INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, DIGITAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20140362204A1
• Filed: 12/07/2012
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Shinji, Hayashi, Nobuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,509,218 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/79
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 21/365 Control or image processing arrangements for digital or video microscopes G02B21/361, G02B21/362 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 21/367 providing an output produced by processing a plurality of individual source images, e.g. image tiling, montage, composite images, depth sectioning, image comparison
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10056 Microscopic image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20221 Image fusion; Image merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30024 Cell structures in vitro; Tissue sections in vitro
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30168 Image quality inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/50 using two or more images, e.g. averaging or subtraction
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/77 Retouching; Inpainting; Scratch removal
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/337 involving reference images or patches

Abstract

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a detection unit configured to detect a failure requiring reimaging relating to an image captured using a digital microscope by evaluating the image, and a generation unit configured to, if the failure was detected by the detection unit, generate setting information for setting an imaging condition for during reimaging.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect a failure requiring reimaging relating to an image captured using a digital microscope by evaluating the image; and

a generation unit configured to, if the failure was detected by the detection unit, generate setting information for setting an imaging condition for during reimaging.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit is configured to detect as the failure a failure relating to a composite image generated by combining a plurality of images.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the failure relating to the composite image includes an imaging omission of an area that should be included in the composite image.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the detection unit is configured to detect the imaging omission by evaluating a direction in which texture is present in the image.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the generation unit is configured to, if the imaging omission was detected by the detection unit, generate imaging area information for resetting an imaging area so as to include an additional area to be newly captured.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the generation unit is configured to, if the imaging area is to be reset, further generate imaging sequence information for resetting an imaging sequence of the image.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the failure relating to the composite image includes a combining failure when generating the composite image.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the detection unit is configured to detect the combining failure by evaluating an edge in a predetermined direction included in the composite image.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the detection unit is configured to detect the combining failure by evaluating a luminance value of an overlapping portion when the composite image is generated.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the generation unit is configured to, if the combining failure was detected by the detection unit, generate imaging sequence information for resetting an imaging sequence of the image.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the detection unit is configured to further detect as the failure a flaw in focus position, white balance, or brightness.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an imaging control unit configured to determine whether to make the digital microscope recapture each image or recapture an entirety of a plurality of images based on a type of the failure detected by the detection unit.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the detection unit is configured to evaluate each image for detection of the failure every time each of the plurality of images is captured.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the detection unit is configured to evaluate the composite image or a partial image of the composite image after the composite image has been generated.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display control unit configured to enable the setting information generated by the generation unit to be presented to the user or edited by the user before reimaging is executed.

16. An imaging control method comprising:

detecting a failure requiring reimaging relating to an image captured using a digital microscope by evaluating the image; and

if the failure was detected by the detection unit, generating setting information for setting an imaging condition for during reimaging.

17. A program that causes a computer to function as:

a detection unit configured to detect a failure requiring reimaging relating to an image captured using a digital microscope by evaluating the image; and

a generation unit configured to, if the failure was detected by the detection unit, generate setting information for setting an imaging condition for during reimaging.

18. A digital microscope system comprising:

a digital microscope; and

an information processing apparatus including

a detection unit configured to detect a failure requiring reimaging relating to an image captured using the digital microscope by evaluating the image, and

a generation unit configured to, if the failure is detected by the detection unit, generate setting information for setting an imaging condition for during reimaging.

19. A display control apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire setting information for setting an imaging condition for during reimaging that is generated when a failure requiring reimaging relating to an image captured using a digital microscope is generated by evaluating the image; and

a display control unit configured to display the setting information acquired by the acquisition unit on a display face.

20. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect a failure relating to a composite image generated by combining a plurality of images captured using a digital microscope by evaluating an image; and

a generation unit configured to, if the failure is detected by the detection unit, generate setting information for setting an imaging condition for during reimaging.