Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Hidetoshi Nagano

Kazuhiro Shimauchi

Mitsuharu Ohki

Takashi Totsuka

Takashi Kohashi

Masakazu Ebihara

Hironori Hattori

Naosuke Asari

Takehiro Hamada

Yuji Ono

Tomoo Mitsunaga

Kazumasa Ito

Yuji Yamaguchi

Kei Ito

Takahiro Ishii

Sho Ogura

Masatoshi Imai

Sumito Arakawa

Toshiharu Noda

An information processing device () includes a target composition calculation unit () and a composition transition determination unit (). The target composition calculation unit () calculates a target composition based on a state of a subject. The composition transition determination unit () switches a transition mode for transition to the target composition between a smooth composition transition mode and an instantaneous composition transition mode based on a situation of a change in state of the subject. The smooth composition transition mode is a transition mode in which a composition gradually transitions to the target composition. The instantaneous composition transition mode is a transition mode in which the composition instantaneously transitions to the target composition.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

The present technology relates to a controller and a control method capable of providing an imaging system which achieves cost reduction. A control unit controls a first imaging direction of a first imaging unit and a second imaging direction of a second imaging unit as a direction different from the first imaging direction in accordance with a situation of an object associated with a first image captured by the first imaging unit or a second image captured by the second imaging unit. For example, the present technology is applicable to a lecture capture system.

Controller and control method

A pre-determination process is executed for setting a person determination detection frame in a moving body detection frame surrounding a moving body region detected from an image and determining whether the image in the person determination detection frame is a person and a final determination process of analyzing a distribution state in a moving body detection frame determined to include a person in the pre-determination process and finally determining whether the image in the person determination detection frame is a person based on an analysis result. In the final determination process, an occupancy rate in a specific region in the moving body detection frame determined to include a person in the pre-determination process is calculated, and the image in the person determination detection frame is determined to be a person based on the occupancy rate.

Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method

A scale transformation adjustment unit performs a scale transformation corresponding to a change of an image range with respect to an actual image by using a scale transformation by an optical zoom of an image pickup unit that generates the actual image, and generates a coordinate transformation matrix including the scale transformation.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system for synthesizing an image

Provided are an apparatus and a method for executing a person detection process from an image. A divisional small region setting window is set and an image in the window is determined to be a person based on the number of moving body pixels of each divisional small region, and a first person candidate point is set in the window when the image is determined to be a person. A person determination process is executed based on an image feature quantity in a person determination detection frame, and a second person candidate point is set in the person determination detection frame when it is determined to be a person. A distribution state in a moving body detection frame of the person determination detection frame is analyzed, and an image in the person determination detection frame is determined to be a person based on an analysis result.

The present disclosure relates to an image processing device that reduces the computation load in image processing, an image processing method, and a program. A rough-detection component detecting unit detects markers shown in an image. A marker selecting unit selects a predetermined number of markers from among the markers detected by the rough-detection component detecting unit. A specific-detection component detecting unit detects the predetermined number of markers selected by the marker selecting unit in a more specific manner than the rough-detection component detecting unit. An estimating/processing unit estimates positions and postures of the markers based on results of the detection performed by the specific-detection component detecting unit. The present technique can be applied to an image processing device that combines the background of a person captured by a camera with another background image.

Image processing device, image processing method, and program

The present invention relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program, which combine an image with less sense of incongruity. A high accuracy marker detector and a high sensitivity marker detector each detects a marker on an image by a different detection method. The high accuracy marker detector detects the position and the posture of the marker with higher accuracy, and the high sensitivity marker detector has a lower accuracy to detect the marker than the high accuracy marker detector, but detects the position of the marker with high sensitivity by prioritizing detecting the marker. A detection result selector selects the optimal detection result from a plurality of the detection results. The present technique is applicable to, for example, an image processing device which replaces the marker with another image.

Technique for combining an image and marker without incongruity

According to an illustrative embodiment, an imaging system is provided. The system includes a first imaging unit; a second imaging unit; and an objective optical system optically coupled to the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit, wherein the objective optical system has a first direction along which light is refracted and a second direction along which light is refracted differently.

Multi-camera stereoscopic imaging apparatus for reducing the effects of aberration

There is provided an image processing device including a feature point extraction unit that extracts feature points from an input image, a feature amount calculation unit that calculates feature amounts of the feature points, an image processing unit that processes the marker image to transform the feature amounts of non-distinguishing feature points into feature amounts of distinguishing feature points when the feature points extracted from a marker image included in the input image are not distinguishing, and a marker image generation unit that generates a new marker image based on the processing result.

An image transmission method includes a step of inputting a plurality of different source moving images sequentially. The image transmission method also includes a step of creating a main image for each frame from one of the plurality of different source images. The image transmission method also includes a step of creating a secondary image for each frame from a differential image that expresses the difference between the source moving image from which the main image was created and another source moving image in a different frame. The image transmission method also includes a step of creating an integrated image by combining the main image and the secondary image. The image transmission method also includes a step of transmitting the integrated image to a receiving side.

Image transmission method, image receiving method, image transmission device, image receiving device, and image transmission system

A signal processing apparatus able to raise a processing capability in processing accompanying access to a storing means is provided. Stream control units (SCU)toaccess data at an external memory system or local memoriestoaccording to a thread under control from a host processor. Processor units (PU) arraystoperform image processing by a different thread from the thread of the SCUsto

Signal processing apparatus with signal control units and processor units operating based on different threads

The invention provides an image processing apparatus and method and an information providing medium by which a three-dimensional model can be plotted accurately. A model data production section performs a model data production process for shape data and surface color data of a measured object in a corresponding relationship to each other to produce model data and outputs the model data to a model data optimization program section. The model data optimization program section performs a model data optimization process for the model data supplied from the model data production section based on conditions such as a size on a display of the measurement object supplied from a model plotting section, an arithmetic processing performance and a data transmission performance to produce optimization model data, and supplies the optimization model data to the model plotting section. The model plotting section causes the optimization model data supplied from the model data optimization section to be plotted on a VRAM and to be displayed on a display unit.

Image processing apparatus and method, and information providing medium

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 camera parameter calculator acquires the viewpoint of the photograph device, a first video data generator generates second video data corresponding to the projected picture of a predetermined object to which perspective transformation in a case viewed from the viewpoint of the photographing device acquired in the camera parameter calculator is applied, a data delay device acquires third video data by delaying the first video data corresponding to the processing time of the camera parameter calculator and the first video data generator, a first video data synthesizer acquires first synthetic video data by synthesizing the third video data and the second video data, a second video data synthesizer acquires second synthetic video data by synthesizing the first video data and the second video data, and a picture display that displays a picture for assisting the performance of the performer based upon the second synthetic video data. Hereby, a picture for assisting the movement of the performer is hardly delayed and the performer can readily perform.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hidetoshi Nagano