Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080310705 | LEGGED LOCOMOTION ROBOT - A robot capable of performing appropriate movement control while reducing arithmetic processing for recognizing the shape of a floor. The robot sets a predetermined landing position of steps of the legs on a present assumed floor, which is a floor represented by floor shape information used for a current motion control of the robot, during movement of the robot. An image projection areas is set, and is projected on each image captured by cameras mounted on the robot for each predetermined landing position in the vicinity of each of the predetermined landing positions. Shape parameters representing the shape of an actual floor partial area are estimated, forming an actual floor whose image is captured in each partial image area, of based on the image of the partial image area generated by projecting the set image projection area on the images captured by the cameras for each partial image area. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310706 | PROJECTIVE TRANSFORMATION CONVERGENCE CALCULATION METHOD - A method for performing a convergence calculation using a projective transformation between images captured by two cameras to observe a flat part of an object in the images, wherein a computational load is reduced while securing a convergence property of the convergence calculation. Initial values (n | 12-18-2008 |
20090027531 | PIXEL MIXTURE METHOD - The present invention provides a pixel mixture method for mixing multiple pixels in a high-pixel solid-state image sensing device capable of obtaining a high-definition image while reducing the number of the readout pixels in an imaging device having the high-pixel solid-state image sensing device with a color filter array (CFA). | 01-29-2009 |
20090080805 | Fast Method of Super-Resolution Processing - A method is provided for speeding up a super-resolution processing by reducing the number of times for convolution operation that is the number of times for estimation calculation. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080806 | FAST METHOD OF SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSING - The present invention provides a fast method of super-resolution processing which realizes speedup of the high-speed super-resolution processing by speeding up the calculations of an evaluation function and the differential of the evaluation function with respect to a high-resolution image in a reconstruction-based super-resolution processing. | 03-26-2009 |
20090167844 | Mobile peripheral monitor - A standard camera ( | 07-02-2009 |
20090167885 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processor includes a frequency transformation unit configured to perform frequency transformation processing with respect to a multiple image, and an inter-superimposed-image displacement acquisition unit that calculates a displacement amount between images forming superimposed images included in the multiple image by using a frequency-transformed image subjected to the frequency transformation processing by the frequency transformation unit. | 07-02-2009 |
20090169052 | Object Detector - An object position area ( | 07-02-2009 |
20090174793 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM OF IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processor includes an inter-superimposed-image deformation acquisition unit configured to acquire deformation information between superimposed images included in a multiple image in which images of a subject are superimposed, an image deformation unit configured to generate at least two deformed images by performing deformation processing with respect to the multiple image at least twice to be geometrically deformed based on the acquired deformation information between superimposed images, and a signal intensity relationship acquisition unit configured to acquire signal intensity relationship information indicative of a relationship between signal intensities of the superimposed images included in the multiple image. The image processor further includes a signal processing unit configured to perform addition processing of the at least two deformed images generated from the deformation processing by using the acquired signal intensity relationship information. | 07-09-2009 |
20090207288 | SIGNAL READOUT METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides a signal readout method of solid-state imaging device which can simultaneously readouts the signals having different properties that can generate multiple images obtained by capturing the same subject under different capturing conditions from one solid-state imaging device. | 08-20-2009 |
20090238487 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an image acquisition section acquiring a multiple overlapping image in which a subject image is multiplexed, a filtering section filtering the multiple overlapping image acquired by the image acquisition section, a similarity calculation section calculating similarity between overlapping images contained in the multiple overlapping image filtered by the filtering section, and an overlapping image displacement calculation section using the similarity obtained by the similarity calculation section to calculate overlapping image displacement in the multiple overlapping image. | 09-24-2009 |
20090245692 | IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD - The present invention provides a region-selection-based image registration method for estimating motions between an image of interest in an image sequence and a reference image in the image sequence which can be applied to the registration of the object having every geometry and by which the high-precision image registration with robustness to illumination variation and occlusion can be conducted. | 10-01-2009 |
20100002949 | HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - The present invention provides a high-resolution image generation method which is capable of generating a high-resolution image from multiple low-resolution images having displacements without using an iterative computation. | 01-07-2010 |
20100040304 | IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROCESSING COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention provides an image quality improvement processing apparatus that removes occlusion regions and regions that the registration error is large, selects pixels suitable for the image quality improvement processing, and generates an image with high image quality. | 02-18-2010 |
20100054579 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE GENERATION METHOD - The present invention provides a three-dimensional surface generation method that directly and efficiently generates a three-dimensional surface of the object surface from multiple images capturing a target object. | 03-04-2010 |
20100103175 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A HIGH-RESOLUTION VIRTUAL-FOCAL-PLANE IMAGE - The present invention provides a method for generating a high-resolution virtual-focal-plane image which is capable of generating a virtual-focal-plane image with an arbitrary desired resolution simply and rapidly by using multi-view images. | 04-29-2010 |
20100183074 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method includes: a frame selection step for selecting a base frame and a reference frame; an image displacement amount calculation step for calculating an image displacement amount between the reference frame and the base frame; a weighting coefficient generation step for generating a weighting coefficient using at least one of an encoding type of the reference frame and the motion information of the encoded moving image data; and an image quality improvement step for improving an image quality of the base frame using the image displacement amount calculated in the image displacement amount calculation step and the weighting coefficient generated in the weighting coefficient generation step. | 07-22-2010 |
20100183075 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing method includes: a frame selection step; a motion vector calculation step for calculating a motion vector value from one frame image to another frame image by tracking each pixel of one or a plurality of frame images; and a motion vector correction step for calculating an imaginary motion vector when a motion vector that can be tracked to a tracking destination pixel corresponding to a pixel tracked up to a midway point does not exist due to an encoding type of a block including the pixel tracked up to the midway point. | 07-22-2010 |
20100239184 | PARAMETER CONTROL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that is capable of effectively generating a high-resolution image with high image quality from multiple low-resolution images having displacements by an iterative reconstruction processing based on a reconstruction-based super-resolution processing method. | 09-23-2010 |
20100253796 | Imaging Device And High-Resolution Processing Method Of Image - The invention provides imaging device and high-resolution processing method of image which precisely generate high-resolution image by using image data with a little number of the pixels. | 10-07-2010 |
20110170784 | IMAGE REGISTRATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, REGION EXPANSION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS - [Problem]An object of the present invention is to provide an image registration processing apparatus that is capable of performing a robust and high-accuracy registration processing with respect to an entire image between images including multiple motions. | 07-14-2011 |
20110175998 | MOTION CALCULATION DEVICE AND MOTION CALCULATION METHOD - A motion calculation device includes an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a range including a plane and outputs the captured image, an extraction unit configured to extract a region of the plane from the image, a detection unit configured to detect feature points and motion vectors of the feature points from a plurality of images captured by the image-capturing unit at a predetermined time interval; and a calculation unit configured to calculate the motion of the host device based on both of an epipolar constraint relating to the feature points and a homography relating to the region. | 07-21-2011 |
20130141546 | ENVIRONMENT RECOGNITION APPARATUS - An apparatus capable of improving the estimation accuracy of information on a subject including a distance up to the subject is provided. According to an environment recognition apparatus | 06-06-2013 |
20140054448 | COLOR FILTER ARRAY AND IMAGE SENSOR - The color filter array | 02-27-2014 |
20140118586 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus has a color filter array, an image sensor, and a differential information acquisition unit. In the color filter array, including five or more types of color filters are arranged in a two dimensional form. The image sensor has a plurality of pixels covered by the color filters, and the plurality of pixels generate pixel signals. The acquisition unit designates one of the pixels covered by the color filters of interest as a pixel of interest one pixel at a time in order. The acquisition unit calculates first differential information based on pixel signals generated by two of the pixels arranged on both sides of the pixel of interest along the first direction. The acquisition unit calculates second differential information based on pixel signals generated by two of the pixels arranged on both sides of the pixel of interest along the second direction. | 05-01-2014 |