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20110128136 | ON-VEHICLE DEVICE AND RECOGNITION SUPPORT SYSTEM - There is provided an on-vehicle device including an image acquisition unit, a moving-object detector, a display unit, a switching unit, and a switching instruction unit. The image acquisition unit acquires an image obtained by imaging a peripheral image around a vehicle. The moving-object detector, when the vehicle approaches an intersection, detects whether there is a moving object approaching the vehicle as an own vehicle from a left or a right direction of the intersection based on the peripheral image. The switching unit switches between images in a plurality of systems input to a display unit. The switching instruction unit instructs to switch to the peripheral image when the moving object is detected. | 06-02-2011 |
20110128138 | ON-VEHICLE DEVICE AND RECOGNITION SUPPORT SYSTEM - An on-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a wide angle range through a curved light receiver, a moving-object detector that detects a moving object approaching an own vehicle from a mounting direction of the imaging unit and from any direction other than the mounting direction, based on the image captured by the imaging unit, a collision-risk determination unit that determines a degree of collision risk indicating a possibility of collision between the moving object detected by the moving-object detector and the own vehicle, and a moving-object warning unit that warns presence of the moving object included in an image portion in which a distortion of the image is a predetermined value or more, and warns the presence of the moving object according to the degree of collision risk determined by the collision-risk determination unit. | 06-02-2011 |
20120099763 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS - An image recognition part of an image recognition apparatus recognizes an object based on a target area in an outside-vehicle image obtained by a camera installed in a vehicle. A position identifying part identifies an optical axis position of the camera relative to the vehicle based on the outside-vehicle image, and an area changing part changes a position of the target area in the outside-vehicle image according to the optical axis position of the camera. Therefore, it is possible to recognize an object properly based on the target area in the outside-vehicle image even though the optical axis position of the camera is displaced. | 04-26-2012 |
20120140072 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS - A parameter memory of an object detection apparatus retains a plurality of parameters used for a detection process for each of a plurality of detection conditions. A parameter selector selects a parameter from amongst the parameters retained in the parameter memory, according to an existing detection condition. Then an object detector performs the detection process of detecting an object approaching a vehicle, based on a captured image captured by a camera out of a plurality of cameras disposed at different locations of the vehicle, by using the parameter selected by the parameter selector. | 06-07-2012 |
20120162407 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE - To provide a technology of determining a status of image information based on the image information of images captured by an image capturing device. A video processing method to process video information of an image capturing device mounted on a moving body, includes detecting an analysis target from video information of images captured by the image capturing device, determining a status of the video information on the basis of information on the analysis target and outputting a result of the determination. | 06-28-2012 |
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20080246883 | IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - A parameter for determining a chrominance correction curve for use in correcting the chrominance component of each pixel is determined from one or more parameters for determining a luminance correction curve for use in correcting luminance applied to the entirety of one frame of motion picture data. The chrominance component of each pixel is corrected using the chrominance correction curve. | 10-09-2008 |
20090232416 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - Adaptive image processing device performs image processing with a simple configuration on a composite image including areas having different characteristics by changing a process depending on the number of combined images in each area of the composite image configured by combining a plurality of images. The image processing device acquires a plurality of images and generates a composite image. When the composite image is generated, the image processing device realizes a process of determining the number of combined images for detecting the number of images to be combined for each area of the composite image and holding the number as information about the number of combined images, and an image processing parameter switching process for switching a parameter of image processing to be performed on each area of the composite image according to the information about the number of combined images. | 09-17-2009 |
20090259593 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE METHOD, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SYSTEM, CERTIFICATE TERMINAL, AND PRINCIPAL CERTIFICATION METHOD BY AGENT - In order to prevent without fail the abuse of certificate information which are exchanged on a network, an orderer inputs the certificate information to a certificate terminal when placing an order for a commodity, the certificate terminal encrypts the certificate information to send it to an order receiver and holds the certificate information and a decryption key. A deliveryman, at the time of commodity delivery, inputs the encrypted certificate information to the certificate terminal, and the orderer inputs data of terminal certification to the certificate terminal. The certificate terminal, when it certifies by the data that the orderer is the valid owner of the certificate terminal, decrypts the encrypted certificate information input by the deliveryman, by the decryption key in the certificate terminal, verifies decrypted certificate information with the certificate information in the certificate terminal, and the deliveryman hands over the commodity to the orderer when the certificate information match. | 10-15-2009 |
20100073494 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING BRIGHTNESS OF DARK IMAGED PICTURE - An electronic apparatus includes an imager unit, a control unit, a brightness correction determiner unit, and a corrector unit. The imager unit images a picture. The control unit obtains, from the imager unit, data of the imaged picture and an imaging condition applied to the picture. The brightness correction determiner unit compares the obtained imaging condition with a threshold and determines whether or not to correct brightness of the data of the imaged picture. In response to the determination by the determiner unit to correct the brightness, The corrector unit corrects the data of the imaged picture so that the brightness of the imaged picture is increased in accordance with a brightness correction function. | 03-25-2010 |
20100166337 | IMAGE MERGE DEVICE AND METHOD - The image merge device includes a common area determination unit configured to determine a common area between a first image and a second image; a correlation calculation unit configured to calculate a correlation level indicating a degree of a gap between the first image near a boundary of the first image and the second image and the second image near the boundary when the first image and the second image are aligned using the common area; and a superimposed area determination unit configured to determine a superimposed area in which the first and second images are superimposed near the boundary based on the correlation level calculated by the correlation calculation unit. | 07-01-2010 |
20100172585 | IMAGE SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING IMAGES - When a plurality of images are to be overlapped and synthesized, coincidence degrees between the plurality of images in an area near the boundary of a common area are calculated, and the plurality of images are overlapped and synthesized so that an area near the boundary having a high coincidence degree appears on the overlapped image. Thereby, it is possible to avoid the duplexing of the subject in the common area and unnatural ruptures on the boundary made by the overlapping while reducing the number of processes for the synthesizing. | 07-08-2010 |
20110170785 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus includes a face detection processing unit that reduces an image of a frame to be processed to a first level among several reduction levels to generate a reduced image of the frame to be processed, with one of frames included in a moving image as the frame to be processed, and compares the reduced image generated by the reducing unit and the learning data to extract a face image from the reduced image. When the extraction of the face image from the frame to be processed is ended, the face detection processing unit updates the frame to be processed to a next frame subsequent to the frame to be processed and generates a reduced image that is reduced to another level other than reduction levels adjoining the first level. | 07-14-2011 |
20110310262 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SHAKE CALCULATION METHOD - A method of calculating camera shake using first and second images obtained by continuous shooting includes: extracting first and second feature points located in positions symmetrical about a central point in the first image; searching for the first and second feature points in the second image; and calculating the camera shake based on coordinates of the first and second feature points extracted from the first image and coordinates of the first and second feature points searched for in the second image. | 12-22-2011 |
20120002842 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOVEMENT OF OBJECT - A device for detecting a movement of an object includes: an image shooting unit to generate a first image and a second image by continuous shooting; a detection unit to detect a movement region based on a difference between the first and second images; an edge detection unit to detect an edge region in the first image; a deletion unit to delete the edge region from the movement region; and a decision unit to determine a degree of object movement in accordance with the movement region in which a part of the movement region being deleted by the deletion unit. | 01-05-2012 |
20120133786 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processing method generates a combined image from first and second images of a plurality of images obtained through continuous shooting. The method includes: detecting a noise level in accordance with the first and second images; calculating a shift amount for making the noise level small; generating a transformed image by shifting coordinates of each pixel of the second image in accordance with the shift amount; and combining the first image and the transformed image to generate the combined image. | 05-31-2012 |
20120213412 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISTANCE CALCULATION PROGRAM AND DISTANCE CALCULATION APPARATUS - A storage medium storing a distance calculation program that causes a computer to execute operations, the operations includes; obtaining a first image captured by an image pickup device disposed on a vehicle; extracting a first feature point which satisfies an extraction condition used to determine a point on a road surface in the first image; and calculating a first distance from the first feature point to the image pickup device in a real space in accordance with data obtained by associating a position of the point in the first image and a first angle of the point viewed from a center of the image pickup device in the real space, and setting information including an angle of depression of the image pickup device and a distance between the image pickup device and the road surface. | 08-23-2012 |
20120249826 | IMAGE SELECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE SELECTING METHOD - An image selection device includes: an image acquiring unit which acquires a plurality of shot images acquired by continuously shooting a subject; an area segmentation unit which segments an image area of the shot image into a motion area indicating different positions by a specified amount or more between two shot images and a non-motion area other than the motion area based on the two consecutive shot images in time series in the plurality of shot images; and a selection unit which selects at least one shot image from the plurality of shot images based on an amount of blur of an image in the non-motion area. | 10-04-2012 |
20130215270 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS - In an object detection apparatus, an image obtaining part obtains, continuously in time, captured images captured by a vehicle-mounted camera capturing images of a vicinity of a host vehicle. A first detector detects an object by using the plurality of captured images obtained by the obtaining part at different time points. The first detector stores, as a template image, an area relating to the object detected by the first detector and included in one of the plurality of captured images that have been processed, in a memory. Moreover, a second detector detects an object by searching for a correlation area, having a correlation with the template image, included in a single captured image obtained by the image obtaining part. | 08-22-2013 |
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20090024029 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which forms a three-dimensional bloodstream image by reference to volume data obtained from a three-dimensional space within a living organism. Binarization processing and three-dimensional labeling processing are applied to velocity volume data, to thereby generate three-dimensional mask data. At this time, because a bloodstream object has a larger volume size than a noise object, this difference in volume size is utilized to discriminate between a bloodstream portion and a noise portion. Bloodstream volume data are then generated from the velocity volume data and by reference to the three-dimensional mask data. Then, a three-dimensional bloodstream image is formed by reference to the bloodstream volume data. | 01-22-2009 |
20090024033 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which forms a three-dimensional bloodstream image by reference to volume data obtained from a three-dimensional space within a living organism. A modified maximum value detection method is applied along each ray. Search of a maximum value is sequentially executed from a search start point, and at a time point when a predetermined termination condition is satisfied, a maximum value which is being detected at this time point is regarded as a specific maximum value. The specific maximum value is then converted into a pixel value. The specific maximum value is a first peak and is specified even if a higher peak exists after the first peak. A three-dimensional bloodstream image is formed by a plurality of pixel values. In a portion of the three-dimensional bloodstream image in which two bloodstreams cross each other, a bloodstream located on the front side is preferentially displayed. | 01-22-2009 |
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20110105902 | PROCESSING DEVICE FOR ULTRASONIC TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE - A free-moving piece (jellyfish sign) having a high probability of separation in the near future in an unstable plaque is clearly displayed. Ultrasonic tomographic images ( | 05-05-2011 |
20110126629 | KNEE ACOUSTIC MATCHING DEVICE FOR ULTRASONIC PROBE - An acoustic matching device has a water bag ( | 06-02-2011 |
20110132094 | ULTRASONIC PROBE SUPPORT DEVICE - A mounting unit ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110213249 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus which can measure a time difference of motion between a plurality of sites of a cardiac muscle for the heart of a fetus is provided. On a tomographic image of the heart, a user sets a plurality of observation points. Each observation point is tracked, and a plurality of displacement waveforms representing a temporal displacement of the plurality of observation points are generated. A time difference between a plurality of representative points is calculated between the plurality of displacement waveforms. Such a time difference is displayed as a numerical value or as a graph. The representative point is a peak point, a zero-cross point, an inflection point, or the like. The plurality of observation points are set along conduction pathways in the heart for the electric signal. | 09-01-2011 |
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20120121149 | ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided an ultrasound image processing apparatus which displays an ultrasonic image with a higher resolution. For each pixel of interest on a previous frame, a pattern matching process is applied between the previous frame and a current frame, to calculate, for each pixel of interest, a mapping address to the current frame as a movement destination or a two-dimensional movement vector. The mapping address includes an integer value and a fractional value. The current frame is re-constructed into a high-density frame including a plurality of interpolation lines based on an original group of pixels of the current frame and an additional group of pixels defined by a pixel value and the mapping address of each pixel of interest on the previous frame. In generation of the mapping address, a sub-pixel process is applied. | 05-17-2012 |
20120121150 | ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided an ultrasound image processing apparatus which displays an ultrasonic image with a higher resolution. In a received frame, a first pixel array, a second pixel array, and a third pixel array are defined in depths different from each other. For each pixel of interest on the first pixel array, a pattern matching process is applied between the first pixel array and the second pixel array, to calculate a mapping address on the second pixel array for the pixel of interest. In addition, for each pixel of interest on the third pixel array, a pattern matching process is applied between the third pixel array and the second pixel array, to calculate a mapping address on the second pixel array for each pixel of interest. The second pixel array is re-constructed into a high-density pixel array using pixel values and mapping addresses of a plurality of pixels of interest. | 05-17-2012 |
20140086014 | ULTRASOUND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus generates Doppler waveform images whose visibility is improved appropriately in accordance with changes in measurement conditions. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a frequency-analyzing unit that generates frequency spectrum data on Doppler shift frequency components of ultrasonic waves that are received after being transmitted towards a subject and reflected in the subject, and a line data generating unit for generating line data, wherein arrays of multiple pixels are stipulated according to the corresponding frequencies and each pixel value represents the magnitude of the Doppler shift frequency component, based on the frequency spectrum data. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus determines whether or not each pixel of line data at a previously appointed time point is a noise pixel, and the values of pixels that are determined to be noise pixels are adjusted by multiplying the pixel value with a weighting factor (w) of 0 to less than 1. | 03-27-2014 |
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20100228197 | INDWELLING NEEDLE ASSEMBLY - An indwelling needle assembly has an inner needle having a sharp point at its tip, an inner needle hub fixed to a base section of the inner needle, a hollow outer needle into which the inner needle is inserted, an outer needle hub fixed to a base section of the outer needle, and a tube inserted into the inner needle hub and connected to the base section of the outer needle hub such that the inner cavity of the tube communicates with the inner cavity of the outer needle. The center axis of the outer needle and the center axis of the tube at its head section are substantially parallel with each other with the inner needle inserted into the outer needle. | 09-09-2010 |
20140171874 | INDWELLING NEEDLE ASSEMBLY - An indwelling needle assembly has a hollow outer needle, an outer-needle hub fixed to the base of the outer needle, an inner needle in the outer needle, an inner-needle hub fixed to the base of the inner needle, a tube connected to the base of the outer-needle hub, and a protector that, when the inner needle is removed from the outer needle, covers at least the point of the inner needle and disconnectably connected to the outer-needle hub. A finger hold is formed in a projecting manner on a protector cover of the protector, and the finger hold is pressed by a finger to move the outer needle in the direction of its tip relative to the inner needle. The finger hold causes force applied in the direction in which the finger hold projects relative to the center axis of the outer needle to act on the finger hold. | 06-19-2014 |
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20100280455 | NEEDLE-STENT DEVICE - An indwelling needle assembly includes an inner needle having a sharp needlepoint at a tip thereof, an inner needle hub fixed to an inner needle base, a hollow outer needle into which the inner needle is inserted, an outer needle hub fixed to the outer needle base, a tube connected to the base of the outer needle hub so that an inner cavity thereof communicates with an inner cavity of the outer needle, an opening formed at the base or the side of the outer needle so as to communicate with the inner cavity of the outer needle, a handling part, which is formed in the outer needle and by which the inner and outer needles are moved in a longitudinal direction thereof when the inner needle is inserted into the outer needle, and a locking means which is switchable, when the inner needle is inserted into the outer needle, between a locked state (i.e., the inner needle hub being locked to the outer needle hub) and an unlocked state (i.e., the locked state being released). | 11-04-2010 |
20110060286 | INDWELLING NEEDLE ASSEMBLY - An indwelling needle assembly comprises an inner needle secured to an inner needle hub, a hollow outer needle in which the inner needle is positioned, an outer needle hub secured to the outer needle and having a projection at the proximal end, and an elastic protector which has a connection member with a projecting part engageable with the projection and which is detachably connected to the outer needle hub by the engagement of the projecting part with the projection. The projection of the outer needle hub comprises a tilted sliding surface on which the projecting part slidingly moves. The connection member can take a first state in which the projecting part engages the projection and a second state in which the projecting part is disengaged from the projection. When changing from the first state to the second state, the projecting part slidingly moves along the sliding surface of the projection. | 03-10-2011 |