Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080205752 | Image processor, method for processing image and computer readable medium - An image processor, includes: a gradation direction determination unit that determines a gradation direction existing in an image in which a color or density changes; a reference area setting unit that sets a shape of a reference area based on a determination result by the gradation direction determination unit; and a color estimation unit that estimates a color in which a non-target image superimposition does not occur based on a pixel value within the reference area set by the reference area setting unit and substitute an input pixel value with the estimated color. | 08-28-2008 |
20080242429 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and storage medium storing information processing program - An information processing apparatus for performing a competition game based on a game result determined from fighting information for each of a plurality of users in accordance with a predetermined rule. The fighting information is generated based on images input by the plural users. The information processing apparatus includes: an input unit inputting a picture drawn by the user as the image; a generation unit generating the fighting information used in the game based on an amount of features of the image input from the input unit; and a performing unit performing the game based on the fighting information for the plural users generated from the generation unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20080292204 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a first edge extracting unit and a binarizing unit. The first edge extracting unit extracts an edge of chromatic components of a color image other than brightness components of the color image. The binarizing unit performs an enhancement process and a binarization process for pixels being extracted as the edge by the first edge extracting unit and performs the binarization process for pixels other than the pixels being extracted as the edge based on the brightness components. | 11-27-2008 |
20090005162 | Information Processing Devices, Information Processing Method, and Information Processing Means - An information processing device configured to play a game based on battle parameters generated from pictures includes an input unit inputting a picture drawn by a user; a display unit displaying on a left or right side of a display area of the display unit the input picture drawn by the user by arranging the input picture input by the input unit; a picture reverse unit processing the picture input by the input unit by mirror-reversal of the input picture; a generating unit for generating battle parameters being used for the game using a feature value of the picture input by the input unit; and an executing unit executing the game based on the battle parameters generated by the generating unit, wherein the picture to be displayed on the left side of the display area of the display unit is processed by mirror-reversal by the picture reverse unit. | 01-01-2009 |
20090038859 | Measuring Method And Measuring Device Using Quartz Oscillator - An object of the present invention is that any of mass load, viscous load and viscoelasticity load is measured separately from other load whereby properties of the substance to be measured are able to be measured correctly. | 02-12-2009 |
20090041343 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an analyzing unit, a determining unit and a color conversion unit. The analyzing unit analyzes colors being used in an image. The determining unit determines, based on an analysis result provided by the analyzing unit, as to whether or not the colors being used in the image are converted into one or more limited colors. When the determining unit determines that the colors being used in the image are converted into the one or more limited colors, the color conversion unit converts the colors being used in the image into the one or more limited colors. | 02-12-2009 |
20090052799 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL - An image processing apparatus includes a first enhancement degree calculation unit and a color contour enhancement unit. The first enhancement degree calculation unit calculates a contour intensity of a color component of an input color image and calculates an enhancement degree for a color contour, based on the contour intensity of the color component. The color contour enhancement unit performs an enhance process for a lightness component of the color image in accordance with the enhancement degree for the color contour calculated by the first enhancement degree calculation unit. | 02-26-2009 |
20090175534 | BINARIZING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A binarizing device includes: a difference vector calculation unit that calculates a difference vector between an average color in a peripheral pixel region and a current color of a current pixel; a selection unit that selects one of the average color and the current color as a significant color; and an output unit that, in a case where predetermined conditions are satisfied, outputs one of binary values, and that, in a case where at least one of the predetermined conditions is not satisfied, outputs the other of the binary values, wherein the selection unit calculates a run length of each of the average color and the current color in a plurality of directions in the peripheral pixel region, and selects one of the average color and the current color, which has a shorter run length, as the significant color. | 07-09-2009 |
20100054076 | METHOD FOR AGITATING LIQUEFIED MATERIAL USING QUARTZ CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - It is an object of the invention to provide an agitation method for sufficiently agitating a mixture of a solution such as a buffer solution and a material to be detected, with no need of any dedicated unit for agitation, for measurements using a quartz crystal oscillator. The method for agitating a liquefied material using a quartz crystal oscillator in vibrating the quartz crystal oscillator at a given frequency and measuring the variation of the frequency due to a substance in contact with the quartz crystal oscillator, is that the quartz crystal oscillator is vibrated at other frequency different from the given frequency and equal to or higher than the fundamental vibration frequency to agitate a liquid containing the substance. | 03-04-2010 |
20100067785 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus has a read image acquisition section and a specific image region extraction section. The read image acquisition section acquires read image data which is obtained by reading a front face and a rear face of a document. The specific image region extraction section extracts, as a specific image region, from among local regions existing at corresponding positions of the front face and the rear face of the read image data, a local region in which an amount of difference of at least one of hue degree, brightness degree or saturation degree between the front face and the rear face is within a predetermined range. | 03-18-2010 |
20100226571 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus includes a first calculating section that calculates a non-contour degree for pixel of a processing target image data, a second calculating section that calculates a thin line degree for pixel of the processing target image data, a region extracting section that extracts a thin line or non-contour region based on the non-contour degree and the thin line degree and a color value extracting section. The color value extracting section extracts a color value within a range of a predetermined number of colors based on a color used in the thin line or non-contour region extracted by the region extracting section in the processing target image data. | 09-09-2010 |
20100239161 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus is provided, the apparatus including: a color extracting section that extracts colors contained in processing image data as a flat color or a characteristic color; a first evaluation value calculating section that calculates a flat color evaluation value with respect to a combination of flat colors based on a color difference, and that calculates a characteristic color evaluation value with respect to a combination of characteristic colors based on a color difference; a second evaluation value calculating section that calculates a combination evaluation value with respect to a combination of a characteristic color and a flat color based on a color difference; and a deleting section that reduces a number of colors to a preset number by deleting a color extracted by the color extracting section in accordance with the characteristic color evaluation value, flat color evaluation value and the combination evaluation value. | 09-23-2010 |
20110013832 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a selecting unit, a boundary strength calculating unit and a color replacing unit. When M representative colors include first and second colors, and N intermediate color between the first and second colors, the selecting unit selects the first and second colors and the N intermediate color. M and N denote natural numbers, N≧1 and N01-20-2011 | |
20110061462 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD USING SAME - [Problem] A crystal oscillator, and a measurement method using same are provided with which the density of a solution can be measured alone, or both the density and the viscosity of a solution can be measured at the same time using a single detector provided for the crystal oscillator. | 03-17-2011 |
20120020552 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes an influence value setting unit that sets an influence value on a pixel of interest in a local region of an image, the influence value being a color difference in the local region, and a color region processing unit that treats the pixel of interest as a pixel in a region of a representative color when a color of the pixel of interest is within a range from the representative color to the threshold value, the threshold value being set such that the threshold value increases as the influence value increases. | 01-26-2012 |
20120033879 | BINARIZING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR BINARIZING, COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL FOR BINARIZING AND METHOD FOR BINARIZING - A binarizing device includes: a displacement calculating unit that calculates a displacement of a value of a pixel of interest in a local region which includes the pixel of interest and indicates a predetermined range; an N-arization unit that changes the displacement calculated by the displacement calculating unit to an N-ary value; and a selection/binarization unit that selects at least one of a fixed value or an average value of the local region as a threshold value according to the N-ary value obtained by the N-arization unit and binarizes the value of the pixel of interest. | 02-09-2012 |
20120308159 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an exaggeration unit configured to perform on an original image including a hand-drawn element an exaggeration process that expands the hand-drawn element to generate an exaggerated image; and a reduction unit configured to reduce the exaggerated image to generate a reduced image of a predetermined size smaller than a size of the original image. | 12-06-2012 |
20130044946 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an extraction unit that extracts a color boundary of an image, an influence value calculation unit that calculates an influence value indicating the degree of an influence of the color boundary on a pixel, a setting unit that sets a coefficient for a convolution operation in accordance with the color boundary extracted in the extraction unit and the influence value calculated in the influence value calculation unit, and an operation unit that performs a convolution operation using the coefficient set by the setting unit. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046487 | VISCOELASTICITY MEASURING METHOD AND VISCOELASTICITY MEASURING APPARATUS - [Problem] A viscoelasticity measuring method and a viscoelasticity measuring apparatus are provided which can measure viscoelasticity of a sample substance even when the quantity of the sample substance is minute. | 02-21-2013 |
20130058568 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an extraction unit that extracts representative colors from a target image, a color difference calculation unit that calculates a color difference between the representative color and a pixel of interest of the target image, a change unit that changes a brightness component of the color difference depending on chroma of the representative colors, and a replacement unit that selects the representative color depending on the color difference changed in the change unit to replace a color of the pixel of interest by the representative color. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064446 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a calculation unit that calculates, as a foreground feature vector, a feature vector indicating a difference between colors of pixels in a predetermined region including a target pixel and a color of the target pixel, using each of the pixels as the target pixel, a determination unit that determines whether to integrate two pixels or regions to be integrated, depending on similarity of the foreground feature vectors with respect to the two pixels or regions, and an integration unit that integrates the two pixels or regions determined to be integrated by the determination unit. | 03-14-2013 |
20130251250 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a representative color calculation unit, a color displacement calculation unit, and a similarity calculation unit. The representative color calculation unit calculates a representative color which is representative of colors in a first region having a predetermined size in an image. The color displacement calculation unit calculates, as a color displacement, a difference between the representative color calculated by the representative color calculation, unit and a color in a target second region in the first region. The similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the color displacement calculated by the color displacement calculation unit and a predetermined color displacement in an information image representing information embedded in the image. | 09-26-2013 |
20130266216 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a third extraction unit, a determination unit, a correction unit, and a color quantization unit. The first extraction unit extracts from an image a region and color of an information image. The second extraction unit extracts a color of a peripheral image surrounding the extracted region. The third extraction unit extracts information necessary for color quantization processing. The determination unit determines whether a color difference between the extracted color of the information image and the extracted color of the peripheral image falls within a predetermined range when color quantization processing is based on the extracted information. The correction unit corrects a representative color if it is determined that the color difference does not fall within the predetermined range. The color quantization unit performs color quantization processing on the image on the basis of the corrected representative color. | 10-10-2013 |
20140267423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system includes: a terminal device; and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes: a holding unit that holds a plurality of pieces of workflow information each including information that specifies a process constituting a service; a receiving unit that receives service identification information, device identification information, and an image transmitted from a terminal device; a selecting unit that selects a piece of the workflow information corresponding to the service identification information and the device identification information from the pieces of the workflow information; and an executing unit that executes a service in which the image is processed into an image including a movie in accordance with the workflow information selected by the selecting unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140333612 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display control method includes: inputting user's image including a drawing portion made by hand drawing and being a display target image; and performing image control including causing the input user's image to emerge from any one of a left end and a right end of a predetermined display region, on which the user's image is to be displayed, and moving the user's image that has emerged. | 11-13-2014 |