Abstract: A system for detecting synthetic videos may include a server, a plurality of weak classifiers, and a strong classifier. The server may be configured to receive a prediction result from each of a plurality of weak classifiers; and send the prediction results from each of the plurality of weak classifiers to a strong classifier. The weak classifiers may be trained on real videos and known synthetic videos to analyze a distinct characteristic of a video file; detect irregularities of the distinct characteristic; generate a prediction result associated with the distinct characteristic, the prediction result being a prediction on whether the video file is synthetic; and output the prediction result to the server. The strong classifier may be trained to receive the prediction results of the plurality of weak classifiers from the server; analyze the prediction results; and determine if the video file is synthetic based on the prediction results.

Abstract: A dual-aperture zoom digital camera operable in both still and video modes. The camera includes Wide and Tele imaging sections with respective lens/sensor combinations and image signal processors and a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections. The Wide and Tele imaging sections provide respective image data. The controller is configured to combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image from a particular point of view, and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images, each output image having a given output resolution, wherein the video mode output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, and wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor while at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor.

Abstract: In an operation by line-of-sight input, a position (designated position) designated by a gaze point is easier to view after a determination operation is performed by a user than before the determination operation is performed. An electric device includes a detection unit configured to detect a gaze point, which is based on line-of-sight of a user viewing, on a display unit, and a control unit configured to display an indicator on the display unit indicating the gaze point, wherein in a case where an operation is performed on an operation unit by the user, the control unit performs control to display a display item at the gaze point and to display the indicator and the display item in a changed display order.

Abstract: A device includes a touch-screen display and a lens on a same side of the device as the touch-screen display. The device concurrently displays a live preview of content in a field of view of the lens and a capture affordance for capturing media corresponding to the field of view of the lens. While concurrently displaying the live preview and the capture affordance, the device detects an input corresponding to selection of the capture affordance displayed on the touch-screen display that is on the same side of the device as the lens. In response to detecting the input corresponding to selection of the capture affordance displayed on the touch-screen display that is on the same side of the device as the lens, the device captures media corresponding to the field of view of the lens that is on the same side of the device as the touch-screen display.

Abstract: There is provided a camera apparatus, including circuitry configured to: output a first image signal for displaying a first image, output a second image signal for displaying a second image. The second image signal is an image signal transmitted as a return signal. Further, the second image is an image that includes one of a location of a focus adjustment in the first image and an enlarged image corresponding to a part of the first image.

Abstract: A photographing method and a mobile terminal are provided. The photographing method includes: in a state where a first preview interface displays a first preview image collected by a camera, receiving a first input, inputted by a user, of selecting a target region on the first preview interface; in response to the first input, superimposing and displaying a second preview interface on the first preview interface, the second preview interface displaying a second preview image of the target region; receiving a second input inputted by the user; in response to the second input, performing a photographing operation and outputting a target image, wherein the target image is a composite image generated based on image contents displayed on the first preview interface and the second preview interface.

Abstract: Systems and methods for hot-swapping storage pool backend functional modules of a host computer system. An example method may comprise: identifying, by a processing device of a host computer system executing a virtual machine managed by a virtual machine manager, a storage pool backend functional module; and activating the identified storage pool backend functional module by directing, to the identified storage pool backend functional module, backend storage function calls.

Abstract: Provided is a screen mode switching method performed by a digital content authoring terminal. The method include switching a mode of the work area to an edit mode without an input for switching the mode of the work area to the edit mode in response to a user input made to select a first user interface (UI) object for executing a first function, not made to switch the mode of the work area to the edit mode, and switching the mode of the work area to an execution mode without an input for switching the mode of the work area to the execution mode in response to a user input made to select a second UI object for executing a second function different from the first function, not made to switch the mode of the work area to the execution.

Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface during an image capture. More particularly, the method includes a change in the display mode of a multiple screen device for a first screen and a second screen when capturing the image. The change in the display mode may be made in response to one or more actions conducted by a user. The image capture function includes different modes that display different information on the first and/or second screens.

Abstract: A system and method for providing a mobile interface for marking and organizing images is described herein. In some instances, the system may present, on a display device, an image region that displays a capturable image that is capturable by an image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device and a preview region including a series of one or more annotatable image previews. The system may receive an input instructing the wireless mobile electronic device to capture a second image using the image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device, generate a second image preview representing the second image, and update the graphical user interface to include the second image preview at the preview region. The system may receive an input including an annotation using an input device of the wireless mobile electronic device and update the graphical user interface to represent the annotation at the preview region.

Abstract: A display control apparatus, includes: at least one processor and/or at least one circuit to perform the operations of the following units: an input unit configured to acquire an input image which is an image captured by an imaging apparatus; a generation unit configured to generate at least one zoom image which is an image generated by magnifying a part of the regions of the input image; an acquisition unit configured to acquire focus information of the imaging apparatus; and a determination unit configured to determine which one of (1) the input image, (2) the zoom image and (3) both of the input image and the zoom image are to be displayed as a display image on a display unit on the basis of the focus information.

Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, media, and instructions are described for fast video sensor adjustment. In one embodiment, a portable electronic device with image capturing capabilities automatically captures a first plurality of frames upon selection of an input button while sensors of the device are determining camera settings for the environment. The first plurality of frames are captured using different automatic bracketing settings. Once the camera settings are determined, a second plurality of images are captured using the determined camera settings. One or more of the first plurality of images are used along with the second plurality of images for a video file. The one or more images may be selected based on a match between certain of the automatic bracketing settings and the final camera settings.

Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The disclosed electronic device comprises at least one camera module, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the camera module and the memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to store a first frame, which is generated using an image inputted through the camera module, as a first image in the memory, and if a degree of similarity between a second frame and a third frame, which are generated using the image inputted through the camera module, is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, cause the processor to generate a second image by synthesizing at least one frame comprising the second frame and the third frame and store the second image in the memory. Other various embodiments are also possible.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a control unit to control operation, when displaying an image out of a series of images on a display device, so as to cut out a partial region of the images as a cutout region, and to display an image of the cutout region, and a speed setting unit to set a switch speed to switch the series of images from one image to a next, when displaying the series of images, in order. The control unit displays, in accordance with a change of the switch speed, the image of the cutout region, that is different from a region of the series of images displayed before the change of the switch speed, by changing a size of the cutout region. The control unit changes the size of the cutout region to be larger in accordance with the switch speed being changed to a faster speed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and disclose a preview-image display method and a terminal device. obtain, by a terminal device, a first preview image during photographing, where the first preview image is a preview image that is of a current photographing screen and that is in a first photographing mode; determine a second photographing mode; obtain a second preview image, where the second preview image is a preview image that is of the current photographing screen and that is in the second photographing mode; determine a first part of the first preview image and a second part of the second preview image according to a preset rule; and display the first part of the first preview image and the second part of the second preview image in a preview area.

Abstract: A program guide, such as an electronic program guide (EPG), may be used to display information regarding upcoming scheduled transmissions of content. The display may include thumbnail images for selected groups of programs, and the images may be positioned in a pseudo-random location, and moved along a randomly generated trajectory on the display.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a thumbnail image generator that generates thumbnail image from content data formed of a plurality of pages, an instruction accepting section that accepts a page switching instruction, a rendering processor that generates image data to be displayed by a projector apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus, a communication section that communicates with the projector apparatus, and a controller that controls generation of data to be transmitted to the projector apparatus. The controller determines, upon acceptance of the switching instruction, the thumbnail image, transmits thumbnail image data representing the determined thumbnail image to the projector apparatus via the communication section, and then transmits high-resolution image data corresponding to the thumbnail image to the projector apparatus via the communication section.

Abstract: Provided is a screen mode switching method performed by a digital content authoring terminal. The method include switching a mode of the work area to an edit mode without an input for switching the mode of the work area to the edit mode in response to a user input made to select a first user interface (UI) object for executing a first function, not made to switch the mode of the work area to the edit mode, and switching the mode of the work area to an execution mode without an input for switching the mode of the work area to the execution mode in response to a user input made to select a second UI object for executing a second function different from the first function, not made to switch the mode of the work area to the execution.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes a radiation detection unit that acquires a radiation image, a decision unit that decides whether or not the radiation image meets a decision criterion of success or failure of imaging, and a storage unit that associates and stores the radiation image and a result of the decision.

Abstract: There is provided a camera apparatus, including circuitry configured to: output a first image signal for displaying a first image, output a second image signal for displaying a second image. The second image signal is an image signal transmitted as a return signal. Further, the second image is an image that includes one of a location of a focus adjustment in the first image and an enlarged image corresponding to a part of the first image.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a method, system, and computer readable medium for generating a thumbnail for a media file. A web client application server receives the media file having metadata associated therewith. The web client application server generates an interest point area. The interest point area includes one or more interest points in the media file. The web client application server aligns a thumbnail area with respect to the interest point area. The web client application server displays a portion of the media file in the thumbnail area. The portion of the media file that is displayed includes at least a portion of the interest point area.

Abstract: A method and an electronic device are provided for generating a still image from a video file. The electronic device includes an image sensor, a display, and a controller configured to generate a video file from an image signal input through the image sensor, assign frame characteristics to each frame included in the video file, selectively display at least one of the frames on the display, receive a selection of a frame among the displayed at least one of the frames, and generate a still image from the selected frame.

Abstract: A request is received, over a network from a requesting user to sort a plurality of comments relating to online content by a social status of a respective one of a plurality of commenters associated with each of the plurality of comments. The social status of the each of the plurality of commenters is determined using a computing device. The plurality of comments are sorted, using the computing device, by the social status of the respective one of the plurality of commenters associated with each of the plurality of comments. A representation of the sorted comments is transmitted, over the network, to the requesting user. The social status of commenters can reflect, in various embodiments, the status of commenters as favorite commenters of the requesting user, as members of the requesting user's social network, or as a top rated commenters in an online community.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first camera for shooting in a first direction, a second camera for shooting in the first direction, and at least one processor for processing images collected through the first camera and the second camera. A specified spacing distance is maintained between the first camera and the second camera. Within a shortest focusable distance of the first camera, a first capture area of the first camera is included in a second capture area of the second camera or makes contact with an inside of the second capture area of the second camera.

Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject and generates image data, an image processor that performs predetermined image processing on the image data generated by the imaging unit, a storage unit in which items of setting information concerning a setting for photographing set by a user are stored, and a controller that controls the imaging unit and the image processor. At a time of photographing, the controller extracts setting information corresponding to a photographing scene from among the items of setting information stored in the storage unit and causes icon for selecting the extracted setting information to be displayed on display unit. Icon includes a thumbnail image generated based on an image acquired when each of the items of the setting information set by the user is stored.

Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, media, and instructions are described for fast video sensor adjustment. In one embodiment, a portable electronic device with image capturing capabilities automatically captures a first plurality of frames upon selection of an input button while sensors of the device are determining camera settings for the environment. The first plurality of frames are captured using different automatic bracketing settings. Once the camera settings are determined, a second plurality of images are captured using the determined camera settings. One or more of the first plurality of images are used along with the second plurality of images for a video file. The one or more images may be selected based on a match between certain of the automatic bracketing settings and the final camera settings.

Abstract: An image generating/transmitting device divides an image which is to be displayed on a display screen formed of a plurality of monitor devices into a plurality of divided images, generates divided image definition information that defines a display region of each divided image on the display screen by using screen coordinates which are set on the display screen, and transmits the divided image definition information to an image receiving/reproducing device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for enabling storytelling on a computing device. A processor analyzes a set of media items associated with the user, each media item having associated metadata. The processor identifies one or more related characteristics among the media items in the set to form a cluster of media items associated with an event associated with the user. The processor selects templates from a template database, each template configured to represent a moment in the event. The processor edits selected media items in the cluster to fit into the selected templates. The processor creates a mixed-media module comprising the templates organized into a desired sequence. The processor displays, to the user, a preview of the mixed-media module, receives edit commands for editing the module, and applies the edit commands to the module to create a final module. The processor then displays the final mixed-media module.

Abstract: A vehicle image capture system may include a vehicle mounted image capture device adapted to capture one or more images external of a vehicle, a navigation system adapted to determine an instantaneous position of the vehicle, and a user interface arranged to allow a user to input a first position. The system is adapted to compare an instantaneous position of the vehicle with the first position, and to capture one or more images if the instantaneous position of the vehicle and the first position are within a predetermined proximity.

Abstract: A terminal device and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which sound or video on taking a photo can be saved as background data. The present invention includes a camera unit configured to capture an image, a memory configured to store the captured image, an output unit configured to display the captured image, and a controller controlling the camera unit, the memory and the output unit, the controller, if a command of driving the camera unit is inputted, controlling the camera unit to run a preview, record a sound and/or shoot a video, the controller temporarily saving the sound or the video, the controller, if a 2nd image is captured, controlling the memory to store the sound or the video in a manner of linking the sound or the video to at least one of the image or the second image.

Abstract: A set of successive images for a given area may comprise a first, second, and third images representing different times. Comparisons may be performed between the first image and the second image, the first image and the third image, and the second image and the third image. The respective outputs of the three pairwise comparisons may be evaluated to identify any sub-areas of the given area where one or more temporal patterns of change have occurred. For instance, any sub-area of the given area that exhibits a change between the first and second images, a change between the second and third images, and an absence of change between the second and third images may be identified as a persistent change. An indication that the temporal pattern of change has occurred at each identified sub-area of the given area may then be output to a client station.

Abstract: An image processing device may include a control unit. The control unit may be operable, in a first mode, to control display on a display screen of a representative image of a group of images and, in a second mode, to control display on the display screen of an image of the group of images corresponding to a posture of the device. In addition, the control unit may be operable to switch between operation in the first mode and the second mode.

Abstract: A lens apparatus comprises an optical system including a focus lens, a vibrating motor for driving the focus lens in an optical axis direction, a detector for detecting a position of the focus lens in the optical axis direction, an operating unit for inputting a position instruction for the focus lens, and a controller for, on the basis of the position instruction and a state of the optical system, switching between a case of controlling the motor by using an instruction value which is obtained on the basis of the position of the focus lens obtained from the detector and the position instruction obtained from the operating unit and a case of not controlling the motor by using the instruction value.

Abstract: An imaging information processing apparatus including a communication circuit configured to communicate with an X-ray imaging apparatus including an X-ray sensor configured to obtain an X-ray image and an X-ray irradiation detection unit configured to detect irradiation of X-rays on the basis of an output of the X-ray sensor, causes, in response to receipt of a signal indicating a state of the X-ray sensor, a display unit to display a first indication for permitting irradiation of X-rays and causes, upon receipt of image data obtained in response to detection by the X-ray irradiation detection unit before receipt of the signal, the display unit to display a second indication corresponding to the image data.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including: an image capturing unit for continuous image capturing including second image capturing and third image capturing; a storage; and a controller for acquiring a first parameter stored in the storage, controlling the image capturing unit to perform the second image capturing based on the first parameter, acquiring a second parameter based on an output signal corresponding to a result of the second image capturing, and controlling storing of the second parameter in the storage, wherein the second parameter is used for image capturing after the third image capturing.

Abstract: A method of an electronic device is provided. The method comprising: displaying a first function execution screen corresponding to a first function; loading a second function; generating a layer that is at least partially transparent onto the first function execution screen; generating a second function execution screen corresponding to the second function; and displaying the second function execution screen on the layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method and an electronic device of generating a multiple point of view (MPOV) video. In the present disclosure, the method for generating the MPOV video may include a step of obtaining a plurality of media contents, determining, from the plurality of media contents, a first media content and a second media content as relevant media contents, wherein each of the relevant media contents comprises a scene of a same event, identifying an overlap section comprising a portion of the first media content overlapping with a portion of the second media content, identifying a highlight period by analyzing a content feature of the portion of the first media content and the portion of the second media content within the overlap section, and generating the MPOV video based on the first media content and the second media content within the highlight period.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system dynamically captures and stores an image based on the context of the image being captured. Initially, an image capture device receives and analyzes an image to determine a first set of one or more attributes associated with the image. A processor compares the first set of attributes associated with the image with a second set of one or more pre-defined attributes associated with an image context indicating preferences for image capture, and, based on the results of the comparing, instructs the image capture device to store the image. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for capturing an image based on the context of the image in substantially the same manner described above.

Abstract: A method for capturing a picture includes: capturing a first picture; overlapping the first picture with a framed image for framing a second picture, and displaying an overlapped picture, where transparency of the first picture is different from transparency of the framed image; receiving a selecting signal to select a target reserved region of the first picture, or to select a region of the framed image as a target reserved region of the second picture; capturing the second picture; and combining the target reserved region of the first picture and the second picture into one picture, or combining the first picture and the target reserved region of the second picture into one picture.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises an imaging unit configured to capture image and an operation unit configured to receive a first operation to adjust a shooting setting for capturing image and a second operation to capture image based on the shooting parameter and write data based on the captured image in a recording medium. The electronic device displays, on a screen, image review based on the captured image after capturing image in response to the second operation and then displays live view which is generated by continuously capturing image. A period of displaying the image review is shorter if the first operation is detected successively after finishing detecting the second operation than if the first operation is not detected successively after finishing detecting the second operation.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first detection unit that performs a first type of detection processing on an image, a second detection unit that performs a second type of detection processing for detecting a predetermined object from an area in the image, the area being detected through the first type of detection processing, a determination unit that, in a case where the predetermined object has not been detected by the second detection unit, determines an imaging condition for improving accuracy of the second type of detection processing, and a setting unit that sets the imaging condition determined by the determination unit.

Abstract: There is provided a camera apparatus, including circuitry configured to: output a first image signal for displaying a first image, output a second image signal for displaying a second image. The second image signal is an image signal transmitted as a return signal. Further, the second image is an image that includes one of a location of a focus adjustment in the first image and an enlarged image corresponding to a part of the first image.

Abstract: An image processing device may include a control unit. The control unit may be operable, in a first mode, to control display on a display screen of a representative image of a group of images and, in a second mode, to control display on the display screen of an image of the group of images corresponding to a posture of the device. In addition, the control unit may be operable to switch between operation in the first mode and the second mode.

Abstract: Augmented reality glasses include: a wearable frame; a lens attached to the wearable frame; a positioning device for determining a physical location and a field of view of a user of the augmented reality glasses; a receiver for receiving one or more rules from a mapping service, where the mapping service identifies activities prohibited from being performed by the user at the physical location, where a graphical information generator generates icon representations describing the prohibited activities; a display coupled to the wearable frame, where the display overlays graphical information onto the lens of the wearable; and one or more processors for: determining that a vehicle within the field of view for the user is transporting a particular person; determining that photographing the particular person is unauthorized; and overlaying a “no photography” icon over an image of the vehicle on the lens of the augmented reality eyeglasses.

Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the mobile terminal are disclosed. A mobile terminal according to the present invention comprises a camera; touch screen; and a controller displaying a first preview image obtained from the camera on the touch screen, if receiving a touch input selecting one area of the first preview image, displaying at least one recommended image with respect to the selected area having image attributes different from those of the selected area on one area of the touch screen, and if receiving an input selecting one of the displayed recommended images, displaying on the touch screen a second preview image reflecting the selected recommended image on the selected area. According to the present invention, since a recommended image is provided for a selected area from among preview images displayed on a touch screen, image attributes of the selected area can be changed easily.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for photography using an electronic device. The method and apparatus include a preview display operation of displaying a first image output from a first image sensor as a main image, and displaying a second image photographed by a second image sensor as a sub-image. A panorama photography operation of buffering the main image is executed when a panorama photography operation is requested. The sub-image is captured from a preset frame. When the panorama photographing operation is terminated, a composition panorama is generated from a panorama image of the main image, and compositing with the captured sub-image.

Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a display configured to output a specific image in the image view mode; an extractor that extracts a specific area from the specific image, based on a touch gesture on the specific image; and a controller that creates a thumbnail of the specific image from an image of the extracted specific area, and when the image preview function is executed, outputs a thumbnail list that displays the created thumbnail of the specific image to be visually distinct from the thumbnails of other images.

Abstract: In an image capturing apparatus that sequentially photographs a plurality of images by changing a focus position of a lens unit by a predetermined amount, a display area is selected according to a ratio of a vertical line component to a horizontal line component of a main subject for each of the plurality of images photographed by the image capturing apparatus. A display unit displays a plurality of display areas corresponding to the focus detection area selected by the selection unit, by arranging the plurality of display areas side by side.

Abstract: A device and a method for generating a thumbnail image in an electronic device are provided. The method includes displaying an image, setting coordinates for at least one object in the image, and generating some areas of the at least one object as a thumbnail image according to the coordinates.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device.