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20110318701 | DENTAL PROBE - A dental probe according to the invention is provided with a tip portion including a water flow path, an air flow path, a multi-lumen tube including a duct formed therein in which an optical fiber is inserted, and the optical fiber inserted in the duct. The optical fiber includes a resin-coated layer provided on an outer circumference of a cladding and a metal-coated layer provided on the outer circumference of the resin-coated layer, and the resin-coated layer is formed of a polymer compound having a refractive index lower than that of the cladding. | 12-29-2011 |
20120310043 | STRUCTURE OF IMAGING PART IN ELECTRONIC VISUALIZED CATHETER - An imaging part of an electronic visualized catheter including, an object lens system, and a solid state imaging element which is positioned to receive light output from the object lens system and which photoelectrically converts the light output from the object lens system into an electric signal, wherein an output lens face of the object lens system is planar, and the output lens face is joined to a light receiving surface of the solid state imaging element. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310045 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE - An electronic endoscope of the present invention includes an elongated insertion portion inserted into a subject, a distal end of the elongated insertion portion including a solid state imaging device, an operating portion connected to an other end of the insertion portion so as to be freely attachable thereto or detached therefrom, and an interface substrate that processes RAW data obtained by the solid-state imaging device and that creates and outputs image signals. At least part of an interface substrate is disposed inside the operating portion, and a first electrical cable that transmits the RAW data obtained by the solid-state imaging device is connected to a connector located on the interface substrate or located on the way toward the interface substrate, and when the insertion portion is being attached to or detached from the operating portion, the first electrical cable is attached or detached at a connector portion. | 12-06-2012 |
20140152789 | OPTICAL FIBER STRUCTURE, ILLUMINATION UNIT, ENDOSCOPE, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL FIBER STRUCTURE - An optical fiber structure according to the present application includes a cylindrical resin body, and a plurality of circumferential arrays of optical fiber bare wires disposed within the resin body and extending along a longitudinal direction of the resin body. The resin body includes a linear slit provided at a location intermediate the length of the resin body. The linear slit extends from an outer surface to an inner bore of the resin body and extending substantially parallel to the bare wires. | 06-05-2014 |
20140249368 | METHOD OF PACKAGING IMAGING DEVICE CHIP, METHOD OF ASSEMBLING ENDOSCOPE, IMAGING MODULE, AND ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope includes: an imaging device chip having a chip connection portion; a tubular housing tube used to a scope tip portion of an endoscope; a substrate to which the imaging device chip is fixed, the substrate having a substrate connection portion, the substrate being capable of bending at near the substrate connection portion when the substrate is inserted into the housing tube; a lead wire connecting the substrate connection portion and the chip connection portion; flexible and non-conductive resin covering an entirety of the lead wire; and an imaging module including the substrate provided with the imaging device chip thereon, the imaging module inserted into the housing tube. | 09-04-2014 |
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20150066370 | WEATHER PREDICTING METHOD, WEATHER PREDICTING APPARATUS, AND AIR UTILIZING APPARATUS - A weather predicting method includes: selecting, from weather information related to areas and times and including temperature data, a weather information sets related to multiple times over a fixed period concerning a first area containing a location where the air utilizing apparatus is placed; by solving, with selected weather information sets as input data, differential equations expressing the weather information based on analysis models for conducting weather simulations, generating a first narrow-area weather information sets related to smaller second areas disposed within the first area; selecting a second narrow-area weather information set concerning a second area containing the location of the air utilizing apparatus from among generated first narrow-area weather information sets; and generating a temperature cumulative frequency distribution or a temperature exceedance probability distribution during the fixed period by using temperature data contained in the second narrow-area weather information set for calculating a design temperature of the air utilizing apparatus. | 03-05-2015 |
20150120193 | WEATHER PREDICTING METHOD, WATER PREDICTING APPARATUS, AND AIR UTILIZING APPARATUS - A weather predicting method is provided and includes: selecting, from weather information including temperature data and related to times and areas, a weather information related to an area containing a location where an air utilizing apparatus is placed and related to multiple times over a certain period; by solving, with weather information as input data, differential equations expressing weather information based on weather analysis models used for conducting weather simulations, generating first narrow-area weather information related to areas smaller than the area corresponding to the weather information; selecting a second narrow-area weather information concerning an area containing the location of the air utilizing apparatus from among the first narrow-area weather information; and generating a temperature cumulative distribution or a temperature exceedance probability distribution over a certain period by using temperature data contained in the second narrow-area weather information for calculating a design temperature of the air utilizing apparatus. | 04-30-2015 |
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20100296701 | PERSON TRACKING METHOD, PERSON TRACKING APPARATUS, AND PERSON TRACKING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A person tracking method capable of tracking movements of a person captured by a camera through lighter processing in comparison with tracking processing that employs a Kalman filter or the like is provided. The method includes: detecting a head on each frame image; calculating a feature quantity that features a person whose head is detected on the frame images; calculating a relevance ratio that represents a degree of agreement between a feature quantity on a past frame image and a feature quantity on a current frame image, which belong to each person whose head is detected on the current frame image; and determining that, a head, which is a basis for calculation of a relevance ratio that represents a degree of agreement being a first threshold as well as being a maximum degree of agreement, is a head of the same person as the person having the head. | 11-25-2010 |
20100296702 | PERSON TRACKING METHOD, PERSON TRACKING APPARATUS, AND PERSON TRACKING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A person tracking method capable of obtaining information representing a correspondence between a shot image and a three-dimensional real space, without actual measurement, thereby enabling lighter processing is provided. The method includes: calculating a statistically average correspondence between a size of person's head and a position representing a height of the head on the shot image, the camera looking down a measured space and taking the measured space; detecting a position and a size of a head on each of measured frame images; calculating, based on positions and sizes of heads on plural past measured frame images and the correspondence, a movement feature quantity representing a possibility that a head on a current measured frame image is of the same person on the past measured frame images; and determining that the head on the current measured frame image is of the same person on the past measured frame images. | 11-25-2010 |
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20090087089 | CHIN POSITION CALCULATING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT EMPLOYS THE CHIN POSITION CALCULATING APPARATUS, CHIN POSITION CALCULATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A CHIN POSITION CALCULATING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - Automatic detection of chin positions is enabled from within digital images regardless of the facing directions of the faces. Faces having skin color are detected from input color images. Reference lines from center positions between eyes and center positions of mouths, which are included in faces are calculated, based on the faces detected by the face detecting section. Data that indicates statistical positional relationships among center positions between eyes, center positions of mouths, and chins therein are obtained. Probabilities that the reference lines calculated by the reference line calculating section include the positions of chins, based on the data that indicates the statistical positional relationships and the reference lines are calculated. Probabilities of skin colored pixels being present on the reference line are calculated. Rates of brightness variations along the reference line are calculated. Positions of chins are calculated based on combinations of the above the results of calculation. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087100 | TOP OF HEAD POSITION CALCULATING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT EMPLOYS THE TOP OF HEAD POSITION CALCULATING APPARATUS, TOP OF HEAD POSITION CALCULATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A TOP OF HEAD POSITION CALCULATING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - Automatic detection of top of head positions of humans is enabled from within digital images even in cases that backgrounds are not monotonous. Face regions are detected from within input images. Detection ranges, within which tops of heads are searched for, are set based on the detected face regions. Hair regions are detected by extracting high frequency components from within the detection ranges. The positions of the tops of heads are calculated from the detected hair regions. | 04-02-2009 |
20090245579 | PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION CONSTRUCTING METHOD, PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION CONSTRUCTING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION CONSTRUCTING PROGRAM, SUBJECT DETECTING METHOD, SUBJECT DETECTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF SUBJECT DETECTING PROGRAM - A probability distribution constructing method extracts a subject shape similar to a subject of a specific type repeatedly appearing in various sizes in plural images obtained by repeatedly photographing a field using a fixedly disposed camera, from plurality images, in accordance with a size of the similar subject shape and positional information of the camera on a view angle. Subsequently, the probability distribution constructing method determines the similar subject shape, and calculates an appearance probability distribution of the size of the subject, and detects the subject using the appearance probability distribution. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245656 | SIMILAR SEMICIRCLE DETECTING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SIMILAR SEMICIRCLE DETECTING PROGRAM - The present invention performs a process of integrating plural pixel evaluation values corresponding to plural evaluation pixels on a circular arc overlapping a circle using a predetermined pixel in interest as its center and calculating an integrated evaluation value to evaluate whether the circular arc is a circular arc corresponding to a similar semicircular shape, for each of plural circular arcs that overlap the circle in overlapping phases which are different from each other, compares plural integrated evaluation values corresponding to the plural circular arcs, and extracts the circular arc with which the integrated evaluation value indicating the most approximation to the similar semicircular shape is associated, from the plural circular arcs. | 10-01-2009 |
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20090245575 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETECTING OBJECT - In an object detecting method according to an aspect of the invention, a specific kind of object such as a human head can be detected with high accuracy even if the detecting target object appears in various shapes. The object detecting method includes a primary evaluated value computing step of applying plural filters to an image of an object detecting target to compute plural feature quantities and of obtaining a primary evaluated value corresponding to each-feature quantity; a secondary evaluated value computing step of obtaining a secondary evaluated value by integrating the plural primary evaluated values obtained in the primary evaluated value computing step; and a region extracting step of comparing the secondary evaluated value obtained in the secondary evaluated value computing step and a threshold to extract a region where an existing probability of the specific kind of object is higher than the threshold. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245576 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETECTING OBJECT - The invention relates to an object detecting method for detecting a specific kind of object such as a human head and a human face from an image expressed by two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, the object detecting method including an image group producing step of producing an image group including an original image of the object detecting target and at least one thinned-out image by thinning out pixels constituting the original image at a predetermined rate or by thinning out the pixels at the predetermined rate in a stepwise manner; and a stepwise detection step of detecting the specific kind of object from the original image by sequentially repeating plural extraction processes from an extraction process of applying a filter acting on a relatively small region to a relatively small image toward an extraction process of applying a filter acting on a relatively wide region to a relatively large image. | 10-01-2009 |
20130022249 | RAPID DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF SPEEDING UP THE SAME, AND PROGRAM OF THE SAME - When obtaining a final result from a discriminator group arranged in a predetermined order, an evaluation value obtaining unit successively evaluates each discriminator from a first discriminator and if it is determined that a discrimination result represented by an overall evaluation value obtained by evaluating the first to I | 01-24-2013 |
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20110019920 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR DETECTING OBJECT - A region where a detecting target object exists is extracted by a comparison between an evaluated value indicating a probability that the detecting target object exists and a threshold, through the process of producing a differential image between different frames in plural frames constituting a continuous image, of setting an average value in an averaging region extended around each pixel of the differential image as a new value of each pixel, of obtaining the evaluated value by applying a filter that acts on a search region on an image to a search region extended around a search pixel that is extracted by comparing the new value and the threshold, on the differential image. | 01-27-2011 |
20110026810 | IMAGE ANALYZING APPARATUS, IMAGE ANALYZING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image analyzing apparatus for efficiently performing detection of an object and tracking of a specified object, including a feature value recording section that records a plurality of reference feature values different in type from each other; a feature value extracting section that extracts a plurality of feature values different in type from each other, from each of a plurality of moving image constituent images included in a moving image; an object extracting section that extracts an object from the moving image constituent images, based on a degree of matching of the plurality of extracted feature values with respect to the plurality of reference feature values recorded in the feature value recording section; a reference feature value calculating section that calculates, from the plurality of reference feature values recorded in the feature value recording section, a plurality of reference feature values adjusted to the feature values of the extracted object, to a predetermined degree corresponding to the type; and a feature value updating section that updates the plurality of reference feature values recorded in the feature value recording section, with the plurality of reference feature values calculated by the reference feature value calculating section. | 02-03-2011 |