Sony Corporation

Kazuhiko Ueda

Mitsuyasu Asano

Masami Ogata

Takashi Tsuchiya

Kazuki Yokoyama

Toru Nishi

Tetsuji Inada

Shinichiro Gomi

Yuichi Takagi

Takeshi Kubozono

Koji Nishida

Shigeo Ikeda

Masayoshi Kanazawa

Makoto Tsuchimochi

Masaru Suzuki

Masuyoshi Kurokawa

Shiro Omori

Shintaro Okada

Xavier Michel

Yusuke Nakamura

Ken Kikuchi

Koji Aoyama

Kazuhiko Nishibori

Yasunari Hatasawa

Hiroaki Yamajo

Takeshi Hiramatsu

Keisuke Hashimoto

Michio Koyama

Hoshin Moon

Shiro Oomori

Influences of physiological stereoscopic elements are removed by image processing using projection transformation. A horopter-plane image projection unitis designed to project a non-stereo image supplied via a signal lineonto a cylindrical plane (horopter plane) including a horopter circle. The size of the horopter circle is specified using, for example, the radius as horopter circle information. Additionally, the relationship with two eyes is specified by the interocular distance. A display surface right-eye projection unitis designed to project an image projected on the horopter plane onto a display surface for the right eye. A display surface left-eye projection unitis designed to project the image projected on the horopter plane onto a display surface for the left eye. Therefore, retinal images that are identical to each other are supplied to the two eyes to remove influences of physiological stereoscopic elements, and stereoscopic depth is given.

Stereoscopic image generation apparatus, stereoscopic image generation method, and program

A display device may include a display portion to maintain a display state in accordance with a voltage applied thereto; and a plurality of light transmission regions adjacent to the display portion at positions corresponding to a plurality of light sources arranged over the display portion.

Displaying medium and displaying apparatus

An image processing apparatus for processing an input moving image including a plurality of access units arranged every first period. The image processing apparatus includes a motion vector calculation unit which calculates a motion vector of an object included in the input moving image every second period, a motion vector conversion unit which converts the motion vector by multiplying the calculated motion vector by a predetermined gain, and a gain calculation unit which calculates the predetermined gain in accordance with a brightness in a user environment and supplies the predetermined gain to the motion vector conversion unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

At least a solid-state imaging device and one or a plurality of bare ICs that are disposed on the back face or on the back face side of the solid-state imaging apparatus and serve as peripheral circuits. The bare ICs are sealed by a resin. A circuit board may be interposed between the solid-state imaging device and the bare ICs, or the solid-state imaging device and the ICs are directly bonded together. According to another aspect, IC chips and other parts as peripheral circuits of a solid-state imaging device are disposed on the inner surface, mainly the ceiling surface, of a light-shielding case. According to a further aspect, a solid-state imaging apparatus for photoelectrically converting, with an imaging device, an image formed by introducing imaging light into the inside of the apparatus is provided with a package having a dark space in itself and accommodating the imaging device in the dark space, and a pinhole for introducing imaging light into the dark space and forming an image of an imaging object on the imaging face of the imaging device.

Solid-state imaging apparatus and camera using the same

An image-processing apparatus includes an average-luminance calculating unit that calculates the average luminance of pixels in an image, a correction-factor calculating unit that calculates a correction factor corresponding to the luminance of each pixel, a correction-value calculating unit that calculates a correction value corresponding to each pixel based on the average luminance and the correction factor, and an adding unit that adds the correction value to the luminance. The correction-value calculating unit sets the correction value to a maximum value of zero when the luminance has a maximum value.

Apparatus, method, and program for processing image

There is provided an image determining device including a frequency band signal detecting unit for dividing an image into a plurality of local regions and detecting for each local region signals of a plurality of frequency bands from the image signal; an average value calculating unit for calculating an average value of a characteristic value corresponding to an amplitude, for each local region and for each signal of the plurality of frequency bands; a local region selecting unit for selecting at least one local region based on image information; an average value selecting unit for selecting the average value corresponding to the selected local region; a relative value calculating unit for calculating a relative value of one average value with respect to another average value both of the average values being of the selected average values; and an image determining unit for determining an image based on the relative value.

Image determining device, image determining method, and program

An image display apparatus displaying an image on a panel having pixels each including a plurality of subpixels of different colors includes an interpolation operator interpolating consecutive sampling values of input color data supplied to drive the panel to correct phases of the input color data on the basis of positions of the subpixels in each pixel and output pieces of color data; a correction unit correcting signal levels of the output color data on the basis of associated predetermined gains; an angle information calculator calculating, for each pixel or subpixel, a direction of a viewer of the panel on the basis of a position of the viewer relative to the panel; and a gain setting unit setting, for the pieces of input color data, the gains so as to correct luminance levels of the subpixels, which change depending on the viewing direction, on the basis of the calculation result.

Image display apparatus and method for correcting color signals based on a sub-pixel location and a position of a viewer

An image processing device to process a moving image, which is shot by a video shooting device, in increments of access units, includes: a correcting unit to correct the access unit to be processed by changing the properties of a low-pass filter which indicates imaging blur according to parameter values showing the properties of imaging blur which occurs at the time that the moving image is shot with the video shooting device, generating an inverse filter having inverse properties as to the low-pass filter, and performing processing to apply the inverse filters as to the access unit to be processed; wherein, with a frequency of which the frequency property of the low-pass filter indicating the imaging blur is zero being zero points, performing processing to apply the inverse filter is forbidden for predetermined frequency components of the frequency components of the access unit to be processed including the zero points.

Image processing device and method and program

An image processing method in which a video signal is processed to detect a conspicuous area which is thought that a camera person intends to shoot, the method includes the steps of: detecting a motion vector in each portion of the video signal; detecting a representative value that represents a motion in two places in an outer part of a screen; detecting a motion component caused by zooming operations from the representative value; detecting a conspicuous degree by zooming in which a motion component caused by zooming operations is detected in each portion of the video signal based on the motion component caused by zooming operations; correcting a motion vector; detecting a motion component caused by making a pan and tilt from the representative value; detecting a conspicuous degree caused by making a pan and tilt; and detecting a total conspicuous degree.

Image processing method, a program of an image processing method, a recording medium on which a program of an image processing method is recorded and an image processing circuit

A setting information database associates setting information used to output a video signal or an audio signal with a corresponding viewing condition. A setting information registration unit registers setting information and a corresponding viewing condition which have been received by a setting information reception unit so as to store them in the setting information database. An adequacy determination unit determines the adequacy of recommended setting information to be stored in the setting information database. A condition extraction unit extracts pieces of setting information stored in the setting information database on the basis of a viewing condition supplied from an extraction condition reception unit. A recommendable setting derivation unit derives recommendable setting information from the extracted pieces of setting information.

Apparatus and method for managing video audio setting information and program

An image processing apparatus which performs processing on an input moving image including a plurality of access units arranged every first period, includes a motion vector calculation unit which calculates a motion vector of an object included in the input moving image every second period, a motion vector conversion unit which, converts the motion vector by multiplying the calculated motion vector by a predetermined gain, a frame compensation unit which generates an output moving image including a plurality of access units arranged every third period by performing frame compensation processing of converting or compensating for the access units on the input moving image so that the object moves in accordance with the motion vector which has been subjected to the conversion, and a gain calculation unit which calculates the gain in accordance with brightness in a user environment and supplies the obtained gain to the motion vector conversion unit.

An image determination apparatus includes a frequency band signal detecting unit, an average value calculating unit, a relative value calculating unit, and an image determination unit. The frequency band signal detecting unit detects signals belonging to a plurality of frequency bands, from an image signal. The average value calculating unit calculates average values for respective ones of the signals belonging to the plurality of frequency bands detected by the frequency band signal detecting unit. Each of the average values is a characteristic value equivalent to an amplitude. The relative value calculating unit calculates a relative value of one of the average values to another of the average values, among the average values calculated for respective ones of the plurality of frequency bands. The image determination unit for determining an image based on the relative value calculated by the relative value calculating unit. The image determined is subject to image-processing.

Image determination apparatus, image determination method, and program, and image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

At least a solid-state imaging device and one or a plurality of bare ICs that are disposed on the back face or on the back face side of the solid-state imaging apparatus and serve as peripheral circuits are provided. The bare ICs are sealed by a resin. A circuit board may be interposed between the solid-state imaging device and the bare ICs, or the solid-state imaging device and the ICs are directly bonded together. According to another aspect, IC chips and other parts as peripheral circuits of a solid-state imaging device are disposed on the inner surface, mainly the ceiling surface, of a light-shielding case. According to a further aspect, a solid-state imaging apparatus for photoelectrically converting, with an imaging device, an image formed by introducing imaging light into the inside of the apparatus is provided with a package having a dark space in itself and accommodating the imaging device in the dark space, and a pinhole for introducing imaging light into the dark space and forming an image of an imaging object on the imaging face of the imaging device.

An image processing apparatus includes a non-linear smoother for smoothing input video data with an edge component thereof preserved, and outputting smoothed video data, a subtractor for subtracting the smoothed video data from the input video data and outputting high-frequency component video data not containing the edge component, an outline extractor for extracting the edge component from the smoothed video data and outputting edge component video data, a first amplifier for varying a signal level of the edge component video data, a second amplifier for varying a signal level of the high-frequency component video data not containing the edge component, and an adder for adding video data output from the first amplifier and video data output from the second amplifier to one of the smoothed video data and the input video data.

Apparatus, method, and computer program for processing image, and recording medium storing the computer program

A display apparatus for displaying color images on a screen by projecting each-color image beams modulated with a display device includes a memory storing correction data exhibiting a registration deviation amount on the screen; a displacement calculating unit calculating the registration deviation amount every one pixel of at least one-color signal based on the correction data stored in the memory; a correcting unit correcting the signal level of the one-color signal so that the signal level becomes in proportion to a brightness level on the screen; and a registration deviation correcting unit correcting the registration deviation of the one-color signal every one pixel by interpolation arithmetic processing of the color signal corrected with the correcting unit based on the registration deviation amount calculated with the displacement calculating unit, wherein the display device of the corresponding color is driven by the color signal corrected with the registration deviation correcting unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuhiko Ueda