Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090002285 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes an image display unit having a light source and a light modulating unit; a histogram generating unit; a function generating unit; a first brightness calculating unit; a second brightness calculating unit; a first difference calculating unit; a first multiplying unit; a first summation calculating unit; a first brightness gradient calculating unit; a second brightness gradient calculating unit; a second difference calculating unit; a second multiplying unit; a second summation calculating unit; a weighted linear sum calculating unit; a determination unit; a control parameter selecting unit; and a control unit. | 01-01-2009 |
20090079836 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes a correction-amount calculating unit that calculates a motion-blur correction amount, which takes a larger value as the reproduction speed becomes lower, based on an input reproduction speed; a motion-blur correcting unit that performs scale transformation on a motion vector based on the motion-blur correction amount, acquires low frequency components of a source image and a destination image using an anisotropic Gaussian filter determined by a direction and a size of the motion vector subjected to the scale transformation, and performs edge enhancement on the source image and the destination image based on the low frequency components and high frequency components of the source image and the destination image; and an interpolation-image creating unit that creates the interpolation image using the source image for which the motion blur is corrected, the destination image for which the motion blur is corrected, and the motion vector. | 03-26-2009 |
20090109155 | Image processing apparatus for processing moving image to be displayed on liquid crystal display device, image processing method and computer program product - An image processing method for a liquid crystal display device includes: calculating first difference gradation, which is a difference between predicted attainment gradation and input gradation, the predicted attainment gradation being a predicted value of gradation which respective pixels of the liquid crystal display attain after one frame period after the respective pixels are driven to display a first frame, and the predicted attainment gradation being stored in a storage unit which stores the predicted attainment gradation, and the input gradation being gradation of a second frame which is displayed after the first frame; multiplying the first difference gradation by an enhancement coefficient; calculating enhanced gradation which is a sum of the first difference gradation multiplied by the enhancement, coefficient and the predicted attainment gradation; calculating second difference gradation which is a difference between the enhanced gradation and the predicted attainment gradation; multiplying the second difference gradation by a correction coefficient; and updating the value of the predicted attainment gradation stored in the storage unit based on a sum of the second difference gradation multiplied by the correction coefficient and the predicted attainment gradation. | 04-30-2009 |
20100061651 | METHOD OF RESTORING DEGRADED IMAGE, APPARATUS FOR RESTORING DEGRADED IMAGE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A degraded-image restoration method includes inputting a degraded image degraded by a predetermined degradation process; reading from a storage unit a filter coefficient in a filtering process of restoring the degraded image, in which an iteration formula for minimizing a square error between the degraded image and an image obtained by degrading a restored image by the degradation process is expanded corresponding to a predetermined number of iterations; and performing the filtering process using the filter coefficient with respect to the degraded image to obtain a restored image of the degraded image. Accordingly, a throughput in an apparatus that restores the degraded image can be reduced, thereby obtaining a preferable restored image. | 03-11-2010 |
20100079630 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes a blur reproducing unit that generates blur-reproduced image data by reproducing a predetermined blur of a lens, with respect to blur-corrected image data of which an initial data is input image data inputted from an image sensor; a blur correcting unit that corrects the blur-corrected image data so that an error between the blur-reproduced image data and the input image data becomes smaller; and a curved-surface fitting unit that obtains curve surface parameters of each functions approximating distribution of pixel values of each of color components of the blur-corrected image data so that curved-surface shapes of the functions become the same among the color components, and updates the pixel values of the blur-corrected image data by using the curve surface parameters. | 04-01-2010 |
20100103853 | Wireless Communication Apparatus - A wireless communication apparatus ( | 04-29-2010 |
20120113094 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus creates a depth map representing distribution of depths of pixels in an image. The apparatus includes an area detecting unit configured to detect an area of a vertical object included in an image; a base depth adding unit configured to add a base depth to the image, the base depth being a basic distribution of depths of pixels in the image; and, a depth map creating unit configured to acquire at least one depth of a vicinity of a ground contact position of the vertical object from the base depth added to the image, and create the depth map by setting the acquired depth onto the base depth as a depth of the area of the vertical object. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113117 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect at least one object included in an image; a selecting unit configured to select a depth model to be a base of information about depth of the object in accordance with a property of the object; a segment unit configured to segment an area of the object detected from the image; and a depth map creating unit configured to create a depth map representing a depth of the image. The depth map creating unit arranges the depth model at a position on the depth map corresponding to a position of the segmented area of the object in the image, compares an area of the depth model and the area of the object, and gives a corrected depth value to a position not superimposed on other. | 05-10-2012 |
20120162200 | MAP CONVERTING METHOD, MAP CONVERTING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MAP CONVERSION - According to an embodiment, a map converting method includes calculating existing frequency of depths in a first map, the first map corresponding to at least an image area of an image and each pixel of the first map representing a depth corresponding to a pixel of the image area; and first converting the first map into a second map that represents a depth in a first range for each pixel by using the existing frequency. | 06-28-2012 |
20120224389 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a backlight device includes a light source, a light guide plate, a light beam controller, and a directivity control element. The light guide plate is formed with plural diffusion portions that diffuse light from the light source. The light beam controller is configured to emit plural linear light beams. The directivity control element has plural optical openings. The optical openings extend in a second direction and are arranged in a first direction perpendicular to the second direction. The light beam controller emits the linear light beams that extend in a third direction tilted with respect to the second direction. The light guide plate has a first region in which the diffusion portions are formed in the third direction and a second region in which no diffusion portions are formed, the first region and the second region being arranged alternately in the first direction. | 09-06-2012 |
20120268455 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a displaying device, a receiver, a calculator, and a controller. The displaying device can display a stereoscopic image. The receiver receives a start signal used for starting setting a viewing zone in which the stereoscopic image can be viewed by a viewer. The calculator calculates, on the basis of position information of the viewer, viewing zone information representing a position of the viewing zone when the start signal is received. The controller controls the displaying device so as to set the viewing zone corresponding to the viewing zone information. | 10-25-2012 |
20120274749 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a stereoscopic video display device displays images for a plurality of view point directions on a displaying device while switching between the images at predetermined time intervals. The stereoscopic video display device includes a calculator configured to calculate a crosstalk amount of a first image for one view point direction, which is an image to be corrected, by using a pixel value of the first image, a pixel value of a second image for a view point direction different from that of the first image, the second image being an image to be displayed at a time before the first image, and characteristics data including response characteristics of the displaying device; and a corrector configured to correct the first image by using the crosstalk amount. | 11-01-2012 |
20140049540 | Image Processing Device, Method, Computer Program Product, and Stereoscopic Image Display Device - According to one embodiment, an image processing device includes an observing unit and a generating unit. The observing unit obtains an observation image by observing a viewer which views a display unit. The generating unit generates a presentation image in which visible area is superimposed on the observation image. The visible area is an area within which the viewer is able to view the stereoscopic image. A display form of the visible area changes based on a position of the viewer in a perpendicular direction to the display unit. | 02-20-2014 |
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20140333140 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS, AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - Provided is a plurality of power supply apparatuses connected in parallel with a grid that are capable of obtaining the same measured values of the same voltage. | 11-13-2014 |