Abstract: According to one embodiment, a crack data collection apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a detector, a calculator and a storage unit. The acquisition unit acquires an image obtained by photographing an inspection object region for a crack in a structure. The detector detects a crack pixel group included in the inspection object region from the image. The calculator successively sets turning points from a starting point to an end point on a contour of the crack pixel group, and calculates positions of the starting point, the turning points, and the end point and a vector of each of the points as crack data, The storage unit stores the crack data.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquisitor and a processor. The acquisitor acquires information including a first image of an object and a first relationship. The first image includes first and second image areas. The first image area corresponds to a first position of a first part of the object and has a first pixel value. The second image area corresponds to a second position of a second part of the object and has a second pixel value. The processor performs generating a first generated image including a third and a fourth image areas corresponding to the first and the second positions, determining a third pixel value of the third image area and a fourth pixel value of the fourth image area, and calculating a first distance corresponding to a length of the third image area and a second distance corresponding to a length of the fourth image area.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an identification device includes a light emission controller, an image capturing controller, a detector, a position calculator, and an identification unit. The light emission controller individually controls lighting on/off of light-emitting instruments via a network. The image capturing controller controls capturing devices by using identification information of the image capturing devices, and obtains an image sequence captured by each image capturing device. The detector detects, for each image sequence, one or more regions varying in conjunction with lighting on/off of the light-emitting instruments. The position calculator calculates, for each image sequence, a position of the image capturing device that captures the image sequence by using a position of the light-emitting instrument performing lighting on/off causing each region.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes an input rotary member having a pressing portion, and an output rotary member having a receiving portion to be pressed by the pressing portion. The input rotary member forces the output rotary member to rotate when resilient members disposed between the input rotary member and the output rotary member are deformed by predetermined amounts.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an elevator shaft inner dimension measuring device includes a distance measuring instrument, an imaging device and a controller. The distance measuring instrument includes a first laser rangefinder mounted to a moving object moving through an interior of an elevator shaft, and irradiating laser light on an inner wall of the elevator shaft. The imaging device includes a first camera mounted to the moving object, and imaging the interior of the elevator shaft. The controller includes a calculator, a position calculating device, and a memory device. The calculator performs an operation on distance data obtained from the distance measuring instrument, and image data obtained from the imaging device. The position calculating device estimates a motion of the moving object and calculates a position of the moving object in the interior of the elevator shaft. The memory device stores the distance data and the image data.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an identification device includes a controller, an acquiring unit, and an identifying unit. The controller controls turning on/off of a plurality of light emitting apparatuses via a network individually by using pieces of identification information of their respective light emitting apparatuses. The acquiring unit acquires images of the light emitting apparatuses in time-series. The identifying unit determines an installation position of each of the light emitting apparatuses by using the on/off control on the light emitting apparatuses and the images, and identifies each of the light emitting apparatuses determined by the installation positions corresponding to each of the light emitting apparatuses identified by the pieces of identification information with each other.

Abstract: An example three-dimensional model generating device includes an emitting unit that emits a laser light and a first deflector that deflects laser light, whose emission direction rotates in a first rotation range, within a first scan plane. A second deflector deflects laser light, whose emission direction rotates in a second rotation range, within a second scan plane intersecting with the first scan plane. The detector detects a reflected light when laser light deflected from the first deflector is reflected from the target object or detects a reflected light when laser light deflected from the second deflector is reflected from the target object. The measuring unit measures a distance to the target object on the basis of the time taken since emission of the laser light to detection of the reflected light. The generating unit generates a three-dimensional model of the target object by using the measurement result.

Abstract: An estimating apparatus configured to estimate a correct attribute value is provided. The estimating apparatus extracts feature quantities from an image including a person, calculates a first likelihood of the feature quantity for respective attribute classes; calculating second likelihoods for the respective attribute classes from the first likelihoods for the respective attribute classes; specifies the attribute class having the highest second likelihood; calculates an estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class and estimated attribute values of selected classes by using the feature quantity; and applies the second likelihood on the estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class as a weight, applies the second likelihoods on the estimated attribute values of the selected classes as a weight and add the same, and calculates a corrected attribute value of the specific attribute class.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a measuring device includes a projector, an image capturing unit, a first calculator, a setting unit, and a second calculator. The projector projects, onto an object, a first pattern in which predetermined designs are distributed randomly and a second pattern in which a luminance value changes according to a sinusoidal wave function having a frequency. The image capturing unit captures a first image of the object onto which the first pattern is projected and a second image of the object onto which the second pattern is projected. The first calculator calculates a distance to the object by using the first pattern and the first image. The setting unit sets the frequency of a sinusoidal wave function by using the distance. The second calculator calculates a three-dimensional shape of the object by using the second pattern and the second image.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an identification device includes a feature calculator, an obtaining unit, and an identifying unit. The feature calculator is configured to calculate one or more captured-image features from a captured image. The obtaining unit is configured to, for each predetermined virtual image in map data, obtain identification information in which one or more virtual-image features of the each predetermined virtual image, virtual three-dimensional positions estimated to be image capturing positions of the virtual-image features, and degrees of suitability of the virtual-image features are associated with each other.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a first calculator, a second calculator, a determination unit, and an informing controller. The first calculator is configured to calculate a projection position on which the point is projected on each image obtained by an image-capturing unit, by using a direction, a first distance from a measurement unit to an irradiated point of an object, and calibration information between both units. The second calculator is configured to calculate a set of reprojection positions by reprojecting a three-dimensional position on each image. The determination unit is configured to extract, from the set, a reprojection position on an image containing the projection position calculated from the point measured and captured within a certain time period, and calculate a second distance between the reprojection and projection positions. The informing controller is configured to prompt to irradiate the object in a direction in which the second distance decreases.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes an input rotary member having a pressing portion, and an output rotary member having a receiving portion to be pressed by the pressing portion. The input rotary member forces the output rotary member to rotate when resilient members disposed between the input rotary member and the output rotary member are deformed by predetermined amounts.

Abstract: An imaging lens is formed from a first group lens having negative power, a second group lens having positive power, a third group lens having negative power, and a fourth group lens having positive power, disposed in order from the subject side to the image side. Letting f be the focal distance for the entire lens system and ff2 the focal distance for the second group lens, 1.0?ff2/f?2.0 is satisfied; therefore, the entire length of the lens system can be kept short and image curvature can be suppressed. In addition, each of the subject side lens surfaces and the image side lens surfaces for the second group lens, third group lens, and fourth group lens are provided with aspherical surface shapes; therefore, the imaging lens is constituted to be bright.

Abstract: An imaging lens is provided with: a first lens with negative power; a second lens with negative power; a third lens with positive power; and a fourth lens with positive power. The cemented fourth lens is formed from an object side lens with negative power and an image side lens with positive power. The thickness of a resin adhesive layer that bonds the object side lens and the image side lens is 20 ?m or greater on the optical axis, and when Sg1H is the amount of sag in the image side lens surface of the object side lens and Sg2H is the amount of sag in the object side lens surface of the image side lens. The bonding operation is easy without damage occurring to the cemented surfaces, with a design that takes into account thickness of the resin adhesive layer; therefore various forms of aberration can be corrected.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a measuring device includes an imaging unit to capture an object from a plurality of positions to obtain a plurality of images; a distance measuring unit to measure a distance to the object from each position to obtain a plurality of pieces of distance information; a position measuring unit to measure each position to obtain a plurality of pieces of position information; a first calculator to calculate three-dimensional data of the object using the images; a second calculator to calculate a degree of reliability of each piece of distance information and each piece of position information; and a estimating unit to, among the pieces of distance information and the pieces of position information, make use of such pieces of distance information and such pieces of position information which have the degree of reliability greater than a predetermined value to estimate the scale of the three-dimensional data.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a measurement device includes an image acquisition unit, a time acquisition unit, and first and second calculators. The image acquisition unit is configured to acquire a reference image that is of an object captured at a first viewpoint as well as a plurality of asynchronous images of the object each captured at a second viewpoint at a time different from when the reference image is captured. The time acquisition unit is configured to acquire an image capture time of the reference image and an image capture time of each asynchronous image. The first calculator is configured to calculate a difference in the image capture times between the reference image and each asynchronous image. The second calculator is configured to calculate a spatial position of the object based on the reference image, the asynchronous images, and a plurality of the differences in the image capture time.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a measuring device includes a projector, an image capturing unit, and a first calculator. The projector projects, onto a target, a first superimposed pattern which is obtained by superimposing a first pattern having a periodic change and a second pattern configured with a first design for specifying a period of the first pattern. The image capturing unit captures the target, onto which the first superimposed pattern is projected to obtain an image. The first calculator performs matching of the first design taken by the image capturing unit, which is included in the first superimposed pattern in the image, with the first design projected by the projecting unit, and calculates correspondence between a second superimposed pattern, which points to the first superimposed pattern captured in the image, and the first superimposed pattern.

Abstract: An estimating apparatus configured to estimate a correct attribute value is provided. The estimating apparatus extracts feature quantities from an image including a person, calculates a first likelihood of the feature quantity for respective attribute classes; calculating second likelihoods for the respective attribute classes from the first likelihoods for the respective attribute classes; specifies the attribute class having the highest second likelihood; calculates an estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class and estimated attribute values of selected classes by using the feature quantity; and applies the second likelihood on the estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class as a weight, applies the second likelihoods on the estimated attribute values of the selected classes as a weight and add the same, and calculates a corrected attribute value of the specific attribute class.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a measuring device includes a measuring unit, a capturing unit, an estimation unit, a calculator, and a detector. The estimation unit estimates, for each irradiated point, an estimated projection position on the image, using a direction and a distance of the irradiated point and calibration information based on calibration of a measuring unit and a capturing unit. The calculator calculates, for each irradiated point, an amount of change in reflection intensity and obtains a reflection intensity change point. The calculator calculates, for each estimated projection position, an amount of change in brightness and obtains a brightness change point. The detector detects a calibration shift between the measuring unit and the capturing unit by comparing the reflection intensity change point and the brightness change point.

Abstract: An example three-dimensional model generating device includes an emitting unit that emits a laser light and a first deflector that deflects laser light, whose emission direction rotates in a first rotation range, within a first scan plane. A second deflector deflects laser light, whose emission direction rotates in a second rotation range, within a second scan plane intersecting with the first scan plane. The detector detects a reflected light when laser light deflected from the first deflector is reflected from the target object or detects a reflected light when laser light deflected from the second deflector is reflected from the target object. The measuring unit measures a distance to the target object on the basis of the time taken since emission of the laser light to detection of the reflected light. The generating unit generates a three-dimensional model of the target object by using the measurement result.