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| 20100182480 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - When a feature point extractor sets feature points on one of the images acquired by a first and second image acquirer, a template setting unit sets a base template containing a feature point onto an edge-extracted image of the acquired image. If the image within the base template is segmented by an edge, the template setting unit sets a transformed template, wherein a segmented sub-region that does not contain the feature point is deleted from the base template, and a region equal in area to the deleted region is added to the sub-region that does contain the feature point. A distance computing unit conducts template matching with respect to the one or more other images using either the base template or the transformed template, and computes the shooting distance to the matching feature point. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100245544 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes: a first imaging controller configured to control imaging by an imaging unit; a movement distance acquirer configured to acquire movement distance of the imaging unit required to generate a three-dimensional image of the imaged subject after imaging by the first imaging controller; a first determining unit configured to determine whether or not the imaging unit has moved the movement distance acquired by the movement distance acquirer; a second imaging controller configured to control imaging with respect to the imaging unit in the case where it is determined by the first determining unit that the imaging unit has moved the movement distance; and a three-dimensional image generator configured to generate a three-dimensional image from the image acquired by the first imaging controller and the image acquired by the second imaging controller. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110157321 | IMAGING DEVICE, 3D MODELING DATA CREATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAMS - A control part | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110187829 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image capture apparatus. The apparatus includes: an image capture section configured to capture an image of a subject; a focal point distance detector configured to detect a focal point distance from a main point of the image capture section to a focal point of the image capture section on the subject; an image acquisition section configured to acquire first and second images of the subject; an image position detector configured to detect a first image position and a second image position, wherein the first image position represents a position of a certain point on the subject in the first image, and the second image position represents a position of the certain point on the subject in the second image; a 3D image generator configured to generate a 3D image of the subject based on a difference between the first image position and the second image position; a parallelism computation section configured to compute parallelism based on the first and second image positions and the focal point distance; and a display section configured to display the parallelism. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110187886 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, WARNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image pickup control unit displays either one of a picked-up image by a first image pickup unit and a picked-up image by a second image pickup unit on a display unit as a finder image. A feature detecting unit calculates a distribution of brightness values or brightness dispersion for each of the picked-up images by the first and second image pickup units, thereby detecting features of the two picked-up images. A sameness determining unit determines the sameness between both picked-up images based on the detected features, and determines that an abnormality like the unexpected appearance of an obstacle is present when the feature largely differs. When it is determined that an abnormality is present, a warning processing unit simultaneously displays both picked-up images on the display unit, or displays the picked-up image including the abnormality on the display unit as a finder image. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110227924 | 3D MODELING APPARATUS, 3D MODELING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A 3D modeling apparatus includes: an accepting unit configured to accept sets of images; a generator configured to generate 3D models of a subject based on the sets of images; a selector configured to select first and second 3D models from the 3D models, wherein the second 3D model is to be superimposed on the first 3D model; a divider configured to divide the second 3D model into second regions; a specifying unit configured to specify first regions in the first 3D model, wherein each of the first regions corresponds to one of the second regions; an acquiring unit configured to acquire coordinate transformation parameters; a transformation unit configured to transform coordinates of the second regions based on the coordinate transformation parameters; and an updating unit configured to superimpose the second regions having the transformed coordinates on the first regions to update the first 3D model. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110234759 | 3D MODELING APPARATUS, 3D MODELING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A 3D modeling apparatus includes: a generator configured to generate 3D models of a subject based on pairs of images; a selector configured to select a first 3D model and a second 3D model from the 3D models, wherein the second 3D model is to be superimposed on the first 3D model; an extracting unit configured to extract first feature points from the first 3D model and extract second feature points from the second 3D model; an acquiring unit configured to acquire coordinate transformation parameters based on the first and second feature points; a transformation unit configured to transform coordinates of the second 3D model into coordinates in a coordinate system of the first 3D model, based on the coordinate transformation parameters; and a combining unit configured to superimpose the second 3D model having the transformed coordinates on the first 3D model. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110316976 | IMAGING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus generates a 3D model using a photographed image of a subject and generates a 3D image based on the 3D model. When a corresponding point corresponding to a point forming the 3D model does not form a 3D model generated using a photographed image photographed at a different photographing position, the imaging apparatus determines that the point is noise, and removes the point determined as noise from the 3D model. The imaging apparatus generates a 3D image based on the 3D model from which the point determined as noise is removed. | 12-29-2011 |
