| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 348044000 | Pseudo | 19 |
| 20130027515 | SCANNING OF CAVITIES WITH RESTRICTED ACCESSIBILITY - A method and scanner system for scanning interior surfaces include providing a probe shaped scanner having an axis, the probe shaped scanner includes at least one light source configured to create and project structured light, and at least one camera configured to record 2D images; entering the probe shaped scanner into a cavity of an object, where the cavity is bounded by an interior surface of the object; creating and projecting structured light from the light source of the probe producing a pattern on the interior surface of the object; recording a series of 2D images of the reflection of the pattern from the interior surface using the camera; combining the series of 2D images to obtain 3D real world coordinates of the interior surface; and providing data and processing the data such that surface information for areas of the surface, where image scanning is not complete, is created. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20110109723 | MOTION PICTURES - 3D-enhanced 2D motion picture sequences comprise a single channel of sequential images. Each image in the channel comprises primary image content representing a scene consisting of a plurality of elements. At least some images in the channel further include temporal shadow image content, comprising a degraded and/or partially transparent image of at least one element of said primary image content corresponding to a view of said at least one element as seen in the primary image content of at least one other image from said channel. The temporal shadow content of the images varies within a series of successive images in a cyclical manner. The enhanced motion picture sequences provide a sense of 3D depth when viewed on conventional 2D displays without artificial viewing aids. Similar techniques can also be applied to enhance the 3D perception of stereoscopic motion picture sequences. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110292177 | INFORMATION OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS AND INFORMATION OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information output control apparatus includes a detector and a controller. The detector is configured to detect a connection of a 3D image incompatible first image display apparatus. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110149038 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF REPRODUCING VIDEO CONTENT INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF VIDEOS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - In a video processing apparatus, image information relating to a graphic image corresponding to a first video is converted using difference information calculated from first view-point information relating to a first video and second view-point information relating to a second video. A graphic image corresponding to the second video is generated based on the converted image information, and the generated graphic image and an image of the second video are synthesized. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20100079580 | Apparatus and method for biomedical imaging - This is an imaging system configured and optimized for capturing two dimensional images of a desired section of body tissue and converting these images into three dimensional virtual environment images. These three dimensional virtual environment images are then viewed at multiple immersive omnidirectional viewing angles. The viewing angles are then choreographed into a desired sequence to create a fly through sequence through the cellular layers of a desired section of body tissue. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20090284584 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - To provide an image processing device which, when synthesizing an image into a 3D image, realizes image synthesis free from artifacts by taking parallax of 3D image into consideration, and suppresses deterioration of image quality at block encoding. An image processing device | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100238269 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIDIMENSIONAL CARTOGRAPHY OF A STRUCTURAL SURFACE - System and method for tridimensional cartography of a structural surface. Two wires are extended in front and along the structural surface so as to define a reference surface. A measuring unit comprising a laser arrangement and a camera is moved in front of the structural surface so as to progressively scan the surface. Tow distinct light planes directed toward the structural surface are projected by means of the laser arrangement. Images of the structural surface containing lines resulting from an intersection of the light planes with the structural surface and four reference points resulting from an intersection of the light planes with the wires are captured by means of the camera. The images are processed to determine the 3D coordinates of the lines defining the mapping in a reference system bound to the reference surface considering the position and the orientation of the measuring unit based on the reference points. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110058020 | PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE VISUAL REPRESENTATION ON A DISPLAY - The invention provides a method, apparatus and computer program product for providing an interactive visual representation ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110109722 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A MEDIA SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for processing a media signal, comprising: receiving, by an audio processing apparatus, an audio signal including a first channel signal and a second channel signal; estimating center sound by applying a band-pass filter to the first channel signal and the second channel signal; obtaining a first ambient sound by subtracting the center sound from the first channel signal; obtaining a second ambient sound by subtracting the center sound from the second channel signal; applying at least one of delay and reverberation filter to at least one of the first ambient sound and the second ambient sound to generate a processed ambient sound; and, generating pseudo surround signal using the center sound and the processed ambient sound is provided. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110025822 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REAL-TIME MULTI-VIEW PRODUCTION - Methods and devices are disclosed, wherein from a stereo image having at least 2 perspectives additional (in general 8 or more) virtual perspectives can be produced, on condition that the time for the entire production process is less than the specified frame rate, and that simultaneously the multi-view image quality is maximized. It is not required that a disparity map exists. In general, the image regions that have not change between two stereo images of the image sequence are identified. In these regions, the associated disparity map also cannot have changed. In addition, the processing parameters are continuously adjusted through continuous time measurement during processing such that the quality is always at the maximum thereof. In this way, an adaptive method is obtained, which can also respond to load fluctuations of the underlying hardware device. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20090219383 | IMAGE DEPTH AUGMENTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Image depth augmentation system and method for providing three-dimensional views from a two-dimensional image. Depth information is assigned by the system to areas of a first image via a depth map. Foreground objects are enlarged to cover empty areas in the background as seen from a second viewpoint at an offset distance from a first viewpoint of the first image. The enlarged objects are used to regenerate the first image and to generate the second image so that empty background areas are covered with the enlarged foreground objects. The resulting image pair may be viewed using any type of three-dimensional encoding and viewing apparatus. Can use existing masks from non-3D projects to perform depth augmentation and dither mask edges to provide for realistic soft edges for depth augmented objects. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20110050853 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING 2D IMAGE DATA TO STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DATA - Methods and Systems are provided for converting a two-dimensional image sequence into a three-dimensional image. In one embodiment, a method for converting a two-dimensional image sequence into a three-dimensional image includes determining camera motion parameters between consecutive images in a monoscopic sequence of reference 2D images, wherein the consecutive images comprise a current reference image and an adjacent image, determining a horizontal disparity map for a target image using the camera motion parameters, determining a disparity probability value for each disparity vector of the disparity map, and determining a target image as a weighted average of pixel values in the current reference image using the disparity probability values, such that the target image and current reference image comprise a stereoscopic image pair. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110149039 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING NEW 3-D VIDEO REPRESENTATION FROM 2-D VIDEO - The present invention relates to a device and a method for allowing a user to reproduce new 3-D scene from one or two or more given 2-D video frames that already exist. The present invention provides a device and a method for automating post-image processing requiring a lot of manual work, thereby making it possible to produce and edit new 3-D representation from the existing 2-D video. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110134220 | 3D VISUALIZATION SYSTEM - In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides a real-time 3D visualization system. The system includes means for conveying electromagnetic energy emanating from one or more 3D surfaces including a scene and means for sensing spatial phase characteristics of the electromagnetic energy as the configuration of the 3D surfaces relative to the system changes. The system includes means for creating a 3D scene model utilizing the spatial phase characteristics sensed in a plurality of configurations and means for displaying the 3D scene model in real-time. The means for displaying includes means for synthesizing depth cues. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110080469 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image signal processing apparatus that supplies entire circumferential viewpoint images including plural viewpoint images respectively corresponding to plural viewpoints provided on a circumference around a subject to an image display apparatus that displays a stereoscopic image of the subject seen from an entire circumference, includes: arranging means for arranging the input entire circumferential viewpoint images in a time-series sequence by regarding corresponding differences in viewpoints as differences in an imaging sequence; and encoding means for treating the respective viewpoint images arranged in the time-series sequence by regarding the differences in viewpoints as differences in the imaging sequence as single frames and encoding the viewpoint images using an encoding method including at least inter-frame prediction to generate video encoded signals. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20120026289 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEMORY PRODUCT - The video processing device enhances the perceived depth of video image obtained by an image obtaining unit, and is provided with: a depth information obtaining unit that obtains depth information indicating the distance in the depth direction of each of a plurality of image portions included in the video image; an image dividing unit that divides the video image, based on the depth information and the video image, into a plurality of image portions having different distances in the depth direction; and an image combining unit that combines the image portions divided at the image dividing unit and a depth-enhancing image used for enhancing the depth of the video image such that the depth-enhancing image is superposed onto one image portion and further that the other image portion having a shorter distance in the depth direction than the one image portion is superposed onto the depth-enhancing image. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120314030 | ESTIMATION OF OBJECT PROPERTIES IN 3D WORLD - Objects within two-dimensional (2D) video data are modeled by three-dimensional (3D) models as a function of object type and motion through manually calibrating a 2D image to the three spatial dimensions of a 3D modeling cube. Calibrated 3D locations of an object in motion in the 2D image field of view of a video data input are computed and used to determine a heading direction of the object as a function of the camera calibration and determined movement between the computed 3D locations. The 2D object image is replaced in the video data input with an object-type 3D polygonal model having a projected bounding box that best matches a bounding box of an image blob, the model oriented in the determined heading direction. The bounding box of the replacing model is then scaled to fit the object image blob bounding box, and rendered with extracted image features. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120268562 | IMAGE PROCESSING MODULE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF FOR 2D/3D IMAGES CONVERSION AND FRAME RATE CONVERSION - An image processing module including a depth acquiring unit, a motion estimation unit and a motion compensation unit is provided. The depth acquiring unit receives a plurality of original images and is configured to detect depth information of each original image. The motion estimation unit receives the original images and is configured to detect motion information of each original image. When the image processing module is in a normal mode, the motion estimation unit adjusts the motion information of each original image according to the detected depth information of each original image. The motion compensation unit performs interpolation and outputs a plurality of display images according to the original images and the adjusted motion information of each original image. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120092455 | VIDEO DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A video data processing system comprises a control module coupled with a source module for receiving video data from the source module, the video data being associated with at least one source viewpoint; and a view adjustment module coupled with the control module for generating at least one adjusted viewpoint of the video data based on at least one of a set viewpoint number and a number of the at least one source viewpoint. The set viewpoint number is associated with at least one of a viewpoint number of at least one previously received video data and a viewpoint number of at least one previously coupled player module. | 04-19-2012 |
