Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging apparatus including: a spectroscopic measurement section configured to measure a spectral characteristic of a subject; a spectral image capture section configured to capture a subject image separated into a plurality of colors through color separation to create a plurality of spectral images; and a color separation characteristic determining section configured to determine a color separation characteristic to be used for image capturing of the spectral image capture section, based on the spectral characteristic of the subject measured by the spectroscopic measurement section. The color separation characteristic determining section determines a count of color separations in the image capturing of the spectral image capture section and spectral bands corresponding to each of the color separations.

Abstract: A microscope system includes: a microscope that generates an observation image of a specimen; an image obtaining unit that obtains an RGB image of the specimen; a spectroscopic information obtaining unit that obtains spectroscopic information of the specimen; an analyzer that analyzes the RGB image; a determining unit that determines a necessity of obtaining the spectroscopic information based on a result of the analysis of the analyzer; and a control unit that controls an operation of the spectroscopic information obtaining unit based on a result of the determination of the determining unit.

Abstract: A microscope system includes a microscope apparatus, a pigment content converter, a property information adding unit, and a communication unit. The microscope apparatus acquires, by using a microscope, a pathology specimen image of a pathology specimen stained with a predetermined pigment. The pigment content converter converts, by using pigment spectral data, pixel values of the pathology specimen image to the pigment content at corresponding sample points on the pathology specimen. The property information adding unit generates conversion image data by adding the pigment spectral data, which is used for the conversion, to the pigment content of each pixel that is converted by the pigment content converter. The communication unit transmits the conversion image data to a terminal device.

Abstract: An imaging device 11, in which photoelectric conversion is performed by an imaging element 16 for acquiring an image of a subject formed by the photographing lens 12, comprising a light source estimation unit 31 for generating estimated light source information for estimating a light source of the subject, on the basis of an image signal acquired by the imaging device 16; an light source sensor 18 for detecting a spectrum of the light source; a light source sensor information calculation unit 32 for generating a light source sensor information including the spectrum based on the spectrum; a color conversion parameter calculation unit 33 for calculating the color conversion parameters of the image signal based on the estimated light source information and the light source sensor information; and, a color conversion processing unit 34 for performing color conversion of the image signal by using the color conversion parameters.

Abstract: The invention provides a multiband image pickup method and device with good color reproducibility, which is capable of imaging a subject with a number of imaging bands of not less than 4 colors and obtain a color image of not less than 3 colors without lowering spatial resolution. A first imaging of a subject image is performed by a single-plate imaging device having a color filter composed of 5 colors of R, O, G, C and B. A control unit shifts the imaging element by a shift drive unit so that each light having formed an image on the each filter of R, B and G of the color filters forms an image on a position of the each filter of O, C and G of the color filters and, thereafter a second imaging is performed. A image processing unit generates 2 3-band Bayer images based on captured images obtained by the first imaging and the second imaging, and generates a multiband image of not less than 3 colors from them.

Abstract: An imaging device 11, in which photoelectric conversion is performed by an imaging element 16 for acquiring an image of a subject formed by the photographing lens 12, comprising a light source estimation unit 31 for generating estimated light source information for estimating a light source of the subject, on the basis of an image signal acquired by the imaging device 16; an light source sensor 18 for detecting a spectrum of the light source; a light source sensor information calculation unit 32 for generating a light source sensor information including the spectrum based on the spectrum; a color conversion parameter calculation unit 33 for calculating the color conversion parameters of the image signal based on the estimated light source information and the light source sensor information; and, a color conversion processing unit 34 for performing color conversion of the image signal by using the color conversion parameters.

Abstract: A color conversion signal, which is determined on the basis of an image signal of the object, color reproduction characteristic information, which is information obtained at the time of image capture of the object, and a spectrum of the observation illumination light is converted into an image signal reflecting a luminance value of the object when observed under the observation illumination light on the basis of the luminance value of the observation illumination light, the luminance value of the imaging illumination light, and the information relating to the light reception condition.

Abstract: In the surface of a lower die 104 in a resin sealing mold, a region where an external leads 18 of a lead frame 12 and its peripheral regions having a width of 0.1 mm are mirror-finished to form a mirror-face region 22. The other region than the mirror-face region is subjected to discharging processing to form a satin-finished region 24. The resin-sealing mold having such a structure permits a package to be smoothly released and prevents resin from remaining.