Abstract: An electronic device comprises a light-emitting information receiving circuit and a color correction processing circuit. The light-emitting information receiving circuit is configured to be electrically connected to a color correction detection device to receive light-emitting information of an external flash detected by the color correction detection device. The color correction processing circuit is electrically connected to the light-emitting information receiving circuit to perform color correction processing according to the light-emitting information so as to generate color correction result information, the color correction result information being configured to be transmitted to the external flash to correct the light emission of the external flash. Moreover, provided is a color correction system of the external flash.

Abstract: A system may have electronic devices with wireless communications circuitry. Devices may have cameras for capturing images. Images may be shared between nearby devices. A first device may wirelessly send an image capture request to a second device. In response to assent to the image capture request, a camera application may be launched on the second device. Upon capturing an image with a camera in the second device in response to user input to the camera application or receipt of a remote image capture command from the first device, the second device may automatically send the captured image to the first device and delete the captured image from the second device. Arrangements in which users are provided with images from a public camera system on a stationary or mobile platform and in which users at an event share images from their cameras are also provided.

Abstract: Photographing parameter(s) include a parameter(s) relating to exposure time and diaphragm, and is used upon capturing an image of a target. A database stores a table indicating a relationship between a value(s) of the photographing parameter(s) and a recognition accuracy threshold that is used upon determining a result of recognition. The recognition accuracy threshold associated with received photographing parameter(s) is extracted from the database, and the image is received. Recognition of the target is performed from the received image in accordance with recognition accuracy threshold.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus including a pixel array comprising two or more photo-sensor elements, a first optical filter disposed on a first photo-sensor element of the pixel array and a second optical filter disposed on a second photo-sensor element of the pixel array. The first optical filter is configured such that a spectral response of the first optical filter includes a first passband in a first wavelength range and a second passband in a second wavelength range, where the first passband and the second passband are separated by a first stop band. The second optical filter is configured such that a spectral response of the second optical filter includes a third passband in the first wavelength range and a fourth passband in the second wavelength range, where the third passband and the fourth passband are separated by a second stop band.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at an image glare reduction system, an indication to capture an image using a user device; determining, using the image glare reduction system, a function of the user device may cause glare in the image; and modifying, using the image glare reduction system and in response to the determining the function may cause glare, an attribute of the user device, wherein the modifying occurs during a shutter operation of the user device occurring during capture of the image.

Abstract: A passive flash system for illuminating images being captured on a user device while maintaining preview of the content being captured. The passive flash system can display a portion of a screen in as an elevated brightness element that is brighter than the content being captured. The elevated brightness element can surround or overlap the content being captured to passively increase the lighting of the imaged environment.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to transform matrices into a row-interleaved format. In one example, a processor includes fetch and decode circuitry to fetch and decode an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of source and destination matrices, wherein the opcode indicates that the processor is to transform the specified source matrix into the specified destination matrix having the row-interleaved format; and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction by transforming the specified source matrix into the specified RowInt-formatted destination matrix by interleaving J elements of each J-element sub-column of the specified source matrix in either row-major or column-major order into a K-wide submatrix of the specified destination matrix, the K-wide submatrix having K columns and enough rows to hold the J elements.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, a first detection unit configured to detect a first region corresponding to a first feature from the image, a second detection unit configured to detect a second region corresponding to a second feature from the image, a measurement unit configured to perform photometric measurement on the first region and the second region, a determination unit configured to determine an exposure based on a weighted average of a first photometric value of the first region that is acquired by the measurement unit and a second photometric value of the second region that is acquired by the measurement unit before the first photometric value is acquired, and an output unit configured to output information about the exposure.

Abstract: A pigment detection method includes: extracting a first image from a to-be-detected RGB skin image, where the first image is used to represent a body reflection component in the RGB skin image, and the RGB skin image is photographed by a device having an RGB image photographing function; extracting a pigment from an R channel, a B channel, and a G channel of the first image based on a correspondence between a first spectral response curve of the pigment and a second spectral response curve of the device having the RGB image photographing function; and generating a pseudo-color image based on the extracted pigment, and displaying the pseudo-color image.

Abstract: An apparatus that is capable of displaying a good live view image even during continuous emission photographing. The apparatus includes a sensor, a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to obtain a display image cyclically using the sensor, and obtain a flash control image accompanied with a pre-emission of a first flash unit using the sensor at a non-accumulation timing at which the sensor does not perform charge accumulation for cyclic obtainment of the display image.

Abstract: A tissue detection system and methods for use thereof are provided. The tissue detection system facilitates stimulating fluorescence via illumination in an area or areas of interest in the human body, detecting non-visible or not easily visible areas of interest subject to such stimulation, and identifying these areas of interest efficiently. The tissue detection system can employ a probe for facilitating illumination/stimulation of a tissue of interest, at least one emitter for generating radiation applied to the tissue of interest, and at least one detector for capturing radiation for the fluorescing tissues of interest.

Abstract: A digital photographing device is provided. The digital photographing device can be operated in at least two manual focus modes to provide at least two different common focus lengths. The user can select a suitable manual focus mode from the at least two manual focus modes. When the user faces the digital photographing device to take a selfie or create a live stream, the user can realize the current focus mode of the digital photographing device in real time according to the indication of the focus mode indication module.

Abstract: A processor-implemented method with image reconstruction includes: acquiring information indicating an amount of ambient light in accordance with a shutter exposure time of a camera; generating an ambient light pattern based on the information about the amount of ambient light; generating a compensation pattern which compensates for a invertibility of an external illumination pattern based on the ambient light pattern; controlling an operation of an external illumination based on the compensation pattern to acquire a photographed image by a camera; and reconstructing a latent image of the photographed image in the acquired photographed image based on the compensation pattern.

Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light source optically connectable to a scope including a light guide configured to guide light, and first and second illumination light emission units configured to radiate illumination light based on the guided light on a subject, and a light quantity distribution changing device disposed on an optical path of the light emitted from the light source. The light quantity distribution changing device is configured to control a light quantity of the light brought into each of the first illumination light emission unit and the second illumination light emission unit, so as to change a light quantity distribution of the illumination light radiated on the subject.

Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires a captured image. A human body detection unit detects a human body area from the image. A first exposure determination unit determines exposure based on luminance of the human body area detected by the human body detection unit. A face detection unit detects a face area from an image captured at the exposure determined by the first exposure determination unit. A second exposure determination unit determines exposure based on luminance of the face area detected by the face detection unit and to maintain the exposure until a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes an illuminator configured to switch between a first illumination light and a second illumination light for which a ratio of a quantity of light is 1/?, an objective optical system, an image sensor, an optical path splitter which is disposed between the objective optical system and the image sensor, the optical path splitter has an optical path splitting surface, a first reflecting surface, and a second reflecting surface. A processor acquires for each of the first illumination light and the second illumination light, a first image pickup signal and a second image pickup signal, combines the first image pickup signal and the second image pickup signal for the first illumination light and the first image pickup signal and the second image pickup signal for the second illumination light, and generates an image of a high dynamic range. Here, ? denotes a coefficient.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a medical image processing apparatus, a medical image processing method, and a program that permit superimposition of images at an appropriate mixing ratio without deletion of detailed information. An acquisition section, a superimposition ratio calculation section, and a superimposition processing section are included. The acquisition section acquires a normal frame captured with normal light irradiated on a subject and a special frame captured with special light irradiated on the subject. The superimposition ratio calculation section calculates, on the basis of an intensity value of the special frame, a superimposition ratio indicating a ratio at which the normal frame and the special frame are superimposed. The superimposition processing section performs a superimposition process of superimposing the normal frame and the special frame on the basis of the superimposition ratio. The present technology is applicable to an image processing apparatus for medical use.

Abstract: A method for correcting a fluorescence image of an object, for example a biological tissue that can include fluorescent agents. The distance between a fluorescence probe generating the fluorescence image and the object examined is measured. This distance is used to apply a correction function to the fluorescence image. The method may find application in perioperative fluorescence imaging for diagnosis and monitoring of evolution of pathologies, for example of cancers.

Abstract: A first light source module includes a light source-side connection hole to which a irradiation-side connector of a irradiation module is mechanically detachably attached. The light source-side connection hole is made common to the first irradiation-side connector, which is mounted in the first irradiation module, and the second irradiation-side connector, which is mounted in the second irradiation module, such that the light source-side connection hole is connectable to the first irradiation-side connector and the second irradiation-side connector.

Abstract: A drive device includes a drive controller. The drive controller controls a drive signal on which a high-frequency drive signal is superimposed on a drive current to drive a movable frame and which is to be applied to a drive coil. The drive controller drives the movable frame to a predetermined position based on a detection signal detected by a detector and a high-frequency signal of a predetermined frequency band including a frequency of the high-frequency drive signal that is generated in a detection coil when the drive signal is applied to the drive coil.

Abstract: A projection controller controls an infrared projector to selectively and sequentially project first to third infrared lights. An imaging unit images an object in a state where the first to third infrared lights are projected so as to generate first to third frames. An image processing unit synthesizes the first to third frames to generate a frame of an image signal. The projection controller sets an interval between a first timing and a second timing shorter than an interval between the first timing and a third timing. The first timing is the middle point of the period in which the second infrared light is projected. The second timing is the middle point of the period in which the first or third infrared light is projected. The third timing is the middle point of the one frame period of the first or third frame.

Abstract: An imaging unit images an object in a state where first to third infrared lights are each selectively and sequentially projected so as to generate first to third frames. An electronic shutter controller controls a period and timing in which the imaging unit is exposed such that an interval between a first timing, which is the middle point of the period in which the imaging unit is exposed in the state where the second infrared light is projected, and a second timing, which is the middle point of the period in which the imaging unit is exposed in the state where the first or third infrared light is projected, is set shorter than an interval between the first timing and a third timing, which is the middle point of the one frame period of the first or third frame.

Abstract: An optical communication apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives, from a transmission apparatus which transmits a light signal including predetermined information, the transmitted light signal; a multipath removal unit that recognizes, when detecting a plurality of images having the same optical information in the received light signal, the light signal due to a reflection wave based on at least one of a luminance of the light signal, a size of an image corresponding to the light signal when receiving at the reception unit, and a propagation distance of the light signal and removes the light signal due to the reflection wave; and an control unit that acquires, from the light signal received by the reception unit, information based on the light signal obtained by removing the light signal due to the reflection wave by the multipath removal unit.

Abstract: A system for three-dimensional image capture while moving. The system includes: an image capture device including at least two digital image sensors placed to capture a stereoscopic image; a processor for obtaining disparity information, associated with the digital images obtained by the image capture device and movement speed of elements in the digital images; a transmitter for sending the digital images to enable control of movement based on the digital images and the associated disparity information; and a controller for controlling the image capture device.

Abstract: A computing device can present a plurality of displayable elements, some of which appear to be on top of or overlaying others. The computing device can determine which displayable elements should cast virtual shadows on which other displayable elements based, at least in part, on a respective virtual depth value associated with each of the displayable elements. In general, a displayable element with a higher depth value can cast a shadow on a displayable element with a lower depth value. The device can select a first displayable element for which a virtual shadow is to be generated. The device can acquire a graphical representation of the first displayable element. The computing device can then apply a blurring technique, a color filtering process, and a transparency filtering process to the graphical representation to generate a virtual shadow for the first displayable element. Then the device can draw or display the shadow.

Abstract: An endoscope with an optical channel is held and positioned by a robotic surgical system. A capture unit captures (1) a visible first image at a first time and (2) a visible second image combined with a fluorescence image from the light at a second time. An image processing system receives (1) the visible first image and (2) the visible second image combined with the fluorescence image and generates at least one fluorescence image. A display system outputs an output image including an artificial fluorescence image.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for video rate or near video rate quantitative imaging of tissue physiological and morphological properties from visible/NIR light spectral images obtain rapid multi-spectral reflectance images by illuminating with a series of spectra containing multiple narrow wavelength bands. An iterative light-transport based inversion algorithm may be applied for correcting the intensity of the spectral images from the geometry/coupling effect as well as from the scattering amplitude distortions. The method can produce video rate absorption as well as scattering spectral images that can be further analyzed very rapidly, using matrix-based rapid inversion algorithms to produce more detailed quantitative images containing information relevant to tissue physiology and morphology.

Abstract: A fluorescence endoscope apparatus includes a light source that radiates excitation light and reference light onto an examination target; a fluorescence-image generating portion that generates a fluorescence image by capturing fluorescence generated at the examination target due to irradiation with the excitation light; a reference-image generating portion that generates a reference image by capturing return light that returns from the examination target due to irradiation with the reference light; a division-image generating portion that generates a division image by dividing the fluorescence image generated by the fluorescence-image generating portion by the reference image generated by the reference-image generating portion; and a corrected-image generating portion that generates a corrected image based on the division image and the fluorescence image, wherein the corrected-image generating portion generates a corrected image in which a region that has relatively high luminance and that the division image

Abstract: Fluorescence generated at a lesion is distinguished from fluorescence generated at portions other than the lesion, and thus, observation is performed by using only the fluorescence generated at the lesion. Provided is a fluorescence observation apparatus including a light radiating portion that radiates excitation light onto an examination subject; a fluorescence-distribution acquiring portion that acquires an intensity distribution of fluorescence generated at the examination subject due to irradiation with the excitation light from the light radiating portion; and a non-target-region excluding portion that, in the fluorescence-intensity distribution acquired by the fluorescence-distribution acquiring portion, excludes regions in which a spectrum in a specific wavelength band has changed due to a specific biological component whose concentration in a lesion is lower than in other portions.

Abstract: A Software Defined Radio (SDR) subsystem capable of supporting a multiple communication standards and platforms for modulation, demodulation and trans-modulation of an input signal is provided. The SDR subsystem includes a Signal Conditioning Cluster (SCC) unit that includes a signal conditioning CPU adapted for sample based signal processing, a Signal Processing Cluster (SPC) unit that includes a signal processing CPU adapted for block based signal processing, and a Channel Codec Cluster (CCC) unit that performs a channel encoding or a channel decoding operation.

Abstract: An electronic endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element and a signal processing unit. The imaging element obtains an image of an observation object, and outputs an image signal of the observation object. The signal processing unit alternately repeats obtainment of a partial image signal using a part of a light receiving area of the imaging element and obtainment of a partial image signal using the remaining part of the light receiving area. The signal processing unit also obtains a whole image signal corresponding to an image of the observation object using a partial image signal obtained in the n-th (n is a natural number) obtainment and a partial image signal obtained in the (n+1)th obtainment. Further, a partial component of the n-th partial image signal is extracted by an extraction unit, and the extracted partial component is added to the (n+1)th partial image signal.