Abstract: An image processing device for removing a noise having directionality in a first direction from an image containing the noise without affecting information on minute shading of luminance of the image, including: a high-pass filter unit configured to perform filtering processing on an image containing a noise having directionality in a horizontal direction with a high-pass filter in the horizontal direction; a low-pass filter unit configured to perform filtering processing on the image in a vertical direction with a low-pass filter; and an addition unit configured to add an image processed by the high-pass filter unit and an image processed by the low-pass filter unit.

Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam device including a charged particle optical column that irradiates a specimen with a primary charged particle beam, and a specimen base rotating unit that is capable of rotating the specimen base in a state of an angle formed by a surface of the specimen base and an optical axis of the primary charged particle beam being inclined to a non-perpendicular angle, in which the specimen base is configured to include a detecting element that detects a charged particle scattered or transmitted inside the specimen, and transmitted charged particle images of the specimen corresponding to each angle is acquired by irradiating the specimen in a state of the specimen base rotating unit being rotated at a plurality of different angles.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to non-destructively obtain, in an X-ray imaging apparatus, a sectional image of a subject with spatial resolution higher than spatial resolution of an image detector. In the present invention, the image detector is two-dimensionally moved with respect to an incident X-ray for each half (180°) rotation of the subject, and a plurality of image groups (CT data sets) is obtained at different positions of the image detector. An image (sinogram) is synthesized from each image group thus obtained, which image is equal to an image obtained with a detector whose pixel size is smaller than the pixel size constituting the above described image detector. From this synthesized image, a sectional image with high spatial resolution is calculated by reconstruction calculation.

Abstract: An electronic microscope has a great depth of focus compared with an optical microscope. Thus, information is superimposed in the depth direction in one image. Thus, observation of a three-dimensional structure inside a specimen with use of the electronic microscope requires accurate specification of a three-dimensional position or density of a structure inside the specimen. Furthermore, the specimen on a slide glass that is observed with the optical microscope may not be put in a TEM device in the related art. Thus, a very complicated preparation of the specimen is required for performing three-dimensional internal structure observation, with the electronic microscope, of a location that is observed with the optical microscope.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to non-destructively obtain, in an X-ray imaging apparatus, a sectional image of a subject with spatial resolution higher than spatial resolution of an image detector. In the present invention, the image detector is two-dimensionally moved with respect to an incident X-ray for each half (180°) rotation of the subject, and a plurality of image groups (CT data sets) is obtained at different positions of the image detector. An image (sinogram) is synthesized from each image group thus obtained, which image is equal to an image obtained with a detector whose pixel size is smaller than the pixel size constituting the above described image detector. From this synthesized image, a sectional image with high spatial resolution is calculated by reconstruction calculation.

Abstract: Provided are an image encoding device that has high encoding efficiency, and an image decoding device. A mapping means maps pixel signals of an object to be encoded that are configured in prescribed color space to mapped pixel signals in which redundancy between the signals is reduced. The mapping coefficients are calculated from encoded pixel signals, thereby making encoding of mapping coefficients unnecessary. Furthermore, the mapping coefficients are calculated from pixel signals of an adjacent block comprising pixels similar to the pixels of the block to be encoded/decoded, thereby reducing redundancy significantly. The mapping is applied to the pixel signals of the block to be encoded/decoded and to an area of pixels to be referred to by prediction information, thereby enabling prediction to be applied to the mapped pixel signals, and, after executing transformation/quantization, encoding and inverse transformation/dequantization are executed. The mapped pixel signals are restored to the pixel signals.

Abstract: Provided are an image encoding device that has high encoding efficiency, and an image decoding device. A mapping means maps pixel signals of an object to be encoded that are configured in prescribed color space to mapped pixel signals in which redundancy between the signals is reduced. The mapping coefficients are calculated from encoded pixel signals, thereby making encoding of mapping coefficients unnecessary. Furthermore, the mapping coefficients are calculated from pixel signals of an adjacent block comprising pixels similar to the pixels of the block to be encoded/decoded, thereby reducing redundancy significantly. The mapping is applied to the pixel signals of the block to be encoded/decoded and to an area of pixels to be referred to by prediction information, thereby enabling prediction to be applied to the mapped pixel signals, and, after executing transformation/quantization, encoding and inverse transformation/dequantization are executed. The mapped pixel signals are restored to the pixel signals.

Abstract: Data processing including encoding and sending is disclosed, which includes: encoding data using a selected one of a plurality of parameter sets each of which has at least one encoding parameter; calculating a length of an assigned time not exceeding a time limit for an original data set to be sent, per each data sub-set; calculating an estimate of an individual processing time TP to encode and send each data sub-set using a successively-selected one of the plurality of encoding parameter sets, based on the assigned time, an estimate of an encoding time TE to encode each data sub-set using the successively-selected one encoding parameter set, and an estimate of a sending time TT to send the encoded data sub-set; and selecting one of the plurality of encoding parameter sets to allow a total processing time not to exceed the time limit.

Abstract: An operation estimating portion estimates an input operation on the basis of motions of a nail and a finger which are shot, the directions, the number thereof or others. On the basis of estimation results of the input operation, a controller controls display content on a display and an application now in execution. The operation estimating portion includes a skin region extractor for extracting a skin region (first region) containing a nail region (second region) from a shot image, a nail region extractor for extracting the nail region from the thus extracted skin region, and a motion detector for following up a temporal change in the thus extracted nail region to detect motions of the nail region, thereby estimating the input operation on the basis of detection results of the motion detector.

Abstract: Data processing including encoding and sending is disclosed, which includes: encoding data using a selected one of a plurality of parameter sets each of which has at least one encoding parameter; calculating a length of an assigned time not exceeding a time limit for an original data set to be sent, per each data sub-set; calculating an estimate of an individual processing time TP to encode and send each data sub-set using a successively-selected one of the plurality of encoding parameter sets, based on the assigned time, an estimate of an encoding time TE to encode the each data sub-set using the successively-selected one encoding parameter set, and an estimate of a sending time TT to send the encoded data sub-set; and selecting one of the plurality of encoding parameter sets to allow a total processing time not to exceed the time limit.

Abstract: A video contents generation device generates video contents smoothly connecting a series of poses of a human skeleton in conformity with the music with the reduced amount of calculation. The video contents generation device is constituted of a motion analysis unit detecting motion features from motion data representing motion segments of poses, a database storing motion data in connection with subclassification (e.g. genres and tempos), a music analysis unit detecting music features from music data representing the music subjected to the video contents generating procedure, a synchronization unit generating the synchronization information for establishing the correspondence between motion data and music data based on motion features suited to music features, and a video data generation unit generating video data synchronized with music data based on the synchronization information.

Abstract: A feature vector computation apparatus includes a content obtaining unit that obtains a content; a key frame extractor that detects an instantaneous cut point in the content obtained by the content obtaining unit, and extracts two frames as key frames from the content, based on the instantaneous cut point; a feature vector computation target region extractor that extracts a feature vector computation target region from the two key frame extracted by the key frame extractor; and a feature vector computation unit that computes a feature vector from the feature vector computation target region extracted by the feature vector computation target region extractor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a real-time live picture information compression-transmission apparatus and method using a connection-less type protocol for a computer network. The compression-transmission apparatus is constituted to divide frame data output from a real-time encoder compressing live picture information into packets, and to transmit the live picture information in a real time manner according to the connection-less type protocol while suppressing burst transmission by conducting transmission control. The present invention also provides a compressed video data decoding apparatus capable of reducing compressed video decoding processing load without deteriorating picture quality and decreasing the number of played back picture planes when playing back a picture.

Abstract: The present invention provides an X-ray imaging system and method capable of performing time-resolved observation in a short measurement time at the same density resolution and in the same dynamic range as those for a diffraction enhanced X-ray imaging method, and also capable of observing a sample with high sensitivity even if the intensity of an incident X-ray varies with time. A refraction angle of X-ray beams caused by the sample is detected at a time by X-ray imagers by utilizing multiple X-ray diffractions by multiple analyzer crystals.

Abstract: Provided is a thin film stack inspection method capable of accurately measuring and inspecting layer thicknesses of thin film stacks. An X-ray having a long coherence length is used as an incident X-ray and the X-ray specular-reflected from a sample placed on a goniometer is partially bent by a prism. The X-ray bent by the prism and the X-ray going straight are made to interfere with each other to obtain interference patterns. Though being thin film stacks, the sample has a portion having no thin film and thus an exposed substrate. The X-ray not bent by the prism includes an X-ray specular-reflected from the exposed substrate. By changing the incident angle from 0.01° to 1°, the interference patterns of the specular-reflected X-ray are measured. Thus, layer thicknesses are measured using a change in a phase of the X-ray reflected from a film stack interface.

Abstract: An operation estimating portion 2 estimates an input operation on the basis of motions of a nail and a finger which are shot, the directions, the number thereof or others. On the basis of estimation results of the input operation, a controller 3 controls display content on a display 4 and an application now in execution. The operation estimating portion 2 includes a skin region extractor 21 for extracting a skin region (first region) containing a nail region (second region) from a shot image, a nail region extractor 22 for extracting the nail region from the thus extracted skin region, and a motion detector 23 for following up a temporal change in the thus extracted nail region to detect motions of the nail region, thereby estimating the input operation on the basis of detection results of the motion detector 23.

Abstract: Provided is a thin film stack inspection method capable of accurately measuring and inspecting layer thicknesses of thin film stacks. An X-ray having a long coherence length is used as an incident X-ray and the X-ray specular-reflected from a sample placed on a goniometer is partially bent by a prism. The X-ray bent by the prism and the X-ray going straight are made to interfere with each other to obtain interference patterns. Though being thin film stacks, the sample has a portion having no thin film and thus an exposed substrate. The X-ray not bent by the prism includes an X-ray specular-reflected from the exposed substrate. By changing the incident angle from 0.01° to 1°, the interference patterns of the specular-reflected X-ray are measured. Thus, layer thicknesses are measured using a change in a phase of the X-ray reflected from a film stack interface.

Abstract: A sample which includes a region exhibiting a large density change, such as, bones or lungs and a region exhibiting a small density change, such as, biological soft tissues, and whose measurement is difficult to do for conventional absorption and phase contrast X-ray imaging apparatuses is highly sensitively imaged and observed. In a phase contrast X-ray imaging apparatus using an X-ray interferometer, a reference object whose shape and internal density distribution are analogous to those of a sample and which is known is positioned on an optical path other than an optical path in the interferometer on which the sample is positioned.

Abstract: The present invention provides an X-ray imaging system and method capable of performing time-resolved observation in a short measurement time at the same density resolution and in the same dynamic range as those for a diffraction enhanced X-ray imaging method, and also capable of observing a sample with high sensitivity even if the intensity of an incident X-ray varies with time. A refraction angle of X-ray beams caused by the sample is detected at a time by X-ray imagers by utilizing multiple X-ray diffractions by multiple analyzer crystals.

Abstract: The present invention provides a real-time live picture information compression-transmission apparatus and method using a connection-less type protocol for a computer network. The compression-transmission apparatus is constituted to divide frame data output from a real-time encoder compressing live picture information into packets, and to transmit the live picture information in a real time manner according to the connection-less type protocol while suppressing burst transmission by conducting transmission control. The present invention also provides a compressed video data decoding apparatus capable of reducing compressed video decoding processing load without deteriorating picture quality and decreasing the number of played back picture planes when playing back a picture.