Abstract: An image conversion method is provided. An image of a calibration reference pattern is captured. A plurality of first and a plurality of second characteristic patterns of the calibration reference pattern are identified. Coordinates of the first and second characteristic patterns in a first view angle coordinate system are obtained, and coordinates of the first and second characteristic patterns in a second view angle coordinate system are obtained, to obtain a coordinate conversion relationship between the first and second view angle coordinate systems. An input image is converted to an output image according to the coordinate conversion relationship.

Abstract: The quality of a planar image is improved while maintaining the parallax of a stereoscopic image. An image capturing device includes an imaging element that performs photoelectric conversion on respective light fluxes passing through different regions of a single pickup lens. The image capturing device includes a neutral density filter an AE control unit that acquires subject brightness, and a diaphragm control unit that, in a case of the stereoscopic pickup, controls whether or not to reduce the amount of light which reaches the imaging element using the neutral density filter based on the subject brightness, and that, in a case of the plane pickup, causes a diaphragm value of the diaphragm to be greater than a diaphragm value in the case of the stereoscopic pickup while setting the light extinction filter to a non-insertion state.

Abstract: A display apparatus displaying video input through various ports is provided. The display apparatus includes a board which is disposed behind a display module, wherein the board includes a universal serial bus (USB) port which receives a USB standard signal, a decoder which decodes a video signal from the USB standard signal and outputs a decoded signal, a video output unit which outputs a displayable video signal to the display module corresponding to the video signal, wherein the USB port is disposed at an edge of a first side of the board, and the video output unit is disposed at an edge of a second side which is different from the first side of the board. The video output unit receives video from an external apparatus such as a computer through a USB port in addition to a DVI port and D-SUB port, and displays the received video. Display apparatuses having additional ports than the DVI ports and D-SUB ports may be connected to a computer without requiring additional hardware.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes image capturing devices; page memories for the image capturing devices, respectively, each page memory storing a piece of image data output from the corresponding image capturing device; a page-memory read unit configured to read pieces of image data stored in the page memories line by line in a time division manner; an image processing unit configured to perform predetermined image processing on the pieces of image data read from the page memories for the image capturing devices line by line in the time division manner; and a write monitoring unit configured to monitor write states of the pieces of image data that are output from the image capturing devices and written into the page memories, and control the page-memory read unit to start reading the pieces of image data from the page memories.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method determines a block of a current picture and a prediction type associated with the block. Also, the method determines one of a first list of reference pictures and a second list of reference pictures for the block. An encoder or a decoder selects the one of the first list of reference pictures or the second list of reference pictures implicitly without communication of information between the encoder and the decoder indicating which of the first list of reference pictures or the second list of reference pictures was selected. Then, the method sets a reference picture in the selected one of the first list of reference pictures and the second list of reference pictures as a collocated picture for the block. The selected reference picture is used in a temporal prediction process for the block.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lane departure warning system including an image sensing device, an identification module and a determination module. The image sensing device generates a video. The identification module identifies a plurality of lane lines of at least one lane on which a vehicle is currently driven from the video, to generate an identification result, wherein the identification result is generated based on specific borderlines of the lane lines. The determination module determines a determination strategy according to vehicle speed information, and generates a determination result according to the determination strategy and the identification result. The lane departure warning system determines whether to issue a warning according to the determination result.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selecting an appropriate mode when performing a new broadcast, such as a 3D stereo broadcast, a UHDTV broadcast, and a multi-view broadcast, among others, while maintaining compatibility with existing broadcasting channels in an MPEG-2-TS format for transmitting and receiving digital TV, and to a method for recognizing a descriptor. To this end, the present invention suggests providing the descriptor which is related to synthesizing left and right images using the type of stream, existence of the descriptor, and a frame-compatible mode flag.

Abstract: A stereoscopic display method includes the following acts. A plurality of stereoscopic images are provided by providing a plurality of stereoscopic display panels. At least one border is disposed between two of the stereoscopic display panels adjacent to each other. At least one stripe segment is added in each of the stereoscopic images. The stripe segments are adjacent to the border, such that the stripe segments and the border form a floating frame when an observer observes the stripe segments and the border using both eyes of the observer. A width of each of the stripe segments is adjusted, such that a depth of field of the floating frame is substantially the same as a depth of field of the stereoscopic images adjacent to the floating frame.

Abstract: Provided is a video encoding device having an AFF-mode-determining unit (140) for determining the AFF mode when an input image is an interlaced image, and a video encoding unit (110) for encoding the input image depending on a result of the mode determination obtained from the AFF-mode-determining unit (140). The AFF-mode-determining unit (140) makes a determination combining: a mode determination result based on each of a texture value when an image is treated as a field and a frame, or based on an equivalent object; and a mode determination result based on the ease of predicting a motion vector in both encodings estimated with reference to a previously obtained movement vector, or based on the cost.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a display method are provided. The display apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a plurality of contents; a signal processor configured to obtain image frames by processing the received plurality of contents; a display configured to output a plurality of content views including a first content view and a second content view by sequentially outputting the obtained image frames; a remote control signal receiver configured to receive a control command from a remote control apparatus; and a controller configured to, when the received control command is to control the first content view, determine whether the received control command is a control command that has an influence on the second content view.

Abstract: A video coder signals, in a bitstream, a syntax element that indicates whether inter-view/layer reference pictures are ever included in a reference picture list for a current view component/layer representation. A video decoder obtains, from the bitstream, the syntax element that indicates whether inter-view/layer reference pictures are ever included in a reference picture list for a current view component/layer representation. The video decoder decodes the current view component/layer representation.

Abstract: A laser thermal imaging apparatus includes a substrate stage configured to receive a substrate, a beam irradiation unit over the substrate stage, the beam irradiation unit being configured to irradiate an alignment laser beam onto an alignment mark of the substrate, and a beam observing unit facing the beam irradiation unit, the substrate stage being interposed between the beam observing unit and the beam irradiation unit, the beam observing unit being configured to observe the alignment laser beam and a shadow of the alignment mark formed by the alignment mark.

Abstract: An Encoder Assisted Frame Rate Up Conversion (EA-FRUC) system that utilizes various motion models, such as affine models, in addition to video coding and pre-processing operations at the video encoder to exploit the FRUC processing that will occur in the decoder in order to improve the modeling of moving objects, compression efficiency and reconstructed video quality. Furthermore, objects are identified in a way that reduces the amount of information necessary for encoding to render the objects on the decoder device.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus has a display control unit that causes a display unit to display target information indicating a direction to a target position with an optical axis of the imaging apparatus being a reference, based on an azimuth angle of the imaging apparatus detected by an azimuth detecting unit and an elevation angle detected by a tilt angle detecting unit.

Abstract: A video encoder generates, based on a reference picture set of a current view component, a reference picture list for the current view component. The reference picture set includes an inter-view reference picture set. The video encoder encodes the current view component based at least in part on one or more reference pictures in the reference picture list. In addition, the video encoder generates a bitstream that includes syntax elements indicating the reference picture set of the current view component. A video decoder parses, from the bitstream, syntax elements indicating the reference picture set of the current view component. The video decoder generates, based on the reference picture set, the reference picture list for the current view component. In addition, the video decoder decodes at least a portion of the current view component based on one or more reference pictures in the reference picture list.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for transcoding a set of key frame aligned output files from a source file. A statistics file is generated while transcoding a first output file of the set. Subsequent output files having the same frame size but different bitrates of the set may be created non-sequentially and in parallel using the statistics file.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for improved chroma transforms for inter frames in video encoding and decoding. The apparatus and method encode at least a portion of a picture using inter-coding, wherein a transform is adaptively selected, from among a plurality of transforms, to apply to chroma components of the portion responsive to at least one selection criterion.

Abstract: A device may encapsulate video data such that Supplemental Enhancement Information (SEI) messages are stored separately from a sequence of coded video pictures described by the SEI messages. An example device includes a control unit configured to generate one or more SEI messages separate from the coded video pictures, wherein the SEI messages describe respective ones of the sequence of coded video pictures and include elements common to more than one of the coded video pictures, and an output interface configured to output the SEI messages separately from the sequence of coded video pictures. An example destination device may receive the SEI messages separately from the coded video pictures and render the coded video pictures using the SEI messages.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method that comprises receiving a first stream of video frames at a first frame rate and generating a second stream of video frames at a second frame rate. The method also comprises interpolating between a pair of adjacent video frames of the first stream of video frames to produce a first number of interpolated intermediate video frames in a particular sequence of the intermediate video frames. The method further comprises duplicating at least one of the adjacent video frames of the pair of adjacent video frames to produce a second number of duplicated intermediate video frames in the particular sequence of the intermediate video frames. The method further comprises, in response to a change in observed interpolation quality, dynamically changing the first number of interpolated intermediate video frames and the second number of duplicated intermediate video frames.

Abstract: A video system includes a sensitive-information generator to generate a definition of sensitive information parts (SIP) areas. The video system also includes a transcoder to transcode the SIP areas at a higher bit rate than non-SIP areas in the frames based on bandwidth available for transmitting the transcoded frames. The SIP areas are generated statically or dynamically. The video system adapts to various network conditions and utilizes the bandwidth efficiently to deliver the sensitive information of high quality and to enhance the user experience.