Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100195898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF DEPTH IMAGE - A method and apparatus for enhancing quality of a depth image are provided. A method for enhancing quality of a depth image includes: receiving a multi-view image including a left image, a right image, and a center image; receiving a current depth image frame and a previous depth image frame of the current depth image frame; setting an intensity difference value corresponding to a specific disparity value of the current depth image frame by using the current depth image frame and the previous depth image frame; setting a disparity value range including the specific disparity value; and setting an intensity difference value corresponding to the disparity value range of the current depth image frame by using the multi-viewpoint image. | 08-05-2010 |
20100315490 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DEPTH INFORMATION - An apparatus for generating depth information, includes: a projector configured to project a predetermined pattern to an object to be photographed; a left camera configured to acquire a left image of a structured light image which is generated by projecting the predetermined pattern to the object; a right camera configured to acquire a right image of the structured light image; a depth information generating unit configured to determine correspondence points based on the left image, the right image and the structured light pattern, to generate depth information of the image, to determine the depth information by applying a stereo matching method to the left image and the right image when the structured light pattern cannot be applied to a field of the image, and to generate depth information of entire image based on the acquired depth information. | 12-16-2010 |
20110149031 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE, MULTI-VIEW IMAGE, AND DEPTH IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a camera apparatus, including: a camera unit including at least two cameras to acquire a stereoscopic image; a camera control unit to adjust a view angle of the at least two cameras and an interval between the at least two cameras; a depth information obtainment unit to obtain depth information from the stereoscopic image; and an intermediate image generator to generate an intermediate image based on the stereoscopic image and the depth information. | 06-23-2011 |
20110261883 | MULTI- VIEW VIDEO CODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided is a multi-view video coding/decoding method and apparatus which uses coded and decoded multi-view videos to code and decode depth information videos corresponding to the multi-view videos. The multi-view video coding method includes: controlling the scales of first and second depth information videos corresponding to a multi-view video such that the scales are equalized; and coding the second depth information video, of which the scale is controlled, by referring to the first depth information video of which the scale is controlled. | 10-27-2011 |
20130083165 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING TEXTURE IMAGE AND DEPTH IMAGE - Provided are an apparatus and method for extracting a texture image and a depth image. The apparatus of the present invention may project a pattern image on a target object, may capture a scene image on which the target image is reflected from the target object, and may simultaneously extract the texture image and the depth image using the scene image. | 04-04-2013 |
20140211286 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DIGITAL HOLOGRAM - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for generating a digital hologram for reproducing a 3D stereoscopic image, and more particularly, an apparatus and a method for generating a digital hologram, which generate the digital hologram by receiving a depth information pre-processing process of generating first depth map information constituted by a first depth level and second depth map information constituted a second depth level by receiving color image information from an imaging unit. | 07-31-2014 |
20140300941 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING HOLOGRAM BASED ON MULTI-VIEW IMAGE - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for generating a hologram based on a multi-view image. The method of generating a hologram image may include receiving a multi-view image and calculating depth information about an image at each view of the multi-view image, calculating an integrated 3-D space datum based on the multi-view image and the pieces of depth information, and generating hologram information from the integrated 3-D space datum. Accordingly, a natural 3-D image can be played because a 3-D image corresponding to an observer view is reproduced without a process of generating in-between view images and pieces of corresponding depth information when the observer moves. | 10-09-2014 |
20150192898 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AND EVALUATING FIELD OF VIEW (FOV) OF RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE OF HOLOGRAM - An apparatus and method for measuring and evaluating a field of view (FOV) that measures an FOV of a reconstructed image of a hologram, and evaluates a quality of the reconstructed image of the hologram is provided, the apparatus configured to photograph an optically reconstructed hologram image based on an integral imaging scheme to obtain an integral image, measure FOV information using the integral image, calculate FOV information of a source based on three-dimensional (3D) stereoscopic information used in the optical reconstruction of the hologram image, and evaluate an FOV reconstruction quality of the hologram image. | 07-09-2015 |