Abstract: A conversion table is generated from an average luminance value, a histogram, and a peak luminance value of an input image, and is used for conversion of the input image to generate an output image, for display at an image display. The conversion table has a feature by which, when the input gradation value is equal to the peak luminance value, the gradation value of the output image is made to be also equal to the peak luminance value, and, in at least part of a range in which the input gradation value is lower than the peak luminance value, the output gradation value is made to be smaller than the gradation value of the input image.

Abstract: A line of sight of a driver is detected based on an image of the driver obtained by image-capturing; whether the driver is viewing the image display unit or viewing an outside of the image display unit is judged based on the detected line of sight; glare is detected based on the image of the driver; and a luminance level of the image displayed by the image display unit is determined based on the glare at the time of viewing the image display unit and the glare at the time of viewing the outside of the image display unit. The visibility of the displayed image can be improved even when the driver feels glare because of external light falling upon the driver's eyes.

Abstract: A line of sight of a driver is detected based on an image of the driver obtained by image-capturing; whether the driver is viewing the image display unit or viewing an outside of the image display unit is judged based on the detected line of sight; glare is detected based on the image of the driver; and a luminance level of the image displayed by the image display unit is determined based on the glare at the time of viewing the image display unit and the glare at the time of viewing the outside of the image display unit. The visibility of the displayed image can be improved even when the driver feels glare because of external light falling upon the driver's eyes.

Abstract: A display control device includes an image processing device that makes an image display display an image according to input image data and a temperature measurement unit that measures a temperature of a light emitter having the same property as light-emitting elements of the image display. A temperature of each light-emitting element is estimated based on a lighting ratio and a measured temperature of the light emitter and the input image data, and the input image data is corrected based on the estimated temperature. The estimation of the temperature is performed based on a result of learning a relationship among the input image data, the lighting ratio and a temperature measurement value of the light emitter, and a temperature measurement value of a previously designated light-emitting element of the image display.

Abstract: In an image processing device that causes an image display in which multiple light emitting elements each including multiple LEDs are arranged, to display an image, the temperatures of the light emitting elements are estimated based on a result of learning of a relationship between image data items of input images of multiple frames and measured values of the temperatures of the light emitting elements, and unevenness in at least one of luminance and chromaticity of the light emitting elements is corrected based on the estimated temperatures. It is possible to compensate unevenness in at least one of luminance and chromaticity of the light emitting elements due to temperature variation without a temperature sensor being provided for each light emitting element.

Abstract: Provided is a gel-type oil-in-water emulsion composition containing components A to F, in which A: at least one liquid oil which is selected from the group consisting of a hydrocarbon oil, an aliphatic ester and a silicone oil and a content of which is equal to or greater than 15% by mass with respect to a total amount of the gel-type oil-in-water emulsion composition; B: at least one nonionic surfactant which is selected from the group consisting of a saturated fatty acid glyceryl and a saturated fatty acid polyglyceryl and which has a Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Balance of equal to or smaller than 7; C: a sucrose saturated fatty acid ester; D: an ionic surfactant which has a saturated fatty acid residue as a hydrophobic group and a glutamic acid residue as a hydrophilic group; E: at least one surfactant having an unsaturated fatty acid residue; and F: water.

Abstract: A texture display device includes a display unit in which each pixel includes a condensing type element having light distribution at a first spread angle and a diffusing type element having light distribution at a second spread angle larger than the first spread angle, a pixel signal generation unit that generates a pixel signal based on image data and texture data of an object to be displayed on the display unit, and a control unit that controls light emission intensity of the condensing type element and the diffusing type element based on the pixel signal.

Abstract: Provided is a water-in-oil type cosmetic including: an oil agent having a melting point of 20° C. or lower; a silicone gel; a modified silicone surfactant having a hydrophile-lipophile balance value of less than 6; inorganic particles of at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium oxide, iron oxide, and mica; water; and a co-emulsifier, in which the oil agent having a melting point of 20° C. or lower contains 60% by mass or greater of silicone oil, a content of the modified silicone surfactant having a hydrophile-lipophile balance value of less than 6 is greater than 0.1% by mass and less than 1% by mass with respect to a total amount of the water-in-oil type cosmetic, and the inorganic particles of at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium oxide, iron oxide, and mica are contained in an oil phase.

Abstract: A texture display device includes a display unit in which each pixel includes a condensing type element having light distribution at a first spread angle and a diffusing type element having light distribution at a second spread angle larger than the first spread angle, a pixel signal generation unit that generates a pixel signal based on image data and texture data of an object to be displayed on the display unit, and a control unit that controls light emission intensity of the condensing type element and the diffusing type element based on the pixel signal.

Abstract: Provided is a gel-type oil-in-water emulsion composition containing components A to F, in which A: at least one liquid oil which is selected from the group consisting of a hydrocarbon oil, an aliphatic ester and a silicone oil and a content of which is equal to or greater than 15% by mass with respect to a total amount of the gel-type oil-in-water emulsion composition; B: at least one nonionic surfactant which is selected from the group consisting of a saturated fatty acid glyceryl and a saturated fatty acid polyglyceryl and which has a Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Balance of equal to or smaller than 7; C: a sucrose saturated fatty acid ester; D: an ionic surfactant which has a saturated fatty acid residue as a hydrophobic group and a glutamic acid residue as a hydrophilic group; E: at least one surfactant having an unsaturated fatty acid residue; and F: water.

Abstract: Provided is an oil-in-water type cosmetic including an evening primrose seed extract at a content of more than 0% by mass and less than 0.1% by mass with respect to a total mass of the oil-in-water type cosmetic; a carotenoid; at least one nonionic surfactant which is selected from the group consisting of a glycerin fatty acid ester, a polyglycerin fatty acid ester, a polyoxyethylene glycerin fatty acid ester, and a polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester and in which the number of carbon atoms in the fatty acid moiety is 12 to 22; an ionic surfactant; a silicone oil having a melting temperature of 25° C. or lower; an oily component having a melting temperature of higher than 25° C.; and water.

Abstract: To interpolate a frame between the current frame and a first delayed frame preceding the current frame, an image processing device generates test interpolation data for the first delayed frame from data in point-symmetric positions in the current frame and in a second delayed frame preceding the first delayed frame. Motion vectors pointing from the first delayed frame to the current frame are found by evaluating different test interpolation data against the actual data of the first delayed frame. These motion vectors are converted to pairs of motion vectors pointing from the first delayed frame and the current frame to the interpolated frame, and these pairs of motion vectors are used to detect occlusion and generate accurate data for the interpolated frame from the data of the first delayed frame and the current frame, excluding occluded data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing images, and an image display apparatus are provided that can produce favorable images even when digitized image are partially magnified (enlarged) or reduced (shrunk). The apparatus for expanding or reducing input image data supplied thereto, for each area of the image data, comprises a high frequency (HF) component smoothing processor that generates smoothed-HF-component image data by smoothing HF components of the input image data; a partial magnification/reduction controller that generates partial magnification/reduction control information that designates positions of pixels in image data obtained after expanding or reducing the input image data for each image area; and a pixel data generator that generates pixel data of pixel positions designated by the partial magnification/reduction control information in the smoothed-HF-component image data, by using pixel data in a neighborhood of the designated pixel positions.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a biosensor and a production method therefor, by which hydrogel that enables immobilization of a physiologically active substance can be conveniently produced using safe raw materials. The present invention provides a biosensor which comprises a substrate having a metal layer on its surface, wherein a hydrophilic polymer having a reactive functional group capable of reacting with a hydroxyl group or an amino group of a physiologically active substance is bound to the metal layer directly or indirectly via an intermediate layer.

Abstract: A motion vector detection device includes a motion estimator which detects block motion vectors (MV0) and a motion vector densifier (130). The motion vector densifier (130) further comprises a first motion vector generator (1341), a second motion vector generator (1342-134N), and a motion vector corrector (1371-137N). From each block, the first motion vector generator (1341) generates sub-blocks on a first layer, and generates a motion vector (MV1) for each sub-block on the first layer. In each layer from a second layer through an N-th layer, the second motion vector generator (1342-134N) generates a motion vector (MV7, where k=2 to N) for each sub-block in the layer. The motion vector corrector (1371-137N) corrects the motion vectors of the sub-blocks in layers subject to correction among the first through N-th layers.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines a reference pixel position for each pixel by an interpolation calculation using the distortion correction values for representative pixels stored in a correction value storage unit, decides whether the distortion correction values used in the interpolation satisfy a predetermined condition, reads a plurality of pixel values from an image data storage unit according to values of their reference pixel position, determines first interpolation coefficients from a value of its reference pixel position, and determines the pixel value in the output image from the plurality of pixel values read and the first interpolation coefficients. The image processing apparatus determines second interpolation coefficients from said value of its reference pixel position and a predetermined function, and selects, according to the decision result, either the second interpolation coefficients or third interpolation coefficients for use as the first interpolation coefficients.

Abstract: An image processor is provided with the high-frequency component detecting unit that calculates a convolution for each of regions of interest in part of an image region of input image data, to output the high-frequency component detection result for each pixel of interest; the smoothing unit that smoothes the image data, to output the smoothed image data; and the image data processing unit that combines based on the high-frequency component detection result the image data with the smoothed image data, to output the combined image data; wherein the image data processing unit varies the combination rate for the smoothed image data, based on the high-frequency component detection result. Thereby, even when a region in the image data contains such high frequency components as a checkered pattern has, an image resistant to moiré that would be generated in magnifying or reducing of the image on a region basis can be displayed without deterioration of image quality.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, in which an interpolation frame is inserted between a current frame and a first delayed frame preceding the current frame by one frame, includes a motion vector detector, a motion vector converter, and an interpolation frame generator; wherein the motion vector detector includes a test interpolator outputting test interpolation data, an interpolation data evaluator evaluating a correlation of each of the test interpolation data with reference to the first-delayed-frame block data, thereby outputting evaluation data indicating results of the evaluating, and a motion vector determiner outputting a motion vector of an item of the evaluation data having highest correlation in the plurality of items of the evaluation data; and the first to third test interpolation data are obtained as the test interpolation data from a plurality of items of the second-delayed-frame block data and a plurality of items of the current-frame block data.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an image processing device, an image display device, and an image processing method therefor that are capable of curbing generation of a pseudo edge in a digital image. The image processing device and the image display device are provided including a threshold-value control unit 29 that obtains a threshold value depending on a tone in image data; a smoothing filter unit 60 that applies a smoothing process to a predetermined tone in the image data while preserving, depending on the threshold value, a predetermined edge in the image data; and an output unit that outputs image data having been processed by the smoothing filter unit 60.

Abstract: There is provides a melanin production inhibitor which effectively inhibits melanin production, and a highly safe whitening cosmetic exhibiting an excellent whitening effect which inhibits ultraviolet ray-induced skin melanism.