Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Eito Sakakima

Shuntaro Aratani

Kazuna Maruyama

Satoshi Hanamitsu

Satoshi Ukawa

Koji Mito

Yuuka Fujinaka

Yuji Tanaka

Tatsuya Kimoto

Tetsu Fukuda

Nobuharu Ichihashi

Noriyuki Yoshigahara

There is provided with an imaging control apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains capturing information that defines a target position of a subject, that is an imaging target, in an image to be captured by an imaging unit. A detecting unit detects the subject that is the imaging target from an image captured by the imaging unit. An evaluating unit derives an evaluation pertaining to the imaging of the imaging target for the image, based on a position of the subject that is the imaging target detected by the detecting unit and the target position. A transmitting unit transmits data including the image and a result of the evaluation derived by the evaluating unit for the image.

Imaging control apparatus, server apparatus, imaging control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An information processing apparatus for generating a virtual camera path by interpolation using a plurality of key frames to be a reference in the virtual camera path that indicates a path of a position of a virtual camera, comprising: a designation unit configured to accept a key frame designation operation in accordance with a user operation; a specifying unit configured to specify the number of frames between a first key frame that has already been set and a second key frame designated by the user operation; a change amount specifying unit configured to specify an amount of change per unit of time of a virtual camera parameter between the first and second key frames based on the number of frames specified by the specifying unit; and a notification unit configured to notify, to a user, the specified amount of change.

Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium

An object is to efficiently generate virtual viewpoint images in different image formats. The image generation system includes a plurality of rendering modules. Then, virtual viewpoint information indicating a virtual viewpoint, for generating a virtual viewpoint image adapted to a predetermined image format, is converted into a plurality of pieces of virtual viewpoint information which indicate a plurality of virtual viewpoints, based on performance of a plurality of rendering modules. Then, based on the plurality of pieces of virtual viewpoint information after being converted, contents of rendering that should be executed are allocated to at least part of the plurality of rendering modules. Then, a virtual viewpoint image adapted to the predetermined image format is generated by using results of rendering processing by the at least part of the rendering modules.

Image generation system, method for generating a virtual viewpoint image, and storage medium

A reduction in quality of a virtual viewpoint image is suppressed. An image processing apparatus specifies an image in which a specific position in a target object is not occluded by another object from among a plurality of images obtained by the plurality of imaging apparatuses based on a pixel value of the plurality of images; determines, based on the specified image, a value of a pixel corresponding to the specific position in the virtual viewpoint image to be generated based on the plurality of images; and generates the virtual viewpoint image including the target object based on the determined value of the pixel.

Image processing apparatus, control method for an image processing apparatus, and medium

An image processing apparatus that generates a virtual viewpoint image: obtains information related to installation of cameras for capturing images used for generating a virtual viewpoint image and viewpoint information related to a virtual viewpoint; determines based on the information related to installation of the cameras and the viewpoint information an image processing method to be used for generating a virtual viewpoint image; and generates the virtual viewpoint image corresponding to the virtual viewpoint by using the determined image processing method.

Image processing apparatus and method

A control station manages a set of a plurality of camera groups to which a plurality of cameras belong, determines respectively different reference times for the plurality of camera groups, and controls the plurality of cameras such that the cameras that respectively belong to the plurality of camera groups execute capturing according to the determined reference times.

Image generating system, image generation method, control apparatus, and control method

An image generation apparatus that is configured to generate a virtual viewpoint image comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain shape data indicating a three-dimensional shape of an object captured from a plurality of directions by a plurality of cameras; a selecting unit configured to select, based on a result of an evaluation on the shape data obtained by the obtaining unit, a method of determining a pixel value in the virtual viewpoint image from among a plurality of methods; and a generating unit configured to generate a virtual viewpoint image by the method of determining the pixel value selected by the selecting unit, wherein the virtual viewpoint image based on images obtained based on capturing by the plurality of cameras, the shape data obtained by the obtaining unit, and viewpoint information representing a virtual viewpoint.

Image generation apparatus and method of generating virtual view-point image

An image output apparatus according to the present invention includes: communicating units; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, for each of the communicating unit connected to an image display apparatus, correspondence information; a setting unit configured to set, for each of the communicating unit, an output mode; and an outputting unit configured to output, for each of the communicating unit, image data based on an output mode set with respect to the communicating unit, wherein the setting unit automatically sets a first output mode with respect to a communicating unit for which the correspondence information has been acquired.

Image output apparatus, image display apparatus, control method of image output apparatus, and control method of image display apparatus

Image processing apparatus which acquires: a first field of view of an user with respect to a first region in an image on a display; a second field of view of the user with respect to a second region that corresponds to the first region on printed matter on which the image is printed; first information on spectral characteristics of the display; and second information on spectral characteristics of reflected light from the printed matter; and converts image data to be displayed on the display based on the first field of view, the first information, the second field of view, and the second information so that a color perceived by the user in the first field of view on the display becomes a color that corresponds to a color perceived by the user in the second field of view on the printed matter.

Image processing apparatus and control method thereof

A television apparatus includes a plurality of receiving units. The television apparatus includes a first receiving unit configured to receive a channel which broadcasts a program whose video image is displayed on a display unit, a second receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of channels while the video image is being displayed, a program information management unit configured to store genre information about programs broadcasted on the plurality of channels, and a control unit configured to determine a periodic check order of receiving the plurality of channels based on the genre information about the programs read by the program information management unit and to control the second receiving unit to periodically check and receive the plurality of channels according to the periodic check order.

Television apparatus and control method thereof

The content switching apparatus includes at least a position identifying unit () and a play control unit (). In switching from a first content (broadcast program) to a second content (VOD content), the position identifying unit identifies the position of the image in the second content, the image being the same as the first image of the first content. The play control unit determines a play starting position in the second content based on the position identified by the position identifying unit. By determining the play starting position of the second content in this way, the image can be properly switched even in the case where the time length or the content configuration is different.

Content switching apparatus and content switching method

An image analysis unit analysis information appended to an image and calculates the image capture time for each of the images. A time difference calculating unit calculates the image capture time difference between images arranged by an image managing unit by referring to the image capture time for each of the images calculated by the image analysis unit. A user instruction information managing unit sets a threshold that is used in the selection of images to be displayed in one screen and that serves as a determination reference for time differences based on input information of the user. The display determination unit compares an image capture time difference calculated by the time difference calculating unit and a threshold set by the user instruction information managing unit, and selects the images that satisfy this threshold as images to be display in the screen. A display processing unit displays thumbnails of images selected by the display determining unit in an index display in one screen in an image capture time sequence.

Image processing apparatus and control method for image processing apparatus

In the case where the receiving apparatusobtains, from a content archive, and reproduces a first video content having the same content as a program being broadcast, the difference of the ending time between the first video content being played and the program being broadcast is detected (S). In the case where there is a difference in the ending time (YES in step S), the receiving apparatusobtains, from the content archive, a second video content having the same content as the next program started following the program being broadcast (S, S), and reproduces the second video content following the first video content being played (Sto S).

Receiving apparatus and control method thereof

The present application discloses a signal processing apparatus. Particularly, it discloses a signal processing apparatus comprising a first decoder for generating video data by decoding data and a second decoder for generating video data by decoding data, wherein, regarding predetermined operations for generating the video data by decoding the data, the number of the predetermined operations that can be executed by the second decoder for each unit time is lower than that of the predetermined operations that can be executed by the first decoder for each unit time.

Signal processing apparatus

In order to implement image encoding appropriately, an image encoding method includes: a detection step of detecting that data having a predetermined value exists within a data group (an encoded image) configured of a series of data strings; a transformation step of transforming the predetermined value that exists within the data group into another value; and a situating step of situating the data having the predetermined value at a desired position within the data group.

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Eito Sakakima