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20090128693 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Flicker occurs in a flicker-noticeable area consisting of pixels with no pixel value variations. An image processing device ( | 05-21-2009 |
20100046802 | DISTANCE ESTIMATION APPARATUS, DISTANCE ESTIMATION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND CAMERA - Attempts to achieve a higher resolution and a higher frame rate of a distance image when a distance to an object within a target space is estimated using the TOF method would cause CCD saturation due to shot noise or environment light, and lower distance precision. A distance estimation apparatus illuminates an object with illumination light for distance estimation emitted from a light source that can emit light (electromagnetic wave) having a predetermined illumination frequency, receives reflected light of the illumination light, obtains information about the distance from the apparatus to the object, generates distance image data based on the distance information, extracts edge information of a color image formed using a visible light component obtained in synchronization with the reflected light, and corrects distance information of a target part of the distance image using distance information of a neighboring part of the target part based on the edge information. | 02-25-2010 |
20100157115 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The invention achieves a visual processing device that can execute precise contrast adjustment on image signals that have been input and that does not cause discrepancies in the output timing of the image signals that are output. The visual processing device is provided with a gain-type visual processing portion that outputs a first gain signal having predetermined gain characteristics with respect to the input image signal, and a correction portion that corrects the input image signal based on the first gain signal. | 06-24-2010 |
20100214310 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image processing apparatus transforms a color signal of a first color space defined by a predetermined standard into a color signal of a second color space which is defined according to display characteristics of a display device and has a color gamut wider than a color gamut of the first color space, and outputs the transformed color signal. More specifically, the image processing apparatus includes: a first correction unit configured to, for each of color values making up the color signal of the first color space, correct a color value exceeding a first upper limit to the first upper limit and correct a color value falling below a first lower limit to the first lower limit, the first upper limit and the first lower limit being necessary for expressing the color gamut of the second color space; a color space transformation unit configured to transform the color signal of the first color space corrected by said first correction unit, into the color signal of the second color space; and a second correction unit configured to, for each of color values making up the color signal of the second color space generated by said color space transformation unit, (i) correct a color value exceeding a second upper limit to the second upper limit and correct a color value falling below a second lower limit to the second lower limit, and (ii) output the corrected values, the second upper limit and the second lower limit being values which can be displayed by the display device. | 08-26-2010 |
20100309216 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, VISUAL PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A visual processing device that achieves gradation processing and further enhances a visual effect. The visual processing device | 12-09-2010 |
20110025890 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The invention achieves a visual processing device that can execute precise contrast adjustment on image signals that have been input and that does not cause discrepancies in the output timing of the image signals that are output. The visual processing device is provided with a gain-type visual processing portion that outputs a first gain signal having predetermined gain characteristics with respect to the input image signal, and a correction portion that corrects the input image signal based on the first gain signal. | 02-03-2011 |
20110051118 | DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE, DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A distance measuring device using a multiple wave enables measurement of long distances with a high resolution and with a high precision by significantly reducing the circuit scale required for demultiplexing circuitry. A distance measuring device ( | 03-03-2011 |
20110063437 | DISTANCE ESTIMATING DEVICE, DISTANCE ESTIMATING METHOD, PROGRAM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND CAMERA - Conventionally, there has been a danger that CCD saturation may occur because of the influence of the shot noise and the environment light if a higher resolution of a distance image showing the distance to an object present in a target space and a higher frame rate are achieved when the distance image is estimated by the TOF method, and the distance accuracy may degrade. An emission frequency selecting unit ( | 03-17-2011 |
20110128438 | COLOR SIGNAL CONVERTING APPARATUS, VIDEO DISPLAYING APPARATUS, COLOR SIGNAL CONVERTING METHOD, VIDEO DISPLAYING METHOD AND IMAGE DATA - The first color gamut conversion unit | 06-02-2011 |
20120262556 | DETECTING CROSSTALK ON A DISPLAY SURFACE COMPARTMENTALIZED INTO DISPLAY REGIONS BY IMAGE PATTERNS CONTAINED IN AN INPUT IMAGE SIGNAL TO A DISPLAY DEVICE - The instant application describes a method for detecting crosstalk on a display surface compartmentalized into display regions by image patterns that are contained in an input image signal to a display device. The method includes steps of: displaying a first image and a second image on a display surface, the first image including first pattern images having main regions depicted with different brightness from each other and the second image including second pattern images having the main regions and sub regions depicted with different brightness from the main regions; taking an image of the display surface to obtain image data; and comparing at least one of the first and second images with the image data to detect the crosstalk. The first and second pattern images are displayed in a center region at a center of the display surface and adjacent regions adjacent to the center region. | 10-18-2012 |
20130011048 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In the three-dimensional imaging device (three-dimensional image processing device), the depth acquisition unit acquires L depth information and R depth information from a three-dimensional image. The image correction unit adjusts disparities of edge portion areas of a subject based on the L depth information and the R depth information such that the normal positions of the edge portion areas of the subject are farther away. Accordingly, when a three-dimensional image acquired by the three-dimensional imaging device is three-dimensionally displayed, the edge areas of the subject are displayed having a sense of roundness. As a result, a three-dimensional image that has been subjected to processing by this three-dimensional image processing device is a high-quality three-dimensional image that can appropriately reproduce the three-dimensional appearance and sense of thickness of the subject and has little of the cardboard effect. | 01-10-2013 |
20130195349 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE-PICKUP METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sense of three-dimensionality and thickness is restored to a subject and a high-quality three-dimensional image with a low sense of a cardboard cutout effect is obtained, regardless of the cause of the cardboard cutout effect. In a three-dimensional image capturing apparatus (three-dimensional image processing apparatus) ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130294682 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In a three-dimensional image capturing apparatus (three-dimensional image processing apparatus), a depth obtainment unit obtains L depth information and R depth information from a three-dimensional image, and an image correction unit executes a smoothing process on an end part region of the subject based on the L depth information and the R depth information. As a result, the three-dimensional image processed by the three-dimensional image processing apparatus is a high-quality three-dimensional image that correctly expresses a sense of three-dimensionality and thickness in the subject and that has a low sense of a cardboard cutout effect. | 11-07-2013 |
20130294683 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A three-dimensional image processing device for performing image correction processing on a three-dimensionally-viewed image includes a conversion unit and a composition unit. The conversion unit generates a converted image by performing tone conversion on a pixel value in an object included in the three-dimensionally-viewed image based on a relationship between a pixel value of a pixel of interest that is a processing target and a pixel value of a peripheral pixel of the pixel of interest. The composition unit synthesizes an n-th pixel in a first viewpoint image included in the three-dimensionally-viewed image and a corresponding pixel in a second viewpoint image included in the three-dimensionally-viewed image with a distribution ratio that is based on a subject distance of the n-th pixel. The corresponding pixel is located in the same spatial location as the n-th pixel. | 11-07-2013 |
20140205182 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An apparatus including: an acquiring unit operable to acquire a stereoscopic view image which includes a left eye image and a right eye image, the stereoscopic view image representing a stereoscopic image by means of parallax between the left eye image and the right eye image; an extracting unit operable to extract a subject region from the acquired stereoscopic view image, the subject region giving a stereoscopic image of a specific subject; a calculating unit operable to calculate a length of the extracted subject region in a parallax direction; and an image correcting unit operable to adjust parallax at an edge of the subject region based on the calculated length of the subject region in the parallax direction. | 07-24-2014 |