Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20130050424 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A multiview video decoding apparatus receives and decodes an encoded stream obtained as a result of encoding residual information, 2D images for N views, and depth images for N views, the residual information being the error between synthetic-view images generated using the 2D images for N views and the depth images for N views, and 2D images for (M−N) views at the view synthesis positions of the synthetic-view images. A view synthesizing apparatus generates the synthetic-view images by using the 2D images and depth images for N views decoded by the multiview video decoding apparatus. A residual information compensating apparatus adds the residual information into the generated synthetic-view images. The apparatus may be applied to a system that conducts view synthesis, for example. | 02-28-2013 |
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 |
20130141535 | ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, AND DECODING METHOD - The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method capable of suppressing the amount of information without degrading the image quality of an image of a viewpoint that is used when the compatibility is secured in a case where a multi-viewpoint image is encoded. A compatible encoder generates a compatible stream by encoding an image A | 06-06-2013 |
20130142247 | ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, AND DECODING METHOD - An encoding device and method, and a decoding device and method, capable of encoding and decoding a multi-viewpoint image in accordance with a mode having compatibility with an existing mode. A compatible encoder generates a compatible stream by encoding an image that is a compatible image. An image converting unit converts the resolution of images that are auxiliary images. An auxiliary encoder generates an encoded stream of the auxiliary image by encoding the auxiliary image of which the resolution is converted. A compatibility information generating unit generates, as compatibility information, information that designates the image as a compatible image. A multiplexing unit transmits the compatible stream, the encoded stream of the auxiliary image, and the compatibility information. The encoding device can encode a 3D image of the multi-viewpoint mode. | 06-06-2013 |
20130169751 | ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, AND DECODING METHOD - The present invention relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method capable of encoding and decoding multi-viewpoint images in accordance with a mode that is compatible with an existing mode. | 07-04-2013 |
20130307929 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technique relates to an image processing device and an image processing method for realizing accurate depth image warping operations on the receiving end when depth images with reduced resolutions are transmitted. A partial resolution converting unit reduces resolutions of parallax images of auxiliary images. A partial conversion information generating unit generates partial conversion information. The parallax images having the resolutions reduced by the partial resolution converting unit and the partial conversion information generated by the partial conversion information generating unit are transmitted to a decoding device. The present technique can be applied to encoding devices that encode glasses-free 3D images, for example. | 11-21-2013 |
20130315472 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technique relates to an image processing device and an image processing method for realizing high-precision image generation of predetermined viewpoints by using depth images on the receiving end when the depth images with reduced resolutions are transmitted. | 11-28-2013 |
20130315473 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technique relates to an image processing device and an image processing method that enable generation of high-quality color images and depth images of the viewpoints other than the reference point on the receiving end even if the precision of the reference-point depth image is low when the occlusion regions of color images and depth images of the viewpoints other than the reference point are transmitted. A warping unit performs a foreground-prioritized warping operation toward the left viewpoint on the reference-point depth image. Using the reference-point depth image of the left viewpoint obtained as a result of the warping operation, an occlusion determining unit detects a left-viewpoint occlusion region that appears when a viewpoint is converted from the reference point to the left viewpoint. The present technique can be applied to 3D image processing devices, for example. | 11-28-2013 |
20130329008 | ENCODING APPARATUS, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING APPARATUS, AND DECODING METHOD - There is provided an encoding apparatus including a setting unit configured to perform setting in a manner that encoding parameter used when encoding a color image of a multiview 3D image and a depth image of the multiview 3D image is shared in the color image and the depth image, and an encoding unit configured to encode the color image of the multiview 3D image and the depth image of the multiview 3D image by using the encoding parameter set by the setting unit. | 12-12-2013 |
20130335525 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technique relates to an image processing device and an image processing method for realizing accurate depth image warping operations at the receiving side when depth images with reduced resolutions are transmitted. A parallax image generating unit reduces the resolutions of parallax images B | 12-19-2013 |
20130335527 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to an image processing device, an image processing method and a program which can calculate a vector which is precisely predicted as a predicted motion vector of a disparity vector. A predicted motion vector generation unit | 12-19-2013 |
20130336589 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program capable of improving the image quality of decoded images of images from multiple viewpoints. A warping unit | 12-19-2013 |
20130342647 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of generating a color image of a display viewpoint using a color image and a depth image of a predetermined viewpoint. | 12-26-2013 |
20140002592 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140002603 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | 01-02-2014 |
20140028797 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD - The present technology relates to an encoding device and encoding method, and a decoding device and a decoding method whereby the data amount of encoded data of images of multiple viewpoints can be reduced. A low-resolution reference image generating unit performs, in the event of encoding a color image of a viewpoint B having lower resolution than the resolution of a color image of a viewpoint A, different from the viewpoint A, resolution reduction processing to reduce resolution on the image of the viewpoint A so that the resolution of the color image of the viewpoint A agrees with the resolution of the color image of the viewpoint B. An inter prediction unit generates a prediction image of the color image of the viewpoint B with reference to the color image of the viewpoint A after resolution reduction processing. A computing unit and so forth encode the color image of the viewpoint B using the prediction image. The present technology may be applied to a 3D-image encoding device, for example. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036032 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - This technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of improving an image quality of a decoded image. A correcting unit corrects a pixel value of a decoded image obtained by at least quantizing and inversely quantizing a depth image having a value corresponding to predetermined data such as parallax as a pixel value being the depth image in which a possible value as the pixel value is defined to a predetermined defined value according to a maximum value and a minimum value of the predetermined data to the defined value, for example. This technology is applicable to encoding and decoding of the depth image and the like having depth information regarding the parallax of each pixel of a color image as the pixel value, for example. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036033 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing device and image processing method, enabling improvement of prediction efficiency of disparity prediction. A converting unit converts a reference image, of a different viewpoint from an image to be encoded, which is referenced at the time of generating a prediction image of the image to be encoded which is to be encoded, by controlling filter processing applied to the reference image in accordance with the reference image and resolution information relating to resolution of the image to be encoded, so that the reference image is converted in to a converted reference image of a resolution ratio agreeing with a horizontal and vertical resolution ratio of the image to be encoded. A disparity compensating unit generates a prediction image by performing disparity compensation using the converted reference image, and the image to be encoded is encoded using that reference image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, encoding and decoding of images of multiple viewpoints. | 02-06-2014 |
20140085418 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing device and image processing method whereby prediction efficiency of disparity prediction can be improved. A resolution converting device converts images of two viewpoints or more, out of images of three viewpoints or more, into a packed image, by performing packing following a packing pattern in which images of two viewpoints or more are packed into one viewpoint worth of image, in accordance with a predetermined encoding mode at the time of encoding an image to be encoded which is to be encoded. An encoding device generates a prediction image of the image to be encoded, by performing disparity compensation with the packed image as the image to be encoded or a reference image, and encodes the image to be encoded in the predetermined encoding mode, using the prediction image. The present technology can be applied to encoding and decoding of images of multiple viewpoints, for example. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086322 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present technique relates to an image processing device and a method that can improve encoding efficiency in multi-viewpoint encoding. A reference image index allocation unit alternately allocates a reference image index referred by a motion estimator/compensator to predict an image to be processed to a referable image in a view direction and to a referable image in a time direction. In allocation, the reference image index allocation unit refers to time information and view information of the reference image accumulated in a decoded picture buffer, information such as a sequence parameter set and a slice header from a syntax processing unit, and the like. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices, for example. | 03-27-2014 |
20140126641 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing device and a method capable of suppressing reduction in encoding efficiency. There are provided a restrictor for restricting, at the time of generating a predicted image for encoding of a multi-viewpoint image, according to a prediction direction of a focused region, use of a correlated region where a candidate for a prediction vector which is a prediction value of a vector of the focused region is to be obtained, and a prediction vector generator for generating the prediction vector by using a vector of a correlated region whose use is not restricted by the restrictor. The present disclosure may be applied to an image processing device. | 05-08-2014 |
20140126642 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technique relates to an image processing device and method capable of suppressing a decrease in encoding efficiency. The image processing device includes: a predictive vector generating unit that generates a predictive vector of a current parallax vector of a current block used in prediction using correlation in a parallax direction using a reference parallax vector referred when generating a predictive motion vector, when encoding the current parallax vector; and a difference vector generating unit that generates a difference vector between the current parallax vector and the predictive vector generated by the predictive vector generating unit. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing device. | 05-08-2014 |
20140198847 | ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, AND DECODING METHOD - The present technique relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method capable of improving encoding efficiency of a parallax image using information about the parallax image. The correction unit corrects a prediction image of a parallax image of a reference viewpoint using information about the parallax image of the reference viewpoint. The arithmetic operation unit encodes the parallax image of the reference viewpoint using the corrected prediction image. The encoded parallax image of the reference viewpoint and the information about the parallax image of the reference viewpoint are transmitted. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an encoding device of the parallax image. | 07-17-2014 |
20140205007 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICES AND METHODS - The present technique relates to image processing devices and methods that enable quantization processes or inverse quantization processes more suited to the content of each image. An image processing device of the present disclosure includes: a quantization value setter that sets a quantization value of a depth image independently of a texture image, the depth image being multiplexed with the texture image; a quantizer that generates quantized data by quantizing coefficient data of the depth image, using the quantization value of the depth image set by the quantization value setter; and an encoder that generates an encoded stream by encoding the quantized data generated by the quantizer. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices. | 07-24-2014 |
20140321546 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of improving an encoding efficiency of a parallax image using information with regard to the parallax image. | 10-30-2014 |
20140341285 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing device and an image processing method that are capable of improving the encoding efficiency of a parallax image by using information relating to the parallax image. A correction unit sets a calculation precision of a calculation that is used when performing a depth weighting prediction process that uses a depth weighting coefficient and a depth offset with the depth image as a target. A correction unit performs the depth weighting prediction process in relation to the depth image according to the calculation precision that is set, and generates a depth prediction image. A calculation unit generates a depth stream by encoding the depth image using the depth prediction image. The present technology can be applied to an encoding device of the parallax image, for example. | 11-20-2014 |
20150030074 | DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD, AND ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD - The present technique relates to a decoding device and a decoding method, and an encoding device and an encoding method, capable of performing encoding and decoding independently in the time direction for each tile. A decoding unit generates a prediction image by performing, for each of tiles, motion compensation of a reference image within a co-located tile based on tile splittable information indicating that decoding is allowed for each of the tiles and motion vector information representing a motion vector used for generating encoded data of a decoding target current image when a picture of the current image is split into the tiles and decoded. The decoding unit decodes the encoded data using the prediction image. The present technique is applicable to a decoding device, for example. | 01-29-2015 |
20150042753 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD - The present technology relates to an encoding device and an encoding method, and a decoding device and a decoding method configured to reduce an encoding amount of the encoded stream when information regarding a depth image is included in the encoded stream. | 02-12-2015 |
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 |
20150071350 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing device and an image processing method that are capable of efficiently generating a multi-view image. | 03-12-2015 |