Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080198247 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Provided is an image capturing apparatus capable of outputting an image in a form displayable by a display apparatus, while making use of a space resolution and a temporal resolution of a captured image. A monitoring system includes an image capturing section that captures an image; an output image generating section that generates an output image from the image captured by the image capturing section; a matching determining section that determines whether an object that matches a predetermined condition exists in the image captured by the image capturing section; and an output section that outputs, by embedding in the output image, an image of a subject indicated by the object having a data amount larger than a data amount of an image of the object in the output image. | 08-21-2008 |
20090263021 | MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD AND PROGRAM - In order to appropriately detect abnormalities for the purpose of surveillance with it being possible to prevent an unnecessary increase in data amount of the monitoring images, a monitoring system includes an image capturing section that captures a moving image of a monitored area, a variation reduced image generating section that generates a variation reduced image by reducing a temporal variation in an image, based on a plurality of moving-image making-up images included in the moving image captured by the image capturing section, a condition storing section that stores thereon a condition which is required to be satisfied by a variation reduced image which is generated by using a plurality of moving-image making-up images included in a moving image which is judged to show an abnormality, a satisfaction judging section that judges whether the variation reduced image generated by the variation reduced image generating section satisfies the condition, an output moving image generating section that, when the satisfaction judging section judges negatively, generates an output moving image which has a lower image quality than when the satisfaction judging section judges positively, based on the moving image captured by the image capturing section, and an output section that outputs the output moving image generated by the output moving image generating section. | 10-22-2009 |
20110122295 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AN IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD AND A MACHINE READABLE MEDIUM STORING THEREON A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CAPTURING AN IMAGE OF A RANGE WIDER THAN AN IMAGE CAPTURE DESIGNATION RANGE - It is an object to provide an image of a desired composition in case the user is unsatisfied with the composition of an image already captured. | 05-26-2011 |
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20090231442 | PORTRAIT MEDIUM FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATION, AND APPARATUSES FOR PRODUCING, INVALIDATING, AND REISSUING THE SAME - To easily produce and/or invalidate a portrait medium without a special photographing admitting organization. | 09-17-2009 |
20110221967 | MOTION VECTOR MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - A motion vector at an object pixel position in an object frame in a moving image is measured based on the object frame and a previous frame. At this time, for each object pixel in the object frame, a motion-vector distribution in a motion-vector detection space defined by a predetermined number of pixels is calculated by calculating scores, each representing a correlation between the object pixel and a pixel in the previous frame corresponding to the object pixel, with shifting the previous frame relative to the object frame in a range of the predetermined number of pixels. Then, a motion vector at the object pixel is detected based on differences between the score at the center position in the motion-vector detection space and the scores at positions other than the center position, and whether or not the motion vector is erroneously measured is determined based on the motion-vector distribution. | 09-15-2011 |
20120057759 | OBJECT ESTIMATION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Efficient and accurate estimation of the position and size of an object is achieved. Convolution of an image with a smoothing filter is repeated to generate a plurality of smoothed images L(x, y, σ | 03-08-2012 |
20130011012 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - When scores of classifiers for discriminating an image to be discriminated are sequentially obtained in a predetermined order, positions of saturated pixels in the image to be discriminated are detected. For each classifier which outputs the score based on pixel values at the detected position, the score is obtained by obtaining a value determined based on a difference between a discontinuing threshold set in advance correspondingly to the identified classifier and a discontinuing threshold set in advance correspondingly to a classifier immediately before the identified classifier. For each of the other classifiers, the score is obtained by obtaining an output obtained by applying the classifier to the image to be discriminated. A sum of the scores obtained so far is compared with the discontinuing threshold. If the sum exceeds the discontinuing threshold, the score of the next classifier is obtained. | 01-10-2013 |