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20110058050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION BLUR AND GHOSTING PREVENTION IN IMAGING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for motion blur and ghosting prevention in imaging system is presented. A residue image is computed by performing spatial-temporal filter with a set of absolute image difference of image pairs from input images. A noise adaptive pixel threshold is computed for every pixel based on noise statistics of image sensor. The residue image and the noise adaptive pixel threshold are used to create a motion masking map. The motion masking map is used to represent motion and non-motion pixels in pixels merging. The pixels merging step is performed to generate an output image by considering the motion pixels where the motion pixels are performed separately. The resulting output image having no or less motion blur and ghosting artifacts can be obtained, even the input images having different degree of motion blur between each of the image, while the complexity is low. It is preferred that the current invention is applied in the Bayer raw domain. The benefit is reduced computation and memory because only 1 color component is processed for each pixel. Another benefit is higher signal fidelity because processing in the Bayer raw domain is unaffected by demosaicing artifacts, especially along edges. However, the current invention can also be applied in RGB domain. | 03-10-2011 |
20120147139 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE ALIGNING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE ALIGNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM OF THE SAME - A stereoscopic image aligning apparatus ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120148109 | DISTANCE ESTIMATION DEVICE, DISTANCE ESTIMATION METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A distance estimation device ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120274634 | DEPTH INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, DEPTH INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND STEREO IMAGE CONVERTER - A depth information generating device according to the present invention includes a region extracting unit that detects a human face in at least one two-dimensional image, and based on the detected face, extracts a human figure region indicating a human figure within a region of the at least one two-dimensional image; and a depth map generating unit that gives a depth value different from a depth value of a region other than the human figure region to the human figure region to generate a depth map that separates the human figure region from the region other than the human figure region. Thereby, a depth map for displaying a 3D pop-out from which a viewer feels no unnaturalness can be generated. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281132 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image capturing device includes: a pre-capturing module which captures an imaging target at each of different focus positions in a predetermined focus range and outputs, as a capturing result, a plurality of pre-captured images lower in resolution than the output image; an object sharpness evaluating module which computes a sharpness level of each of the pre-captured images captured by the pre-capturing module; a focus varying range determining module which determines a focus position varying range within the predetermined focus range based on sharpness levels computed by the object sharpness evaluating module, such that a signal-to-noise ratio of the output image is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold; and an image capturing module which captures the imaging target while varying the focus position according to the focus position varying range determined by the focus varying range determining module, and outputs the output image as a capturing result. | 11-08-2012 |
20130101177 | MOTION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, DEPTH ESTIMATION APPARATUS, AND MOTION ESTIMATION METHOD - A motion estimation apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a motion estimation apparatus for estimating, using a set of multi-focus images which correspond to a single scene and have different focuses, motion for each of the first regions included in the scene, including: a cost value computing unit configured to compute, using the set of multi-focus images, for each of the first regions, a cost value indicating a difference between a blur amount of the first region and a standard blur amount determined for each of distances in a depth direction; and a motion estimation unit configured to estimate, using the cost value, the motion of the first region corresponding to the cost value. | 04-25-2013 |
20130106848 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD | 05-02-2013 |
20130135298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING NEW VIEWPOINT IMAGE - An apparatus for generating a new viewpoint image includes: a new viewpoint image generation unit that shifts the foreground image region in the input image, based on a depth map to generate a new viewpoint image including a missing pixel region; a representative background pixel selection unit that selects background pixels located a predetermined number of pixels away from edge pixels, as representative background pixels; a texture direction map calculation unit that calculates a texture direction of each of the selected representative background pixels, to calculate a texture direction map indicating texture directions, each corresponding to one of missing pixels, based on locations of the representative background pixels and locations of the missing pixels included in the missing pixel region; and a hole-filling processing unit that fills the missing pixel region with the obtained background pixels in accordance with the texture direction map. | 05-30-2013 |
20140328405 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR 3D MEDIA DATA GENERATION, ENCODING, DECODING AND DISPLAY USING DISPARITY INFORMATION - The current invention provides methods for 3D content capturing, 3D content coding and packaging at content production side, and 3D content consuming and rendering at display or terminal side, in order to ensure healthy and effective 3D viewing all the time. According to the current invention Maximum disparity and 3D budget which are scene dependent, are calculated, utilized for coding and embedded in the coded streams or media file, and checked against the allowable values during the content rendering, so to determine if the same 3D content can be shown to the user according to the viewing condition which the user has. In case it cannot meet healthy 3D viewing guideline, it is suggested to adjust the 3D content for its new maximum disparity and 3D budget to be within the allowable range, to achieve healthy and effective 3D viewing for that user with his/her viewing condition. | 11-06-2014 |
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20130008628 | THERMAL CHAMBER FOR IC CHIP TESTING - A thermal chamber and system for influencing the temperature of an IC chip under test including a thermal block that receives a chip socket, the thermal block adapted to be disposed between a docking interface plate and a workpress. The thermal block receives a flow of heated or cooled gas, and causes an IC chip to become heated or cooled prior to and during a test of the chip. The thermal chamber and system allows an IC chip to be testing under specific temperature conditions without using an expensive handler costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. | 01-10-2013 |
20140235096 | SOCKET MOUNT - A socket mount for use in connection with an integrated circuit test socket having a body with fastener holes, a plurality of electrical connector links, and a plurality of elastomer elements biasing said links, the socket mount comprising a block having a flat upper surface, a flat lower surface, and four flat edges defining a square, and respective fastener holes aligned with the fastener holes in the test socket, a first groove oriented perpendicularly with respect to a flat edge along the flat lower surface, and a second groove oriented diagonally from a first edge to a second edge along the flat lower surface, the grooves having a length equal to a length of elastomer in the test socket. | 08-21-2014 |