Abstract: An electric tool system includes an electric tool device and a camera device. The electric tool device has a drive unit and an electric tool communication unit. The drive unit performs tightening work of tightening a tightening component to a work target. The electric tool communication unit performs communication with outside. The camera device has a fixing unit, an image capturing unit, and a camera communication unit. The fixing unit is removably attached to the electric tool device. The image capturing unit captures an image of at least the work target. The camera communication unit performs communication with the outside.

Abstract: A decision system includes an identifier and a decider. The identifier identifies, based on a captured image generated by an image capturing unit attached to a tool, a work target shot as a subject of the captured image as one of a plurality of work targets. The decider decides whether a first work target included in the plurality of work targets is a mistakable work target by comparing, by reference to at least one reference image, the first work target with a second work target also included in the work targets. If the second work target is similar to the first work target, the second work target makes the first work target the mistakable work target difficult to identify based on the captured image. The at least one reference image belongs to a plurality of reference images corresponding one to one to the plurality of work targets.

Abstract: A tool system includes a tool, an image capturing unit, a processing unit, and a set state detection unit. The tool is a portable tool including a driving unit to be activated with power supplied from a power source. The image capturing unit is provided for the tool and generates a captured image. The processing unit intermittently performs identification processing of identifying a work target based on the captured image. The set state detection unit detects a state where the tool is set in place on the work target.

Abstract: A tool system includes an image capturing unit, a storage unit, a class identifier, and a spot determiner. The image capturing unit shoots a work spot of a target article and thereby generates captured image data. The storage unit stores a plurality of reference image data items with the plurality of reference image data items classified into multiple groups according to respective classes of the plurality of articles. The class identifier acquires identification information to identify the class of the target article. The spot determiner determines the work spot shot by the image capturing unit by comparing the captured image data with one of the plurality of reference image data items, which belongs to one of the multiple groups that is associated with the class of the target article identified by reference to the identification information.

Abstract: A tool system is used for a plurality of tools. Each of the plurality of tools is a portable tool and includes: a driving unit to be activated with power supplied from a power source; and an image capturing unit. The tool system includes a reference image generating unit and an output unit. The reference image generating unit generates, based on a second captured image, a reference image to be compared with a first captured image. The first captured image is shot, while a current work target is being identified, by the image capturing unit. The second captured image is also shot by the image capturing unit. The output unit makes a display unit display the second captured image while the reference image generating unit is generating the reference image.

Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging apparatus provided with: a light irradiation unit which irradiates a target area with light; a differential image generation unit which generates a differential image between a first image which was taken in synchronization with the irradiation period during which the light irradiation unit irradiates the light and a second image which was taken outside the irradiation period; a transmittance estimation unit which estimates the light transmittance of an object in the target area; and a light exposure adjustment unit which adjusts the exposure based on the estimation result from the transmittance estimation unit. The transmittance estimation unit estimates the transmittance of the object from at least one of the first image, the second image, and the differential image.

Abstract: The object detection device according to the present invention includes: an image obtainer configured to obtain, from a camera for taking images of a predetermined image sensed area, the images of the predetermined image sensed area at a predetermined time interval sequentially; a difference image creator configured to calculate a difference image between images obtained sequentially by the image obtainer; and a determiner configured to determine whether each of a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing the difference image in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction is a motion region in which a detection target in motion is present or a rest region in which an object at rest is present. The determiner is configured to determine, with regard to each of the plurality of blocks, whether a block is the motion region or the rest region, based on pixel values of a plurality of pixels constituting this block.

Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging apparatus provided with: a light irradiation unit which irradiates a target area with light; a differential image generation unit which generates a differential image between a first image which was taken in synchronization with the irradiation period during which the light irradiation unit irradiates the light and a second image which was taken outside the irradiation period; a transmittance estimation unit which estimates the light transmittance of an object in the target area; and a light exposure adjustment unit which adjusts the exposure based on the estimation result from the transmittance estimation unit. The transmittance estimation unit estimates the transmittance of the object from at least one of the first image, the second image, and the differential image.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize an image processing technique of making chromatic aberration correction excellently function and capable of efficiently correcting a chromatic aberration and to reduce storage capacity of parameters used for the chromatic aberration correction. It is constructed so that an image processing unit concurrently performs a chromatic aberration correcting process of correcting a chromatic aberration by an image capturing optical system and a color interpolating process of interpolating a dropout color component pixel by pixel on an image signal obtained from an image capturing device. On the basis of position information of a pixel to be processed obtained from the image processing unit, a control unit determines an image filter to be applied to the pixel. For example, an image filter is generated by combining a filter for chromatic aberration correction and a filter for color interpolating process.

Abstract: An image of which restoration degree is determined based on the difference between each pixel and a neighboring pixel of the pixel in a light receiving element array 101 is divided into a plurality of areas based on the determined restoration degree, and the areas of the image are each restored in accordance with the determined restoration degree. By doing this, not only ringing and noise enhancement can effectively be suppressed but also the border between the areas which is conspicuous when the image is divided into two kinds of areas becomes less conspicuous, so that a natural restored image can be obtained.

Abstract: An image acquired by an image sensor is recorded, and the blur amount of the recorded image is changed in accordance with a blur amount determined beforehand.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus for performing image restoration by utilizing iterative calculations based on a captured degraded image and a degradation function obtained in or before photographing, a residual is calculated in each time of iteration in the iterative calculations and the rate of variation from the previous residual to the newly obtained residual is calculated. When the rate of variation of the residual becomes equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold value, it is judged that the iterative calculations are converged.

Abstract: An image taking apparatus includes an image sensor which picks up an image of a photographic object and a selector which selects a first photographing mode or a second photographing mode and a controller. The second photographing mode is a mode for composing a plurality of picked-up images to create a composite image. The controller makes the image sensor pickup a photographic object image on the first photographing condition when the first photographing mode is selected by the selector, and makes the image sensor pick up a plurality of images of photographic objects on the second photographing condition different from said first photographing condition when the second photographing mode is selected by the selector.

Abstract: A shot image degraded by an asymmetric degrading filter is corrected, the corrected shot image is modified into an updated image, the updated image is degraded by use of the degradation function obtained at the time of shooting, and the residual between the degraded modified image and the shot image is calculated. Then, with the modified image as a new image to be processed, the image modification and update, the image degradation and the residual calculation are iterated until the calculated residual is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. When the residual is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, the corresponding updated image is used as the restored image.

Abstract: Provided is a digital camera in which the user can easily recognize that an image is out of focus by viewing a display image. At the time of live view display, image capturing is performed every predetermined time in an image capturing unit 3 and images for live view display are successively recorded on an image memory 209. An evaluation value computing unit 230 in an overall control unit 211 obtains an image stored in the image memory 209 and calculates an evaluation value indicative of the focus state of the image. A display image control unit 240 obtains the evaluation value, determines a focus state of the image, and controls a process to be performed by a display image processing unit 250 in accordance with the result of determination. When the image is out of focus, an image quality degrading process is performed in the display image processing unit 250 and an image of low image quality is displayed on a display 10.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize an image processing technique of making chromatic aberration correction excellently function and capable of efficiently correcting a chromatic aberration and to reduce storage capacity of parameters used for the chromatic aberration correction. It is constructed so that an image processing unit concurrently performs a chromatic aberration correcting process of correcting a chromatic aberration by an image capturing optical system and a color interpolating process of interpolating a dropout color component pixel by pixel on an image signal obtained from an image capturing device. On the basis of position information of a pixel to be processed obtained from the image processing unit, a control unit determines an image filter to be applied to the pixel. For example, an image filter is generated by combining a filter for chromatic aberration correction and a filter for color interpolating process.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a technique of interpolating a green signal efficiently with excellent reproducibility of a high frequency pattern while suppressing an interpolation error. A process of interpolating a green signal in an image signal outputted from a CCD image pickup device 13 having a Bayer pattern is performed. A G signal interpolating unit 21 extracts green light sensing pixels of total n pieces (where n denotes an integer of four or larger) which include two nearest neighbor green light sensing pixels in an oblique direction and exist in the same direction from a green image signal obtained from the CCD image pickup device 13. The (n−1)th order function for approximating the illumination distribution of a green image received by the n green light sensing pixels is set, and the signal value of a pixel to be interpolated which is positioned in the same direction as the n pixels is derived from the (n−1)th order function.

Abstract: The present invention provides a digital camera capable of performing shading correction more easily. Two images PA1 and PB1 of the same subject are captured while changing the aperture. The shading states of the captured two images PA1 and PB1 are different from each other. A shading correction factor (correction information) is obtained by using the image PB1 in which shading is hardly generated, and the shading in the image PA1 is corrected on the basis of the shading correction factor. It is also possible to correct shading by using two images while changing a focal length or two images captured while changing the presence/absence of electronic flash light.

Abstract: An image of which restoration degree is determined based on the difference between each pixel and a neighboring pixel of the pixel in a light receiving element array 101 is divided into a plurality of areas based on the determined restoration degree, and the areas of the image are each restored in accordance with the determined restoration degree. By doing this, not only ringing and noise enhancement can effectively be suppressed but also the border between the areas which is conspicuous when the image is divided into two kinds of areas becomes less conspicuous, so that a natural restored image can be obtained.

Abstract: Provided is a digital camera in which the user can easily recognize that an image is out of focus by viewing a display image. At the time of live view display, image capturing is performed every predetermined time in an image capturing unit 3 and images for live view display are successively recorded on an image memory 209. An evaluation value computing unit 230 in an overall control unit 211 obtains an image stored in the image memory 209 and calculates an evaluation value indicative of the focus state of the image. A display image control unit 240 obtains the evaluation value, determines a focus state of the image, and controls a process to be performed by a display image processing unit 250 in accordance with the result of determination. When the image is out of focus, an image quality degrading process is performed in the display image processing unit 250 and an image of low image quality is displayed on a display 10.