Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize novel information processing which uses light field data. To attain the object, light field data which represents directions of light beams which are emitted from an object to an image pickup unit and intensity of the light beams is obtained, and the light field data is corrected on a coordinate of the light field data.

Abstract: An image processing device that sets weighting factors for captured image data and interpolation image data region by region based on in-focus state information indicating in-focus states of the respective regions, and synthesizes the captured image data and the interpolation image data based on the weighting factors. A weighting factor for interpolation image data in an in-focus region is smaller than a weighting factor for interpolation image data in at least a part of a region other than the in-focus region.

Abstract: An image-processing apparatus obtains first image data having a first angle of view and second image data having a second angle of view smaller than the first angle of view. The image-processing apparatus then generates third image data by performing weighted combination of the first image data and the second image data, the third image data having a third angle of view determined according to a user command and being smaller than the first angle of view but larger than the second angle of view. Weights used in this weighted combination are such that the closer the third angle of view is to the second angle of view, the larger is the weight on the second image data relative to the weight on the first image data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to generation of an appropriate high-resolution image with respect to a plurality of input images. An image processing apparatus including a unit for acquiring a relative movement amount for each first image between a reference image selected from a plurality of first images and the first images; a unit for generating a fourth image having a first resolution for each first image in accordance with a third image having a second resolution, the relative movement amounts, and image capture characteristics of an image capture device; a unit for acquiring, for each fourth image, an evaluation value indicating a difference between the fourth image and the first image corresponding to the fourth image; and a unit for generating a second image having the second resolution by updating the third image using an update value that is determined using the fourth images in accordance with the evaluation values.

Abstract: In the conventional method, the burden of the processing is very heavy because tracking of light beams is performed and an erroneous estimation of a shape causes a factor to deteriorate image quality. An image processing apparatus that generates composite image data using multi-viewpoint image data obtained by capturing images from a plurality of viewpoints is characterized by including a filter processing unit configured to perform filter processing on the multi-viewpoint image data based on distance information indicative of a distance to a subject and a generation unit configured to generate composite image data by combining the multi-viewpoint image data on which the filter processing has been performed.

Abstract: An image processing device that sets weighting factors for captured image data and interpolation image data region by region based on in-focus state information indicating in-focus states of the respective regions, and synthesizes the captured image data and the interpolation image data based on the weighting factors. A weighting factor for interpolation image data in an in-focus region is smaller than a weighting factor for interpolation image data in at least a part of a region other than the in-focus region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to generation of an appropriate high-resolution image with respect to a plurality of input images. An image processing apparatus including a unit for acquiring a relative movement amount for each first image between a reference image selected from a plurality of first images and the first images; a unit for generating a fourth image having a first resolution for each first image in accordance with a third image having a second resolution, the relative movement amounts, and image capture characteristics of an image capture device; a unit for acquiring, for each fourth image, an evaluation value indicating a difference between the fourth image and the first image corresponding to the fourth image; and a unit for generating a second image having the second resolution by updating the third image using an update value that is determined using the fourth images in accordance with the evaluation values.

Abstract: A tire manufacturing method includes the steps of, when a green tire is molded, moving a toroidally expandable toroidal molding drum through a distance between a plurality of working stations at a specified tact time, disposing a carcass band and both bead cores on the drum in any working station and locking the bead cores, increasing the diameter of the molding drum, toroidally extending the carcass band between both bead cores, and rolling up the side portion of the carcass band around the bead cores in the outer radial direction, assembling tire component members with the bead cores locked to the toroidal molding drum and molding the green tire, and reducing the diameter of the molding drum, unlocking the bead cores, and removing the green tire from the molding drum, whereby the tires of a plurality of sizes can be sequentially molded, a conventional tire structure must not be largely changed, and an energy and time can be prevented from being wastefully consumed.