Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takeo Sakimura

Katsuhiko Mori

Katsumi Iijima

Kotaro Yano

Sunao Kurahashi

Motohiro Ishikawa

Takeshi Ogawa

Masayoshi Sekine

Hideki Morishima

Shigeki Okauchi

Masashi Yoshida

A network control apparatus forming a network with a plurality of image-processing apparatuses acquires attribute information about images stored in each image-processing apparatus from the plurality of image-processing apvaluesparatuses, arranges a display order of the images based on the attribute information, detects a change in the configuration of the image-processing apparatuses on the network, and rearranges the display order if a change in the configuration of the image-processing apparatuses on the network is detected.

Network control apparatus, network control method, storage medium

An information processing apparatus has a CPU, a memory, a cache memory and a cache controller. When an acquisition of an area of a prescribed size is requested in the memory, a size equivalent to at least two lines serving as a cache unit is added to the prescribed size requested and this area is reserved in the memory. The area reserved is allocated to an uncacheable memory area of this memory.

Method and apparatus for appending buffer areas to requested memory

An image processing apparatus which associates a plurality of images obtained in advance for the purpose of panoramic image synthesis or stereo-scopic viewing display without troubling the user. Whether or not component images are to be associated with each other is determined with reference to the file names and attribute information of a plurality of component images to be synthesized without the intervention of the user.

Image synthesizing system for automatically retrieving and synthesizing images to be synthesized

There is disclosed a binocular camera which can realize panoramic view and stereoscopic view during image sensing. There is also disclosed a binocular camera which has two image sensing optical systems, a circuit for synthesizing right and left sensed parallax image signals to a panoramic image or a three-dimensional image, and a display for displaying the synthesized image signal.

Processing of image obtained by multi-eye camera

There is disclosed a multi-lens image pickup apparatus provided with plural image pickup systems and an image display means and adapted to synthesize the plural images picked up respectively with the plural image pickup systems, into one, to store the synthesized image in image memory means and to display the stored image on the image display means. The camera further comprises horizontal compression means for comprising the plural picked-up images in the horizontal directions, selection means for compressing the plural images in the vertical direction by selecting the input of the plural image signals and outputting thus selected image signal to the image display means, and memory control means for storing the compressed plural images in said image memory means in such a manner that the plural images compressed in the horizontal and vertical directions are displayed in an arranged manner.

Multi-lens image pickup apparatus

A compound eye camera provided integrally with plural image pickup elements and a display unit adapted to display an image, divided into stripes in every scanning line or in every plural scanning lines and to give different directionalities to the display of the striped image in the odd-numbered lines and the display of the striped image in the even-numbered lines, thereby providing stereoscopic display at a predetermined observing position. The camera further has a display control unit for dividing each of two images, picked up with the plural image pickup elements and having a parallax, into stripes in the horizontal direction and alternately arranging the divided stripes by every line to synthesize a striped image, and causing the display unit to display such synthesized striped image.

Compound eye camera system

A compound eye image pickup apparatus with reduced parallax having two optical image pickup systems wherein the cross points between entrance pupils and optical axes of the two optical image pickup systems are generally coincident.

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Urayasu, Japan

Takeo Sakimura