Abstract: A peccancy monitoring system and a peccancy monitoring method are provided in the present application. The peccancy monitoring system includes: a first camera, configured to monitor whether a peccancy vehicle is present in a designated area and generate alarm message when the peccancy vehicle is present; a control unit, connected to the first camera and configured to trigger the second camera to shoot according to the alarm message; a second camera, connected to the control unit and configured to shoot the peccancy vehicle to acquire a video of the vehicle and an image of the vehicle, here the video of the vehicle is a video containing a license plate of the peccancy vehicle and the image of the vehicle is an image containing the license plate of the peccancy vehicle. By using the technical solutions in the present application, the road can be monitored after the school bus is docked.

Abstract: Methods and imaging devices are disclosed for reducing defocus events occurring during autofocus search operations. For example, one method includes capturing a plurality of frames depicting a scene with an imaging device, selecting a portion of the scene of at least one frame that corresponds to an object of the scene, and detecting a change in the scene. The method further includes detecting a distance between the object and the imaging device for each of the plurality of frames, determining a lens position for each frame based on the determined distance of each frame and moving a lens toward the lens position of each frame while the scene continuously changes. The method also includes determining the scene is stable and initiating an autofocus search operation based on the determination that the scene is stable.

Abstract: A body part of a camera includes a display that is at least partially flexible. A display part of the display includes a first display part and a second display part that are integrally formed. A hinge part that connects the first display part to the second display part to be rotatable relative to each other is provided in the vicinity of a bendable part located at a boundary of each display part. The display is bendable in accordance with rotation of the hinge part with the bendable part as a starting point. An operation member is disposed on a back surface of the second display part, and the operation member is exposed to the outside in a bent state of the display.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of operating a video management system, the method comprising inputting, into the video management system, a plurality of virtual video streams generated by virtual video cameras within a dynamic 3D virtual environment; receiving, in the computer, at least one command from a user indicative of an instruction to alter a functioning of the dynamic 3D virtual environment and/or a functioning of the video management system; and displaying on a display, from the video management system, at least one virtual video stream and/or at least one alert, alarm and/or message implementing at least one alteration caused by the received command.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for deterrence techniques using a security and automation system are described. In one method, the system may receive a set of inputs from one or more sensors of the security and automation system. The system may determine one or more characteristics of a person proximate the security and automation system based at least in part on the received set of inputs. The system may predict an event based at least in part on a correlation between the one or more characteristics and the event. The system may perform one or more security and automation actions prior to the predicted event.

Abstract: Methods and systems described herein generate content that quickly cycles between different-colored frames at a rapid rate that may be imperceptible to human viewers. The human eye tends to blend nearby frames together, so that a human viewer will see a full color spectrum even though only a single color is displayed at any given time. The video display may repeatedly cycle between individual color frames, thus providing video content that appears normal to a human viewer. However, a video recording device may capture only some of the color frames. Therefore, the video recorded by video recording devices may include undesirable color flicker or other color artifacts, which may deter unauthorized copying.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technology provide anti-theft shelving units particularly designed to deter/detect sweeping theft. For example, an anti-theft shelving unit of the disclosed technology may comprise a combination of the following anti-sweeping theft design features: (1) flip-stopper(s) swingably-mounted to shelves of the anti-theft shelving unit; (2) flip-door(s) swingably-mounted to the anti-theft shelving unit; (3) processing circuitry that, in response to an anti-theft-related signal, locks the flip-stopper(s) and flip-door(s) in fixed positions that restrict access to items on the shelves; and (4) shelf-mounted sensors and processing circuitry that determine occurrence of sweeping theft in response to detecting removal of over a threshold number of items from a shelf in a pre-determined time interval.

Abstract: Content streams may be segmented to provide automatic extraction and storage of content items without intervening commercials or other unrelated content. These content items may then be stored in a database and made accessible to subscribers through, for example, an on-demand service. Automatic segmentation may include the identification of program boundaries, segmentation of a content stream based on the boundaries and the subsequent classification of the segments into content types. For example, audio and video duplication detection may be used to identify commercials since commercials tend to repeat frequently over a relatively short amount of time. A system may further identify an end of program indicator in a video stream to determine when a program ends. Accordingly, if a program ends after a scheduled end time, a recording device (e.g., the program is being recorded) may automatically extend the recording time to capture the entire program.

Abstract: A multicolor static multiview display and method of multicolor static multiview display operation provide a color static multiview image using diffractive gratings to diffractively scatter light from guided light beams having a selectable color and different radial directions. The multicolor static multiview display includes a light guide configured to guide plurality of guided light beams and a multicolor light source configured to provide the guided light beam plurality having the selectable color and the different radial directions. The multicolor static multiview display further includes a plurality of diffraction gratings configured to provide from a portion of the guided light beams directional light beams having a color, intensities, and principal angular directions corresponding to color view pixels of the color static multiview image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a video processing apparatus and a video processing method that allow each person involved to make an advance preparation more easily. A presentation control unit controls, in such a way that, with a first scene of a captured video currently being captured used as a reference, advance information regarding a second scene is presented at a presentation timing before the second scene after the first scene, in a mode corresponding to an output destination of the captured video, the presentation of the advance information. The technology according to the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a camera that captures video content such as a movie, a drama, or a CM.

Abstract: A method for automatically authenticating unknown video data based on known video data stored at a client server is provided, wherein, unknown and known video data each are made up of segments and include metadata, a hash message digest, and a serial code. The method involves selecting a first segment of the unknown video and locating the serial code within the first segment of the unknown video data. The serial code is used to locate a corresponding first segment in the known video data. The first segment may include a known hash message digest. A new hash message digest for the first segment of the unknown video data is generated and compared with the known hash message digest. If they match, the segment of unknown video data is authentic.

Abstract: An information processing device (10) includes a decision unit (23e) and a generation unit (23f). The decision unit (23e) decides connection order of divided scenes obtained by dividing a free-viewpoint video based on a multi-viewpoint video obtained by imaging content, based on a feature amount of a given sound and similarities between respective connection frames in the divided scenes. The generation unit (23f) generates free-viewpoint content in which the divided scenes are connected in the connection order decided by the decision unit (23e).

Abstract: Systems and methods provide for advanced video editing techniques using sampling patterns. In one example, a computing device can receive a selection of a clip of a video and a sampling pattern. The computing device can determine a respective number of frames to sample from the clip for each interval of time over a length of time for a new clip. For example, the computing device can determine a function corresponding the pattern that relates time and the number of frames to sample, a histogram corresponding to the pattern, or a definite integral corresponding to the pattern, among other approaches. The computing device can extract these numbers of frames from the clip and generate the new clip from the extracted frames. The computing device can present the new clip as a preview and send the new clip to other computing devices.

Abstract: Providing digital video having customized graphics whose appearance and operation are specified by a graphics template expressed using one or more web-based protocols. One or more software modules, executing on a media server, identify, for a particular digital video, a markup language document which describes or identifies a customized appearance of one or more graphics to be incorporated into a presentation of particular digital video and shown to an identified audience. The markup language document may be an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document. The media server streams the particular digital video having the one or more graphics to a member of the identified audience in accordance with the markup language document. An HTML rendering engine, executing on the media server, may pass through one or more audio streams to be incorporated into an output stream without re-encoding the one or more audio streams.

Abstract: A 360-degree video data processing method performed by a 360-degree video reception apparatus, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving 360-degree video data; deriving metadata and information on an encoded picture for a specific viewing position in specific viewing space based on the 360-degree video data; decoding the encoded picture based on the information on the encoded picture; rendering the decoded picture based on the metadata; and displaying a viewport in a 360-degree video generated based on the rendering, wherein the viewport includes a mini-map representing the specific viewing space, and wherein a shape of the mini-map is derived as a shape corresponding to a shape type of the specific viewing space.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for film-making using style transfer. One of the methods includes receiving an initial video comprising a sequence of initial video frames; receiving a selection of style images; for each initial video frame in the sequence of initial video frames, processing the initial video frame to generate a final video frame, the processing comprising: segmenting the initial video frame to generate a segmented video frame; generating a plurality of stylized video frames each according to a respective one of the style images; and generating a final video frame comprising, for each segment of the segmented video frame: determining a stylized video frame, extracting the respective segment from the determined stylized video frame, and inserting the extracted segment into the final video frame; and combining each generated final video frame in sequence to generate the final video.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for playback using pre-processed profile information and personalization. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a synchronizer to, in response to receiving a media signal to be played on a playback device, access an equalization (EQ) profile corresponding to the media signal; an EQ personalization manager to generate a personalized EQ setting; and an EQ adjustment implementor to modify playback of the media signal on the playback device based on a blended equalization generated based on the EQ profile and the personalized EQ setting.

Abstract: The present technology relates a reproduction apparatus, a reproduction method, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program which can realize reproduction of highly flexible audio data while reflecting the intention of a content creator. A reproduction apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology acquires content including audio data of each of audio objects and rendering parameters of the audio data for each of a plurality of presumed listening positions, renders the audio data on the basis of the rendering parameters for a selected predetermined presumed listening position, and outputs an audio signal. The present technology can be applied to an apparatus that can reproduce object-based audio data.

Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by automating the client-side transcoding of video data based on content. For example, an appropriate transcoding configuration can be selected for video data having complex motion or textures. Accordingly, video quality can be improve when complex motions or textures are present.

Abstract: Systems and methods of non-line-of-sight passive detection and integrated early warning of an unmanned aerial system by a plurality of acoustic sensors are described. In some embodiments, the plurality of acoustic sensors is positioned within an intra-netted array in depth according to at least one of a terrain, terrain features, or man-made objects or structures. The acoustic sensors are capable of detecting and tracking unmanned aerial systems in non-line-of-sight environments. In some embodiments, the acoustic sensors may be in communication with internal electro-optical components or other external sensors, with orthogonal signal data then transmitted to remote observation stations for correlation, threat determination and if required, mitigation. The unmanned aerial systems may be classified by type and a threat level associated with the unmanned aerial system may be determined.