51st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150365573 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CASE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An electronic device case is provided which includes a case part and a cover part. The case part includes a protrusion part protruding from one side thereof and a first through-hole through which a camera lens is exposed and which is disposed in the protrusion part. The cover part is detachably coupled to the protrusion part and includes a second through-hole disposed at a position corresponding to the first through-hole, where at least one of a lens and a filter is inserted into the second through-hole. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365574 | HANDHELD MOBILE APPARATUS WITH FOUR-DIRECTION PHOTOGRAPHY - A handheld mobile apparatus with four-direction photography comprises a handheld mobile device and a four-direction photography part. The handheld mobile device comprises a front surface with a screen, a rear surface, an upper surface, a lower surface, a left surface and a right surface. The four-direction photography part comprises four photography devices that are respectively disposed on the upper surface, the lower surface, the left surface and the right surface. Accordingly, the four photography devices can capture image along four photography directions. At least one image captured is instantly displayed on the screen. Therefore, it can improve security of users to advance while using the handheld mobile apparatus. It is quite convenient for users to be capable of holding in both of an upright or a transversal holding position. And, it is quite humanized for users to arbitrarily choose a quantity of images to be displayed, and so on. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365575 | LIFELOG CAMERA AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME ACCORDING TO TRANSITIONS IN ACTIVITY - A lifelog camera is configured to capture a digital image without user input that commands the capturing of the digital image. The lifelog camera includes a control circuit configured to detect a state transition in a signal from a sensor, the state transition indicative of a change in user activity; a camera module that captures the digital image under the control of the control circuit in response to the detection of the state transition; and a memory in which the digital image is stored. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365576 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SHADING COMPENSATION THEREOF - A shading compensation method of an image capturing device, adapted to an image capturing device having a primary lens, a secondary lens, and a diffuser as well as pre-storing a primary-secondary lenses table and a secondary lens-diffuser table, includes the following steps. First, the secondary lens is covered by the diffuser. A scene is simultaneously captured by the primary lens and the secondary lens covered by the diffuser so as to generate a primary image and a diffused image. Next, according to the primary image and the diffused image, a shading compensation table corresponding to the scene is constructed by using the primary-secondary lenses table and the secondary lens-diffuser table. A shading compensation process is then performed on the primary image according to the shading compensation table so as to generate a compensated image. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365577 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SIMULTANEOUS SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR BEAM STEERING AND SYSTEM ABERRATION CORRECTION - A method and apparatus for simultaneous spatial light modulator beam steering and system aberration correction. The apparatus includes a spatial light modulator, a wide-field optical system, the wide-field optical system including at least one optical system aberration; and a camera. The wide-field optical system collimates a light beam toward the camera. The camera communicates with the spatial light modulator via a feedback loop that pre-corrects for the at least one optical system aberration. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365578 | Method For Obtaining Images With Exposure Compensation And Imaging Apparatus With Exposure Compensation - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for obtaining images with exposure compensation image. Images of different levels of exposures are captured and obtained, and then the captured images are combined directly into a combined image which is an image with exposure correction. The method includes the steps of providing a prism set, performing an image capturing step and performing an image combining step. In the step of providing a prism set, the prism set has a light incident plane and three light exit planes. In the image capturing step, images are captured by an imaging apparatus installed separately at the three light exit planes, and a filter is installed before at least two of the imaging apparatuses separately. In the image combining step, the images captured by the imaging apparatuses are combined into a combined image which is an image with exposure compensation. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING PIXEL ARRAY HAVING AUTOMATIC LIGHT CONTROL PIXELS AND IMAGE CAPTURE PIXELS - A pixel array uses two sets of pixels to provide accurate exposure control. One set of pixels provide continuous output signals for automatic light control (ALC) as the other set integrates and captures an image. ALC pixels allow monitoring of multiple pixels of an array to obtain sample data indicating the amount of light reaching the array, while allowing the other pixels to provide proper image data. A small percentage of the pixels in an array is replaced with ALC pixels and the array has two reset lines for each row; one line controls the reset for the image capture pixels while the other line controls the reset for the ALC pixels. In the columns, at least one extra control signal is used for the sampling of the reset level for the ALC pixels, which happens later than the sampling of the reset level for the image capture pixels. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365580 | Global Display Management Based Light Modulation - A plurality of input images in an input video signal of a wide dynamic range is received. A specific setting of global light modulation is determined based on a specific input image in the plurality of input images. The specific setting of global light modulation produces a specific dynamic range window. A plurality of input code values in the specific input image is converted to a plurality of output code values in a specific output image corresponding to the specific input image. The plurality of output code values produces the same or substantially the same luminance levels as represented by the plurality of input code values. Any other pixels in the specific input image are converted to different luminance levels in the specific output image through display management. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365581 | MARITIME CAMERA AND CONTROL SYSTEM - A display device for controlling a remotely controlled camera is disclosed. The display device comprising an image receiver configured to receive an image of the image stream from the camera, and a processor. The processor including a retriever configured to retrieve a selected buffered image corresponding to a data insufficiency region within a target field of view while adjusting the camera from a current field of view to the target field of view until the image stream from the camera includes the insufficiency region being depicted within the target field of view and a depicter configured to depict the selected buffered image on the display device at least in the insufficiency region. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365582 | SYNCHRONIZED MEDIA CAPTURING FOR AN INTERACTIVE SCENE - There are provided systems and methods for synchronized media capturing for an interactive scene. A user at a venue may watch an event unfold at the venue. The venue may include wireless beacons established throughout the venue. The wireless beacons may be configured to establish short range wireless communications with the user's device. Once a connection is established, the wireless beacons may instruct the user's device to capture media of an instance during the event. The wireless beacons may similar instruct other user's devices to capture media of the instance at the same time, thereby synchronizing media capturing of a particular instance during the event. The user may review the media and select to delete the media or upload the media to a media sharing service. The server may further process the media into an interactive scene. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365583 | LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - The interchangeable lens apparatus includes a memory to store first correction information to be used to correct focus state information on a focus state of its image capturing optical system, the focus state being detected in the image capturing apparatus by using a signal from an image sensor thereof, and a lens calculator configured to produce, by performing an interpolation process on the first correction information by using image sensor information that is information on the image sensor and received from the image capturing apparatus, second correction information corresponding to the image sensor information. The lens calculator sends the second correction information to the image capturing apparatus in a case where the lens calculator performs the interpolation process and sends the first correction information to the image capturing apparatus in a case where the image capturing apparatus performs the interpolation process. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365584 | RELIABILITY MEASUREMENTS FOR PHASE BASED AUTOFOCUS - Techniques related to autofocus for imaging devices and, in particular, to generating reliability values associated with phase autofocus shifts are discussed. Such techniques may include performing a curve fitting based on accumulated phase difference values and phase shifts for phase autofocus images and generating a reliability value for a focus phase shift based on the curve fitting. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365585 | IMAGING AND SENSING DURING AN AUTO-FOCUS PROCEDURE - A method comprising: selecting one of a plurality of read start positions for an image sensor; during a first auto-focus frame, moving a focused region of an optical system relative to an image sensor in accordance with an auto-focus control signal and then after moving the focused region of the optical system relative to the image sensor and during the first auto-focus frame, starting reading of the image sensor from the read start position. An apparatus that can perform the method. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365586 | IMAGE SENSOR WITH FAST INTRA-FRAME FOCUS - A method of focusing an image sensor includes scanning a first portion of an image frame from an image sensor a first time at a first rate to produce first focus data. A second portion of the image frame from the image sensor is scanned at a second rate to read image data from the second portion. The first rate is greater than the second rate. The first portion of the image frame is scanned a second time at the first rate to produce second focus data. The first focus data and the second focus data are compared, and the focus of a lens is adjusted in response to the comparison of the first focus data and the second focus data. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365587 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal including a memory configured to store a plurality of videos; a touchscreen configured to display an image on a screen; and a controller configured to in response to receiving a selection of at least one object included in the image, search the videos for at least one video including an image of the selected at least one object; control the touchscreen to display a list including at least one item indicating the searched video; and in response to receiving a selection of at least one item included in the list, play a video corresponding to the selected at least one item. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365588 | Portrait Image Synthesis from Multiple Images Captured on a Handheld Device - A hand-held digital image capture device (digital camera) has a user-selectable mode in which upon engaging the mode the device detects a face in the field of view of the device and generates a face delimiter on a camera display screen, the delimiter surrounding the initial position of the image of a the face on the screen. The device is arranged to indicate thereafter to the user if the device departs from the movement along a predetermined concave path P with the optical axis of the device pointing towards the face, such indication being made by movement of the image of the face relative to the delimiter. The camera captures and stores a plurality of images at successive positions along the concave path. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365589 | OPTICAL ACQUISITION DEVICE FOR BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS - The invention relates to a device for acquisition of images for a biometric system, which includes an optical assembly and at least one imager for acquisition of an image of an object to be analysed presented in front of the assembly at a non-determined distance from the latter. The assembly includes at least one diaphragm with a coded aperture. The optical assembly allows acquisition by the sensor(s) of an image of the object capable of being exploited to deduce therefrom the searched biometric information, and of an image of the object acquired via the coded aperture of the diaphragm. The device also includes a processing unit to determine the distance of the object to be analysed as a function of the image of the object acquired via the coded aperture of the diaphragm. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365590 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An imaging device includes an imaging unit that is provided at a case body and images an object; an operation input unit utilized to input an imaging operation; a first instruction unit that instructs the imaging unit to execute the imaging when the imaging operation is input; a second instruction unit that instructs, based on a trigger other than the imaging operation, the imaging unit to execute the imaging; and a control unit that performs, based on a state of the case body, a control to invalidate any one of the instruction by the first instruction unit and the instruction by the second instruction unit. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365591 | Image Creation Combining Base Image and Repositioned Object From a Sequence of Images - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method implemented by a computing device is disclosed. Images from a sequence of images that depicts a scene are displayed on an electronic display. User input is received that selects an image from the sequence to be used as a base image. User input is also received that selects an object from the sequence of images. A movement trajectory of the selected object is determined from the sequence of images. The selected object is repositioned based on user input that drags the selected object along the determined movement trajectory from an initial position to a new position. A new image is created by combining the base image and the repositioned object. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365592 | ALIGNMENT OF VISIBLE LIGHT SOURCES BASED ON THERMAL IMAGES - Various techniques are disclosed for providing systems for providing alignment guide information to selectively direct a visible light source to substantially align the visible light source with a desired subject and to project a visible light beam substantially on the desired subject. For example, a system may include a small form factor infrared imaging module to capture thermal images of a scene, which may be received by a processor to generate alignment guide information such as a user-viewable image of the scene, a user-viewable cue, and a framing reticle. In another example, such a system may be implemented as a camera. In yet another example, such a system may be implemented as a spotlight. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365593 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system that acquires first image data captured by a first camera unit disposed on a first side of a housing; acquires second image data captured by a second camera unit disposed on a second side of the housing, which is opposite to the first side of the housing; and modifies the second image data based on the first image data. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365594 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE AND FILTER ARRANGEMENT - An electronic device including: an image sensor including plural sensors divided into groups; a multi-lens array including plural lenses configured to each form an image of a scene on a distinct group of the groups of pixel sensors; and a filter including plural color filter elements arranged in rows and columns. Each color filter element is associated with one of the lenses and the respective distinct group and configured to filter an image of the scene into one of plural color channels. A first group of pixel sensors can define a perspective of the scene for an image reconstruction, and the color filter elements in the row of the color filter element corresponding to the first group and the color filter elements in the column of the color filter element corresponding to the first group can filter the image of the scene into each of the plural color channels. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365595 | IMAGING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DISPLAY IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging control apparatus that controls a capturing range in which an image is captured generates a display image showing a range to be captured by image capturing performed while the capturing range is changed from one of a plurality of predetermined capturing ranges to another one of the plurality of predetermined capturing ranges or a range not to be captured by the image capturing performed while the capturing range is changed from one of the plurality of predetermined capturing ranges to another one of the plurality of predetermined capturing ranges. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365596 | CAMERA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CAMERA DEVICE - A camera device. A housing includes a first portion, a second portion and a curved portion disposed between the first portion and the second portion and including a curved surface. The lens is disposed on an end surface of the housing. The image sensor is coupled to the lens for obtaining image data captured by the lens. The first input unit is disposed on the curved surface and provided as a first input interface for a user. The grip sensor is disposed on the first portion for sensing whether the first portion is held by the user. The lens and the image sensor operate in a sleep mode by default to reduce power consumption. When the grip sensor senses that the first portion is held by the user, the grip sensor generates a sensing signal to wake up the lens and the image sensor. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365597 | MOVING-IMAGE RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A moving-image recording/reproduction apparatus includes a first image processing apparatus configured to divide a region of an image signal into first and second regions when the image signal of each frame in a high-resolution moving image is input and generate first moving-image data by performing moving-image processing on the image signal of the first region and a second image processing apparatus configured to generate second moving-image data by performing the moving-image processing on the image signal of the second region. High-resolution moving-image data corresponding to the high-resolution moving-image obtained by combining the first and second moving-image data and low-resolution moving-image data corresponding to a low-resolution moving image having the same angle of view as the high-resolution moving image generated by the first or second image processing apparatuses are associated and recorded and the high- or low-resolution moving-image data is selected according to an image resolution that can be displayed. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365598 | SHAKE AMOUNT DETECTION DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - A shake amount detection device includes an acceleration sensor. A vibration period detector detects a vibration period during which vibration that becomes a predetermined acceleration is applied to a body. A velocity variation estimation unit estimates a first movement velocity which is a component velocity due to an attitude movement of the body during the vibration period. A velocity calculator calculates a second movement velocity that is a velocity of the body and corrects the second movement velocity in a case of the vibration period as a detection result of the vibration period detector. A shake amount calculator calculates an image blur correction amount relative to the vibration applied to the body, based on the second movement velocity corrected by the velocity calculator. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365599 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus obtains information of a plurality of viewpoints corresponding to images in which a same subject is captured. Then the apparatus detects a region of interest within a captured range including the subject, and displays, on a display medium, an image corresponding to a display viewpoint selected as a viewpoint corresponding to the region of interest from among the plurality of viewpoints. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365600 | COMPOSING REAL-TIME PROCESSED VIDEO CONTENT WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - The present teaching relates to real-time manipulation of images and video captured on mobile devices, and in particular to composite graphical elements applied in real-time to captured images and/or video. Some embodiments contemplate a method comprising receiving a captured image and/or video from a portable multi-function device, applying processing in real time via a Quality Engine, applying processing in real time via an Image Engine, applying an overlay process in real time, applying a filter process in real time, storing and/or streaming the processed content, and sharing the processed content. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365601 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a display control apparatus including an external memory accommodating unit for accommodating a removable external memory; a database recognizing unit for recognizing a database stored in the external memory, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other; a display method setting unit for setting either display method of a stored first display method or a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database based on a recognition result of the database recognizing unit; and a display controlling unit for displaying the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the set display method. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365602 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND DETERMINATION METHOD - A management device performs a first determination to determine whether an imaging device can include an imaging area needed by any one of one or more existing applications, and an imaging area needed by a newly operated application in an imaging range determined by a zoom magnification, and if result of the first determination is affirmative, generate information indicating that the newly operated application can be installed in the imaging device. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365603 | CAMERA SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AN IMAGE AREA OF AN IMAGE FROM A VEHICLE CAMERA FOR A VEHICLE - A method is provided for controlling an image area of an image from a vehicle camera for a vehicle. The method includes a step of ascertaining positional information, which represents a road position of the vehicle relative to a road section on which the vehicle is traveling, using vehicle sensor data of the vehicle. In addition, method includes a step of generating a control signal for controlling the image area of the image from the vehicle camera, the generating utilizing the positional information. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365604 | DUAL SENSOR CAMERA - A dual sensor camera that uses two aligned sensors each having a separate lens of different focal length but the same f-number. The wider FOV image from one sensor is combined with the narrower FOV image from the other sensor to form a combined image. Up-sampling of the wide FOV image and down-sampling of the narrow FOV image is performed. The longer focal length lens may have certain aberrations introduced so that Extended Depth of Field (EDoF) processing can be used to give the narrow FOV image approximately the same depth of field as the wide FOV image so that a noticeable difference in depth of field is not see in the combined image. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365605 | DUAL SENSOR CAMERA - A dual sensor camera that uses two aligned sensors each having a separate lens of different focal length but the same f-number. The wider FOV image from one sensor is combined with the narrower FOV image from the other sensor to form a combined image. Up-sampling of the wide FOV image and down-sampling of the narrow FOV image is performed. The longer focal length lens may have certain aberrations introduced so that Extended Depth of Field (EDoF) processing can be used to give the narrow FOV image approximately the same depth of field as the wide FOV image so that a noticeable difference in depth of field is not see in the combined image. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365606 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF OBJECTS - A system for producing a visual representation of an object includes a structure for at least partially circumscribing the object, a plurality of still cameras mounted in fixed relation to each other, and at least one computer processor. The one or more computer processors trigger the plurality of still cameras to capture a plurality of still, images of the object, create the visual representation of the object by, at least in part, arranging at least some of the plurality of still images in an order, and transmit a digital file that includes the visual representation of the object to a storage medium accessible by a user device. The visual representation of the object is user manipulable to permit presenting the visual representation in more than one way. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365607 | TARGET OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed are a target object information acquisition method and an electronic device. The target object information acquisition method comprises a first infrared transmitter transmitting scattered light to a target area comprising at least one object; a photoreceptor receiving first reflected light output after at least one object reflects the scattered light in a first time period, and generating a depth image corresponding to the target area, acquiring the target image information about a target object; a second infrared transmitter transmitting scattered light to the target area; the photoreceptor receiving second reflected light output after at least one object reflects the scattered light in a second time period, and generating a feature image corresponding to the target area; and acquiring feature information. By means of the time division, the present invention solves the technical problem of a low acquisition rate for target object information in the prior art. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365608 | INSPECTION ARRANGEMENT AND INSPECTION METHOD FOR A SOLAR INSTALLATION - An inspection arrangement (1) for a photovoltaic or solar-thermal solar installation, in which a thermal image of the solar installation is captured using a thermal imaging camera (2) and a measurement value of a physical measurement variable characterizing the light or solar irradiation is measured on or near the solar installation or the exposure of the solar installation by a radiation sensor (7, 8) and the thermal image and the measurement value are assigned to one another in an evaluation unit (5) of the thermal imaging camera (2). | 2015-12-17 |
20150365609 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus includes a photometric sensor having a plurality of pixels having a sensitivity to an infrared light range and a visible light range, an acquisition unit that divides the photometric sensor into a plurality of pixel groups and acquires image information of the infrared light range and image information of the visible light range in each of the plurality of pixel groups, a subtraction unit that generates a visible light component obtained by subtracting an infrared light component that is based on the image information of the infrared light range from the image information of each of the plurality of pixel groups, and a processing unit that performs at least one of light source determination processing, specific color detection processing, and exposure amount determination processing, using the visible light component generated by the subtraction unit. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365610 | AUTOMATIC REGION OF INTEREST FUNCTION FOR IMAGE SENSORS - The present invention relates to reading-out sensor array pixels. In particular, the present invention provides an approach according to which only a region of interest with arbitrary geometry may be read out from the sensor array, thus leading to substantial time savings. In order to achieve this, a circuitry is provided for automatic determining of a ROI and reading out the ROI from the sensor array. The circuitry includes a fast reading-out circuitry which is less precise but faster than the accurate reading-out circuitry for reading-out the pixels of the sensor array. The fast reading-out circuitry reads out the pixels with low-level precision and determines by the processing of the fast read-out pixels the ROI which is then provided to an in-pixel ROI programming circuit for storing the ROI identification and by means thereof to the accurate reading-out circuit which then reads out only the pixels determined to belong to the ROI. The accurate read-out circuit is slower than the fast read-out circuit. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365611 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGING SYSTEM - Provided by the present invention is an image forming apparatus wherein a signal to noise ratio is improved without reducing a video rate of a real-time moving image. The image forming apparatus comprises:
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20150365612 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND IMAGE COMPENSATING METHOD THEREOF - An image capture device and an image compensating method are provided. The image compensating method is for the image capture device and includes following steps. An image is captured under a current light source. The current light source is detected and a white balance process is executed so as to obtain current gain information of the current light source. A modifying parameter is determined according to the current gain information and reference gain information. The reference gain information is corresponding to a plurality of predefined color temperatures which are different to each other. A first shading compensation table is modified by using the modifying parameter to obtain a second shading compensation table. The image is compensated by using the second shading compensation table so as to generate a compensated image. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365613 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes a light receiving section formed by such exposure as to stitch a plurality of patterns in a first direction on a semiconductor substrate. The light receiving section includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional array in the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Electric charges are transferred in the second direction in each of pixel columns consisting of a plurality of pixels disposed in the second direction, among the plurality of pixels. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365614 | IMAGE SENSOR DEFECT IDENTIFICATION USING OPTICAL FLARE - Embodiments described herein may operate to compare an illuminance corresponding to a signal from an image sensor array (ISA) element in a production imaging system with an illuminance associated with optical flare incident to an ISA from which the ISA element is selected. The ISA element may be identified as unusable if the illuminance corresponding to the signal from the ISA element is less than the illuminance associated with the optical flare incident to the ISA. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365615 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including, a pixel array unit, first driving means, second driving means, and third driving means. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365616 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus of this invention includes an output unit that outputs an analog signal, and an offset addition unit that, in a case where the analog signal is out of a range in which A/D conversion is possible in the A/D conversion unit, adds an offset to the analog signal in the output unit so that the analog signal is not out of the range in which A/D conversion is possible. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365617 | IMAGE SENSORS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING AN IMAGE SENSOR - According to various embodiments, an image sensor may be provided. The image sensor may include: a plurality of pixel cells, each pixel cell configured to convert incident light to an electric signal indicating the intensity of the incident light; a pixel determination circuit configured to determine a pixel cell of the plurality of pixel cells based on light incident to the plurality of pixel cells; and an output circuit configured to output the electrical signal of the determined cell. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365618 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING DEVICE HAVING SIGNAL HOLDING CIRCUITS FOR HOLDING IMAGE DIGITAL SIGNALS CONVERTED BY ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERTERS - A solid-state image sensing device according to the invention which can reduce an instantaneous current occurring in transferring image digital signals from analog-digital converters to registers to reduce noise sneaking into the analog-digital converters and a pixel array includes a pixel array, a vertical scanning circuit, a plurality of column ADCs, a plurality of registers, and control signal generation units. The control signal generation units are provided for respective groups into which the column ADCs and the registers disposed on one side of the pixel array are divided, and generate control signals of different timings, for respective units including at least one group, of transfer of converted image digital signals to the registers from the column ADCs operating in parallel. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365619 | TIME DELAY INTEGRATION IMAGE SENSOR WITH DETECTION OF TRAVELLING ERRORS - The invention relates to time delay integration (TDI) image sensors. The sensor includes means for detecting a shift of the sensor with respect to the image. The pixel matrix is divided in the column direction into at least a first and a second sub-matrix (Ma, Mb). On each side of each sub-matrix are arranged groups of additional columns (GRa | 2015-12-17 |
20150365620 | VIDEO PRESENTATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A computing device may include a video input interface and video output interface to allow insertion into a video system. The device may be configured to perform passthrough operation on the incoming video, allowing the incoming signal to appear at the output interface. When overlay video operations are desired, the device may resize the incoming video, generate one or more additional overlays, and generate a modified version of the incoming video signal, where the modified version contains the one or more additional overlays along with (if desired) the original video. The device may have data network connections, and can thereby serve as an easy way, for example, to upgrade an existing video system with network and/or interactive features. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365621 | BACKLIGHT CONTROL APPARATUS OF LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL TV SET AND MCU CHIP - A backlight control apparatus of a liquid crystal panel, a liquid crystal TV set and an MCU chip are disclosed, and the apparatus includes: an FRC chip, an MCU chip connected with the FRC chip, and a backlight drive chip connected with the MCU chip; and calculates brightness data of N image zones of a current image frame, converts the brightness data of the N image zones into backlight values of N backlight zones and sends the backlight values to the Micro Controller Unit (MCU) chip; and divides the N backlight zones into M backlight areas, searches a preset gain curve for a gain corresponding to each backlight area according to the average of the backlight values of the backlight zones included in the each backlight area, and adjusts the backlight values of the N backlight zones by M gains searched for. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365622 | Terminal Device, Information Processing Device, and Computer-Readable Medium - A terminal device including a controller configured to display a video on a display in accordance with a display range, the video being configured such that its display range to be displayed on the display within a corresponding one of image frames constituting the video is variable depending on each playback position of the video, accept an instruction to indicate a specified display range that is a partial display range within a corresponding one of image frames constituting the video displayed on the display, and acquire particular display range information indicating a particular display range that is within a predetermined distance from the specified display range within an image frame corresponding to a playback position at a moment when the instruction is accepted, from a storage device storing a plurality of pieces of display range information indicating display ranges to be displayed within respective image frames corresponding to playback positions. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365623 | Method and Device for Storing Video Images - The present disclosure provides a method and device for storing a video image. The method includes the follows. For each frame of image collected, a confidence value is generated after passing M frames of image each time, in which M is a positive integer. A target encoding frame rate may be determined based on the confidence value latest generated, after passing N frames of image each time. The N frames of image may be encoded and recorded, based on the target encoding frame rate determined, in which N is a positive integer. By adopting the technical solutions of the present disclosure, adaptive capability and availability of system may be improved. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365624 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR THE METHOD - A side-channel encoding method for an electronic device is provided. The side-channel encoding method includes converting an original image into a down image by downscaling the original image, converting the down image into an up image by upscaling the down image, calculating a pixel-specific luminance variation between the original image and the up image by using a local average luminance for each pixel included in the original image, converting the pixel-specific luminance variation into a first variation binary signal by binarizing the luminance variation, converting the first variation binary signal into a second variation binary signal by simplifying the first variation binary signal, and outputting the second variation binary signal by including the second variation binary signal in the down image. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365625 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL, TELEVISION RECEIVER, DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A television ( | 2015-12-17 |
20150365626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS USING AN INTEGRATED FEMTOCELL AND RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY DEVICE - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method at a gateway device that registers at least one mobile phone number with the gateway device via a femtocell integrated with the gateway device when a mobile device associated with the at least one mobile phone number is within range of the femtocell, registers at least one voice over internet protocol phone number with the gateway device, and selectively receives and makes calls using one of a set top box registered with the gateway device, the mobile device registered with the femtocell, a voice over internet protocol phone corresponding to the at least one voice over internet protocol phone number. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365627 | ENHANCING VIDEO CHATTING - A method for a computing device to enhance video chatting Includes receiving a live video stream, processing a frame in the live video stream in real-time, and transmitting the frame to another computing device. Processing the frame in real-time includes detecting a face, an upper torso, or a gesture in the frame, and applying a visual effect to the frame. The method includes processing a next frame in the live video stream in real-time by repeating the enhancing, the detecting, and the applying. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365628 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING - A system for video conferencing is disclosed. The system comprises a data processor which receives from a remote location a stream of imagery data of a remote user, and displays an image of the remote user on a display device. The data processor also receives a stream of imagery data of an individual in a local scene in front of the display device, and extracts a gaze direction and/or a head orientation of the individual. The data processor varies a view of the image responsively to the gaze direction and/or the head orientation. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365629 | NONLINEAR SCALING IN VIDEO CONFERENCING - A method for video teleconferencing is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first starting image with a first number of rows and receiving a second starting image with a second number of rows. The images are nonlinearly down-scaled to create a first scaled image and second scaled image respectively. Thus the numbers of rows in the scaled images are less than the number of rows in the starting images. Then, the first scaled image is combined with the second scaled image to create a transmission image for transmission. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365630 | DATA CENTER RAISED FLOOR MONITORING - One or more aspects relates to monitoring conditions under a raised floor in a data center. A grid of raised floor tiles has regular floor tiles interspersed with sensor floor tiles. The sensor floor tiles include: one or more sensors to monitor conditions under the raised floor; and one or more cameras to collect images of conditions under the raised floor. A sensor controller is used to locate a sensor tile with a sensor condition that is out-of-band from a reference condition band; and an image controller is used to locate an image difference corresponding to the out-of-band sensor condition. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365631 | DISTORTION CORRECTING SENSORS FOR DIAGONAL COLLECTION OF OBLIQUE IMAGERY - A vehicle collects oblique imagery along an intercardinal nominal heading using rotated camera-groups with distortion correcting electronic image sensors that align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground, thereby improving collection quality, efficiency, and/or cost. In a first aspect, the camera-groups are rotated diagonal to the nominal heading. In a second aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground. In a third aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors are rotated around the optical axis of the camera. In a fourth aspect, cameras collect images in strips and the strips from different cameras overlap, providing large-baseline, small-time difference stereopsis. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365632 | VIDEO SHARING SYSTEM FOR ROAD USERS - A traffic surveillance and guidance system comprising a traffic server system is disclosed. The traffic server is configured to receive and update and record data of geographical positions of registered road users, and wherein each registered road user is registering a replaceable and modifiable geometrically shaped model of a field of view representing the respective road users observation space and observation ability of possible traffic incidents around geographical positions the respective road users are located on at any time. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365633 | Apparatus and Method of Surveillance - Surveillance apparatus and method include a surveillance processor; a requestor terminal communicating with the surveillance processor for requesting information regarding a particular site of an object; a plurality of responder terminals; and a location processor for determining the locations of the responder terminals with respect to the particular site. The novelty is characterized in that the apparatus and method further include a media processor for relaying messages regarding the particular site to the responder terminals; and in that the information requested by the requestor terminal from the surveillance processor includes the locations of the responder terminals to be stored when located, by the location processor, within a specified distance from the particular site. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365634 | IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - The image recognition system contains a server host and a local host data-linked to the server host. The server host contains a server modeling device. The local host contains a local capturing device, a local recognition device, and a local data device. The local capturing device captures an image of a to-be-identified object. The image is processed by the local recognition device to extract features. The local data device attempts to classify and identify the object based on the features extracted. If the local host fails to identify the object, the captured image is delivered to the server host and the server modeling device attempts to classify and identify the object. If the object is identified, a model information about the object is then sent back to the local host and the local data device stores the newly received model information. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME MAINTENANCE, TROUBLE-SHOOTING, AND PROCESS ASSURANCE FOR THE OILFIELD - An operation, communication, and executions facilitation system includes at least one modular system device including at least one onsite fixed-base camera configurable at an onsite location directed at job equipment for remote live operation viewing by at least one offsite actor. At least one onsite hand-held camera directable by at least one onsite actor at selected equipment for remote live viewing of custom images by the at least one offsite actor. At least one audio communication device usable by the at least one onsite actor, and at least one personal computer configurable to receive data from onsite equipment. A secured or dedicated network connected to one or more of the at least one modular system device. A data center in communication with the secured or dedicated network; and, at least one operations center at an offsite location configured to be manned by the at least one offsite actor and configured to receive data via the data center from the at least one modular system device. Wherein two-way communication between the at least one offsite actor and the at least one onsite actor is accomplished through one or more of the at least one onsite hand-held camera, the at least one audio communication device, and the at least one personal computer. A method of providing and facilitating real-time equipment maintenance, trouble-shooting, and targeted remote operational process assurance of an operation. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365636 | VEHICLE PHOTO STUDIO - A system comprises a platform to rotate a vehicle positioned thereon and at least one fixed camera to generate images of the vehicle as the vehicle is rotated. A local device is in communication with the at least one fixed camera and a remote data storage. A media layer is operable to display the sequential series of still images as a 360 spin view on a remote device. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365637 | IMAGING USING OFFSETTING ACCUMULATIONS - In some examples, a light source is controlled to output light. A sensor element outputs first detections responsive to a combined light comprising ambient light and the light output by the light source when the light source is on, and outputs second detections responsive to ambient light when the light source is off. The first detections are routed to a first accumulator to produce a first accumulation, and the second detections are routed to a second accumulator to produce a second accumulation. An adjusted output image is generated by removing a contribution of the second accumulation from the first accumulation. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365638 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a signal processing circuit includes a defect correction circuit. The defect correction circuit includes a color difference calculation part, a color difference sorting part, and a correction amount calculation part. The color difference calculation part is configured to calculate a difference between a signal level of a first pixel and a signal level of a second pixel in a pixel group. The pixel group includes pixels juxtaposed in a horizontal direction with a target pixel at a center. The correction amount calculation part is configured to calculate a correction amount for the target pixel, based on a difference chosen by the color difference sorting part and a signal level of a second pixel adjacent to the target pixel. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365639 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus comprising an image sensor including a plurality of focus detection pixels for generating a focus detection image and a plurality of imaging pixels for generating a captured image, a color ratio detection unit detecting a color ratio based on a pixel value output from a pixel in a position surrounding a processing target pixel, a color conversion unit generating a first pixel value by applying color conversion with the color ratio to a pixel value output from a pixel that is located in the predetermined direction of the processing target pixel, and an adding unit generating a third pixel value by adding a second pixel value output from the processing target pixel with the first pixel value having the same color as the second pixel value. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365640 | COLOR SEPARATION ELEMENT ARRAY, IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING THE COLOR SEPARATION ELEMENT ARRAY, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE COLOR SEPARATION ELEMENT ARRAY - A color separation element array includes a plurality of color separation elements arranged in two dimensions and separating an incident light according to a wavelength such that, of the incident light, a light of a first wavelength is directed to a first direction and a light of a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength is directed to a second direction that is different from the first direction, in which each of the plurality of color separation elements includes a first element and a second element that are sequentially arranged according to a traveling direction of the incident light, and the first element and the second element of at least one of the plurality of color separation elements are shifted with respect to each other. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365641 | PROJECTION SYSTEM AND PROJECTION CONTROL METHOD - A projection system and a projection control method are provided. The projection system includes a projection apparatus and a projection data providing apparatus. After receiving projection data, the projection apparatus enters an operating mode from a sleep mode and projects an image light beam according to the projection data. The projection data providing apparatus determines whether an input operation is received, and transmits the projection data to the projection apparatus if the input operation is received. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365642 | CLOAKING DEVICE - A method for cloaking an object from an observer is provided in the illustrative embodiments. A hardware device is affixed to the object such that the observer observes a presentation on the device when observing the object. The device is enabled to receive a signal, wherein the signal corresponds to a portion of an ambience obscured by the object from a view of the observer. The signal is processed, at the device and without using a data processing system, to generate a version of the signal. Using the device, the version of the signal is presented to the observer as the presentation, wherein the version of the signal cloaks the object from the ambience in the view of the observer. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365643 | METHOD OF COLOR PROCESSING USING A COLOR AND WHITE FILTER ARRAY - A method of color processing includes providing a color and white filter array placed over an image sensor, thereby generating converted color and white signals; interpolating the converted white signals to generate interpolated white signals; interpolating white-chroma differences between the converted color signals and the converted white signals to generate interpolated white-chroma difference signals; and transforming the interpolated white signal and the interpolated white-chroma difference signals into a color space, thereby generating transformed color signals. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365644 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image-capturing unit acquiring RAW image data indicating a pre-development image from an image signal; recording unit encoding the RAW image data by a predetermined encoding method and recording the encoded RAW image data in a medium; a developing unit reading out the encoded RAW image data and developing the read encoded RAW image data; and a control unit comparing an amount of the encoded RAW image data that was recorded in a shooting time period with an amount of the encoded RAW image data that was read out from the medium so as to be used in development, and controlling an encoding method by which the RAW image data is encoded according to a comparison result. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365645 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INTERMEDIATE VIEW IMAGES | 2015-12-17 |
20150365646 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INTERMEDIATE VIEW IMAGES - An intermediate image ( | 2015-12-17 |
20150365647 | Automultiscopic Display with Viewpoint Tracking and Scalability for Multiple Views - In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for efficiently rendering and displaying multiple images on an electronic device having an automultiscopic display may generally include detecting, with the electronic device, a position of at least one eye relative to the automultiscopic display. The automultiscopic display may include an array of multipixels, with each multipixel including a plurality of sub-multipixels. In addition, the method may include rendering a viewpoint-specific image for each detected eye position and selectively coloring at least one sub-multipixel within one or more of the multipixels such that colors associated with the rendered viewpoint-specific image are only displayed within a multipixel display zone defined for each of the one or more multipixels with respect to each detected eye position. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365648 | METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING SHUTTER-TYPE THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY - Compared with the prior art, in the processing method provided by the present disclosure, a corresponding monocular frame mixed image signal that includes a part of successive monocular frame image signals and a part of successive black picture image signals is inserted after the monocular frame image signal. Therefore at the time of 3D image display, since the monocular frame mixed image signal includes part of the monocular frame image signals and part of the black picture image signals, the 3D image crosstalk phenomenon can be efficiently improved. Moreover, since the monocular frame mixed image signal only has part of the black picture image signals, a better brightness evenness can be obtained in display by reducing the proportion of the black picture image signals in the monocular frame mixed image signal. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365649 | Method and Apparatus of Disparity Vector Derivation in 3D Video Coding - A method and apparatus for three-dimensional video encoding or decoding using an improved refined DV derivation process are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention first determine a derived DV (disparity vector) from temporal, spatial, or inter-view neighboring blocks, or any combination thereof of the current block in a dependent view. A refined DV is then determined based on the derived DV when the derived DV exists and is valid. When the derived DV does not exist or is not valid, the refined DV is determined based on a zero DV or a default DV. The derived DV, the zero DV, or the default DV is used respectively to locate a corresponding block in a coded view, and a corresponding depth block in the coded view is used to determine the refined DV. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365650 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING EYE CENTER POINT - A method for extracting an eye center point includes: photographing a left eye using a left camera resulting in a left eye image; extracting a light reflection point from the left eye image using a first lighting; extracting a first reflection point which is the brightest point on a horizontal line of the light reflection point using a second lighting; photographing the left eye using a right camera; extracting a second reflection point and a third reflection point from an epipolar line by computing an epipolar line of an image corresponding to the light reflection point using the first lighting and the second lighting; and extracting the eye center point using the light reflection point, the first reflection point, the second reflection point, and the third reflection point. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365651 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OF AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT - A method for determining three-dimensional images of an object (Card) comprises projecting a display onto the object by means of a projector (P). A plurality of two-dimensional images of the object are acquired by at least one first image sensor (C), a relative movement of the object in relation to the assembly comprising the projector and the image sensor being carried out during the acquisitions of the images. A determination is made of the height of each point of the object as corresponding to an extremum of a function obtained from the acquired two-dimensional images. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365652 | DEPTH CAMERA SYSTEM - The invention includes a control unit, a light source module, a sensor module with a lens and a computing unit. The light source module is electrically connected to the control unit and composed of multiple linear light sources. The sensor module receives reflective lights from the light source module and sends data of the reflective lights to the control unit. The computing unit is configured to receive the data of the reflective lights, to calculate the shortest distance between a reference point on an optical axis of the lens and an object distance to serve as a standard distance, to calculate sample distances between the reference point and sample points on the object, to calculate errors between the standard distance and the sample distances, and to correct the sample distances to be the same as the standard distance. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365653 | COORDINATE MEASURING DEVICE WITH A SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM HANDHELD PROBE AND INTEGRATED CAMERA FOR AUGMENTED REALITY - A method of combining 2D images into a 3D image includes providing a coordinate measurement device and a six-DOF probe having an integral camera associated therewith, the six-DOF probe being separate from the coordinate measurement device. In a first instance, the coordinate measurement device determines the position and orientation of the six-DOF probe and the integral camera captures a first 2D image. In a second instance, the six-DOF probe is moved, the coordinate measurement device determines the position and orientation of the six-DOF probe, and the integral camera captures a second 2D image. A cardinal point common to the first and second image is found and is used, together with the first and second images and the positions and orientations of the six-DOF probe in the first and second instances, to create the 3D image. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365654 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING IMAGE PHASE - A method for correcting an image phase of a depth camera with a lens is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) selecting a first reference point on an optical axis of the lens and a second reference point on an object, wherein a distance between the first and second reference points is the shortest than others; b) calculating the distance in the step a) to serve as a standard distance; c) selecting sample points on the object other than the second reference point and calculating distances between the sample points and the first reference point; d) calculating offsets and angles between a line through the first and second reference points and lines through the first reference point and sample points; and e) calculating real distances between the first reference point and sample points by values from the step d). | 2015-12-17 |
20150365655 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Second barrier electrodes are arranged under first barrier electrodes so as to fill gaps between the first barrier electrodes, while an insulating layer is located between the first barrier electrodes and the second barrier electrodes. The number of first barrier electrodes and the number of second barrier electrodes in each barrier pitch are 6 or more. The positions of the barriers formed by the first barrier electrodes and the second barrier electrodes are controlled by the reception of a signal representing detected positions of the eyes of a viewer. If pitches of the first barrier electrodes are defined as BE, and the widths of regions in which the first barrier electrodes are overlapped with the second barrier electrodes are defined as BA, a ratio BA/BE of the widths BA to the pitches BE are 0.3 or smaller. This configuration can suppress the occurrence of moire. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365656 | DISPLAY AUXILIARY DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM MEDIUM - A display auxiliary device includes a light receiving sensor that receives display light from a display target, and a CPU that determines whether or not a switching display synchronous signal is included in the received display light, shields both a left-eye liquid crystal shutter and a right-eye liquid crystal shutter during a light reception period of time of the switching display synchronous signal based on the switching display synchronous signal, and performs a shutter switching operation of the left-eye liquid crystal shutter for the left-eye image and the right-eye liquid crystal shutter for the right-eye image to be switched and displayed, when the switching display synchronous signal is determined to be included. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365657 | Text and graphics interactive display - A system for rendering interactive text and graphic images on a standard 2-dimensional electronic display screen, giving the appearance of a 3-dimensional image through the use of interactive 3D projection onto the 2D surface, using parallax, true 3D, pseudo 3D, and responsive to user input and automatic timing algorithms. It will be seen that the same system can readily be adapted to a true 3D display system, should cost and/or space permit. The advantages of this system include increased viewing comprehension, reduced fatigue, and efficiency of computational implementation. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365658 | MANAGING A DISPLAY - A system and computer implemented method for managing a display for a software application is disclosed. The software application may have a set of portions. The method can include collecting, for a first portion and a second portion of the set of portions, optical tracking information including a set of viewing coordinates having a temporal feature. The method can also include determining, based on the optical tracking information including the set of viewing coordinates having the temporal feature, a set of viewing scores including a first group of viewing scores and a second group of viewing scores. The method can also include generating a frustum having a set of regions. The set of regions can include a first region, to provide the first portion, based on the first group of viewing scores, and a second region, to provide the second portion, based on the second group of viewing scores. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365659 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND MULTI VIEW PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - Provided herein is a display apparatus including a display; a renderer configured to render a multi-view image; and a controller configured to, in response to a cover being closed, determine an extent by which the closed cover is twisted with respect to the display apparatus, control the renderer to render the multi-view image corresponding to the extent by which the closed cover is twisted, and control the display to display the rendered multi-view image. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AN IMAGING SYSTEM - A configuration system generates a calibration target to be printed, the target including a set of machine-readable and visually-identifiable landmarks and associated location-encoding marks which encode known locations of the landmarks. A plurality of test images of the printed calibration target is acquired by the system from an image capture assembly. Positions of the landmarks in the acquired test images and the location-encoding marks in the acquired test images are detected by the system. The system decodes the locations of the landmarks from the detected location-encoding marks and spatially characterizes the image capture assembly, based on the detected positions of the landmarks in the acquired test images and their decoded known locations. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365661 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, CALIBRATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image capturing unit, a display unit that displays an imaged picture imaged by the image capturing unit and a guide linearly shaped along a sagittal direction or a tangential direction in the imaged picture, the guide assisting imaging of a calibration image used for calibration in a point image restoration process, and a parameter calculation unit that calculates a parameter for the point image restoration process on the basis of the calibration image imaged by the image capturing unit with assistance from the guide. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365662 | Method And Apparatus For Context-Based Video Quality Assessment - Because neighboring frames may affect how a current frame is perceived, we examine different neighborhoods of the current frame and select a neighborhood that impacts the perceived temporal distortion (i.e., when frames are viewed continuously) of the current frame most significantly. Based on spatial distortion (i.e., when a frame is viewed independently of other frames in a video sequence) of frames in the selected neighborhood, we can estimate initial temporal distortion. To refine the initial temporal distortion, we also consider the distribution of distortion in the selected neighborhood, for example, the distance between the current frame and a closest frame with large distortion, or whether distortion occurs in consecutive frames. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365663 | 3D DISPLAY CROSS INTERFERENCE TESTING METHOD AND TESTING DEVICE THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a testing method of a 3D display cross interference and the testing device thereof. The method according to the present disclosure comprises: acquiring a brightness of at least one first test image in a region where a left eye image is displayed in a display device and a brightness of at least one second test image in a region where a right eye image is displayed in the display device through a left eye lens or a right eye lens of stereo glasses; comparing the brightness of the acquired first test image and the brightness of the acquired second test image, and determining a cross interference value or a cross interference value range between the left eye image and the right eye image according to the comparison result, a grey scale value of the first test image and a grey scale value of the second test image. By using the method according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, the cross interference value or the cross interference value range between the left eye image and the right eye image of the stereo display system is able to be tested quickly so that the processing speed and efficiency of the cross interference test are enhanced. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365664 | Multi-Level Video Processing Within A Vehicular Communication Network - A system for performing multi-level video processing within a vehicle includes a pre-processing module for determining an encoding mode and enabling one or more levels of encoding based on the encoding mode. The pre-processing module further receives a video stream from a camera attached to the vehicle via a vehicular communication network and encodes the video stream based on the encoding mode to produce a packet stream output. The system further includes a video decoder for receiving the packet stream output and decoding the packet stream output in accordance with the encoding mode to produce a decoded video output. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365665 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method includes: performing Sample SAO processing on Y signal, Cb signal, and Cr signal which are included in a target block; performing arithmetic coding on a first flag indicating whether or not an SAO parameter, which indicates details of the SAO processing, of the target block is identical to an SAO parameter for a left neighboring block immediately left of the target block; and performing arithmetic coding on the SAO parameter for the target block, when the SAO parameter for the target block is different from the SAO parameter for the left neighboring block. In the arithmetic coding on the first flag, a single context is used to perform the arithmetic coding on the first flag for the luminance signal, the chrominance Cb signal, and the chrominance Cr signal. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365666 | ENHANCED DEBLOCKING FILTERS FOR VIDEO CODING - Deblocking filters used in video coding systems (e.g., single layer video coding systems or multi-layer video coding systems) may be enhanced. Inter layer prediction for scalable video coding (SVC) may be implemented using enhanced deblocking filters. Enhanced deblocking filters may be configured to be adapted, for example by adjusting a deblocking filter boundary strength calculation process. A deblocking filter boundary strength parameter may be assigned in accordance with, for example, a video block partition size of an input video block or a neighboring video block, whether an input video block or a neighboring video block was predicted using an inter layer reference, and/or whether at least one of an input video block or a neighboring video block have one or more corresponding base layer blocks that were coded using intra mode. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365667 | METHOD OF APPLYING EDGE OFFSET - An apparatus of post-processing a reconstructed image is discussed. The apparatus according to an embodiment includes a deblocking filter for determining a boundary strength for each 4-sample edge which is a prediction edge or a transform edge and lies on 8×8 sample grid, determining whether deblocking filtering is applied on the 4-sample edge or not using the boundary strength and a boundary quantization parameter, and filtering the 4-sample edge if the deblocking filtering is applied on the 4-sample edge; and a sample adaptive offset adder for, if a sample adaptive offset type indicates an edge offset, generating an edge index of a current sample, generating an edge offset corresponding to the edge index to the current sample, and adding the edge offset to the current sample. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365668 | METHOD OF APPLYING EDGE OFFSET - An apparatus of post-processing a reconstructed image is discussed. The apparatus according to an embodiment includes a deblocking filter for determining a boundary strength for each 4-sample edge which is a prediction edge or a transform edge and lies on 8×8 sample grid, determining whether deblocking filtering is applied on the 4-sample edge or not using the boundary strength and a boundary quantization parameter, and filtering the 4-sample edge if the deblocking filtering is applied on the 4-sample edge; and a sample adaptive offset adder for, if a sample adaptive offset type indicates an edge offset, generating an edge index of a current sample, generating an edge offset corresponding to the edge index to the current sample, and adding the edge offset to the current sample. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365669 | SIGNALING SIGNED BAND OFFSET VALUES FOR SAMPLE ADAPTIVE OFFSET (SAO) FILTERING IN VIDEO CODING - A method for signaling sample adaptive offset (SAO) band offset syntax elements in a video encoder is provided that includes receiving a plurality of band offset syntax elements, entropy encoding an absolute value of a magnitude of each band offset syntax element in a compressed video bit stream, and entropy encoding a sign of each non-zero band offset syntax element in the compressed video bit stream following the absolute values of the magnitudes. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365670 | ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODING/DECODING SYSTEM, ENCODER, AND DECODER - An encoding, a decoding method, a system for encoding and decoding, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The encoding method includes the following. In a palette mode, if colors of pixels of a coding unit block are all represented by one or more major colors of the coding unit block, a flag is set as a first state value, and if the color of at least one pixel of the coding unit block is not represented by the one or more major colors of the coding unit block, the flag is set as a second state value. The encoding method further includes establishing a palette table corresponding to the coding unit block according to a state value of the flag and the one or more major colors. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365671 | DETERMINING QUANTIZATION PARAMETER (QP) VALUES AND DELTA QP VALUES FOR PALETTE CODED BLOCKS IN VIDEO CODING - Techniques are described for palette-based video coding. In palette-based coding, a video coder may form a so-called “palette” as a table of colors for representing video data of a given block of video data. Rather than coding actual pixel values or their residuals for the given block, the video coder may code index values for one or more of the pixels. The index values map the pixels to entries in the palette representing the colors of the pixels. Techniques are described for determining the application of deblocking filtering for pixels of palette coded blocks at a video encoder or a video decoder. In addition, techniques are described for determining quantization parameter (QP) values and delta QP values used to quantize escape pixel values of palette coded blocks at the video encoder or the video decoder. | 2015-12-17 |
20150365672 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUBBAND CODING FREQUENCY CONVERSION UNIT, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING USING SAME - A method performed by an apparatus for decoding a video, includes: generating a predicted block by predicting a current block to be decoded; reconstructing frequency coefficients in a frequency conversion unit by decoding a bitstream, to generate a frequency conversion block having a size of the frequency conversion unit; inversely transforming the frequency conversion block by using a transform size identical to the size of the frequency conversion unit, to reconstruct a residual block; and adding the reconstructed residual block to the predicted block. | 2015-12-17 |