Abstract: An imaging support device includes a detection portion that, by operating a revolution mechanism that causes an imaging apparatus including a variable magnification mechanism to revolve, detects a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and a control portion that perform a registration control of setting the subject image position detected by the detection portion to a specific position in the captured image for a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus in accordance with changing of magnification to a telephoto side by the variable magnification mechanism.

Abstract: There is provided an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, a decoding apparatus, and a decoding method that make it possible to acquire two-dimensional image data of a viewpoint corresponding to a predetermined display image generation method and depth image data without depending upon the viewpoint upon image pickup. A conversion unit generates, from three-dimensional data of an image pickup object, two-dimensional image data of a plurality of viewpoints corresponding to a predetermined display image generation method and depth image data indicative of a position of each of pixels in a depthwise direction of the image pickup object. An encoding unit encodes the two-dimensional image data and the depth image data generated by the conversion unit. A transmission unit transmits the two-dimensional image data and the depth image data encoded by the encoding unit. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an encoding apparatus and so forth.

Abstract: An imaging support device that supports imaging performed by an imaging apparatus includes an acquisition portion that acquires an in-image shift amount between a predetermined position in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region by an imaging element and a position of a target subject image showing a target subject, and a focal length of the imaging apparatus, a derivation portion that derives a movement amount required for moving the position of the target subject image to a specific position by a position adjustment portion which adjusts the position of the target subject image in the captured image, based on the in-image shift amount acquired by the acquisition portion, the focal length acquired by the acquisition portion, and information related to a pixel interval of pixels in the imaging element, and an output portion that outputs the movement amount derived by the derivation portion.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a processor, a first imaging apparatus including a first optical system, and a second imaging apparatus including a second optical system. A focal length of the first optical system is longer than a focal length of the second optical system. The processor performs registration between a first captured image obtained by imaging with the first imaging apparatus and a second captured image obtained by imaging with the second imaging apparatus, in at least two locations including an end part of an angle of view used for imaging with the imaging system, and acquires angle-of-view related information that is related to the angle of view based on a registration result.

Abstract: An imaging support device includes a detection portion that, by operating a revolution mechanism that causes an imaging apparatus including a variable magnification mechanism to revolve, detects a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and a control portion that perform a registration control of setting the subject image position detected by the detection portion to a specific position in the captured image for a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus in accordance with changing of magnification to a telephoto side by the variable magnification mechanism.

Abstract: A right holder information checking unit (55) (checking unit) of a content checking device (12) (information processing device) checks whether content (45) posted by a poster (40) to a virtual space in which one or more pieces of content can be shared has right holder information indicating that the content is appropriate content permitted to be posted by the right holder of the content (45).

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device and a moving image data generation method capable of easily searching for 3D model data. The image processing device includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of 3D models and a plurality of 3D model feature amounts respectively corresponding to the plurality of 3D models; a search unit that searches for a 3D model having a feature amount similar to an input feature amount of a subject on the basis of the feature amount of the subject and the 3D model feature amounts stored in the storage unit; and an output unit that outputs the 3D model searched by the search unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image processing device that searches for a 3D model.

Abstract: An image processing device and method that enable suppression of an increase in the amount of coding of a scaling list. The image processing device sets a coefficient located at the beginning of a quantization matrix by adding a replacement difference coefficient that is a difference between a replacement coefficient used to replace a coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix and the coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix to the coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix; up-converts the set quantization matrix; and dequantizes quantized data using an up-converted quantization matrix in which a coefficient located at the beginning of the up-converted quantization matrix has been replaced with the replacement coefficient. The device and method can be applied to an image processing device.

Abstract: Image processing apparatus responsive to successive groups of images of an object captured at the same time by two or more spaced apart image capturing devices and to depth information indicating a three-dimensional location of the object relative to at least one distance measuring device includes: a frame selecting unit configured to select a set of the successive image groups; a model generating unit configured to generate a three dimensional model, for each image group in the set of image groups, from images captured at the same time by the two or more spaced apart image capturing devices and from the depth information, and to map a texture to the generated three dimensional model; and a composition unit configured to generate a stroboscopic image, with respect to a stroboscopic image viewpoint, by superposing the three dimensional models generated by the model generating unit on a predetermined background.

Abstract: A processor of an imaging support device is configured to acquire data related to a shake correction amount of a shake correction mechanism and a focal length of an imaging apparatus in a state where the shake correction mechanism of the imaging apparatus is operating, and adjust an irradiation range of light from an irradiation apparatus for a target subject based on the acquired data related to the shake correction amount and the acquired data related to the focal length.

Abstract: An imaging support device includes a processor, and a memory that is connected to or incorporated in the processor, in which the processor is configured to derive information related to inclination of an imaging apparatus with respect to a revolution mechanism that enables the imaging apparatus to revolve about each of a first axis and a second axis intersecting with the first axis as a central axis, based on a time series change in revolution angle of the imaging apparatus, the inclination of the imaging apparatus being inclination in a rotation direction about a third axis intersecting with the first axis and the second axis as the central axis, and adjust a position of a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus based on the information related to the inclination.

Abstract: An imaging support method includes acquiring a focal length of an imaging apparatus, detecting a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and performing registration control for setting the detected subject image position to a specific position in the captured image by increasing a ratio of application of an image region movement component compared to a lens moving mechanism in a case where the acquired focal length is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and increasing a ratio of application of the lens moving mechanism compared to the image region movement component in a case where the focal length is less than the threshold value.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging support device including an acquisition portion that acquires reversal information indicating that a revolution direction of an imaging apparatus that is caused to revolve about one axis out of a first axis and a second axis intersecting with the first axis as a central axis by a revolution mechanism enabling the imaging apparatus to revolve about each of the first axis and the second axis as the central axis is reversed, and a control portion that, in a case where the reversal information is acquired by the acquisition portion, performs a control of operating an adjustment portion capable of adjusting a position of a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus.

Abstract: An imaging support device that supports imaging performed by an imaging apparatus includes an acquisition portion that acquires an in-image shift amount between a predetermined position in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region by an imaging element and a position of a target subject image showing a target subject, and a focal length of the imaging apparatus, a derivation portion that derives a movement amount required for moving the position of the target subject image to a specific position by a position adjustment portion which adjusts the position of the target subject image in the captured image, based on the in-image shift amount acquired by the acquisition portion, the focal length acquired by the acquisition portion, and information related to a pixel interval of pixels in the imaging element, and an output portion that outputs the movement amount derived by the derivation portion.

Abstract: An imaging support device includes a detection portion that, by operating a revolution mechanism that causes an imaging apparatus including a variable magnification mechanism to revolve, detects a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and a control portion that perform a registration control of setting the subject image position detected by the detection portion to a specific position in the captured image for a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus in accordance with changing of magnification to a telephoto side by the variable magnification mechanism.

Abstract: A contact material mainly composed of an Ag alloy, includes: an Ag alloy; and at least one main additive existing as a phase different from the Ag alloy and selected from the group consisting of tin oxide, nickel, nickel oxide, iron, iron oxide, tungsten, tungsten carbide, tungsten oxide, zinc oxide, and carbon, wherein when a metal atom constituting the main additive or the main additive is carbon, the Ag alloy contains a solid solution element having a vacancy binding energy lower than a vacancy binding energy that is a binding energy between the metal atom included in the main additive and a vacancy in an Ag metal, or a binding energy between carbon included in the main additive of carbon and a vacancy in an Ag metal, in an amount of 0.01 wt. % or more.

Abstract: An image processing device including a decoding section configured to decode an image from an encoded stream, a horizontal filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a vertical block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, a vertical filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a horizontal block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, and a control section configured to cause the horizontal filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of vertical block boundaries included in a processing unit containing a plurality of coding units and cause the vertical filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of horizontal block boundaries included in the processing unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that enable selection of viewpoints of depth images suitable for creation of a 3D model. A viewpoint determination unit determines that a candidate viewpoint be a viewpoint of a depth image of a 3D model on the basis of the 3D model projected on a screen from the candidate viewpoint. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an encoding device or the like that generates and encodes color images and depth images from predetermined viewpoints, from color images and depth images from a plurality of viewpoints of a 3D model of a subject.

Abstract: A projection type display apparatus which includes an optical system having an adjuster configured to adjust a field curvature of an in-focus plane of a projection image includes at least one processor or circuit configured to execute a plurality of tasks including an acquisition task configured to acquire position information of a predetermined position in an imaging area of an image generator and an optical axis of the optical system, and a control task configured to acquire an adjusting amount of a tilt unit configured to tilt the in-focus plane, using information from the acquisition task, a field curvature amount of the in-focus plane based on a position of the adjuster, and information on a projection target.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for estimating the height of foreign matter, etc. adhering to a sample. In order to achieve the abovementioned purpose, proposed is a system, etc. in which data acquired by a charged particle beam device or features extracted from the data are input to a learning model, which is provided with, in an intermediate layer thereof, a parameter learned using teacher data having data acquired by the charged particle beam device or features extracted from the data as inputs and having the heights or depths of the structures of samples or of foreign matter on the samples as outputs, and height or depth information is output.