Abstract: Provided are a livestock sensor device, a livestock astasia inference method, a livestock astasia inference program, and a livestock management system that are capable of preventing damage to stockbreeders. According to an embodiment of the present technology, there is provided a livestock sensor device including a postural-state determination unit, a state inference unit, a transmission unit, and a casing. The postural-state determination unit determines in which of a prostrate state and a non-prostrate state a livestock animal has been on a basis of output values from an acceleration sensor. The state inference unit infers whether or not the livestock animal has developed astasia on a basis of a duration of the prostrate state. The transmission unit transmits, to a server, an astasia-notification data item indicating that an inference that the livestock animal has developed the astasia is made when the inference that the livestock animal has developed the astasia is made.

Abstract: An image data correcting apparatus includes: an image data obtaining section that obtains print image data representing a print image; an area designation receiving section that receives a designating operation to designate an area in the print image represented by the print image data; a density adjusting section that has an adjustment value designated through an operation for the printing density; a change estimating section that estimates a change in a print color in the printing system that is caused by the adjustment of the printing density with the use of the adjustment value; and a data correcting section that corrects the print image data to cancel the change estimated by the change estimating section in the area other than the designated region in the print image.

Abstract: An image data correcting apparatus includes: an image data obtaining section that obtains print image data representing a print image; an area designation receiving section that receives a designating operation to designate an area in the print image represented by the print image data; a density adjusting section that has an adjustment value designated through an operation for the printing density; a change estimating section that estimates a change in a print color in the printing system that is caused by the adjustment of the printing density with the use of the adjustment value; and a data correcting section that corrects the print image data to cancel the change estimated by the change estimating section in the area other than the designated region in the print image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a digital image providing system comprising a processing information obtaining device which obtains processing information for performing required image processing on an original image of a customer taken at a photo-studio, an encrypting device which encrypts the obtained processing information, a decrypting device which decrypts the encrypted processing information, and a device which records the original image of the customer and the encrypted processing information of the original image in association with each other on a recording medium to be provided for the customer or uploads them to a server accessible to the customer.

Abstract: An image processing method of digital images comprising the steps of: loading photographic conditions on a photo studio when photographing objects with a digital camera of the photo studio and RAW data before image processing obtained under the photographic conditions; performing to the RAW data a development including the image processing according to image processing conditions and generating processed image data; and obtaining image processing conditions for the development so as to provide a color property and a gradation property intended by the photo studio for an output image based on the processed image data, and storing the image processing conditions and the photographic conditions loaded with the RAW data so as to link the image processing conditions to the photographic conditions.

Abstract: Supplementary information related to original data is embedded in the original data without being lost or altered and without degrading the quality of the original data. A photographing condition regarding photographing of the original image data is generated as the supplementary information by supplementary information generating unit and stored on a network in a supplementary information database. Storage management information such as a URL address of where the supplementary information is stored is generated by storage management information generating unit and embedded the original image data by using deep layer encryption. The original image data in which the storage management information has been embedded are recorded in a recording medium. Since the storage management information has a smaller amount of data than the supplementary information, quality of the original data is not degraded even when the storage management information is embedded in the original image data.

Abstract: It is a digital photo print order acceptance method of separating a presentation and print order acceptance from a work flow of a photo studio so as to reduce a burden on the photo studio and allow a user to place a print order at any desirable time while viewing images matching with finished images of photo-prints. Original images of the user digitally shot at the photo studio are uploaded on a network server as unprocessed view images of a smaller image size than the original images. If image processing for proper printing is performed to the original images at the photo studio, image processing information indicating the image processing is transferred to the network server as supplementary information to the view images. The network server performs the image processing to the uploaded unprocessed view images based on the image processing information supplementary to the view images, renders image-processed view images viewable on a user terminal and accepts the print orders.

Abstract: A first relationship of correspondence from RGB data to colorimetric values is univalently determined by using an sRGB space, i.e., a standard space which is colorimetrically defined, and a second relationship of correspondence from CMYK data to the colorimetric values is determined. After K data among the CMYK data is constrained under a predetermined condition corresponding to saturation and lightness, an inverse relationship of correspondence from the colorimetric values to CMYK data is univalently determined. Further, a forward relationship of correspondence from the RGB data to the CMYK data is determined from the first relationship of correspondence and the inverse relationship of correspondence.

Abstract: Supplementary information related to original data is embedded in the original data without being lost or altered and without degrading the quality of the original data. A photographing condition or the like regarding photographing of the original image data is generated as the supplementary information by supplementary information generating means and stored in a database on a network by supplementary information storing means. Storage management information such as a URL address of where the supplementary information is stored is generated by storage management information generating means and embedded by embedding means in the original image data by using deep layer encryption. The original image data in which the storage management information has been embedded are recorded in a recording medium.

Abstract: To deeply encrypt and embed auxiliary information into image data, table generation means generates a table, based on a quantization error which occurs when image data S0 is converted from a first color space, to which the image data S0 belongs, to a second color space that is a destination of conversion. The table represents which color coordinate of a second color space a color coordinate of a first color space is mapped onto. In coding means, information H0 to be embedded is coded by referring to the table, whereby coded auxiliary information H1 is obtained. When the image data S0 is converted in color conversion means, the auxiliary information H1 is embedded into the quantization error, whereby image data S1 embedded with the auxiliary information H1 is obtained.

Abstract: The improved color reproduction data conversion method of the present invention comprises the steps of obtaining the color matching ink amounts of CMY colors being metamer with the calorimetric data as to a plurality of different amounts of K-plate; obtaining an achromatic amount from a total ink amount of CMYK for each amount of the K plate; obtaining an achromatic amount function for the amount of the K plate in the linear portion; generating a mapping function from the calorimetric data and the achromatic amount to the ink amounts of CMYK in the linear portion and obtaining a weighting coefficient for reflecting to the achromatic amount with the K plate control condition previously selected; determining the achromatic amount from the colorimetric data; and calculating ink amounts of CMYK from the achromatic amount and the calorimetric data with the use of the mapping function of the CMYK ink amount.

Abstract: Forward conversion functions for converting device data under output conditions into calorimetric values are determined, and an inverse conversion function with a remaining color other than three colors of the device data being fixed to a predetermined value is determined. Color data are converted between different output conditions using the forward conversion functions and the inverse conversion function.

Abstract: The present invention has as an object providing a color transforming method by which transformation can be effected easily making maximum use of the reproduction range and without causing any distortions in a color space while maintaining color and gradation balances between different conditions (of device, medium or reproducing condition) in different ranges of color reproduction, which has been difficult to satisfy in the prior art. This object can be attained by a color transforming method which performs color correction between reproduced images under different conditions.

Abstract: Color patches established at given intervals are calorimetrically measured to determine a relationship between color signals Y, M, C, a lightness index L*, and chromaticnesses a*, b*. The determined relationship is processed by a dual regression analysis to determine color signals to be interpolated with priority in the order in which changes in the indexes are progressively greater as a color signal changes. The color signals are then interpolated with priority in the above order, and a highly accurate color conversion table is generated.

Abstract: A reference chart of a target color is generated, and device data corresponding to calorimetric data of the reference chart are determined from color conversion data. A balance chart is generated on the basis of the device data and device data in the vicinity thereof. Patches of the balance chart which are visually color-matched to the reference chart are selected under desired observational conditions, and corrective data based on a deviational quantity between the device data of the selected patches and the device data to be color-matched to the reference chart. The color conversion data are corrected with the corrective data for thereby achieving visual color matching with respect to the target color.

Abstract: First colorimetric data with respect to device data C, M, Y with device data K=0 % are determined as a first color-predicting LUT, and second colorimetric data with respect to rough device data C, M, Y, K are determined as second color-predicting LUT. Third calorimetric data with respect to device data C, M, Y, K having the same device data K are predicted from the second colorimetric data. A third color-predicting LUT representing a relationship of the third colorimetric data to the device data C, M, Y, K is determined from the third calorimetric data. The first, second, and third color-predicting LUTs are established as a desired color-predicting conversion relationship.

Abstract: A color proof is generated as a hard copy approximating a printed color document by a color printer or as a displayed image approximating a printed color document by a color display monitor. A color shift produced by a filtering process which cuts off a spatial frequency response inherent in an image output device such as a color printer, a color display monitor, or the like while retaining a spatial frequency response inherent in a printing screen of a printed color document during an image structure simulation process is corrected by a color shift correcting LUT, and thereafter a color shift caused when a color digital printer is used is corrected by a color shift correcting LUT. A generated color proof accurately reproduces colors and image structure of the printed color document.

Abstract: YMCK halftone dot percentage data from an image editor are converted into color image data in an XYZ colorimetric system with a common color space conversion table generated by a common color space conversion table generator. The color image data are converted into a gamut mapping and appearance corresponding to an image monitor device with a gamut mapping/appearance table generated by a gamut mapping/appearance generator. Then, the color image data are converted into color image data in a device color space of an image output unit with a device color space conversion table generated by a device color space conversion table generator for thereby predicting a color image which will be reproduced by the image output unit.

Abstract: Image characteristics of a finally generated printed image that is reproduced from YMCK halftone dot percentage data from an image editor by an image output unit B are simulated highly accurately taking into account periodic noise and random noise, and the simulated image is outputted from an image output unit A. Specifically, the YMCK halftone dot percentage data from the image editor are converted into color image data corresponding to image characteristics of the image output unit B by an LUT combiner/converter, and periodic noise and random noise that can be produced by the image output unit B are applied to the color image data. The noise-applied color image data are then outputted from the image output unit A.

Abstract: A color space data conversion formula corresponding to the input and output conditions can be selected from basic profiles which consists of a plurality of the conversion formulas for color reproduction processes. A plurality of parameters or a plurality of variable conversion formulas can be selected from subprofiles, in accordance with the input and output conditions and on the ground of the color space data conversion formula selected from the basic profiles. Basic profiles or subprofiles can be added or modified. The color image data are processed highly accurately to obtain color images of high reproducibility, for thereby facilitating the setting of the input and output conditions.