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| 8184862 | Vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus Provided is an apparatus capable of, even when an object is moving, measuring the position of the object at a high accuracy. A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus (10) calculates the change rate (Rate(t)) of the size of an object region between two times s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180111 | Compound eye type imaging apparatus with distance measuring capability Multiple imaging areas (101a, 101b) are disposed in a one-to-one relationship with multiple optical lenses (100a, 100b) disposed in a substantially coplanar alignment. A baffle wall (110) interposed betw... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175337 | Apparatus and method of measuring distance using structured light Provided are an apparatus and method of measuring a distance using structured light. The apparatus includes a binarization unit binarizing an image, an image identification unit identifying an image having connected pixels in the binarized image, a length ratio calc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170287 | Real-time self collision and obstacle avoidance A system, method, and computer program product for avoiding collision of a body segment with unconnected structures in an articulated system are described. A virtual surface is constructed surrounding an actual surface of the body segment. Distances between the body... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165350 | Assessment of a view through the overlay of maps A system for evaluating a view, including a first mapper for encoding an image of a view according to a first parameter to create a first map having multiple defined areas, a second mapper for encoding the image according to a second parameter to create a second map... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165351 | Method of structured light-based measurement A method of determining the distance to an object can use a video inspection device comprising a first light emitter and a second light emitter, wherein the first light emitter can emit light through an opening with at least one shadow-forming element. The method ca... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160301 | Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus In a stereo-image recognition apparatus, pixel blocks having correlation with the brightness characteristics of target pixel blocks extracted from a reference image of a stereo image are specified in a comparative image so as to calculate parallaxes of the pixel blo... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155387 | Method and system for position determination using image deformation A method and system of position determination using image deformation is provided. One implementation involves receiving an image of a visual tag, the image captured by an image capturing device, wherein the visual tag has a predefined position associated therewith;... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155386 | Method and apparatus for obtaining depth information A method and apparatus for obtaining depth information are provided. The method includes calculating a relative depth value between a first color pixel and a second color pixel based on values of color pixels of a color image, and calculating a depth value of a seco... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8126210 | Vehicle periphery monitoring device, vehicle periphery monitoring program, and vehicle periphery monitoring method A vehicle periphery monitoring device is provided with an image processing target area setting portion for setting an image processing target area (61) that may include an image portion of an monitoring object in a captured image (Im2) on the basis of ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125376 | Handheld global positioning system device A handheld GNSS device for determining position data for a point of interest is provided. The device includes a housing, handgrips integral to the housing for enabling a user to hold the device, and a display screen integral with the housing for displaying image dat... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121352 | Fast three dimensional recovery method and apparatus The present invention comprises a method and an apparatus for three dimensional modeling to allow dense depth maps to be recovered, without previous knowledge of the surface reflectance, from only a single pair of stereo images. Several initial steps are performed f... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121351 | Identification of objects in a 3D video using non/over reflective clothing A method includes generating a depth map from at least one image, detecting objects in the depth map, and identifying anomalies in the objects from the depth map. Another method includes identifying at least one anomaly in an object in a depth map, and using the ano... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116530 | Map change detection device, map change detection method, and program Changes in houses and buildings on a two-dimensional map are detected using three-dimensional data obtained from stereo images. A change detection device that detects changes in features that are targets described on a map has a stereo processor, a feature height ca... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111875 | Method of and apparatus for taking solid image and computer program for causing computer to execute the method A solid image taking apparatus includes a plurality of image taking portions which obtain a plurality of images at each sight point by taking a plurality of images of objects from different sight points, a distance measuring portion which measures object distances w... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111876 | Object position estimating system, object position estimating apparatus, object position estimating method, and object position estimating program A plurality of pieces of observation raw data observed by an observation unit are subjected to an object identifying process, and by using a parameter determined by a parameter determination unit in accordance with a period of time between a point of object identify... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107684 | Method for geolocalization of one or more targets The subject of the invention is a method for geolocalization of one or more stationary targets from an aircraft by means of a passive optronic sensor. The sensor acquires at least one image I1 containing the target P from a position C1 of the a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107685 | Displacement sensor having a display data output A method of displaying sensed displacement is such as to collect single dimension light distribution data using a single dimensional imaging device; transmit the light distribution data to a processor; and display the light distribution data as a line bright wave fo... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103059 | Laser rangefinder and method for digital signal processing thereof A method for digital signal processing is disclosed. Reflected laser signals are received and digitized to generate corresponding digital signals. The digital signals are accumulated to generate an accumulated signal. A digital filtering operation is applied to the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098897 | Multi dimensional imaging system An image processing apparatus comprises a distance measurement section for measuring a distance from the section to a subject for each pixel on the basis of a plurality of images photographed at different visual point positions. A setting section sets a range of the... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098896 | Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album in which a desirable combination of images is disposed in one and same page. The album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing a plurality of images, an object sampling sec... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094888 | Image processor and image processing method to sense an object and the distance to object An image processor, includes: an image pickup part configured to pick up a pickup image of a certain area; an irradiator configured to irradiate at least a part of the certain area for the pickup image picked up by the image pickup part; an extractor configured to e... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085985 | Method for determining distance between reference member and melt surface, method for controlling location of melt surface using the same, and apparatus for production silicon single crystal The present invention is a method for determining a relative distance between a reference member placed above a melt surface and the melt surface upon pulling a silicon single crystal out of a raw material melt in a crucible by a CZ method characterized by at least:... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073201 | Position/orientation measurement method and apparatus This invention relates to a position/orientation measurement apparatus which can measure a position and orientation while achieving both high stability and precision. An image including indices laid out on a space is captured, and the indices are detected from the c... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073202 | Method of bioimage data processing for revealing more meaningful anatomic features of diseased tissues The present invention discloses a method for generating elevation maps or images of a tissue layer/boundary with respect to a fitted reference surface, comprising the steps of finding and segmenting a desired tissue layer/boundary; fitting a smooth reference surface... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068643 | Method and apparatus for capturing, geolocating and measuring oblique images A computerized system for displaying and making measurements based upon captured oblique images. The system includes a computer system executing image display and analysis software. The software reads a plurality of captured oblique images having corresponding geo-l... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8050461 | Depth-varying light fields for three dimensional sensing A method for mapping includes projecting onto an object a pattern of multiple spots having respective positions and shapes, such that the positions of the spots in the pattern are uncorrelated, while the shapes share a common characteristic. An image of the spots on... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8031909 | Method and apparatus for producing 3D model of an underground environment The present invention provides a system (method and apparatus) for creating photorealistic 3D models of environments and/or objects from a plurality of stereo images obtained from a mobile stereo camera and optional monocular cameras. The cameras may be handheld, mo... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009871 | Method and system to segment depth images and to detect shapes in three-dimensionally acquired data A method and system analyzes data acquired by image systems to more rapidly identify objects of interest in the data. In one embodiment, z-depth data are segmented such that neighboring image pixels having similar z-depths are given a common label. Blobs, or groups ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995798 | Device, system and method for estimating the size of an object in a body lumen A device and method for capturing in-vivo images allows for size or distance estimations for objects within the images. According to one embodiment of the present invention there may be provided, in an in-vivo device, at least an imager, an illumination source to pr... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995799 | Method and apparatus for capturing geolocating and measuring oblique images A computerized system for displaying, geolocating, and taking measurements from captured oblique images includes a data file accessible by the computer system. The data file includes a plurality of image files corresponding to a plurality of captured oblique images,... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986813 | Object pose estimation and comparison system using image sharpness differences, object pose estimation and comparison method using image sharpness differences, and program therefor A pose estimation and comparison system has a pose estimation and comparison unit. The pose estimation and comparison unit has an pose candidate decision unit which decides an pose candidate. According to the generated pose candidate, a comparison image generation u... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986814 | Method for measuring a curved surface of an object A method for measuring a curved surface of an object is provided. The method aligns a point-cloud of an object and a triangulated curved surface of the object, obtain an original deviation value for each triangle on the triangulated curved surface by measuring a dis... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974445 | Vehicle periphery monitoring device, vehicle, and vehicle periphery monitoring program A vehicle periphery monitoring device which determines type of an object with high accuracy, wherein the size of object regions that are set in each of the image representing the peripheral condition of the vehicle in each of two different points in time and that in... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970177 | Enhancing stereo depth measurements with projected texture A system for distance calculation is disclosed. The system includes an illuminator unit, one or more camera units, and a distance processor. The illuminator unit illuminates a scene in a target area using a textured pattern creator and wherein the textured pattern c... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970178 | Visibility range estimation method and system The present disclosure provides methods and systems for estimating a visibility range in a visibility-degraded environment, e.g., fog. The methods and systems involve digital image processing. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961912 | Method and apparatus for dynamic space-time imaging system A method for creating a 3D map of the surface contours of an object includes projecting a variety of patterns onto the object, and imaging the patterns as they fall on the object to encode the topographic features of the object. In one embodiment a three dimensional... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949153 | Image processing system, image processing method, image processing program, image capturing apparatus, and image capturing method An image processing is performed based on a distance computed for each partial area within an image capturing range. An image processing system according to the present invention includes a captured image acquiring section that acquires a captured image taken by an ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7894633 | Image conversion and encoding techniques A method of producing a depth map for use in the conversion of 2D images into stereoscopic images includes identifying at least one object within a 2D image; allocating an identifying tag to each object; allocating a depth tag to each object; and determining and def... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7882112 | Image search device and image search method An image search device is provided which relatively easily outputs images that a user wishes to use for interpolation from among a large volume of stored image content data. The image search device includes: a degree-of-association database (102) which... | 02/01/2011 |
