Abstract: A targeted object pursuit system comprising a first setting block, a second setting block, a recognition block, a first determination block, a second determination block, and a re-designation block is provided. The first setting block initially designates a partial area as a pursuit area. The second setting block designates the areas displaced from the pursuit area as candidate areas. The recognition block extracts a standard image and candidate images. The first determination block determines in which general direction the targeted object moves is the first or second general direction. Based on the determination made by the first determination block, the second determination block determines in which of the first, second, third, or fourth detailed direction the targeted object has moved. The re-designation block re-designates a candidate area as the new pursuit area.

Abstract: A remote-control device, according to the present invention, is for a camera having a light signal receiver that receives a light signal. The remote-control device includes a light signal transmitter, a position adjuster, and a switch member. The light signal transmitter transmits the light signal. The position adjuster adjusts the relative position of the light signal transmitter with respect to the camera. The switch member is connected to the light signal transmitter and commands the light signal transmitter to transmit the light signal. The switch member is movable with respect to the light signal transmitter, and the position adjuster adjusts the relative position of the light signal transmitter so that the light signal is received by the light signal receiver.

Abstract: An endoscope has an insertion portion and a tip unit detachably attached to a distal end of the insertion portion. The insertion portion is configured to be inserted into an object, and has a signal cable and a first optical fiber extending therethrough. The tip unit has a second optical fiber optically connected to the first optical fiber, and an actuator electrically connected to the signal cable. The actuator vibrates the second optical fiber so as to scan light irradiated from the second optical fiber over an observed area.

Abstract: A digital camera has a battery that supplies electric power, a battery level detector, a time detector, a remaining voltage calculator, and a boot controller. When the digital camera is turned off, the battery level detector detects a remaining voltage level of the battery. When the digital camera is turned on, the time detector detects an elapsed time from the last electric power OFF operation to the current electric power ON operation, namely, a time period in which the camera is in the OFF state. Further, when the digital camera is turned on, the remaining voltage calculator calculates a remaining voltage-level of the battery on the basis of the detected elapsed time, the last detected remaining voltage level, and the discharge characteristic of the battery. Then, the boot controller allows the digital camera to boot if the calculated remaining voltage level is larger than a limited voltage necessary to boot the digital camera.

Abstract: A digital camera has a display processor, a photographing processor, and a display controller. The display processor displays a moving image on a display on the basis of image-pixel signals read from an image sensor successively. The photographing processor carriers out an exposure in accordance with the operation of a release button, to record a still image. Then, the display controller stops or suspends the action of the display processor within a given period, which is from the start of the exposure to the start of the reading of image-pixel signals corresponding to the still image.

Abstract: A diaphragm apparatus of a lens for a CCTV camera includes a diaphragm blade which opens and closes a stop aperture of the diaphragm apparatus; and an ND filter which is attached to the diaphragm blade, the ND filter having a spectral transmittance so that the transmittance of infrared radiation therethrough is substantially identical to, or less than, the transmittance of visible light therethrough, or alternatively, the ND filter having a spectral transmittance which cuts out infrared radiation. The ND filter covers the stop aperture when the diaphragm blade is moved to open the aperture.

Abstract: A high-frequency treatment tool for an endoscope includes a transparent hood that can be detachably coupled to a distal end of an endoscope provided with two electrodes. Two high-frequency electrodes are provided at a tip end of the transparent hood and two contacts, each configured to electrically contact one of the two electrodes of the endoscope are provided. Two conductive members are electrically connectable to the two high-frequency electrodes and the two contacts, the two conductive members being arranged to be located at an inner position with respect to an outer surface of the transparent hood.

Abstract: An electronic still camera includes a memory, a determination processor and an image processor. The memory stores a discrete image obtained in a still photographing operation and, for each such image sequentially obtained in a continual still image photographing operation in which discrete images are taken at an interval time set by an operator, stores a unique indicator indicating whether the discrete image was sequentially recorded in the continual still image photographing operation. The determination processor determines whether the discrete images were obtained in the continual still image photographing operation. The image processor continually reproduces the discrete images at the interval of the continual still image photographing operation, when the discrete images were obtained in the continual still image photographing operation.

Abstract: A bipolar high frequency treatment tool includes a flexible insulating tube to be inserted through an accessory channel of the endoscope. The insulating tube has a pair of guide channels extending over the length thereof through which a pair of conductive wires is passed. An end effector is attached to a distal end of the insulating tube. The end effector includes a pair of electrodes that opens and closes like a pair of pincers. The pair of electrodes is connected with the pair of wires so that a high frequency power can be supplied to the pair of electrodes.

Abstract: A stage apparatus includes a Y-direction deformable body including a stationary support member, a movable support member and a pair of X-direction leaf springs to form a substantially rectangular shape in a free state; and an X-direction deformable body, positioned in the Y-direction deformable body, including a connecting member, a support member and a pair of Y-direction leaf springs to form a substantially rectangular shape in a free state. The support member of the X-direction deformable body includes a support member joint portion which joins the support member to the movable support member of the Y-direction deformable body. The X-direction deformable body and the Y-direction deformable body are integrally molded by synthetic resin together with the support member joint portion.

Abstract: An endoscope to obtain an image inside a body cavity is provided. The endoscope includes an image capturing element, a power source, which supplies electric power to the image capturing element, a power shutdown unit, which shuts down the electric power to the image capturing element so that the image capturing element can be prevented from overcurrent, a drive control unit, which outputs control signals to the image capturing element in order to control driving of the image capturing element based on driving signals provided from an external unit connected with the endoscope, and a control restricting unit, which restricts the drive control unit to cease outputting the control signals to the image capturing element in response to activation of the power shutdown unit.

Abstract: A system includes a product data generation unit that generates product data corresponding to a product of a previous process, a partial object data generation unit that generates partial object data corresponding to a partial object of a next process, and a management data generation unit that generates, in regard to relationship between processes, management data formed as a single file in which the product data and the partial object data are associated with connection information representing connection between the previous process and the corresponding next process. The management data generation unit adds path information which indicates that a management target has moved from the previous process to the corresponding next process, to the management data, in such a manner that paths are accumulated in the path information each time a process is executed.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided having an auto-focusing device and an image displaying device. The auto-focusing device focuses a lens on a photographing object automatically. The image displaying device displays an input image which corresponds to the photographing object and is updated periodically in a display, and displays an ornament image which covers all or part of the circumference of the input image in the display. The image displaying device displays the parts of the input image superimposed by the ornament image before said auto-focusing device finishes focusing the lens on a photographing object due to the ornament image semi-transparency, and displays the ornament image superimposed with opaque on parts of the input image after said auto-focusing device has focused the lens on a photographing object.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprising an optical member in an optical path from a lens to an imaging device, said optical member comprising a water-repellent or water/oil-repellent coating, a first antireflection coating, an infrared-cutting glass, a lowpass filter, and an infrared-cutting coating in this order from the side of said lens.

Abstract: A process management system comprises a management data generation unit configured to generate management data. In regard to each relationship between processes, the management data includes product data corresponding to products in the previous process and partial object data corresponding to partial objects in the next process. The management data is formed of a single file in which the product data and the partial object data are associated with connection information representing connection between the previous process and the next process. A time when use of partial objects are suspended is stored, as use suspending time data, in the management data having the partial object data corresponding to the partial objects for which the use is suspended, and is stored, as use start time data, in the management data of partial objects which are other objects in the same process and are to be used next.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided having an image capturing device, an image compressing device, a recording device, a definition calculating device, and a residual recordable number calculating device. The image capturing device outputs a captured image. The image compressing device compresses the captured image using flexible compression. The recording device records the compressed captured image into a memory medium. The definition calculating device calculates a definition by summing the absolute value of higher frequency components in the compressed captured image before the higher frequency components are rounded off. The residual recordable number calculating device calculates a residual recordable number of images in the memory medium using the definition of a standard image, the file size of a standard image, and a residual recordable amount of the memory medium.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided having an image capturing device, an image compressing device, a recording device, a definition calculating device, and a residual recordable number calculating device. The image capturing device outputs a captured image. The image compressing device compresses the captured image using flexible compression. The recording device records the compressed captured image into a memory medium. The residual recordable number calculating device calculates a residual recordable number of images in the memory medium from a residual recordable amount of the memory medium and file size which is decided according to the photographing configuration.

Abstract: There is provided a method of measuring a pupil distance, which includes locating an imaging device at a position a predetermined distance away from a member attached to eyeglasses worn by a subject. The member has two indicators. The method further includes photographing the subject while the subject observes an observing point in the vicinity of the imaging device, measuring an apparent distance E between left and right pupils on a photographed image, and obtaining an interpupillary distance PD in accordance with PD=[(A+B)×C×E]/(A×D) where “A” represents a distance between the member and the imaging device, “B” represents a distance between a center of rotation and the member, “C” represents an actual distance between the indicators, and “D” represents an apparent distance between the indicators.

Abstract: A wide-angle lens system includes a negative front lens group and a positive rear lens group, in this order from the object. The negative front lens group includes a negative first sub-lens group and a positive second sub-lens group, in this order from the object. The positive rear lens group includes cemented lens elements having a positive R1 lens element and a negative R2 lens element, a positive R3 lens element having a convex surface facing toward the image, and a positive R4 lens element, in this order from the object. The wide-angle lens system satisfies the following conditions: ?0.8<f1a/f1b<?0.1 ??(1) 0.6<f/fR<1.1 ??(2) wherein f1a designates the focal length of the negative first sub-lens group; f1b designates the focal length of the positive second sub-lens group; f designates the focal length of the entire wide-angle lens system; and fR designates the focal length of the positive rear lens group.