Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080294649 | CONTENTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE IN CONTENTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND LINK INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A disclosed contents management system includes a management server for managing contents and an information processing device for performing a process on the contents, which are connected to a network. The management server includes a supplying unit for supplying the contents to the information processing device in response to a request from the information processing device. The information processing device includes an acquiring unit for acquiring reproduction starting point information of the contents, a generating unit for generating, based on the reproduction starting point information acquired by the acquiring unit, link information for accessing the contents, and a storing unit for temporarily storing, in a region of a memory, the link information generated by the generating unit in association with information indicating content of the contents, when a pasting unit pastes the link information onto document data being edited. The contents are accessed based on the link information pasted onto the document data. | 11-27-2008 |
20090185054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE INDICATING A POSITIONAL RELATION BETWEEN PARTIALLY OVERLAPPING IMAGES - A device includes a display monitor configured to display on a screen of the display monitor at least one of a current image and a preceding image taken by an optical unit, a storage unit configured to store the preceding image, and a control unit configured to display a part of the preceding image on the screen when the current image is displayed on the screen, the displayed part of the preceding image indicating a positional relationship between the current image and the preceding image. The current image is taken when the displayed part of the preceding image substantially overlaps a corresponding portion of the current image such that the current image and the preceding image can be processed to form a panoramic image. | 07-23-2009 |
20100208060 | LIQUID DROPLET RECOGNITION APPARATUS, RAINDROP RECOGNITION APPARATUS, AND ON-VEHICLE MONITORING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a liquid droplet recognition apparatus for detecting liquid droplets attached to a front surface of a transparent member. The apparatus includes an image pickup apparatus that picks up a vertically polarized light image and a horizontally polarized light image at the front surface of the transparent member from a side of a rear surface of the transparent member; and a signal processing unit that determines whether the liquid droplets are attached to the front surface of the transparent member based on a polarized-light image ratio composed of the vertically polarized light image and the horizontally polarized light image picked up by the image pickup apparatus. | 08-19-2010 |
20110001814 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An image taking unit including a lens array, a light shielding member, and an image taking unit that acquires a compound eye image of a vein pattern of a living body held at a lens array. A shift estimation unit estimates an image shift amount between ommatidium images of the compound eye image. An image restructuring unit restructures a single image from the compound eye image by using the image shift amount. In at least one embodiment, a size correction unit corrects the size of the restructured single image with a magnification ratio determined by the estimated image shift amount and an image shift amount stored in a registration pattern storage unit so as to correspond to a registration pattern. As a result, it is possible to perform personal authentication while compensating influences due to fluctuations in a subject distance. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002040 | IMAGING APPARATUS WITH LIGHT TRANSMISSIVE FILTER - An imaging apparatus includes a light receiving device array having light receiving devices two-dimensionally arranged in both a row direction and a column direction, and a light transmissive filter disposed in front of the light receiving device array, wherein the light transmissive filter includes plural types of band-shape light transmissive sections having respective, different light transmissive characteristics, and the plural types of band-shape light transmissive sections are arranged in sequence in a width direction thereof. | 01-06-2011 |
20110096185 | IMAGING APPARATUS WITH LIGHT TRANSMISSIVE FILTER - An imaging apparatus includes a light receiving device array having light receiving devices, a light transmissive filter including plural types of band-shape light transmissive sections arranged in sequence to form a light transmissive section pattern, and an arithmetic processing unit, wherein the arithmetic processing unit includes a first parameter generating unit configured to generate a first parameter indicative of a displacement of the light transmissive section pattern relative to the light receiving device array in response to a position of one of the light receiving devices, a second parameter generating unit configured to generate second parameters in response to the first parameter generated by the first parameter generating unit, and an image generating unit configured to produce output images in response to image signals output from the light receiving devices and the second parameters generated by the second parameter generating unit. | 04-28-2011 |
20110134282 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes a lens array including multiple lenses facing a subject; an image sensor obtaining a compound-eye image including single-eye images of the subject formed by the lenses; and a computing unit processing the compound-eye image obtained by the image sensor. The lenses have different radii of curvature and substantially the same back focal length, and the computing unit extracts an in-focus image from the compound-eye image. | 06-09-2011 |
20110216215 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND RANGE DETERMINATION SYSTEM - An image pickup apparatus comprises a lens array with a plurality of lenses, a part of which lenses makes one or more stereo lens pairs; an image pickup device for taking a multifaceted compound-eye image consisting of a set of monocular images formed by the plural lenses; and a computing unit for computing range imagery from one or more pairs of the monocular images formed by said one or more stereo lens pairs. The computing unit includes imaging position determination means for determining from the monocular images an image pickup position of each of one or more subjects whose relative positional relationships with respect to the image pickup apparatus are known by dividing the multifaceted compound-eye image into the monocular images, and image distortion parameter determination means for determining an image distortion parameter based upon a determination result of the imaging position determination means. | 09-08-2011 |
20120212605 | DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD - A defect inspection apparatus includes an imaging apparatus configured to include a lens array configure to include plural lenses arranged in a form of an array, and an imaging device configured to image a compound-eye image that is a collection of ommatidium images of an object approximately formed by the respective plural lenses of the lens array; and a processing apparatus configured to process the compound-eye image obtained from imaging the object by the imaging apparatus, and determine whether there is a defect of the object. | 08-23-2012 |
20120224069 | CALIBRATION APPARATUS, A DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, A CALIBRATION METHOD AND A CALIBRATION PROGRAM - A disclosed calibration apparatus is configured to receive inputs of two reference images and plural items of parallax data, these two reference images being captured by one of the imaging devices at two locations, and the parallax data being calculated using these two reference images and two corresponding images based on positions of plural feature points common to the reference image and the corresponding image for each pair thereof on a location basis, two corresponding images being captured by another of the imaging devices at these two locations; search for plural feature points common to these two reference images; calculate parallaxes and parallax changing amounts, based on the parallax data related to the respective feature points in these two reference images, for each of the searched feature points; and calculate a correction value for the parameter based on the calculated parallaxes and parallax changing amounts. | 09-06-2012 |
20120236124 | STEREO CAMERA APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OBTAINING IMAGE - A stereo camera apparatus for obtaining distance information of an object includes a camera unit that includes a left image sensor and a right image sensor respectively obtaining a left-side image and a right-side image, each being composed of a frame including plural pixels of plural rows and plural columns, the left image sensor and the right image sensor sequentially exposing the pixels of the rows from upper to lower in the frames, respectively; a shift amount detection unit that detects a relative positional shift amount in the vertical direction between a left-side image and a right-side image; and a timing control unit that changes the starting time of exposing the frame by the left image sensor or by the right image sensor based on the positional shift amount in the vertical direction detected by the shift amount detection unit. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236125 | STEREO CAMERA DEVICE, CORRECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A stereo camera device detecting a distance to a subject includes two cameras and a calculation unit that calculates a distance to the subject based on the images acquired by the two cameras. The calculation unit includes an image processing unit that searches for corresponding points of the images acquired by the two cameras and calculates two parallaxes based on differences in positional coordinates of the corresponding points on the images, an offset value calculation unit that calculates parallax offset values across the images based on the two parallaxes calculated by the image processing unit at least at two time points, and a statistical processing unit that performs a statistical analysis on a distribution of the parallax offset values and determines an optimum value of the parallax offset values, the optimum value being used as a correction parameter. | 09-20-2012 |
20120268602 | OBJECT IDENTIFYING APPARATUS, MOVING BODY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS - An object identifying apparatus is disclosed, including: an imaging part, and an object identification processing part. The imaging part receives two polarized lights having a different polarization direction included in light reflected from the object existing in the image pickup area and captures two polarization images. The object identification processing part conducts an identification process for identifying the object existing at a place corresponding to each of multiple process areas in the image pickup area by using the two polarization images captured by the imaging part. | 10-25-2012 |
20130123985 | TRANSPARENT OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM AND TRANSPARENT FLAT PLATE DETECTION SYSTEM - A disclosed transparent body detection system includes an image acquisition unit acquiring a vertical polarization image and a horizontal polarization image by acquiring an image of a first region, the image including a transparent body having characteristics in which a polarization direction of transmission light changes; a placing table on which the transparent body is to be placed; a polarization filter disposed opposite to the image acquisition unit across the placing table and at a position including a second region, an image of the second region including at least the transparent body in the first region and being acquired; and an image processing apparatus detecting the transparent body based on distribution of vertical/lateral polarization degree of a vertical/lateral polarization degree image based on the vertical polarization image and the horizontal polarization image. | 05-16-2013 |
20130250065 | RANGE-FINDING SYSTEM AND VEHICLE MOUNTING THE RANGE-FINDING SYSTEM - A range-finding system includes two imaging devices to capture multiple images from two different viewpoints and a parallax calculator to calculate parallax based on the multiple images captured by the two imaging devices. The parallax calculator includes an estimation unit to estimate a correction value based on the amount of image deviation in a lateral direction corresponding to pixel position in the images captured by the two imaging devices and a correction unit to correct a pre-correction parallax or an image based on the correction value estimated by the estimation unit. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250068 | CALIBRATION DEVICE, RANGE-FINDING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE CALIBRATION DEVICE AND STEREO CAMERA, AND VEHICLE MOUNTING THE RANGE-FINDING SYSTEM - A calibration device for calibrating ranges obtained by a range-finding system , includes an image acquisition unit to receive inputs of two reference images captured by a reference imaging device at two locations and multiple items of parallax data from the parallax calculator, the parallax data being calculated based on multiple feature points in the reference images and multiple corresponding points in the comparison images correlated to the feature points in the reference images; a feature point search unit to search for multiple reference-feature points common to the two reference images; a coordinate converter to convert coordinates of the two items of parallax data based on the multiple feature points and the multiple corresponding points, for each of the reference-feature points between the reference images; and a correction value calculator to calculate a correction value to correct the range measured by the range finding system, based on a converted parallax from the coordinate converter. | 09-26-2013 |