Abstract: Embodiments contemplate coding video data by generating a video encoded bitstream that may include reference picture set (RPS) extensions for inter-layer reference pictures, and the extensions may include inter-layer delta Picture Order Counts (POCs). Embodiments may also include signaling that lower layer reference pictures may be available in a lower layer decoder picture buffer (DPB), and/or an aggregate DPB, that may be added to the RPS set of a higher layer. The bitstream may include a signal indicating whether the higher layer RPS may be specified by a lower layer RPS, and the lower layer RPS may be temporal, inter-layer prediction (ILP), or both.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fishing camera assembly for coupling to a fishing line. The assembly includes a camera and a carrier for carrying the camera along the line. The carrier includes an openable surround (e.g. tube) that surrounds the line. Advantageously, the surround can be opened to readily release the camera from the line thereby reducing complication to the angler's tackle set-up.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for constrained mode signaling are disclosed. According to one method, a plurality of mode syntaxes are used to signal a current mode used for the current block. If one or more of the plurality of candidate modes are unavailable according to one or more conditions related to the current block, signaling a mode syntax is skipped at the video encoder side or parsing the mode syntax is skipped at the video decoder side. In one embodiment, a regular flag indicating on or off of a regular Merge mode or Skip mode is not signaled if Merge mode with MVD (MMVD) mode, Affine mode, subblock Temporal Motion Vector Prediction (SbTMVP) mode, Combined Inter and Intra Prediction (CIIP) Merge mode, and Triangle Prediction Mode (TPM) are disabled as indicated by an SPS flag.

Abstract: A method for encoding digital images or video streams, includes a receiving phase, wherein a portion of an image is received; a graph weights prediction phase, wherein the elements of a weights matrix associated to the graph related to the blocks of the image (predicted blocks) are predicted on the basis of reconstructed, de-quantized and inverse-transformed pixel values of at least one previously coded block (predictor block) of the image, the weights matrix being a matrix comprising elements denoting the level of similarity between a pair of pixels composing said image, a graph transform computation phase, wherein the graph Fourier transform of the blocks of the image is performed, obtaining for the blocks a set of coefficients determined on the basis of the predicted weights; a coefficients quantization phase, wherein the coefficients are quantized an output phase wherein a bitstream comprising the transformed and quantized coefficients is transmitted and/or stored.

Abstract: A head-up display system for a vehicle includes a head-up display apparatus and an occupant monitoring apparatus. The head-up display apparatus includes a projection device configured to project a three-dimensional image in front of an occupant of the vehicle. The head-up display apparatus is configured to project a projection image with respect to an object present outside of the vehicle. The occupant monitoring apparatus includes an imaging device configured to capture an image of the occupant. The occupant monitoring apparatus is configured to generate personal data related to a sense of sight of the occupant on the basis of the captured image of the occupant. The head-up display apparatus is configured to adjust the projection image in the three-dimensional image on the basis of the personal data generated by the occupant monitoring apparatus, and project, from the projection device, the three-dimensional image in which the projection image is adjusted.

Abstract: An example method includes receiving first and second images from a first and second imager. The method further includes determining first correlation scores between a target pixel from the first image and respective pixels from the second image based on a first similarity measure. The method also includes identifying a candidate matching pixel to the target pixel based on the first correlation scores. The method further includes determining second correlation scores between the target pixel and each of the candidate matching pixel, a left neighboring pixel, and a right neighboring pixel based on a second similarity measure. The method also includes determining whether the candidate matching pixel is better correlated to the target pixel than each of the neighboring pixels based on the second correlation scores. After determining that the candidate matching pixel is better correlated, the method further includes determining a disparity value by interpolating the second correlation scores.

Abstract: A data structure defining a high dynamic range image comprises a tone map having a reduced dynamic range and HDR information. The high dynamic range image can be reconstructed from the tone map and the HDR information. The data structure can be backwards compatible with legacy hardware or software viewers. The data structure may comprise a JFIF file having the tone map encoded as a JPEG image with the HDR information in an application extension or comment field of the JFIF file, or a MPEG file having the tone map encoded as a MPEG image with the HDR information in a video or audio channel of the MPEG file. Apparatus and methods for encoding or decoding the data structure may apply pre- or post correction to compensate for lossy encoding of the high dynamic range information.

Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a coding region partially located outside a picture boundary. The processing circuitry determines whether a shared merge list is used for the coding region. Responsive to the shared merge list being used for the coding region, the processing circuitry constructs the shared merge list and reconstructs the coding region based on the shared merge list. Another apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block and examines coding blocks of a collocated block of the current block according to an examination order. A second examined position in the examination order is one of the coding blocks located adjacent to a top-left corner of the collocated block. The processing circuitry determines a TMVP according to the examined coding blocks and reconstructs the current block based on the TMVP.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing efficient video transmission are disclosed. In a video processing system, a transmitter identifies multiple planes in a scene. The transmitter renders and compresses each of the multiple planes with a combination of a corresponding compression level and a resolution, which is different from a combination of compression level and resolution of any other plane. For each plane, the transmitter inserts, in multi-plane information, data such as identification of the plane, a location in the video frame for the plane, and one or more of a resolution and compression level for the plane. The transmitter conveys the rendered and compressed planes along with the multi-plane information to a receiver. The receiver decodes each of the planes and insets each of the planes on any lower resolution planes of the multiple planes.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method that make it possible to suppress reduction of the encoding efficiency. A patch, which is an image where 3D data representative of a three-dimensional structure is projected on a two-dimensional plane, is placed and packed in a frame image on the basis of an evaluation of a result of prediction performed in encoding of the 3D data, and the frame image in which the patch is placed and packed is encoded using the prediction. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, a program or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed techniques include audio and visual stream rendering modification based on device rotation metric. One or more media streams are received from a server. The one or more media streams are targeted for display on a handheld media stream playback device. An orientation of the handheld device is determined during playback of at least one of the one or more media streams on the handheld device. A change in orientation of the handheld device is detected. The change occurs during playback of the at least one of the one or more media streams. Based on detecting the change in orientation, a rotation angle of the handheld device is calculated. Based on the rotation angle, the playback of at least one of the one or more media streams is changed on the handheld device.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an eye tracking method, an head-mounted display (HMD), and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: capturing, by the first camera, a first eye image of a first eye of a wearer of the HMD; capturing, by the second camera, a second eye image of the first eye of the wearer; constructing a first eye model of the first eye based on the first eye image and the second eye image; capturing, by the first camera, a first specific eye image of the first eye of the wearer; obtaining a plurality of first specific eye landmarks in the first specific eye image; identifying a first eye pose of the first eye of the wearer based on the first eye model and the first specific eye landmarks.

Abstract: A display device capable of automatically switching display of a stereoscopic image and a display of a planar image according to a detected situation of a user is provided. Provided is the display device including a display unit capable of displaying a planar image and a stereoscopic image, and a control unit configured to automatically switch an image to be displayed on the display unit to the planar image or the stereoscopic image, using a detected state of the user.

Abstract: An aerosol delivery device includes a cartridge of aerosol precursor composition, and a control body coupled or coupleable to the cartridge. The control body includes a control component to control delivery of components of the aerosol precursor composition in response to detection of airflow through at least a portion of the cartridge or control body, and includes a camera system with a digital camera to capture video imagery of a scene in a field of view thereof. The camera system or the control component is configured to perform video content analytics on the video imagery to detect a temporal or spatial event in the scene, and transfer at least one of the video imagery or information indicative of the temporal or spatial event externally to a computing device configured to store or display the video imagery or information, or perform at least one control operation based on the information.

Abstract: The disclosed techniques include systems and methods for implementing security cameras with thermal imaging sensors. The disclosed techniques can utilize a thermal imaging sensor (TIS) and a less robust passive infrared (PIR) sensor of a security camera system to monitor a field of view.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method capable of improving the coding efficiency of an image of a plurality of viewpoints. A motion parallax prediction/compensation unit sets first image specifying information specifying a first image of a viewpoint present in a first direction from a viewpoint of a current coding image and second image specifying information specifying a second image of a viewpoint present in a second direction opposite to the first direction in a list (L0) in first order and sets the first image specifying information and the second image specifying information in a list (L1) in second order that is different from the first order. The motion parallax prediction/compensation unit and a calculation unit generate coded data by coding the current coding image based on the lists (L0 and L1). The present technology, for example, can be applied to an encoding device that codes a 3D image and the like.

Abstract: The invention discloses a three-dimensional display method for large field of view and small viewing-zone interval. A display screen constructed by sub-screens with adjacent ones emitting lights of different exclusive optical characteristics is employed, and sequentially-switching aperture-arrays are placed close to a pupil of the viewer. M apertures of an aperture array correspond to the M sub-screens by a one-to-one manner in turn, to make the transmittance of each aperture to the light from the corresponding sub-screen be greater than that to the lights from the adjacent non-corresponding sub-screens by a ratio larger than 9. The corresponding apertures of a sub-screen in different aperture-arrays are arranged with an interval not larger than the diameter of the pupil. At a time-point, only one aperture-array gets open, and all aperture-arrays get open sequentially at different time-points of a time-period.

Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically tracking and analyzing imagery data of at least one vehicle on a racetrack comprising. A video event management system with a plurality of video cameras positioned around a racetrack determines the presence of the at least one vehicle and based on a weighted event score corresponding to dynamics for the at least one vehicle and other objects captures video imagery and stills and generates at least one subframe. Excess video imagery data and excess stills data are discarded based on metadata of linked subframes.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for drone base station detection. In some implementations, a drone including a camera that is configured to generate image data and one or more processors and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable. The instructions include receiving the image data from the camera, identifying at least four objects in the image data, determining a first distance between a first object and a second object, determining a second distance between a third object and a fourth object, determining a third distance between the second object and the third object, and based on the first distance, the second distance, and the third distance, determining a location of the drone.

Abstract: A method decoding a data values set includes: decoding a first portion of each data value from one or more data sets; decoding a second portion depending on integer bits of data values not fully encoded by the data sets, and, if a data value has not been fully decoded by first and second portions, decoding a remaining third portion of the data value; detecting, for a subset of the data values, (i) instances of data values for which a third portion has been encoded and would still have been required had a higher value of n been used, and (ii) instances of data values for which a second portion has been encoded but the value of n was such that the data value could have been fully encoded by first and second portions using a lower value of n; and varying n for use in subsequent data values.