Abstract: An intraoral camera system includes an imaging unit that generates image data by capturing an image of a tooth inside the mouth of a user, an area detector that detects the orientation of the imaging unit according to output by a multi-axis acceleration sensor and detects, according to the orientation detected, an area whose image is being captured by the imaging unit from among areas inside the mouth, the areas being determined by dividing a dentition into sections, and an identifier that narrows candidates which are combinations of tooth types and tooth positions down to fewer candidates to be used, according to the image data and the area detected, and identifies the type and the position of the tooth according to the narrowed candidates and the image data.

Abstract: A dentition image capturing system includes: illumination devices to radiate light; an imaging device to capture first and second dentition images in a predetermined exposure period; a high luminance region extraction unit to extract a high luminance region for the first and second dentition images; a high luminance region comparison unit to calculate a degree of similarity between the high luminance region of the first dentition image and the second dentition image; a halation region specification unit to specify the high luminance region of the first dentition image as a halation region in a case where the similarity degree is smaller than a predetermined threshold; an image synthesis processing unit executing image synthesis processing of extracting a trimming region in the second dentition image corresponding to the halation region and replacing the halation region with the trimming region; and a dentition image output unit to output the first dentition image.

Abstract: An intraoral camera system includes an imaging unit and an image determination unit. The imaging unit generates an image data item showing a target tooth for image capturing inside a mouth. The image determination unit defines two-dimensional plane coordinates for the image data item generated by the imaging unit and extracts the position coordinates of the outline of the target tooth from the entire imaging area of the imaging unit. When a part of the outline of the target tooth is outside an effective area set inside the entire imaging area of the imaging unit, the image determination unit determines that the target tooth extends beyond the effective area.

Abstract: An intraoral camera system includes an imaging unit and an image processor. If a first angle formed by an imaging plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the imaging unit and a first direction that is the vertically upward direction along a vertical axis is less than a predetermined second angle, the image processor rotates image data to cause the vertically upward direction along the vertical axis to coincide with an upward direction of an image by rotating the image data by a third angle formed by the first direction and a second direction from a handle toward a head.

Abstract: An image processing method includes: obtaining an image; generating a high frequency image according to a high frequency component based on a plurality of first pixel values of a plurality of first pixels of the image obtained; generating, according to color information based on the plurality of first pixel values of the image obtained, one or more color images corresponding to one or more different colors; generating a composite image by weighted addition of the high frequency image and the one or more color images; and outputting the composite image generated.

Abstract: A display unevenness correction apparatus for use in the manufacture of an LCD display including an LCD panel having display pixels arranged in rows and columns, the apparatus including: a luminance meter which measures a luminance of the LCD panel while the LCD panel is being illuminated to obtain a luminance; a block luminance calculation unit which segments the luminance map into first blocks and calculate, for each of the first blocks, a block luminance of the first block using luminances included in the first block, the block luminance representing the luminances included in the first block; an interpolation unit which calculates a target luminance for each of the display pixels, using a corresponding one of the block luminances; and a correction gain calculation unit which calculates a correction coefficient for each display pixel using the target luminance.