Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that detects positions of ball candidates from a plurality of time-series image frames. The processor adds a position of a second ball candidate to a second image frame subsequent to a first image frame based on a position of a first ball candidate and movement definition information. The first ball candidate is detected from the first image frame. The movement definition information defines a characteristic of a movement of a ball. The processor generates a plurality of trajectory candidates by combining a plurality of ball candidates detected from image frames of different times. The processor evaluates the plurality of trajectory candidates to determine a ball trajectory. The processor interpolates, when the ball trajectory is interrupted, between a starting point and an ending point of the interruption with a trajectory of a first person who moves from the starting point to the ending point.

Abstract: A camera, a storage device, and an image processing apparatus are included. The storage device stores a plurality of captured images that are captured by the camera. The image processing apparatus estimates a region of an object included in a captured image of a current time based on a captured image of a previous time, for each of multiple objects included in the captured image of the current time. The image processing apparatus evaluates whether to correct the estimated region of each object based on a combination region in which the estimated regions of the respective objects are combined, and on a difference region that is identified by a background image and the captured image of the current time. The image processing apparatus corrects the estimated regions of the respective objects based on a result of evaluation.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that detects positions of ball candidates from a plurality of time-series image frames. The processor adds a position of a second ball candidate to a second image frame subsequent to a first image frame based on a position of a first ball candidate and movement definition information. The first ball candidate is detected from the first image frame. The movement definition information defines a characteristic of a movement of a ball. The processor generates a plurality of trajectory candidates by combining a plurality of ball candidates detected from image frames of different times. The processor evaluates the plurality of trajectory candidates to determine a ball trajectory. The processor interpolates, when the ball trajectory is interrupted, between a starting point and an ending point of the interruption with a trajectory of a first person who moves from the starting point to the ending point.

Abstract: A camera, a storage device, and an image processing apparatus are included. The storage device stores a plurality of captured images that are captured by the camera. The image processing apparatus estimates a region of an object included in a captured image of a current time based on a captured image of a previous time, for each of multiple objects included in the captured image of the current time. The image processing apparatus evaluates whether to correct the estimated region of each object based on a combination region in which the estimated regions of the respective objects are combined, and on a difference region that is identified by a background image and the captured image of the current time. The image processing apparatus corrects the estimated regions of the respective objects based on a result of evaluation.

Abstract: In a pixel interpolation apparatus for interpolating pixels, an edge pixel detection unit detects edge pixels constituting an edge among pixels on lines positioned above/below the interpolation pixel. A continuous edge detection unit detects edge pixels in which two pixels or more consecutively line up among edge pixels detected by the edge pixel detection unit as a continuous edge. A continuous edge pair detection unit determines the combination of the continuous edges detected on each of the lines above and below the interpolation pixel among the continuous edges detected by the continuous edge detection unit. An edge direction determination unit determines the edge direction of the interpolation pixel on the basis of the positional relation of one set of continuous edges determined by the continuous edge pair detection unit. An interpolation pixel calculation unit calculates an interpolation pixel using the edge direction determined by the edge direction determination unit.

Abstract: An image output apparatus includes an addition amount calculation unit that calculates, based on a target pixel and each of adjacent pixels before and after the target pixel in an input image, an edge enhancement addition amount to be added to a pixel value of the target pixel; a variation calculation unit that calculates a linear variation in accordance with a shape of an edge gradient formed by the target pixel and each of the adjacent pixels; a weight processing unit that assigns a weight to the edge enhancement addition amount in accordance with the linear variation; and an addition amount addition unit that adds the weighted edge enhancement addition amount to the pixel value of the target pixel and outputs the added pixel value.

Abstract: A disclosed pixel interpolation apparatus for converting an image to a predetermined resolution includes a first interpolating part configured to calculate a first interpolation pixel value by performing high order interpolation using pixel values of plural first reference pixels and a distance between the plural first reference pixels and a first interpolation pixel; a second interpolating part configured to calculate a second interpolation pixel value by performing weighted interpolation using pixel values of plural second reference pixels, an edge gradient of the second reference pixels, and the distance between the second reference pixels and a second interpolation pixel; an overshoot area detecting part configured to detect an overshoot area in the image; and an interpolation pixel selecting part configured to determine whether to perform the high order interpolation or the weighted interpolation according to a detection result of the overshoot area detecting part.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coloring composition including a pigment, a transparent resin, a monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated double bond, and a photo-polymerization initiator, wherein a ratio (M/P) of weight (M) of the monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated double bond to weight (P) of the transparent resin is confined to a range of 0.12 to 1.35, and the coloring composition is adapted to be employed in a manufacturing method of a color filter including coating a surface of a substrate with the coloring composition, irradiating a filter segment-forming region or a black matrix-forming region of the coated coloring composition film with a laser beam having a wavelength of 340 nm to 380 nm, thereby curing the irradiated region, and removing uncured portion of the coated coloring composition film to form the filter segment or the black matrix.

Abstract: An image output apparatus includes an addition amount calculation unit that calculates, based on a target pixel and each of adjacent pixels before and after the target pixel in an input image, an edge enhancement addition amount to be added to a pixel value of the target pixel; a variation calculation unit that calculates a linear variation in accordance with a shape of an edge gradient formed by the target pixel and each of the adjacent pixels; a weight processing unit that assigns a weight to the edge enhancement addition amount in accordance with the linear variation; and an addition amount addition unit that adds the weighted edge enhancement addition amount to the pixel value of the target pixel and outputs the added pixel value.

Abstract: A disclosed pixel interpolation apparatus for converting an image to a predetermined resolution includes a first interpolating part configured to calculate a first interpolation pixel value by performing high order interpolation using pixel values of plural first reference pixels and a distance between the plural first reference pixels and a first interpolation pixel; a second interpolating part configured to calculate a second interpolation pixel value by performing weighted interpolation using pixel values of plural second reference pixels, an edge gradient of the second reference pixels, and the distance between the second reference pixels and a second interpolation pixel; an overshoot area detecting part configured to detect an overshoot area in the image; and an interpolation pixel selecting part configured to determine whether to perform the high order interpolation or the weighted interpolation according to a detection result of the overshoot area detecting part.

Abstract: In a pixel interpolation apparatus for interpolating pixels, an edge pixel detection unit detects edge pixels constituting an edge among pixels on lines positioned above/below the interpolation pixel. A continuous edge detection unit detects edge pixels in which two pixels or more consecutively line up among edge pixels detected by the edge pixel detection unit as a continuous edge. A continuous edge pair detection unit determines the combination of the continuous edges detected on each of the lines above and below the interpolation pixel among the continuous edges detected by the continuous edge detection unit. An edge direction determination unit determines the edge direction of the interpolation pixel on the basis of the positional relation of one set of continuous edges determined by the continuous edge pair detection unit. An interpolation pixel calculation unit calculates an interpolation pixel using the edge direction determined by the edge direction determination unit.

Abstract: A method for detecting a generation sequence of an interlace picture signal for interlace/progressive conversion includes a step for performing motion detection for each pixel by a two-field difference with respect to a picture signal of the n-th field (n is an integer), so as to obtain a two-time statistic value from the number of pixels having a motion, a step for obtaining a one-time statistic value from an accumulated value of one-field differences for pixels that are detected to have a motion by the two-field difference with respect to the picture signal of the n-th field, and a step for detecting whether or not a generation sequence of an input picture signal is an edit sequence in which a progressive picture is edited for generation, by using the obtained two-time statistic value and the one-time statistic value.

Abstract: A pulldown-sequence detecting device includes a determining unit that performs motion determination on every pixel by comparing a field of an interlace image input into the device with a field of the preceding frame stored in a field memory, a calculating unit that calculates a difference between the features of the portions determined as having some movement by the determining unit and the corresponding portions of the immediately preceding field stored in another field memory, and a detecting unit that detects a pulldown sequence on the basis of the variation pattern of the inter-field feature differences calculated by the calculating unit.