Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090169112 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a detecting unit configured to detect an external light reflection region from an input image, and a determining unit configured to determine the glossiness of said external light reflection region, and determines whether or not the reflection of the external reflection region is specular reflection, and extracts a gloss region based on the determination result. | 07-02-2009 |
20100265394 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a modeling unit, in video image data composed of frame images having an X direction and a Y direction perpendicular to the X direction, separating a motion from a standard image, which is one frame before a reference image subjected to a process, until the reference image into motions in the X and Y directions and representing the motions in the X and Y directions respectively as vector fields composed of a translation component composed of identical magnitude and direction regardless of positions in the X and Y directions, an X dependent component primarily changing with the position in the X direction, and a Y dependent component primarily changing with the position in the Y direction; and a calculation unit respectively calculating the translation component and the X and Y dependent components corresponding to the X and Y directions represented by the modeling unit. | 10-21-2010 |
20110234828 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a recording apparatus including: a movement cycle determining section which receives moving image data including image contents of an object which performs a movement in which a movement state and a non-movement state are alternately and periodically repeated, and determines an operating period which corresponds to the movement state and a static period which corresponds to the non-movement state; and a recording control section which records the number of frame image data, per unit time, for forming the moving image data in the static period to be smaller than in the operating period, when the moving image data is recorded. | 09-29-2011 |
20110242418 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image processing apparatus, a min-max pixel difference value computing unit computes the difference between the maximum and minimum pixel values in a first image portion including a target pixel and neighbor pixels. A maximum adjacent pixel difference value computing unit computes the maximum value among the difference values between adjacent pixels in the first image portion. An image change feature value computing unit computes a feature value corresponding to the suddenness of image change in the first image portion. A filter coefficient computing unit computes filter coefficients. A sharpen filter accepts, as input, pixels forming a second image portion including the same target pixel as the first image portion and neighbor pixels, and computes an output pixel value for the target pixel. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243464 | IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing control device includes an adjacent pixel difference absolute value phase-based total value calculation unit configured to calculate adjacent pixel difference absolute value phase-based total values obtained by summing adjacent pixel difference absolute values, which are absolute values of differences in pixel value between adjacent pixels of an image subjected to predetermined image processing, with respect to all pixels of the image, every phase representing a location between the pixels of an encoding block when the image is encoded, a maximum boundary phase specifying unit configured to specify a maximum boundary phase which is a phase of a maximum value among the adjacent pixel difference absolute value phase-based total values calculated every phase, and a control unit configured to control the image processing so as to reduce encoding block distortion generated between pixels of the specified maximum boundary phase. | 10-06-2011 |
20120042041 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing method includes collecting interest information indicating a plurality of responses to a content. The information processing method also includes analyzing the interest information to produce a plurality of groups and generating a plurality of digests of the content for the plurality of groups. | 02-16-2012 |
20120093373 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a motion detection unit detecting a motion of a subject to be evaluated by using an image of the subject to be evaluated; a correlation calculation unit calculating a temporal change correlation between motion amounts of a plurality of portions of the subject to be evaluated, by using a motion vector indicating the motion of the subject to be evaluated, which is detected by the motion detection unit; and an evaluation value calculation unit calculating an evaluation value to evaluate cooperativity of the motion of the subject to be evaluated, by using the correlation calculated by the correlation calculation unit. | 04-19-2012 |
20120275691 | COEFFICIENT LEARNING DEVICE AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A feature-quantity extraction unit extracts a feature quantity of a target pixel of a student image. The target pixel is classified into a predetermined class. Natural-image processing of the target pixel is performed. Artificial-image processing of the target pixel is performed. A sample of a normal equation is generated using a pixel value of the target pixel subjected to the natural-image processing, a pixel value of the target pixel subjected to the artificial-image processing, a pixel value of a target pixel of a teacher image, and a predetermined mixing coefficient for each class. The mixing coefficient is calculated on the basis of a plurality of generated samples. | 11-01-2012 |
20120288209 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an encoding processing unit carrying out a compression encoding process on input image data to obtain encoded data; an additional information generating unit generating, based on additional information generating information relating to the input image data, additional information to be used when specified image processing is carried out on image data obtained by carrying out a compression decoding process on the encoded data; and a data output unit outputting the encoded data obtained by the encoding processing unit and the additional information generated by the additional information generating unit in association with one another. | 11-15-2012 |
20120294512 | LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a model-based processing unit that executes model-based processing for converting resolution and converting an image on the basis of a camera model and a predetermined model having aligning, with respect to a high-resolution image output one frame before, and a prediction operation unit that performs a prediction operation on a pixel value of a high-resolution image to be output, on the basis of parameters stored in advance, an observed low-resolution image that is an input low-resolution image, and an image obtained by executing the model-based processing. | 11-22-2012 |
20130016920 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUMAANM Matsuda; YasuhiroAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Matsuda; Yasuhiro Tokyo JPAANM Nagano; TakahiroAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP Nagano; Takahiro Kanagawa JPAANM Uchida; MasashiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Uchida; Masashi Tokyo JP - Provided is an image processing device including a model-based processing portion that generates an estimated low resolution image from a high resolution image, using an observation model that performs motion compensation processing and down-sampling processing, a feature amount calculation portion that calculates a feature amount of at least one of a spatial feature amount and a temporal feature amount from one of an observed low resolution image, which is a low resolution image that is actually observed, and the high resolution image, and a prediction operation portion that predicts and generates an image with higher image quality based on the high resolution image, using a parameter which corresponds to the calculated feature amount and which is obtained from the observed low resolution image, from the estimated low resolution image and from learning that is performed in advance. | 01-17-2013 |
20130070971 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method capable of generating evaluation index data for performing accurate and detailed evaluation of cultured cardiomyocytes. | 03-21-2013 |
20130308025 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a characteristic estimation portion that, from one of image information obtained from an image sensor and information attached to the image information, estimates a characteristic of the image sensor that is used to generate the image information, and a processing portion that processes the image information in accordance with the characteristic of the image sensor estimated by the characteristic estimation portion. | 11-21-2013 |