Sony Corporation

Masami Ogata

Kazuhiko Ueda

Takafumi Morifuji

Shinichiro Gomi

Takashi Tsuchiya

Suguru Ushiki

Teruhiko Suzuki

Tak Yen Tong

Seiji Kimura

Yasunari Hatasawa

Yusuke Nakamura

Masaru Suzuki

Yuji Ando

Masaaki Hara

Yoshiki Okamoto

Masato Akao

Takuro Kawai

Kyoko Fukuda

Nobuyoshi Miyahara

Yosuke Yamamoto

Hisafumi Motoe

Jean-Aymeric Altherr

Andrew Mackinnon

Achieving a configuration that reduces the artificiality to give a strange feeling about the viewpoint of the user displayed on the display unit appearing different from the actual viewpoint. Photographed images from a plurality of different viewpoints are input to generate a plurality of virtual viewpoint images, and then, the plurality of virtual viewpoint images is combined to generate a combined image to be output on a display unit. The virtual viewpoint image generation unit generates a plurality of user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images each corresponding to each of viewpoints of each of a plurality of viewing users viewing the display unit, while the image combining unit extracts a portion from each of the plurality of user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images in accordance with a relative position between the viewing user and the display unit, and combines the extracted image to generate a combined image. The combined image is generated by extracting a display region image located at a front position of the viewing user at the viewpoint corresponding to the virtual viewpoint image from among the user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images corresponding to individual viewing users.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

A display image is superimposed and displayed on an outside image in a preferred manner. An optical system superimposes a display image displayed on a display device onto an outside image, and leads the display image to an eye of an observer. A display control unit controls the display size and the display position of the display image on the display device so that the display image is displayed in an image superimposition region (a flat region) detected from the outside image. For example, the display control unit controls the display state of the display image in accordance with the state of the image superimposition region in the outside image. Also, the display control unit performs control to selectively display the display image in a line-of-sight region or outside the line-of-sight region in accordance with the line of sight of the observer.

Image display apparatus and image display method

An image processing apparatus includes a physical property parameter acquisition unit and a texture control unit. The physical property parameter acquisition unit is configured to acquire a physical property parameter on a subject in an image. The texture control unit is configured to control a texture of the subject in the image by using the physical property parameter acquired by the physical property parameter acquisition unit.

Image processing apparatus and method for modifying a display texture of an image

It is made possible to correct a positional gap between an optical system and an eye of an observer appropriately. Based on an eyeball position of the eye of the observer, a positional relationship between the optical system, which leads an image displayed on a display element to the eye of the observer, and the eye of the observer, that is, a positional gap therebetween is detected. Based on the positional relationship detected in such a manner, the positional relationship between the optical system and the eye of the observer is corrected. For example, the positional gap is electronically corrected by performing shift control of a position of the image displayed on the display element. Also, for example, the positional gap is mechanically corrected by performing shift control of the optical system including the display element.

Image display apparatus and method for displaying image

To reduce burden of a viewer at the time of performing stereoscopic display by a stereoscopic display device and to show a stereoscopic image in a natural and comfortable manner. A disparity estimating unitestimates disparity from the left and right images of an input image to generate a disparity map. A disparity analyzing unitanalyzes the disparity map to generate a disparity control parameter for performing suitable disparity control. A disparity control unitcontrols the content of processing at an image conversion unitin accordance with the disparity control parameter. The image conversion unitperforms image conversion on the input image based on the control by the disparity control unitto output an output image. The image conversion unitperforms image conversion of two steps. The image conversion unitperforms shift processing for shifting the relative positions of the left and right images of the input image in the horizontal direction as first step image conversion, for example. The image conversion unitperforms scaling processing for performing enlargement/reduction of the entire screen with each center of the left and right images as a reference, as second step image conversion, for example.

Stereoscopic image display system, disparity conversion device, disparity conversion method, and program

An information processing apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving spatial positions associated with a plurality of images. The method determines displacements of the images in opposing first and second horizontal directions, based on at least the spatial positions. The method then generates, using a processor, first and second composites of the images, based on the determined displacements.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A plurality of processes for emphasizing a stereoscopic effect of an image is supposed and a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes is integrated in a mode suitable for the image. An image processing device is provided with a stereoscopic effect emphasis processing unit and an integration processing unit. The stereoscopic effect emphasis processing unit executes a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes on an input image. The integration processing unit integrates results of a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes according to an integration coefficient used when a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes is integrated obtained by analyzing the input image. This may be further provided with an image analyzing unit which analyzes the input image to generate the integration coefficient used when a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes is integrated.

Image processing device, image processing method, and program

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 parallax detection unit generates a parallax map indicating a parallax of each pixel of an image formed by right and left images and generates a reliability map indicating reliability of the parallax. A depth information estimation unit generates a depth information map indicating the depth of a subject on the image based on the right and left images. A depth parallax conversion unit converts the depth information map into a pseudo-parallax map using a conversion equation used to convert depth information to parallax information. A parallax synthesis unit synthesizes the parallax map and the pseudo-parallax map to generate a corrected parallax map based on the reliability map. The present technology is applicable to an image processing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

There is provided an image processing apparatus including a left eye image input unit configured to input a left eye image (L image) which is a left eye image signal applied to three-dimensional image display, a right eye image input unit configured to input a right eye image (R image) which is a right eye image signal applied to three-dimensional image display, a parallax information generating unit configured to generate parallax information from the left eye image (L image) and the right eye image (R image), and a virtual view point image generating unit configured to receive the left eye image (L image), the right eye image (R image), and the parallax information, and generate virtual view point images including a view point image other than view points of the received LR images.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for generating multi-view point image

An image processing apparatus includes a first display control unit that causes a display unit to display a first 3D image, a receiving unit that receives, from a user, a message indicating whether an amount of parallax of the first 3D image being displayed on the display unit is within an allowable range, a determining unit that determines an estimated allowable range on the basis of the message received by the receiving unit so that if the message indicates that the amount of parallax of the 3D image being displayed is not within the allowable range, the amount of parallax is not included in the estimated allowable range; and a second display control unit that causes the display unit to display a second 3D image on the basis of the estimated allowable range.

An image processing apparatus includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, and a correction processor. The first acquiring unit acquires an intended viewing environment parameter, which is a parameter of an intended viewing environment, together with image data of a three-dimensional picture. The second acquiring unit acquires an actual viewing environment parameter, which is a parameter of an actual viewing environment for a user viewing the three-dimensional picture. The correction processor corrects the three-dimensional picture in accordance with a difference between the acquired intended viewing environment parameter and the acquired actual viewing environment parameter.

A video signal processing method includes the steps of processing an input video signal and outputting an output video signal, detecting a temporal feature from the input video signal, smoothing the temporal feature by filtering and outputting the smoothed temporal feature, and controlling processing performed in the processing step in accordance with the temporal feature smoothed in the smoothing step. In this method, the smoothing step switches a characteristic of the filtering in accordance with the attribute of the input video signal.

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Masami Ogata