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A laser imaging system with reduced speckle is disclosed. The laser imaging system includes spatially superpositioned 1-D arrays or alternatively 2-D arrays of independent emitters of laser radiation, with each emitter having a spectral bandwidth Δλ_i centered at some arbitrary wavelength λ_0i. The elements of the array are allowed, by design, to have a slightly different central wavelength, thereby creating an ensemble bandwidth ΔΛ which is much greater than the bandwidth Δλ_i of any individual emitter in the array. The resulting increased bandwidth reduces speckle in a displayed image.

An image control apparatus includes a signal-receiving unit to which image signals are input, a resolution detecting unit configured to detect the resolution of the input image signals, a viewing-distance detecting unit configured to detect a viewing distance between a viewer and a display apparatus, a display-size control unit configured to control a display size of images displayed in the display apparatus, a scaling unit, and an output unit configured to output the images scaled by the scaling unit to the display apparatus. When the resolution of images is changed, the scaling unit scales the image signals in accordance with the amount of change in resolution and the viewing distance, and outputs the signals to the display apparatus.

An image processing method, an image processing apparatus, and a storage medium are disclosed which allow the same layout and editing process to be specified for different images in an easy fashion. An image processing method, an image processing apparatus, and a storage medium are also disclosed which allow a selection condition to be input in an easy fashion thereby selecting desired image information from plural pieces of image information. A layout name is assigned to a set of editing processes performed on an image or to an image selection condition and registered together. Information can be used again by specifying a particular layout name.

Methods and systems are provided for reducing noise in medical images with deep neural networks. In one embodiment, a method for training a neural network comprises transforming each of a plurality of initial image data sets not acquired by a medical imaging modality into a target image data set, wherein each target image data set is in a format specific to the medical imaging modality, corrupting each target image data set to generate a corrupted image data set, and training the neural network to map each corrupted image data set to the corresponding target image data set. In this way, the high-resolution of digital non-medical photographs or images can be leveraged for the enhancement or correction of medical images, and the trained neural network can be used to reduce noise and image artifacts in medical images acquired by the medical imaging modality.

An image forming apparatus which can reduce color shift and image blurring caused by increased temperature in the apparatus and form high-quality images without causing an increase in the cost and size of the apparatus. An image sensor unit reads surface patterns of an intermediate transfer belt. A digital signal processor (DSP) controls the movement of the belt in a transverse direction perpendicular to a moving direction thereof based on the surface patterns of the belt read by the image sensor unit.

A combination processing portion is provided with: an enlargement portion that enlarges a reduced image obtained by reducing an input image to output an enlarged image; a combination portion that combines together a clipped image generated by clipping a portion of the input image and the enlarged image to generate a combined image; an angle-of-view setting portion that sets a playback angle-of-view region; an on-playback clipping portion that clips the playback angle-of-view region from the combined image to generate an angle-of-view resetting image; and an image size adjustment portion that adjusts the size of the angle-of-view resetting image output from the on-playback clipping portion.

A shake-correction device for a photographing apparatus, which photographs an object image projected onto an imaging surface, includes a mover provided with a movable member, the mover configured to rotate at least one of the object image and the imaging surface relative to a plane orthogonal to the optical axis, and to translate parallel to the plane that is orthogonal to the optical axis and translate in a translation direction parallel to the optical axis; a shake detector configured to detect an angular shake of the photographing apparatus in the rotational direction and detect a shift shake of the photographing apparatus in the translation directions; and a movement controller configured to control movement of the mover so that the object image does not relatively move with respect to the imaging surface when the shake detector detects at least one of the angular shake and the shift shake.

A method and apparatus for displaying images is provided. In particular, provided are a method and apparatus for displaying images using a duplex thumbnail mode in which images larger than thumbnail images are created when photographing images to display a larger image together with a corresponding activated thumbnail image whenever the thumbnail image is activated. The apparatus includes a signal processing unit that displays a first thumbnail image that is of the same size or larger than a second thumbnail image together with the second thumbnail image whenever the second thumbnail image is activated among displayed thumbnail images.

An image processing apparatus includes a size reducing unit that reduces sizes of a plurality of continuous images, which are still images obtained by continuously capturing images of a moving object, to thereby generate reduced continuous images; a mask generating unit that extracts moving object regions from the reduced continuous images, to thereby generate reduced moving object extraction mask images; a size restoring unit that enlarges the reduced moving object extraction mask images to the same size as original sizes of the continuous images that are not reduced by the size reducing unit, to thereby generate moving object extraction mask images; and a combining unit that extracts the moving object regions from the continuous images by using the moving object extraction mask images to thereby obtain moving object images, and combines the moving object images in a predetermined one of the continuous images.

The endoscope system includes an image signal acquisition processing unit and an image generation unit that acquire a first still image and a video or a second still image before and after acquisition of the first still image based on an image signal obtained by imaging an observation target using an image sensor, an association unit that associates the first still image with the video or associates the first still image with the second still image, and a storage unit that stores the first still image and the video associated with each other or stores the first still image and the second still image associated with each other.

An image compression apparatus determines a first reduction ratio according to an available memory capacity and reduces a multivalued image by the determined first reduction ratio to generate a first reduced multivalued image, and extracts a representative color of a character region from the first reduced multivalued image. The image compression apparatus reduces the first reduced multivalued image to generate a second reduced multivalued image, and compresses the second reduced multivalued image to generate a first compressed code. The image compression apparatus compresses a partial binary image corresponding to the character region to generate a second compressed code. Then, the image compression apparatus outputs compressed data including the first compressed code, the second compressed code, positional information about the character region, and information about the representative color of the character region.

In quickview display processing, a counter N is set to an initial value of 1, and a counter L is set to 4 times the counter N. Then, from a storage memory, the Lth frame of image data in frame data recorded by high-speed consecutive photographing is extracted, and an image based on this extracted image data is displayed by a display device. Consequently, by iteratively executing the processing according to this flowchart, the fourth, eighth, twelfth, etc., frames of image data are read from the frame data, and as a result of the displaying of the extracted image and passage of a redetermined time, images based on these read image data, being every fourth frame of the frame data, are displayed at a predetermined time interval by the display device.

A system and method for expansion and reduction of images uses a hybrid resizing technique that combines seam carving and image scaling techniques to reduce or expand an image. Seam carving techniques may be used to identify one or more low-cost seams of an input image, and these low-cost seams may be scaled up or down to expand or reduce the overall input image and produce a resized image. A different scaling factor may be applied to different ones of the low-cost seams, dependent on the average or total energy value of each of the seams. The scaling factor applied to each seam may be dependent on the number of low-cost seams identified for scaling, which may be configurable by a user. A configurable look-up table may map seam costs to scaling factors, and may be accessed to determine a respective scaling factor to be applied to each identified seam.

The present invention relates to an eye-gaze based control device. The eye-gaze based control device of the present invention may control a control target device according to an eye-gaze point of a user. Here, the eye-gaze based control device controls the control target device by controlling a size of an image displayed to the user, thereby more precisely controlling the control target device.

A printing system configured to set a segment unit size serving as a unit of a display area for displaying, as images, a list of pages which form the document; acquire a width and a height of each page image from the document data; calculate, when a value of a ratio of the width and the height of the page acquired in the acquiring exceeds a predetermined value, a display area size having a display region larger than the segment unit size; determine, for a page having the value of the ratio exceeding the predetermined value, an enlargement/reduction ratio so as to fit the page into the display area size; and display, a list of pages which form the document, by enlarging or reducing the page based on the enlargement/reduction ratio determined in the determining and displaying the page in a display screen at the display area.

According to the present invention, a reduced image is generated only from one of high-sensitivity image information or low-sensitivity image information when RAW data is recorded, and the reduced image is recorded on a recording medium together with the RAW data (first and second RAW data). Thereby, it is possible to create the reduced image in a relatively short time. In this case, if a reduced image is generated from the high-sensitivity image information, a high-contrast image with a desirable S/N ratio can be acquired. If a reduced image is generated from the low-sensitivity image information, an image appropriately representing the content of a reproduction area of the RAW data can be acquired.

The invention embodiment discloses an automatic detection method and device of video rolling subtitles, and belongs to the image processing field; the method comprises the following steps: carrying out strong corner detection to a sensitive area in a video frame so as to obtain characteristic points of a curvature maximum value on an image edge of the video frame; carrying out optical flow tracking to each characteristic points so as to obtain a motion state of each characteristic points in a video stream; rejecting noise spots according to the motion state of each characteristic points, and roughly positioning the subtitle to an alternative position according to an area corresponding to the remaining characteristic points; verifying the alternative position according to a preset character image model, if continuous characters are spotted in the alternative position, then the video frame containing the rolling subtitle is marked. The method and device fully combines features of the rolling subtitle, model verification is carried out for the obtained alternative position, so the rolling subtitle in the video can be marked, thereby reducing the images in a non-subtitle motion area of the motion area in the video, greatly improving accuracy of the subtitle area, and furthermore, the subtitle in the video can be conveniently extracted.

An imaging intrusion detection method combines condensing lenses with a plurality of light sources to form and illuminate a plurality of collimated light beams to a security area as dot lighting. A dot image of the security area to which the dot lighting is illuminated by an intrusion monitoring camera is obtained and stored in a memory as reference dot information. When an input image is obtained by periodically photographing the security area, dot information is extracted from the input image to compare the dot information with the reference dot information, and it is determined whether there is an intrusion in the security area according to a change of a dot based on a result of comparison.

A display control apparatus and method is disclosed wherein the amount of use of a memory to be used to store an image to be displayed can be reduced. The display control apparatus has an execution section, a first retaining section, an image processing section, a second retaining section and reflect section. The image processing section and the first and second retaining sections being controlled with an application program interface provided by the middleware and called by the application program. In addition, a display control method for a display control apparatus which causes an image corresponding to image data to be displayed on a display unit, including a first retaining step, an image processing step, and a reflection step.

An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof for controlling through motion input are provided. The method for controlling the electronic apparatus includes: in response to a predetermined mode trigger command being input, changing a mode of the electronic apparatus to a first motion task mode in which a motion task is performed using two pointers; in response to the mode being changed to the first motion task mode, displaying a UI to perform the first motion task mode on a display screen; and, in response to a user motion command using the two pointers being input, performing a motion task which corresponds to the user motion command, and displaying information on the performed motion task on the display screen.

A filtering unit applies a filter for suppressing a high-frequency component to a second image generated by performing image processing including at least enlargement processing on a first image captured by using an endoscope. An image reducing unit generates a third image by performing reduction processing on the second image to which the filter has been applied. A filter setting unit sets a characteristic of a filter based on information on a maximum frequency component that can be reproduced in at least the first image and information on a maximum frequency component that should be reproduced in the third image.

Embodiments of the present invention disclosed herein are directed to apparatuses and systems for reducing the image jump from a dynamic lens component. The apparatuses and systems disclosed herein may be used in ophthalmic devices, such as eye glasses or contact lenses, as well as any other suitable application. Embodiments provide a first apparatus that comprises a dynamic power zone having a periphery. The first apparatus further comprises a static power zone in optical communication with at least a portion of the dynamic power zone. The static power zone has a negative optical power at a first portion of the periphery of the dynamic power zone.

A liquid crystal display (LCD) system, comprising a matrix of pixels, actuates each pixel by applying positive and negative voltage differences across a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is parallel to a transparent cover. The transparent cover is adjacent to a cover electrode. Each pixel includes a pixel electrode positioned on the opposite side of the liquid crystal layer from the cover electrode. The positive and negative voltage differences are asymmetric to compensate for polarity-dependent characteristics of the LCD materials. The positive and negative voltage differences are applied for durations that counterbalance the asymmetric rates of charge accumulation.

Optimal angular field mappings that provide the highest contrast images for back-scanned imaging are given. The mapping can be implemented for back-scanned imaging with afocal optics including an anamorphic field correcting assembly configured to implement a non-rotationally symmetric field mapping between object space and image space to adjust distortion characteristics of the afocal optics to control image wander on a focal plane array. The anamorphic field correcting assembly can include one or more mirrors having non-rotationally symmetric aspherical departures.

The invention discloses a crop phenotypic parameter extraction method and device. The method comprises the steps of obtaining group point cloud data of crops; identifying root positions of all crops according to the group point cloud data; extracting single plant point cloud data corresponding to a single plant crop from the group point cloud data according to the root position; performing stem and leaf segmentation based on the single plant point cloud data, and segmenting each leaf and stem into independent point cloud data; respectively fitting the segmented independent point cloud data toobtain crop phenotypic parameters which comprise stalk height, stalk diameter, leaf length, leaf width, leaf inclination angle and leaf area. According to the technical scheme, the automation degree is high, the crop phenotypic parameter extraction method and device can adapt to crop phenotypic parameter extraction under the condition of irregular leaf shapes, and the extraction precision is high.