Sony Corporation

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Takafumi Morifuji

Masami Ogata

Suguru Ushiki

Tetsujiro Kondo

Hideo Nakaya

Masashi Uchida

Takeshi Kunihiro

Takeharu Nishikata

Toshihiko Hamamatsu

Hideki Ohtsuka

Kunio Kawaguchi

Tomonori Tsutsumi

Tsutomu Watanabe

Kuniaki Takahashi

Takahiro Nagano

Kenji Kondo

Masaru Ikeda

Masaaki Hara

Tatsumi Sakaguchi

Akihiko Kaino

Yasuaki Takahashi

Yukihiro Nakamura

Yoshiki Okamoto

Takashi Horishi

Masato Akao

Takuro Kawai

Kyoko Fukuda

Kenichiro Hosokawa

Don Charles Eklund

Norifumi Yoshiwara

Yuta Choki

Tomohiro Yasuoka

Tomonori Kawase

The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method that make it possible to accurately restore an image. The encoding device generates a filter image by performing, on a decoded image locally decoded, filter processing of applying a prediction equation including a second-order or higher higher-order term and performing a product-sum calculation of predetermined tap coefficients and pixels of the decoded image. Moreover, the encoding device encodes an original image by using the filter image. The decoding device decodes coded data included in an encoded bit stream by using a filter image, to generate a decoded image. Moreover, the decoding device generates the filter image by performing, on the decoded image, filter processing of applying a prediction equation. The present technology can be applied to a case where encoding and decoding of an image are performed.

Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, and decoding 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

The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method which enable a sense of quality as if there were a real object to be more favorably reproduced. A characteristic control unit determines processing contents for controlling the sense of quality, for example, changing an image quality, adjusting a reflection characteristic, or changing a shape, on the basis of a physical characteristic parameter from a characteristic information integration unit and device information from a device information analyzer. The characteristic control unit supplies information on the determined processing contents to an image composition unit and an additional-information generation unit and causes the image composition unit and the additional-information generation unit to perform sense-of-quality control. That is, in the image processing apparatus, more realistic visual expression becomes possible with an image output of one device as well as an output other than an image from another device.

Image processing apparatus and method

The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method capable of reproducing a material feel just like a real thing is there. A reflection characteristic estimation unit estimates and analyzes, from a supplied input image, a reflection characteristic of the subject as a characteristic of a subject. The reflection characteristic estimation unit supplies a specular reflection component as a reflection characteristic estimation result to a characteristic information integrating unit and a highlight area detection unit as an image estimation information. The highlight area detection unit performs highlight area detection in parallel to processing with the reflection characteristic estimation unit by using the specular reflection component as the reflection characteristic estimation result from the reflection characteristic estimation unit, and supplies the highlight area detection result to a characteristic information integrating unit as the image estimation information. The present disclosure is applicable to an image processing apparatus, for example.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method capable of reproducing texture as if objects are actually present. An operation environment information analysis unit acquires and analyzes user's operation environment information for an image while the image is being displayed. The operation environment information analysis unit supplies the analyzed operation environment information as operation environment parameters to a property control unit. The property control unit causes an image combination unit to conduct texture control depending on visual environment parameters or operation environment parameters, thereby optimizing the texture control. The present disclosure is applicable to image processing apparatuses, for example.

Image processing apparatus and method for adjusting intensity of a reflective property of an object in a displayed image

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.

An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition mechanism acquiring image data of a 3D image including a left-eye image and a right-eye image, and superimposed-area information being information on a superimposed area included in the left-eye image and the right-eye image; and a disparity detection mechanism detecting an amount of disparity in an area excluding the superimposed area identified by the superimposed-area information of the left-eye image and the right-eye image.

Data structure, image processing apparatus and 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

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 reproduction apparatus reproduces image data of a left eye image and a right eye image of a 3D content recorded in a recording medium. The recording medium stores information about black border widths according to each parallax amount in periphery of right and left image frames between the left eye image and the right eye image. A post processing unit generates and outputs a border-attached left eye image and a border-attached right eye image by inserting an image having the obtained black border width according to the parallax amount in the periphery of the right image frame and an image having the obtained black border width according to the parallax amount in the periphery of the left image frame into the left eye image and the right eye image. The present invention can be applied to an image processing apparatus for processing image data of 3D images.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takafumi Morifuji