Abstract: A method for altering the intensity of light across the field of view of an image sensor in a microscope apparatus having a light source, an image sensor having pixels, and a specimen stage, wherein light from the light source travels along a light path to the specimen stage and then to the image sensor includes interposing a programmable spatial light modulator, pSLM, in the light path between the light source and the image sensor, the pSLM having a plurality of pixels; and modulating the intensity of light passing through one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels of the pSLM to produce an altered illumination landscape at the field of view of the image sensor that differs from an unaltered illumination landscape that would otherwise be produced at the image sensor. Vignetting can be specifically addressed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an enclosure having an entry barrier with an integrated auto-triggering image capture system. The enclosure includes an enclosure body, an entry barrier coupled to the enclosure body, and an integrated image capture system with an activator and an image sensor. The activator is coupled to the entry barrier and generates a trigger upon detecting a positional change of the entry barrier relative to the enclosure body. The image sensor is coupled to both the entry barrier and the activator, and is triggered by the activator to capture images of the enclosure interior.

Abstract: An extraoral dental scanner for three-dimensional capture of the surface of a dental shaped part (300) with a 3D measuring camera (102) having an optical axis (106), wherein the means for the machine-controlled relative positioning of the 3D measuring camera (102) and the dental shaped part (300) are embodied in such a way that the means for taking up and positioning the dental shaped part (300) can be moved into a parking position outside a region that can be captured optically by the 3D measuring camera (102), with a work plate (708) for manually positioning the dental shaped part (300) in the measurement volume (144) of the 3D measuring camera (102), wherein the work plate (708) is aligned perpendicularly to the optical axis (106) and wherein the work plate (708), as viewed from the 3D measuring camera (102), is arranged behind the means for taking up and positioning the dental shaped part (300), makes it possible to record uninterrupted 3D image data with very short recording times both by automatic and b

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a first processing section that encodes an inputted medical image based on setting information and outputs a first encode result, a second processing section that encodes the inputted medical image based on the setting information and outputs a second encode result, a setting section that retains the setting information, and a control section that controls, based on the setting information corresponding to an operation signal generated based on an output signal of an electric knife, an operation signal obtained by an endoscope that generates a medical image, or an operation signal for designating a medical case scene, the first and second processing sections to output at least one of the first and second encode results and determines a recording destination of the first and second encode results based on the setting information corresponding to the operation signal.

Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus for controlling high lamp in a vehicle includes a camera photographing a subject in front of the vehicle, a brightness measurer measuring brightness from an image of the subject in front of the vehicle photographed by the camera, and a controller controlling the high lamp using a brightness data measured by the brightness measurer.

Abstract: Described herein is a multi-view display (based on spatial and/or temporal multiplexing) having an optimization mechanism that dynamically adjust views based upon detected state changes with respect to one or more views. The optimization mechanism determines viewing parameters (e.g., brightness and/or colors) for a view based upon a current position of the view, and/or on the multi-view display's capabilities. The state change may correspond to the view (a viewer's eye) moving towards another viewing zone, in which event new viewing parameters are determined, which may be in anticipation of entering the zone. Another state change corresponds to more views being needed than the display is capable of outputting, whereby one or more existing views are degraded, e.g., from 3D to 2D and/or from a personal video to a non-personal view. Conversely, a state change corresponding to excess capacity becoming available can result in enhancing a view to 3D and/or personal.

Abstract: An exemplary image processing method includes the following steps: receiving an image input composed of at least one source image; receiving algorithm selection information corresponding to each source image; checking corresponding algorithm selection information of each source image to determine a selected image processing algorithm from a plurality of different image processing algorithms; and performing an object oriented image processing operation upon the source image based on the selected image processing algorithm. The algorithm selection information indicates an image quality of each source image and is generated from one of an auxiliary sensor, an image processing module of an image capture apparatus, a processing circuit being one of a video decoder, a frame rate converter, and an audio/video synchronization (AV-Sync) module, or is a user-defined mode setting.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an information processing section configured to detect a figure of a target object from an image captured from a movie of the target object so as to perform information processing on the detected image; a main data generating section configured to generate data of a main image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; an auxiliary data generating section configured to generate data of an auxiliary image including the captured image; and an output data transmitting section configured to transmit to an output device the main image data and the auxiliary image data in relation to each other such that the main image and the auxiliary image are displayed together.

Abstract: A method transcodes a media program to produce a constant video quality transcoded version of the media program. The constant video quality transcoded version is transcoded by a transcoder operating in a first mode that targets video quality. A portion of the constant video quality transcoded version that fails to satisfy a constraint is determined. The method sets a transcoding parameter based on the portion failing to satisfy the constraint. A portion of the media program corresponding to the portion of the constant video quality transcoded version is transcoded according to the transcoding parameter to produce a constant bit rate version of the portion. The constant bit rate version is transcoded by the transcoder operating in a second mode that targets a bit rate. The method then substitutes the constant bit rate version for the portion of constant video quality transcoded version in generating a transcoded media program.

Abstract: Systems and methods of processing and streaming a virtual reality video using a graphics processing unit (GPU) are provided. A video server is configured to cause a processor to read, from a video data source, source video data including multiple spherical image frame data and store the source video data in a first memory. The video server is further configured to cause the GPU to convert, in response to storing first spherical image frame data in a first frame buffer of a second memory, the first spherical image frame data to first equirectangular image frame data that correspond to a portion of spherical image represented by the first spherical image frame data, encode the converted first equirectangular image frame data and store the encoded first equirectangular image frame data in an encoded frame buffer of the second memory.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a system and/or method for zero overhead parallel entropy decoding. Exemplary aspects of the invention may comprise a decoder that comprises a demultiplexer. An encoded bit stream may be demultiplexed into a plurality of sub-streams. The encoded bit stream may be constructed without adding one or more bits to the encoded bit stream to facilitate the demultiplexing. Exemplary aspects of the invention may also comprise an encoder that comprises a multiplexer. Each of a plurality of encoded sub-streams may be multiplexed into an encoded bit stream. The encoded bit stream may be constructed without adding one or more bits to the encoded bit stream to indicate the multiplexing.

Abstract: Joint coding of depth map video and texture video is provided, where a motion vector for a texture video is predicted from a respective motion vector of a depth map video or vice versa. For scalable video coding, depth map video is coded as a base layer and texture video is coded as an enhancement layer(s). Inter-layer motion prediction predicts motion in texture video from motion in depth map video. With more than one view in a bitstream (for multiview coding), depth map videos are considered monochromatic camera views and are predicted from each other. If joint multiview video model coding tools are allowed, inter-view motion skip is used to predict motion vectors of texture images from depth map images. Furthermore, scalable multiview coding is utilized, where inter-view prediction is applied between views in the same dependency layer, and inter-layer (motion) prediction is applied between layers in the same view.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are provided for illuminating tissue with monochromatic or broadband light and imaging light that has been reflected back from the tissue. Imaging may be white-light imaging or hyperspectral imaging. The system can be a stand-alone hyperspectral imaging system, integrated as part of an external video scope, or as an auxiliary imaging module on an external videoscope. Various elements of a video scope that is particularly suited for minimally invasive surgery is first presented and then its configurations suitable for hyperspectral imaging are explained.

Abstract: A processing apparatus capable of generating a panoramic image from a plurality of captured images acquired by a plurality of times of imaging includes an input unit configured to input a superimposition parameter for determining a superimposition position of a predetermined image on the captured image, a generation unit configured to generate the panoramic image from the plurality of the captured images by transformation processing of coordinate values of the plurality of the captured images acquired by the plurality of times of imaging, and a determination unit configured to determine the superimposition position of the predetermined image on the panoramic image according to position information on the panoramic image in which transformation processing of the coordinate values is performed by the generation unit and the superimposition parameter for determining the superimposition position of the predetermined image on the captured image.

Abstract: A safety system, including a weapon holster including a transmitter and an external trigger mechanism configured to cause the transmitter to transmit a signal, a camera including a receiver configured to receive the signal from the transmitter and a body camera system including a processor, and a memory, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to execute when the receiver receives the signal: a flagging module configured to create a starting flag and an ending flag in a video segment recorded by the camera.

Abstract: An interference fringe pattern (ILR) between an inline spherical wave light (L) and an off-axis reference light (R) is recorded with a photo detector (4), and on which spatial-frequency filtering is applied to obtain a complex amplitude in-line hologram (JLR). A complex amplitude off-axis hologram (JOR) is derived by performing a spatial frequency filtering on a hologram (IOR) in which an object light (O) emitted from a microscopic subject illuminated with a spherical wave light (L) is recorded with a reference light (R), and the derived data is divided with data of the hologram (JLR) so that a complex amplitude in-line hologram (JOL) from which a component of the reference light (R) is eliminated is generated and recorded.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus comprising, an optical system emitting light having a predetermined wavelength, illuminating a sample while the light is converted into light having a polarization plane not in the range of ?5 degrees to 5 degrees and 85 degrees to 95 degrees with respect to a direction of a repetitive pattern on the sample, an optical system for acquiring an image and forming said image on an image sensor using a lens, a half-wave plate, a first image sensor, a second image sensor, an inspection analyzer, wherein these differ in a transmission axis direction, a processor that obtains an average gray level and a standard deviation in each predetermined unit region of the image, and a defect detector, wherein a resolution limit defined by a wavelength of the light source and a numerical aperture of the lens is a value in which the pattern is not resolved.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for identifying a moving object in front of a vehicle by using stereo vision based technique. The invention also discloses a method and a system for determining an instantaneous distance between the moving object and the vehicle by processing the image of the moving object through a processor and by filtering and refining the image by using a Kalman filter to remove noise.

Abstract: A camera control device includes: an entering prediction value calculator configured to calculate an entering prediction value representing a possibility of entering of the user terminal in a monitoring range of the camera; an entering prediction time calculator configured to calculate entering prediction time that is prediction time necessary for the entering of the user terminal in the monitoring range of the camera; a preparation time calculator configured to calculate preparation time necessary for running the application on the camera; and a determination unit configured to determine whether preparation for running of an application on the camera is started.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for generating a predicted picture, the method comprising: determining a reference rectangular block of pixels according to parameter information which includes a location of a target rectangular block of pixels and/or depth information of a reference view; mapping the reference rectangular block of pixels to a target view according to the depth information of the reference view to obtain a projection rectangular block of pixels; and acquiring a predicted picture block from the projection rectangular block of pixels. The technical problem of relatively large dependence among the data brought by simultaneously employing the depth picture of the target view and the depth picture of the reference view in the process of generating the predicted picture in the prior art is solved, and the technical effects of reducing the dependence on the data and improving the encoding and decoding efficiency is achieved.