Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a management apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a variable mechanism, a physical quantity detection unit that detects a change in physical quantity caused when a state of the variable mechanism changes, an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormal condition, and a transmission unit that transmits detection results of the physical quantity detection unit and the abnormality detection unit to the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a determination unit that determines a cause of the abnormal condition, and a notification unit that provides a notification that the abnormal condition is caused by a change in the state in accordance with a determination result. The determination unit determines that the abnormal condition is caused by a change in the state when the abnormal condition is detected after the change in physical quantity exceeds a threshold.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus that reads an image formed on a printed material to generate a reference image of an inspection target, and specifies each region including an object in the reference image, and displays the regions such that the regions are selectable. Also, the inspection apparatus batch-sets inspection conditions for a plurality of regions selected by the user via the displayed reference image. Further, the inspection apparatus disables batch setting of an inspection condition in a case where a plurality of regions selected by the user include different regions that include objects of different inspection types. On the other hand, in a case where a plurality of regions selected by the user do not include such different regions, the inspection apparatus enables batch setting of an inspection condition.

Abstract: An inspection system extracts feature points from a scan image and from a reference image, performs alignment of the scan image and the reference image based on the extracted feature points, inspects a printed material using the aligned scan and reference images, and performs processing in accordance with a method selected from among a plurality of methods including at least a first method and a second method in a case where the number of the feature points in the reference image is less than a predetermined number. The processing is performed such that, in the case where the number of the feature points in the reference image is less than the predetermined number, the alignment using at least the extracted feature points is performed when the first method is selected, and the inspection is then carried out, whereas the inspection is not carried out when the second method is selected.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for rendering a gloss effect on a recording medium, can involve rendering a foreground pattern using a first ink composition comprising infrared absorbing colors, wherein said first ink is lightened with lightening parameters by the addition of paper white holes and rendering a background pattern using a second ink composition comprising a process or spot color, wherein said second ink is darkened with darkening parameters by the addition of infrared absorbing colors that have different amounts of infrared absorbing colors than that of the first ink composition. The lightening parameters and the darkening parameters are adjustable to ensure that the first and second inks appear approximately the same at printed sizes. Anisotropic properties can be introduced to the first and second inks, causing non-uniformity in their reflection of light in different directions when viewed under a light source, thereby creating a gloss effect renderable on a recording medium.

Abstract: An apparatus may include a housing defining a first opening, a second opening, and a cavity connecting the first opening to the second opening, the cavity may receive a user's extremity through the first opening and to allow egress through the second opening. An apparatus may include a visualization module configured to superimpose visual media equivalent to a desired tattoo onto the user's extremity within the cavity. An apparatus may include a printer module disposed within the cavity to apply the desired tattoo, the printer module including one or more print heads for administering temporary tattoo ink to apply the temporary tattoo to the user's extremity. An apparatus may include a user interface terminal configured to allow a user to select the temporary tattoo from among a number of candidate temporary tattoos and to adjust one or more properties of the temporary tattoo prior to application of the temporary tattoo.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for determining one or more storage boxes for storing objects. The method comprising: scanning, by an imaging sensor, a plurality of objects to be stored thereby acquiring a scan of the plurality of objects; segmenting the scan of the plurality of objects into objects; determining a three-dimensional, 3D, measure of each of the segmented objects; grouping the segmented objects into one or more groups of objects; determining, for a group of objects, one or more candidate storage boxes for storing the objects of the group of objects by calculating a total 3D measure for the objects of the group of objects by combining the 3D measure of each of the objects of the group of objects and comparing the total 3D measure for the objects of the group of objects with inner dimensions of a set of potential storage boxes.

Abstract: To easily evaluate the performance of an earphone-type device used for otoacoustic authentication at low cost. A generation unit (31) generates earhole shape data indicating the three-dimensional shape of an individual's ear canal, on the basis of data on the internal structure of an individual's earhole, a center line calculation unit (32) calculates the center line of the ear canal, on the basis of the ear canal shape data, and a dividing unit (33) divides the ear canal into a plurality of layers perpendicular to the center line, and calculates, for each of the divided layers, parameters indicating the shape of the ear canal.

Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure including: a mesh division unit (102) that divides at least part of first and second images captured at different times of a target area for detecting chips generated from a workpiece, into a plurality of mesh regions, the images each being an inside image of a machine tool; and an information processing unit (103) that performs processing to associate (a) information on a first chip corresponding to a specific mesh region among the plurality of the mesh regions corresponding to the first image, (b) information on a second chip corresponding to the specific mesh region among the plurality of the mesh regions corresponding to the second image, (c) a first time related to the first image, and (d) a second time related to the second image.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile analysis and processing device (14) for agriculture for processing the soil and/or manipulating flora and fauna. The device (14) comprises at least one sensor (62), a tool unit (52) having at least one motor-driven tool (58), an actuator (48) for moving at least the tool (58) of the tool unit (52), a motor (50) for driving the tool (58) and/or the actuator (48), a database (78), a first communication unit (60) having an interface (70a), and a first computer (46) for controlling the sensor (62), the tool unit (52) and the actuator (48) by means of generated control commands. The data captured by means of the sensor (62) are continually compared with the data stored in the database (78) in order to generate corresponding control signals for the actuator (48), the tool unit (52) and/or the motor (50).

Abstract: A method for generating a subtraction image for digital subtraction angiography to reduce noise and movement artifacts. Obtaining a plurality of mask images of an object takes place before administering a contrast agent into the object and obtaining a map of the object after administering a contrast agent into the object. A first sum image is obtained from the plurality of mask images in that the plurality of mask images is summed in each case multiplied by an individual weighting. The individual weightings for each of the plurality of mask images are automatically determined by an optimization method, and the subtraction image is ascertained by subtraction of the sum image from the map.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method implemented by a computing device for processing math and text in handwriting, comprising: identifying symbols by performing handwriting recognition on a plurality of strokes; classifying, as a first classification, first symbols as either a text symbol candidate or a math symbol candidate with a confidence score reaching a first threshold; classifying, as a second classification, second symbols other than first symbols as either a text symbol candidate or a math symbol candidate with a respective confidence score by applying predefined spatial syntactic rules; updating or confirming, as a third classification, a result of the second classification by establishing semantic connections between symbols and comparing the semantic connections with the result of the second classification; and recognising each symbol as either text or math based on a result of said third classification.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive medical image data including a region of interest; generate first rendering data by rendering the medical image data based on a first rendering condition; receive a characteristic value relating to detection certainty with respect to the region of interest by inputting the first rendering data to a machine learning model; determine a property of the first rendering condition based on the characteristic value.

Abstract: According to the present invention, proposed is a method for inspecting a labeling operation, the method comprising, when a deep learning model for inspecting a labeling operation for a bounding box corresponding to an object included in an image is present and a computing apparatus uses the deep learning model, the steps of: performing, by the computing apparatus, first training on the deep learning model on the basis of a training image; obtaining, by the computing apparatus, an operation image and a bounding box labeling value therefor; calculating, by the computing apparatus, a score for inspection by performing a calculation while passing the operation image and the bounding box labeling value through the deep learning model; and determining, by the computing apparatus, whether the bounding box labeling value for the operation image is accurate on the basis of the score for inspection and performing any one of a pass process, a fail process, and a re-inspection process.

Abstract: The learning device includes a metric space learning unit and a case example storage unit. The metric space learning unit learns a metric space including feature vectors extracted from attributed image data, for each combination of different attributes, using the attributed image data to which attribute information is assigned. The case example storage unit computes the feature vector from the image data for case example to store the computed feature vector as a case example associated with the metric space, and stores additional information associated with the case example.

Abstract: A redundantly printed security-enhanced document, printing method, and system for better ensuring that the meaning of the information imparted by variable indicia printed by redundant printing indicia on a document protected by a removable Scratch-Off Coating (SOC). By printing the variable indicia with multiple colors, redundancy and integrity of the intended indicia is achieved relative to the perception of human eye photoreceptor cones. The redundantly printed document, methods, and systems enhance the overall appearance of the redundantly printed document, and reduce possible consequences resulting from misprinted variable indicia.

Abstract: A recording device performs an initial introduction process of executing initial introduction to enable a recording operation by a recording unit in an initial state where a recording operation by a recording unit is not enabled, a completion determining process of determining whether the initial introduction is normally completed, and a shifting process of shifting a state of the recording device from the initial state to a state where the recording operation by the recording unit is enabled within a permitted recording number of the recording operation by the recording unit in response to determining that the initial introduction is normally completed in the completion determining process.

Abstract: A processor derives a first feature amount for an object included in an image by a first neural network, structures a sentence including description of the object included in the image to derive structured information for the sentence, and derives a second feature amount for the sentence from the structured information by a second neural network. The processor trains the first neural network and the second neural network such that, in a feature space to which the first feature amount and the second feature amount belong, a distance between the derived first feature amount and second feature amount is reduced in a case in which the object included in the image and the object described in the sentence correspond to each other.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for optimizing bounding boxes generated using point cloud information. In one example, a method for optimizing the bounding box includes the step of using an iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm to transform the bounding box using a transformation. The point cloud acts as the reference for the ICP algorithm, while the bounding box acts as the source for the ICP algorithm.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a casing, a reading unit, a support shaft, a first cable, and a second cable. The reading unit includes a reading sensor configured to read an image of the sheet conveyed in the conveyance path through the transparent member. The support shaft supports the reading unit in a manner of moving in a moving direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the reading unit. The first cable is connected to a first connecting portion disposed in the reading unit, the first cable being held by the reading unit on one side in the longitudinal direction with respect to the support shaft. The second cable is connected to a second connecting portion disposed in the reading unit, the second cable being held by the reading unit on the other side in the longitudinal direction with respect to the support shaft.

Abstract: A printing control system includes a terminal that performs an input operation of setting a second setting item relevant to printing that is made impossible based on an input operation of setting for a first setting item relevant to printing being performed, and transmits first information to a printing apparatus based on the input operation for the first setting item being performed. The printing apparatus perform control so as to transmit second information to the terminal device as a response to the first information in a case where the printing apparatus receives the first information from the terminal device. Based on the terminal device receiving the second information, a display control unit displays a setting value corresponding to a second attribute value indicated by the second information in association with the second setting item for which the input operation is made impossible.