Abstract: A system for producing a 3D image of an object, the system includes: a processor adapted to receive multiview stereo photometric data, the multiview photometric stereo data including a first set of image data, wherein the first set of image data includes images captured by the first camera at a plurality of positions with illumination from different illumination directions such that there are a plurality of images from a different illumination direction for each position of the first camera, the processor being adapted to process the multiview photometric stereo data using a photometric stereo approach with a formulation of the irradiance using a reflection model that models both diffuse and specular reflection.

Abstract: Provided are a methods and apparatuses for generating a stereoscopic image format and reconstructing stereoscopic images from the stereoscopic image format. The method of generating a stereoscopic image format for compression or transmission of stereoscopic images includes receiving a base view image and an additional view image, determining block pixel information for the stereoscopic image format for each block position using first block pixel information of the base view image and second block pixel information of the additional view image based on blocks obtained by dividing the base view image and the additional view image, and disposing the determined block pixel information in each block position, thereby generating a combined image including pixel information of the base view image and pixel information of the additional view image.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high resolution microscope for three-dimensionally determining the position of objects, in particular individual fluorophores, and preferably for the high spatial resolution luminescence microscopy of a sample, which is marked with marker molecules that can be activated or switched using a signal such that they can be induced to emit certain luminescent radiation only in the activated state. The object is represented by means of an imaging system, preferably the microscope lens, on a surface detector consisting of individual detector elements.

Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium can be configured to store code to trigger, when a computing device is in a stereoscopic mode, generation of a stereoscopic image based on a first image captured using a first image capture device in a first portion of a computing device and based on a second image captured using a second image capture device in a second portion of the computing device. The code including code to trigger, when in a multi-image mode, concurrent display of at least a portion of a third image captured using the first image capture device in a first region of a display and at least a portion of a fourth image captured using the second image capture device in a second region of the display mutually exclusive from the first region of the display. The code including code to receive an indicator configured to trigger the computing device to change between the stereoscopic mode and the multi-image mode.

Abstract: A system generating a 3D depth profile of an object, including: a moveable video camera to continually capture 2D image data of the object as the camera moves, to capture plural 2D image frames each including plural pixels; a processor configured to: receive the 2D image data; determine position of the camera when each frame is captured; calculate depth of part of an object shown in a pixel in a first frame with respect to a reference, by identifying the part in at least one further frame and calculating the depth using camera positions of the first image and at least one further image; and determine depth profile of the object, for plural parts of the object shown in the pixels. A display displays the depth profile and indicates in real time, as data is gathered, the parts of the object for which the depth profile has been calculated.

Abstract: A method for rendering a 3D video conference including configuring at least two cameras to track a position of a user, transmitting the position of the user to a participant of the 3D video conference, and rendering for display on a 3D display device parallel participant video streams which have been modified in response to the position of the user.

Abstract: A display control device includes a separation unit that separates a multiplex image into a left eye image after decimation and a right eye image after decimation, interpolates a predetermined phase of the left eye image after the decimation with 0, and interpolates a phase reverse to the predetermined phase of the right eye image after the decimation with 0, a display control unit that uses an interpolated left eye image as a left eye display image, uses an interpolated right eye image as a right eye display image, and alternately displays the left eye display image and the right eye display image, and a glasses control unit that controls glasses such that a left eye shutter and a right eye shutter of the glasses are both opened, in a case where an image including the left eye image and the right eye image is a 2D image.

Abstract: There are provided a transmitter, a display, a shutter eyeglass device, a transmission/reception system, a display system and a transmission/reception method allowed to achieve highly reliable communication between a transmission side and a reception side. The transmitter includes: a transmission section holding plural kinds of commands each represented by a plurality of bits and repeatedly transmitting a command set, the command set being configured of one or more kinds of commands which are selected from the plural kinds of commands and combined in predetermined order, in which a bit pattern representing a whole of the command set is the same as a bit pattern held in a receiver.

Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses are described herein for encoding a plurality of video frame sequences, wherein each video frame sequence corresponds to a different perspective view of the same subject matter. In accordance with various embodiments, the encoding is performed in a hierarchical manner that leverages referencing between frames of different ones of the video frame sequences (so-called “external referencing”), but that also allows for encoded representations of only a subset of the video frame sequences to be provided when less than all sequences are required to support a particular viewing mode of a display system that is capable of displaying the subject matter in a two-dimensional mode, a three-dimensional mode, or a multi-view three-dimensional mode.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image synthesis unit generating a synthesized image by inputting images photographed at different positions and connecting strip areas cut from the images. The image synthesis unit generates a left-eye synthesized image applied to display a 3-dimensional image by connecting and synthesizing left-eye image strips set in the images and generates a right-eye synthesized image applied to display a 3-dimensional image by connecting and synthesizing right-eye image strips set in the images. The image synthesis unit performs a process of setting the left-eye image strip and the right-eye image strip in an allowable range of set positions of the left-eye image strip and the right-eye image strip used to generate the left-eye synthesized image and the right-eye synthesized image, which are at different observing points, applicable to display the 3-dimensional images by acquiring the allowable range from a memory or calculating the allowable range.

Abstract: An image input system includes: a display device that displays a three-dimensional image; a plurality of cameras; a controller that controls the display device and the plurality of cameras, wherein the controller causes the display device to display the three-dimensional image that includes a plurality of icons, the controller performs analysis processing on the plurality of images picked up by the plurality of cameras to obtain and output analysis information that contains three-dimensional position information regarding a most protruding part at a side of the user, the plurality of icons includes icons of which positions in a depth direction in the three-dimensional image are not the same, and each icon can be identified from the other icons or can be selected out of the icons of which the positions in the depth direction are not the same.

Abstract: An optical structure observation apparatus which acquires a plurality of pieces of optical structure information of a measured object having a layer structure obtained by scanning a scan surface including a first direction which is a depth direction of the measured object and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, using a low coherence light, while shifting a position along a third direction which is a direction orthogonal to the scan surface, and constructs an optical stereoscopic structure image based on the acquired plurality of pieces of the optical structure information, comprising: a calculation region setting device which sets a plurality of calculation regions in the optical stereoscopic structure image; a region characteristic information calculating device which performs prescribed processing on each calculation region, and calculates region characteristic information of the optical structure information; a characteristic amount extracting device which extracts a characteristic amo

Abstract: A system and method for generating three-dimensional models of physical objects, includes the steps of providing a plurality of two dimensional images of a physical object, wherein the two-dimensional images are captured from a plurality of viewing angles of the physical object; associating each of the two-dimensional images with a viewing zone, wherein: the viewing zone includes a range of viewing angles of the physical object; and at least one of the viewing zones having a minimum of three shared boundaries; and processing the associated two-dimensional images for each of the viewing zones to generate a three-dimensional local model of the physical object for each of the viewing zones. In another implementation, views are rendered from a visualized model.

Abstract: A video navigation system and method can be utilized to efficiently and adjustably navigate video content. In one embodiment, a video information control method facilitates efficient video navigation. A video stream is received and video access point selection between multiple access points in said video stream is controlled. The presentation information is forwarded for each of the multiple access points. In one exemplary implementation, the presentation information is forwarded to a display and the information is directed to presenting a main viewing area and navigation areas that present looping video clips or portions of the video stream at time intervals ahead of and behind the video portion being presented in the main viewing area.

Abstract: An imaging system for imaging a moving three dimensional object, the system comprising: at least three light sources, irradiating the object from three different angles, a video camera provided to collect radiation from said three light sources which has been reflected from said object; and an image processor, wherein each light source emits radiation of a different frequency and said image processor is configured to distinguish between the reflected signal from the three different light sources.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for generating and outputting stereoscopic images. A user can select either a barrier mode and an interlaced mode. In the barrier mode, images are generated in the barrier scheme, whereas in the interlaced mode, images are generated in the interlaced scheme. In a case where the user selects the interlaced mode, when the images are detected with the left and right camera sensors, the images are rotated by ?90 degrees and are then detected. Subsequently, stereoscopic images are generated from rotated images according to the barrier scheme, and generated images are stored along with information on a currently set image generation mode. Next, when the user desires to output the stored stereoscopic images through an interlaced output device for providing stereoscopic images in the interlaced scheme, the stored stereoscopic images are rotated by 90 degrees, and the rotated stereoscopic images are provided to the interlaced output device.