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| 20090220158 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100177982 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image processing device includes: an estimated plane calculation portion calculating, for inputted image data, estimated planes defined by luminance values in blocks each containing a predetermined number of pixels including a reference pixel; an optimal estimated plane selection portion selecting an optimal estimated plane having a least summation of errors between luminance values of respective pixels in a block and an estimated plane among the estimated planes; a weighting factor calculation portion calculating a weighting factor for the reference pixel base on luminance values of the reference pixel and in the optimal estimated plane; and a weighted smoothing portion computing a sum of products of relative luminance differences between the luminance values of the respective pixels in the block and in the optimal estimated plane and the weighting factor for the reference pixel and adding a luminance value in the optimal estimated plane at a reference pixel position to a result of computation. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100290672 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE, MOVING OBJECT DETECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus for detecting movement of an object captured by an imaging device, the apparatus includes a moving object detection unit, that is (1) operable to detect movement of an object based on a first moving object detecting process, and (2) operable to detect movement of the object based on a second moving object detecting process. The apparatus also includes an output unit operable to generate an output based on the detection by the moving object detection unit based on at least one of the first and second moving object detecting processes. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100296743 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is provided which includes a characteristic quantity calculation unit that calculates a characteristic quantity for each pixel of image data from the image data, a tightness determination unit that determines tightness indicating a degree of dispersion of pixels in image data for tightness determination by extracting the pixels having a same characteristic quantity by using the characteristic quantity and generating the image data for tightness determination composed of the pixels having the same characteristic quantity, and a pixel set calculation unit that calculates a set of the pixels from the pixels in the image data for tightness determination in accordance with a determination of the tightness. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110135158 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing device which includes an optical flow computation unit computing optical flow within an image with reference to a past image, an optical flow detection unit setting multiple reference points in a partial region of the image and detecting whether or not optical flow is generated at the reference points, a feature point data storage unit storing, when optical flow is generated at the reference points, as a feature point a set of peaces of pixel data that generated the optical flow, a feature point tracking unit tracking a motion position of the feature point, a feature point deletion unit deleting the tracked feature point in accordance with a variation in motion position of the feature point, and a passage determination unit determining whether or not passage of an object is detected within the image based on multiple remaining undeleted feature points. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110142342 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a block histogram generation unit configured to calculate frequency of a pixel value in each block, divide a dynamic range, and generate a first histogram including “N” number of bins, a pixel histogram generation unit configured to calculate frequency of a target pixel in a block based on first histograms of the block including the target pixel and a block adjacent to the block including the target pixel, and generate a second histogram including “N” number of bins for each pixel, and an output value determination unit configured to generate a relation between the pixel value and an output value of the pixel value based on the second histogram so that a maximum cumulative frequency of the second histogram matches a maximum value of the output value, and calculate the output value based on the pixel value of the target pixel. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110228979 | Moving-object detection apparatus, moving-object detection method and moving-object detection program - Disclosed herein is a moving-object detection apparatus having a plurality of moving-object detection processing devices configured to detect a moving object on the basis of a motion vector computed by making use of a present image and a past image wherein the moving-object detection processing devices are set to operate differently from each other in at least one of the resolution of the present and past images, the time distance between the present and past images and the search area of the motion vector in order to detect the moving object. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110243385 | Moving object detection apparatus, moving object detection method, and program - Disclosed herein is a moving object detection apparatus including: an image input processing section configured to input an analysis image composed of an image taken by a camera in order to establish a designated region inside the analysis image; a first detection processing section configured to detect an image of a moving object which moves within the designated region established by the image input processing section and which is at a distance in a first range from the camera; and a second detection processing section configured to detect an image of the moving object which moves within the designated region established by the image input processing section and which is at a distance in a second range from the camera, the second range being farther than the first range. | 10-06-2011 |
