Abstract: One exemplary video processing apparatus includes a control circuit and a size selection circuit. The control circuit determines picture boundary information. The size selection circuit refers to at least the picture boundary information to select a size for a block associated with encoding of a picture, wherein selection of the size is constrained by the picture boundary information to ensure that the block with the selected size is not across a picture boundary of the picture.

Abstract: Floodlight controllers with wireless audio/video recording and communication features in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a floodlight controller for activating and deactivating a floodlight device may include a camera including an image sensor and having a field of view, a switch having an open condition and a closed condition, and a processor operatively connected to the camera and operatively connected to the switch, wherein the processor is configured to receive an input from the camera and produce an output to the switch to cause the switch to transition from the open condition to the closed condition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a content transmission apparatus, including: a retaining section adapted to retain a multi viewpoint video content formed from a plurality of viewpoint videos imaged simultaneously by a plurality of different video cameras; a production section adapted to produce a VRT including acquisition destination information of the viewpoint videos which configure the multi viewpoint video content, VRT standing for View Relation Table; a supplying section adapted to supply the produced VRT to a content reproduction apparatus; a broadcasting section adapted to broadcast one or plural ones of the viewpoint videos which configure the retained multi viewpoint video content; and a delivery section adapted to deliver one or plural ones of the viewpoint videos which configure the retained multi viewpoint video content through a network.

Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for formatting stitched panoramic frames for transmission to a remote image processing system, the method comprising. A control circuit of a panoramic camera may receive first and second frames captured by first and second image sensors having partially overlapping fields-of-view. The control circuit may identify a first overlap region of the first frame and a second overlap region of the second frame. The first and second overlap region may comprise pixel values from portions of the fields-of-view of the image sensors that overlap. The control circuit may generate a panoramic frame from based at least in part on the first and second frames. The control circuit may generate a transmission frame comprising the panoramic frame, the first overlap region and the second overlap region.

Abstract: A holographic display apparatus includes a spatial light modulator configured to generate hologram patterns to modulate light; an illuminator configured to emit the light to the spatial light modulator; and a controller configured to control operations of the spatial light modulator and the illuminator, the spatial light modulator being configured to generate, from among the hologram patterns, a first hologram pattern and a second hologram pattern according to the control operations of the controller, the first hologram pattern and the second hologram pattern being configured to form a first hologram image and a second hologram image having different viewpoints, and the controller being configured to set a first phase modulation value of the first hologram pattern and a second phase modulation value of the second hologram pattern to be different from each other such that hologram images having different viewpoints are formed.

Abstract: Video data, e.g., screen content video data may be palette coded. A palette table including one or more color indices may be produced. A color index may correspond to one color. A palette index map may be created that maps one or more pixels of the video data to a color index in the palette table, or a color that may be explicitly coded. A palette index map prediction data may be generated that includes data that indicates values in the palette index map associated with at least some portions of the video data that are generated in a traverse scan order in which a scan line is scanned in an opposite direction of a preceding parallel scan line.

Abstract: Disclosure relates to a method and a device for determining the distribution and orientation of platelet-shaped pigment particles over an extended region of an optical effect layer (OEL). The method includes a) taking at least one image, under illumination of said extended region of the optical effect layer with collimated light incident from at least one first direction, of reflected light of said extended region of the optical effect layer from at least one second direction, using a telecentric lens-and-camera assembly having the optical axis of the telecentric lens oriented along said second direction, and b) processing the at least one image of said extended region to extract quantitative particle distribution and orientation information.

Abstract: Methods and a system for identifying reflective surfaces in a scene are provided herein. The system may include a sensing device configured to capture a scene. The system may further include a storage device configured to store three-dimensional positions of at least some of the objects in the scene. The system may further include a computer processor configured to attempt to obtain a reflective surface representation for one or more candidate surfaces selected from the surfaces in the scene. In a case that the attempted obtaining is successful, computer processor is further configured to determine that the candidate reflective surface is indeed a reflective surface defined by the obtained surface representation. According to some embodiments of the present invention, in a case the attempted calculation is unsuccessful, determining that the recognized portion of the object is an object that is independent of the stored objects.

Abstract: A video encoding/decoding system includes a video encoding device and a video decoding device. The video encoding device includes an encoding part for encoding a diagnostic image or normal image. The video decoding device includes a decoding part for decoding the image encoded by the encoding part, a check signal generation part for generating a check signal of the decoded image, a storage part for storing the expected value of the check signal of the diagnostic image or the check signal generated by the check signal generation part, and a comparison part for comparing the check signal stored in the storage part with the check signal generated by the check signal generation part, in order to detect failure in all the paths from the image input part of the video encoding device to the image output part of the video decoding device.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image displaying system includes a drive controller, a display panel, a refraction variable part, and a lens. The drive controller is configured to display a slice image of a stereoscopic object on the display panel according to a set sequence and control, according to a depth of the slice image in the stereoscopic object, refraction intensity of the refraction variable part for a light ray projected by the display panel when the slice image is displayed on the display panel. A time required for successively displaying all slice images, which are of the stereoscopic object to be imaged and are perpendicular to one visual axis, on the display panel at a time according to the set sequence is less than a time of persistence of vision. The display panel is configured to display the slice image under control of the drive controller. The lens is configured to perform imaging according to a light ray refracted by the refraction variable part.

Abstract: In some aspects, the present disclosure relates to a method for identifying the type of the unit by camera.

Abstract: Described are apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with detecting and counting people, including use of RGB and range cameras with overlapping fields of view and methods which count people in range camera stream and which characterize behavior as recognized in RGB stream.

Abstract: A security alarm system includes a security light that has a pair of sockets and a motion detector. The motion detector is electrically coupled to each of the sockets. The motion detector actuates each of the sockets when the motion detector detects motion. A first alarm is removably coupled to an associated one of the sockets such that the first alarm is in electrical communication with the associated socket. The first alarm emits an audible alarm when the motion detector detects motion. A second alarm is removably coupled to an associated one of the sockets such that the second alarm is in electrical communication with the associated socket. The second alarm records video footage when the motion detector detects motion.

Abstract: Image-matching tracks the movements of the objects from initial camera scenes to ending camera scenes in non-overlapping cameras. Paths are defined through scenes for pairings of initial and ending cameras by different respective scene entry and exit points. For each of said camera pairings a combination path having a highest total number of tracked movements relative to all other combinations of one path through the initial and ending camera scene is chosen, and the scene exit point of the selected path through the initial camera and the scene entry point of the selected path into the ending camera define a path connection of the initial camera scene to the ending camera scene.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for processing a video. The apparatus for processing a video includes an image receiving module that is configured to receive encoded data, a filtering module that is configured to filter an image frame reconstructed from the encoded image, a block dividing module to divide the filtered image frame into a predetermined block dividing unit, a compression module to compress each of the plurality of blocks, to package the compressed plurality of blocks into a predetermined packaging unit, and to generate lookup table information corresponding to each of the packaged block, a frame buffer memory that is configured to record the packaged data, and a decompression module that is configured to obtain and decompress at least one of the packaged blocks by using the lookup table information.

Abstract: In an example, a method of processing video data includes determining a value of a block-level syntax element that indicates, for all samples of a block of video data, whether at least one respective sample of the block is coded based on a color value of the at least one respective sample not being included in a palette of colors for coding the block of video data. The method also includes coding the block of video data based on the value.

Abstract: A method for providing visual data of a landscape below an aircraft includes capturing visual data of a landscape below an aircraft, using a camera on the aircraft. The visual data is compared to previously captured visual data of the landscape. It is then determined which of the visual data and the previously captured visual data provides a clearer view of the landscape based upon the comparison. The one of the visual data and the previously captured visual data that is determined to provide the clearer view is then displayed to a user.

Abstract: To generate a compressed video having a reduced video file size, an original video having a plurality of images are captured. Each of the plurality of images are compared. If images of the plurality of images are determined to be redundant images, the images are deleted. The original video having the redundant images removed is saved to form the compressed video.

Abstract: A method is provided for signaling individual layer parameters in a transport stream that includes: indicating, using a supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message in the video stream, operation point information; inserting the operation point information in the transport stream using an operation point descriptor; and providing the operation point descriptor in a Program Map Table (PMT).

Abstract: An arrangement for an image recording device in a vehicle having an image recording device for recording image data. The arrangement includes a carrier part which can be positioned on the vehicle with the front side of the carrier part on or in front of the inside of a vehicle window, retaining elements for retaining the image recording device, the retaining elements are coupled to the carrier part in such a way that the optical recording axis of the image recording device is directed into an area in front of the front side of the carrier part, and a heating device, the heating device designed in such a way that the thermal radiation produced by the heating device in the direction of the area in front of the front side of the carrier part is determined. Also disclosed is a method for controlling the heating device in such an arrangement.