Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110063420 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition device configured to acquire a first image and a second image for generating a stereo image; a parallax calculation device configured to calculate a parallax indicating a shift amount and a shift direction of a corresponding pixel of the second image with respect to each pixel of the first image; a parallax outline extraction device configured to extract a parallax outline, from a parallax map; a window setting device configured to set and sequentially move a pair of search windows along the parallax outline; a window determination device configured to determine a search window including an occlusion region on the basis of the first image within the pair of search windows; and a parallax correction device configured to correct a parallax of the occlusion region within the determined search window, on the basis of a parallax of another (not determined) search window. | 03-17-2011 |
20110074818 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing method including: inputting a plurality of images with a parallax between the images; by using one of the plurality of inputted images as a reference image, computing a parallax for each of pixels of the reference image on the basis of the plurality of images; extracting an unknown-parallax region for which a parallax cannot be computed; displaying the unknown-parallax region on a display device; receiving a user input of information on a parallax for the unknown-parallax region from a user; and setting the parallax for the unknown-parallax region on the basis of the input information on the parallax. | 03-31-2011 |
20120229628 | DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS, DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD, DISTANCE MEASURING PROGRAM, DISTANCE MEASURING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A distance measuring apparatus according to the present invention includes an image input unit configured to input a plurality of viewpoint images obtained by capturing a subject from different viewpoints, an obtaining unit configured to obtain, regarding each of a plurality of distances of interest, a piece of calibration data corresponding to each of the plurality of distances of interest from a plurality of pieces of calibration data for matching two-dimensional coordinates of the viewpoint images and three-dimensional coordinates in a real space, an image correcting unit configured to correct, for each of the distances of interest, the plurality of viewpoint images based on each of the pieces of calibration data, a parallax calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of the distances of interest, a parallax between the plurality of corrected viewpoint images, a comparing unit configured to compare the corrected viewpoint images over the plurality of distances of interest to specify a piece of optimum calibration data from the plurality of pieces of calibration data, a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a subject distance based on the parallax, and an output unit configured to output, as a distance measurement result, the subject distance calculated from the parallax between the corrected viewpoint images with the piece of optimum calibration data. | 09-13-2012 |
20130093848 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The transition of representative parallax of a stereoscopic moving image is reflected in a parallax adjustment according to output conditions of the stereoscopic moving image. A parallax adjustment unit determines whether to satisfy |representative parallax of a reference frame-representative parallax of a target frame|<α. If Yes, the process proceeds to S | 04-18-2013 |
20130107014 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130162764 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprising an image processing unit that applies, for left and right complement target areas serving as non-output areas respectively positioned closer to the center of the output plane than the left and right reference boundaries set by the reference boundary setting unit, image information about adjacent areas serving as partial areas within the left and right viewpoint images respectively adjacent to the left and right complement target areas, respectively, to the left and right complement target areas, to complement image information about the left and right complement target areas in each of the stereoscopic image frames and an output unit that outputs each of the stereoscopic image frames in which the image processing unit has complemented the image information to the left and right complement target areas according to the disparities adjusted by the disparity adjustment unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20140247327 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image processing device comprising a representative parallax acquisition unit, a scene separation unit to separate the stereoscopic video into multiple scenes when a parallax width does not comply with an allowable parallax width, a parallax adjustment unit to decide whether a scene parallax width complies with the allowable parallax width, and uniformly adjust the representative parallaxes for the respective stereoscopic image frames constituting the scene such that the scene parallax width complies with the allowable parallax width, the scene parallax width being defined by a maximum value and a minimum value of the representative parallaxes for the respective stereoscopic image frames constituting the scene, and an output unit, wherein the representative parallaxes for the respective stereoscopic image frames include a statistical operation value to be calculated based on parallaxes that, of parallaxes for the stereoscopic image frames, meet a predetermined condition. | 09-04-2014 |
20140293006 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image output device comprising: a representative parallax acquisition unit; a provisional output parallax determination unit to determine a provisional output parallax for each of the stereoscopic image frames depending on an output condition of the stereoscopic video, based on the representative parallax for each of the stereoscopic image frames; an output parallax adjustment unit; and an output unit, wherein the provisional output parallax determination unit determines the provisional output parallax for a reference frame corresponding to the representative parallax for the reference frame, and determines the provisional output parallax for a target frame corresponding to the representative parallax for the target frame, in accordance with the provisional output parallax defined for each range of the representative parallax for the stereoscopic image frame, the reference frame being sequentially determined from the stereoscopic image frames, and the target frame being the stereoscopic image frame immediately after the reference frame. | 10-02-2014 |