Abstract: A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging a sample container containing a sample, recognize relevant information related to reliability of a test result related to the sample based on the image, and derive reliability information indicating the reliability of the test result related to the sample based on the recognized relevant information.

Abstract: A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging a sample container containing a sample, recognize relevant information related to reliability of a test result related to the sample based on the image, and derive reliability information indicating the reliability of the test result related to the sample based on the recognized relevant information.

Abstract: A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire a captured image obtained by imaging an outer surface of each of plural sample containers which contains a sample and in which discrimination information for discriminating a subject from whom the sample is collected is given to the outer surface, and associate a test result related to the sample contained in each of the sample containers with a test order in which information of a discrimination image including the discrimination information is registered in advance for each subject, based on the captured image and the test order.

Abstract: A medical report generation apparatus includes a key image selection unit that selects, as a key image representing a diagnostic characteristic feature, a slice image generated based on three-dimensional medical image data obtained by imaging a subject, a selected position input unit that inputs a selected position in the key image, a supplementary image determination unit that determines, based on the key image and the selected position, a slice image that includes the selected position and represents a cross section different from a cross section represented by the key image, as a supplementary image, in the three-dimensional medical image data, and a medical report generation unit that generates a medical report including the key image and information for identifying the supplementary image.

Abstract: In an image display method that performs a plurality of types of processing operations a plurality of times in total, each an arbitrary number of times and order, on an image and each time a processing operation is performed once, stores a history of the processing operation in a storage unit, thereby allowing a switching display of an image in reverse of the order of the processing operations performed the plurality of times based on the stored history, when performing the switching display, if an instruction to display a next image is given from the state in which an image immediately after the performance of a specific processing operation is displayed, an image immediately before the performance of the specific processing operation is not displayed and an image immediately before the performance of a different processing operation performed immediately before the specific processing operation is displayed.

Abstract: A medical report generation apparatus includes a key image selection unit that selects, as a key image representing a diagnostic characteristic feature, a slice image generated based on three-dimensional medical image data obtained by imaging a subject, a selected position input unit that inputs a selected position in the key image, a supplementary image determination unit that determines, based on the key image and the selected position, a slice image that includes the selected position and represents a cross section different from a cross section represented by the key image, as a supplementary image, in the three-dimensional medical image data, and a medical report generation unit that generates a medical report including the key image and information for identifying the supplementary image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining section for obtaining medical images that represent transverse cross sections of a subject, and a division line setting section, for setting division lines within each medical image that divide subject regions representing the subject front to back, such that thoracic bones in the front to back direction of the projection direction of the subject are not displayed in an overlapping manner within the pseudo three dimensional images. A pseudo three dimensional medical image generating section generates a first pseudo three dimensional medical image based image data representing subject regions toward first sides of the division lines within the medical images, and generates a second pseudo three dimensional medical image based on image data representing subject regions toward second sides of the division lines within the medical images, by executing intensity projection methods.

Abstract: In creating color conversion definition in which correspondence relation between coordinates in a first color space and coordinates in a second color space is defined, high-accuracy color conversion definition is created in a method with a high degree of freedom of a known-point pair and with high versatility. By solving a formula in which, for any two coordinate points in a first color space, mutual relation between coordinates in a second color space corresponding to the coordinates is generally specified, with data of points for which mutual relationship has been determined as a boundary condition, and with arbitrarily set nonlinearity added, each coordinate in the second color space corresponding to each coordinate in the first color space is calculated.

Abstract: An authentication apparatus and authentication method in which ID information and a registered facial characteristic amount of the principal and of an associated individual associated with the principal in advance are read out by the card reader. The principal and associated individual accompanying the principal are imaged by the imaging section, and a characteristic amount of each of them is calculated by a characteristic amount generating section based on the image data obtained. The registered and obtained characteristic amounts of each of them are compared by the characteristic amount matching level calculating section to calculate respective matching levels. The principal is initially authenticated by the authenticating section by comparing the matching level with a threshold level. If it is unsuccessful, the associated individual is authenticated in the similar way, and if it is successful, the principal is determined to be successfully authenticated.

Abstract: The method and system for generating texture of a target object acquire first information about a surface geometry and second information about a constituent material of the target object, and third information about a kind of incident light falling on a surface of the target object, preferably, from respective databases, calculates a intensity distribution of scattered light on the target object and in an area surrounding the target object using Maxwell's equations based on the first, the second and the third information, and calculates a two-dimensional intensity distribution of the scattered light at a specified angle to the surface of the target object as generated texture of the target object using the thus calculated intensity distribution of the scattered light.

Abstract: In an image conversion apparatus converts an input image having a process color component and a spot color component, which is represented by density data for colors, into a halftone dot image represented by halftone dot data for colors of process colors, first halftone dot providing means provides the process color component constituting the input image in form of a halftone dot expression using a predetermined halftone dot sort; spot color separating means separates the spot color component constituting the input image into the process colors; second halftone dot providing means provides the spot color component separated into the process colors by said spot color separating means in form of a halftone dot expression using a halftone dot sort different from the halftone dot sort used in said first halftone dot providing means; and halftone dot synthesizing means synthesizes the process color component provided in form of a halftone dot expression obtained in said first halftone dot providing means with the

Abstract: An authentication apparatus and authentication method in which ID information and a registered facial characteristic amount of the principal and of an associated individual associated with the principal in advance are read out by the card reader. The principal and associated individual accompanying the principal are imaged by the imaging section, and a characteristic amount of each of them is calculated by a characteristic amount generating section based on the image data obtained. The registered and obtained characteristic amounts of each of them are compared by the characteristic amount matching level calculating section to calculate respective matching levels. The principal is initially authenticated by the authenticating section by comparing the matching level with a threshold level. If it is unsuccessful, the associated individual is authenticated in the similar way, and if it is successful, the principal is determined to be successfully authenticated.

Abstract: During use of equipment by a user having qualifications to use the equipment, an image of the user is continuously photographed by a video camera. When the face of the user can no longer be detected from the image acquired by the camera, warning is issued through voice and screen display and the photographing of an image and the detection of a face are continued. When the face of the user cannot be detected within a predetermined amount of time (e.g., 10 seconds), the equipment is locked.

Abstract: In creating color conversion definition in which correspondence relation between coordinates in a first color space and coordinates in a second color space is defined, high-accuracy color conversion definition is created in a method with a high degree of freedom of a known-point pair and with high versatility. By solving a formula in which, for any two coordinate points in a first color space, mutual relation between coordinates in a second color space corresponding to the coordinates is generally specified, with data of points for which mutual relationship has been determined as a boundary condition, and with arbitrarily set nonlinearity added, each coordinate in the second color space corresponding to each coordinate in the first color space is calculated.

Abstract: A printed material to be folded a plurality of times is paginated by displaying an unfolded leaf and assigning page numbers to pages on the face and back of the unfolded leaf through computer processing. The number of rectangles corresponding to the number of pages in a matrix is designated on each of the face and back of the unfolded leaf. One of the rectangles is determined as a 1st page on either one of the face and back of the unfolded leaf, and the rectangle on the reverse side which corresponds to the 1st page is determined as a 2nd page. One of the rectangles which will face the 2nd page when the leaf is folded once is determined as a 3rd page. The rectangle on the reverse side which corresponds to the 3rd page is determined as a 4th page. One of the rectangles which will face the 4th page when the leaf is folded twice is determined as a 5th page, and the rectangle on the reverse side which corresponds to the 5th page is determined as a 6th page.

Abstract: The method and system for generating texture of a target object acquire first information about a surface geometry and second information about a constituent material of the target object, and third information about a kind of incident light falling on a surface of the target object, preferably, from respective databases, calculates a intensity distribution of scattered light on the target object and in an area surrounding the target object using Maxwell's equations based on the first, the second and the third information, and calculates a two-dimensional intensity distribution of the scattered light at a specified angle to the surface of the target object as generated texture of the target object using the thus calculated intensity distribution of the scattered light.

Abstract: An authentication system is provided that can carry out accurate authentication efficiently. The authentication system includes the first imaging device, provided in a path of a passerby, for capturing the first authentication image of the passerby; the second imaging device for capturing the second authentication image of said passerby to contain the larger amount of information than the first authentication image, the second imaging device being provided in the path of the passerby in such a manner that the passerby passes by the first imaging device and the second imaging device in that order; the first authentication unit for carrying out the first authentication of the passerby; and the second authentication unit for carrying out the second authentication of the passerby based on the result of the first authentication and the second authentication image.

Abstract: In a halftone dot image display unit, a desired position on a multi-tone level image displayed on the display screen and a size of the peripheral area are designated, and the partial halftone dot image data representative of the partial halftone dot image is generated from the partial multi-tone level image data representative of the partial multi-tone level image within the peripheral area of the designated position. The partial halftone dot image represented by the partial halftone dot image data is displayed on the display screen.

Abstract: In an image conversion apparatus converts an input image having a process color component and a spot color component, which is represented by density data for colors, into a halftone dot image represented by halftone dot data for colors of process colors, first halftone dot providing means provides the process color component constituting the input image in form of a halftone dot expression using a predetermined halftone dot sort; spot color separating means separates the spot color component constituting the input image into the process colors; second halftone dot providing means provides the spot color component separated into the process colors by said spot color separating means in form of a halftone dot expression using a halftone dot sort different from the halftone dot sort used in said first halftone dot providing means; and halftone dot synthesizing means synthesizes the process color component provided in form of a halftone dot expression obtained in said first halftone dot providing means with the

Abstract: In a halftone dot image display unit, a desired position on a multi-tone level image displayed on the display screen and a size of the peripheral area are designated, and the partial halftone dot image data representative of the partial halftone dot image is generated from the partial multi-tone level image data representative of the partial multi-tone level image within the peripheral area of the designated position. The partial halftone dot image represented by the partial halftone dot image data is displayed on the display screen.