time as the determination signal, to the network unit via the serial transmission line. Therefore, the network unit can obtain the determination signal and the sensor information exhibited at the same time. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100149364 | Imaging Device - The present invention provides an imaging device capable of displaying the whole of a display mosaic image in a screen even when the image size of the mosaic image is largely changed, the imaging device including: a mosaic image generation unit which assembles a plurality of still images, and generates the mosaic image; a relative position determination unit which determines a relative position between a frame image and the mosaic image; a display reduction unit which reduces the frame image and the mosaic image respectively based on the image size of the mosaic image, and generates a display frame image and a display mosaic image; and a live image display unit which updates a display position of the frame image with respect to the mosaic image based on a determination result of the relative position. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100149363 | Imaging Device - This invention provide an imaging device includes: a still image obtaining unit which obtains a plurality of still images; an omnifocal image generation unit which combines the still images, and generates the omnifocal image; a focal position control unit which obtains a focusing position of at lest a part of the omnifocal image from height shape data, and controls the focal position so that the focal position of the frame image substantially coincides with the focusing position; a feature quantity extraction unit which extracts feature quantity from the frame image and the omnifocal image or a reference image; a relative position determination unit which determines a relative position between the frame image and the reference image; and a live image display unit which updates a display position of the frame image, and displays a moving picture image on the omnifocal image. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100149362 | Imaging Device - This invention provides an imaging device includes: a mosaic image generation unit which assembles a plurality of still images, and generates a mosaic image; a feature quantity extraction unit which extracts feature quantity from the frame image and the mosaic image; a relative position determination unit which determines a relative position between the frame image and the mosaic image, and a live image display unit which updates a display position of the frame image with respect to the mosaic image, and displays the moving picture image on the mosaic image. The live image display unit changes the display position in response to the relative position when succeeded in positioning of the frame image; and when failed in positioning, the live image display unit does not change the display position and fixes the display position near a position of a final frame image succeeded in positioning. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100123898 | Optical Displacement Gage - An optical displacement gage includes the phase determining unit includes a relative phase deciding unit to decide a relative phase of the frequency component within a range of 360 degrees, an absolute phase computing unit to compute an absolute phase by combining the relative phase based on the decision result by the relative phase deciding unit and the past decision result by the relative phase, and a phase reference updating unit to update a reference point of the absolute phase based on a reset instruction, and the displacement amount deciding unit decides the displacement amount based on the absolute phase. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100098339 | Contour-Information Extracting Method by Use of Image Processing, Pattern Model Creating Method in Image Processing, Pattern Model Positioning Method in Image Processing, Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Program, and Computer Readable Recording Medium - There is provided a pattern model creating method in image processing, which allows selection of an appropriate contour in accordance with an object image, the method being a pattern model creating method in image processing for positioning by searching an object to be searched that is similar to a pre-registered image out of an image to be searched by use of a pattern model corresponding to the registered image, the method including: extracting a plurality of edge points from the registered image; creating a plurality of continuous chains by coupling adjacent edge points among the plurality of extracted edge points; eliminating a chain with a length not larger than a predetermined length among the plurality of chains; selecting chains sequentially from the smallest chain among the remaining chains; and regarding aggregation of the selected chains as a contour extracted from the registered image, to construct a pattern model for positioning. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100098338 | Method for Deciding Image Data Reduction Ratio in Image Processing, Pattern Model Positioning Method in Image Processing, Pattern Model Creating Method in Image Processing, Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Program, and Computer Readable Recording Medium - There is provided a method for deciding an image data reduction ratio in image processing which enables performance of stable positioning even on an unclear image, the method being a method for deciding an image data reduction ratio in image processing where an object to be searched that is similar to a pre-registered image is searched to be positioned out of the image to be searched by use of a pattern model corresponding to the registered image, the method including the steps of: computing a sharpness of each edge point based on the edge points with reference to an edge image where the edge points are extracted from image date; and deciding an image data reduction ratio based on each edge sharpness such that positional accuracy of the edge points becomes higher than a predetermined value. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100080484 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Computer Program - An image processing apparatus capable of executing filter processing with a desired blurring degree selected in accordance with an application from a multi-valued image captured an object surface, the image processing apparatus comprises: a first filter processing device for executing smoothing processing on the multi-valued image, a second filter processing device for creating a reduced image reduced from the multi-valued image with an image reduction ratio, executing smoothing processing on the reduced image, and creating an enlarged image of the smoothed image enlarged with an image enlargement ratio corresponding to the image reduction ratio, and an image display device for displaying a processed image by the first filter processing device or the second filter processing device. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100060903 | Image Measuring Apparatus and Computer Program - A shape of a measurement object is measured based on an image obtained by applying light onto a stage having the measurement object mounted thereon and performing image formation of transmitted light or reflected light of the light on an imaging device. An image of the measurement object that is obtained by image formation on an imaging device is displayed within the range of the field of view, and feature quantity information is extracted based on the image of the measurement object. A determination is made as to whether feature quantity information approximately in agreement with the extracted feature quantity information is stored. If it is determined that the feature quantity information approximately in agreement with the extracted feature quantity information is stored, then the shape of the measurement object is measured based on information on measurement conditions stored in association with the feature quantity information. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100044581 | Ionizer and Static Elimination Method - The ionizer includes a nozzle having a discharge electrode for inducing corona discharge by application of high voltage to eject ions, an emission port for emitting supplied gas together with the ejected ions, and a gas channel for guiding supplied gas to the emission port. Herein, a velocity of flow of the gas immediately after emission from the emission port exceeds a velocity of sound, and a gas pressure at the emission port is not less than an atmospheric pressure. The gas channel has a throat part for narrowing the gas channel such that a channel area gradually decreases, and a ratio of the atmospheric pressure to a gas pressure at a position where the channel area does not vary, the position being located forward of the throat part, is not more than 0.528. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100036631 | Waveform Observing Apparatus - There is provided a waveform observing apparatus, which facilitates management of compressed data and measured data that were created for a reduced display, reduces a calculating amount in making the reduced display, and displays a boundary between stoppage and start of collection of measured data in a visually observable manner, in such a manner that, when a compression ratio is set to the number of pieces of data per display dot, a plurality of compressed data of a compressed-data file for display with a smaller compression ratio than the above used to calculate compressed data, to make a reduced display at the compression ratio after the setting change, final compressed data is created based upon measured data of a fraction at the time of stoppage of sampling, top compressed data is created based upon measured data of a fraction immediately after resuming of the sampling at the time of the resuming. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100034484 | Pattern Model Positioning Method In Image Processing, Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Program, and Computer Readable Recording Medium - There is provided a matching method, capable of positioning with higher accuracy at higher speed. The method includes the steps of: constructing a pattern model of a registered image in which a plurality of reference points are set on an extracted contour and a corresponding point search line having a predetermined length and passing through each reference point; acquiring an image and acquiring an initial position corresponding to the registered image to arrange the corresponding point search line of the pattern model; finding a corresponding point on the image corresponding to each reference point with regard to each corresponding point search line at a position along the corresponding point search line on the image; and regarding a relation between each reference point and the corresponding point as an evaluation value and performing fine positioning such that an accumulated value of the evaluation values becomes minimal or maximal. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100034476 | Image Data Compression Method, Pattern Model Positioning Method in Image Processing, Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Program, and Computer Readable Recording Medium - There is provided a data compression method for increasing a reduction ratio, while keeping a sufficient characteristic amount, to seek speeding up of processing, the method being for compressing image data in pattern model positioning in image processing of searching out of an image to be searched and positioning a pattern model corresponding to a pre-registered image. The method includes the steps of computing an edge strength image having edge strength information and an edge angle image having edge angle information with respect to each pixel constituting an image; transforming the edge angle image of each pixel into an edge angle bit image expressed by an edge angle bit indicating an angle with a pre-defined fixed width; and compressing the edge angle bit image to create an edge angle bit reduced image by taking a sum with respect to each edge angle bit. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100026713 | Waveform Observing Apparatus and Waveform Observing System - There are provided a waveform observing apparatus and waveform observing system that solve a problem of displacement of a handwritten comment which occurs with enlargement/reduction in display in such a manner that, when a determination is NO in a process step, namely when a current compression ratio differs from a compression ratio at the time of writing a handwritten comment in displaying the handwritten comment to such a degree as to cause occurrence of non-allowable displacement, a process proceeds to a next process step, and a simple indication indicating the presence of the handwritten comment is displayed in a position associated with a portion of a waveform corresponding to a measured data number. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100026277 | Waveform Observing Apparatus - There is provided a waveform observing apparatus with a reduced depth in such a manner that the waveform observing apparatus is one including a terminal board, connecting wiring extending from external equipment, a memory for receiving measured data through the terminal board, to store the measured data, and a display for displaying the measured data in waveform, the apparatus including: a first intra-body substrate, installed in an erect state inside a body frame of the waveform observing apparatus; a plurality of first connectors, provided on the first intra-body substrate; and a measurement module, which is connector-connected to the first connector of the first intra-body substrate, to be installed between the first intra-body substrate and the terminal board, and also includes a measurement circuit, wherein a plurality of measurement modules are detachable in an aligned state with respect to the erect first intra-body substrate. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100005906 | Flowmeter - A flow meter of Coriolis type includes a supporting base that supports a pair of fluid pipes in a manner capable of being vibrated, and a frame fixed to the supporting base. The frame is integrally formed with a mounting portion disposed between the fluid pipes and having a thickness that does not interfere with the fluid pipes, a reinforcing portion disposed at the outer circumference of the mounting portion and enhancing the rigidity of the mounting portion, and a fixing portion for being fixed to the supporting base. The reinforcing portion has an outer wall portion that protrudes at least to one side of the thickness direction of the mounting portion, and substantially continuously surrounds the outer circumference of the fluid pipes. Penetrating portions for disposing the coils corresponding to respective magnetic substances mounted on the fluid pipe are formed in the mounting portion. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100000334 | Flowmeter - The flowmeter is provided with an oscillation circuit receiving supply of electric power in a non-insulated manner from an external power source and supplying the electric power to the coil to drive the magnetic substance, an insulating unit for insulating the coil from the magnetic substance and/or the electrically conductive fluid pipe, and a shielding unit being short-circuited to have a stable electric potential relative to the external power source and shielding the coil against the magnetic substance and the fluid pipe. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20090313289 | Waveform Observing Apparatus and System Thereof - There are provided a waveform observing apparatus and the system thereof in which, when a removable storage medium is inserted into the waveform observing apparatus to capture a copy of measured data, a difference copy is made while including the latest measured data collected by the waveform observing apparatus at the time, sixteenth and seventeenth measured data temporarily stored in a buffer memory are filed and stored in the state of being housed in a fourth measured data file, into a body memory. Copies of a third measured data file including part of the difference copy and a new fourth measured data file are written into the USB memory. When the USB memory is inserted into a personal computer, a hard disk of the personal computer comes into a state where its third measured data file is overwritten and stored and the fourth measured data file is newly stored. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090295580 | Area Monitoring Sensor - This invention provides an area monitoring sensor capable of setting a monitor area without connecting a terminal device for area setting. The area monitoring sensor that emits detection light in different emitting directions and senses an intruder within a monitor area based on reflection of the detection light, the monitor area being previously set as a polygonal shaped area defined by three or more sides, the sensor being provided on a first side out of the sides of the monitor area, and includes a side selecting unit that selects a second side other than the first side out of the three or more sides that define the monitor area based on an operation input; a distance specifying unit that specifies a distance between the area monitoring sensor and the second side that is being selected by the side selecting unit based on an operation input. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090295577 | Area Monitoring Sensor - Provided is an area monitoring sensor capable of recording sensing information of an intruder that has triggered to output an operation disable signal, and displaying the information as needed. The area monitoring sensor includes: an intruder sensing unit that emits detection light in different emitting directions and senses an intruder within a previously set monitor area based on reflection of the detection light; a signal output unit that outputs an operation disable signal based on a result of the sensing by the intruder sensing unit; a sensing history recording unit that stores a position of the intruder that has been sensed by the intruder sensing unit as sensing history; and a sensing history display unit that displays the sensing history in the sensing history recording unit based on an input signal from the operation input unit. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090289791 | Monitor Area Setting Device For Optical Scanning Unit - This invention provides a monitor area setting device with which an area can be easily added to or deleted from a monitor area. The device includes: an area addition/deletion specifying unit that specifies an addition area and a deletion area based on an input signal from an operating unit; an inconsistent area extraction unit that extracts an area that is between the safety area and the addition area with respect to the safety sensor as an inconsistent area; and an area setting update unit that updates area setting information so as to set an area formed either by adding the addition area and the inconsistent area to the safety area or by excluding the deletion area and the inconsistent area from the safety area as a new monitor area. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090287453 | Light Scanning Photoelectric Switch - This invention provides a light scanning photoelectric switch with which various settings of the light scanning photoelectric switch such as setting of a protection area can be easily set. The light scanning photoelectric switch includes: a display unit having a display screen that displays information including at least one of a status of a safety function of the light scanning photoelectric switch, and information of a failure status; and an operating unit provided in vicinity of the display unit, and for switching the information displayed in the display screen to different one of the safety signal, the result of the determination, setting contents of the light scanning photoelectric switch, the status of the safety function of the light scanning photoelectric switch, and the information of the failure status. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090283666 | Light Scanning Photoelectric Switch - Provided is a light scanning photoelectric switch that can be attached to a cover correctly even by an inexperienced person. The light scanning photoelectric switch includes: a casing that contains a light scanning unit and a photoelectric transducer and has an opening substantially in U-shape in cross section perpendicular to an axis; a cover that is detachably provided for the casing and is for covering the opening of the casing; an elastically deformable sealing member provided between the casing and the cover; an engagement unit provided for the cover and the casing so that the cover engages with the casing in a state in which the sealing member is compressed in an attachment direction along which the cover is attached to the casing; and a fixation portion capable of receiving a fixing member that compresses the sealing member in a direction different from the attachment direction in a state in which the cover engages with the casing. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090272809 | Bar Code Reading Apparatus and Bar Code Reading Method - Reading result information about whether bar code information has been able to be read normally in a scanning cycle unit is stored in association with a plurality of locations and information on a condition set upon reading. When it is determined, based on stored reading result information which is obtained in an immediately previous scanning cycle, that bar code information in an identical relative location in the immediately previous scanning cycle has been able to be read normally, information on a condition set upon reading in the immediately previous scanning cycle is read. When it is determined that bar code information has not been able to be read normally, information on a condition that differs from information on a condition set upon reading in the immediately previous scanning cycle is set. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090248351 | Contact Displacement Meter - It is an object to provide a contact displacement meter capable of performing an accurate displacement measurement even in a case where a movement speed of a contact is fast, as well as having high resistance property to optical noise. A reference light passing regions are away from each other by a distance of a unique value in a movement scale. A peak position of the reference light passing region at which s received light signal of light passed through the reference light passing region takes a local maxim is detected, and an absolute position of the reference light passing region is specified based on the distance between the adjacent peak positions. A relative position of the reference light passing region with respect to a line sensor is specified based on a received light signal of light passed through a lattice region. A displacement of the contact is calculated based on the specified absolute position and the relative position. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244549 | Contact Displacement Meter - There is provided a contact displacement meter in which the size of the housing can be miniaturized as much as possible without lowering the measurement accuracy of a displacement. Light emitted by a light emitting element is converted to parallel light by a lens, and then is deflected to a predetermined direction and converted to wide-width parallel light by a prism. The displacement of a contact attached with one of a plate-shaped scale member and a linear sensor is calculated from a projection position of a reference pattern and the unique information obtained based on a plurality of received light signals of the linear sensor. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090208129 | Image Generating Apparatus and Method - There are provided an image generating apparatus and an image generating method, which are capable of generating an image with only a noise portion reliably deleted. A reduced image is generated by reducing the multi-valued image, smoothing processing is executed on the reduced image, an edge image is generated from the reduced image, edge angle information concerning edge angles is generated in pixel units from the edge image, a synthesizing rate of the multi-valued image and the smoothed reduced image is calculated in pixel units of the reduced image based upon the edge angle information. An enlarged image is generated by enlarging the smoothed reduced image to an identical scale, the synthesizing rate calculated in pixel units of the reduced image is converted into a synthesizing rate in pixel units of the enlarged image, and the multi-valued image and the enlarged image are synthesized based upon the converted synthesizing rate. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090208050 | Defect Detection Apparatus, Defect Detection Method and Computer Program - There is provided a defect detection apparatus capable of highly accurately detecting a defect of a size not larger than a size desired by the user, in which the size setting device sets the defect size, the reduction ratio setting device sets an image reduction ratio based on the set defect size, the image reduction device generates a reduced image obtained by reducing the original multi-valued image, the filter processing device performs filter processing on the reduced image for removing a defect in the reduced image, the image enlarging device generates an enlarged image obtained by enlarging the reduced image, subjected to the filter processing, at an image enlargement ratio corresponding to the reciprocal of the image reduction ratio, and the difference calculating device generates a difference image obtained by performing a calculation of a difference between the original multi-valued image and the enlarged image. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090202172 | Image Inspection Apparatus, Image Inspection Method and Computer Program - There is provided an image inspection apparatus capable of reliably removing a noise as a non-detection object and stably detecting a defect as a detection object, in which a first threshold setting device sets a minimum luminance value to be detected in a detection object image as a first threshold, a labeling processing device specifies blobs of pixels having luminance values larger than the first threshold from a multi-valued image acquired by an image pickup device, a second threshold setting device sets a second threshold that is larger than the first threshold, and a deletion device deletes the blob made up solely of luminance values smaller than the second threshold from all the blobs of the pixels specified by the labeling processing device and outputs the labeling processing image. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090202135 | Defect Detection Apparatus, Defect Detection Method and Computer Program - There are provided a defect detection apparatus, a defect detection method, and a computer program, which are capable of setting an appropriate reference line with respect to a plurality of edge points, to accurately detect a defect based upon a difference of each edge point, and in which a plurality of edge points are detected from an image including an edge of the object, a representative edge point representing the edge points present within a reference range having a prescribed width is calculated in each shifted position of the reference range while the reference range is sequentially shifted, residuals between a plurality of calculated representative edge points and corresponding edge points are calculated, a position and a size of the defect are specified based upon the calculated residuals, and the residuals are weighted and a representative edge point is repeatedly calculated, to obtain an apparent approximate curve (representative-edge-point sequence). | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090189994 | Image Processing Apparatus - It is an object to provide an image pickup apparatus capable of changing over the operation mode between a magnification observation mode and a high-speed photographing mode without increasing the fabrication cost. An image processing apparatus includes a mode selection part which selects one of a magnification observation mode and a high-speed photographing mode, a frame-rate conversion part which performs processing for decreasing the frame rate of images created by image pickup, a volatile memory into which image data having a high frame rate from an image pickup part are written during recording operations in the high-speed photographing mode, a moving-image readout part which reads out image data from the volatile memory in reading out image data in the high-speed photographing mode, an image processing part which performs processing for adjusting luminance levels on image data subjected to the frame-rate conversion to create display data and, also, performs processing for adjusting luminance levels on image data read out from the volatile memory by the moving-image readout part, and a changeover part which connects the frame-rate conversion part or the moving-image readout part to the image processing part. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090154509 | Laser Processing Apparatus, Method For Making Settings For The Laser Processing Apparatus, Program For Making Settings For The Laser Processing Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Recording Medium - It is an object to enable control according to an optimum temperature condition for a wavelength conversion device. There are provided a laser medium for creating fundamental-wave laser light with a fundamental frequency; a wavelength conversion device which, if the fundamental-wave laser light from the laser medium is inputted thereto, creates higher-harmonic-wave laser light with a harmonic wavelength of a higher order than the wavelength of the fundamental-wave laser light; a temperature measurement section for measuring the temperature of the wavelength conversion device; a temperature adjustment section for adjusting the temperature of the wavelength conversion device; a temperature control section for controlling the temperature adjustment section for changing the temperature of the wavelength conversion device within a predetermined range; an output monitoring section for measuring the laser power emitted from the wavelength conversion device at each temperature of the wavelength conversion device which is changed in temperature by the temperature control section; and a temperature setting section for setting the temperature of the wavelength conversion device at which the laser power measured by the output monitoring section has a maximum value, as an optimum temperature of the wavelength conversion device. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090154504 | Laser Processing Apparatus, Laser Processing Method, and Method For Making Settings For Laser Processing Apparatus - It is an object to enable easily adjusting a focus position for coping with thermal lens effects. There is provided a laser-light scanning portion including a Z-axis scanner capable of adjusting the focus position of laser light in the direction of the optical axis, an X-axis scanner and a Y-axis scanner. Further, there are provided a laser driving control portion for controlling a laser oscillation portion and the laser-light scanning portion, a processing-condition setting portion for setting a laser-light outputting condition and a processing pattern as processing conditions for processing in a desired processing pattern, and an amount-of-correction identification section for identifying, as an amount of focus-position correction, the deviation of the focus position in the direction of the optical axis which is caused by thermal lens effects induced based on the laser-light outputting condition set by the processing-condition setting portion. During irradiation of the laser light, the laser driving control portion scans the laser light, in such a way as to add the amount of focus-position correction identified by the amount-of-correction identification section to the processing condition set by the processing-condition setting portion. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090153672 | Image Processing Controller and Test Support System - There is provided an image processing controller capable of faithfully recreating a process of a series of image processing based upon a control program, which includes: a history buffer for extracting a result of the measurement in each processing unit, executed by the program executing section, as history information in each measurement cycle and holding the extracted result in association with the processing unit and the measurement cycle; a history buffer for extracting a camera image acquired from a camera by the program executing section during execution of a control program, as history information in each the measurement cycle and holding the extracted image in association with the measurement cycle; and a history information transferring section for transferring history information, held in the history buffers, to the PC. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090141288 | Optical Displacement Meter, Optical Displacement Measuring Method, Optical Displacement Measuring Program, Computer-Readable Recording Medium, and Device That Records The Program - The present invention provides an optical displacement meter which performs a profile search for performing positional adjustment of a profile shape. The optical displacement meter includes: an amplifier for amplifying a reception light signal from a two-dimensional light receiving device; profile computing means capable of computing a profile shape of the object to be measured on the basis of an amplification signal obtained by the amplifier in a point in the first direction by the reflection light of the light emitted from the projector; a display unit capable of displaying the profile shape of the object to be measured computed by the profile computing means; registered-profile designating means for designating a registered profile as a reference of a profile search from profile shapes displayed on the display unit; and profile matching means for performing a profile search to find a match between an input profile shape and the registered profile designated by the registered profile designating means and, on the basis of a result of the profile search, rotating or moving the input profile shape. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090128651 | Program Creation Apparatus For Image Processing Controller - There is provided a program creation apparatus with improved operability in checking an operation of a created control program, including: a program generating section for acquiring a camera image from a camera based upon an image pick-up trigger signal, to extract a measurement result from the acquired camera image as a control program for the image processing controller; a simulation part for executing the control program; and a communication section for transferring the control program to the image processing controller, wherein the simulation part includes an offline simulation section for extracting a measurement result from a camera image previously held as a registration image, and an online simulation section for acquiring a camera image from the camera through the image processing controller when executing the control program, to extract the measurement result from the acquired camera image. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090128627 | Test Support System and Image Processing Controller - There is provided a test support system having facilitated association of an execution log with processing of each unit in a case of creating a control program by blocking a series of processing procedure into a plurality of units, the system being configured such that a program creation apparatus generates a control program for an image processing controller based upon a flowchart generated by arranging the processing units, including an image pick-up unit and a measurement unit, on an execution flow, the image processing controller includes the log collecting section holds an execution log in association with the processing unit constituting the control program. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090122151 | Program Creation Apparatus For Image Processing Controller - There is provided a program creation apparatus capable of displaying a camera image showing a measurement result in accordance with a position of an object to be tested, the apparatus including: a flow chart generating section for arranging processing units on an execution flow, to generate a flowchart; a program generating section for generating a control program for an image processing controller based upon the flowchart; and a display pattern generating section for associating screen components with processing units inside the flowchart and also arranging the screen components on an editor screen, to generate a display pattern in order to display a result of image processing. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090102938 | High Speed Photographic Device, Method For Controlling High Speed Photographic Device, and Computer Program - To provide a high speed photographic device which can display in real time a synchronous image photographed in synchronization with motion of a photographic subject. The high speed photographic device ( | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090078687 | Laser Processing Apparatus, Processed Data Generating Method, and Computer Program - The present invention aims to rapidly and easily create processed data for scan controlling a laser light beam, and to create the processed data for the laser processing apparatus at high precision. A setting plane corresponding to a scanning region of a laser marker is displayed on a processed data generating device. A user operates the processed data generating device to arrange the processing pattern on the setting plane. Here, a marker head coincides an optical axis of the laser light beam L on a position corresponding to the reference point of the processing pattern, and photographs a work W with a camera which light receiving axis is coaxial with the optical axis of the laser light beam L. A photographed image monitor displays the photographed image along with a symbol indicating the position of the light receiving axis of the camera. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090058642 | Penetration Detecting Apparatus - The present invention provides a penetration detecting apparatus which is applicable for various kinds of applications. Although an interval between processing machines and the conveying of an object W is suspended to wait for processing, a muting function of the penetration detecting apparatus is effective. Another feature of the present invention is to provide a penetration detecting apparatus which can avoid the muting function continuously being activated when a trigger sensor for initiating the muting function is malfunctioning. According to the present invention, there is provided a penetration detecting apparatus having a muting function that has a muting terminator for terminating the activated muting function based on the comparison performed by the muting timer and a signal representing a passage of the object provided from a passage sensor when the differential time is within the predetermined criterion, and for terminating the activated muting function based on a signal representing a passage of the object provided from a passage sensor when the differential time is not within the predetermined criterion. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090025493 | Sensor Attachment Device, A Sensor and A Light Emitting Device For A Photo-Electrical Sensor - This invention provides a sensor attachment device that can be easily attached and detached, a sensor and a light emitting device for a photo-electrical sensor. By downward displacement of an operation member after tip ends of a pair of locking hooks are locked to a sensor main body by inserting the sensor main body into an insertion opening with second regions of a pair of facing surfaces respectively facing toward external surfaces of central portions of the pair of locking hooks, the central portions of the pair of locking hooks can be pressed inwardly by first regions of the pair of facing surfaces, thereby fixing the sensor main body to a holding member. Accordingly, the attachment of the sensor main body is easy in comparison with the conventional configuration in which a nut is screwed onto the sensor main body, then rotated and fastened. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090002485 | Image Acquisition Apparatus - This invention provides an inexpensive image acquisition apparatus capable of capturing not only an image of a still object, but also an image of a moving object with the use of an appropriate quantity of illumination light. The image acquisition apparatus includes a head section incorporating an image acquisition device therein and including a lens module and an illuminating part, a main body section including an illumination light source, an image acquisition control part and an image processing part, and a cable section connecting between the main body section and the head section. The lens module is one of a first lens module incorporating therein a lens for high-speed observation and a second lens module incorporating therein a lens for enlargement observation, which is selectively attached to the head section. In a case where the first lens module is attached to the head section, the illuminating part is a first lens illumination unit for illuminating a region of which an image is captured by the first lens module. Herein, the first lens illumination unit is attached to the head section. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090001298 | Photoelectric Sensor and Emitting Device For Photoelectric Sensor - A purpose of the present invention is to provide a photoelectric sensor and an emitting device for a photoelectric sensor which can improve resistance to liquids. A purpose of the present invention is also to provide a photoelectric sensor and an emitting device for a photoelectric sensor which can improve productivity. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20080297597 | Magnification Observation Apparatus and Method For Photographing Magnified Image - A high tone image is saved in a versatile image file format to enhance usability. There are provided an imaging unit that images an original image having a predetermined dynamic range, which is a ratio between minimum luminance and maximum luminance; a synthesized image generating part that generates a synthesized image data that is higher in tone than a tone width of the original image by synthesizing a plurality of original images imaged under different imaging conditions at the same observation position; a display unit that displays the images imaged by the imaging unit; a tone conversion part that converts the synthesized image data generated by the synthesized image generating part to low tone image data having a tone width capable of being displayed on the display unit; and a tone data saving part that generates a high tone data-attached display file including a high tone image region for saving the synthesized image data serving as a basis as an image file for saving the low tone image data. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080297596 | Magnification Observation Apparatus and Method For Creating High Tone Image File - A high tone image is saved in a versatile image file format to enhance usability. There are provided an imaging unit that images an original image having a predetermined dynamic range, which is a ratio between minimum luminance and maximum luminance; a synthesized image generating part that generates a synthesized image data that is higher in tone than a tone width of the original image by synthesizing a plurality of original images imaged under different imaging conditions at the same observation position; a display unit that displays the images imaged by the imaging unit; a tone conversion part that converts the synthesized image data generated by the synthesized image generating part to low tone image data having a tone width capable of being displayed on the display unit; and a tone data saving part that generates a high tone data-attached display file including a high tone image region for saving the synthesized image data serving as a basis as an image file for saving the low tone image data. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080296474 | Photoelectric Sensor - A photoelectric sensor according to the present invention, performs a determination as to whether or not an object is present in a predetermined detection area and provides ( | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080225917 | Laser Processing Apparatus and Solid Laser Resonator - To provide a laser processing apparatus compatible with increase in the output of the pumping light source without increasing the reflectance of the output mirror. A solid laser medium for generating laser oscillation when pumping light from an pumping light source enters through two end surfaces, a splitting part for splitting pumping light outputted from the pumping light source into two paths so that the respective pumping components of pumping light enter through the respective end surfaces of the solid laser medium along the respective split paths, dichroic mirrors which are arranged along the split paths in such a manner as to face the respective end surfaces, allow pumping light to transmit and reflect laser oscillation light toward the end surface sides, and condenser lenses which are arranged along the split paths in such a manner as to face the dichroic mirrors and condense pumping light that transmits through the dichroic mirrors so that the diameter of the spot where the end surfaces of the solid laser medium are irradiated is smaller than in the TEM | 09-18-2008 |
