Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

I-pro Co., Ltd.

Panasonic I-pro Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.

Jun Ikeda

Tsuyoshi Hirashima

Shuichi Ojima

Shinya Kiuchi

Ryouta Hata

Satoshi Nakano

Tetsuo Tanaka

Masashi Koga

Mari Yasuda

Sumio Yokomitsu

Manabu Nakamura

Marie Kuwahara

Koji Arimura

Satoshi Kawakami

Ryota Hata

Tadamasa Toma

Satoshi Kondo

Haruo Yamashita

Katsuhiro Kanamori

Takeshi Ito

Tadanori Tezuka

Yuji Shimizu

Yoshinori Kumamoto

Kenichi Noridomi

Hitoshi Fujimoto

Yuichi Kawaguchi

Yasuo Yomogida

Satoshi Kataoka

Tadashi Kayada

Masaya Sato

Tatsuya Tamaru

Naoyuki Katou

Kazuhiko Nakamura

Yohei Aoki

Kousuke Kubota

Hiroyuki Ohno

Yukiko Inoue

Hirotaka Nozaki

Manabu Higuchi

A monitoring camera includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an imaging area, and a processor configured to determine a first intensity and a second intensity to be different from each other. The first intensity indicates an intensity of a noise reduction processing executed on an attention portion in the captured image of the imaging area, and the second intensity indicates an intensity of a noise reduction processing executed on a non-attention portion in the captured image. The first intensity is lower than the second intensity. The processor is configured to execute the noise reduction processing on the attention portion based on the determined first intensity, to execute the noise reduction processing on the non-attention portion based on the determined second intensity, and to output an image after the noise reduction processing.

Monitoring camera and image quality improving method

A monitoring camera includes an image-capturing element that has a plurality of pixels, and that is configured to acquire, for each of the pixels, a blue component signal, a red component signal, and a green component signal corresponding to light which is from a subject and which is incident through fog or haze, an optical filter that is disposed between the subject and the image-capturing element, and that is configured to transmit specific-wavelength light having a wavelength equal to or larger than a specific wavelength among light from the subject, and a processor that is configured to generate and output a captured image of the subject based on either a blue component signal, a red component signal and a green component signal for each of the pixels corresponding to the specific-wavelength light or a blue component signal for each of the pixels corresponding to the specific-wavelength light.

Monitoring camera and image processing method

The monitoring camera is capable of performing artificial intelligence, and includes a capturing unit configured to capture an image of the imaging area, a detection unit configured to detect a person in the captured image of the imaging area based on the artificial intelligence, and a controller configured to determine a position of a face of the person in the captured image and determines a camera parameter of the monitoring camera based on a brightness or a moving speed of the face.

Monitoring camera, camera parameter determining method and storage medium

A camera generates a first video having visibility lower than a predetermined visibility suitable for a process using a video in a video output apparatus, encodes the generated first video, and transmits the encoded first video, and an adjustment instruction including a parameter for adjusting the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility, to the video output apparatus. The video output apparatus acquires the first video and the adjustment instruction, transmitted from the camera, adjusts the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility by using the parameter, based on the adjustment instruction, and outputs the adjusted video to an output unit.

Video encoding system and video encoding method

There is provided a camera apparatus including: a capturing unit that includes a lens to which light, from a capturing area including IR light and visible light is incident, and that performs capturing based on the light; an IR lighting unit that irradiates the capturing area with IR light; and a controller that generates an instruction to change a focal position of the lens and an instruction to adjust a quantity of the IR light, in which the controller calculates an IR light ratio which indicates a ratio of the quantity of the IR light to the light included in a captured image of the capturing area, and selects and performs any one of a first focusing processing to change the focal position of the lens corresponding to the IR light, a second focusing processing to change the focal position of the lens corresponding to the visible light, and an IR light quantity adjustment determination processing to determine whether or not to adjust the quantity of the IR light, based on the IR light ratio.

Camera apparatus and capturing control method of camera apparatus

To provide an image encoding device that can record desired hours of encoded data in a recording medium having a predetermined storage capacity, in a VBR encoding system. An image encoding device includes an image encoding unit that encodes a plurality of sequentially input images to generate a plurality of encoded data that configures video data, an average image complexity calculation unit that calculates average image complexity of complexity of the input images in a fluctuation cycle, based on the plurality of encoded data, and a code amount control unit that controls a code amount of the encoded data generated in the image encoding unit based on the average image complexity.

Image encoding device, captured image recording system, imaging device, method of encoding image, and image encoding program

An image transmission device includes an image input unit that inputs a plurality of continuous images, a data amount reduction unit that reduces an amount of data of the plurality of images that are input to the image input unit, and generates a data amount reduced image, and a transmission unit that transmits the data amount reduced image to an image reception device that performs a recognition/authentication process with respect to the data amount reduced image. The data amount reduction unit reduces the amount of data of the plurality of images by a reduction method corresponding to the recognition/authentication process that is performed in the image reception device.

Image transmission device, image transmission method, image transmission program, image recognition and authentication system, and image reception device

A video transmission apparatus detects a target object to be monitored from images obtained by imaging a monitoring area, tracks the detected target object, obtains existence time from appearance to disappearance of the target object, and transmits a data volume reduced image of the target object to a video reception apparatus. The video reception apparatus analyzes the data volume reduced image transmitted from the video transmission apparatus and transmits a video request of the target object to the video transmission apparatus) based on input made according to the result of the analysis. When the video request transmitted from the video reception apparatus is received, the video transmission apparatus generates a monitoring video from the appearance to the disappearance of the target object based on the existence time of the target object and transmits the monitoring video to the video reception apparatus.

Video monitoring system

An image encoding device includes a degree of importance calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance on each of a plurality of input images which are consecutively input, a degree of importance period calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance period which is a period of the degree of importance, an average degree of importance calculating unit that calculates an average degree of importance which is an average of degrees of importance of times corresponding to a current in each of a plurality of previous degree of importance periods, an image quality control parameter calculating unit that calculates an image quality control parameter based on the average degree of importance, and an image encoding unit that encodes the input image using the image quality control parameter and generates video data.

Image encoding device, photographing system, photographing recording system, image encoding method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing image encoding control program

To provide a multiplexing method which facilitates a reproduction process and reduces unpleasantness felt by a viewer about image quality. The multiplexing method includes: a step of judging whether or not a clip to be coded should be coded as part of a continuous reproduction unit in which bitstreams are structured so as to allow continuous reproduction (S); a step of determining a color space that is common within the continuous reproduction unit when it is judged that the clip should be coded as part of the continuous reproduction unit (S); a step of generating bitstreams by coding the clip to be coded according to a determined color space (S); and a step of packet-multiplexing bitstreams (S).

Multiplexing method and recording medium

An image processing device includes a target correction amount calculating unit operable to calculate a target correction amount based on input image signals, a frame memory operable to store the input image signals, and a scene change amount calculating unit operable to calculate a scene change amount based on an input image signal of a present frame and an input image signal of a previous frame. Moreover, the image processing device includes a correction amount calculating unit operable to calculate a correction amount for the input image signal of the present frame, based on the target correction amount and the scene change amount, and a correcting unit operable to perform image quality correction to the input image signal of the present frame to generate a corrected input image signal, thereby outputting a corrected input image signal as an output image signal.

Image processing device, image display device, and image processing method

A specific color-adjusting stage adjusts data of an inputted color with respect to a specific color. A total color-adjusting stage adjusts the data of the inputted color with respect to a total color. The specific color-adjusting stage and the total color-adjusting stage are provided in parallel. A composing unit composes linearly an output of the specific color-adjusting stage and an output of the total color-adjusting stage. When a degree that the total color-adjusting stage adjusts the data of the inputted color increases, then a degree that the specific color-adjusting stage adjusts the data of the inputted color decreases, and vice versa.

Apparatus and method for adjusting inputted color concerning total and specific colors

There is provided a display control method capable of reducing unnecessary processing and unnecessary power consumption caused by is. The display control method uses an update judgment unit () for judging whether a display content has been updated, a characteristic amount extraction unit () for obtaining the characteristic amount of the display content, a control unit () for the characteristic amount extraction unit () to reference the obtained characteristic amount and decide a correction parameter, and a display content correction unit () for correcting the display content according to the correction parameter and outputting the corrected display content to a display device (). When the update judgment unit () has judged that the display content is not updated, the control unit () cuts off power supply to the characteristic amount extraction unit ().

Display control method and device thereof

A video signal converter has a target pixel setting unit which sets up a position of a target pixel of an input video signal, a position parameter feeding unit which supplies a position parameter depending on the position of the target pixel set by the target pixel setting unit, and a characteristic amount calculating unit which calculates a characteristic amount of the input video signal. The video signal converter also has a detection-threshold setting unit which sets up a detection threshold based on the characteristic amount calculated by the characteristic amount calculating unit, a compensation parameter setting unit which determines a compensation parameter based on the position parameter supplied by the position parameter feeding unit and the detection threshold set by the detection-threshold setting unit, and a multiplier which converts a signal of the target pixel set by the target pixel setting unit in the input video signal, based on the compensation parameter determined by the compensation parameter setting unit, and outputs the conversion result.

Video signal converter and video display device

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Jun Ikeda