Abstract: A picture signal processing system includes a playback apparatus and a display apparatus connected via first and second communication units. The playback apparatus receives a video signal made up of source data generated by moving giant image data in a constant direction at a constant speed, wherein the giant image data has a number of pixels far greater than the number of pixels in a display region. The playback apparatus reads source data speed information stored in the video signal header, and transmits the video signal and the speed information to the display apparatus. The display apparatus references a table to determine how to process the video signal on the basis of the speed information, processes the video signal, and then displays the processed video signal.

Abstract: There is provided a video display device including a content control unit for displaying a video content on a display screen; a user specifying unit for specifying a user viewing a video content displayed on the display screen; and an image quality adjustment unit for adjusting the image quality of the display screen according to the user specified by the user specifying unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image input unit that inputs an image, a high bandpass filter that extracts a high-band component of the input image, a high-band small amplitude extracting unit that extracts a small amplitude component from the extracted high-band component, a high-band small amplitude adjusting unit that adjust an extracted high-band small amplitude component, an intermediate bandpass filter that extracts an intermediate-band component of the input image, an intermediate-band large amplitude extracting unit that extracts a large amplitude component from the extracted intermediate component, an intermediate-band large amplitude adjusting unit that adjusts an extracted intermediate-band large amplitude component, and an adding unit that adds the adjusted high-band small amplitude component and the adjusted intermediate-band large amplitude component to the input image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a filter-coefficient storing unit that stores filter coefficients respectively associated with spatial frequencies, which are the numbers of strips displayed per unit angle with respect to an angle of field of a display apparatus; a viewing-condition determining unit that determines, as viewing conditions, a viewing distance between a viewer and the display apparatus and pixel density of the display apparatus; a filter-coefficient setting unit that sets a filter coefficient selected on the basis of a spatial frequency calculated from the viewing conditions among the stored filter coefficients; and a gradation modulating unit including a quantizing unit that quantizes a pixel value in a predetermined coordinate position in an image signal and outputs the pixel value as a quantized pixel value in the predetermined coordinate position, the gradation modulating unit gradation-modulating the image signal by multiply-accumulating a set filter coefficient with respect to quant

Abstract: A gradation converting device that converts gradation of an image includes: a dither unit that applies dither to the image by adding random noise to a pixel value forming the image; and a one-dimensional ?? modulation unit that applies one-dimensional ?? modulation to the image applied with the dither.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program capable of presenting a stereoscopic image having different parallaxes. An image capture apparatus 11 captures photographic images P(1) to P(N) in a state of being turned around a center of turn C11. The image capture apparatus 11 crops, as strip images, certain regions in the photographic images, and arranges side by side and combines the strip images to generate panoramic images in which a region in an image capture area is set as a subject. The image capture apparatus 11 obtaining panoramic moving images formed of a plurality of panoramic images by generating a plurality of panoramic images while shifting the cropping positions of the strip images. The image capture apparatus 11 selects two panoramic moving images from among a plurality of panoramic moving images having parallaxes in accordance with a specified parallax, and obtains a stereoscopic panoramic moving image formed of the two panoramic moving images.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that displays, on a display region having a first number of pixels, an image represented by gigantic image data that is recorded in a recording medium and has a second number of pixels that is significantly greater than the first number of pixels, including: a reproducing unit configured to read image data from the recording medium; an output unit configured to output the image data, which is read by the reproducing unit from the recording medium, in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal; and a control unit configured to control the reproducing unit and the output unit. The control unit performs control to extract and read a region corresponding to the display region from the gigantic image data recorded in the recording medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program capable of displaying a stereoscopic image having a more appropriate parallax. An image capture apparatus 11 captures a plurality of photographic images P(1) to P(N) in a state of being turned around a center of turn C11. In response to an instruction for displaying an image in which a specific region in an area to be captured is displayed, the image capture apparatus 11 selects two photographic images between which parallax having a predetermined magnitude occurs in a subject in the specific region from among photographic images in which the specific region is displayed, and crops regions in which the subject in the specific region is displayed from these photographic images to produce right-eye and left-eye sub-images. These sub-images have an appropriate parallax and therefore are displayed simultaneously using a lenticular method or the like. Thus, a stereoscopic image with depth can be displayed.

Abstract: Information distribution systems and information distribution methods are provided. In an information distribution system, header files of contents in accordance with a preference of a user of a data terminal are automatically selected, in advance, from a content distribution apparatus and are transmitted to the data terminal, so that probabilities that the header files of the contents have been already stored are very high when the user downloads the content of the body data. If the number of header files to be stored is more than a predetermined number, the most of the header files with respect to the contents of the body data to be downloaded will be in the data terminal. Therefore, on performing a downloading operation, the header files can be played immediately, then subsequently, the downloaded content of the body data are played, whereby the user can appreciate the content which the user desires to view and listen to without waiting time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, and a program, whereby a subject image imaged in a more effective manner can be displayed. An imaging apparatus 11 images multiple imaged images P(1) through P(N) in a state turning with a turning center C11 as the center. The imaging apparatus 11 trims from each of the obtained multiple imaged images a region determined by a predetermined reference position in the imaged image as a strip-of-paper image, and arrays and synthesizes these strip-of-paper images, thereby generating a panorama image with a predetermined region on imaging space as a subject. The imaging apparatus 11 generates multiple panorama images while shifting a trimming position of a strip-of-paper image from the imaged image, thereby obtaining a panorama moving image made up of the multiple panorama images. According to this panorama moving image, a subject in an imaged image can be displayed with motion. The present invention can be applied to cameras.

Abstract: A data management apparatus for managing data stored in a predetermined storage area includes a reader configured to communicate with a plurality of objects each having a memory storing an address indicating a storage area and to read the address from the memory of an object with which communication is to be performed by a user among the plurality of objects; a data obtaining unit configured to obtain data to be stored in the storage area; and a storage controller configured to cause the data obtained by the data obtaining means to be stored in the storage area indicated by the address read by the reader.

Abstract: A video data processing apparatus includes: a contrast correction calculating section correcting the contrast of input luminance data by performing a calculation using a contrast correction value; an error diffusion section performing an error diffusion process on the luminance data whose contrast has been corrected; an error diffusion setting section setting whether to perform the error diffusion process at the error diffusion section; a correction value setting section detecting black and white peak values of an input luminance signal and setting the contrast correction value using the detected black and white peak values; and a correction amount adjusting section adjusting the contrast correction value set by the correction value setting section depending on whether the error diffusion process is performed at the error diffusion section according to an instruction from the error diffusion setting section and supplying the adjusted contrast correction value to the contrast correction calculating section.

Abstract: A processing device may include left-eye and right-eye content data processing units, which may be configured to, respectively, receive left-eye content data representing a left-eye content display pattern and right-eye content data representing a right-eye content display pattern. The content data processing units may also be configured to, respectively, set content display positions of the left-eye and right-eye content display patterns. The settings may be based, respectively, on positions of virtual screen display patterns included in background display patterns represented by left-eye and right-eye background data. The device may also include an output unit, which may be configured to crate output data by, respectively, combining the left-eye content data with the left-eye background data and combining the right-eye content data with the right-eye background data. The combinings may be based on, respectively, the left-eye and right-eye content display positions.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a first photodiode and a second photodiode; a first optical waveguide formed above the first photodiode; a second optical waveguide formed above the second photodiode; a first color filter which is formed above the first optical waveguide and transmits mainly light having a first wavelength; a second color filter which is formed above the second optical waveguide and transmits mainly light having a second wavelength; a first microlens formed above the first color filter; and a second microlens formed above the second color filter, wherein the first wavelength is longer than the second wavelength, and the first optical waveguide has a first width smaller than a second width of the second optical waveguide, the first and second widths being in a direction parallel to the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed are information processing equipment and an information processing method, a provision system and method, and a program that are intended to readily produce a content of higher quality, wherein, an acquisition unit acquires an interpolative content with which a main content is interpolated in a spatial or temporal direction or with which gray levels into which the main content is quantized are interpolated, and, a synthesis unit synthesizes the main content and interpolative content so that the first content will be interpolated in the spatial or temporal direction or the gray levels into which the first content is quantized will be interpolated.

Abstract: A signal processing method of a solid-state image sensor includes comparing a high-sensitivity-pixel output signal and a first threshold value to determine whether or not the high-sensitivity-pixel output signal reaches a level of a saturated-high-sensitivity-pixel output signal. If the high-sensitivity-pixel output signal does not reach the level of the saturated-high-sensitivity-pixel output signal, a difference value between the high-sensitivity-pixel output signal and an amplified low-sensitivity-pixel output signal is calculated. The amplified low-sensitivity-pixel output signal is obtained by multiplying a low-sensitivity-pixel output signal by a sensitivity ratio, which is obtained by dividing a sensitivity value of a high sensitivity pixel by a sensitivity value of a low sensitivity pixel. A first or second image signal is output according to whether an absolute value of the difference value is smaller than a second threshold value or not.

Abstract: A recording and playback apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more moving parameters regarding motion from a first image; a converter configured to convert the first image into a second image composed of a lesser amount of data than the first image; a recording controller configured to record moving parameter information and the second image on a recording medium, the moving parameter information relating to the moving parameters of the first image; a reading controller configured to read the moving parameter information and the second image from the recording medium; and an image processor configured to execute image processing on the second image read from the recording medium using the moving parameters of the first image, the moving parameters of the first image being obtained from the moving parameter information read from the recording medium.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an output image creation unit configured to create a plurality of consecutive output images; a detection unit configured to detect a moving subject having motion; a correction unit configured to correct a predetermined output image by substituting a subject area, where the moving subject of the predetermined output image is displayed, with an image of an area corresponding to the subject area of another different output image when the moving subject is included in the predetermined output image; and a 3D output image creation unit configured to create a 3D output image including the output image having a predetermined disparity from the predetermined output image.

Abstract: An imaging processing device includes: a position information generation section that generates position information which represents a relative positional relationship of captured images when the captured images are aligned on a predetermined plane so as to overlap same subjects, which are included in the different captured images, with each other; a strip image generation section that cuts out an area on each captured image from a predetermined reference position on the captured image to the reference position on another captured image which is aligned on the plane so as to overlap with the captured image and generates a strip image including the area, when the captured images are aligned on the plane on the basis of the position information; and a panoramic image generation section that generates a single panoramic image by aligning and stitching the strip images which are obtained from the captured images.

Abstract: The pattern (pattern characteristic quantity) extracted from the pattern image carried by original printing paper is stored on the original printing paper and the validity of the original printing paper is verified according to the pattern stored on code-added printing paper at the time of copying the printed contents of the code-added printing paper so as to determine if the code-added printing paper is truly original or not by means of the pattern carried by the printing paper itself. Therefore, it is possible to prevent unauthorized copying with ease without using any special paper and hence appropriately protect the printed contents.