Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090110068 | Coding Apparatus, Coding Method, Decoding Apparatus, Decoding Method, and Program - A coding apparatus for hierarchically (layering) coding top field data and bottom field data divided from each of a plurality of picture data composing a moving picture image has a first coding unit ( | 04-30-2009 |
20090262803 | Encoding Apparatus, Encoding Method, and Program of Same and Decoding Apparatus, Decoding Method, and Program of Same - An encoding apparatus for encoding progressive image data and interlace image data corresponding to this progressive image data, having a first encoding unit configured to encode picture data composing the interlace image data to generate first encoded data and decoding and recomposing the first encoded data to generate recomposed image data, an up sample processing unit configured to up sample the generated recomposed image data to generate image data having the same resolution as that of the progressive image data, and a second encoding unit configured to encode the picture data composing the progressive image data to generate second encoded data using the generated image data as predictive image data. | 10-22-2009 |
20110064322 | IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING METHOD, IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image signal decoding apparatus, an image signal decoding method, an image signal encoding apparatus, an image signal encoding method, and a program that allow easy detection of picture boundaries of a Dependent stream on a bit stream. | 03-17-2011 |
20110080949 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a storage means for storing a decoded image, which is obtained by encoding pictures constituting a frame sequential, in which pictures of a first image and a second image each having a disparity are alternately arranged, and performing local decoding, as a reference picture which is referenced when a predicted image is created for use in temporally later predictive encoding; and a storage control means for performing storage control to control the storage of the reference picture in the storage means such that, from among the pictures which are encoded temporally earlier than a current picture in encoding process which is a picture to be encoded, and are capable of becoming reference pictures, a picture which is a picture of an image at the same viewpoint as the current picture in encoding process from among the first image and the second image and is closest to the current picture in encoding process in a display order is stored in the storage means. | 04-07-2011 |
20110090309 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive an encoded stream, an image capture type, and image capturing order information, the encoded stream being produced by encoding image data of multi-viewpoint images including images from multiple viewpoints that form a stereoscopic image, the image capture type indicating that the multi-viewpoint images have been captured at different timings, the image capturing order information indicating an image capturing order in which the multi-viewpoint images have been captured; a decoding unit configured to decode the encoded stream received by the receiving unit to generate image data; and a control unit configured to control a display apparatus to display multi-viewpoint images corresponding to the image data generated by the decoding unit in the same order as the image capturing order in accordance with the image capture type and image capturing order information received by the receiving unit. | 04-21-2011 |
20110128355 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a coding means for encoding image data of multi-view images forming a stereoscopic image to generate a coded stream; and a transmission means for connecting output time information indicating output time of a decoded result of an image only to coded data of any one of the multi-view images in the coded stream. | 06-02-2011 |
20110157163 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a reproduction unit configured to reproduce a 3D image data including image data of an image for right eye and an image for left eye set with predetermined parallax, a category specification unit configured to specify a category of the 3D image data to be reproduced by the reproduction unit, a determination unit configured to reference a table in which each category of the 3D image data and a degree of parallax are associated to determine the degree of the parallax corresponding to the category specified by the category specification unit, and a parallax control unit configured to control the parallax of the 3D image data reproduced by the reproduction unit to the degree of the parallax determined by the determination unit. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157164 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus including: a reproduction unit reproducing 3D image data including image data of a right-eye image and a left-eye image in which a predetermined parallax is set; a comparison unit comparing a strength of the parallax set in the 3D image data to be reproduced by the reproduction unit to a strength of a parallax appropriate for ages of viewers obtained from viewer information registered in advance; and a parallax control unit controlling the parallax of the 3D image data reproduced by the reproduction unit according to a strength which is based on the comparison result obtained by the comparison unit. | 06-30-2011 |
20110242105 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method whereby an image and so forth that a contents producer intends can be displayed in a case where a stereoscopic image content is displayed as a 2D image. | 10-06-2011 |
20120014442 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present disclosure provides an image processing device including, a feature quantity generating section configured to generate a feature quantity used as a determination criterion for determining which of a temporal prediction using correlation between images in a temporal direction and a parallactic prediction using correlation between images of different visual points is dominant in image coding, and a reference index assigning section configured to assign reference indices to reference pictures used in the predictions on a basis of the feature quantity generated by the feature quantity generating section. | 01-19-2012 |
20120014614 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a quantizer configured to quantize orthogonal transform coefficients of the difference in block units between a coding target picture and a prediction image, a predictor configured to conduct parallax prediction utilizing correlations between the coding target picture and a picture whose view differs from the coding target picture, and a quantization controller configured to determine a protected area that protects image quality from the parallax prediction results, and reduce the quantization step size of the quantizer for quantization of the protected area. | 01-19-2012 |
20120114260 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and an image processing method whereby encoding efficiency of image prediction encoding can be improved. | 05-10-2012 |
20120177117 | Encoding Apparatus, Encoding Method, and Program of Same - An encoding apparatus for encoding progressive image data and interlace image data corresponding to this progressive image data, having a first encoding unit configured to encode picture data composing the interlace image data to generate first encoded data and decoding and recomposing the first encoded data to generate recomposed image data, an up sample processing unit configured to up sample the generated recomposed image data to generate image data having the same resolution as that of the progressive image data, and a second encoding unit configured to encode the picture data composing the progressive image data to generate second encoded data using the generated image data as predictive image data. | 07-12-2012 |
20120189054 | Apparatus and Method for Coding Picture Data - A coding apparatus for hierarchically (layered data) coding two field data associated with each of a plurality of picture data composing a moving picture image. The coding apparatus comprising: a first coding unit configured to encode one of the two field data; a conversion unit configured to interpolate first predicted image data generated by the first coding unit encoding the one of the two field data and generate second predicted image data of a scanning position of the other field data of the two field data; and a second coding unit configured to encode the other field data of the two field data based on the second predicted image data generated by the conversion unit. | 07-26-2012 |
20120195513 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and an image processing method that enable a set of images of multiple visual points which images form a stereoscopic image to be recognized in a case of multiplexing and coding the images of the multiple visual points which images form the stereoscopic image even when the coded data is decoded from the middle in a decoding device. | 08-02-2012 |
20120300842 | Decoding Apparatus, Decoding Method, and Program of Same - An encoding apparatus for encoding progressive image data and interlace image data corresponding to this progressive image data, having a first encoding unit configured to encode picture data composing the interlace image data to generate first encoded data and decoding and recomposing the first encoded data to generate recomposed image data, an up sample processing unit configured to up sample the generated recomposed image data to generate image data having the same resolution as that of the progressive image data, and a second encoding unit configured to encode the picture data composing the progressive image data to generate second encoded data using the generated image data as predictive image data. | 11-29-2012 |
20130022285 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The invention relates to image processing device and method that can further improve coding efficiency. | 01-24-2013 |
20130088570 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Encoding efficiency in multi-view image encoding is to be increased. A feature amount generation unit ( | 04-11-2013 |
20130089155 | IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING METHOD - A decoding method decodes a base stream generated by encoding a first image signal of a first view and a dependent stream generated by encoding a second image signal of a second view. The method includes detecting, on the basis of a dependent delimiter indicating a picture boundary between pictures in the dependent stream, the picture boundary in the dependent stream configured by inserting the dependent delimiter at the beginning of a picture in the dependent stream. Further, the method includes decoding the base stream and the dependent stream on the basis of the detected picture boundary in the dependent stream. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089267 | IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD - An encoding method encodes a first image signal of a first view and a second image signal of a second view. The method includes encoding the first image signal to generate a base stream. The method also includes encoding the second image signal to generate a dependent stream, and inserting a dependent delimiter indicating a picture boundary between pictures in the dependent stream at the beginning of a picture in the dependent stream. | 04-11-2013 |
20130279601 | IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING METHOD - A decoding method decodes a base stream generated by encoding a first image signal of a first view and a dependent stream generated by encoding a second image signal of a second view. The method includes detecting, on the basis of a dependent delimiter indicating a picture boundary between pictures in the dependent stream, the picture boundary in the dependent stream configured by inserting the dependent delimiter at the beginning of a picture in the dependent stream. Further, the method includes decoding the base stream and the dependent stream on the basis of the detected picture boundary in the dependent stream. | 10-24-2013 |
20130287110 | Apparatus and Method for Coding Picture Data - A coding apparatus for hierarchically (layering) coding top field data and bottom field data divided from each of a plurality of picture data composing a moving picture image has a first coding unit configured to encode one field data between two field data of the top field data and the bottom field data divided from the picture data, a conversion unit configured to interpolate first predicted image data generated by the first coding unit encoding above one field data and generate a second predicted image data of a scanning position of the other field data between the two field data, and a second coding unit configured to encode the other field data between the two field data based on the second predicted image data generated by the conversion unit. | 10-31-2013 |
20140376629 | DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM OF SAME - An encoding apparatus for encoding progressive image data and interlace image data corresponding to this progressive image data, having a first encoding unit configured to encode picture data composing the interlace image data to generate first encoded data and decoding and recomposing the first encoded data to generate recomposed image data, an up sample processing unit configured to up sample the generated recomposed image data to generate image data having the same resolution as that of the progressive image data, and a second encoding unit configured to encode the picture data composing the progressive image data to generate second encoded data using the generated image data as predictive image data. | 12-25-2014 |
20150063466 | DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD, AND ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD - The present technology relates to a decoding device and a decoding method, and an encoding device and an encoding method that enable images that configure a packed image to be reliably displayed when an encoded stream is decoded and displayed. A decoding unit decodes an encoded data, the encoded data being an encoded packed image in which a plurality of images is packed, and generates the packed image. A display control unit identifies the images that configure the packed image based on packing SEI preferentially used when the packed image is displayed. The present technology can be applied to a decoding device, for example. | 03-05-2015 |