Abstract: An application server that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, web interface for receiving a client request from a web server operating within an interactive TV network and application logic operatively coupled to the web interface for executing source code and generating HTML code according to the client request where the application logic is operatively coupled to a database that serves as a repository for executable source code, images and user information indexed according to the client request where the application logic receives the executed source code from the database and supplies the HTML code to the web server by way of the web interface and where the web server submits to a client device that generated the client request the HTML code for rendering a presentation at the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for delivery of data to an end user, wherein the method comprises the steps of hosting at a first location a first receiver, specific to the first location, receiving data on said first receiver, forwarding data from the first receiver to a processor, for processing the data, forwarding the processed data to a Content Delivery Network (CDN), with at least one node connected to the Internet, receiving on the at least one node of the CDN a request from the end user to have access to data specific to the first location, verifying the identity of the end user and, where the verification is positive and forwarding processed data from the at least one node of the CDN to the end user via the CDN and Internet.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for presenting terrain along a route on an aircraft display. A display is presented of a top view, a side view, and a transverse vertical profile view of terrain data along the route on the aircraft display. A plurality of graphical indicators of distance along the route is overlaid such that a graphical indicator in the plurality of graphical indicators in the top view corresponds to a same distance to a second graphical indicator in the side view and a third graphical indicator in the transverse vertical profile view.

Abstract: A surveillance system includes a video capturing device and a power controller. The video capturing device includes an auto focusing module, an auto exposure module, and an auto white balance module. The video capturing device captures a number of images in a first time interval and also captures a number of images in a second time interval next to the first time interval. The power controller includes an object detecting module and a switching module. The object detecting module detects whether there is a moving object in the images captured in the first time interval. The switching module switches off the auto focusing module, the auto exposure module, and the auto white balance module in the second time interval when the objecting detecting module detects that there is no moving object.

Abstract: A method and system of intrusion detection, which includes displaying sensing device output data as an image of a field of view of a sensing device. Through interaction with a GUI: a user input defines an image detection area in relation to the image of the field of view, the image detection area being correlated to a detection area to be monitored for intrusion detection. A user input defining a detection vector in the image detection area is received, specifying a predetermined minimum displacement and displacement direction in the field of view. A graphical representation of the vector may be displayed on the image detection area. A target object is detected and tracked through the detection area and it is determined whether the progressive displacement of the target object has a component exceeding the minimum displacement in the direction of the vector.

Abstract: A method and system for analyzing video data in a security system. An analysis compares a current frame to a background model. The analysis system compares the background model to the current frame to identify changed pixel patches. The analysis system uses morphological image processing to generate masks based on the changed pixel patches. Next, the analysis system applies the masks to the background model and the current frames to determine whether the changed pixel patches are characteristic of abandoned or removed objects within the video data.

Abstract: A camera thrown or projected into an airborne trajectory, and an image capture system with network devices collaborating for the purpose of generating panoramic images and video sourced from network cameras thrown or projected in independent trajectories, and cameras capable of capturing stable image and video from spinning, spiraling and precessing apertures, and a throwable cameras streamlined in response to aerodynamic forces acting on respective housings.

Abstract: Doorbell systems can be configured to detect and/or regulate temperature within a doorbell. Doorbell systems can comprise a temperature sensor coupled to the doorbell and a heating element coupled to the doorbell. Methods can include determining, by the doorbell, a first temperature of an inside portion of the doorbell. As well, methods can include heating, by the heating element, the inside portion of the doorbell in response to the first temperature being less than a first predetermined temperature. In some embodiments, doorbells detect humidity and then communicate the humidity to a remote device.

Abstract: The present invention utilizes color mixings with angle dependencies from adjacent R pixels, and in the case where a subject color is red, uses first and second B pixels as phase-difference pixels, allowing for an accurate phase-difference AF based on the output signals of the first and second B pixels. Here, it is unnecessary to provide phase-difference pixels dedicated to the case where the subject color is red, and the phase difference is detected using ordinary B pixels of an imaging element. Therefore, the resolution is not sacrificed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating a calibrated projection, wherein the method for example includes providing a projection surface (1) for the projection of at least one image (2), wherein the projection surface (1) includes a calibrating structure (5) following its spatial extension, which has a first side (51) and a second side (52), which extends parallel to the first side (51), and a constant height as measured in direction of the first or the second side (51, 52), generating an image (5?) of the calibrating structure (5) in an image plane by means of a camera (4), reconstructing the spatial extension of the projection surface (1) in the region of the calibrating structure (5), and generating a projection calibrated with respect to the calibrating structure by using the spatial extension of the projection surface reconstructed according to the providing projection surface step.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image acquisition section that acquires captured image data captured using an image sensor including color filters corresponding to bands, and corresponding to a plurality of frames; an alignment processing section that performs an alignment process on the captured image data to generate integrated captured image data; a reference band selection section that selects a reference band from the bands using an output image in a preceding frame; a reference image generation section that performs an interpolation process on image data included in the integrated captured image data and corresponding to the color filter corresponding to the reference band; and an interpolated image generation section that performs an interpolation process on image data included in the integrated captured image data and corresponding to the color filter corresponding to a band differing from the reference band based on a reference image to generate an interpolated image.

Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed for facilitating selective rendering during video editing. In accordance with one embodiment, a method of editing video comprises obtaining a video editing project, the video editing project including at least one video clip and timing information corresponding to the at least one video clip. The method further comprises obtaining a reference file generated according to the video editing project and obtaining, from a user, a modification for at least one segment in the video editing project. Based on the modification, each of the at least one segment is identified as a modified segment or an unmodified segment. Based on the identification of at least one modified segment, at least one corresponding segment is extracted from the reference file.

Abstract: A method of providing uninterrupted playback of content being rendered by a media rendering device (102a) in a home network (100) is disclosed. The method comprises retaining (202) the media rendering device (102a) within the home network and checking whether the media rendering device is rendering content and if so checking (204) whether the media rendering device wants to continue its current ongoing rendering of content uninterruptedly and if so configuring (206) the media rendering device to notify the plurality of controller devices not to subscribe and invoke rendering service request thereby suspending the processing of rendering service request. The rendering devices could be connected televisions, streamium devices, connected photo frames, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and personal computers/laptops within the home network. The disclosed method could help the media rendering device and controller devices to save on power and network traffic.

Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to method and media devices for synchronizing media playback between a receiving media device and sending media device, including: receiving, at the receiving media device, a plurality of messages from the sending media device, wherein the plurality of messages include a plurality of sender timestamps; generating a plurality of clock offset values based on the plurality of sender timestamps and a clock of the receiving media device; identifying a minimum clock offset value from the plurality of clock offset values; locating first media data for playback and a first presentation time associated with the first media data; and causing the first media data to be rendered at a first time that matches the first presentation time based on the minimum clock offset.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a decoding device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire first format information, encoded data, and first filter information, the first format information indicating a resolution of a color-difference component of the encoded data; a decoding unit configured to decode the encoded data to obtain a decoded image; and a converting unit configured to convert a color-difference format of the decoded image represented by a first color-difference format by using a filter identified by the filter information.

Abstract: An imaging system and method are disclosed. In one aspect, the system includes an edge-detecting module detecting edge coordinates in a first image; first and second disparity-estimating modules respectively configured to obtain a first and second estimated disparity map, a cross-checking module configured to cross check the first estimated disparity map using the second estimated disparity map to identify occlusion pixels in the first estimated disparity map, an occlusion-refining module configured to refine the occlusion pixels by identifying at least a pixel under refinement on the first estimated disparity map as occluded based on the number of occlusion pixels in a refining base region, and a hole-filling module configured to fill the refined set of occlusion pixels. The imaging system improves the quality of a disparity map and controls the complexity of stereo-matching.

Abstract: A device includes a coder or a codec configured for interleaved image data utilizing diamond shaped blocks for motion estimation and/or motion compensation and utilizing square or orthogonal transforms of residual data. In various embodiments, the decoder may be configured, among others, to perform de-blocking on edges of the diamond shaped blocks and/or data padding at boundaries of the image data. Additionally a method is proposed in which at least one of a transform and quantization process to be applied to de-multiplexed data is modified. One application is to combine left and right stereoscopic images, interleaved in a checkerboard manner.

Abstract: A method for transmitting a multi-view program composed of a plurality of video streams in a digital broadcasting system includes generating information representing that the program is a multi-view program, information on a composition of the multi-view program and information on the plurality of physical channels through which the multi-view program is transmitted; and transmitting the multi-view program and the generated information through the plurality of physical channels.

Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing data of an object are provided. In an example system, a suspension component for suspending an object so that the object is stationary in space is provided. A plurality of image capture devices are configured to capture a plurality of images of the object simultaneously while the object is suspended. The plurality of image capture devices are each positioned at a different location so as to capture a plurality of different views of the object. The system is also configured to generate a three-dimensional (3D) view of the object based on the plurality of images and the plurality of different views.

Abstract: A method for forming a stereoscopic video of a scene from first and second input digital videos captured using respective first and second digital video cameras, wherein the first and second input digital videos include overlapping scene content and overlapping time durations. The method includes determining camera positions for each frame of the first and second input digital videos, and determining first-eye and second-eye viewpoints for each frame of the stereoscopic video. First-eye and second-eye images are formed for each frame of the stereoscopic video responsive to the corresponding video frames in the first and second input digital videos and the associated camera positions.

Abstract: A closed-loop control system for stereoscopic video capture is provided. At least two motorized lenses are positioned in accordance with specified parameters to capture spatially-disparate images of a scene. The motorized lenses focus light on a corresponding one of the at least two sensors, which generate image streams. One or more processors execute instructions to provide a stream analyzer and a control module. The stream analyzer receives the image streams from the sensors and analyzes the image streams and the specified parameters in real time; the stream analyzer then modifies the image streams and generates metadata. The control module then receives and analyzes the image streams and metadata and transmits updated parameters to a control mechanism that is coupled to the at least two motorized lenses. The control mechanism then modifies operation of the at least two motorized lenses in real time in accordance with the updated parameters.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for reconstructing a high-density three-dimensional (3D) image are provided. The method includes: generating an initial 3D image by matching a first image captured using a first camera and a second image captured using a second camera; searching for a first area and a second area from the initial 3D image by using a number of characteristic points included in the initial 3D image; detecting a plane from a divided first area; filtering a divided second area; and synthesizing the detected plane and the filtered second area.

Abstract: A depth information measuring method and apparatus for a three-dimensional (3D) camera may output, to an object, an optical pulse of which an intensity is higher than an intensity of an ambient light. The depth information measuring method and apparatus may generate a voltage that is proportional to a log value of an intensity of a light reflected from the object. The depth information measuring method and apparatus may use discharging units, and the discharging units may respectively include dischargers having different discharging speeds or capacitors having different capacities.

Abstract: A method for controlling subtitles applied to a display apparatus is provided. The method is capable of dynamically adjusting a subtitle of an original image. The original image includes a right-eye frame and a left-eye frame. The right-eye frame includes right-eye subtitle information, and the left-eye frame includes left-eye subtitle information. The method includes the steps of: determining an adjusted subtitle display mode; determining a shift distance of the right-eye subtitle information and the left-eye subtitle information; and adjusting the shift distance according to the adjusted subtitle display mode or a given 3D depth, such that an adjusted subtitle presented by the right-eye frame and the left-eye frame shows an adjusted subtitle 3D depth. The adjusted subtitle display mode includes a static display mode and a dynamic 3D display mode.

Abstract: In an image display apparatus, the sub-pixel areas which are correspondingly assigned to the optical apertures are defined according to an observation position of a viewer, and the sub-pixel areas includes sub-pixel segments into which the sub-pixel positioned at a boundary between adjacent sub-pixel areas is separated. The sub-pixel segments correspond to the adjacent sub-pixel areas and are observed via adjacent optical openings. The sub-pixel display information obtained by mixing parallax information belonging to the adjacent sub-pixel areas is displayed in the sub-pixel including the adjacent sub-pixel segment.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display panel, a processor, a timing control circuit, and a switch cell layer. The switch cell layer includes a liquid crystal layer, a first driving circuit, and a second driving circuit. The switch cell layer is installed on the display panel. When the display panel displays at least one two-dimensional region and at least one three-dimensional region according to an image signal, the processor determines positions of the at least one two-dimensional region and the at least one three-dimensional region on the display panel according to the image signal. The timing control circuit is for generating an address signal according to the positions. The first driving circuit and the second driving circuit drive first enable lines coupled to the first driving circuit in groups and second enable lines coupled to the second driving circuit in groups respectively according to the address signal.

Abstract: A new beam deflection approach is provided for displaying images in autostereoscopic format. Conceptually, polarized light from a display is directed into specific viewing regions using a polarization-sensitive beam deflection sub-system that comprises, in exemplary embodiments, an active liquid crystal quarter-wave plate modulator and a passive cycloidal grating element, such as a diffractive waveplate. Specific embodiments may comprise an illumination system that both floods an LCD panel and creates a defined eye pupil region, from within which the display is viewable. Deflecting the pupil region between left and right eye positions in synchronization with displayed frame sequential stereo image data creates desirable autostereoscopic 3D viewing. Other embodiments employ a similar beam deflection sub-system in conjunction with a means of viewing subsets of pixels from different viewing positions, such as a parallax barrier or lenslet array, allowing freedom of head movement while maintaining stereo viewing.

Abstract: One or more display elements of an apparatus provide light representative of distant objects and near objects and at least one optical element of the apparatus is responsive to the light representative of the near objects, for providing video images of the near objects at one or more near focal lengths, and is responsive to the light representative of distant objects, for providing video images of the distant objects at one or more far focal length and positioned for viewing at an elevation above the video images of the near objects.

Abstract: A framework for quantifying a total quality of experience for subscribers in a communications network is disclosed. A weighted average score representing a quality of experience for at least one application is provided. A set of scores associated with network parameters is provided. A weighted sum using the set of scores and the weighted average score is calculated. A total quality of experience score based on the weighted sum is generated.

Abstract: A method of camera pose estimation is provided that includes capturing a model image of a scene at a canonical camera pose, generating an image library from warped images of the model image and the model image, wherein each warped image is a transformation of the model image at a different pre-determined camera pose, capturing an image of the scene as a user moves the camera, reporting the current camera pose as a camera pose of the image when the image is acceptable, conditionally adding the first image to the image library when the first image is acceptable, and re-initializing the current camera pose to a camera pose selected from the image library when the first image is not acceptable.

Abstract: An image decoding method of decoding, on a per-block basis, a coded image included in a bitstream, includes: performing arithmetic decoding on a current block to be decoded; determining whether or not the current block is at the end of a slice; determining, when it is determined that the current block is not at the end of the slice, whether or not the current block is at the end of a sub-stream which is a structural unit of the image that is different from the slice; and performing arithmetic decoding on a sub-last bit and performing arithmetic decoding termination, when it is determined that the current block is at the end of the sub-stream.

Abstract: A method includes determining a group to which each of a plurality of blocks belongs, the plurality of blocks being obtained by dividing each picture included in video image data; adding, to an output stream, group information expressing the group to which each of the plurality of blocks belongs; calculating an output time for each of the groups; determining output delay for each of the groups; adding, to the output stream, an output delay time from a decode time of each of the groups; controlling an encode amount so that data used for outputting all of the blocks included in one of the groups arrives at a decoding buffer of a decoding device and decoding is completed by an output time expressed by the output delay time; and performing encoding based on the encode amount that has been controlled.

Abstract: Blocks in pixel images are template matched to select candidate blocks and weights according to a structural similarity and a perceptual distortion of the blocks. The perceptual distortion is a function of a just-noticeable-distortion (JND). A filter outputs a prediction residual between the block and the candidate blocks. The prediction residual is transformed and quantized to produce a quantized prediction residual using the JND. The matching and quantizing is optimized jointly using the perceptual distortion. Then, the quantized prediction residual and the weights are entropy encoded into a bit-stream for later decoding.

Abstract: In one example, a device includes a video coder configured to determine a context for entropy coding a bin of a value indicative of a last significant coefficient of a block of video data using a function of an index of the bin, and code the bin using the determined context. The video coder may encode or decode the bin using context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC). The function may also depend on a size of the block. In this manner, a table indicating context indexes for the contexts need not be stored by the device.

Abstract: Techniques are described for deriving a disparity vector for a current block based on a disparity motion vector of a neighboring block in a 3D-AVC video coding process. The disparity vector derivation allows for texture-first coding where a depth view component of a dependent view is coded subsequent to the coding of the corresponding texture component of the dependent view.

Abstract: Provided is a method that constructs an MPM group including three intra prediction modes, determines the intra prediction mode of the MPM group specified by the prediction mode index as the intra prediction mode of the current prediction unit if the mode group indicator indicates the MPM group, and derives the intra prediction mode of the current prediction unit using the prediction mode index and the three prediction modes of the MPM group if the mode group indicator does not indicate the MPM group. Accordingly, additional bits resulted from increase of a number of intra prediction mode are effectively reduced. Also, an image compression ratio can be improved by generating a prediction block similar to an original block.

Abstract: The field of the invention relates to system and methods for video compression, and more particularly to systems and methods for video compression for low bit rate and low latency video communications. In one embodiment, a video communication system includes a first electronic device enabled to receive and display video data and a second electronic device configured to transmit video data to the first electronic device and be communicatively accessible by the first electronic device. The video data includes a plurality of frames, each frame having a plurality of macroblocks. The second electronic device includes a video encoder having a sub-system configured to progressively refresh the macroblocks of the frames in substantially uniform segments, determine whether there are macroblocks encoded with data from an unrefreshed macroblock in the segment last refreshed, and refresh the macroblocks encoded with data from an unrefreshed macroblock in the segment last refreshed.

Abstract: Provided is a moving picture coding apparatus for increasing a compression ratio of a moving picture signal while maintaining high image quality. To minimize the number of bits required for a residual block, quantized transform coefficients are adaptively divided into a plurality of subsets according to a size of a transform block, and non-zero quantized transform coefficients of each subset are scanned and encoded. Also, an intra prediction mode of the current block is determined using reference pixels obtained by filtering reference pixels of the current block. Accordingly, it is possible to minimize the amount of data required for the residual block of the current block.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sharing information in a video decoding system are disclosed. The method derives reconstructed data for a picture from a bitstream, where the picture is partitioned into multiple slices. An information-sharing flag is parsed from the bitstream associated with a current reconstructed slice. If the information-sharing flag indicates information sharing, shared information is determined from a part of the bitstream not corresponding to the current reconstructed slice, and in-loop filtering process is applied to the current reconstructed slice according to the shared information. If the information-sharing flag indicates filter no information sharing, individual information is determined from a part of the bitstream corresponding to the current reconstructed slice, and in-loop filtering process is applied to the current reconstructed slice according to the individual information. A method for a corresponding encoder is also disclosed.

Abstract: A system and method of operation of an image processing system includes: an imaging device for receiving a source image; a mode module for receiving a random access block of an integral image formed by summing a portion of the source image, and for calculating a chosen mode and a quantization number from the random access block; a quantization module for forming a quantized block by shifting the random access block based on the chosen mode; a predictor module for calculating a predictor block based on the quantized block; and a fixed length coding module for calculating a residual block by subtracting the predictor block from the quantized block, for calculating a fixed length coding residual based on the chosen mode and the residual block, and for forming an image bitstream having the quantization number and the fixed length coding residual.

Abstract: An encoding/decoding apparatus and method for parallel correction of in-loop pixels based on complexity using a video parameter may include a complexity measuring unit to measure a complexity of an in-loop pixel correction process, using video codec parameter information, in a video codec, and a core allocating unit to evenly distribute jobs associated with the in-loop pixel correction process, using the measured complexity.

Abstract: Several methods and systems for encoding pictures associated with video data are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes determining by a processing module, whether a picture is to be encoded based on at least one of a skip assessment associated with the picture and an encoding status of a pre-selected number of pictures preceding the picture in an encoding sequence. The method further includes encoding by the processing module, a plurality of rows of video data associated with the picture upon determining that the picture is to be encoded, wherein the plurality of rows are encoded based on a pre-selected maximum encoded picture size.

Abstract: There are provided a method and apparatus for illumination and color compensation for multi-view video coding. A video encoder includes an encoder for encoding a picture by enabling color compensation of at least one color component in a prediction of the picture based upon a correlation factor relating to color data between the picture and another picture. The picture and the other picture have different view points and both corresponding to multi-view content for a same or similar scene.

Abstract: A motion vector detector detects a motion vector from a first reference image for a coding target block. A multiple reference image composition unit creates a composite reference block that a first reference block extracted from the first reference image using the motion vector has been composited with a predetermined region of at least one of other reference images. Setting the composite reference block as a prediction block, an entropy encoder encodes a prediction difference block that the prediction block has been subtracted from the coding target block.

Abstract: A video encoder may encode video data by adaptively selecting between one-eighth-pixel and one-quarter-pixel precision motion vectors, and signal the selected precision. In one example, an apparatus includes a video encoder to encode a block of video data using a one-eighth-pixel precision motion vector when use of the one-eighth-pixel precision motion vector is determined to be preferable for the block over a one-quarter-pixel precision motion vector, and to generate a signal value indicative of the use of the one-eighth-pixel precision motion vector for the block, and an output interface to output the encoded block and the signal value. A video decoder may be configured to receive the signal value and the encoded block, analyze the signal value to determine whether the block was encoded using one-eighth-pixel precision or one-quarter-pixel precision, and decode the block based on the determination.

Abstract: Techniques are described related to constructing reference picture lists. The reference picture lists may be constructed from reference picture subsets of a reference picture set. In some examples, the reference picture subsets may be ordered in a particular manner to form the reference picture lists.

Abstract: A method of processing a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes receiving prediction mode information of a current block, generating a half pel using an integer pel of a neighbor block, and generating a predictor of the current block using the half pel and the prediction mode information.

Abstract: A reduction in the number of binarizations and/or contexts used in context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) for video coding is proposed. In particular, this disclosure proposes techniques that may lower the number contexts used in CABAC by up to 56.

Abstract: In an example, a method for filtering pixel data in video coding comprises determining a pixel filtering task from a plurality of pixel filtering tasks for filtering the pixel data, wherein each filtering task of the plurality of pixel filtering tasks is based on an instruction set for a programmable instruction set based controller, and executing the determined filtering task on the pixel data.

Abstract: An electronic device and control method thereof are provided. The control method includes: initially connecting the electronic device to a data source device; determining whether the connected data source device is registered with the electronic device; registering the data source device in response to determining that the connected data source device is not registered with the electronic device; storing setting information related to at least one of video and audio corresponding to the registered data source device; again connecting the electronic device to the data source device; receiving at least one of second video and second audio from the data source device; and outputting at least one of the second video and the second audio based on the stored setting information.