Abstract: An encoding apparatus for inputting a first image signal and a second image signal from an input source different from an input source of the first image signal adaptively decides a first bit rate and a second bit rate which are respectively assigned to a first encoding unit for encoding the input first image signal and a second encoding unit for encoding the input second image signal on the basis of the first image signal, on the basis of photographing mode information or distortion ratios of encoding by the encoding units.

Abstract: A device for attaching to an electric power line conductor includes an electrically conductive housing having an opening for accepting the power line conductor and configured to be grounded to the electric power line conductor. At least one magnetic core is configured to surround the power line conductor and power a power supply electronics module. At least one camera assembly is connected to the housing and configured to capture fault and lightning stroke images along the electric power line conductor.

Abstract: Methods and systems for generating video from panoramic images using transition trees are provided. According to an embodiment, a method for generating a video from panoramic images may include receiving a transition tree corresponding to a current panoramic image from a server. The method may also include determining a path of the transition tree to a next panoramic image based on a user navigation request. The method may further include requesting and receiving a video chunk from the server for each edge of the determined path of the transition tree. The method may also include displaying the requested video chunks in sequence according to the transition tree. According to another embodiment, a system for generating a video from panoramic images may include a transition tree module and a video display module.

Abstract: Methods for processing of video sequences that may contain telecined (3:2 pull down) frame sequences are provided. A method for detecting 3:2 pull down is provided that measures vertical detail in frames of a video sequence and uses the variation in vertical detail over time to decide whether the video sequence contains normal interlace content or 3:2 pull down content. A method for improving the compression of detected 3:2 pull down content is also provided that controls the selection of field or frame coding mode for frames of 3:2 pull down content and the selection of reference fields for encoding duplicated fields in the 3:2 pull down content.

Abstract: A 3D video viewing shutter device receives display response time from a 3D video display device for determining shutter open and close times. Response time may correspond to display type, a particular display and/or a change in pixel illumination levels between frames. The shutter device receives response information during device initialization and/or corresponding to changing pixel illumination levels. A sequence of 3D frames may comprise a pattern of left frames, right frames, blank frames and/or frames comprising a combination of left and right frames. Based on display device and/or shutter device response times, the shutter device may extend shutter transmittance time during a frame display interval into a blank frame interval. Transmittance may be enabled during display of blank frames subsequent to left or right frames. The shutter device and display device may communicate via a wireless link for example, via a Bluetooth wireless link utilizing Bluetooth clocks.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus at one site obtains a currently captured image that includes a drawing image of a drawing area of a drawing object and an image of a peripheral area of the drawing object, determines whether the drawing image changes from a time when a previously captured image is obtained, and transmits a differential image that reflects the drawing image to a counterpart site.

Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a video encoder configured to partition a block of video data into a first partition and a second partition using a geometric motion partition line, calculate a slope value and a y-intercept value of the geometric motion partition line, wherein the slope value and the y-intercept value comprise integer values, calculate a mask indicative of pixels of the block in the first partition and pixels of the block in the second partition, encode the first partition and the second partition based on the mask, and output the encoded first partition, the encoded second partition, the slope value, and the y-intercept value. This may allow for a fixed point implementation. A video decoder may receive the slope and y-intercept values to calculate the mask and decode the block based on the mask.

Abstract: A display device and a system for wirelessly transmitting/receiving an image signal are provided. The display device includes: a display panel that displays an image; an upper housing that is disposed on a front surface of the display panel and has an open window defining a display area; a lower housing that is disposed on a rear surface of the display panel and has a hole formed in a portion of an area corresponding to the display area; and a wireless communication module that is disposed on a rear surface of the lower housing and transmits or receives a wireless signal through the hole.

Abstract: The imaging device includes a template selector, a synthesis area selector for selecting a synthesis area for panoramic image in the selected template, a moving image acquiring unit, a detector for detecting/outputting the movement of the imaging device as movement information, a panoramic image producer for producing the panoramic image being a still image corresponding to the synthesis area from the moving images and the detected movement, a synthesized image producer for sequentially synthesizing the panoramic image into the synthesis area during moving image acquisition to produce/renew a synthesized image, a display for sequentially displaying the produced/renewed synthesized image on a display screen, and a storage for storing the template and the moving images, the panoramic image, and/or the synthesized image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, and a program that make possible to reduce clock drift that occurs in streaming playback and to perform playback with more stability. An information acquisition part analyzes, using a predetermined method, streams that are held in a buffer, and acquires, as data-amount calculation information, information necessary for calculating a data amount. A calculation part calculates, using the data-amount calculation information, a temporal data amount of the streams that are held in the buffer. A detection part detects, from a result of the calculation, decoder clock drift. When a decoder clock is too fast, a clock control unit controls the decoder clock so that the decoder clock has a speed which is slower than that at present. When the decoder clock is too slow, the clock control unit controls the decoder clock so that the decoder clock has a speed which is faster than that at present.

Abstract: Disclosed is a digital microscope system capable of controlling two or more microscope units with a controlling unit. The digital microscope system includes (i) two or more microscope units, (ii) a camera interface, (iii) a controlling unit and (iv) a light output device. The microscope unit includes a lens tube, a digital camera, a light terminator and a stand. The camera interface includes two or more camera interface (I/F) channels and a camera interface channel selector. The controlling unit includes a memory, a display device, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a power supply.

Abstract: A multi-view 3D image display method is provided, which is mainly to propose a multi-view 3D image combination method and slantwise strip parallax barrier structure design and optimization methods without reducing a sub-pixel aperture ratio during display of a multi-view 3D image by using a planar display screen having sub-pixels in strip configuration and a slantwise strip parallax barrier, so as to achieve objectives of solving a direct cross-talk phenomenon and balancing a phenomenon of asymmetrical left and right viewing freedom at the same time. In addition, for display of a multi-view 3D image having a total view number greater than two, a multiple multi-view 3D image combination and display method is proposed, so as to achieve an objective of alleviating a defect of discontinuous parallax jump.

Abstract: An encoder within a video transmission system controls the bit allocation at a sub-frame level. A frame is divided into smaller blocks, known as rate control blocks. Rate control blocks are used as the basic unit for bit allocation. This bit allocation achieves the target bit rate desired by the system as well as meet latency constraints. The encoder uses the slice partitioning capabilities to generate the rate control blocks using one or more slices of the image frame. This feature allows the decoder to decode the rate control blocks independently and ensures that the encoded data size for each rate control block is allocated. The encoder also detects the overflow condition for the buffer and performing an operation to avoid the overflow condition based on whether the image frame is an inter-frame or a intra-frame.

Abstract: Remote control devices that support interaction by a viewer with a screen assembly of a display device are provided. The eyes of the viewer have a first position within a premises relative to the screen assembly of the display device. The remote control device has a second position within the premises relative to the screen assembly of the display device. The remote control device includes an input interface that receives viewer input, a communication interface that supports wireless transmissions, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry participates in a generation of location information relating to the first position of the eyes of the viewer. The processing circuitry causes the communication interface to make at least one wireless transmission relating to the generation of the location information. The processing circuitry, at least in part, causes a reconfiguration of the screen assembly based on the location information.

Abstract: Methods and systems may include high speed camera to capture a video of a display output, a robotic arm to interact with a device, a processor, and a computer readable storage medium having a set of instructions. If executed by the processor, the instructions cause the system to identify one or more user experience characteristics based on the captured video, and generate a report based on the one or more user experience characteristics. The report may include a perceptional model score that is generated based on the user experience characteristics as well as other parameters. The user experience characteristics could include response time, frame rate and run time characteristics.

Abstract: A temporal motion vector predictor is includable, together with one or more spatial motion vector predictors, in a set of motion vector predictors for a block to encode of a current frame. A method of determining the temporal motion vector predictor comprises selecting as the temporal predictor one motion vector from among motion vectors in a reference block of a reference frame different from the current frame. The reference block is a block of the reference frame collocated with the block to encode or a block of the reference frame neighboring the collocated block. The selection is based on a diversity criterion for achieving diversity among the predictors of the set. This can reduce the motion vector memory requirements with no or no significant additional coding efficiency penalty. Alternatively, even if the motion vector memory is not reduced in size, coding efficiency improvements can be achieved.

Abstract: A 3D stereoscopic image processing system comprises a receiver unit and an image processing unit. The receiver unit is adapted to receive a pair of stereoscopic images. The image processing unit is adapted to compute a first depth map from the pair of stereoscopic images, determine extreme depth values from a window selected in the depth map, determine a filter map based on the extreme depth values, and compute a second depth map by combining the filter map with the first depth map. In other embodiments, a method of processing stereoscopic images is provided, comprising computing a first depth map from a pair of stereoscopic images, generating a filter map associated with the first depth map, and combining the first depth map with the filter map to derive a second depth map.

Abstract: Disclosed are a video processing apparatus, a content providing server, and control methods thereof. The video processing apparatus includes: a receiver which receives a two-dimensional (2D) video signal; a communication unit which communicates with a content providing server providing a supplementary video signal for a three-dimensional (3D) video signal corresponding to the 2D video signal; a signal processor which processes the 2D video signal and the supplementary video signal; and a controller which controls the communication unit to receive the supplementary video signal corresponding to the received 2D video signal from the content providing server, and the signal processor to generate the 3D video signal based on the received supplementary video signal and the received 2D video signal. Accordingly, it is possible to generate and reproduce the 3D video signal corresponding to the 2D video signal.

Abstract: Systems and methods of objective video quality measurement based on support vector machines. The video quality measurement systems can obtain information pertaining to features of a target training video, obtain corresponding information pertaining to features of a reference version of the target training video, and employ the target training features and/or the reference training features to build video quality models using such support vector machines. Based on the target training features and/or the reference training features used to build such video quality models, the video quality models can be made to conform more closely to the human visual system. Moreover, using such video quality models in conjunction with target features of a target video whose perceptual quality is to be measured, and/or reference features of a reference video, the video quality measurement systems can be employed to predict measurements of the perceptual quality of such a target video with increased accuracy.

Abstract: There is provided a robot device including an irradiation unit that irradiates pattern light to an external environment, an imaging unit that acquires an image by imaging the external environment, an external environment recognition unit that recognizes the external environment, an irradiation determining unit that controls the irradiation unit to be turned on when it is determined that irradiation of the pattern light is necessary based on an acquisition status of the image, and a light-off determining unit that controls the irradiation unit to be turned off when it is determined that irradiation of the pattern light is unnecessary or that irradiation of the pattern light is necessary to be forcibly stopped, based on the external environment.