Abstract: This invention can control a code amount while suppressing image quality degradation of a virtual view-point image. An image processing apparatus comprises a reception unit which receives encoded image data from an image capturing device of interest among a plurality of image capturing devices, a determination unit which determines, based on an index value of an image quality represented by encoded image data received in the past from the image capturing device of interest and the index value of an image quality represented by encoded image data transmitted by another image capturing device, a permissible range of a target image quality of a captured image, and a setting unit which sets, in an encoding unit of the image capturing device of interest, an encoding parameter according to an image quality in the determined permissible range.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (10) for obtaining and processing measurement readings including at least a component representative of a physical phenomenon in a living being (16), comprising a sensor (12) for obtaining measurement readings from at least one body part of a living being (16) from a distance having at least a component representative of the physical phenomenon in the living being (16), an identification unit (26) for identifying the at least one body part of the living being (16); an extraction unit (38) for extracting at least one first signal from the measurement readings representing at least one component representative of the physical phenomenon, an evaluation unit (30) for obtaining adjustment information according to the at least one identified body part, and an adjustment unit (34) for adjusting the at least one first signal according to the adjustment information and for generating at least one output signal representing the physical phenomenon of the living being (16).

Abstract: Techniques include constraining depth intra mode coding in a three-dimensional (3D) video coding process, such as 3D-High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC). In some examples, the techniques for constraining depth intra mode coding may prevent transform tree nodes from being split into sub-transform tree nodes when a depth prediction unit that corresponds to the transform tree node is predicted according to a depth modeling mode (DMM). In further examples, the techniques for constraining depth intra mode coding may prevent the DMM mode from being used when the maximum transform unit size that corresponds to a depth prediction unit is greater than the size of the depth prediction unit. The techniques for constraining depth intra mode coding may prevent characteristics of the DMM prediction modes used in 3D-HEVC and characteristics of the transform tree subdivision used in 3D-HEVC from interfering with each other.

Abstract: An illumination radiates a visible light or a near-infrared light. A lens images a light from a subject. A beam splitter disperses the visible light and the near-infrared light. A color imaging device images a reflecting light from the subject illuminated with the visible light and includes an imaging device having a red filter. A black-and-white imaging device images the near-infrared light dispersed by the beam splitter. A pixel pitch of the black-and-white imaging device that images the near-infrared light dispersed is larger than a pixel pitch of the color imaging device. A sampling position for the near-infrared light is displaced in a pixel arrangement horizontally or vertically with respect to a sampling position for red in a color image.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a first object control unit for changing an orientation or a direction of movement of a first object in a three-dimensional space, a virtual camera control unit for determining a direction of shooting of the virtual camera in the three-dimensional space, and a display data generation unit for generating display data based on the determined direction of shooting of the virtual camera. The virtual camera control unit includes a detection unit for detecting whether the first object is hidden by another object when viewed from the virtual camera and a first following change unit for increasing a degree of causing the direction of shooting of the virtual camera to follow the orientation or the direction of movement of the first object based on a result of detection.

Abstract: The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is “intra_chroma_pred_mode”.

Abstract: Approaches to produce verification are addressed which may be suitably employed in conjunction with a low resolution image scanner. Features, such as lines, corners, text, texture, edges and the like are extracted and compared with features for an identified item or evaluated to determine if the features collectively are indicative of a produce item or a non-produce item.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for screen content encoding includes deriving a palette table and a color index map based on a coding unit (CU). The method also includes encoding the palette table and encoding the color index map. The method further includes combining the encoded palette table and the encoded color index map for transmission to a receiver, where the palette table and index map are decoded to reconstruct a pixel block.

Abstract: A lane departure judgment apparatus is configured to detect a lane-dividing line based on image information output from an image-capturing device that acquires an image of an area outside a vehicle, and to judge whether or not departure of the vehicle from the lane-dividing line occurs based on a distance between the vehicle and the lane-dividing line, wherein when an angle of the vehicle with respect to the lane-dividing line thus detected is constant, the distance between the vehicle and the lane-dividing line to be used to judge whether or not departure of the vehicle occurs is changed according to whether the vehicle is being driven on a road having a lane-dividing width that is greater than a predetermined width or on a road having a lane-dividing width that is smaller than a predetermined width.

Abstract: Imaging system (100) for enabling instrument guidance in an interventional procedure, comprising: —an input (130) for obtaining an interventional path (220) for use in the interventional procedure, the interventional path being planned based on 3D image data (200) of a patient's interior, and the interventional path being indicative of an entry point (230) on the patient's exterior; —a camera (124-127) for obtaining a camera image (270) of the patient's exterior during the interventional procedure; —a processor (140) for i) establishing a spatial correspondence between the camera image and the 3D image data, ii) based on the spatial correspondence, calculating a view (280) of the interventional path that corresponds with the camera image, and iii) combining the view of the interventional path with the camera image to obtain a composite image (290); and —a display output (150) for displaying the composite image on a display (162).

Abstract: An observation device includes: a structured illumination section; a phase difference measurement illumination section; a phase contrast lens that has a phase plate for dimming illumination light for phase difference measurement, where the illumination light for phase difference measurement is incident into the lens, and the structured illumination light is incident into the lens from a side opposite to an incidence side of the ring-shaped illumination; a detection section that detects reflected light of the structured illumination light; and an observation section that images the illumination light for phase difference measurement. When Fourier transform is performed on the structured illumination light, a spatial frequency of the structured illumination light is set on a high-frequency side or a low-frequency side with respect to a position of the phase plate on optical Fourier space.

Abstract: Disclosed is a micro-localisation device defining a system of spatial coordinates for an imaging instrument. The micro-localisation device includes at least one first zone and a second zone, adjacent to each other, each zone extending spatially over an area of macroscopic size, each zone including an elementary cell or a tiling of a plurality of elementary cells extending over the respective area of the zone, each elementary cell of the first, respectively second, zone including an orientation pattern, a positioning pattern and a periodic spatial pattern, configured to be imaged by an imaging instrument and to determine a position and, respectively an orientation of the imaging instrument in the system of spatial coordinates of the micro-localisation device.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive video views comprising a reference view and a current view, wherein the reference view comprises a reference block and the current view comprises a current block, and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to determine neighboring reference pixels associated with the reference block, determine neighboring current pixels associated with the current block, determine a first positional pairing between the neighboring reference pixels and the neighboring current pixels, determine a second positional pairing between the neighboring reference pixels and the neighboring current pixels, and determine an optimal pairing from between the first positional pairing and the second positional pairing.

Abstract: A method and device for encoding or decoding a picture block having a luminance component. The method includes obtaining a luminance residual block (Lr) by subtracting a first representation (Ll, LlD) of an average value of the luminance component calculated from the luminance component, obtaining a second representation (ƒ(Ll), ƒ(Ll)D) of the average value by applying a transfer function to the average value (Ll) of the luminance component in order to reduce the dynamic range of the average value and encoding a luminance block (Le) obtained by adding (105, 302) together the luminance residual block (Lr) and the second representation (ƒ(Ll), ƒ(Ll)D) of the average value.

Abstract: A multi-layer encoder/decoder system is provided that uses base layer intra mode for enhancement layer intra mode prediction. The encoder provides the base layer intra mode in the base layer of a two layer video encoder, and uses the base layer intra mode as one of a plurality of most probable modes (MPMs). Then in determining the enhancement layer intra mode, the MPMs are used.

Abstract: A video encoding device 10 includes: an entropy encoding unit 11 for entropy-encoding at least a quadtree split flag, a skip flag, a binary tree split flag, and a binary tree split direction flag; and an entropy encoding control unit 12 for controlling the entropy encoding unit 11, wherein the entropy encoding control unit 12, in the case where the skip flag of a block of an end node in a quadtree structure indicates that the binary tree split flag succeeds, causes the entropy encoding unit 11 to entropy-encode the binary tree split flag and the binary tree split direction flag, and in the case where the skip flag of the block oft the end node in the quadtree structure indicates that the binary tree split flag does not succeed, causes the entropy encoding unit 11 not to entropy-encode the binary tree split flag and the binary tree split direction flag.

Abstract: An entropy encoding control unit 13, in the case where the skip flag of a block of an end node in a quadtree structure indicates that the binary tree split flag succeeds, causes the entropy encoding unit 11 to entropy-encode the binary tree split flag and the binary tree split direction flag, and in the case where the skip flag of the block of the end node in the quadtree structure indicates that the binary tree split flag does not succeed, causes the entropy encoding unit 11 not to entropy-encode the binary tree split flag and the binary tree split direction flag, and in the case where a node of a size equal to the minimum size is further partitioned based on the binary tree structure, causes the entropy encoding unit 11 not to entropy-encode the binary tree split direction flag at the node.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for Real-time Satellite Imaging System (10) are disclosed. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention an imaging sensor (14) on a geostationary satellite having one or more co-collimated telescopes (18). The telescopes (18) illuminate focal planes (22) which are sparsely populated with focal plane arrays (24). The focal plane arrays (24) record the entire observable Earth hemisphere at one time, at least once every ten seconds, or more often.

Abstract: A vision system for a vehicle includes side and rear cameras that are operable to capture image data. The rear camera is configured to be disposed at a rear portion of the vehicle so as to have a rearward field of view and the side cameras are configured to be disposed at respective side portions of the vehicle so as to have respective sideward and rearward fields of view. The rear camera has a rear imager and a wide angle lens, which is disposed at the rear imager with its center axis offset from a center region of the rear imager so as to be disposed at and to image at an upper region of the rear imager. An image processor processes captured image data to merge captured image data to provide a panoramic image for display to the driver during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle.

Abstract: A decoding apparatus, a decoding method, a coding apparatus, and a coding method capable of adjusting a compression rate of a lowest limit. A decoding unit decodes a bit stream coded according to an H.265/HEVC standard having a profile in which a lowest compression rate at the time of coding an image is set for each of a main tier and a high tier in units of Coding Units (CU) that are recursively divided in a decoding apparatus of a High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) system and the like.