Abstract: A method is provided including: acquiring a plurality of images; obtaining depth information associated with at least two subjects in each of the plurality of images; and generating a final image having the subjects based on the depth information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing video signals, and more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for processing video signals which applies deformation compensation to decode a current texture block. The present invention can increase the accuracy of an inter-prediction by obtaining the position of a block within a reference picture referenced by the current texture block, by means of using deformation compensation parameter information, and obtaining a pixel value of the block within the reference picture that is obtained from a prediction value of the current texture block.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to encode an input video stream into one or more output streams by using information obtained from a first transcoding of the input video stream. During a first encoding of an input video stream, pre-processing, motion estimation, mode decision, and other information can be collected or buffered and can be re-used to encode the input video stream to multiple output video streams at different bitrates, resolutions, and/or frame rates. Motion estimation, macroblock mode decision, and pre-processing data can be manipulated and re-used during the encoding of an input video stream at various resolutions. Data can be re-computed at a new resolution or bitrate to improve visual quality.

Abstract: Several methods and systems for encoding pictures are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method comprises dividing an LCU of a picture into a plurality of MERs having size equal to or less than a predetermined size. For one or more MERs of the plurality of MERs, a number of first motion searches are performed for determining a first quad-tree based on a cost function associated with a first plurality of PUs of the one or more MERs. A number of second motion searches are performed for the LCU, for determining a second quad-tree, based on the cost function associated with a second plurality of PUs of the LCU. The first quad-tree or the second quad-tree is selected for performing encoding of the picture based on a comparison of a first cost of the first quad-tree with a second cost of the second quad-tree.

Abstract: An image coding method includes: obtaining a pixel signal of a current region to be processed; calculating offset information of the current region; applying offset to the current region using the offset information; outputting the offset information; outputting an offset signal resulting from the applying of offset; and controlling the applying of offset.

Abstract: A video coder may determine a palette predictor list comprising one or more candidates. Each respective candidate in the palette predictor list specifies a value of a different respective reconstructed neighboring pixel from among one or more reconstructed neighboring pixels. Each of the one or more reconstructed neighboring pixels is in a line above or a column left of a current block of the video data. The video coder may include, in a palette for the current block, at least one candidate in the palette predictor list.

Abstract: When a size of a block on a wafer is equal to or smaller than an optical resolution of imaging optics, room for improvement in a signal-to-noise ratio has not been sufficiently considered in a conventional technique. One feature of the defect determination of the present invention is to include a filter processing for setting a predetermined partial area serving as a predetermined matrix for a first difference image, scanning the first difference image in the partial area, and outputting a second difference image, and a first threshold processing using a first threshold value for the second difference image. As a result, highly sensitive defect detection can be achieved.

Abstract: A method of data conditioning is disclosed that in one aspect includes receiving a data stream and encoding into the data stream information representing a boundary of a content fragment, wherein the boundary is independent of a group of pictures structure of the data stream.

Abstract: A system for refereeing a sports match including a portable processing device for compiling data associated with the sports match and eyeglasses including data display means for displaying the data associated with the sports match to a wearer of the eyeglasses.

Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for optimizing usage of image sensors in a stereoscopic environment. The method includes: (a) providing a first image sensor, where the first image sensor is associated with a first image sensor area and a first imaging area; (b) determining a distance from the camera to an object to be captured; and (c) shifting the first imaging area along a length of the first image sensor area, where the amount of the shifting is based at least partially on the distance from the camera to the object, and where the first imaging area can shift along an entire length of the first image sensor area. The invention optimizes usage of an image sensor by permitting an increase in disparity control. Additionally, the invention reduces the closest permissible distance of an object to be captured using a stereoscopic camera.

Abstract: In a data updating apparatus for updating first data having plural bits according to a predetermined data format, a detector detects a domain point at which the first data are different from second data including plural bits decoded by Slepian-Wolf decoding according to the predetermined data format. The first data is used for decoding encoded data on a non-key frame separated from a stream of frames by Slepian-Wolf decoding and transformed from a predictive frame associated with the non-key frame and generated from information on a key frame. A data updater updates a less significant bit in the first data than the domain point supplied from the detector according to a predetermined updating scheme.

Abstract: A depth sensor comprises at least one imaging sensor, at least one multifocal lens, and a focus analyzer. The depth sensor analyzes the in-focus status of electromagnetic radiation, directed by the multifocal lens(es) onto sensing zone(s) of the imaging sensor(s) from spatial zone(s) in a measurement field, to detect the presence of object(s) in the spatial zone(s).

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a method of coding video data. In an example, the method includes determining a first residual quadtree (RQT) depth at which to apply a first transform to luma information associated with a block of video data, wherein the RQT represents a manner in which transforms are applied to luma information and chroma information. The method also includes determining a second RQT depth at which to apply a second transform to the chroma information associated with the block of video data, wherein the second RQT depth is different than the first RQT depth. The method also includes coding the luma information at the first RQT depth and the chroma information at the second RQT depth.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining the location of a first mechanical element (10, 156) and a second mechanical element (12, 154) with respect to each other, with a first measurement unit (14, 114, 214) for positioning at the first mechanical element, a second measurement unit (18, 118, 218) for positioning at the second mechanical element, and an analysis unit (22), wherein the first measurement unit has means (24, 124, 224) for producing a light beam bundle (28, 128, 228), wherein the second measurement unit has a scattering surface (34, 134, 234) for scattering of the light impinging on the scattering surface, a camera (36), and means for imaging the scattering surface on the camera, wherein the scattering surface faces the first measurement unit when the measurement units are positioned at the respective mechanical element so as to be impinged on by the light beam bundle.

Abstract: An image capture system includes: a pan-tilt head with a driving-and-supporting mechanism; an image capture module including at least two image capture devices fixed on the driving-and-supporting mechanism and arranged side by side in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction; a distance obtaining module configured to obtain a distance between a to-be-captured object and the image capture module; a processor configured to calculate a width P of the to-be-captured object which is capable of being currently captured by one of the image capture devices based on the distance L and a visual angle of the image capture device in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction, and calculate a relative rotation angle of the image capture devices in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction based on the width; and a controller configured to control the image capture device to rotate based on the relative rotation angle.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to optical microscopy. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a sample holder, a first objective lens, a plurality of optical components, a second objective lens, and a mirror. The apparatus may directly image a cross-section of a sample oblique to or parallel to the optical axis of the first objective lens, without scanning.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for processing video data are disclosed. Some examples relate to receiving or forming a parameter set having an identifier that is fixed length coded, wherein a parameter set identification (ID) for the parameter set is before any syntax element in the parameter set that is entropy coded and using the parameter set having the identifier that is fixed length coded to decode or encode video data. Other examples determine whether a first parameter set ID of a first parameter set of a first bitstream is the same as a second parameter set ID of a second parameter set of a second bitstream. In response to determining that the second parameter set ID is the same as the first parameter set ID, changing the second parameter set ID to a unique parameter set ID. A parameter set associated with the unique parameter set ID may be transmitted.

Abstract: A video encoding device includes a re-encoding picture type judgment unit which judges whether a picture is to be taken as a reference picture or not in a subsequent re-encoding process, and a refresh unit sets no refreshed unit area in the picture when the picture is judged by the re-encoding picture type judgment unit to be taken as a non-reference picture in the subsequent re-encoding process, but sets, when the picture is judged to be taken as a reference picture, a refreshed unit area in the picture to be taken as a reference picture so as to include an area corresponding to a refreshed unit area which should have been set in a picture to be taken as a non-reference picture.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for processing an intra prediction mode. The method includes: determining whether an intra prediction mode of each neighboring block in multiple neighboring blocks of a current block is applicable to the current block; and obtaining multiple mapped intra prediction modes of the current block according to a result of the determining, if it is determined that an intra prediction mode of a neighboring block is applicable to the current block, setting the intra prediction mode of the neighboring block as a mapped intra prediction mode of the current block, and if it is determined that the intra prediction mode of the neighboring block is not applicable to the current block, setting a specific intra prediction mode as the mapped intra prediction mode of the current block.

Abstract: Provided is a method for decoding video, which performs prediction in an intra mode. The method for decoding video according to the invention comprises steps of: creating a current table index using a code number and MPM index information; and deriving a current prediction mode by adopting an index mapping table in the current table index. According to the present invention, video encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.