Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an exaggeration unit configured to perform on an original image including a hand-drawn element an exaggeration process that expands the hand-drawn element to generate an exaggerated image; and a reduction unit configured to reduce the exaggerated image to generate a reduced image of a predetermined size smaller than a size of the original image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an exaggeration unit configured to perform on an original image including a hand-drawn element an exaggeration process that expands the hand-drawn element to generate an exaggerated image; and a reduction unit configured to reduce the exaggerated image to generate a reduced image of a predetermined size smaller than a size of the original image.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a production support system includes: a production information storage unit; a manufacturing apparatus information storage unit; an inspection/measurement apparatus information storage unit; a planned lot number calculation unit; a first control mode calculation unit. The first control mode calculation unit is configured to calculate an appropriate control mode from the number of products to be subjected to the control of the final quality, a relationship between fluctuation of the final quality and a number of products when performing a predetermined feedback type/feedforward type combined APC, fluctuation of the final quality when performing a feedforward type APC, and fluctuation of the final quality when not performing the feedback type/feedforward type combined APC.

Abstract: The light source unit comprises a light source emitting visible light and light of a non-visible wavelength; a rod-like light guide at the end of which the light source is provided and within which incident light from the light source is propagated in the long axis direction; a reflector that is linear along the long axis direction and provided on the contour surface of the light guide; and a support member encompassing the reflector and light guide, having a given width in the direction perpendicular to the long axis direction, and provided with an opening extending along the long axis direction. The reflector and support member are formed by a reflecting material containing a substance reflecting the light of a non-visible light wavelength and reflecting the visible light and light of a non-visible light wavelength.

Abstract: A display control method includes: inputting user's image including a drawing portion made by hand drawing and being a display target image; and performing image control including causing the input user's image to emerge from any one of a left end and a right end of a predetermined display region, on which the user's image is to be displayed, and moving the user's image that has emerged.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a terminal device; and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes: a holding unit that holds a plurality of pieces of workflow information each including information that specifies a process constituting a service; a receiving unit that receives service identification information, device identification information, and an image transmitted from a terminal device; a selecting unit that selects a piece of the workflow information corresponding to the service identification information and the device identification information from the pieces of the workflow information; and an executing unit that executes a service in which the image is processed into an image including a movie in accordance with the workflow information selected by the selecting unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a third extraction unit, a determination unit, a correction unit, and a color quantization unit. The first extraction unit extracts from an image a region and color of an information image. The second extraction unit extracts a color of a peripheral image surrounding the extracted region. The third extraction unit extracts information necessary for color quantization processing. The determination unit determines whether a color difference between the extracted color of the information image and the extracted color of the peripheral image falls within a predetermined range when color quantization processing is based on the extracted information. The correction unit corrects a representative color if it is determined that the color difference does not fall within the predetermined range. The color quantization unit performs color quantization processing on the image on the basis of the corrected representative color.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a representative color calculation unit, a color displacement calculation unit, and a similarity calculation unit. The representative color calculation unit calculates a representative color which is representative of colors in a first region having a predetermined size in an image. The color displacement calculation unit calculates, as a color displacement, a difference between the representative color calculated by the representative color calculation unit and a color in a target second region in the first region. The similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the color displacement calculated by the color displacement calculation unit and a predetermined color displacement in an information image representing information embedded in the image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an influence value setting unit that sets an influence value on a pixel of interest in a local region of an image, the influence value being a color difference in the local region, and a color region processing unit that treats the pixel of interest as a pixel in a region of a representative color when a color of the pixel of interest is within a range from the representative color to the threshold value, the threshold value being set such that the threshold value increases as the influence value increases.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including an extraction unit that extracts representative colors from a target image, a color difference calculation unit that calculates a color difference between the representative color and a pixel of interest of the target image, a change unit that changes a brightness component of the color difference depending on chroma of the representative colors, and a replacement unit that selects the representative color depending on the color difference changed in the change unit to replace a color of the pixel of interest by the representative color.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first calculating section that calculates a non-contour degree for pixel of a processing target image data, a second calculating section that calculates a thin line degree for pixel of the processing target image data, a region extracting section that extracts a thin line or non-contour region based on the non-contour degree and the thin line degree and a color value extracting section. The color value extracting section extracts a color value within a range of a predetermined number of colors based on a color used in the thin line or non-contour region extracted by the region extracting section in the processing target image data.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including an extraction unit that extracts a color boundary of an image, an influence value calculation unit that calculates an influence value indicating the degree of an influence of the color boundary on a pixel, a setting unit that sets a coefficient for a convolution operation in accordance with the color boundary extracted in the extraction unit and the influence value calculated in the influence value calculation unit, and an operation unit that performs a convolution operation using the coefficient set by the setting unit.

Abstract: A crystal oscillator, and a measurement method using same are provided with which the density of a solution can be measured alone, or both the density and the viscosity of a solution can be measured at the same time using a single detector provided for the crystal oscillator. A material to be measured is contacted to the crystal oscillator, and the crystal oscillator that includes electrodes formed on both surfaces of a piezoelectric plate, and an uneven-surface formed either on one of the electrodes disposed on the side in contact with the material to be measured, or on a detector formed on the electrode is oscillated. An amount of change in frequency (f2) that corresponds to the high-frequency side of two frequencies that represent a half value of a conductance maximum value of the crystal oscillator is measured to measure a density of the material.

Abstract: An image processor includes: an edge determination unit that determines an edge in an image; and a color estimation unit that estimates an original color of the image which is not affected by an another image read together as a non-target image, according to a result of the edge determination performed by the edge determination unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a third extraction unit, a determination unit, a correction unit, and a color quantization unit. The first extraction unit extracts from an image a region and color of an information image. The second extraction unit extracts a color of a peripheral image surrounding the extracted region. The third extraction unit extracts information necessary for color quantization processing. The determination unit determines whether a color difference between the extracted color of the information image and the extracted color of the peripheral image falls within a predetermined range when color quantization processing is based on the extracted information. The correction unit corrects a representative color if it is determined that the color difference does not fall within the predetermined range. The color quantization unit performs color quantization processing on the image on the basis of the corrected representative color.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a representative color calculation unit, a color displacement calculation unit, and a similarity calculation unit. The representative color calculation unit calculates a representative color which is representative of colors in a first region having a predetermined size in an image. The color displacement calculation unit calculates, as a color displacement, a difference between the representative color calculated by the representative color calculation, unit and a color in a target second region in the first region. The similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the color displacement calculated by the color displacement calculation unit and a predetermined color displacement in an information image representing information embedded in the image.

Abstract: [Problem] A method for measuring a viscoelastic modulus of a substance and an apparatus for measuring the viscoelastic modulus of the substance are provided for allowing information on viscoelasticity of an adsorption substance to be expressed by moduli G? and G? which are generally used when expressing viscoelasticity, and for further allowing calculation of the viscoelastic modulus in real time.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a read image acquisition section and a specific image region extraction section. The read image acquisition section acquires read image data which is obtained by reading a front face and a rear face of a document. The specific image region extraction section extracts, as a specific image region, from among local regions existing at corresponding positions of the front face and the rear face of the read image data, a local region in which an amount of difference of at least one of hue degree, brightness degree or saturation degree between the front face and the rear face is within a predetermined range.

Abstract: An image processor, includes: a gradation direction determination unit that determines a gradation direction existing in an image in which a color or density changes; a reference area setting unit that sets a shape of a reference area based on a determination result by the gradation direction determination unit; and a color estimation unit that estimates a color in which a non-target image superimposition does not occur based on a pixel value within the reference area set by the reference area setting unit and substitute an input pixel value with the estimated color.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided, the apparatus including: a color extracting section that extracts colors contained in processing image data as a flat color or a characteristic color; a first evaluation value calculating section that calculates a flat color evaluation value with respect to a combination of flat colors based on a color difference, and that calculates a characteristic color evaluation value with respect to a combination of characteristic colors based on a color difference; a second evaluation value calculating section that calculates a combination evaluation value with respect to a combination of a characteristic color and a flat color based on a color difference; and a deleting section that reduces a number of colors to a preset number by deleting a color extracted by the color extracting section in accordance with the characteristic color evaluation value, flat color evaluation value and the combination evaluation value.