Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080253454 | CODING APPARTUS, CODING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR CODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING CODING METHOD - A coding apparatus includes: an intra-coding complexity detecting section that detects an intra-coding complexity indicating a complexity of an intra-coding process; an inter-coding complexity detecting section that detects an inter-coding complexity indicating a complexity of an inter-coding process; a characteristic curve calculating section that calculates a characteristic curve indicating a value of strength data indicating the strength of a deblocking filter with a data amount per unit time of coded data as a variable, on the basis of the intra-coding complexity and the inter-coding complexity; and a strength value calculating section that calculates a value of the strength data by substituting a data amount of the coded data into the characteristic curve. | 10-16-2008 |
20090060284 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Computer Program - An image processing apparatus for generating a motion compensation image. The image processing apparatus includes: a pixel-relative-position calculation section calculating a relative position between a pixel position of a pixel constituting the motion compensation image and a pixel position of a reference pixel of a reference image to be used for calculating a pixel value of the pixel on the basis of motion vector information; a relative-position quantization section performing quantization processing of relative-position information calculated by the pixel-relative-position calculation section and generating quantized-relative-position information; and a motion-compensation-image generation section generating a motion compensation image by calculating a pixel value of a constituent pixel of the motion compensation image on the basis of the quantized-relative-position information and a pixel value of the reference pixel. | 03-05-2009 |
20090074071 | Apparatus and Method for Image Processing and Computer Program - An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A local motion vector estimation unit estimates a local motion vector associated with each of blocks, serving as segments of an image frame constituting a moving image. A block weight calculation unit calculates a block weight as an index of the reliability of a local motion vector for each block. A global motion vector estimation unit receives the local motion vectors and the weights to estimate a global motion vector as a motion vector common to the blocks in the frame. The global motion vector estimation unit calculates, as a cost, the sum of the products of the differences between the local motion vectors associated with the respective blocks and the global motion vector and the block weights assigned to the respective blocks subjected to difference calculation and calculates parameters of the global motion vector which minimize the cost. | 03-19-2009 |
20090092337 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an image correction processing unit configured to correct an input image so as to generate a corrected image and a super-resolution processing unit configured to receive the corrected image generated by the image correction processing unit and increase a resolution of the corrected image through super-resolution processing so as to generate a high-resolution image. The image correction processing unit performs at least one of a time-direction noise removal process, a space-direction noise removal process, a compression noise removal process, and an aperture control correction process. | 04-09-2009 |
20100119176 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus that converts an input image having first resolution into an output image having second resolution higher than the first resolution includes a super-resolution processing unit that converts the input image into an SR image having the second resolution through motion compensation, a motion mask generating unit that generates a motion mask indicating an accuracy of estimation, an edge direction information generating unit that generates edge direction information indicating an edge direction of each area of the input image, a weight map generating unit that generates a weight map indicating likelihood of the edge direction of each of the areas, an interpolation processing unit that converts the input image into an interpolated image having the second resolution, a weight computing unit that computes a weight, and an image generating unit that generates the output image by constructing a weighted sum of the SR image and interpolated image. | 05-13-2010 |
20100123792 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing device, which includes: super-resolution processing executing section which inputs a low-resolution image and a super-resolution image and generates a difference image which represents a difference between the input images; and an adding section which adds the difference image and the super-resolution image, wherein super-resolution processing executing section includes a motion vector detecting section which detects a object-based motion vector which represents a motion between images of an object commonly included in the low-resolution image and the super-resolution image on an object basis, and generates the difference image using a motion-compensated image generated by applying the detected object-based motion vector to each object area. | 05-20-2010 |
20100157072 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a section that detects a local motion vector for each block forming an image from a standard image and a reference image; a section that executes motion compensation on the reference image employing the local motion vector to generate a local motion-compensated image; a section that calculates a single global motion vector for the entire standard image and the entire reference image employing the local motion vector and that executes motion compensation on the reference image employing the global motion vector to generate a global motion-compensated image; and a section that calculates respective reliabilities of the local motion-compensated image and the global motion-compensated image in units of image regions and that executes a process to synthesize pixel values of the local motion-compensated image and pixel values of the global motion-compensated image in accordance with the reliabilities to generate a blended motion-compensated image. | 06-24-2010 |
20100157073 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a motion prediction processor configured to detect a motion vector that indicates inter-image motion between a current image and a reference image; a motion compensation processor configured to perform a motion compensation process for the reference image by using the motion vector and generate a motion compensated image; an addition processor configured to generate a noise reduced image in which noise of the current image is reduced by adding the current image and the motion compensated image; an addition determination unit configured to compute an addition weight in units of pixels of the motion compensated image; a down-sampling processor configured to perform a process for reducing the current image and the motion compensated image; and an up-sampling processor configured to perform a process for expanding an addition coefficient map that is an output of the addition determination unit. | 06-24-2010 |
20100183232 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processor performing super-resolution of converting an input image with first resolution to an output image with second resolution higher than the first resolution on consecutive input images includes a prediction unit predicting the output image with the second resolution of a current frame using the input image of the current frame and the output image obtained by the super-resolution on an input image of a previous frame; a generation unit generating a reduced image with the first resolution composed of pixels at different phases of the prediction image using a prediction image obtained by the prediction of the prediction unit; a difference calculation unit calculating a difference between the input image of the current frame and the reduced image; and an addition unit adding the difference up-sampled to the second resolution to the prediction image, thus generating the output image with the second resolution of the current frame. | 07-22-2010 |
20100183245 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processor performing super-resolution of converting an input image with first resolution to an output image with second resolution higher than the first resolution on consecutive input images includes a prediction unit predicting the output image with the second resolution of a current frame using the input image of the current frame and the output image obtained by the super-resolution on an input image of a previous frame; a generation unit generating a reduced image with the first resolution composed of pixels at different phases of the prediction image using a prediction image obtained by the prediction of the prediction unit; a difference calculation unit calculating a difference between the input image of the current frame and the reduced image; and an addition unit adding the difference up-sampled to the second resolution to the prediction image, thus generating the output image with the second resolution of the current frame. | 07-22-2010 |
20100259649 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A photographing apparatus is provided, which includes: a correction data acquiring section that acquires correction data for image correction; a recording section that records the correction data acquired by the correction data acquiring section; a photographing condition acquiring section that acquires image photographing conditions; a retrieving section that retrieves the correction data, corresponding to the photographing conditions acquired by the photographing condition acquiring section, from the correction data recorded in the recording section; and a photographing section that photographs an image on the basis of the correction data retrieved by the retrieving section. | 10-14-2010 |
20110122953 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method that allow the generation of a high-accuracy prediction image without increasing the processing load. | 05-26-2011 |
20110194607 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method, and Program - An information processing device includes a bit conversion unit that performs reduction in a bit number allocated to a pixel for a criterion image and a reference image and generates a criterion image and a reference image which are hierarchized according to a bit number allocated to a pixel, and a motion vector detection unit that performs coarse detection of a motion vector by block matching using the criterion image and the reference image of which a bit number is reduced, decides a search range for fine detection of a motion vector based on the motion vector detected by the coarse detection, and performs fine detection of a motion vector using an image in the search range which belongs to a hierarchy equal to or more than an image used in the coarse detection in a bit number allocated to a pixel. | 08-11-2011 |
20110211765 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSNIG METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a super resolving processor including: a high frequency estimator which generates difference image information between a low resolution image input as a processing object image of a super resolving process and a mid-processing image of the super resolving process or a processed image, that is, an initial image; and a calculator which performs a process of updating the processed image through a process of calculation between the difference image information output from the high frequency estimator and the processed image, wherein the high frequency estimator performs a learning type data process using learned data in the difference image information generating process. | 09-01-2011 |
20110235942 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a motion prediction processing unit detecting an inter-image motion between a standard image and a reference image; a motion compensation processing unit generating a motion-compensated image by moving the reference image so as to be aligned with the standard image in a pixel position; an addition processing unit generating a noise-reduced image from which noise of the standard image is reduced; and an addition determination unit calculating an addition weight of the motion-compensated image. The addition determination unit includes a first motion region detection unit calculating a motion region determination value, a second motion region detection unit calculating a motion region determination value, a control map generation unit selecting and outputting one of two motion region determination values, a noise determination table generation unit generating or correcting a noise determination table, and an addition determination processing execution unit determining the addition weight. | 09-29-2011 |
20110274368 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: an upsampling section; a motion compensated image generating section; a blend processing section; and an output image generating section. | 11-10-2011 |
20110274370 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including an up-sampling section configured to carry out up-sampling processing in order to generate an up-sampled image, a motion-compensated image generation section configured to generate a motion-compensated image as a result of correction processing to adjust a referenced image having the second resolution to a photographing-object position on the up-sampled image by making use of information on a difference between the up-sampled image and the referenced image, a blending processing section configured to generate a blended image as a result of blending processing to blend the up-sampled image with the referenced image, and an output-image generation section configured to receive and process the blended image as well as the up-sampled image in order to generate an output blended image obtained by blending a super-resolution processing-result image with a noise-reduction processing-result image. | 11-10-2011 |
20110310302 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a superimposition processing unit that performs a blending process for a plurality of continuously captured images, wherein the superimposition processing unit is configured to selectively input luminance signal information of a RAW image or a full color image as a processing target image and perform a superimposition process, and performs a process for sequentially updating data that is stored in a memory for storing two image frames so as to enable superimposition of any desired number of images. | 12-22-2011 |
20120019725 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of addition means and an image processing means. The addition means performs addition processing of adding pixels of a differential image at a second resolution representing a difference between an inputted image at a first resolution and an image at the second resolution higher than the first resolution as pixels of an inputted image at the second resolution. The image processing means is configured to perform second and subsequent addition processing, and generate an image of the second resolution as a processing result by performing the addition processing for a predetermined number of times. The addition processing is performed with inputs of an image at the first resolution and an image at the second resolution obtained by an immediately preceding addition processing, which are different from each other. | 01-26-2012 |
20120269451 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an apparatus including: a low-bit criterion image generation unit that reduces a bit number assigned to a pixel in a criterion image and generates low-bit criterion image data; a low bit reference image generation unit that reduces a bit number of a reference mage and generates low-bit reference image data; and a motion vector information generation unit that detects a block-unit local motion vector from the low-bit criterion/reference images and calculates reliability of the detected local motion vector. By reducing the image bit number, it is possible to detect a local motion vector in a simple configuration. By calculating a global motion vector using a local motion vector according to reliability, even if a local motion vector is detected from an image of the reduced bit number, it is possible to calculate a global motion vector at higher accuracy. | 10-25-2012 |
20120308144 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - A clustering unit obtains a distance between a local motion vector obtained per block of a predetermined size and a representative motion vector for each of clusters stored in a delay buffer, classifies the local motion vector into a cluster to which the motion vector having the shortest distance belongs, and outputs the information of the classified clusters and the local motion vectors. Average value calculation units accumulate an average motion vector by accumulating the local motion vectors of the respective clusters, and output the average motion vector as a motion vector representing the cluster. A global motion vector determination unit outputs the motion vector having the largest number of elements in its cluster among the motion vectors representing the clusters as the global motion vector. The present technology may be applied an image processing device. | 12-06-2012 |
20120314093 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus for correcting a motion blur or an out-of-focus blur of images continuous in time, including an extraction unit for extracting a frequency component not included in an image of interest using a predetermined filter from a corrected image in which the motion blur or the out-of-focus blur is corrected as an image temporally previous to the image of interest aligned with the image of interest, and a synthesis unit for synthesizing the frequency component extracted by the extraction unit with the image of interest. | 12-13-2012 |
20120328208 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a low-bit basic image generating part for generating a low-bit basic image having a low bit depth, a low-bit reference image generating part for generating a low-bit reference image having a low bit depth, a feature value calculating part for calculating a feature value indicating a non-flatness of brightness information of the basic image, a cost value calculating part for calculating a cost value at each of reference block positions in a block matching between the low-bit basic image and the low-bit reference image using the feature value and an estimated motion vector, and a block matching part for calculating a motion vector at each of the reference block positions based on an evaluation value obtained by the block matching between the low-bit basic image and the low-bit reference image after correcting the evaluation value using the calculated cost value. | 12-27-2012 |
20130011081 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a frequency separation unit that reduces an input image, restores the reduced input image to an image size before reduction, calculates a difference from the input image before reduction, and separates the input image into a reduced image and a difference image, an image processing unit that processes at least either one of the reduced image or the difference image, and a synthesizing processing unit that synthesizes the reduced image and the difference image, at least either one of which is image-processed, at a same image size. | 01-10-2013 |
20130084017 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a motion estimation processing section that detects a motion vector of block units which configure an image from a standard image and a reference image; a motion compensation processing section that produces a motion compensation image by performing motion compensation of the reference image using the motion vector; a difference calculation section that calculates a difference value between pixel values of a pixels of the standard image and pixel values of pixels of the motion compensation image; and a threshold value processing section that determines whether block noise is contained in the motion compensation image of a block unit or not by performing a threshold value processing on the difference value. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084024 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a local-motion-compensation-processing unit which generates a local-motion-compensation image by detecting a local motion vector, which is a motion vector for each block forming an image, from a standard image and a reference image, and performing motion compensation on the reference image using the local motion vector, a global-motion-compensation-processing unit which generates a global-motion-compensation image by calculating a global motion vector, which is a motion vector for an entire image between the standard image and the reference image, using the local motion vector, and performing motion compensation on the reference image using the global motion vector, and a blend processing unit which generates a blend-motion-compensation image by combining a pixel value of a pixel in the local-motion-compensation image and a pixel value of a pixel in the global-motion-compensation image based on a noise intensity for a luminance value of an image. | 04-04-2013 |
20130135448 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a viewpoint separating unit configured to separate multi-viewpoint image data, including images of multiple viewpoints and representing intensity distribution of light and the direction of travel of light according to positions and pixel values of pixels, into a plurality of single-viewpoint image data for each of the individual viewpoints; and a parallax control unit configured to control amount of parallax between the plurality of single-viewpoint image data obtained by separation into individual viewpoints by the viewpoint separating unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20140086479 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, OUTPUT APPARATUS, OUTPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a learning unit that learns a plurality of base signals of which coefficients become sparse, using a cost function including a term showing a correspondence between the coefficients, such that signals are represented by a linear operation of the plurality of base signals. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086480 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, OUTPUT APPARATUS, OUTPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a learning unit that learns a plurality of base signals of which coefficients become sparse, for each of features of signals, such that the signals are represented by a linear operation of the plurality of base signals. | 03-27-2014 |
20140204228 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An amplification detection unit detects an amplification of a motion of an image in a motion correction with respect to the motion of the image generated by the motion, according to motion information which indicates a motion detection result and a frame rate of the image. An information suppressing unit suppresses the motion indicated by the motion information based on the detection result of the amplification detection unit such that the motion of the image is not amplified in the motion correction, and generates corrected motion information used in the motion correction. | 07-24-2014 |
20140375843 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a superimposition processing unit that performs a blending process for a plurality of continuously captured images, wherein the superimposition processing unit is configured to selectively input luminance signal information of a RAW image or a full color image as a processing target image and perform a superimposition process, and performs a process for sequentially updating data that is stored in a memory for storing two image frames so as to enable superimposition of any desired number of images. | 12-25-2014 |
20150036003 | IMAGING CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING CONTROLLING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an imaging control device including a result receiving unit configured to receive an example image selected by an image processing device used for image processing using image information, the image information being information regarding an image captured by an imaging unit used for image capturing, a selection result transmitting unit configured to transmit information regarding the example image received by the result receiving unit to the image processing device, a setting receiving unit configured to receive setting information generated by the image processing device based on the example image transmitted from the selection result transmitting unit, the setting information indicating a setting condition when image capturing is performed like the example image, and a setting change unit configured to change an imaging setting of the imaging unit using the setting information received by the setting receiving unit. | 02-05-2015 |