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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8026951 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program where the device includes a simple-type angle detecting unit simply detects the angle as continuity using correlation from an input image. The device includes an input configured to input image data m... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7889944 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program where the device includes an image data continuity detector configured to detect continuity of image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by real world light signals being cast upon a plural... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7778439 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program and a learning device, where the learning device includes a computer configured to compute image data corresponding to light signals when the light signals corresponding to second image data pass thro... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7734113 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the device includes a data continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of detecting element... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7715643 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus An image processing device for processing images of background images and moving objects. A region specifying unit specifies a mixed region made up of a mixture of a foreground object component and a background object component, and a non-mixed region made up of one... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7672534 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world by taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing d... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668395 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing d... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668393 | Signal processing device, method, and program An apparatus and method which takes into consideration the real world where data was acquired, and enables obtaining of processing results which are more accurate and more precise as to phenomena in the real world. A data continuity detecting unit detects the contin... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7619655 | Communication apparatus and method The present invention enables the high speed processing of a foreground component image and a background component image associated with images received on a network platform. A client computer outputs information specifying image data to a separation server. The se... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7612909 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus based on the difference between a signal detected by a sensor and the real world An apparatus for detecting a mixed area in frames. An object extracting unit extracts a foreground object from an input image and generates an area-specified object formed of the foreground object and a value indicating that the foreground object belongs to a backgr... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609292 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the device includes an image data continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of first image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of dete... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7602992 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and program are capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599573 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, and a program, obtains processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. In the event that the light sig... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596268 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing d... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7595800 | Signal processing device, method, and program A data processing apparatus and method, where the apparatus includes a region selecting unit configured to select a region corresponding to a pixel of interest, a frequency detector configured to detect a frequency corresponding to pixels belonging to the region, a ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593601 | Image processing device, method, and program The present invention enables processing results which are more accurate and which have higher precision as to events of the real world to be obtained. A non-continuity component extracting unit 201 detects discontinuity portions of pixel values of multiple p... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7593594 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the device includes a data continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of a first image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of detecting... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590304 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the image processing device includes an angle detector configured to detect an angle between a reference axis of data continuity with image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world b... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7576777 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the image processing device includes a continuity region detector configured to detect a region having data continuity within image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cas... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7567727 | Image processing device, method, and program An image processing device, method, and program are capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the real world where data has been acquired. The image processing... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561188 | Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program The present invention relates an image processing device and method, recording medium, and program. A simple-type angle detecting unit 901 simply detects the angle as continuity using correlation from an input image. A determining unit 902, based on th... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7551328 | Image reading apparatus and method The present invention enables image data with good S/N and high resolution to be obtained reliably in a short reading time. A CCD 102 is formed by arranging line sensors, in which detecting elements having a time integration effect are arranged in a direction... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7536049 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus An object of the present invention is to enable the detection of a mixture ratio indicating the mixture state of a plurality of objects, such as a background image and a moving object image. A normal-equation adder 541 extracts mixed pixel data according to a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7511730 | Image processing apparatus and method and image pickup apparatus A system to generate a three-dimensional image from a two-dimensional image in accordance with the mixture state of images. A foreground/background component image generator generates, from image data including a foreground area consisting of only foreground object ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7483565 | Image processing device and method, learning device and method, recording medium, and program With the present invention, data continuity is used at the time of converting an input image into high-quality image data with higher quality than the input image data, to obtain processing results which are more accurate and have higher precision. A class tap extra... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7477761 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus An apparatus and method for separating a background image and an object image. The apparatus comprises an area specifying unit for specifying areas of the image. The area specifying unit specifies, in a first period-of time, an uncovered background area in which for... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477289 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus An object of the present invention is to make it possible to detect the mixture state of an image. An area specifying unit 103 specifies, in correspondence with image data, a mixed area in which foreground object components forming a foreground object and bac... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7450764 | Image processing device and method, learning device and method, recording medium, and program With the present invention, data continuity is used at the time of converting an input image into high-quality image data with higher quality than the input image data, to obtain processing results which are more accurate and have higher precision. A class tap extra... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447378 | Image processing device, method, and program The present invention enables processing results which are more accurate and which have higher precision as to events of the real world to be obtained. (An inverse gamma correction unit 5001 applies inverse gamma correction to an input image wherein light sig... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7412075 | Picture processing apparatus for processing picture data in accordance with background information The present invention relates to a picture processing apparatus that allows detection of an area in which a plurality of objects, such as a background picture and a picture of a moving object, is mixed. A background picture generation unit 121 generates a bac... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409074 | Information processing apparatus and system using pixel data The present invention relates to an image processing device enabling detection of a mixture ratio indicating the state of mixture between multiple objects. A contour region information generating unit 421 and a normal equation generating unit 422 extra... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7396269 | Method for fabricating organic EL element The main object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing an EL element, capable of preventing deterioration of the element characteristic by the developing agent or the rinsing agent, while providing the advantages of the photolithography me... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7352917 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus The present invention aims to recognize the mixture state of images. An area specifying unit 103 specifies a mixed area in which foreground object components which form a foreground object and background object components which form a background object are mi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340106 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus The present invention allows the amount of movement indicating the movement of an object within an exposure period to be obtained. An estimated-mixture-ratio processor 401 calculates an estimated mixture ratio for each pixel and an estimated motion vector by ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336818 | Image processing device and method, and image-taking device The present invention allows an image to be processed corresponding to the mixture of a background image and an image of a moving object. A region specifying unit specifies a mixed region wherein foreground object components making up foreground objects and backgrou... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7260260 | Image processing apparatus and method An object of the present invention is to separate in real time a captured image into a foreground component image and a background component image. An image captured by an image-capturing unit 74 is separated into a foreground component image and a background... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7221778 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus The present invention allows detection of an exposure time of an image that has already been captured. A motion detector 102 detects an amount of inter-frame movement of a foreground object in a designated frame based on the designated frame and a frame prece... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218791 | Image processing device and method, and imaging device The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for generating an image having a high density in the direction of time and having a natural-looking motion blur. The correlation calculators 103 and 104 respectively calculate a correlation... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7181080 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus An object of the present invention is to make it possible to specify a background image area, a moving object image area, and an image area in which the mixture of the background image area and the moving object image area occurs. A mixture-ratio calculator 103 | 02/20/2007 |
| 7154541 | Image processing device In accordance with the present invention, a mixture ratio indicating the state of mixture of a plurality of objects such as a background image and the image of an object is detected. A pixel value setter 502 extracts background pixel data while also extractin... | 12/26/2006 |
