Abstract:
A method and apparatus for processing images, and an image display apparatus are provided that can produce favorable images even when digitized image are partially magnified (enlarged) or reduced (shrunk). The apparatus for expanding or reducing input image data supplied thereto, for each area of the image data, comprises a high frequency (HF) component smoothing processor that generates smoothed-HF-component image data by smoothing HF components of the input image data; a partial magnification/reduction controller that generates partial magnification/reduction control information that designates positions of pixels in image data obtained after expanding or reducing the input image data for each image area; and a pixel data generator that generates pixel data of pixel positions designated by the partial magnification/reduction control information in the smoothed-HF-component image data, by using pixel data in a neighborhood of the designated pixel positions.
Abstract:
A ceramide dispersion, which includes at least: natural-ceramide-containing particles that are dispersed in an aqueous phase as an oil-phase component; and at least one surfactant, wherein the natural-ceramide-containing particles contain one or more natural ceramides in an amount of 50% by mass or higher with respect to the total mass of the oil components contained in an oil phase, and have a volume average particle diameter of from 0.5 nm to 100 nm; and the ceramide dispersion contains, in the at least one surfactant, at least one polyglycerin fatty acid ester having an HLB of from 10 to 16.
Abstract:
A cosmetic composition contains: a carotenoid (A), a collagen (B) having an average molecular weight of 40,000 or more, and a collagen peptide (C) having a weight average molecular weight of from 200 to 5,000.
Abstract:
An image processing apparatus determines (3H) a reference pixel position for each pixel by an interpolation calculation using the distortion correction values for representative pixels stored in a correction value storage unit (2H), decides (4H) whether the distortion correction values used in the interpolation satisfy a predetermined condition, reads (5H) a plurality of pixel values from an image data storage unit (1) according to values of their reference pixel position, determines (6H) first interpolation coefficients (C6) from a value of its reference pixel position, and determines the pixel value D7 in the output image from the plurality of pixel values read and the first interpolation coefficients (C6). The image processing apparatus determines (6HA) second interpolation coefficients (C6A) from said value of its reference pixel position and a predetermined function, and selects (6HB), according to the decision result, either the second interpolation coefficients (C6A) or third interpolation coefficients (C6B) for use as the first interpolation coefficients (C6).
Abstract:
The present invention provides: a dispersion composition including a carotenoid-containing oily component, the dispersion composition being obtained by mixing an aqueous dispersion containing emulsion particles containing the carotenoid-containing oily component and a phospholipid or a derivative thereof with an aqueous composition containing ascorbic acid or a derivative thereof and an oily component that is 20% by mass or less relative to the mass of the whole dispersion composition, and the dispersion composition having emulsion particles having an average particle diameter of 200 nm or less; a dispersion composition including a carotenoid-containing oily component, the dispersion composition being obtained by mixing an aqueous dispersion containing emulsion particles containing a carotenoid-containing oily component and a phospholipid or a derivative thereof with an aqueous composition containing ascorbic acid or a derivative thereof and a pH adjusting agent, and the dispersion composition having a pH value in the range of 5 to 7.5; and a cosmetic preparation for skin care including one or other of the dispersion compositions.
Abstract:
It is an object to provide an image processing device, an image display device, and an image processing method therefor that are capable of curbing generation of a pseudo edge in a digital image.The image processing device and the image display device are provided including a threshold-value control unit 29 that obtains a threshold value depending on a tone in image data; a smoothing filter unit 60 that applies a smoothing process to a predetermined tone in the image data while preserving, depending on the threshold value, a predetermined edge in the image data; and an output unit that outputs image data having been processed by the smoothing filter unit 60.
Abstract:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a detection surface used for biosensors, in which non-specific adsorption is suppressed and the generation of pinholes is also suppressed. The present invention provides a biosensor, which comprises a substrate coated with a hydrophobic polymer having an alkyl group substituted with a fluorine atom.
Abstract:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a biosensor with an improved recovery yield of a test substance interacting with a physiologically active substance. The present invention provides a biosensor having a flow channel formed on a substrate, which is composed of a detection surface for detecting the interaction of a physiologically active substance with a test substance and a non-detection surface that does not detect said interaction, wherein the detection surface and non-detection surface are modified in such a way that the physiologically active substance can be immobilized thereon.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a biosensor wherein at least two types of surfaces are patterned without impairing the sensor surface and non-specific adsorption is thereby suppressed. The present invention provides a biosensor comprising a substrate coated with a hydrophobic compound having a photoactive group, or a substrate which is coated with a hydrophobic polymer and is further modified with a compound having a photoactive group.
Abstract:
A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having layers containing a swellable inorganic stratifying compound on both sides of a support and having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on at least one of the layers. There is provided a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material showing good dimensional stability.