An image processing apparatus obtains image data of a plurality of frames, aligns the image data of the plurality of frames, and combine the image data of the plurality of frames that have been aligned. The image data includes first data and second data, the first data being data of pixels of an effective pixel area of an image sensor and constituted by signals corresponding to a predetermined arrangement of color components, and the second data being data of pixels outside the effective pixel area of the image sensor. The image processing apparatus is capable of aligning the first data independently from the second data.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, a method for matching an actual surgical image and a 3D-based virtual surgical simulation environment, which is performed by an apparatus, includes setting POI information during surgery at each of surgery steps in a pre-stored surgical image obtained by performing surgery the same as the actual surgical image, matching the POI information with a virtual pneumoperitoneum model of a patient, which is used for the 3D-based virtual surgical simulation environment, the virtual pneumoperitoneum model being displayed on a UI, recognizing a real-time surgery step of the actual surgical image and determining a location of the POI information for the respective recognized surgery step, and obtaining and displaying image information, which is captured by moving a location of an endoscope inserted into the virtual pneumoperitoneum model to the same location as the determined location of the POI information, through the UI.

A method trains a recognition system for recognizing an object in an interior space of a household appliance. The method includes the steps of capturing images from a plurality of predetermined perspectives of the object placed on an alignment sheet; producing training data on the basis of the images; and training the adaptive recognition system using the training data.

A collation device includes a memory that stores, as a registration image group, a random pattern depending on a microscopic pattern on a side surface of a target having an elliptic cylindrical shape including a columnar shape, and a processor, in which the registration image group is composed of plural registration images respectively acquired at plural positions at a predetermined interval over a whole circumference of the side surface, and the processor executes a program to collate a collation image obtained by imaging the side surface at an angle of view including at least one registration image among the plurality of registration images and the registration image group and to output a collation result.

A charged particle beam device 100 includes: an irradiation unit 110 configured to irradiate a sample S with a charged particle beam; a particle detection unit 130 configured to detect a particle caused by the irradiation of the sample with the charged particle beam; and a control unit 151 configured to generate an image of the sample based on an output from the particle detection unit, wherein the control unit 151 inputs the image of the sample S into models M1 and M2 for detecting a first structure 401 and a second structure 402, acquires a first detection result related to the first structure 401 and a second detection result related to the second structure 402 from the models M1 and M2, determines locations or regions of the first structure 401 and the second structure 402 based on the first detection result and the second detection result, and outputs an integration result image 203 representing the location or the region of the first structure 401 and the location or the region of the second structure 402.

An image analysis apparatus (2000) is an apparatus that performs first detection processing to n-th detection processing. In i-th detection processing (1≤i≤n), a captured image (30) that satisfies an i-th predetermined condition is detected from captured images (30) generated by a camera (40). The i-th predetermined condition includes a condition that an “identification card (20) captured at an i-th predetermined angle is included”. The image analysis apparatus (2000) outputs one or more of the captured images (30) detected in each detection processing.

An information processing system includes a client device provided in a moving body and a server device. The client device includes a photographing controller configured to control a photographing unit provided in the moving body to continuously perform photographing and a first transmitter configured to transmit information on a marker photographed in a photographed image to the server device when a size of a marker photographed in the photographed image photographed by the photographing unit is determined to have varied to cross a predetermined threshold value. The server device includes a first storage controller configured to control a storage unit to store the information on the marker transmitted by the first transmitter.

A method, which can be implemented by a control unit, for carrying out a localization of at least one vehicle by a vehicle-side control unit includes receiving measuring data from at least one sensor, ascertaining at least one marking from the measuring data, and associating the ascertained marking with a marking entered into a digital map for determining a position.

An information processing apparatus comprises a processing unit that acquires, from images captured by an imaging unit that is provided to a movable body and including markers that are disposed in a space, positions of the markers in an image coordinate system, acquire primary positioning information regarding the imaging unit in a world coordinate system, based on the positions of the markers in the image coordinate system and positions of the markers in the world coordinate system, and determines positioning information regarding the imaging unit based on the primary positioning information regarding the imaging unit in the world coordinate system and the positions of the markers in the world coordinate system.

The invention concerns a device for obtaining an occlusal registration of a patient; a method for obtaining an occlusal registration of a patient; and a method for dental procedure planning, such as dental implant planning. Radiopaque markers are advantageously applied to improve the devices, methods, and outcomes related to dental procedures.