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20100046906 | Image Processing Method, Image Recording Method, Image Processing Device and Image File Format - A recording process records low-resolution video data while obtaining a high-resolution image in a window region being a portion of an entire image. Then, the process learns, as a resolution conversion rule, a resolution increasing parameter by using the high-resolution image. In a resolution increasing process, the resolution of the recorded low-resolution video data is increased by using the resolution increasing parameter learned in the recording process. | 02-25-2010 |
20100177963 | SITUATION DETERMINING APPARATUS, SITUATION DETERMINING METHOD, SITUATION DETERMINING PROGRAM, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING APPARATUS, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING METHOD, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING PROGRAM, AND CONGESTION ESTIMATING APPARATUS - The invention provides a situation determining apparatus, a situation determining method, a situation determining program, an abnormality determining apparatus, an abnormality determining method, and an abnormality determining program capable of easily determining the situation of a monitoring place and the degree of congestion. In addition, the invention provides a congestion estimating apparatus capable of easily and accurately estimating the degree of congestion of persons using an image. A situation determining apparatus for analyzing captured moving images or a plurality of captured still images to determine a movement situation and/or a degree of congestion of persons includes: a local image change ratio calculating unit | 07-15-2010 |
20110317883 | TECHNIQUES AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING ACCURACY OF IRIS AUTHENTICATION BY UTILIZING A PLURALITY OF IRIS IMAGES HAVING DIFFERENT PUPIL DIAMETER/IRIS DIAMETER RATIOS - A plurality of iris images are acquired (SA | 12-29-2011 |
20120020521 | OBJECT POSITION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, OBJECT POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND OBJECT POSITION ESTIMATION PROGRAM - An object-state change determination unit calculates a correspondence relationship between each of a plurality of observed values obtained from a plurality of objects and each of a plurality of the latest object states to be recorded in an object state information storage unit, and determines presence or absence of a change in the object state so that only in a case where there is a change in the object state, an object position is estimated with high precision by using a batch estimation unit, while in the case of no change in the object state, the result of a position estimation of the object with high precision, recorded in the object state information storage unit, is outputted as a result of an object position estimation. | 01-26-2012 |
20130006087 | SIMILAR CASE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND SIMILAR CASE SEARCHING METHOD - A similar case searching apparatus comprising: a weight determining unit which determines the weight to each of feature quantities extracted from an interpretation target image, based on predetermined two-data correlation information defining the correlation between the feature quantity and one of at least one image interpretation item and a disease name both included in an image interpretation report of a medical image included in a case data item registered in a case database, such that the weight is larger as the correlation is higher; and a similar case searching unit which searches for a similar case data item including a similar image, by weighting, using the weight, each image feature quantity in a first set extracted from the interpretation target image and a corresponding one of the image feature quantities in a second set extracted from the medical image, and comparing the weighted first set and the weighted second set. | 01-03-2013 |
20130114867 | SIMILAR CASE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND SIMILAR CASE SEARCHING METHOD - A similar case searching apparatus comprises: an image feature extracting unit; an image interpretation item fitting degree calculating unit which calculates the fitting degree of each image feature quantity to each of image interpretation items, based on first image interpretation knowledge indicating the range of values of image feature quantities of each type; an image interpretation item selecting unit; a weight determining unit which determines the weight to each image feature quantity based on second image interpretation knowledge defining correlations between image feature quantities, such that the weight is larger as the correlation with the image interpretation item is higher; a similar case searching unit which searches for the similar case data items, by adding the determined weight to each image feature quantity of the interpretation target image and a corresponding image feature quantity of the medical images in a case database, and comparing the weighted image feature quantities. | 05-09-2013 |
20130180321 | PARTICLE NUMBER COUNTING APPARATUS - To improve an offset accuracy in a particle number counting apparatus ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130195364 | SITUATION DETERMINING APPARATUS, SITUATION DETERMINING METHOD, SITUATION DETERMINING PROGRAM, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING APPARATUS, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING METHOD, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING PROGRAM, AND CONGESTION ESTIMATING APPARATUS - A congestion estimating apparatus includes an area dividing unit that divides a moving image into partial areas. A movement information determining unit determines whether there is movement, and a person information determining unit determines whether there is a person, in each partial area. A staying determining unit determines a state for each partial area. The staying determining unit determines the state as a movement area in which there is a movement of person when there is movement and there is a person; and determines the state as a noise area when there is movement and there is no person; and determines the state as a staying area in which there is a person who is staying when there is no movement and there is a person; and determines the state as a background area in which there is no person when there is no movement and there no person. | 08-01-2013 |
20130259350 | SIMILAR CASE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND SIMILAR CASE SEARCHING METHOD - A similar case searching apparatus includes: an image feature quantity extracting unit which extracts image feature quantities from an interpretation target image; a reference expression extracting unit which extracts a reference expression from a description related to a second test in a target image interpretation report; a weight determining unit which determines, for each image feature quantity, a weight which is larger as the correlation between the image feature quantity and the reference expression is higher, based on two-data correlation information; and a similar case searching unit which searches a case database for a similar case data item including a medical image similar to the interpretation target image, by weighting the image feature quantity extracted from the interpretation target image and a corresponding image feature quantity extracted from the medical image and comparing the weighted image feature quantities. | 10-03-2013 |
20140089000 | SIMILAR CASE SEARCHING APPARATUS, RELEVANCE DATABASE GENERATING APPARATUS, SIMILAR CASE SEARCHING METHOD, AND RELEVANCE DATABASE GENERATING METHOD - A similar case searching apparatus includes: a search vector generating unit which: with reference to a relevance database storing the degrees of relevance between (i) a combination of the keyword extracted by the keyword extracting unit and the attribute value of the keyword obtained by the keyword attribute obtaining unit and (ii) the respective image feature quantities extracted by the image feature extracting unit, performs weighting on (i) the image feature quantities extracted by the image feature extracting unit and (ii) image feature quantities extracted from a second medical image group of medical images included in a second case data item stored in the case database, using the degrees of relevance as weights; and a similar case searching unit which searches out, from the case database, the second case data item similar to a first case data item by comparing the weighed image feature quantities (i) and (ii). | 03-27-2014 |