Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayuki Hara

Osamu Ogawara

Yohei Fujita

Masato Uchihara

Saori Hohda

Takashi Sasaki

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Haike Guan

Yoshikazu Watanabe

Yuji Sakaegi

Takahiro Yagishita

Akira Kataoka

Hideyuki Rengakuji

Shutaro Kunieda

Yuji Omori

Nobuhiko Tamura

Saori Hoda

Zenya Kawaguchi

Satoshi Hikida

Toshihiro Mochizuki

Takeyoshi Nishimura

Kasuhiro Yoshida

An image processing device including at least one memory for storing commands and at least one processor for executing the commands by communicating with the at least one memory, in which the commands include inputting information on an event to be imaged and imaging information, constructing a virtual space assuming an event situation based on the event information, generating a simulation image based on the imaging information using the virtual space, evaluating the degree of similarity between the simulation image and a desired captured image, and giving a notification of imaging conditions according to the evaluated degree of similarity.

Image processing device, simulation device, and storage medium

The present invention relates to a moving image generation apparatus that generates a moving image having a normal angle of view from a plurality of panoramic images. The moving image generation apparatus includes a goodness-of-fit-index calculation unitconfigured to calculate goodness-of-fit-indices of camerawork types of a virtual camera with respect to the plurality of panoramic images, a type allocation unitconfigured to determine an allocation of the camerawork types to the plurality of panoramic images based on the goodness-of-fit-indices and a frequency of occurrence of each camerawork type, and a moving image encoding unitconfigured to create the moving image having the normal angle of view from the plurality of panoramic images with the allocated camerawork types.

Moving image generation apparatus, moving image generation method, program, and recording medium

An image processing apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU), an image processor, multiple bus masters, and a memory, all interconnected through a system bus. The image processor includes a control circuit executing a program stored in an embedded program memory that allows the CPU to write data. The image processor also includes operational circuits that perform specific operations on input data and produce operation results. The results are temporarily stored in internal memories. The apparatus includes registers that hold various information, input sources, output destinations, and setting information for each operational circuit. A selection circuit selects, based on the information of the registers, the memory, or the internal memories, as an input source of image data for each operational circuit and the memory, or one of the internal memories, as the output destination for the operation results.

Image processing apparatus with multibank registers for storing source, destination, and setting information for operational circuits

A moving image generation apparatus includes: circuitry to: capture images of a three-dimensional model using different values of a camera parameter of a virtual camera to generate captured images; calculate goodness-of-fit indices using the captured images as inputs, the goodness-of-fit indices each indicating a suitability of a corresponding captured image among the captured images; and generate camerawork that traces values of the camera parameter of the virtual camera, based on the calculated goodness-of-fit indices.

Moving image generation apparatus, moving image generation method, and non-transitory recording medium

A method of displaying a wide-angle image including one or more attention points on a display device, the method being performed by an information processing apparatus including the display device, includes, in response to detecting a predetermined trigger when at least a part of the wide-angle image is displayed as a display region, displaying a region of the wide-angle image in the display region, the region of the wide-angle image including at least one of the one or more attention points.

Method of displaying wide-angle image, image display system, and information processing apparatus

A terminal apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive image data of an object and three-dimensional computer graphics (3DCG) data transmitted from an image distribution apparatus, and display, on a display, a specific region image corresponding to a specific region within an image of the object as a background image, and an image of the 3DCG data as a superimposed image to be superimposed on the background image. The specific region image corresponding to the specific region is generatable from the image data of the object and the image of the 3DCG data is generatable from the 3DCG data.

Terminal apparatus, system, and method of displaying image

An image processing device includes an importance calculating unit, a capturing-direction acquiring unit, a parameter estimating unit, and an important-area setting unit. The importance calculating unit is configured to calculate importance of each of a plurality of positions in an image. The capturing-direction acquiring unit is configured to acquire, for each of the positions, a capturing direction in a three-dimensional space. The parameter estimating unit is configured to regard importance distributions in respective capturing directions as a mixture distribution made up of element distributions, so as to estimate a parameter of each of the element distributions. The important-area setting unit is configured to set an important area from the image in accordance with the parameter.

Image processing device and image processing method for setting important areas in an image

An image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit, a first recording unit configured to record, in a temporary storage, a plurality of images obtained by continuous shooting performed by the image capturing unit, a second recording unit configured to record, in a recording medium, the images recorded in the temporary storage, and a control unit configured to perform control to, in a case where a first operation and a second operation by a user are accepted when an image is being recorded in the recording medium, discard the images recorded in the temporary storage and stop a process of recording the image in the recording medium.

Image capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

A browsing system includes an image distribution apparatus and an information processing apparatus. The image distribution apparatus includes a memory configured to store and register a presentation pattern of a plurality of display positions, including at least a first display position and a second display position, set within a wide-angle image; and first circuitry configured to transmit the wide-angle image and the presentation pattern of the plurality of display positions. The information processing apparatus includes second circuitry configured to receive the wide-angle image and the presentation pattern from the image distribution apparatus, and to display the wide-angle image on a display connected with the information processing apparatus, using the plurality of display positions by applying the received presentation pattern.

Browsing system, image distribution apparatus, and image distribution method

An image analyzing apparatus reprojects an input image in a plurality of different directions to divide the input image into a plurality of partial images, extracts a feature amount from each of the partial images, and calculates a degree of importance of the input image by position from the extracted feature amount in accordance with a predetermined regression model.

Image analyzing apparatus, image analyzing method, and recording medium

A calibration device includes a part for controlling a projection device to project a pattern onto a three-dimensional object having characteristic points, a part for controlling an imaging device to acquire images wherein the three-dimensional object with the pattern projected thereon is imaged from imaging directions, a part for estimating a relative position and attitude of the imaging device with respect to the three-dimensional object based on positions of the characteristic points of the three-dimensional object on the images, a part for estimating reflection positions of projection light rays corresponding to characteristic points of the pattern on the three-dimensional object based on positions of the characteristic points of the pattern and the relative position and attitude of the imaging device, for each image, and a part for identifying positions and directions of the projection light rays corresponding to the characteristic points of the pattern based on the reflection positions.

Calibration device, calibration method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

A projection image correcting apparatus for correcting, according to a three-dimensional shape of a projection surface, an original image to be projected, includes a projecting unit configured to project a pattern image on the projection surface, by controlling an image projecting device; a capturing unit configured to obtain a captured image of the projection surface on which the pattern image is projected, by controlling an image capturing device; a feature point extracting unit configured to extract feature points in the captured image corresponding to feature points in the pattern image; and a three-dimensional coordinates measuring unit configured to measure, by triangulation using the extracted feature points, three-dimensional coordinates of a plurality of measuring points on the projection surface corresponding to the feature points; and a reliability calculating unit configured to calculate reliabilities of the measuring points.

Projection image correcting apparatus, method for correcting image to be projected, and program

An imaging sensor unit captures a subject through an optical system. A compression unit compresses image data continuously acquired from the image sensor unit to output to a recording unit. A feature amount extraction unit extracts a feature amount for each pixel of the image data and a coordinate selection unit selects a plurality of coordinates having a relatively high feature amount. A movement detection unit detects a movement vector of coordinate points according to the plurality of coordinates selected by the coordinate selection unit. A geometric deformation parameter generation unit generates a geometric deformation parameter based on the movement vector and lens information for the optical system. The recording unit records the geometric deformation parameter in association with the image data compressed by the compression unit (each frame of the image data).

Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method

An image generation apparatus includes a holding unit configured to acquire and hold pixel values of pixel groups that serve as targets for comparison from the respective first and second images; a reading unit configured to sequentially read out, from the pixel values of the respective pixel groups that are held in the holding unit, pixel values in one direction for each area that is set depending on a pixel position of the range image; a calculation unit configured to calculate an evaluation value based on the pixel values read out by the reading unit; an estimation unit configured to estimate the subject distance based on the evaluation value; and a generation unit configured to generate a range image based on the subject distance estimated by the estimation unit.

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Takayuki Hara