Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nhk Engineering Services, Inc.

Seiki Inoue

Yuichi Ninomiya

Kazumasa Enami

Kunihiko Hontani

Masao Fujiwara

Hideki Mitsumine

Hideo Noguchi

Hiroki Koyama

Tadoru Kato

A 3D object graphics display device for storing information about 3D objects such as works of art or buildings, and for displaying them on a 2D display. The '3D shape data' and 'texture data' of a 3D object is stored in a memory in advance. When an operator operates a manipulator, a 2D image is generated, which would be acquired when the 3D object is seen from a viewpoint indicated by the manipulator, by using the 3D shape data and the texture data in every 1/60 sec or less interval (that is, a minimum display interval of the display device). The 2D image is shown on the display, giving the operator a virtual-reality-like feeling as if he was actually holding the 3D object.

3D object graphics display device, 3D object graphics display method,

An image region extraction capable of extracting an image of a significant moving object in a dynamic image accurately and easily at high speed. The operator is required to manually enter the rough boundaries for the significant region in the first two fields of the dynamic image only, and the subsequent extraction operation for each subsequent field of the dynamic image is carried out automatically according to the conjectured rough boundary obtained on a basis of the extraction regions for the two fields immediately preceding that field. The extraction region for the significant region is obtained from the rough boundary on a basis of an original image of a respective field of the dynamic image, and the extracted image of the significant region in each field of the dynamic image is obtained by multiplying the original image of each field and the extraction region for the significant region in each field.

Method and apparatus for high speed dynamic image region extraction

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Tokyo, Japan

Seiki Inoue