Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided, the apparatus including: a color extracting section that extracts colors contained in processing image data as a flat color or a characteristic color; a first evaluation value calculating section that calculates a flat color evaluation value with respect to a combination of flat colors based on a color difference, and that calculates a characteristic color evaluation value with respect to a combination of characteristic colors based on a color difference; a second evaluation value calculating section that calculates a combination evaluation value with respect to a combination of a characteristic color and a flat color based on a color difference; and a deleting section that reduces a number of colors to a preset number by deleting a color extracted by the color extracting section in accordance with the characteristic color evaluation value, flat color evaluation value and the combination evaluation value.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an agitation method for sufficiently agitating a mixture of a solution such as a buffer solution and a material to be detected, with no need of any dedicated unit for agitation, for measurements using a quartz crystal oscillator. The method for agitating a liquefied material using a quartz crystal oscillator in vibrating the quartz crystal oscillator at a given frequency and measuring the variation of the frequency due to a substance in contact with the quartz crystal oscillator, is that the quartz crystal oscillator is vibrated at other frequency different from the given frequency and equal to or higher than the fundamental vibration frequency to agitate a liquid containing the substance.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an analyzing unit, a determining unit and a color conversion unit. The analyzing unit analyzes colors being used in an image. The determining unit determines, based on an analysis result provided by the analyzing unit, as to whether or not the colors being used in the image are converted into one or more limited colors. When the determining unit determines that the colors being used in the image are converted into the one or more limited colors, the color conversion unit converts the colors being used in the image into the one or more limited colors.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a calculation unit that calculates, as a foreground feature vector, a feature vector indicating a difference between colors of pixels in a predetermined region including a target pixel and a color of the target pixel, using each of the pixels as the target pixel, a determination unit that determines whether to integrate two pixels or regions to be integrated, depending on similarity of the foreground feature vectors with respect to the two pixels or regions, and an integration unit that integrates the two pixels or regions determined to be integrated by the determination unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a selecting unit, a boundary strength calculating unit and a color replacing unit. When M representative colors include first and second colors, and N intermediate color between the first and second colors, the selecting unit selects the first and second colors and the N intermediate color. M and N denote natural numbers, N?1 and N<M?2. The boundary strength calculating unit calculates a boundary strength indicating a color or brightness difference at a pixel of the image to be processed. The color replacing unit determines replacement color candidates for the pixel from among the first color, the second color and the N intermediate color, and replaces a color of the pixel with any of the replacement color candidates. The replacement color candidates are determined in accordance with the boundary strength of the pixel calculated by the boundary strength calculating unit.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including an extraction unit that extracts representative colors from a target image, a color difference calculation unit that calculates a color difference between the representative color and a pixel of interest of the target image, a change unit that changes a brightness component of the color difference depending on chroma of the representative colors, and a replacement unit that selects the representative color depending on the color difference changed in the change unit to replace a color of the pixel of interest by the representative color.

Abstract: [Problem] A viscoelasticity measuring method and a viscoelasticity measuring apparatus are provided which can measure viscoelasticity of a sample substance even when the quantity of the sample substance is minute.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including an extraction unit that extracts a color boundary of an image, an influence value calculation unit that calculates an influence value indicating the degree of an influence of the color boundary on a pixel, a setting unit that sets a coefficient for a convolution operation in accordance with the color boundary extracted in the extraction unit and the influence value calculated in the influence value calculation unit, and an operation unit that performs a convolution operation using the coefficient set by the setting unit.

Abstract: A program information search device provides an improved operability of genre search. The device includes means for creating an electronic program table which displays information on programs, a genre search screen; means for acquiring information on a program where a cursor is located in the electronic program table, and detecting a genre of the program from the information; and a cursor control means for setting an initial position of a genre cursor for designating a genre on the genre search screen to the detected genre. Upon receiving an instruction to display the genre search screen, the electronic program table creating means extracts programs in the genre detected by the program information acquiring means, creates the genre search screen based on the extracted programs and the initial position of the genre cursor, and causes the display means to display the genre search screen.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an exaggeration unit configured to perform on an original image including a hand-drawn element an exaggeration process that expands the hand-drawn element to generate an exaggerated image; and a reduction unit configured to reduce the exaggerated image to generate a reduced image of a predetermined size smaller than a size of the original image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first edge extracting unit and a binarizing unit. The first edge extracting unit extracts an edge of chromatic components of a color image other than brightness components of the color image. The binarizing unit performs an enhancement process and a binarization process for pixels being extracted as the edge by the first edge extracting unit and performs the binarization process for pixels other than the pixels being extracted as the edge based on the brightness components.

Abstract: Provided is a program information display device configured to display an electronic program guide including a program cell defined by a time axis and a channel axis on the basis of program information including at least a broadcast time and a channel number, the device characterized by comprising a display controller configured to perform such a control that an attribute display region for a region of the program cell is disposed outside the region of the program cell, the attribute display region indicating an attribute of a program with use of a color corresponding to the attribute of the program and allowing the attribute information to be identified.

Abstract: A binarizing device includes: a displacement calculating unit that calculates a displacement of a value of a pixel of interest in a local region which includes the pixel of interest and indicates a predetermined range; an N-arization unit that changes the displacement calculated by the displacement calculating unit to an N-ary value; and a selection/binarization unit that selects at least one of a fixed value or an average value of the local region as a threshold value according to the N-ary value obtained by the N-arization unit and binarizes the value of the pixel of interest.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an influence value setting unit that sets an influence value on a pixel of interest in a local region of an image, the influence value being a color difference in the local region, and a color region processing unit that treats the pixel of interest as a pixel in a region of a representative color when a color of the pixel of interest is within a range from the representative color to the threshold value, the threshold value being set such that the threshold value increases as the influence value increases.

Abstract: An image processing system includes an area extracting unit, an area relation extracting unit, a relation analyzing unit and an image display unit. The area extracting unit extracts areas from an input image. The area relation extracting unit extracts a relation between the areas extracted by the area extracting unit. The relation analyzing unit analyzes the relation between the areas extracted by the area relation extracting unit. The image display unit displays the image in accordance with an analysis result by the relation analyzing unit.

Abstract: A binarizing device includes: a difference vector calculation unit that calculates a difference vector between an average color in a peripheral pixel region and a current color of a current pixel; a selection unit that selects one of the average color and the current color as a significant color; and an output unit that, in a case where predetermined conditions are satisfied, outputs one of binary values, and that, in a case where at least one of the predetermined conditions is not satisfied, outputs the other of the binary values, wherein the selection unit calculates a run length of each of the average color and the current color in a plurality of directions in the peripheral pixel region, and selects one of the average color and the current color, which has a shorter run length, as the significant color.

Abstract: A translation device has a dictionary that stores a set of words and their corresponding meanings in plural languages; an input unit that inputs a document; a recognizing unit that recognizes text in the inputted document; an analyzing unit that devides the text recognized by the recognizing unit into words; a translating unit that translates each of the words obtained by the analyzing unit into a translated term by using the dictionary; and an output unit that outputs an output image containing the translated term for a key word.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first enhancement degree calculation unit and a color contour enhancement unit. The first enhancement degree calculation unit calculates a contour intensity of a color component of an input color image and calculates an enhancement degree for a color contour, based on the contour intensity of the color component. The color contour enhancement unit performs an enhance process for a lightness component of the color image in accordance with the enhancement degree for the color contour calculated by the first enhancement degree calculation unit.

Abstract: An image processing system includes: a display that displays a still image and a moving image to move over the still image; a snapshot-image producing unit that produces the snapshot image of the moving image; and an arranging unit that arranges the snapshot image on the still image.

Abstract: A data control system is disclosed, including a storage unit that stores multiple data items and a presentation unit that presents at least one of the multiple data items upon a request. An identification acquisition unit acquires upon the request identification for identifying one of multiple imaging units. The identification is registered and related to the data item to be presented. An image data acquisition unit acquires image data using the imaging unit the identification of which is acquired by the identification acquisition unit. An image presentation unit presents the at least one of the multiple data items and the image data acquired by the image data acquisition unit.