Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090028424 | Image processing method, image processing system, and image processing porgram - The process captures a plurality of images under a light source whose luminance varies over time, such as a fluorescent lamp, under such an imaging condition that a plurality of images that are different from one another in terms of light source conditions can be captured (S | 01-29-2009 |
20090067677 | Monitoring System and Vehicle Surrounding Monitoring System - A parameter selection section selects one from a plurality of image synthesis parameters stored in a parameter storage section according to an output of a vehicle state detection section. An image synthesis section reads out camera images from frame memories according to the selected image synthesis parameter and generates a synthesized image showing a state of vehicle surroundings. A moving object detection section detects, in the thus generated synthetic image, a moving object region estimated as a region where a moving object is present. | 03-12-2009 |
20090263044 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - An image generation apparatus generates a new video sequence with a high S/N ratio and suppressed motion blurs, from an original video sequence and a still image which are generated by capturing the same dark, moving object. The image generation apparatus includes: a capture condition decision unit ( | 10-22-2009 |
20100013948 | MULTI-COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A multi-color image processor according to the present invention includes an image capturing section | 01-21-2010 |
20100027879 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The process captures a plurality of images under a light source whose luminance varies over time, such as a fluorescent lamp, under such an imaging condition that a plurality of images that are different from one another in terms of light source conditions can be captured (S | 02-04-2010 |
20100103297 | IMAGE DATA GENERATION DEVICE, IMAGE DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND IMAGE DATA GENERATION PROGRAM - An image data generator | 04-29-2010 |
20100141764 | Monitoring System and Vehicle Surrounding Monitoring System - A parameter selection section selects one from a plurality of image synthesis parameters stored in a parameter storage section according to an output of a vehicle state detection section. An image synthesis section reads out camera images from frame memories according to the selected image synthesis parameter and generates a synthesized image showing a state of vehicle surroundings. A moving object detection section detects, in the thus generated synthetic image, a moving object region estimated as a region where a moving object is present. | 06-10-2010 |
20100149381 | IMAGE DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The shooting, recording and playback system | 06-17-2010 |
20100157149 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE COMPUTER PROGRAM, FRAME-TO-FRAME MOTION COMPUTING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus and method is provided to generate a moving picture with a high resolution, a high frame rate and a high SNR by eliminating a decrease in SNR even if the intensity of incoming light has been halved by a half mirror. The apparatus generates a multi-color moving picture based on first and second moving pictures, which respectively have first and second frame rates (where the second rate is higher than the first rate) and are comprised of pictures representing a first color component and pictures representing a second color component different from the first color component. The resolution of the second moving picture is equal to or lower than that of the first moving picture. The apparatus includes: a first image synthesizing section, which generates, based on the data of the first and second moving pictures, a synthetic picture by modifying some of the pictures that form the first moving picture and which outputs a synthesized moving picture corresponding to the first moving picture at a higher frame rate than the first frame rate by using the first moving picture and the synthetic picture; and a second image synthesizing section, which receives and synthesizes together the synthesized moving picture and the second moving picture, thereby generating a multi-color moving picture including the first and second color components. | 06-24-2010 |
20100166299 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - Corresponding points or a motion vector is generated with reduced positional error even if incoming images have been shot under different illumination conditions. | 07-01-2010 |
20100194911 | IMAGE DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The shooting, recording and playback system | 08-05-2010 |
20100315534 | IMAGE PICKING-UP PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PICKING-UP DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing device and an image processing method capable of generating a moving image having a high resolution and a high frame rate are provided by suppressing the reduction in the amount of light incident on each camera. The imaging and processing device includes a separation section for separating visible light into at least a first color component and a second color component; a first imaging section for taking a moving image of the first color component, wherein the first imaging section takes images of the moving image with a first spatial resolution and a first temporal resolution by exposure for a first charge accumulation time period; a second imaging section for taking a moving image of the second color component, wherein the second imaging section takes images of the moving image with a second spatial resolution higher than the first spatial resolution and a second temporal resolution lower than the first temporal resolution by exposure for a second charge accumulation time period longer than the first charge accumulation time period; a control section for controlling imaging conditions of the first and the second imaging sections; and a processing section for generating a moving image of the second color component having the temporal and spatial resolutions thereof increased, based on information on the moving image of each of the first color component and the second color component. | 12-16-2010 |
20110002509 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTION METHOD AND MOVING OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS - A moving object detection method with which a region of a moving object is accurately extracted without being affected by a change in shape or size or occlusion of the moving object and in which a distance indicating a similarity between trajectories of an image in each of the blocks included in video is calculated (S | 01-06-2011 |
20110091073 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND MOVING OBJECT DETECTION METHOD - To provide a moving object detection apparatus which accurately performs region extraction, regardless of the pose or size of a moving object. The moving object detection apparatus includes: an image receiving unit receiving the video sequence; a motion analysis unit calculating movement trajectories based on motions of the image; a segmentation unit performing segmentation so as to divide the movement trajectories into subsets, and setting a part of the movement trajectories as common points shared by the subsets; a distance calculation unit calculating a distance representing a similarity between a pair of movement trajectories, for each of the subsets; a geodesic distance calculation unit transforming the calculated distance into a geodesic distance; an approximate geodesic distance calculation unit calculating an approximate geodesic distance bridging over the subsets, by integrating geodesic distances including the common points; and a region extraction unit performing clustering on the calculated approximate geodesic distance. | 04-21-2011 |
20110091074 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTION METHOD AND MOVING OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS - A moving object detection method includes: extracting NL long-term trajectories (NL≧2) over TL pictures (TL≧3) and NS short-term trajectories (NS>NL) over TS pictures (TL>TS≧2), using movement trajectories; calculating a geodetic distance between the NL long-term trajectories and a geodetic distance between the NS short-term trajectories (S | 04-21-2011 |
20110228987 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTION METHOD AND MOVING OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS - A moving object detection method is provided which can accurately perform segmentation on an image including an object such as a person that moves changing shape. The method includes: accepting pictures included in the video (S | 09-22-2011 |
20110255747 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND MOVING OBJECT DETECTION METHOD - A moving object detection apparatus includes: an image input unit which receives a plurality of pictures included in video; a trajectory calculating unit which calculates a plurality of trajectories from the pictures; a subclass classification unit which classifies the trajectories into a plurality of subclasses; an inter-subclass approximate geodetic distance calculating unit which calculates, for each of the subclasses, an inter-subclass approximate geodetic distance representing similarity between the subclass and another subclass, using an inter-subclass distance that is a distance including a minimum value of a linear distance between each of trajectories belonging to the subclass and one of trajectories belonging to the other subclass; and a segmentation unit which performs segmentation by determining, based on the calculated inter-subclass approximate geodetic distance, a set of subclasses including similar trajectories as one class. | 10-20-2011 |
20110255748 | ARTICULATED OBJECT REGIONARTICULATED OBJECT REGION DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME - An articulated object region detection apparatus includes: a subclass classification unit which classifies trajectories into subclasses; a distance calculating unit which calculates, for each of the subclasses, a point-to-point distance and a geodetic distance between the subclass and another subclass; and a region detection unit which detects, as a region having an articulated motion, two subclasses to which trajectories corresponding to two regions connected via the same articulation and indicating the articulated motion belong, based on a temporal change in the point-to-point distance and a temporal change in the geodetic distance between two given subclasses. | 10-20-2011 |
20120106794 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAJECTORY ESTIMATION, AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTATION - A trajectory estimation apparatus includes: an image acceptance unit which accepts images that are temporally sequential and included in the video; a hierarchical subregion generating unit which generates subregions at hierarchical levels by performing hierarchical segmentation on each of the images accepted by the image acceptance unit such that, among subregions belonging to hierarchical levels different from each other, a spatially larger subregion includes spatially smaller subregions; and a representative trajectory estimation unit which estimates, as a representative trajectory, a trajectory, in the video, of a subregion included in a certain image, by searching for a subregion that is most similar to the subregion included in the certain image, across hierarchical levels in an image different from the certain image. | 05-03-2012 |
20120206597 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND MOVING OBJECT DETECTION METHOD - A moving object detection apparatus includes: a stationary measure calculation unit calculating, for each of trajectories, a stationary measure representing likelihood that the trajectory belongs to a stationary object; a distance calculation unit calculating a distance representing similarity between trajectories; and a region detection unit (i) performing a transformation based on the stationary measures and the distances between the trajectories, so that a ratio of a distance between a trajectory on stationary object and a trajectory on moving object, to a distance between trajectories both belonging to stationary object becomes greater than a ratio obtained before the transformation and (ii) detecting the moving object region by separating the trajectory on the moving object from the trajectory on the stationary object, based on a geodesic distance between the trajectories. | 08-16-2012 |
20120269393 | ARTICULATION REGION DISPLAY APPARATUS, ARTICULATION REGION DETECTING APPARATUS, ARTICULATION REGION BELONGINGNESS CALCULATING APPARATUS, ARTICULATED OBJECT REGION BELONGINGNESS CALCULATING APPARATUS, AND ARTICULATION REGION DISPLAY METHOD - An articulation region display apparatus includes: an articulatedness calculating unit calculating an articulatedness, based on a temporal change in a point-to-point distance and a temporal change in a geodetic distance between given trajectories; an articulation detecting unit detecting, as an articulation region, a region corresponding to a first trajectory based on the articulatedness between the trajectories, the first trajectory being in a state where the regions corresponding to the first trajectory and a second trajectory are present on the same rigid body, the regions corresponding to the first trajectory and third trajectory are present on the same rigid body, and the region corresponding to the second trajectory is connected with the region corresponding to the third trajectory via the same joint; and a display control unit transforming the articulation region into a form visually recognized by a user, and output the transformed articulation region. | 10-25-2012 |
20130231863 | DRIVING-OPERATION ASSIST AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A vehicle-operation assist includes a circumferential-state imager for imaging a circumferential state of a vehicle with a camera and generating a circumferential-state image; a synthetic-image generator for generating a synthetic image by superimposing on the circumferential-state image, an assumed-movement pattern of the vehicle performing a predetermined series of driving operations; and a display for displaying the synthetic image. The circumferential-state imager has at least one camera and a camera parameter table for storing characteristics of the camera and generating the circumferential-state image on the basis of the camera characteristics. | 09-05-2013 |
20130270421 | POLARIZATION IMAGE SENSOR AND ENDOSCOPE - A polarization image sensor includes: photodiodes arranged on an image capturing plane; a color mosaic filter in which color filters in multiple different colors are arranged to face the photodiodes; an optical low-pass filter which covers the color mosaic filter; and polarization optical elements located closer to a light source than the optical low-pass filter is. Each polarization optical element covers an associated one of the photodiodes and makes light which is polarized in a predetermined direction in a plane that is parallel to the image capturing plane incident onto the optical low-pass filter. The color filters are arranged so that light that has passed through polarization optical elements is transmitted through an associated one of the color filters in a single color. Each color filter covers multiple photodiodes. | 10-17-2013 |
20140196082 | COMMENT INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS AND COMMENT INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD - A comment information generating apparatus includes: a video obtaining unit which receives a video; a comment input receiving unit which receives position information of an object in the video and a comment that is displayed with the object and is caused to track the object starting from a predetermined timing; a target time determining unit which determines, to be a target value indicating a time length, a target time during which the comment is displayed, based on the comment; an object motion determining unit which determines, for the object, a motion trajectory having a time length substantially equal to the target time and along which the comment is caused to track the object; a comment information generating unit which generates comment information including the comment and the motion trajectory of the object; and an output unit which outputs the comment information. | 07-10-2014 |
20140199048 | VIDEO GENERATING APPARATUS AND VIDEO GENERATING METHOD - A video generating apparatus includes: a segmentation unit dividing each of pictures included in an input video sequence into multiple regions as divided regions, and generating partial video sequences each having a set of the divided regions associated with one another between the pictures; a removal region determining unit determining, as a removal region, a region of at least one of the objects included in the input video sequence; an occluded region completing unit generating a completed video sequence by completing an image in an occluded region for each of the partial video sequences, thereby completing the partial video sequences and by superimposing the completed partial video sequences over one another, the occluded region being a region of an other object occluded in the removal region by the at least one object; and a video outputting unit outputting the completed video sequence. | 07-17-2014 |
20140215512 | COMMENT-PROVIDED VIDEO GENERATING APPARATUS AND COMMENT-PROVIDED VIDEO GENERATING METHOD - A comment-provided video generating apparatus includes: a display priority calculating unit which calculates a display priority for each of the comments and subject regions to which the comments are provided, based on comment information indicating comments to be superimposed and displayed on a video and display positions of the comments, and user information, by calculating a higher display priority for one of the comments and the subject regions specified by user information; a comment superimposing method determining unit which determines, as a method for superimposing the comments onto a video, an order of displaying the comments and the subject regions such that a comment or a subject region having a higher display priority is displayed at a position frontward than the others, according to the display priority; and an image composing unit which superimposes the comments on the video, according to the comment superimposing method. | 07-31-2014 |
20140344853 | COMMENT INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, AND COMMENT DISPLAY DEVICE - A comment information generation device includes: a video input section, to which a video is input; an information input section, to which positional information is input to display a comment to track an object in the video; an initial trajectory acquisition section that acquires an initial trajectory that is a trajectory of the object corresponding to the positional information; a trajectory extending section that acquires an extended trajectory by acquiring a following trajectory that is a trajectory having a starting point after an ending point of the initial trajectory, collecting a first comment assigned in a vicinity of the initial trajectory and a second comment assigned in a vicinity of the following trajectory, and connecting the following trajectory to the initial trajectory on a basis of the first comment and the second comment; and an output section that outputs the extended trajectory as comment information. | 11-20-2014 |