Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that make it possible to apply light having an optimum wavelength to capture an image without a user taking heed of a type of an imaging object. A wavelength of light optimum for analysis of a target is specified as an effective wavelength from a multispectral image of the target on which white light is applied, and light of the effective wavelength is applied upon the target. The target in this state is captured as a multispectral image, and the target is analyzed on a basis of a spectral image of an effective wavelength.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that permit capture of a bright image without using an expensive large-diameter lens. A mirror surface having an opening portion larger in area than an imaging element is formed at a former stage of the imaging element. The mirror surface concentrates light from a subject surface. The imaging apparatus captures an image formed by light that directly enters the imaging element and light that is reflected by the mirror surface and reconstructs a final image from the captured image. The present disclosure is applicable to an imaging apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided a light irradiator including: light sources forming first and second light source rows; a heat sink; a substrate including first and second traces connected to the first and second light source rows, respectively; and a fixing part configured to fix the heat sink to the substrate. The fixing part is arranged between adjacent light sources included in the first light source row and adjacent in the first light source row; and the fixing part is not arranged between adjacent light sources included in the second light source row and adjacent in the second light source row. The first trace includes a first circumventing part configured to circumvent the fixing part; and the second trace includes a second circumventing part configured to circumvent the fixing part and having a directional component different from the first direction.

Abstract: Provided is a blood flow measuring device that is provided with at least one AD conversion unit and processes a plurality of reflected light signals. Provided is a blood flow measuring device provided with at least one light source unit, a plurality of light reception units, a plurality of signal processing units, at least one multiplexing unit, and at least one AD conversion unit, in which the light source unit irradiates a living body with coherent light, each of the plurality of light reception units receives reflected light of the coherent light and converts intensity of the reflected light into a current signal, each of the plurality of signal processing units converts the current signal into a voltage signal, the multiplexing unit multiplexes a plurality of voltage signals into at least one multiplexed voltage signal, and the AD conversion unit samples the multiplexed voltage signal to obtain a multiplexed digital signal.

Abstract: Image processing methods and apparatus are described. The image processing method comprises receiving input of a visible-ray image and an infrared-ray image obtained by photographing a same subject, estimating, based on the visible-ray image, the infrared-ray image and motion information, a blur estimate associated with the visible-ray image, and generating, based on the estimated blur estimate, a corrected visible-ray image.

Abstract: There is provided an ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus configured to cure an ultraviolet-curable ink, the ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus including a plurality of light emitting chips configured to emit an ultraviolet ray and arranged with a first pitch in main scanning direction and with a second pitch greater than the first pitch in sub scanning direction. The printing object includes a low part in which a distance from an ultraviolet ray irradiation surface becomes to be a large gap and a high part in which the distance from the ultraviolet ray irradiation surface becomes to be a small gap. The ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus is configured to irradiate the object such that an illuminance, of the ultraviolet ray is not less than a minimum illuminance required for curing, in an area, of the low part, onto which the ink is discharged by a nozzle outermost in the sub scanning direction.

Abstract: A notification apparatus includes a registration unit that registers plural participants for each work, a positional information acquisition unit that acquires pieces of positional information of the participants, and a notification unit that notifies at least one participant out of the participants when a positional relationship between the participants is a predetermined positional relationship based on the pieces of positional information of the participants.

Abstract: An image captured by a far-infrared camera is analyzed to analyze a distribution of a road-surface temperature, and a course of a highest road-surface temperature is determined to be a traveling route. Further, automatic driving along the course of the highest road-surface temperature is performed. Furthermore, a state of the distribution of a road-surface temperature, and a direction of the course of the highest road-surface temperature are displayed on a display section, so that a user (a driver) recognizes them. For example, a state analyzer detects a candidate course travelable for a vehicle, the state analyzer detecting a plurality of the candidate courses, calculates an average value of a road-surface temperature of each of the plurality of the candidate courses, and determines the candidate course having a largest average value of a road-surface temperature to be a traveling route.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display that displays a message, and an association unit that associates a first message including an image with a second message that includes a character string that is entered in a state that an original image of the image is displayed via the image on the display.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a head which has nozzles configured to discharge a photocurable liquid that is curable by light toward a recording medium, the recording medium including a first base material and a second base material having a surface state different from a surface state of the first base material; a light irradiator which is configured to irradiate the light onto the photocurable liquid disposed on the recording medium; a movement mechanism which is configured to relatively move the recording medium, and the head and the light irradiator in a movement direction; and a controller configured to execute a recording process; an information acquiring process; an irradiation light amount acquiring process; and a first light irradiation process.

Abstract: A driving support control device of a vehicle is provided including an acquiring unit configured to acquire a traveling state of the vehicle which is detected and a traveling environment of the vehicle, and a control unit, configured to, in a case where zero-point learning of a yaw rate sensor has not been completed, cause a driving support unit to execute collision avoidance support using a reduced operational area reduced from a reference operational area which becomes a reference in view of an error of the yaw rate sensor as an operational area of collision avoidance support, and the traveling state of the vehicle and the traveling environment of the vehicle.

Abstract: A notification apparatus includes a registration unit that registers plural participants for each work, a positional information acquisition unit that acquires pieces of positional information of the participants, and a notification unit that notifies at least one participant out of the participants when a positional relationship between the participants is a predetermined positional relationship based on the pieces of positional information of the participants.

Abstract: Image processing methods and apparatus are described. The image processing method comprises receiving input of a visible-ray image and an infrared-ray image obtained by photographing a same subject, estimating, based on the visible-ray image, the infrared-ray image and motion information, a blur estimate associated with the visible-ray image, and generating, based on the estimated blur estimate, a corrected visible-ray image.

Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first layer made of a semiconductor monocrystal, a second layer provided at the first layer and having a crystal orientation not continuous with the crystal orientation of the first layer, and a columnar crystal structure including a light emitting layer and extending from the second layer.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head, a radiation unit, a movement mechanism, and a controller. The controller configured to: select a first recording mode or a second recording mode; control the head, the radiation unit, and the movement mechanism to execute a first image recording process when that the first recording mode is selected; and control the head, the radiation unit, and the movement mechanism to execute a second image recording process when the second recording mode is selected. The second image recording process includes radiating the light in a state in which a mutual positional relationship among the plurality of light sources or a mutual light emission intensity relationship among the plurality of light sources is different from that in the first image recording process, so that a difference between a first maximum radiation intensity and a second maximum radiation intensity is not more than a predetermined value.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image-capturing apparatus, an image-capturing method, and an image-capturing device that allow reduction of an influence of diffraction due to opening sections of a mask in lensless image-capturing. Before a mask, a band-pass filter that is divided into a plurality of areas, each of which transmits incident light in a different wavelength band, is provided, and the mask that includes opening sections, and modulates the incident light, which has been transmitted through the band-pass filter, in the wavelength bands that are different for the individual areas is provided. The opening sections of the mask have such unit sizes that blurring resulting from diffraction which occurs to each wavelength of the incident light is minimized. The present disclosure can be applied to a lensless image-capturing apparatus.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain detection information from a detector that detects a user; obtain a movement mode of the user based on the detection information; estimate a being time during, which the user is in a predetermined viewing area of a display apparatus based on the movement mode; and control display of video data displayed on the display apparatus so that a playback time of the video data becomes less than or equal to the being time.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform determining whether a position of a first device is a predetermined position, and controlling image displays on a first display portion provided at the first device and a second display portion provided at a second device in accordance with a determination result. The microprocessor is configured to perform the controlling including controlling image displays on the first display portion and the second display portion so that a predetermined image is displayed on the first display portion before it is determined that the first device is the predetermined position, and the predetermined image is displayed while gradually moving over time from the first display portion to the second display portion when it is determined that the first device is the predetermined position.

Abstract: A feature amount generation unit 26a of an information processing unit 20-1 generates a feature amount indicating the relationship in spectral reflectance between two points, from spectral data of a multispectral image in an irradiation region of a common light source acquired by a multispectral camera 10. A recognition processing unit 27 performs recognition processing on a subject, on the basis of the feature amount generated by the feature amount generation unit 26a, with at least one of the two points regarded as a position in an image area of the subject that is a recognition target in the multispectral image. Therefore, the feature amount generation unit 26a can easily generate the feature amount robust against variation of the light source and appropriate for the subject. In addition, the authentication processing unit 27 can accurately perform the recognition processing even if the light source varies between registration of the subject and the recognition of the subject.

Abstract: A behavior support system that implements behavior support taking account of uncertain information obtained in a vehicle is provided. Uncertain information containing at least a conversation between passengers is obtained and analyzed. Support information for supporting behaviors of the passengers is obtained based on a result of the analysis, and the obtained support information is output to a helmet of at least one of a first passenger and a second passenger. New information regarding a word for the second passenger is obtained as the support information, based on the word obtained from the second passenger, and the support information is output to the first passenger so that the new information is provided from the first passenger to the second passenger.