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: A camera module includes an imaging sensor that outputs raw image sensor data representative of a scene and an imaging logic engine that processes the raw image sensor data into image data in a predetermined image format. The imaging logic engine carries out a hash function to generate a hash of the image data and adds a genesis block of a digital ledger as part of the image data so that the genesis block is part of the image data in an image file output by the camera module, the genesis block containing the hash.

Abstract: In a pixel 110, a microlens layer 112 includes a microlens for each pixel region. A color filter layer 114 allows passage of light of a given color. A polarizer layer 116 includes a polarizer that allows passage of a polarization component in a given direction in some or all pixel regions and acquires a normal vector of a subject through a detection value thereof. A photoelectric conversion layer 118 includes a plurality of photodiodes in the pixel regions. A distance to a feature point of the subject is acquired through phase difference based on the detection value.

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 fusion night vision system has a plurality of hinged joints that allow an operator to adjust the distance between the left eye piece and the right eyepiece while allowing a row of pixels from a display to be maintained viewable through the right eye piece parallel with an imaginary line formed by an optical axis of the left eye piece with an optical axis of the right eye piece.

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing content items are described. A content item may be separated into components, such as chroma components, luminance components, and audio components. For more efficient management of the content, including for storage and delivery of the content, the separate components may be stored at different locations. For example, chroma components may be stored on a central server, while luminance and audio components are stored at other locations, such as edge servers, or vice versa, to accommodate network efficiency considerations. When content is delivered to a player, two or more separate streams carrying different content components may be delivered to the player.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically creating a video of a journey includes at least one computer unit and at least one vehicle. The vehicle has at least one sensor which is configured to continuously detect technical driving parameters of the vehicle. The vehicle also has at least one video camera which is configured to continuously record video sequences of a predefinable length. The computer unit is configured to process each of the video sequences with respect to the detected technical driving parameters and also to tag each of the processed video sequences with reference to predefinable criteria. The computer unit is configured to automatically create a video including a predefinable number of suitably tagged video sequences.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a data processing method comprises the steps of generating an uncompressed data signal and transmitting the uncompressed data signal and an InfoFrame, wherein the InfoFrame is a data transmission structure for transmitting information to a sink device receiving the uncompressed data signal, and includes a color volume descriptor for describing information on color volume, and the InfoFrame includes type information for indicating the type of color volume according to an object of the color volume, color volume type information for indicating the type of color volume according to a method of defining the color volume, and color space type information for indicating the type of color space in which the color volume is expressed.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating a descriptive video service track for a video asset. Different scenes and/or scene transitions are detected in a predetermined version of the video asset via automated media analysis. Gaps in dialogue are detected in the at least one scene via automated media analysis. Objects appearing in the at least one scene are recognized via automated media analysis, and text descriptive of at least one of the objects appearing in the at least one scene is automatically generated. An audio file of the text descriptive of the at least one of the objects appearing in the at least one scene of the predetermined version of the video asset is generated and used as part of a descriptive video service track for the video asset.

Abstract: In a computer-implemented method and system of augmenting a video stream of an environment, a processing device receives a first video stream including a plurality of image frames provided from at least one camera, processes the plurality of image frames of the first video stream to define a spatial scope of image data within a respective one of the image frames, modifies the plurality of image frames with frame-based modification information configured to obfuscate or delete or restrict at least one portion of a respective one of the image frames which is outside of the spatial scope of image data within the respective one of the image frames, and outputs a second video stream based on the modified plurality of image frames with the frame-based modification information for transmission to a receiving device, such as a display device.

Abstract: Playing out digital video with 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 a customized appearance of one or more graphics to be incorporated into a presentation of particular digital video. The markup language document may be an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document. The media server plays out the particular digital video with the one or more graphics 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 used in playing out the particular digital video without re-encoding the one or more audio streams.

Abstract: A system and method detects falling incidents on structures such as cruise vessels, oil rigs, overpasses, and buildings, and also detects overboarding movements onto structures such as cargo ships. The system includes at least two opposed imaging devices which record video streams of a detection cuboid within an overlapping region of view volumes for the imaging devices. The imaging devices monitor objects that pass through the cuboid. Identified objects within the video streams are paired, their conformance is determined, and real-world information such as size, trajectory, and location is determined.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that displays video content on a first display region in a display section as a first video, displays the above-mentioned video content on a second display region in the above-mentioned display section as a second video delayed from the above-mentioned first video by a predetermined time, and sets a first tag inputted by a user into the above-mentioned first video and a second tag inputted by the above-mentioned user into the above-mentioned second video as tags for the above-mentioned video content.

Abstract: A HUD display system based on lane line vanishing point according to the invention includes a HUD display, characterized by further including an image acquisition device; the HUD display is further provided with a displayed image adjustment module. The image acquisition device is used for acquiring images of road surface in the traveling direction of the vehicle and the images acquired by the image acquisition device include a display interface of the HUD display.

Abstract: The medical image storage and reproduction apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores a motion picture obtained by imaging an imaging target; a virtual image generation unit that generates a virtual image based on a three-dimensional medical image captured in advance; a chapter information assignment unit that detects an anatomical feature or a functional feature from the virtual image corresponding to an updated frame according to updating of each frame of the motion picture and assigns chapter information to the motion picture based on the detection point in time; and a display control unit that displays a selection screen for receiving the selection of chapter information. The display control unit reproduces the motion picture based on the selected chapter information.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a visual identification system and a classifying and sorting system.

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: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for determining video material of news. The method for determining video material of news comprises: recognizing a person name in a news text; searching a video based on the person name, to obtain a to-be-selected video; extracting a key frame in the to-be-selected video; recognizing a person in the key frame to obtain identity information of the person; and determining the to-be-selected video as video material of news, in response to the identity information of the person conforming to the person name. The present disclosure improves the consistency between the video material of the news and the news text.

Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving a first group of video content items; (ii) identifying from among the first group of video content items, a second group of video content items having a threshold extent of similarity with each other; (iii) determining a quality score for each video content item of the second group; (iv) identifying from among the second group of video content items, a third group of video content items each having a quality score that exceeds a quality score threshold; and (v) based on the identifying of the third group, transmitting at least a portion of at least one video content item of the identified third group to a digital video-effect (DVE) system, wherein the system is configured for using the at least the portion of the at least one video content item of the identified third group to generate a video content item.

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.