Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a calculation device for improving precision of polarization imaging, and to provide an imaging apparatus, a calculation method, a method, and a program. SOLUTION: The calculation method includes: an irradiation process for applying light in a prescribed polarization state to a light reception section, where a polarization patterning element having a plurality of polarizing filter units including each of a plurality of polarizing filters for transmitting each light having a different polarization state is superposed on an image pickup element including a plurality of pixels for receiving light transmitting through the plurality of polarizing filters of the polarization patterning elements; and a shift amount calculation process for calculating shift amount information indicating a shift amount in the superposition of the polarization patterning element and the image pickup one from the pixel values of the pixels of the image pickup element in the application of the light in the prescribed polarization state. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a plurality of images with different polarized states of a beam of return light from an observation site in relation to each time when a plurality of beams of irradiating light with different wavelength spectrums and polarized states irradiate the observation site. SOLUTION: An imaging system includes an irradiation part for irradiating a plurality of beams of irradiating light with different polarized states on every different wavelength spectrum on an observation site sequentially, and a plurality of polarized light filter units including each polarized light filter of a return light which is respectively transmitted with a plurality of beams of light with different polarized states, and it includes a polarized light filter part where the return light from the observation site is transmitted at every state of a plurality of beams of polarized light and a light receiving part for receiving the return light transmitted through the polarized light filter part at every state of a plurality of beams of polarized light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display displaying an image with changing polarizing directions; a program; and its method. SOLUTION: This display includes: an image pickup section having a polarization section in a light receiving side, which includes a plurality of polarizing filters entering lights with different polarizing directions into image pickup elements of the image pickup section respectively; a generation section generating images for each different polarizing directions from a captured image respectively; an image acquisition section acquiring the plurality of images with different polarizing directions generated by the generation section; and a display section sequentially displaying the images with different polarizing directions obtained by the image acquisition section. A person can thus view the images with changing polarizing directions so as to look as if a polarizing portion is changed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical device capable of emitting light with a predetermined specified spectrum. SOLUTION: The optical device includes a plurality of polarizers arranged along a propagation direction of incident light, a first phase element disposed among the plurality of polarizers and having slow phase axes at a predetermined angle with respect to the transmission axes of the polarizers disposed along the propagation direction, and second phase elements each disposed between the first phase element and the polarizer disposed along the propagation direction and giving approximately the same phase difference to the incident light, wherein the angle of the slow phase axis of the second phase element is adjusted so that the light of a predetermined wavelength region in the incident light is transmitted by the optical device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging device capable of giving a sharp image of a photographic object regardless of a distance to the object. SOLUTION: The imaging device includes: a lens system having different focal lengths in a plurality of regions on an aperture plane; a plurality of polarizers that transmit light beams in different polarization directions from one another and transmit light beams respectively passing through the plurality of regions; a plurality of analyzers that transmit the beams in polarization directions respectively transmitted by the plurality of polarizers; and a plurality of photodetectors that respectively receive beams transmitted by the plurality of analyzers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical device, substantially emitting light of a predetermined spectrum. SOLUTION: This optical device includes: a plurality of polarizers arranged along a propagation direction of incident light and having the substantially same transmission axis; a phase element provided between the plurality of polarizers and having a slow axis making a predetermined angle with the transmission axis of the plurality of polarizers; and a phase modulation element provided along the propagation direction adjacent to the phase element and having a slow axis in the substantially same direction as the slow axis of the phase element. A phase difference generated the incident light by the phase modulation element is temporally adjusted to transmit light in different wavelength regions to different timings. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging system providing an image especially fine in a desired color component corresponding to the spectral intensity of the light from a subject. SOLUTION: The imaging system comprises an imaging part having a plurality of light receiving elements receiving the light in a first wavelength range and in a second wavelength range; a control part to have the plurality of light receiving elements receive the light in the second wavelength range with smaller spectral intensity than the spectral intensity of the light in the first wavelength range more frequently than the light in the first wavelength range; and an image generating part for generating an image with the light in the first wavelength range and the light in the second wavelength range received by the plurality of light receiving elements at a different timing. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging system capable of specifying an inside blood vessel from an image. SOLUTION: The imaging system comprises a light emitting part to emit light to irradiate an object; an imaging part to continuously capture the image of the object with the light from the object generated from the light emitted from the light emitting part; and a control part to control the imaging part to capture an interfering light image with the light reflected and interfering on the object from the light emitting part at first timing and to capture a light emission image with the light from the object from the light emitting part at second timing. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To certainly detect the phenomenon produced in the skin even in when the discoloration of an inspection sheet is imaged by any one of different imaging devices and to measure the temperature of the skin. SOLUTION: The inspection sheet is equipped with a reagent holding part containing a reagent changed in color by the contact with the inspection target produced from the skin and an infrared transmission filter arranged so as to be visually confirmed from the outside simultaneously with the reagent holding part and permitting the infrared rays from the skin to transmit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus, imaging method and program in which the color of a reagent on an examination sheet is accurately output. SOLUTION: The apparatus images the examination sheet including the reagent of which the color is changed by contact with an object to be examined. The apparatus includes: an imaging section for imaging the examination sheet; an input/output conversion curve acquisition section for acquiring an input/output conversion curve which specifies a corresponding relationship between luminance levels of input data and output data, and of which a change amount of the output data with respect to a change amount of the input data in the range where the luminance of the color of the reagent is changed, is greater than the change amount of the output data with respect to the change amount of the input data in another range; and an input/output converting section for performing input/output conversion upon an image of the examination sheet picked up by the imaging section while using the input/output conversion curve acquired by the input/output conversion curve acquisition section. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT