Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090097775 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - It is possible to inhibit artifacts, even when a special image has been input. The visual processing device of the invention is provided with a spatial processing portion ( | 04-16-2009 |
20090184894 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL APPARATUS, PROGRAM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image display apparatus using phosphors each having a different persistence time has a problem of reducing a motion blur caused by persistence of the phosphors in an image and improving color shift caused by the motion blur. The image display apparatus ( | 07-23-2009 |
20090232401 | VISUAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A visual processing device, display device, visual processing method, program, and integrated circuit with which it is possible to inhibit side effect even if an image that has sharp edge regions or a special image has been input, and with a simple configuration it is possible to change the strength of the visual processing of the image in real-time, are provided. A spatial processing portion ( | 09-17-2009 |
20100014773 | VISUAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, DISPLAY, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - It is possible to inhibit side effects even when an image that has sharp edge regions has been input. The invention is provided with a spatial processing portion ( | 01-21-2010 |
20100157115 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The invention achieves a visual processing device that can execute precise contrast adjustment on image signals that have been input and that does not cause discrepancies in the output timing of the image signals that are output. The visual processing device is provided with a gain-type visual processing portion that outputs a first gain signal having predetermined gain characteristics with respect to the input image signal, and a correction portion that corrects the input image signal based on the first gain signal. | 06-24-2010 |
20100177234 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device appropriately extracts an entire object from an image even if the object is not completely included in an initial region designated by a user. The image processing device includes: a designation unit designating a position on the image; a setting unit setting a first combination consisting of a first object region candidate and a first background region candidate, and a second combination; a histogram generation unit generating a normalized color histogram of each of the regions; a similarity calculation unit calculating a similarity regarding each of the combinations; and a selection unit configured to select a combination from the first and second combinations so that the selected combination has the similarity lower than the similarity of the non-selected combination. | 07-15-2010 |
20100188523 | VISUAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - It is possible to inhibit side effects even when an image that has sharp edge regions has been input. The invention is provided with a spatial processing portion ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100194919 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - Acquiring enough brightness with flash and obtaining an image having a color close to a color which a human senses. | 08-05-2010 |
20100260437 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image processing device ( | 10-14-2010 |
20100309216 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, VISUAL PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A visual processing device that achieves gradation processing and further enhances a visual effect. The visual processing device | 12-09-2010 |
20110001840 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A tracking processing unit ( | 01-06-2011 |
20110025890 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The invention achieves a visual processing device that can execute precise contrast adjustment on image signals that have been input and that does not cause discrepancies in the output timing of the image signals that are output. The visual processing device is provided with a gain-type visual processing portion that outputs a first gain signal having predetermined gain characteristics with respect to the input image signal, and a correction portion that corrects the input image signal based on the first gain signal. | 02-03-2011 |
20110033132 | IMAGE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD - An input image containing multiple kinds of blur is corrected without using multiple images, resulting in a target image with less blur than the input image. An image correction apparatus ( | 02-10-2011 |
20110058050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION BLUR AND GHOSTING PREVENTION IN IMAGING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for motion blur and ghosting prevention in imaging system is presented. A residue image is computed by performing spatial-temporal filter with a set of absolute image difference of image pairs from input images. A noise adaptive pixel threshold is computed for every pixel based on noise statistics of image sensor. The residue image and the noise adaptive pixel threshold are used to create a motion masking map. The motion masking map is used to represent motion and non-motion pixels in pixels merging. The pixels merging step is performed to generate an output image by considering the motion pixels where the motion pixels are performed separately. The resulting output image having no or less motion blur and ghosting artifacts can be obtained, even the input images having different degree of motion blur between each of the image, while the complexity is low. It is preferred that the current invention is applied in the Bayer raw domain. The benefit is reduced computation and memory because only 1 color component is processed for each pixel. Another benefit is higher signal fidelity because processing in the Bayer raw domain is unaffected by demosaicing artifacts, especially along edges. However, the current invention can also be applied in RGB domain. | 03-10-2011 |
20110085085 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A visual processing device, display device, visual processing method, program, and integrated circuit that change a strength of visual processing of an image in real-time. A spatial processing portion ( | 04-14-2011 |
20110090345 | DIGITAL CAMERA, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus is provided which is capable of stably tracking a target even when an amount of characteristics of an image of the target varies on input pictures due to an abrupt movement of the target or other causes. An image processing apparatus ( | 04-21-2011 |
20110109765 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - In order to inhibit artifacts (even when a special image has been input) a visual processing device is provided with a spatial processing portion extracting surrounding image information US from an input image signal IS, and a special image detection portion outputting a special image effect adjustment signal DS according to a degree of a statistical bias of the image signal IS. The visual processing device also includes a continuous changing portion outputting an effect adjustment signal MOD in which the special image effect adjustment signal DS is continuously changed between frames, an effect adjustment portion outputting a synthesized signal MUS in which the effect of the visual processing differs depending on the effect adjustment signal MOD, and a visual processing portion outputting a processed signal OS obtained by visually processing the image signal IS based on the image signal IS and the synthesized signal MUS. | 05-12-2011 |
20110122148 | VISUAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - It is possible to inhibit side effects even when an image that has sharp edge regions has been input, using a spatial processing portion ( | 05-26-2011 |
20110122254 | DIGITAL CAMERA, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Images of a target are stably tracked even when an image-capture environment changes. An image processing apparatus ( | 05-26-2011 |
20110135219 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING THE PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - To provide an image processing apparatus which reduces, using a temporal noise removal scheme, image block distortion or noise and temporal flickering and fluctuation phenomena. The image processing apparatus ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110164156 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT - A solid-state image sensor according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor layer | 07-07-2011 |
20110234826 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CIRCUIT - An image capturing apparatus ( | 09-29-2011 |
20110241991 | TRACKING OBJECT SELECTION APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM AND CIRCUIT - Provided is a tracking object selection apparatus ( | 10-06-2011 |
20110299773 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The grayscale of an input signal is converted without amplifying noise components thereof. A grayscale conversion portion performs grayscale conversion on an input signal IS to create a converted signal TS, a noise reduction degree determining portion determines a noise reduction degree NR that expresses a strength of noise reduction processing to be applied to the converted signal based on the input signal IS and the converted signal TS, and a noise reducing portion executes noise reduction processing on the converted signal TS based on the noise reduction degree NR. By doing this, it is possible to convert the grayscale of the input signal without enhancing the noise. | 12-08-2011 |
20110317044 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device ( | 12-29-2011 |
20120026349 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An image-capturing device of the present invention includes an image-capturing element | 02-02-2012 |
20120033094 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An image capture device of the present invention includes: a first image capture element | 02-09-2012 |
20120057036 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image capture device of the present invention includes: a plurality of image sensors ( | 03-08-2012 |
20120086822 | BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE AND BLUR CORRECTION METHOD - Blur correction device ( | 04-12-2012 |
20120105655 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing device extracts, in an image block selection section | 05-03-2012 |
20120105658 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A kernel estimation section ( | 05-03-2012 |
20120182453 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE CAPTURING ELEMENT, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - The solid-state image sensor | 07-19-2012 |
20120206630 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention has an object to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of, when reducing a blur in an input image, (i) reducing noise included in the input image and (ii) restraining degradation of the image caused by noise processing from being emphasized by image restoration processing. An image processing apparatus ( | 08-16-2012 |
20120287310 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - An image capturing device which continuously captures images having high sensitivity and high resolution and synthesizes the continuously-captures images when lighting is very dark or when a luminance value of an object is small, the image capturing device including: an image capturing unit which receives light from the object and generates an image in which the object is captured; a continuously-captured-image synthesizing unit which generates a synthesized continuously-captured image in which the object is captured, by synthesizing two or more images temporally continuously captured by the image capturing unit; and a parameter setting unit which sets a shutter speed at which each of the two or more images is captured, according to the luminance value of the object and a speed of the object. | 11-15-2012 |
20130057714 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - This image capture device includes an image capturing section | 03-07-2013 |
20130063616 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - This image capture device is configured to generate a restored image by reducing a motion blur that has been induced by a camera shake during shooting. The device includes: an image sensor | 03-14-2013 |
20130084021 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The grayscale of an input signal is converted without amplifying noise components thereof. A grayscale conversion portion performs grayscale conversion on an input signal IS to create a converted signal TS, a noise reduction degree determining portion determines a noise reduction degree NR that expresses a strength of noise reduction processing to be applied to the converted signal based on the input signal IS and the converted signal TS, and a noise reducing portion executes noise reduction processing on the converted signal TS based on the noise reduction degree NR. By doing this, it is possible to convert the grayscale of the input signal without enhancing the noise. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089268 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes: a first band limiting unit that reduces noise included in an input image; and a restoring unit, wherein the restoring unit has a difference calculating unit that calculates a difference between the input image and a noise-reduced image, a predicted noise obtaining unit that obtains a predicted noise amount to be included in the input image, a correction signal generating unit that generates a correction signal for correcting the noise-reduced image and controlling an absolute value of the difference between the input image and the noise-reduced image within a range of the predicted noise amount, and an image synthesizing unit that corrects the noise-reduced image based on the correction signal. | 04-11-2013 |
20130121537 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This image processing apparatus is an image processing apparatus for measuring a subject distance using a plurality of captured images acquired by capturing the same subject in a plurality of imaging states in succession of time, and includes a target motion amount estimation unit that estimates a target motion amount representing an amount of shift in subject position between first and second images among the captured images, the first image being captured in a first imaging state and a second image being captured in a second imaging state different from the first imaging state, a corrected image generation unit that generates a corrected image by performing motion compensation on the second image based on the target motion amount, and an image processing unit that performs image processing such as measuring a subject distance or generating an HDR image, using the first image and the corrected image. | 05-16-2013 |
20130135298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING NEW VIEWPOINT IMAGE - An apparatus for generating a new viewpoint image includes: a new viewpoint image generation unit that shifts the foreground image region in the input image, based on a depth map to generate a new viewpoint image including a missing pixel region; a representative background pixel selection unit that selects background pixels located a predetermined number of pixels away from edge pixels, as representative background pixels; a texture direction map calculation unit that calculates a texture direction of each of the selected representative background pixels, to calculate a texture direction map indicating texture directions, each corresponding to one of missing pixels, based on locations of the representative background pixels and locations of the missing pixels included in the missing pixel region; and a hole-filling processing unit that fills the missing pixel region with the obtained background pixels in accordance with the texture direction map. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135493 | SOILD-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A solid-state image sensor includes a photosensitive cell array and a dispersing element array. Each unit block | 05-30-2013 |
20130177260 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus which estimates a point spread function (PSF) of at least one input image, and the image processing apparatus includes: an S/N ratio estimation unit which estimates an S/N ratio of the input image at each spatial frequency; a restricted range calculation unit which calculates a restricted range that is a range of the spatial frequency in which the frequency component of the input images are restricted and that more likely includes a spatial frequency in which the S/N ratio is lower; a frequency restriction unit which generates a restricted image by restricting a frequency component of the input image within the restricted range; and a PSF estimation unit which estimates the PSF of the input image, using the restricted image | 07-11-2013 |
20130188026 | DEPTH ESTIMATING IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND IMAGE SENSOR - A depth estimating image capture device as an embodiment of this invention includes: an image sensor | 07-25-2013 |
20140055650 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR - This solid-state image sensor includes an array of photosensitive cells and an array of dispersive elements. The photosensitive cell array is comprised of a plurality of unit blocks | 02-27-2014 |
20140078259 | LIGHT FIELD IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor | 03-20-2014 |
20140078355 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR - This solid-state image sensor includes an array of photosensitive cells and an array of dispersive elements. The photosensitive cell array is comprised of a plurality of unit blocks | 03-20-2014 |
20140085425 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - This image processor | 03-27-2014 |
20140093159 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus is provided which includes: a feature calculation unit which calculates feature quantities of respective pixels included in an input image; a reliability level obtaining unit which obtains reliability level information indicating reliability levels of respective depth values indicating depths of the respective pixels; and a depth correction unit which corrects the depth values included in input depth information, using the reliability levels and the feature quantities, to generate output depth information. | 04-03-2014 |