Abstract: In an information processing device processing map information of a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a sensor information acquiring unit acquires output information of a sensor performing measurement relating to a movement amount or the surrounding environment of the vehicle. An error generation amount calculating unit calculates an error generation amount in position information of an element configuring map information on the basis of the acquired information. An accumulative error evaluating unit evaluates an accumulation degree of the calculated error generation amount. A correction determining unit determines need for an accumulative error correcting process relating to map information on the basis of an evaluation result of the accumulative error. In accordance with an instruction from the correction determining unit, a notification device notifies a user of need for correction using loop closure.

Abstract: There is provided a method including instructing a notification apparatus to issue a notification in a case where a video image capturing an entrance of a specific location includes an unregistered person moving toward the specific location, and deactivating the notification by the notification apparatus in a case where a video image capturing the specific location includes a pre-registered person.

Abstract: Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus, including: a light source; a detecting unit that detects an acoustic wave generated from an object which has received an irradiation light from the light source; a processing unit that generates characteristic information on the inside of the object by using the acoustic wave; and a memory unit that records the characteristic information in association with information on the irradiation light.

Abstract: This invention provides a technique to dynamically set an imaging parameter appropriate for observing a region of interest on an object to generate a high-quality echogram while maintaining the operability to change the position and orientation of a probe. A region-of-interest acquisition unit acquires region information that defines the region of interest. A position and orientation acquisition unit acquires position and orientation information representing the position and orientation of a probe. A parameter deciding unit obtains an imaging parameter based on the positional relationship between an imaging range decided based on the position and orientation information and the region of interest defined by the region information, and outputs the obtained imaging parameter to an imaging unit.

Abstract: Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus, including: a light source; a detecting unit that detects an acoustic wave generated from an object which has received an irradiation light from the light source; a processing unit that generates characteristic information on the inside of the object by using the acoustic wave; and a memory unit that records the characteristic information in association with information on the irradiation light.

Abstract: Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus, including: a light source; a detecting unit that detects an acoustic wave generated from an object which has received an irradiation light from the light source; a processing unit that generates characteristic information on the inside of the object by using the acoustic wave; and a memory unit that records the characteristic information in association with information on the irradiation light.

Abstract: Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus including: an irradiating unit that irradiates an object with light; a probe that receives an acoustic wave generated from the object irradiated with the light; a generating unit that generates an image of the object interior on the basis of the acoustic wave; an imaging region input unit that receives an input of a designation of an imaging region, which is a region of the object in which the acoustic wave is received by the probe; a display region input unit that receives an input of a designation of a display region, which is a region of the object in which the image generated by the generating unit is displayed; and a display unit that displays the generated image in the display region.

Abstract: An object information acquisition apparatus, configured to receive an acoustic wave from an object and acquire characteristic information of the object, includes a receiver configured to receive the acoustic wave and convert the received acoustic wave into an electric signal, a scan control unit configured to scan the receiver at least in one direction, and a display control unit configured to produce guide information for displaying a guide on a display unit, wherein the guide is in terms of the number of times the receiver is scanned in a first direction and wherein the guide information is produced using information associated with a specified region defined by a user as a region in which characteristic information is to be acquired.

Abstract: This invention provides a technique to dynamically set an imaging parameter appropriate for observing a region of interest on an object to generate a high-quality echogram while maintaining the operability to change the position and orientation of a probe. A region-of-interest acquisition unit acquires region information that defines the region of interest. A position and orientation acquisition unit acquires position and orientation information representing the position and orientation of a probe. A parameter deciding unit obtains an imaging parameter based on the positional relationship between an imaging range decided based on the position and orientation information and the region of interest defined by the region information, and outputs the obtained imaging parameter to an imaging unit.

Abstract: An object information acquiring apparatus is employed which includes elements each receiving a photoacoustic wave from a region of interest of an object and outputting an electric signal, a probe that supports the elements such that directional axes of the elements are gathered, and that holds an acoustic matching member, a scanner that moves the probe, a controller, and a processor that generates image data on the region of interest. The controller performs, on the same region of interest, photoacoustic measurements in which the probe is moved along a curved trajectory, with the elements each allowed to receive a photoacoustic wave, and moves the probe in the same rotating direction as direction of the curved trajectory at a time between the photoacoustic measurements.

Abstract: An object information acquiring apparatus disclosed by this specification includes a detector configured to detect a photoacoustic wave generated from an object on which light is irradiated from a light source, a generator configured to generate, using the photoacoustic wave, an image indicating characteristic information in a photographing region in the object, an acquirer configured to acquire information concerning quantitativity of a measurement value of the photoacoustic wave in the photographing region, and an extractor configured to extract a region having quantitativity in the image on the basis of the information concerning quantitativity.

Abstract: A photoacoustic apparatus disclosed in this specification includes a light source; a probe including a plurality of transducers each configured to receive a photoacoustic wave generated from a subject irradiated with light emitted from the light source and output a reception signal, and a support member configured to support the plurality of transducers so that directivity axes of the plurality of transducers are collected; a moving unit configured to move the probe; a region setting unit configured to set an imaging region; and a processing unit configured to acquire subject information in the imaging region based on the reception signals output from the plurality of transducers. The light source is configured to emit the light if a position at which the directivity axes are collected is farther from the probe than a center of the imaging region.

Abstract: Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus including: detecting elements converting an acoustic wave propagated from an object to an electric signal, a processing unit acquiring characteristic information of the object using the electric signal, a supporting unit supporting the detecting elements, an input unit receiving information concerning three-dimensional region of interest, a display controlling unit displaying a predetermined three-dimensional shape representing, a scanning region setting unit setting a scanning region, and a scanning unit moving the supporting unit, wherein the display controlling unit changes the size of the region of interest stepwise by using a feature value peculiar to the apparatus as a unit based on the inputted information, and displays the changed region of interest.

Abstract: An image information acquiring apparatus of the present invention includes an acoustic wave detector having, disposed on a reception surface thereof, a plurality of elements that detect acoustic waves generated by an object corresponding to a reconstruction area; an acoustic signal generator that generates acoustic signals that are used in image reconstruction, from the detected acoustic waves; an element selector that selects elements that are used in image reconstruction; and a reconstructor that performs image reconstruction of a point of interest using acoustic signals based on the acoustic waves detected by the selected elements, the image information acquiring apparatus being configured such that, for each selected element, there exists another selected element located at a symmetrical position with respect to a point at which the reception surface is intersected by a perpendicular line drawn from the point of interest to the reception surface.

Abstract: Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus, including: a light source; a detecting unit that detects an acoustic wave generated from an object which has received an irradiation light from the light source; a processing unit that generates characteristic information on the inside of the object by using the acoustic wave; and a memory unit that records the characteristic information in association with information on the irradiation light.

Abstract: In a known apparatus, when a user defines a specified region in which characteristic information is to be acquired, it may be difficult for the user to easily recognize a corresponding scanning region that is to be actually scanned with a receiver. An embodiment of the invention provides an object information acquisition apparatus including a receiver configured to receive an acoustic wave and convert it into an electric signal, a scan control unit configured to scan the receiver at least in one direction, and a display control unit. Upon receiving information associated with a region specified to be scanned to acquire characteristic information, the display control unit outputs information for displaying an adjusted region obtained by adjusting the specified region such that a length of the specified region in a first direction corresponds to an integral multiple of a scanning width of the receiver in the first direction.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that captures an object that changes temporally includes: first acquisition means for acquiring an overview image of the object; determination means for determining a reference part in the overview image in which there is less temporal change than in other parts; setting means for setting, in a first overview image, a capturing position of the object where detailed capturing is to be performed; registering means for, in the case where a second overview image has been acquired for the same object as the object in the first overview image, registering the second overview image with the first overview image based on the reference parts in the first and second overview images; and second acquisition means for acquiring a detailed captured image of the object in a position corresponding to the capturing position of the first overview image in the registered second overview image.

Abstract: An object information acquiring apparatus disclosed by this specification includes a detector configured to detect a photoacoustic wave generated from an object on which light is irradiated from a light source, a generator configured to generate, using the photoacoustic wave, an image indicating characteristic information in a photographing region in the object, an acquirer configured to acquire information concerning quantitativity of a measurement value of the photoacoustic wave in the photographing region, and an extractor configured to extract a region having quantitativity in the image on the basis of the information concerning quantitativity.

Abstract: There is disclosed an information processing apparatus which efficiently and effectively executes printing even when interruption of printing occurs in a printing apparatus. The apparatus which includes a plurality of print queues each functioning as one of a backup print queue and a basic print queue and executes output to a printing apparatus based on print job information with higher priority than output to a printing apparatus based on backup job information, comprising, output means for outputting a print job in accordance with schedule up of one of pieces of print job information and backup job information registered in the plurality of print queues, and registration means for, in accordance with interruption of printing based on job information registered in one of the basic print queue and the backup print queue, registering backup job information in the print queues except the print queue corresponding to the printing apparatus which has interrupted printing.

Abstract: This invention provides a load distributed printing technique which efficiently uses a plurality of printing apparatuses by using small resources. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus, which can transmit a print job to a plurality of printing apparatuses, is provided.