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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8340469 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and image processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes a band-shaped area selecting section, an angle selecting section, and a control section. The band-shaped area selecting section selects, from among band-shaped areas each having a first angle with respect to a second dire... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8269869 | Apparatus for imaging objects of changing luminance In an imaging apparatus, a function whose value increases in time is used as a threshold electric-signal level, and an electric-signal level of a photoreceptor element is compared with the threshold electric-signal level. Even if a light received by the photorecepto... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8264559 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method This invention makes it possible to produce a high quality synthesized panoramic image when it is difficult to highly precisely shift the image pickup direction. The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus for synthetically generating a first image, or ... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8213721 | Product identification apparatus, product identification method, and program A product identification apparatus for determining whether an inspection target product to be identified is the same as a predetermined verification product includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an input pattern formed of asperities on the surface of a ... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8199229 | Color filter, image processing apparatus, image processing method, image-capture apparatus, image-capture method, program and recording medium A color filter allows a light signal to pass through by each pixel and be incident on an imaging device. The light signal is inputted through a lens and including one of plural different spectral components. The plural different spectral components include a first s... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8180437 | Optical pulse wave velocity obtaining apparatus and method thereof A biological-information obtaining apparatus includes a light-emitting unit, an image sensor configured to capture images, in a time sequence, relating to a living body, and a lens. The apparatus also includes an extreme-occurrence-time obtaining unit configured to ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169537 | Control method, control apparatus and control program for photographing apparatus The present invention relates to a control method of a photographing apparatus, the photographing apparatus and a control program, which are capable of automatically determining a photographing mode capable of generating a sharper image. If a first exposure time is ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164647 | Image pickup apparatus and its light source estimating apparatus A light source estimating apparatus for estimating a type of a light source used when an input image was picked up, the apparatus including: distribution retaining means which retains a distribution, in a predetermined space, of pixel data picked up under a first or... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8085313 | Method, apparatus, and program for processing an image The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and program for processing an image, capable of producing a sharp image. A digital camera 1 includes an imaging device 4 formed of a single-plane sensor that provides one color signal for each pixel.... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7724286 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method This invention makes it possible to produce a high quality synthesized panoramic image when it is difficult to highly precisely shift the image pickup direction. The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus for synthetically generating a first image, or ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7659931 | Apparatus for imaging objects of changing luminance In an imaging apparatus, a function whose value increases in time is used as a threshold electric-signal level, and an electric-signal level of a photoreceptor element is compared with the threshold electric-signal level. Even if a light received by the photorecepto... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656437 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An apparatus and a method for efficiently executing correction of false color, such as purple fringe, caused by chromatic aberration and for generating and outputting high-quality image data are provided. A white-saturated pixel is detected from image data, a false-... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7602969 | Imaging data processing method, imaging data processing device, and computer program An accurate white balance adjustment process is provided for an image captured in an environment where different color components, such as an ambient light and a flash light are mixed. With respect to image to be captured under a plurality of different types of irra... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7529405 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method as well as computer program An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are disclosed by which an image correction process for a false color such as a purple fringe can be executed efficiently while excessive reduction of the saturation is prevented to produce image data of a ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7514669 | Imaging apparatus and light source estimating device for the imaging apparatus A light source estimating device includes: a distribution holding section holding a spectral energy distribution of a specific light source as a specular reflection component; a set generating section generating a set determined by the specular reflection component ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7486318 | Method, apparatus, and program for processing an image The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and program for processing an image, capable of producing a sharp image. A digital camera 1 includes an imaging device 4 formed of a single-plane sensor that provides one color signal for each pixel.... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7430015 | Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, picture data storage medium and computer program In an apparatus and a method for executing generation and reproduction processing of picture data suitable for picture display devices having differing processable frame rates, low frame rate picture data is generated on the basis of a plurality of temporally contin... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7177482 | Boundary line detection apparatus and method, and image processing apparatus and method as well as recording medium A boundary line detection apparatus and method and an image processing apparatus and method as well as a recording medium by which the jaggy in the proximity of a boundary line is removed without increasing the sampling rate to remove are disclosed. The differences ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7119831 | Information providing apparatus, information providing method, storage medium, and computer program A display device including a camera is used by inserting it in the direction of a user's gaze. Alternatively, an image of the same area as that of a scene from a windshield of an automobile may be obtained and the image may be displayed by using an information provi... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6980237 | Image processing method An image processing apparatus and method, wherein a reference area is specified in a first step, a foreground is specified in the reference area in a second step, the degree T1 of appropriateness is calculated in a third step, the degree T2 of appropri... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6924836 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, recording medium, and program An image processing apparatus and method, wherein a reference area is specified in a first step, a foreground is specified in the reference area in a second step, the degree T1 of appropriateness is calculated in a third step, the degree T2 of appropri... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6831694 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium An image processing apparatus and a method are disclosed in which images picked up on a plurality of image pickup planes having different distances to a lens are processed. The apparatus and method include: an acquiring element or step for acquiring a plurality of i... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6801654 | Picture processing apparatus, method and recording medium for a natural expansion drawing The present invention provides a picture-processing apparatus and method for finding a point A (xp, yp) on a projection drawing showing a first surface as a point corresponding to a point a (−1/2, ye) on the left side of a square s... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6750790 | Data-encoding apparatus, data-encoding method, data-decoding apparatus, data-decoding method, data-transmitting apparatus, data-receiving apparatus, data storage medium and computer programs The space of the two-dimensional blinking pattern is divided into a plurality of resolution sub-spaces onto which the data to be transmitted is mapped in an encoding process. A data-receiving apparatus with a resolution thereof reduced to an insufficient level due t... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6636647 | Method and apparatus for merging data and medium for providing program for merging data A first original image and a second original image are input to create a merged image. A superimpose area, which an operator designates using an input device, is set as a superimpose area. A portion of the first original image to be superimposed is determ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6556195 | Image processing device and image processing method In the case a two-dimensional image (FIG. 11A) displaying a house-shaped three-dimensional object is stored in a noted buffer, when shape information indicating that a check-patterned wall is rectangular and the four apexes of the wall as characteristic p... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6529206 | Image processing apparatus and method, and medium therefor A projected image of a three-dimensional object is displayed in a frame which is a constituent of a moving picture. Shape information concerning the shape of a surface of the three-dimensional object and a characteristic point on the projected image of th... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6434277 | Image processing apparatus and method, and medium therefor An image processing apparatus and method generates, from a two-dimensional image, expanded images obtained by expanding, on a two-dimensional plane, a plurality of surfaces constituting a three-dimensional object displayed in the two-dimensional image. In... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6404913 | Image synthesizing apparatus and method, position detecting apparatus and method, and supply medium When a GC (i.e., computer graphics) image is synthesized with an actual photographic image (dynamic image), it occurs that the synthesized image appears unnatural. An image pickup section 2 picks up a plate 1 while moving. When synthesizing a ball formed ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6392659 | Image connecting method, image connecting apparatus, and storage medium storing an image connecting program The invention provides an image connecting method, an image connecting apparatus, and a storage medium on which an image connecting program is stored, for connecting a first image and a second image such that particular connecting areas are determined for... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6377701 | Calibration method and device, device for generating calibration data and a method thereof, and information providing medium A plate 5 provided with a square lattice-work pattern thereupon is provided in the same space with two cameras 1 and 2 and a theodolite 4. This plate--unlike known plates, which have been around 4 meters by 3 meters in size and consequently so great as to... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6147716 | Picture generator and picture generation method The present invention relates to a picture generator and a picture generation method. In detail the picture generator provides a mobile photograph device acquires first video data by photographing a performer in front of a predetermined background, a came... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6052705 | Video signal processor with triple port memory A digital video signal processor using parallel processing includes an input serial-access memory having memory cells in which data is inputted into successive ones of the memory cells in response to a programmed-controlled pointer and a three or more por... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6038350 | Signal processing apparatus A multiple parallel digital signal processor having a large number of bit processing processor elements arranged in one-dimensional array is treated as a processor block, and a plurality of the processor blocks are connected in sequence, while removing re... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6006246 | Method of and apparatus for multiplying matrix data A constant matrix [TS] is resolved into three constant matrices [TSC], [TSB], [TSA]. 1st~16th rows of the constant matrix [TSC] are calculated by a first stage of additions/subtractions (adders/subtractors 11 ~116) to which elements ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5933361 | Method of and apparatus for multiplying matrix data A constant matrix TS! is resolved into three constant matrices TSC!, TSB!, TSA!. 1st~16th rows of the constant matrix TSC! are calculated by a first stage of additions/subtractions (adders/subtractors 11 ~116) to which elem... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5926583 | Signal processing apparatus A multiple parallel digital signal processor having a large number of bit processing processor elements arranged in one-dimensional array is treated as a processor block, and a plurality of the processor blocks are connected in sequence, while removing re... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5923578 | Data processing circuit A data processing circuit multiplies, by 2a, input data supplied in a time-division multiplexed manner over a plurality of lines. The data processing circuit includes first, second, and third data selectors each having first, second, and third ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5917478 | Memory allocation method and apparatus for compression and decoding picture data An information processing method used for compressing or decoding picture data wherein, in securing an area in which to store restored picture data, pre-set processing can be performed speedily without producing caching errors. Storage sites on a data mem... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5850268 | Parallel processor apparatus To provide a parallel processor apparatus which can perform processing with a good efficiency on signals comprised of data of different lengths. A parallel processor configured by a serial connection of a first parallel processor and a second parallel pro... | 12/15/1998 |
