Abstract: There is a possibility that an arrangement of a cleaning device and a drying device may result in an inefficient usage of a space for an installation. A cleaning and drying apparatus 30 for a plate including a biochip is provided with: a cleaning device 310 that is configured to clean the plate 60; and a drying device 320 that is configured to dry the plate 60, the drying device 320 is arranged above the cleaning device 310.

Abstract: To produce both 2D image data and color parallax image data from image data output from a single-plate image sensor, the resolutions of the 2D image data and parallax image data may be both degraded. The image sensor has a primitive lattice that is a group of pixels including (i) at least four types of parallax pixels formed by photoelectric converter elements each of which is associated with one of combinations of two different types of aperture masks and two different types of color filters and (ii) no-parallax pixels configured to guide an incident luminous flux to photoelectric converter elements without limitation. In the group of pixels, the no-parallax pixels are more than the parallax pixels.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed to obtain first image data including a first pixel value of a first pixel having a no-parallax opening corresponding to a reference direction, a second pixel value of a second pixel having a parallax opening that causes parallax in one direction and a third pixel value of a third pixel having a parallax opening that causes parallax in the opposite direction, to calculate, for a pixel position of the second pixel, a fourth pixel value by averaging the second pixel value at the pixel position and a hypothetical third pixel value and to calculate, for a pixel position of the third pixel, a fifth pixel value by averaging the third pixel value at the pixel position and a hypothetical second pixel value, and to use the first pixel value, the fourth pixel value and the fifth pixel value to produce 2D second image data.

Abstract: To produce both 2D image data and color parallax image data from image data output from a single-plate image sensor, the resolutions of the 2D image data and parallax image data may be both degraded. The image sensor has a primitive lattice that is a group of pixels including (i) at least four types of parallax pixels formed by photoelectric converter elements each of which is associated with one of combinations of two different types of aperture masks and two different types of color filters and (ii) no-parallax pixels configured to guide an incident luminous flux to photoelectric converter elements without limitation. In the group of pixels, the no-parallax pixels are more than the parallax pixels.

Abstract: To produce both 2D image data and color parallax image data from image data output from a single-plate image sensor, the resolutions of the 2D image data and parallax image data may be both degraded. The image sensor has a primitive lattice that is a group of pixels including (i) at least four types of parallax pixels formed by photoelectric converter elements each of which is associated with one of combinations of two different types of aperture masks and two different types of color filters and (ii) no-parallax pixels configured to guide an incident luminous flux to photoelectric converter elements without limitation. In the group of pixels, the no-parallax pixels are more than the parallax pixels.

Abstract: With a conventional stereoimage capturing device, it has been difficult to simply determine the present of a depth. An image capturing device includes an image capturing element in which a first parallax pixel group and a second parallax pixel group that output a first parallax image and a second parallax image, respectively, to cause a parallax are arranged at mutually different positions. The image capturing device computes a differential pixel value of each of a plurality of second parallax output pixels in the second parallax image positioned around a target pixel that is a first parallax output pixel of the first parallax image, the differential pixel value being computed with reference to the target pixel, and generates differential data in which a direction of each of the plurality of second parallax output pixels with reference to the target pixel is associated with the corresponding differential pixel value.

Abstract: So as to obtain color parallax images, it has been necessary to prepare an image capturing optical system and an image capturing element that are complex, to capture the parallax images. In view of this, provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image obtaining section that obtains original image data including a pixel having a pixel value of any of primary colors constituting colors of a subject image and a pixel having a pixel value showing at least a parallax of the subject image; and an image generating section that generates, from the original image data, primary color image data made up of pixels having the pixel value of the primary color, and parallax image data made up of pixels having the pixel value showing the parallax.

Abstract: Images can be processed using an image processing apparatus including: an image data obtaining section that obtains at least two pieces of parallax image data from an image capturing element that includes color filters and opening masks so that one color filter and one opening mask correspond to one of at least a part of photoelectric conversion elements and outputs the at least two pieces of parallax image data; and a correcting section that corrects color imbalance of a corresponding pixel caused between the at least two pieces of parallax image data, based on at least one of a position of the at least a part of photoelectric conversion elements in the image capturing element and an opening displacement of the opening mask.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided, that is configured to: extract a first pixel value corresponding to a first viewpoint that is one of a plurality of viewpoints to capture a subject image, at a target pixel position from image data having the first pixel value; extract second and third luminance values corresponding to second and third viewpoints that are different from the first viewpoint, at the target pixel position from luminance image data having the second and third luminance values; and calculate at least any of second and third pixel values of the second and third viewpoints such that a relational expression between the second or third pixel value and the first pixel value extracted by the pixel value extracting unit remains correlated with a relational expression defined by the second and third luminance values.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed to calculate a new pixel value of a particular color of second-viewpoint color image data in such a manner that a difference between the new pixel value of the particular color of the second viewpoint and the pixel value of the particular color of the first-viewpoint color image data maintains correlation with a sum of a difference between the pixel value of a first color component of the second-viewpoint color image data and the pixel value of the first color component of third-viewpoint color image data and a difference between the pixel value of a second color component of the second-viewpoint color image data and the pixel value of the second color component of the third-viewpoint color image data.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including an image generating section that generates first parallax image data based on the output of the first pixel and second parallax image data based on the output of the second pixel. When the imaging element captures an image of an object point located in an unfocused region on the optical axis, a pixel value of a center pixel corresponding to the optical axis in the first parallax image data is greater than or equal to 50% of a pixel value of a peak pixel in the first parallax image data, and a pixel value of a center pixel corresponding to the optical axis in the second parallax image data is greater than or equal to 50% of a pixel value of a peak pixel in the second parallax image data.

Abstract: So as to obtain color parallax images, it has been necessary to prepare an image capturing optical system and an image capturing element that are complex, to capture the parallax images. In view of the above, provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image obtaining section; a disparity amount operation section; and an image converting section.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging section that generates, from a single scene, captured image data including reference image data, first parallax image data having a first parallax in one direction relative to a subject of the reference image data, and second parallax image data having a second parallax in another direction that is opposite the one direction; an adjustment condition acquiring section that acquires an adjustment condition relating to parallax amount adjustment; and an image processing device that processes the reference image data, the first parallax image data, and the second parallax image data, based on the adjustment condition, to generate third parallax image data having a third parallax that is in the one direction and different from the first parallax and fourth parallax image data having a fourth parallax that is in the other direction and different from the second parallax.

Abstract: There is a possibility that an arrangement of a cleaning device and a drying device may result in an inefficient usage of a space for an installation. A cleaning and drying apparatus 30 for a plate including a biochip is provided with: a cleaning device 310 that is configured to clean the plate 60; and a drying device 320 that is configured to dry the plate 60, the drying device 320 is arranged above the cleaning device 310.

Abstract: An image capturing element comprising photoelectric converting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and photoelectrically convert incident light into an electric signal; aperture masks that correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements; and color filters that correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements. Among n adjacent photoelectric converting elements, where n is an integer no less than three, apertures of the aperture masks corresponding to at least three of the photoelectric converting elements are included within each pattern of a color filter pattern formed from at least two types of the color filters that respectively pass different wavelength bands, and are positioned to respectively pass light from different partial regions within a cross-sectional region of the incident light, and photoelectric converting element groups that are each formed of the n photoelectric converting elements are arranged in series.

Abstract: To obtain image data including a parallax in the vertical direction and image data including a parallax in the horizontal direction, it has been necessary to prepare imaging devices individually at the positions corresponding to the respective viewpoints. Hence, provided is an image processing element including: photoelectric converting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and convert incident light to electric signals, respectively; and aperture masks provided on the photoelectric converting elements, wherein photoelectric converting element groups each including n photoelectric converting elements are arranged cyclically where n is an integer equal to or larger than 4, and apertures in the aperture masks are positioned lopsidedly to be axisymmetric to each other with respect to each of two orthogonal axes defined on the two-dimensional arrangement of each photoelectric converting element group.

Abstract: This plate (100) is provided with a board (130) having a first surface, and partitioned member (120) in which a plurality of partitions are formed by dividing walls (22). Gaps (28) are formed to the first surface side between neighboring dividing walls (22). The ends of the dividing walls (22) at the gap (28) side have welded portions welded to the first surface of the board (130), the board (130) and the partitioned member (120) being welded at the welded portions.

Abstract: An image capture device includes: a plurality of microlenses; an image capture element in which a plurality of element groups including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that receive light fluxes and that output image signals are arranged; a generation unit that extracts a plurality of region image signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of different partial regions upon the pupil surface of the photographic optical system, and that generates a plurality of sets of image data corresponding to the partial regions as a plurality of sets of viewpoint image data whose viewpoint positions are different with each other; and a reception unit that receives a viewpoint number selection operation to select a number of viewpoints; wherein the generation unit generates the sets of viewpoint image data by extracting the region image signals whose number is equal to a number of selected viewpoints.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including an image generating section that generates first parallax image data based on the output of the first pixel and second parallax image data based on the output of the second pixel. When the imaging element captures an image of an object point located in an unfocused region on the optical axis, a pixel value of a center pixel corresponding to the optical axis in the first parallax image data is greater than or equal to 50% of a pixel value of a peak pixel in the first parallax image data, and a pixel value of a center pixel corresponding to the optical axis in the second parallax image data is greater than or equal to 50% of a pixel value of a peak pixel in the second parallax image data.

Abstract: A biochip fixing method includes: arranging a biochip on an object with a predetermined material interposed therebetween; and irradiating the predetermined material with energy waves via the object to fix the biochip to the object.