Abstract: An endoscope system includes a light source unit, an image sensor, an image signal obtaining section, a vessel position signal generator, a vessel width signal generator, and a vessel image signal generator. The light source unit generates illumination light. The image sensor captures an image of an object of interest irradiated with the illumination light. The image signal obtaining section obtains an image signal, which represents the object, from the image sensor. The vessel position signal generator generates a vessel position signal, which represents the position of a blood vessel of the object, from the image signal. The vessel width signal generator generates a vessel width signal, which represents the width of the blood vessel, from the image signal. The vessel image signal generator generates a vessel image signal, which represents the blood vessel, from the vessel position signal and the vessel width signal.

Abstract: An endoscope system comprises an LED light source unit, an image sensor, an imaging distance calculator and a light source controller. The LED light source unit generates illumination light. The image sensor has a blue pixel, a green pixel, a red pixel and a specific pixel receiving at least light in a blue wavelength band and a green wavelength light, and images an observation object by reflected light of the illumination light from the observation object. The imaging distance calculator calculates an imaging distance that is a distance between the image sensor and the observation object. The light source controller controls the light source unit to increase a component of the blue wavelength band or the green wavelength band included in the illumination light according to the imaging distance.

Abstract: There is provided an image detecting system including an image detecting section that detects a moving image of an examination subject into which a radiopaque contrast medium flows through one of an artery and a portal vein, and a change image generating section that generates a change image representing a change in the moving image. Here, the change is caused by movement of the radiopaque contrast medium after a timing at which the radiopaque contrast medium that has flown into one of the artery and the portal vein flows into capillaries.

Abstract: A printing order reception apparatus includes display means for carrying out various kinds of display, input means for carrying out various kinds of input, and a plurality of types of slots for inserting therein various types of media each storing an image and equipment including a medium storing an image. In the case where a medium or equipment is inserted into a specific one of the plurality of types of slots, processing for printing the image stored in the medium or the medium included in the equipment is switched between execution of printing processing according to a predetermined printing condition and execution of printing processing according to a printing condition different from the predetermined printing condition. Then, processing for printing the image is carried out according to the switched printing condition.

Abstract: When the same subject is to be imaged consecutively plural times, a radiation imaging device is controlled so as to change an imaging time interval between respective imagings according to a set imaging region of the subject. When a chest portion of a subject is to be imaged, a control section designates an image obtained at a second imaging as an image for diagnosis, image quality correction processing is not performed at a first imaging, and an imaging time interval is greatly reduced compared to when other regions are imaged, thereby reducing motion artifacts of an energy subtraction image. When regions other than a chest region are imaged, the control section designates an image obtained at a first imaging as an image for diagnosis, performs image quality correction processing at the first imaging, and an imaging time interval is increased compared to when the chest region is imaged.

Abstract: A print order can be placed easily by use of a printing order reception apparatus. A printing order reception apparatus 1 has slots 3A to 3F for inserting therein various types of recording media and a digital camera including a recording medium. When the digital camera is inserted in the slot 3A therefor, printing processing is carried out according to a predetermined printing condition. When a recording medium is inserted in a corresponding one of the remaining slots, ordinary printing processing is executed wherein a user specifies an image to print, a print size, and a quantity.

Abstract: A print order can be placed easily by use of a printing order reception apparatus. A printing order reception apparatus 1 has slots 3A to 3F for inserting therein various types of recording media and a digital camera including a recording medium. When the digital camera is inserted in the slot 3A therefor, printing processing is carried out according to a predetermined printing condition. When a recording medium is inserted in a corresponding one of the remaining slots, ordinary printing processing is executed wherein a user specifies an image to print, a print size, and a quantity.

Abstract: An analyzing means first calculates the blur direction and blur level of a digital photograph image based on edge widths and histograms of the edge widths obtained in each direction, and discriminates whether the image is a blurred image or a normal image. Then, it further calculates the camera shake level and blur width for the image discriminated to be a blurred image. A parameter setting means sets a one-dimensional correction mask and a two-dimensional correction mask based on the blur width. It also sets a correction level based on the blur level. It further makes an adjustment to the ratio between the one-dimensional and two-dimensional correction masks based on the camera shake level.

Abstract: A radiation image photographing apparatus capable of easily obtaining a high quality long length image representing the entirety of a subject by combining a plurality of images, without a noticeable step density difference at a joint, obtained by serially radiographing a plurality of adjacent areas of the subject using the same radiation source and the same radiation image detector, in which a photographing condition for performing each radiographing is obtained by a photographing condition obtaining unit, a photographable width in a long length direction in each radiographing is obtained by a photographable range obtaining unit from the photographing condition, and the plurality of areas of the subject is allocated by an allocation unit such that a photographing width in the long length direction in each radiographing does not exceed the photographable width.

Abstract: Saturation to white and fading of subjects' faces are prevented when performing density correction on digital images. An average signal value, obtained from a photographic image, is compared against a predetermined reference value, to judge whether correction is to be administered to brighten or darken the photographic image. A corrected image constituted by corrected signal values, which are obtained by correcting the pixel signal values of the photographic image with a predetermined correction amount, is generated only in cases that it is judged that correction to brighten the photographic image is to be administered. At this time, if the brightness represented by signal values of pixels of the photographic image are greater than or equal to a predetermined brightness, the correction amount is gradually reduced as the signal values become brighter.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes a radiation source; a radiation conversion panel for outputting a radiation image corresponding to radiation received from the radiation source; an image processing section for generating a processed radiation image; a radiation focused grid arranged to cover a radiation receiving surface of the radiation conversion panel; a moving mechanism for moving the grid in a predetermined direction along the radiation receiving surface of the radiation conversion panel; and a switching mechanism for setting said moving mechanism to change movement speed of the grid for each of a plurality of images when taking the plurality of radiation images.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes a radiation source; a radiation conversion panel for outputting a radiation image corresponding to radiation received from the radiation source; an image processing section for performing image processing on the radiation images supplied from the radiation conversion panel; a radiation focused grid arranged to cover a radiation receiving surface of the radiation conversion panel; a moving mechanism for moving the grid; and a switching mechanism for setting the moving mechanism a first mode for imaging as the grid moves unidirectionally for each of the radiation images or a second mode for imaging as the grid moves in an opposite direction to the unidirectional direction for each of the radiation image, when taking the radiation images.

Abstract: A blur checking region is determined by selecting a region in which a blur tends to clearly appear in a digital photograph image as the blur checking region. Then, an image of a region corresponding to the blur checking region is obtained as a checking image in a corrected image obtained by performing blur correction processing on the digital photograph image. Then, the obtained checking image is displayed in a size appropriate for the resolution of a display device.

Abstract: Edges are efficiently extracted from digital photographic images. A reduction rate determining means determines reduction rates for images, such that larger images are assigned higher reduction intensities. A reduction executing means reduces an image, employing the reduction rate determined by the reduction rate determining means, to obtain a reduced image. An edge detecting means extracts edges in eight directions from the reduced image. Coordinate positions of the edges in each directions are obtained, and output to an edge profile generating means.

Abstract: A print order can be placed easily by use of a printing order reception apparatus. A printing order reception apparatus 1 has slots 3A to 3F for inserting therein various types of recording media and a digital camera including a recording medium. The slot 3A for the digital camera has a changeover switch 4 for switching between ordinary printing processing executed at a first position thereof and printing processing according to a predetermined printing condition executed at a second position thereof. When the digital camera is inserted in the slot 3A in a state where the changeover switch 4 is at the second position, the printing processing is carried out according to the predetermined printing condition. When the changeover switch 4 is at the first position, the ordinary printing processing is executed wherein a user specifies an image to print, a print size, and a quantity.

Abstract: When the same subject is to be imaged consecutively plural times, a radiation imaging device is controlled so as to change an imaging time interval between respective imagings according to a set imaging region of the subject. When a chest portion of a subject is to be imaged, a control section designates an image obtained at a second imaging as an image for diagnosis, image quality correction processing is not performed at a first imaging, and an imaging time interval is greatly reduced compared to when other regions are imaged, thereby reducing motion artifacts of an energy subtraction image. When regions other than a chest region are imaged, the control section designates an image obtained at a first imaging as an image for diagnosis, performs image quality correction processing at the first imaging, and an imaging time interval is increased compared to when the chest region is imaged.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an imaging method and apparatus that provide facility to verify focus condition of images obtained without missing the chance of snapping a shot. A series of image data sets are obtained by an imaging device through a consecutive imaging method or the like, and stored in a storage device. The plurality of image data sets is displayed sequentially on an LCD monitor, and a region of a predetermined range extracted. The image data set corresponding to the extracted region of the predetermined range is enlarged in an enlarging device to obtain an enlarged image data set. A display controller sequentially displays the enlarged image data sets on the LCD monitor. In this fashion, the defocused levels of the images, that is, whether or not the images are in focus, can be verified in an unhurried manner after the image data sets are obtained.

Abstract: An analyzing means first calculates the blur direction and blur level of a digital photograph image based on edge widths and histograms of the edge widths obtained in each direction, and discriminates whether the image is a blurred image or a normal image. Then, it further calculates the camera shake level and blur width for the image discriminated to be a blurred image. A parameter setting means sets a one-dimensional correction mask and a two-dimensional correction mask based on the blur width. It also sets a correction level based on the blur level. It further makes an adjustment to the ratio between the one-dimensional and two-dimensional correction masks based on the camera shake level.

Abstract: There is provided an image detecting system including an image detecting section that detects a moving image of an examination subject into which a radiopaque contrast medium flows through one of an artery and a portal vein, and a change image generating section that generates a change image representing a change in the moving image. Here, the change is caused by movement of the radiopaque contrast medium after a timing at which the radiopaque contrast medium that has flown into one of the artery and the portal vein flows into capillaries.

Abstract: An image of a region in which a blur tends to clearly appear is extracted from a digital photograph image as a blur checking regional image. Then, the extracted blur checking regional image is displayed in a size appropriate for the resolution of a display device.