Provided are an imaging evaluation map, an imaging evaluation map generating device, an imaging evaluation map generating method, and an imaging evaluation map generating program capable of easily making an imaging plan. A coordinate space setting section (31) that sets a coordinate space including an object, an imaging candidate position setting section (32) that sets a plurality of imaging candidate positions in the coordinate space, an imaging condition setting section that sets an imaging condition for the object (33), a characteristic part setting section (34) that sets a plurality of characteristic parts for the object, an evaluation standard setting section (35) that sets an evaluation standard for imaging based on the imaging candidate position and the imaging condition for each characteristic part, an evaluation value calculating section (36) that calculates an evaluation value that represents an evaluation of imaging in a case where an object is imaged under the imaging condition set by the imaging condition setting section (33) at the imaging candidate positions set by the imaging candidate position setting section (32) for each imaging candidate position, and an imaging evaluation map generating section (37) that generates an imaging evaluation map in which the evaluation value is determined for each imaging candidate position are provided. In a case where the evaluation value for each imaging candidate position is calculated, the evaluation value calculating section (36) calculates individual evaluation values for the respective characteristic parts according to the evaluation standard, and calculates a sum of the obtained individual evaluation values for the respective characteristic parts as the evaluation value.

A handheld module including a battery, an electro-mechanical interface, and a display. The electro-mechanical interface is configured to attach the handheld module to an image capture module, wherein when attached to the image capture module, the handheld module forms a communication link to the image capture module via the electro-mechanical interface and supplies power from the battery to the image capture module via conductors of the electro-mechanical interface. The display is configured to present images captured by the image capture module and received from the image capture module via the communication link.

There is realized an imaging device that monitors a communication status or the like, and executes switching processing from an MSC mode to a PTP mode in a case where a pre-defined condition is satisfied. There is provided a control unit configured to execute switching processing between a PTP communication mode applied with a PTP protocol, and an MSC mode, which is a communication mode according to a mass storage class (MSC). For example, in a case where MSC mode communication processing has not been executed for a specified time or more, a case where a movement indicating start of image capturing is detected, or the like, the control unit executes switching processing from the MSC mode to the PTP mode. After switching to the PTP mode, it is possible to execute imaging by inputting an image capturing control command from a host device.

An observation system includes an observation apparatus including a housing having an arrangement surface for placement of a sample, the sample including a culture medium, and an external illumination unit which is disposed outside the housing and includes at least one light source configured to emit illumination light. At least a part of the arrangement surface is formed of a transparent member having an optically transparent property. The observation apparatus includes an imaging unit which is provided in the housing and includes an image sensor configured to image, via the transparent member, the sample illuminated by the illumination light from the external illumination unit to acquire images of at least three colors.

To provide a microscope device capable of efficiently or appropriately acquiring an image of a specific region of a living tissue.

The present technology provides a microscope device including: a first imaging element that images a target including a body tissue and acquires image data; and a second imaging element that images the target at a magnification different from a magnification of the first imaging element and acquires image data, in which the first imaging element includes a determination unit that determines a feature related to the target on the basis of the image data, and the second imaging element is controlled on the basis of a result of the determination. Furthermore, the present technology also provides an image acquisition system including the microscope device. Furthermore, the present technology also provides an image acquisition method performed in the microscope device.

A high-place observation device for stably performing a fixed-point observation of a target object from a high place is provided. The high-place observation device provides a long pole which is formed to extend and contract freely and which stands on the installation surface, a rotorcraft for positioning the pole to a desirable height position by extending and contracting the pole by a floating force in a connected state, a winding mechanism which fixes and maintains the height position of the pole to the height position set by the rotorcraft, and a camera attached to the rotorcraft.

A blur correction device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an amount of blur correction used to correct blurring of an image obtained through imaging of an imaging element during exposure for one frame in the imaging element; and a correction unit that corrects the blurring by performing image processing on a correction target image, which is an image for one frame included in a moving image obtained through imaging of the imaging element, based on the amount of blur correction acquired by the acquisition unit during exposure necessary to obtain the correction target image.

An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of stereo cameras arranged so that directions of baseline lengths of the stereo cameras intersect each other; a depth estimation unit that estimates, from captured images captured by the plurality of stereo cameras, a depth of an object included in the captured images; and an object detection unit that detects the object based on the depth estimated by the depth estimation unit and reliability of the depth, the reliability being determined in accordance with an angle of a direction of an edge line of the object with respect to the directions of the baseline lengths of the plurality of stereo cameras.

A modulator (300) according to the embodiment is a modulator provided between a diffraction grating (944) and an image sensor (946), receives a light ray directed to the image sensor (946) from the diffraction grating (944), and changes a travel direction of the light ray emitted toward the image sensor (946) so as to bend a recording direction of a diffraction image for each wavelength of the light ray on a light receiving surface of the image sensor (946).

An image capture apparatus comprises a display unit that displays a captured image, an output unit that outputs the image to an external device, a processing unit capable of switching and executing a plurality of operations that include a first operation of capturing the image with an image capturing mode setting during shooting standby, and a second operation of capturing the image with the same image capturing mode setting regardless of whether it is during shooting standby or during shooting, and a control unit that, when an output of the image to the external device is not being performed, permits the processing unit to perform the first operation, and when an output of the image to the external device is being performed, prohibits the processing unit to perform the first operation.