Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080260292 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image generation apparatus for generating, from an input image, a plurality of phase images having lower resolutions than the input image and overlapping each other with a predetermined amount of shift when being projected onto a projection plane. The apparatus includes when the plurality of phase images are projected onto the projection plane, means for relating an area formed by a predetermined pixel of the plurality of phase images overlapping individually to a predetermined pixel of the input image, and calculating a pixel value of a pixel of the phase images having a smallest difference between a pixel value of the corresponding area and a pixel value of a pixel of the input image. | 10-23-2008 |
20090100767 | AUDIO-VISUAL SYSTEM - There is a need for being able to excellently audiovisually receive contents without disordering a room atmosphere. An audiovisual room | 04-23-2009 |
20090128643 | Image Pickup Apparatus, Method for Capturing Image, and Method for Designing Image Pickup Apparatus - The present invention relates to an image pickup apparatus, a method for capturing an image, and a method for designing the image pickup apparatus capable of realising a fixed focal length image pickup apparatus of high resolution and fine resolution at a low cost by disposing a plurality of image pickup elements therein. An image pickup device | 05-21-2009 |
20090161028 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROJECTING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROJECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus receives first and second input image signals and generates first and second projection image signals for projecting images from first and second projectors so as to be superimposed on a screen. A storage unit stores, for each projection position on the screen, intensity ratios between projected light from the first and second projectors when viewing from first and second viewing position. An intensity correcting unit adds the first and second input image signals in proportions set for generating the first projection image signal and in proportions set for generating the second projection image signal, according to the stored intensity ratios. The first projection image signal is supplied to the first projector and the second projection image signal is supplied to the second projector. | 06-25-2009 |
20090201314 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORD MEDIUM - An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a detection section, an image forming section, and a display process section. The detection section detects a user's watching state. The image forming section that forms a display image which is displayed on a screen based on a plurality of images and changes the display image based on a detected result of the detection section. The display process section which performs a process of displaying the display image formed by the image forming section. | 08-13-2009 |
20090201588 | ILLUMINATING DEVICE, ILLUMINATING METHOD, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROJECTING APPARATUS - An illuminating device is provided. The illuminating device includes a light source, a dividing unit, an optical unit and a light-distribution control unit. The dividing unit is configured to divide light emitted from the light source into light beams. The optical unit is configured to allow at least one of a travelling direction and a focal length of the light beams divided by the dividing unit to be variable. The light-distribution control unit is configured to control at least one of the travelling direction and focal length of light beams by acting on the optical unit. | 08-13-2009 |
20090213335 | Image projecting system, image projecting method, computer program, and recording medium - An image projecting system is provided. The image projecting system includes a plurality of projector apparatuses, an observation apparatus, and a control apparatus. The projector apparatuses project images based on inputted image signals onto a screen so that the images are displaced relative to one another by a predetermined amount and superimposed. The observation apparatus observes luminance of an image region composed of a plurality of images projected onto the screen by the plurality of projector apparatuses. The control apparatus supplies the plurality of projector apparatuses with the image signals having an adjusted luminance value of each pixel for an image projected by each projector apparatus based on an observation result of the observation apparatus. | 08-27-2009 |
20090213337 | Image projecting system, method, computer program and recording medium - A plurality of projector apparatuses project images based on inputted image signals onto a screen so that the images are displaced relative to one another by a predetermined amount and superimposed. The luminances of an image region composed of a plurality of projected images that have been projected onto the screen are observed. Luminance values of pixels that construct an image to be projected by each projector apparatus are adjusted based on an observation result and are supplied to the plurality of projector apparatuses. The image region composed of the plurality of projected images is presented by superimposing a first projected image and a second projected image that has a higher resolution than the first projected image. Predetermined pixels in the image region are presented by superimposing corresponding pixels in the projected images from n adjacent projector apparatuses. | 08-27-2009 |
20090251482 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an amount-of-feature detection section configured to determine an amount of features of a first image and an amount of features of a second image, the first image and the second image containing the same subject; an elimination-area detection section configured to eliminate, from the second image, an area in which the amount of features extracted by the amount-of-feature detection section is larger than a predetermined threshold and to provide the second image in which the eliminated area is transparent; and an image combination section configured to superimpose the second image in which the eliminated area is transparent on the first image. | 10-08-2009 |
20090252379 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a feature value detecting section, an image processing section, and an audio processing section. The feature value detecting section determines, when a first image and a second image that are captured at different positions include a specific subject, a feature value of the subject included in the supplied first and second images. The image processing section detects motion of the subject on the basis of the feature value determined by the feature value detecting section. The audio processing section localizes a sound image of the subject in accordance with the motion of the subject detected by the image processing section. | 10-08-2009 |
20090271732 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit to which an image of an object picked up by an image pickup device is input, a display device on which the image is presented, an image presenting unit configured to present the image on the display device; a viewpoint detecting unit configured to detect a viewpoint position of a user, and a control unit configured to supply, to the image presenting unit, the image in an area extracted corresponding to an image frame of a display surface of the display device when the image is viewed through the display surface from the viewpoint position of the user detected by the viewpoint detecting unit. | 10-29-2009 |
20090303384 | VIDEO-SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, VIDEO-SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND VIDEO-SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A video-signal processing apparatus includes a video-signal input unit to which a video signal including multiple images arranged in a time sequential manner is input; a time-division output unit configured to output, in a time-division manner, the video signal constituting n images corresponding to the multiple images; signal processing units configured to individually perform image quality adjustments on the n images output from the time-division output unit; operation input units through which adjustment values of the image quality adjustments performed by the signal processing units are input; and image output units configured to output images that have been subjected to the image quality adjustments using the signal processing units. | 12-10-2009 |
20090324135 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging information calculation unit acquiring a first image and higher-resolution second images, and calculating coordinate positions of the second images to the first image and differences in imaging direction between second cameras and a first camera; an eyepoint conversion unit generating eyepoint conversion images obtained by converting the second images based on the differences in imaging direction so that eyepoints of the second cameras coincide with an eyepoint of the first camera and matching the first image with the eyepoint conversion images to calculate phase deviations of the eyepoint conversion images from the first image; and an image synthesizing unit extracting high-frequency images, having frequency components higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency band, from the second images, and pasting the high-frequency images at the coordinate positions in correspondence with the first image to eliminate the phase deviations to generate a synthesized image. | 12-31-2009 |
20130067148 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes an assignment unit and a determination unit. The assignment unit evaluates physical properties of each of a plurality of semiconductor memories constituting one storage device as a whole and assigns a usage attribute corresponding to an evaluation result to at least a part of the plurality of semiconductor memories. The determination unit determines a semiconductor memory having an optimal usage attribute as a write destination of data with respect to a write command of the data. | 03-14-2013 |
20130067177 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An information processing method includes: grouping temporarily consecutive data into a plurality of groups based on a reference defined in advance and storing the grouped data; reading, in response to an access request from an external apparatus, target data to be a target of the request from a first group including the target data and outputting the read target data to the external apparatus; and reading, in response to the reading of the target data, at least part of data from a second group different from the first group as read-ahead target data. | 03-14-2013 |