Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hochiki Corporation

Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.

Keiichi Kawaguchi

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Takahiro Asai

Hiroshi Suitoh

Yoshinaga Kato

Hirokazu Takenaka

Hiroshi Ishida

Toshiaki Matsumoto

Masaru Fujita

Tomonori Aikawa

Akira Asoma

Yoshiyuki Toda

Eichi Koizumi

Makoto Torikoshi

Tomohiro Ikeda

Takamichi Katoh

Yohsuke Kawamura

Suguru Shimokawa

Hiroyuki Shibuya

Teruo Iwata

Shuji Matsumoto

An apparatus includes circuitry configured to: select, from at least two images captured in different image-capturing directions and with image-capturing ranges overlapping with each other, an image to be at foreground as viewed from a virtual camera based on an orientation or an angle of view of the virtual camera and the image-capturing directions of the at least two images; map the at least two images onto a three-dimensional object to generate a virtual image, in which the at least two images overlap with each other, having a wider angle of view than the at least two images; and perform perspective projection on the virtual image using the virtual camera, to generate a plane image, based on the selected image to be at the foreground, as a display image.

Apparatus, system, method, and non-transitory medium which map two images onto a three-dimensional object to generate a virtual image

An image processing apparatus: obtains a first image in a first projection, a second image in a second projection, and location information indicating locations of a plurality of points in the first image that are respectively associated with a plurality of points in the second image; generates, as an image to be superimposed on the first image, a superimposed image based on the second image, the superimposed image having the plurality of points in the second image at respective locations as indicated by the location information; and superimposes the superimposed image on the first image.

Image processing apparatus, image capturing system, image processing method, and recording medium

An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit to obtain a plurality of images that have been captured under different exposure conditions; an acceptance unit to receive designation of an area in a first image, the first image being one of the plurality of images; a brightness characteristics acquisition unit to obtain a brightness characteristic value of the designated area in the first image; and a combining unit to: determine a combining condition used for combining the first image and a second image according to the brightness characteristic value, the second image being any one of the plurality of images other than the first image, and combine the first image and the second image based on the combining condition to correct brightness of the designated area for display.

An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to: obtain a wide-angle image, the wide-angle image being a part of or entire captured image of an object; convert the wide-angle image into a wide-angle image having a first image definition; obtain a part of the wide-angle image as a narrow-angle image; and apply projection transformation to the narrow-angle image to generate a narrow-angle image having a projection different than a projection of the wide-angle image, the narrow-angle image having a second image definition different than the first image definition of the wide-angle image.

An image processing apparatus, an image capturing system, an image processing method, and a recording medium are provided. The image processing apparatus: obtains a first image in a first projection, and a second image in a second projection; transforms projection of at least a part of the first image corresponding to the second image, from the first projection to the second projection, to generate a third image in the second projection; extracts a plurality of feature points, respectively, from the second image and the third image; determines a corresponding area in the third image that corresponds to the second image, based on the plurality of feature points respectively extracted from the second image and the third image; transforms projection of a plurality of points in the corresponding area of the third image, from the second projection to the first projection, to obtain location information indicating locations of the plurality of points in the first projection in the first image; and stores, in a memory, the location information indicating the locations of the plurality of points in the first projection in the first image, in association with the plurality of points in the second projection in the second image.

In a communication system, a data processing terminal transmits a request for obtaining processing information for a specific service to one of an image acquisition terminal and a data processing server; receives a response including processing information from the one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server, the processing information indicating processing to be executed by at least one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server in providing the specific service; and transmits the processing information to other one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server, to cause the other one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server to configure settings based on the processing information and execute processing on the captured image data according to the settings.

Communication system, image processing method, and recording medium

An image processing apparatus obtains a first image in a first projection, and a second image in a second projection; transforms projection of a first corresponding area of the first image to generate a third image in the second projection; identifies a plurality of feature points in the second image and the third image; determines a second corresponding area in the third image, based on the plurality of feature points; generate a reference shape in the second projection, having a relation of projection transformation with the second image; transforms projection of the reference shape to generate a reference shape in the first projection; calculates reference shape conversion data for converting the reference shape to the second corresponding area, using data for transforming projection from the second image to the second corresponding area; and stores the reference shape conversion data in association with reference location data.

An image processing apparatus detecting a plurality of joint positions between a plurality of input images includes a target image generation unit configured to generate a plurality of target images to be searched in a second input image among the input images from a first input image among the input images; a characteristic amount calculation unit configured to calculate a characteristic amount for each of the target images generated by the target image generation unit; and a joint position determination unit configured to determine the joint position for a target image of interest among the target images having the characteristic amounts calculated by the characteristic amount calculation unit depending on the characteristic amount.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and imaging system

An apparatus, system, and method for controlling display, each of which: obtains a first image and a second image, the second image being superimposed on the first image; controls a display to display an image of a predetermined area of the first image, such that the predetermined area of the first image matches a display area of the display; and in response to an instruction to start displaying the first image superimposed with the second image, controls the display to display the image of the predetermined area of the first image, such that the second image being superimposed on the first image is displayed within the predetermined area of the first image.

Apparatus, system, and method of controlling display, and recording medium

An apparatus, system, and method are provided, each of which: obtains a first image in a first projection, and a second image in a second projection; obtains area specification information specifying an area in the second image; and associates location information to be used for superimposing the second image on the first image with the area specification information, or generates location information based on the area specification information.

An apparatus for controlling image capturing, includes circuitry to control image capturing operation of each one of a first image capturing device and a second image capturing device, so as to cause the first image capturing device and the second image capturing device to cooperate with each other to perform linked image capturing, the first image capturing device capable of capturing an image with an angle of view wider than that of the second image capturing device. The circuitry controls one of the first image capturing device and the second image capturing device to start image capturing in response to starting of image capturing by other one of the first image capturing device and the second image capturing device.

Apparatus, system, and method of controlling image capturing, and recording medium

An imaging device incorporated in an omnidirectional video capturing system including an imager, a memory, and a transmitter. The imager includes imaging lenses to capture images from a plurality of directions. The memory stores projective transformation data. The projective transformation data includes photographing direction data representing the plurality of directions and projection data representing image heights of the images associated with angles at which light rays enter the imaging lens. The transmitter reads the projective transformation data stored in the memory, and transmits frame data of the images and the projective transformation information to an image processing device of the omnidirectional video capturing system.

Imaging device and method

An apparatus, system, and method for controlling a display, each of which: controls the display to display an image of a predetermined area of a first image, the first image being superimposed with a second image; determines whether the second image is viewed by a user; and switches a display of the second image between a first display in which the second image is displayed as a still image and a second display in which the second image is displayed as a moving image, based on a determination result indicating whether the second image is viewed by the user.

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Keiichi Kawaguchi