Abstract: A compression algorithm, utilizing a new concept called “shared pixel parts”, allows for transmitting, receiving, and displaying full HD stereoscopic 3-D video with no loss of resolution or frames to either eye, using a single conventional TV channel and any type of conventional display without alteration. Depending on the type of display, viewers wear either passive polarized glasses, a new type of static colored-filter glasses, or a new type of active colored-filter glasses to view the same data signal showing virtually ghost-free full-color images with great depth, a wide angle of view, and a bright flickerless image which doesn't produce any discomfort even after extended viewing. The signal is also compatible with current 3-D-ready TVs. The compression algorithm can also be used to transmit and display a 2-D image with double the resolution of the display being used for viewing, with no increase of required transmission bandwidth.

Abstract: A multi-lens camera system includes multiple camera units including respective optical filters and image sensors that acquire a captured image via the optical filter, each of the optical filters having multiple filter regions whose optical characteristics differ respectively, and an image processor, operably connected to the multiple camera unit, to execute different types of image processing on the captured image to form an image that contains multiple image regions whose characteristics differ depending on the optical characteristics of the filter region in which they are acquired.

Abstract: A compound-eye type stereoscopic image shooting apparatus has a single image sensing device and two shooting optical systems. The two shooting optical systems include a first shooting optical system for forming a first subject image composed of light in a first wavelength range alone and a second shooting optical system for forming a second subject image composed of light in a second wavelength range alone which is different from the first wavelength range. The image sensing device has an image sensing surface divided into a first image sensing area for recording the first subject image and a second image sensing area for recording the second subject image. The image sensing device has, on the image sensing surface, a wavelength filter that transmits, in the first image sensing area, light in the first wavelength range alone and, in the second image sensing area, light in the second wavelength range alone.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for conditional display of a stereoscopic image pair on a display device are disclosed. Particularly, some implementations include receiving a first image and a second image, determining a vertical disparity between the first image and the second images, and displaying a stereoscopic image pair if the vertical disparity is below a threshold. Some implementations provide for correcting the vertical disparity by generating at least one corrected image, and generating the stereoscopic image pair based on the corrected image. Some implementations may evaluate the quality of the stereoscopic image pair, and display either a two dimensional image or the stereoscopic image pair based on the evaluation.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a viewpoint separating unit configured to separate multi-viewpoint image data, including images of multiple viewpoints and representing intensity distribution of light and the direction of travel of light according to positions and pixel values of pixels, into a plurality of single-viewpoint image data for each of the individual viewpoints; and a parallax control unit configured to control amount of parallax between the plurality of single-viewpoint image data obtained by separation into individual viewpoints by the viewpoint separating unit.

Abstract: A surface inspection method for a steel sheet coated with a resin, includes irradiating the steel sheet with sheet-like light, which has been linearly polarized at a predetermined polarization angle, at an incidence angle different from Brewster's angle of the coating by a predetermined angle or greater; and imaging linearly-polarized light of a polarization angle of 0 degrees at an acceptance angle different from a regular reflection angle of incident light by a predetermined angle. Accordingly, it is not necessary to change the incidence angle and the acceptance angle depending on resin components and it is possible to inspect a substrate steel surface of the steel sheet highly accurately without observing abnormalities in the coating itself.

Abstract: Provided is an image encoding/decoding apparatus and method. The image encoding apparatus may include a motion vector prediction unit to perform a prediction with respect to an arbitrary motion vector of a current block within an image, using at least one of vector information of a motion vector corresponding to an adjacent block and vector information of a previous motion vector of the current block, and a differential determination unit to determine differential information of a motion vector of the current block based on the motion vector predicted in the motion vector prediction unit and an actual motion vector of the current block.

Abstract: A control device includes an image acquisition section that acquires an image of an object captured by an imaging optical system of an endoscope apparatus, a determination section that determines whether or not an observation area is in focus based on a pixel value of each pixel within the image of the object, the observation area being an observation target area within the image of the object, and an aperture control section that controls an aperture of the imaging optical system based on a result of the determination.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a system and method for monitoring and supervising potential traffic infractions, comprising the detection of potential traffic infractions and the capture of the images thereof, wherein the images preferentially relate to a sequence of images of the pre and post events, further comprising a multi-thread module which enables the capture of images of one or more potential traffic infractions occurring in the same or in different lanes of the road, with almost simultaneous pre-event and post-event sequences.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an illuminating section capable of irradiating a subject with a light in a first wavelength band and light in a second wavelength band, an image processing section including a color filter configured by a plurality of filters, the image processing section generating, from two image pickup signals respectively generated in a first pixel and a second pixel that respectively receive light in a predetermined wavelength band and light in a wavelength band different from the predetermined wavelength band among return lights from the subject, first and second image signals, a control section that determines whether the two image pickup signals can be separated into the first and second image signals, and an illumination control section that performs irradiation in a time division manner or simultaneous irradiation according to a determination result whether the separation is possible or not.

Abstract: Disclosed is a conversion apparatus including a decoding unit that decodes input encoded data into image data, and a size conversion unit that converts size of the image data based on a size conversion request received from outside and that expands/contracts, or splits/synthesizes motion vector or prediction mode of encoding parameters, received from the decoding unit, based upon a size conversion request, and an encoding unit that encodes image data after size conversion using the prediction mode or motion vector converted and transmits the resulting encoded image data via a transmission buffer to outside.

Abstract: An image processing method of performing filtering on image blocks using a plurality of deblocking filters having different filter strengths includes: a first parameter calculating step of calculating a first parameter indicating a boundary strength; a second parameter calculating step of calculating a second parameter indicating a limit value for each of the deblocking filters, based on the first parameter and a quantization parameter; and a selecting step of selecting a deblocking filter to be used in the filtering from among the deblocking filters, using one or more threshold values which are determined based on the second parameter.

Abstract: A fade state determination unit (5) determines that the target picture is in a fade state when a feature value A is equal to or larger than a threshold value TH_A. If the target picture has been determined to be in the fade state, a fade-in determination unit (6) determines that the target picture is of a fade-in type when a feature value B is equal to or larger than a threshold value TH_B1 and a feature value C is less than a threshold value TH_C. If the target picture has been determined to be in the fade state, a fade-out determination unit (7) determines that the target picture is of a fade-out type when the feature value B is less than a threshold value TH_B2 that is smaller than the threshold value TH_B1. A cross-fade determination unit (8) determines that the target picture is of a cross-fade type when the target picture has been determined to be in the fade state and be not of the fade-in type nor of the fade-out type.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a device for optically measuring the curvature of a rotor blade (18) of a wind power plant (1). The rotor blade is fixed at the blade root (23) to a rotor hub (8) or a rotor (6). The device includes at least one light-emitting external marking (33) fixed to the rotor blade (18) at a distance from the blade root (23), at least one camera (27) fixed to the rotor (6) for capturing the light (35) emitted from the external marking (33). The device provides first location information as a function of the relative position of the camera (27) with respect to the external marking (33). An evaluating device (37) is coupled to the camera (27), and a position detection means detects the relative location of the camera (27) with respect to the blade root (23) and provides second location information as a function of said relative location. The evaluating device (37) determines at least one variable characterizing the curvature of the rotor blade (18) while evaluating the position information.

Abstract: A method and system for de-identifying a video sequence are provided. The method may include the steps of capturing a video sequence, comprising a number of individual frames, including one or more users performing one or more actions, and using activity recognition to recognize one of the one or more actions. One or more of the plurality of frames may be defined as comprising the recognized one or more actions, and a portion of the one or more of the plurality of frames may be identified to remain visible. The non-identified portions of the one or more of the plurality of frames and the non-defined frames may be de-identified. This method may be applied to the determine of whether a user has ingested a medication pill.

Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for utilizing a skip check module located in a video processing component to facilitate Scalable Video Coding (SVC) by determining cost relating to compression techniques. In one example, the method may include determining a location value associated with a current macro-block (MB), determining a source surface value associated with the current MB, determining a reference surface value associated with the current MB, determining a skip center value associated with the current MB, and calculating a cost value for utilizing a compression technique using the location value, the source surface value, the reference surface value, and the skip center value.

Abstract: A microscope having an objective lens and illumination means configured in combination such that said illumination means illuminates a specimen through a different region of the objective lens than that used for observation, and having an opaque region separating the illumination and observation regions. The basic optical design is capable of resolving optically isolated micron-sized voxels deep within tissue, without the use of a computer and when illuminated only with visible light.

Abstract: A photographing device includes a display unit, a movement detection unit and a display control unit. The display unit displays a preview image of being a target to photograph. The movement detection unit detects the preview image being moving from status at which the preview has been photographed as a reference photographed image. The display control unit displays a reference line on the preview image. The reference line has been set in the reference photographed image. The display control unit changes a display position and a direction of the reference line in the display unit based on a detected result by the movement detection unit.

Abstract: Conventional X-ray photographing has several problems for eliminating the influence from the cervical vertebrae such as rework of original images, causing possible loss of useful information, as well as long processing time and the need for a plurality of panoramic images. The X-ray photographic device according to the present invention can eliminate the influence from the cervical vertebrae projected at around the anterior teeth of the panoramic image of a tooth row, without missing the original image information and without influence of different shapes of cervical vertebrae and X-ray permeability by each subject. In addition, as the present invention achieves these through arithmetic processing, there is no need to intensify X-ray output in the section corresponding to the anterior teeth, nor decelerate the rotating speed of arms during photographing, and it is possible to suppress the X-ray dose received by the subject.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for motion vector prediction for a current block in a picture are disclosed. In video coding systems, the spatial and temporal redundancy is exploited using spatial and temporal prediction to reduce the information to be transmitted. Motion Vector Prediction (MVP) has been used to further conserve the bitrate associated with motion vector. In conventional temporal MVP, the predictor is often based on a single candidate such as the co-located motion vector in the previous frame/picture. If the co-located motion vector in the previous frame/picture does not exist, the predictor for the current block is not available. A technique for improved MVP is disclosed where the MVP utilized multiple candidates based on co-located motion vectors from future and/or past reference pictures. The candidates are arranged according to priority order to provide better availability of MVP and also to provide more accurate prediction.