Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Eita Ono

Akihiro Katayama

Koichiro Tanaka

Masahiro Suzuki

Mahoro Anabuki

Tsuyoshi Kuroki

Shinya Urisaka

Hiroaki Sato

Hiroshi Okazaki

A display apparatus for displaying a virtual image superposed upon a real world image, which can automatically set the focus of a lens to the virtual image, a virtual world image object having a high importance degree or a real world image object having a high importance degree. The display apparatus has a lens for capturing light from a real world, a lens state control unit for controlling a state of the lens including a focus, a storage unit for storing computer image data, a computer image generation unit for generating a computer image by using the computer image data stored in the storage unit in accordance with lens state information of the lens state and the like; and a synthesis display unit for synthesizing an image captured via the lens and the generated computer image and displaying a synthetic image.

Display apparatus and information processing method

Scenes having arbitrary sizes can be collectively edited. Dynamic image data is managed by a tree structure in accordance with scenes. An array of scenes belonging to a higher order hierarchy than a reference hierarchy by one level is displayed in a scene display area, an array of scenes belonging to the reference hierarchy is displayed in a scene display area, and an array of scenes belonging to a given scene and having an order hierarchy lower by one level than the given scene which is designated by an operator and selected from scenes displayed in the reference hierarchy is displayed in a scene display area. An arbitrary scene displayed in the scene display area is designated, and processing (copy, move, divide, and synthesize) for the designated scene is designated. A tree structure portion of the designated scene is modified in accordance with the designated processing.

Image processing apparatus for editing a dynamic image having a first and a second hierarchy classifying and synthesizing plural sets of: frame images displayed in a tree structure

An image processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention has the following steps: the multi-viewpoint image input step for inputting images obtained from a plurality of viewpoint positions arranged on different straight lines, the detection step ( ) for detecting a viewpoint position and its view direction in which a user is seeing at the viewpoint position, and the image generation step ( ) for generating a virtual image viewed from the predetermined viewpoint by using the images input in the multi-viewpoint image input step on the basis of the detected predetermined viewpoint position and the view direction. In the image generation step, optimal corresponding points are obtained by detecting a straight line having a width on an epipolar plane image corresponding to the input images, thereby generating an image.

Multi-viewpoint image processing method and apparatus

In a system including a server to which a camera is connected, and clients which can remote-control the image pickup conditions of the camera, the server generates a message indicating a state associated with the camera control authority, and issues it to the individual clients. When each client determines that the received message is the one indicating the state associated with the camera control, it acquires the control authority status and its remained time from the received message, counts the remained time, and displays the remained time.

Camera control system, apparatus, and method which includes a camera

The present invention relates to an image data processing apparatus for generating an image corresponding to a view point, which is constituted by multi view points image data hold means for holding a plurality of image data having mutually different positions as view points, corresponding point trace detection means for sequentially detecting a coefficient which defines a trace of mutually corresponding points among the multi view points image data and member for outputting the coefficient of each of a plurality of the corresponding point traces present in the multi view points image data.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Eita Ono