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The invention relates to a device for detecting and localising objects. The inventive device comprises a 3D camera for recording three-dimensional situation images of an area to be monitored; first means for evaluating the three-dimensional situation images using suitable object detection methods for determining an object in the area to be monitored and the position of the object in said area; a 2D camera for recording two-dimensional situation images of the region in the area to be monitored in which the position of the object has been determined; and second means for evaluating the two-dimensional situation images using suitable object detection methods for redetermining the object in the area to be monitored.

Examples of the present invention include metamaterial lenses that allow enhanced resolution imaging, for example in MRI apparatus. An example metamaterial may be configured to have μ=−1 along three orthogonal axes. Superior performance was demonstrated using such improved designs, and in some examples, imaging resolution better than λ / 500 was obtained. The use of one or more lumped reactive elements in a unit cell, such as one or more lumped capacitors and / or one or more lumped inductors, allowed unit cell dimensions and hence resolution to be dramatically enhanced. In some examples, a cubic unit cell was used with an essentially isotropic magnetic permeability of μ=−1 obtained at an operating electromagnetic frequency and wavelength (λ).

There is provided an image album creating system for creating an image album by receiving high image-quality images used for creating the image album after creating an image album sample by using low image-quality images, having a low image-quality image receiving section for receiving the low image-quality images of original images whose image quality has been lowered by an orderer of the image album from an image album orderer's apparatus, an image information receiving section for receiving image information concerning the original image that can be specified from the original image or in capturing the original image and cannot be specified from the low image-quality image by correlating with each one of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section, an image selecting section for selecting the low image-quality image to be allocated to the image album out of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section by analyzing the low image-quality image and the image information and a selected image notifying section for notifying the orderer of the image album of the low image-quality image selected by the image selecting section.

An image encoding apparatus includes a calculation unit for calculating complexity from pixel values of an input image, the complexity representing a code amount generated by prediction encoding each block included in a prediction target region of the input image, and an allocation unit for allocating a code amount to each block based on the calculated complexity of each block and an allowable code amount previously set for the prediction target region. The apparatus further includes a determination unit for determining an encoding parameter corresponding to each block based on the complexity of each block and the code amount allocated to each block, and an encoding unit for encoding each block by using the determined encoding parameter of each block. Finally, the apparatus includes a resetting unit for resetting the allowable code amount for a next prediction target region based on an occupancy amount of a buffer.

CT scanner is disclosed for providing an image of a region comprising: at least one X-ray cone beam for illuminating mthe region with X-rays; a plurality of rows of X-ray detectors that generate signals responsive to line attenuation of X-rays from the at least one controller that controls providing an image of a region comprising: at least one X-ray cone beam for illuminating the region with X-rays; a plurality of rows of X-ray detectors that generate signals responsive to line attenuation of X-rays from the at least one X-ray source that pass through the region; a controller that controls the at least one X-ray cone beam to acquire line attenuation data for the region for different view angles of the region; and a processor that receives the signals and: a) determines low spatial frequency components of the image from the data; b) generates a first spatial image of the region from the low high spatial frequency components of the image from the data; d) generates a second spatial image of the region from the high frequency components; and e) combines the first and second images to generate the CT image.