Abstract: An image processing apparatus for removing noise from a frame group on a timeline is provided. This image processing apparatus includes a judgment unit, a division unit, and a removal unit. The judgment unit judges whether changing points where there is a large change between adjacent frames included in the frame group appear at roughly the same interval along the timeline. The division unit, in a case where it is judged that the changing points appear at roughly the same interval, divides the frame group into a plurality of groupings along the timeline in accordance with the interval. The removal unit removes noise from the frame group in units of the groupings.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a dispersion calculation portion, an ? deriving portion, and a filtering portion, and eliminates mosquito noise from a digitally compressed image having a plurality of color components. The dispersion calculation portion is configured to calculate, for each of the color components of each pixel contained in the digitally compressed image, a dispersion of pixel values of a plurality of pixels contained in a first region in which that pixel serves as a representative pixel. The ? deriving portion is configured to derive, for each pixel contained in the digitally compressed image, a greatest value of the plurality of dispersions that respectively correspond to the plurality of color components of that pixel, or a corrected value of the greatest value, as an ? value of an ? filter for that pixel. The filtering portion is configured to apply the ? filter to the digitally compressed image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a first image processing unit and a second image processing unit. The first image processing unit is configured to calculate a parameter for image processing based on a first image, but not based on a second image, and execute the image processing on the first image using the parameter. The second image processing unit is configured to execute the image processing on the second image using the parameter.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including an image processing unit and configured to generate an enlarged image of an original image. The image processing unit is configured to generate the enlarged image by sequentially and repeatedly executing an edge-enhancement and enlargement process on the original image. The edge-enhancement and enlargement process is a process for enhancing edges in an image while enlarging the image.

Abstract: An illumination optical system includes a two-dimensional laser-array light source including a plurality of laser light sources arranged in a two-dimensional array on a plane; an integrator optical system configured to superpose incident light and emit the light to an irradiated surface; a plurality of first lenses disposed parallel to the plane and configured to superpose beams from the two-dimensional laser-array light source in a first axis direction and emit the beams to the integrator optical system while limiting a divergence angle in the first axis direction of the two-dimensional array; and a plurality of second lenses disposed rearward of the first lenses and configured to superpose the beams from the two-dimensional laser-array light source in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and emit the beams to the integrator optical system while limiting a divergence angle in the second axis direction.

Abstract: A wavelength plate includes: a first quartz plate unit including a plurality of quartz plates which have main surfaces disposed in the same plane and are jointed with each other; and a second quartz plate unit including a plurality of quartz plates which have main surfaces disposed on a main surface of the first quartz plate unit and are jointed with each other in a position different from a joint position of the first quartz plate unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a first storage section to store a plurality of pieces of job information each having a plurality of data items corresponding to a plurality of items; a second storage section to store read-out definition information in which one or more of the items to be read out from each of the pieces of job information are set; an input section to input an instruction to read out one or more of the pieces of job information; and a control section to extract one or more of the data items corresponding to one or more of the items set in the read-out definition information from each of the one or more of the pieces of job information when the instruction is inputted by the input section, and to output the extracted one or more of the data items.

Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; and a fluorescent member that includes a fluorescent substance that, when it is irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength, transmits a part of the excitation light and reflects another part of the excitation light, and a first reflective film provided at a side of the fluorescent substance, which is opposite to an excitation light incidence side, the fluorescent member emitting multiplexed light including an excitation light component reflected from the fluorescent substance and the first reflective film and a light component emitted from the fluorescent substance.

Abstract: A gate insulating film having a high dielectric constant, a semiconductor device provided with the gate insulating film, and a method for manufacturing such film and device are provided. The semiconductor device is provided with a group 14 (IVA) semiconductor board and a first oxide layer. The first oxide layer is composed of MO2 existing on the board, where M is a first metal species selected from the group 4 (IVB); and M?xOy, where M? is a second metal species selected from the group 3 (IIIB) and a group composed of lanthanide series, and x and y are integers decided by the oxidation number of M.

Abstract: To provide a region detecting method capable of setting a proper threshold independently of a photographing condition and moreover, quickly and accurately detecting a specific region, which uses an image data storing section 10 for storing a sample image 12 and a purposed image 11, a first computing means 1 for obtaining the extraction-region-identifying threshold data for a plurality of sample images including a common extraction region but having average color values different from each other in accordance with a genetic algorithm and generating a threshold table 8 for the average color values, a second computing means 2 for adaptively computing the extraction-region-identifying threshold data for the purposed image 11 in accordance with the average color value of the purposed image and the threshold table 8, and a third computing means 3 for detecting an extraction region in accordance with the threshold data computed by the second computing means 12.

Abstract: A gate insulating film having a high dielectric constant, a semiconductor device provided with the gate insulating film, and a method for manufacturing such film and device are provided. The semiconductor device is provided with a group 14 (IVB) semiconductor board and a first oxide layer. The first oxide layer is composed of MO2 existing on the board, where M is a first metal species selected from the group 4 (IVA); and M?xOy, where M? is a second metal species selected from the group 3 (IIIA) and a group composed of lanthanide series, and x and y are integers decided by the oxidation number of M.

Abstract: An image processing module restricts granular noise present in photographic image data obtained by digitization of an image by utilizing a weighted average filtering operation. The module comprises a target pixel setting section, a difference value calculation section, a weight coefficient determining section and a filtering operating section. The target pixel setting section sets one target pixel after another from a group of pixels together constituting the photographic image data. The difference value calculating section calculates a difference value between a pixel value of the target pixel and each peripheral pixel present within a calculating area centering about the target pixel and is used for the weighted average filtering operation. The weight coefficient determining section determines a weight coefficient for use in the weighted average filtering operation, in accordance with the difference value.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an output section; a counter to count operation record information; a clock section to keep time for date and time information; and a control section to obtain a counter value of operation record information counted by the counter, to obtain by the clock section date and time information of when the counter value is obtained, to generate code information including the counter value and the date and time information, to convert the code information to an image code, and to output the image code to the output section.

Abstract: A method of detecting the base concentration of a film comprises the steps of generating a concentration histogram from the film image in each of the RGB color components, shifting and stretching the histograms in the other colors towards the histogram in the reference color in the concentration axial direction, calculating an superimposed area between the two histograms in the two color components after the stretching process, and finding the shift rate and the stretch ratio when a total of the respective superimposed areas calculated is the greatest value. As the minimum of the lowest concentration in the histograms at the shift rate and the stretch ratio determined is specified to represent the location of the base concentration in the original histogram, the base concentration in each color component of the film can be calculated from the location of the base concentration in the histogram.

Abstract: An apparatus including: a reception section to receive operation information from an operation terminal; a display section; and a controller that selectively executes a first control to display in the display section an operation screen corresponding to the operation information received by the reception section, and a second control not to display the operation screen.

Abstract: A method of detecting the base concentration of a film is provided including: a film image entering process of reading a developed film with an image pickup device to generate the pixel values in each of the RGB color components; a non-exposure region detecting step of detecting the edge of each frame on the film from the detected pixel values and specifying as the non-exposure region each line of pixels disposed at the intermediate between any two adjacent frame-image edges from the detected edge data; and a base concentration calculating step of subjecting the pixel values in each non-exposure region specified in the non-exposure region detecting step to different arithmetic operations for calculating corresponding base concentrations of the film, whereby the highest of the base concentrations is judged as a true base concentration.

Abstract: A method of determining image correction includes the steps of: obtaining image data representing a photographic frame image as source image data, effecting an image correction by a predetermined correction degree on the obtained source image data, thus generating corrected image data, displaying a correction reproduced image based on the corrected image data on a monitor, and fixedly determining a final correction degree for an image correction to be eventually effected on the source image data while monitoring the correction reproduced image. At the step for generating corrected image data, a plurality of corrected image data are generated by effecting the correction on the source image data with a plurality of differing correction degrees, and at the displaying step, a plurality of correction reproduced images based on selected ones from the plurality of corrected image data are displayed according to the order of correction degrees.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus having a controller which reproduces operation procedure information received from an operation terminal as an external apparatus, the operation procedure information including a series of operation information as a time-series procedure, and the controller sequentially accepts various settings according to the series of operation information.

Abstract: Disclosed an image forming apparatus including: a first storage section to store job information of a completely executed job; a nonvolatile second storage section to store the job information, the second storage section being larger in capacity than the first storage section; and a control section to compress the job information to store the compressed job information into the second storage section, and to manage the job information.

Abstract: An information sharing system capable of transferring determined data between a plurality of image forming apparatuses each other extremely efficiently and accurately, and an image forming apparatus for the information sharing system. The image forming apparatus has: a storage for storing determined data for controlling image formation; a determined data providing section for performing a processing concerning a predetermined request; a determined data obtaining section for making the predetermined request; and a controller for controlling the determined data providing section and the determined data obtaining section.