Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a unit producing a histogram in a color space from an input image; a unit extracting a plurality of peak colors having a local maximum frequency of appearance of a color value in the histogram; a unit determining whether to unify the extracted plurality of peak colors, based on a feature amount of the extracted plurality of peak colors, and selecting a peak color as a representative color when the extracted plurality of peak colors are unified, the feature amount being a lightness difference among the extracted plurality of peak colors and directions of vectors in the color space, the vectors each showing a shortest distance from one of the extracted plurality of peak colors to a line segment connecting between a reference color and a dark color; and a unit replacing a color of each pixel in the input image by the representative color.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a color extraction unit that inputs an additional write document provided by writing additional write information to an original document in different colors and acquires color information on the additional write document; a color analysis unit that analyzes the correspondence between one of a color combination and color space generated by color mixture and the colors extracted based on the colors extracted; a joining and integrating unit that determines overlap between different colors on the additional write document based on the analysis result of the color analysis unit, and that joins the break of the additional write information corresponding to the correspondence portion between the overlap and the break of the additional write information; a determination unit that determines a specification area of the additional write document according to the additional write information joined; and an information analysis unit that reads information contained in the sp

Abstract: [Problem] A crystal oscillator, and a measurement method using same are provided with which the density of a solution can be measured alone, or both the density and the viscosity of a solution can be measured at the same time using a single detector provided for the crystal oscillator. [Means for Solution] A material to be measured is contacted to the crystal oscillator, and the crystal oscillator that includes electrodes formed on both surfaces of a piezoelectric plate, and an uneven-surface formed either on one of the electrodes disposed on the side in contact with the material to be measured, or on a detector formed on the electrode is oscillated. An amount of change in frequency (f2) that corresponds to the high-frequency side of two frequencies that represent a half value of a conductance maximum value of the crystal oscillator is measured to measure a density of the material.

Abstract: To provide AV equipment capable of outputting a large amount of contents, in which the entire image (total number or the like) of the large amount of contents that can be outputted can be intuitively grasped. Further, to provide AV equipment having a means for easily retrieving contents whose output the user requests from the large amount of contents. AV equipment capable of intuitively grasping the entire image of a large amount of contents that can be outputted and for displaying a GUI capable of determining and inputting contents to be outputted in one screen is provided. Further, AV equipment having a means for narrowing down contents to be GUI-displayed by a selecting means (keyword selection or the like) using the attribute information of contents, an image selecting means (cursor selection or the like) using GUI-display, or the like is provided.

Abstract: There is provided a high withstand voltage LDMOS which is a MOS transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate and isolated by a trench, and a source region of which is sandwiched by a drain region, in which the metal layer gate wire connected to the gate electrode is led out outside the trench so as to pass over a P-type drift layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is that any of mass load, viscous load and viscoelasticity load is measured separately from other load whereby properties of the substance to be measured are able to be measured correctly. The characteristic feature of the present invention is that, in a method where property of a substance contacting to a quartz oscillator equipped with electrodes on both sides of a quartz plate is measured on the basis of the changes in frequency of the above quartz oscillator, the property of the above substance is measured using at least two frequencies among the n-th overtone mode frequency (n=1, 3, 5, . . . (n=2k+1)) of quartz oscillator when voltage is applied between the above electrodes and using frequencies F1, F2 (F1<F2) giving one half of the maximum value of conductance near the resonant point by each frequency.

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: A translation device comprises a character recognition unit that recognizes text data in a text region of an input image; a translator that translates the text data in the text region; and a layout configuration processor that generates data containing the translated text data in the text region and graphics in the input image, wherein a layout of the input image is maintained in a layout of the image of the data generated by the layout configuration processor.

Abstract: An image processing device has a division determination unit. The division determination unit determines the partition number of an image in input image data. The division determination unit calculates the image features of the image in the image data, the features existing in reference areas, and, on the basis of the image features, determines the partition number of the image in the image data.

Abstract: An image processing system includes a modified area deciding unit, a modified area correlation deciding unit, a display selecting unit and a displaying unit. The modified area deciding unit executes processing of deciding a modified area containing a pixel area, which is distinguished as postscript information, based on input image data. The modified area correlation deciding unit specifies a related information area corresponding to the modified area, which is decided by the modified area deciding unit. The modified area correlation deciding unit executes processing of deciding a correlation between mutual areas. The display selecting unit selects the postscript information and related information of the postscript information, based on the correlation between the mutual areas, which are decided by the modified area correlation deciding unit. The displaying unit executes processing of displaying output data in response to a selecting mode of the display selecting unit.

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: An image processing apparatus includes a first calculating section that calculates a non-contour degree for pixel of a processing target image data, a second calculating section that calculates a thin line degree for pixel of the processing target image data, a region extracting section that extracts a thin line or non-contour region based on the non-contour degree and the thin line degree and a color value extracting section. The color value extracting section extracts a color value within a range of a predetermined number of colors based on a color used in the thin line or non-contour region extracted by the region extracting section in the processing target image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a change region judging unit that performs a judging process including a pixel area discriminated to represent additional writing information on a change region according to input image data; a change region state judging unit that performs image analysis on an area judged by the change region judging unit to be a change region, and that judges presence/absence of additional writing information to be used to tamper; a warning display control unit adapted to set a display mode according to a result of judgment to enable additional writing information, which is highly likely to tamper, to be discriminated; and a display unit that performs an output data displaying process according to the display mode set by the warning display control unit.

Abstract: An information processing device, which generates a document and performs encryption thereof, the information processing device includes an encryption processing section that generates an encrypted document through a document encryption processing using an encryption key, an encoding processing section that generates code data including a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted document and an ID, which serves as index data of the encrypted document, a document creating section that generates a code-recorded document, in which the code data is recorded, and a communication section that transmits the encrypted document and the ID to a server.

Abstract: A image processing device has a reading unit, a graphics area extraction unit, a writing area extraction unit, a character string extraction unit and an association unit. The reading unit reads a document. The graphics area extraction unit extracts a graphics area from the document read by the reading unit. The writing area extraction unit extracts a writing area from the document read by the reading unit. The character string extraction unit extracts a character string presented in the graphics area. The association unit associates information of the writing area with the graphics area based on the character string extracted by the character string extraction unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a read image acquisition section and a specific image region extraction section. The read image acquisition section acquires read image data which is obtained by reading a front face and a rear face of a document. The specific image region extraction section extracts, as a specific image region, from among local regions existing at corresponding positions of the front face and the rear face of the read image data, a local region in which an amount of difference of at least one of hue degree, brightness degree or saturation degree between the front face and the rear face is within a predetermined range.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document processing device including: a general feature vector memory that stores feature vectors of a shape for each of plural characters; an input unit that optically reads in a document; a extracting unit that extracts feature vectors from the shapes of characters in a document read in by the input unit; a general shape recognition unit that estimates a character for which the feature vectors of its shape extracted by the extracting unit, based on the feature vectors extracted by the extracting unit and the content stored in the general feature vector memory; and a specific feature vector memory that stores the feature vectors extracted by the extracting unit in association with an estimation result of the general shape recognition unit.

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: A translation device for translating a document has an image analysis unit and a translation unit. The image analysis unit determines a word and an abbreviation of the word. The translation unit translates the word and generates a new abbreviation based on the translated word.

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.