Abstract: A broadcast programming delivery apparatus includes: a broadcast programming delivery control unit that controls broadcast programming delivery based on a broadcast programming delivery program formed of a plurality of items; and a switcher being controlled by the control unit, and a plurality of output channels of a material server having the plurality of output channels for outputting a video material being connected to predetermined input lines of the switcher, wherein the items include control data of the switcher having information for specifying a video material of the material server, and the control unit receives, from the material server, channel material information indicating a video material outputted from each of the output channels, and allows an input bus of the switcher necessary to take an input of a video material to select one of the input lines corresponding to the output channel from which the corresponding video material is outputted.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes an image selection unit selecting one image data from a plurality of input image data, an image generation unit generating a computer graphics image based on computer graphics description data, an image mapping unit determining an object or a portion of the object of computer graphics drawn by the image generation unit as the target of texture mapping and texture-mapping an image according to the image data selected by the image selection unit onto a surface of the target of texture mapping, and an image selection control unit controlling the image data selection by the image selection unit according to an attribute given to the target of texture mapping.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image generating unit that generates an image by performing image combining by computer graphics, on the basis of complex data to be description data of a virtual space by the computer graphics and having a plurality of static statuses of the virtual space, a video output unit that outputs the generated image as a video signal, and a control unit that causes the image generating unit to perform the image combining while performing transition according to a progress rate from a first static status to a second static status, on the basis of an instruction of transition from the first static status to the second static status in the complex data.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image generation unit generating a computer graphics image on the basis of computer graphics description data, an image mapping unit texture-mapping an input image to a surface of a computer graphics object drawn by the image generation unit, and a coordinate setting unit undergoing a change manipulation of a texture coordinate and storing contents of the change manipulation, in which the image mapping unit performs texture mapping by a text coordinate which is changed on the basis of contents of the change manipulation which are stored in the coordinate setting unit when texture-mapping the input image to the surface of an object.

Abstract: An image synthesis apparatus includes: an image selection section adapted to select two or more three-dimensional images to be synthesized from among a plurality of three-dimensional images; an order determination section adapted to determine, based on parallax amounts of the selected three-dimensional images, a synthesis order representative of an order in which the selected three-dimensional images are to be synthesized; an image synthesis section adapted to synthesize the selected three-dimensional images in accordance with the synthesis order; and a control section adapted to control the image selection section, the order determination section and the image synthesis section in response to an operation of a user.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus for editing a three-dimensional video, including, a switching section configured to switch a video to be used as an editing result from a first three-dimensional video to a second three-dimensional video by any one of a plurality of switching methods, a parallax measuring section configured to measure a parallax in a three-dimensional video to compute a depth of the three-dimensional video on the basis of a measured parallax, a comparing section configured to compare a difference between a first depth computed on the first three-dimensional video and a second depth computed on the second three-dimensional video that is different from the first three-dimensional video with a predetermined threshold, and a restricting section configured to restrict an operation of the switching section in accordance with a comparison result obtained by the comparing section.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an input unit configured to input video data, a setting unit configured to set a progressing speed of the video data that is inputted, an interpolation processing unit configured to perform interpolation processing corresponding to the progressing speed that is set, with respect to the video data that is inputted, and an imparting unit configured to impart a time code to all frames constituting interpolated video data that is obtained as a result of the interpolation processing.

Abstract: A switcher control device includes: a superimposition determining unit that determines whether a superimposition image is superimposed on an image taken by a camera based on angle information and zoom value information about the camera in selecting a camera image when an effects switcher selects the image taken by the camera as a background image; and a switcher instructing unit that instructs the effects switcher to superimpose the superimposition image based on a determined result of the superimposition determining unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image output apparatus including an image output unit capable of playing in a unit finer than a frame/field unit on a time axis, and a control unit that determines a play amount by performing a predetermined operation on an operation input amount, advances a time indicating a position on the time axis in accordance with the determined play amount, and instructs the image output unit to output an image at the advanced time.

Abstract: There is provided a time line operation control device including a time line holding section that holds a time line which is a prescription of a time-series changing control, a meta time line holding section that holds a meta time line prescribing a progression path on the time line, and a control section that progresses time on the time line representing a position on the time line in accordance with the progression path on the time line prescribed in the meta time line to thereby control the time line operation in accordance with the progression.

Abstract: An image generating unit generates a computer graphics (CG) image based on CG description data. An image mapping unit texture-maps an image to a surface of a polygon rendered by the image, generating unit. When an instruction to turn a cropping process on is given, mapping is performed while performing the cropping process. That is, the image mapping unit performs mapping such that an end portion of an image to be texture-mapped is not included in an output image of the image generating unit. The image mapping unit performs the cropping process when an image is a cropping target.

Abstract: An element choice list designating a plurality of elements among elements included in CG description data is generated in advance and stored. Examples of the element include a virtual object (CG object), a virtual camera, a virtual light, a virtual force field, and a virtual wind. An image generating unit excludes one or more elements other than an element selected by a user's manipulation from among the elements designated by the element choice list from the CG description data and generates a CG image. By manipulating the selection manipulating unit, the user can perform a manipulation of selecting the element from the element choice list and can easily change content of a CG image.

Abstract: An image synthesizing apparatus is provided. The image synthesizing apparatus includes: a key image selector, a background selector, a key processor, an image synthesizer, a frame memory, a part designator, and a writing device. In the image synthesizing apparatus, the image signal that has been selected by the key image selector is sent to the key processor, the image signal that has been processed by the key processor is sent to the writing device and written into the frame memory, and image signals read from every storage region of the frame memory are sent to the image synthesizer.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an input unit configured to input video data, a setting unit configured to set a progressing speed of the video data that is inputted, an interpolation processing unit configured to perform interpolation processing corresponding to the progressing speed that is set, with respect to the video data that is inputted, and an imparting unit configured to impart a time code to all frames constituting interpolated video data that is obtained as a result of the interpolation processing.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to edit video, including: a computer graphics image generation block configured to execute realtime rendering of a computer graphics animation by use of a timeline time with a fraction permitted for a seconds value that is a minimum unit as a parameter indicative of a temporal position of the computer graphics animation; an operation input block configured to enter a user operation for specifying progression of the computer graphics animation; and a control block configured to control the computer graphics image generation block in response to the user operation entered through the operation input block.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a generating apparatus including a display controller configured, on the basis of computer graphics description data for use in creating a computer graphics virtual space necessary for generating a computer graphics image, to display a plurality of element descriptors representative of a plurality of elements arranged in the computer graphics virtual space; and a specification information generator configured to generate specification information for specifying a parameter for defining an element corresponding to an element descriptor by a selecting operation by a user from among the displayed plurality of element descriptors as a parameter subject to adjustment that is adjusted by an adjusting operation by the user.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus for editing a three-dimensional video, including, a switching section configured to switch a video to be used as an editing result from a first three-dimensional video to a second three-dimensional video by any one of a plurality of switching methods, a parallax measuring section configured to measure a parallax in a three-dimensional video to compute a depth of the three-dimensional video on the basis of a measured parallax, a comparing section configured to compare a difference between a first depth computed on the first three-dimensional video and a second depth computed on the second three-dimensional video that is different from the first three-dimensional video with a predetermined threshold, and a restricting section configured to restrict an operation of the switching section in accordance with a comparison result obtained by the comparing section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a working storage section in which computer graphics description data of a storage format in which a computer graphics material can be edited are developed so as to be used for production of an image; an updating controlling section adapted to control a writing operation into part of the working storage section in accordance with derivative information representative of information which describes control for the stored contents of the working storage section; and an image production section adapted to produce a computer graphics image based on the stored contents of the working storage section.

Abstract: An image synthesis apparatus includes: an image selection section adapted to select two or more three-dimensional images to be synthesized from among a plurality of three-dimensional images; an order determination section adapted to determine, based on parallax amounts of the selected three-dimensional images, a synthesis order representative of an order in which the selected three-dimensional images are to be synthesized; an image synthesis section adapted to synthesize the selected three-dimensional images in accordance with the synthesis order; and a control section adapted to control the image selection section, the order determination section and the image synthesis section in response to an operation of a user.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image generation unit generating a computer graphics image on the basis of computer graphics description data, an image mapping unit texture-mapping an input image to a surface of a computer graphics object drawn by the image generation unit, and a coordinate setting unit undergoing a change manipulation of a texture coordinate and storing contents of the change manipulation, in which the image mapping unit performs texture mapping by a text coordinate which is changed on the basis of contents of the change manipulation which are stored in the coordinate setting unit when texture-mapping the input image to the surface of an object.