Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial

Hironori Nakano

Kenjiro Tsuda

Tetsuya Imamura

Yoshihisa Nishigori

Akira Yoneyama

Satoru Inagaki

Yoshimori Nakase

Takayasu Miki

Toshio Makabe

Keizo Ishiguro

Minoru Nishioka

Takatoshi Nada

Yoshimasa Sogou

Yoshimasa Sogo

Hideyuki Oogose

A picture processor including a picture-deformation-information input section for inputting the information for the degree of enlargement/contraction of each portion of a picture; a decoding section for inputting encoded picture data of the picture, inputting the information for the degree of enlargement/contraction of each portion of the picture from the picture-deformation-information input section, decoding the picture data every portion of the picture in accordance with the information for the degree of enlargement/contraction, and moreover decoding the whole picture data independently of the information for the degree of enlargement/contraction; a reference picture generation section for generating a reference picture enlarged or contracted for each portion of the picture by using a picture in which the whole picture data is decoded supplied from the decoding section, the information for the degree of enlargement/contraction of each portion of the picture from the picture-deformation-information input section, and the movement vector of the picture data; and an addition section for adding a picture decoded for each portion of the picture supplied from the decoding section and a reference picture supplied from the reference-picture generation section.

Image processor, image data processor and variable length encoder/decoder

An apparatus comprises an object generation unit for generating an object based on three-dimensional object data externally input, an object position determination unit that moves the generated object according to a user input, and thereby determines an object position, a view point position determination unit that moves a view point according to the user input and thereby determines a view point position, a distance calculation unit for calculating a distance from the object position and the view point position, a frame rate determination unit for determining a frame rate corresponding to the calculated distance on the basis of a set table or formula, and a frame rate control unit and a moving image generation unit for reproducing the moving image with the frame rate of moving image data externally input reduced.

Device for controlling quality of reproduction of motion picture and method for controlling the same

In the image detector according to the present invention, a signal processing block generates a video signal by processing a pickup image signal corresponding to an image of an object which is picked up by an image pickup block and a motion detection block detects variations per unit time of luminance or a color of a portion or a whole of an image formed on the basis of the video signal as character variables of the image. A character analyzing block divides the video signal generated by the signal processing block into signals at durations each having the same character variable of the image detected by a motion detection block, and adds, to each of the divided video signals, an importance degree determined according to the character variables of the image and a duration of the signal, thereby making it possible to save memory capacities, accelerate retrieval of pickup images and enhance utilization efficiencies of transmission systems for lessening loads.

Image detector

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Katano, Japan

Hironori Nakano