Abstract: An image compression method, performed by a computer, includes: acquiring image data of an image captured by an imaging device mounted to a vehicle; setting a segmented region in a reference image corresponding to an image to be compressed and encoded; enlarging the reference image so that a magnification rate of a region including the periphery of the reference image is greater than a magnification rate of a region including a center point of the reference image in the segmented region, the center point being a contact point of an optical axis of the image incident to the imaging device and an imaging element in the imaging device; generating a predictive image in accordance with the enlarged reference image; and compressing and encoding image data of the image to be encoded in accordance with the generated predictive image.

Abstract: A method performed by a computer for attitude estimation includes: executing a first process that includes obtaining a first image; executing a second process that includes calculating a degree of noncoincidence between the obtained first image and a second image obtained before the first image; executing a third process that includes setting, from the degree of noncoincidence, and for each movable portion of a model as an attitude estimation target, a range where the movable portion is estimated to be movable in a frame of the first image; and executing a fourth process that includes outputting the range set for each movable portion as a generation range of a random number determining an amount of change of the each movable portion of the model to a generating process configured to generate a particle as a candidate for an attitude of the model in accordance with the generation range.

Abstract: An image compression method, performed by a computer, includes: acquiring image data of an image captured by an imaging device mounted to a vehicle; setting a segmented region in a reference image corresponding to an image to be compressed and encoded; enlarging the reference image so that a magnification rate of a region including the periphery of the reference image is greater than a magnification rate of a region including a center point of the reference image in the segmented region, the center point being a contact point of an optical axis of the image incident to the imaging device and an imaging element in the imaging device; generating a predictive image in accordance with the enlarged reference image; and compressing and encoding image data of the image to be encoded in accordance with the generated predictive image.

Abstract: A method performed by a computer for attitude estimation includes: executing a first process that includes obtaining a first image; executing a second process that includes calculating a degree of noncoincidence between the obtained first image and a second image obtained before the first image; executing a third process that includes setting, from the degree of noncoincidence, and for each movable portion of a model as an attitude estimation target, a range where the movable portion is estimated to be movable in a frame of the first image; and executing a fourth process that includes outputting the range set for each movable portion as a generation range of a random number determining an amount of change of the each movable portion of the model to a generating process configured to generate a particle as a candidate for an attitude of the model in accordance with the generation range.

Abstract: An apparatus for video generation includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a road surface end detection process to detect, from an image including a road surface along which a vehicle travels, a road surface end of the road surface in a widthwise direction, execute a calculation process to calculate a distance from the vehicle to the road surface end, execute a generation process to generate, when the calculated distance is smaller than a given threshold value, a video for inducing a driver of the vehicle to steer to a direction in which the distance increases, and execute a display control process to cause a display apparatus to display the generated video.

Abstract: A video generation device includes a processor configured to detect a second vehicle present in front of a first vehicle or behind the first vehicle in a first direction in which the first vehicle travels. The first vehicle is mounted with the video generation device. The processor is configured to detect a first distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle. The processor is configured to compare the first distance to a predetermined threshold value to acquire a first comparison result. The processor is configured to determine a first speed of a first image on basis of the first comparison result. The first image is included in a video and to be moved within the video in a direction determined on basis of the first direction. The processor is configured to generate the video on basis of the first speed and display the video via a display device.

Abstract: A reception apparatus is configured to receive data including a plurality of packets each of which has information on a time point when the packet is generated; to extract a terminal packet which is a packet included in the data received and which has information on a time point which is nearest to a current time point; and to control an operation clock by comparing the information on the time point included in the terminal packet with information on an elapsed time obtained by adding information on a time point, which is included in a terminal packet of preceding data, to an elapsed time from when the preceding data is received to the current time point.

Abstract: A digital signature program includes computer-executable instructions for giving a numerical value in a state where header information necessary for playback of each partial data item may be added to the partial data item resulting from the division to a one-way function to generate an output value sequence of the one-way function concerning the multiple partial data items. The program also includes computer-executable instructions for generating binary trees concerning the streaming data, having leaves including only the output values in the output value sequence; and computer-executable instructions for using an output value indicating a root of the generated binary trees to generate a digital signature of a signer for the streaming data.

Abstract: A method for encoding an image having a resolution that is not a multiple of a size of a block to be encoded, includes adding, by a processor, an extension image to the image to generate an image to be encoded, the extension image being an image to be added to the image and being an image in which a boundary pixel that is present at a boundary between the extension image and the image, and an adjacent pixel that is adjacent to the boundary pixel have a difference in pixel value therebetween that has an absolute value that is equal to or greater than a certain value; and disabling a deblocking filter process at the boundary between the extension image and the image in a locally decoded image that corresponds to the image to be encoded.

Abstract: A coding apparatus is for performing a deblocking filter process by dividing input moving image data into frames, and coding the moving image data by dividing the frames into macroblock lines and by shifting and changing, for each frame, a refresh area in which an amount of coding information allocated to a specific macroblock line is larger than that of another macroblock line. The coding apparatus includes a determining unit that determines that a refresh area in a current frame as well as a macroblock line in the current frame corresponding to a macroblock line that will become a refresh area in a frame being subsequently subjected to the coding process becomes a next refresh area. The coding apparatus includes a coding unit that codes the refresh area and the next refresh area by allocating a larger amount of coding information than an amount allocated to the other macroblock line.

Abstract: A method for encoding an image having a resolution that is not a multiple of a size of a block to be encoded, includes adding, by a processor, an extension image to the image to generate an image to be encoded, the extension image being an image to be added to the image and being an image in which a boundary pixel that is present at a boundary between the extension image and the image, and an adjacent pixel that is adjacent to the boundary pixel have a difference in pixel value therebetween that has an absolute value that is equal to or greater than a certain value; and disabling a deblocking filter process at the boundary between the extension image and the image in a locally decoded image that corresponds to the image to be encoded.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of encoders calculates a first time by adding an encoding delay time commonly determined between the encoders to a value of an STC counter, and transmits a system stream generated by including the calculated first time to a decoder associated with the encoder in one-to-one correspondence, of a plurality of decoders constituting a decoding system. Each of the decoders calculates a second time by adding the first time to an estimated maximum value commonly determined between the decoders by adding a decoding delay time to a value of stream fluctuation of an output time occurring between the encoders, and outputs the divided image data decoded from the system stream to a synthesizer that synthesizes the image data at the calculated second time.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus encodes a picture by inserting an intra-refresh area into a portion of the picture periodically based on an intra-refresh period. An encoding-status monitoring unit monitors an encoding status of the picture. A refresh-area control unit changes at least one of the intra-refresh area and the intra-refresh period based on the encoding status monitored by the encoding-status monitoring unit.

Abstract: A reception apparatus is configured to receive data including a plurality of packets each of which has information on a time point when the packet is generated; to extract a terminal packet which is a packet included in the data received and which has information on a time point which is nearest to a current time point; and to control an operation clock by comparing the information on the time point included in the terminal packet with information on an elapsed time obtained by adding information on a time point, which is included in a terminal packet of preceding data, to an elapsed time from when the preceding data is received to the current time point.

Abstract: A coding apparatus is for performing a deblocking filter process by dividing input moving image data into frames, and coding the moving image data by dividing the frames into macroblock lines and by shifting and changing, for each frame, a refresh area in which an amount of coding information allocated to a specific macroblock line is larger than that of another macroblock line. The coding apparatus includes a determining unit that determines that a refresh area in a current frame as well as a macroblock line in the current frame corresponding to a macroblock line that will become a refresh area in a frame being subsequently subjected to the coding process becomes a next refresh area. The coding apparatus includes a coding unit that codes the refresh area and the next refresh area by allocating a larger amount of coding information than an amount allocated to the other macroblock line.

Abstract: A digital signature program includes computer-executable instructions for giving a numerical value in a state where header information necessary for playback of each partial data item may be added to the partial data item resulting from the division to a one-way function to generate an output value sequence of the one-way function concerning the multiple partial data items. The program also includes computer-executable instructions for generating binary trees concerning the streaming data, having leaves including only the output values in the output value sequence; and computer-executable instructions for using an output value indicating a root of the generated binary trees to generate a digital signature of a signer for the streaming data.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus encodes a picture by inserting an intra-refresh area into a portion of the picture periodically based on an intra-refresh period. An encoding-status monitoring unit monitors an encoding status of the picture. A refresh-area control unit changes at least one of the intra-refresh area and the intra-refresh period based on the encoding status monitored by the encoding-status monitoring unit.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of encoders calculates a first time by adding an encoding delay time commonly determined between the encoders to a value of an STC counter, and transmits a system stream generated by including the calculated first time to a decoder associated with the encoder in one-to-one correspondence, of a plurality of decoders constituting a decoding system. Each of the decoders calculates a second time by adding the first time to an estimated maximum value commonly determined between the decoders by adding a decoding delay time to a value of stream fluctuation of an output time occurring between the encoders, and outputs the divided image data decoded from the system stream to a synthesizer that synthesizes the image data at the calculated second time.

Abstract: A traffic management system manages, distributes, and controls various traveling states of vehicles at a high quality level. A vehicle-mounted unit performs an interconnection process for user authentication when entering a predetermined radio-wave zone. A radio unit disposed on a road sends interconnection process completion information to a center device when the interconnection process for connection to the vehicle is completed. If the vehicle does not connect to the radio unit after elapsed of a predicted time at which the vehicle is expected to travel across the radio unit, then the radio unit sends an overtime to the center device. The interconnection process completion information is received, the center device calculates a predicted time at which the vehicle is expected to pass across a radio unit, and sends the predicted time to the radio unit. When the overtime is received, the center device determines whether a fault has occurred or not.

Abstract: A data sending system which prevents a parity error occurrence in a data receiving unit is provided. The data sending system provided is related to data sending systems and, particularly, to a data sending system where plurality of data sending units share a path for data transmission. The data sending system provided comprises a network consisting of a data path and control path, a control unit for instructing data sending through said control path, one or plural data sending units for sending, according to an instruction from said control path, data to a specific one of plural logical paths of said data path, and a data receiving unit permanently connected to the one of plural logical paths of said data path. Said control unit has a determining section which determines a time span, during which no sending data exists in a logical path connected to said data receiving unit, and also instructs a specific unit of said data sending units to send dummy data during the time span.