Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120314104 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In accordance with an object desired to be brought into focus, aliasing is canceled, and the resolution of an output image data is increased. When a plurality of pieces of image data captured at multiple viewpoints is synthesized at a predetermined focus position, a weight for the synthesis is determined so as to reduce aliasings included in frequency characteristics of the plurality of pieces of image data. | 12-13-2012 |
20130058591 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In the conventional method, the burden of the processing is very heavy because tracking of light beams is performed and an erroneous estimation of a shape causes a factor to deteriorate image quality. An image processing apparatus that generates composite image data using multi-viewpoint image data obtained by capturing images from a plurality of viewpoints is characterized by including a filter processing unit configured to perform filter processing on the multi-viewpoint image data based on distance information indicative of a distance to a subject and a generation unit configured to generate composite image data by combining the multi-viewpoint image data on which the filter processing has been performed. | 03-07-2013 |
20130223759 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - In image processing of multi-viewpoint image data including image data captured with different focal lengths, an image of high quality, distance information with high precision, etc., are obtained by utilizing image data with different angles of view (focal lengths). An image processing device for generating combined image data using multi-viewpoint image data including image data acquired with different focal lengths, includes a resolution converting unit configured to perform resolution conversion for at least part of image data in multi-viewpoint image data in accordance with a focal length to be output and an image combining unit configured to generate combined image data with the focal length to be output using the resolution-converted image data. | 08-29-2013 |
20140368690 | IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image generation method is provided for generating an output image from an input image acquired by an image sensor that has an array of multiple pixels, each of which has arranged therein multiple sub-pixels that each receive a light beam that passes through a different pupil sub-area of an imaging optical system. The method includes a step of generating multiple parallax images that respectively correspond to the different pupil sub-areas; a step of generating multiple pixel shifted images by performing different shifting for each of the parallax images according to a virtual image forming plane of the imaging optical system; and a step of generating an output image that has a higher resolution than the resolution of the parallax images from the pixel shifted images through composition processing. | 12-18-2014 |
20150130995 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to realize novel information processing which uses light field data. To attain the object, light field data which represents directions of light beams which are emitted from an object to an image pickup unit and intensity of the light beams is obtained, and the light field data is corrected on a coordinate of the light field data. | 05-14-2015 |
20150177062 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain first beam information and second beam information. The first beam information indicates a direction and intensity of a first beam from an object as seen from a first viewpoint and defined by a first coordinate system; the second beam information indicates a direction and an intensity of a second beam from the object as seen from a second viewpoint which is different from the first viewpoint and defined by a second coordinate system which is different from the first coordinate system. A synthesizing unit is configured to synthesize the first beam information and the second beam information with each other after performing a coordinate transform of at least one of the first beam information and the second beam information. | 06-25-2015 |
20150178595 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a first image of a subject viewed from a first point of view and a second image of the subject viewed from a second point of view different from the first point of view, wherein the first image and the second image have different blurred states from each other; a processing unit configured to change a blurred state of at least one of the first image and the second image; and a determining unit configured to compare the first image and the second image after the blurred state of at least one of the first image and the second image is changed by the processing unit to determine image regions corresponding to the subject between the first image and the second image. | 06-25-2015 |
20160000045 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - An electronic apparatus is provided which, even when the electronic apparatus configuring a node is implanted in the body of an object animal, makes the object animal hard to feel stress and can acquire effective data about the natural behavior and state of the object animal. As shown in FIG. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007409 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - To achieve the reduction in size of an electronic device. The electronic device serving as an element of a wireless communication system includes a module unit, a battery that supplies electric power to the module unit, and a coupling part that electrically couples the module unit and the battery. The module unit includes a sensor that detects a physical quantity, and a wireless communication unit configured to transmit the data based on an output signal from the sensor. | 01-07-2016 |