Sony Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Yuichi Araki

Junichi Tanaka

Koichi Hamamoto

Shingo Nishikata

Atsushi Ochiai

Tomoya Morioka

Ohji Nakagami

Shinobu Hattori

Takefumi Nagumo

Yuichi Hasegawa

Nobuaki Izumi

Yuji Fujimoto

Hiroshi Ikebuchi

Masakazu Kouno

Yukito Hata

Akihiro Imamura

Hiroshi Arakawa

Tsuyoshi Kato

Koji Yano

Masaaki Isozaki

Yoshikatsu Kuroda

Toshiyuki Ishii

Takamichi Mitsuhashi

Hiroshi Oryoji

Kazunori Masukawa

Hiroyuki Daigo

Goh Kobayashi

Junichiro Enoki

Tooru Masuda

Tetsuya Fukuyasu

Kendai Furukawa

Yoshinori Kamiya

A threat coping system () is provided with a threat coping device () that copes with a coping target () and a control device () that controls the threat coping device. The control device () is provided with a no-coping area setting means () and a coping instruction means (). The no-coping area setting means () sets a no-coping area () based on information of a no-coping target that is not to cope with. The coping instruction means () generates an instruction signal, that instructs the threat coping device to cope a coping target, based on the no-coping area.

Threat coping system

There is provided a video reproduction apparatus, a reproduction method, and a program that can suppress a decline in the degree of immersion of a viewer. A video generation apparatus of the present disclosure acquires a first 3D shape video generated from a plurality of viewpoint videos obtained by capturing images of a subject from different viewpoints, and a second 3D shape video being a video different from the first 3D shape video, and switches a frame to be reproduced, from a frame of the first 3D shape video to a frame of the second 3D shape video on the basis of a state of a viewer viewing the first 3D shape video. The present disclosure may be applied, for example, to a video generation apparatus, a video processing apparatus, a video reproduction apparatus, or the like.

Video reproduction apparatus, reproduction method, and program

There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that enable selection of viewpoints of depth images suitable for creation of a 3D model. A viewpoint determination unit determines that a candidate viewpoint be a viewpoint of a depth image of a 3D model on the basis of the 3D model projected on a screen from the candidate viewpoint. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an encoding device or the like that generates and encodes color images and depth images from predetermined viewpoints, from color images and depth images from a plurality of viewpoints of a 3D model of a subject.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

There is provided an encoding apparatus and an encoding method that make it possible to generate an encoded stream from which an image of a low load and high picture quality can be decoded. An arithmetic operation section or the like divides an image into a plurality of AUs and encodes the AUs to generate encoded streams of the plurality of AUs. A setting section sets 0 as pic_output_flag indicating that a decoded image obtained by decoding an encoded stream of an AU other than the last division AU from among the encoded streams of the plurality of AUs generated by the arithmetic operation section or the like is not to be displayed. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an encoding apparatus and so forth.

Encoding apparatus and encoding method

A laser beam is condensed in a close position to a target object in underwater so as to generate an air bubble or plasma. The target object is efficiently destroyed by a shock by the air bubble or the plasma.

Underwater object destruction system and underwater object destruction method

There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that are capable of improving the accuracy of a depth image of a 3D model. A depth image generation unit generates a depth image of a plurality of viewpoints for each object included in a 3D model. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an encoding device or the like configured to generate a color image and a depth image of each object of each of a plurality of viewpoints on the basis of 3D data of a 3D model, generate an encoded stream by encoding the images, and generate object range information indicating the range of each object.

A solid obstacle is removed with a high-power laser beam to establish a transmission path for a spatial laser communication. When a space in which the laser beam is transmitted is blocked off by the solid obstacle, the spatial laser communication cannot be carried out.

Laser communication system and laser communication method

There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ML3D model generation section, which are applicable to a home server that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image or the like. The ML3D model generation section receives transmission information in which auxiliary information is added to at least one of texture information of a first layer, depth information of the first layer, texture information of a second layer or depth information of the second layer, and executes predetermined image processing using the auxiliary information for at least one of the texture information of the first layer, the depth information of the first layer, the texture information of the second layer or the depth information of the second layer.

The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that enable generation of only a 3D model of a foreground. A reconstruction unit generates a 3D model of the foreground, on the basis of depth images of a plurality of viewpoints and foreground images of the plurality of viewpoints. The present disclosure can be applied to a decoding apparatus or the like that decodes an encoded stream of depth-related images and color images of a 3D model of a plurality of viewpoints, and generates a 3D model of the foreground on the basis of the resultant depth-related images and color images, and virtual viewpoint information including internal parameters and external parameters for virtual cameras of the respective viewpoints, for example.

There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that can follow a fast movement of a virtual point to change a high-precision image. A position correction unit corrects a three-dimensional position of a point of a boundary of an occlusion area among a plurality of points, the three-dimensional position being included in three-dimensional data including three-dimensional positions and color information of the plurality of points, the three-dimensional data being generated from color image data and depth image data from a predetermined viewpoint. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus or the like that generates color image data from a virtual viewpoint on the basis of color image data and depth image data from a predetermined viewpoint.

The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device and method through which it is possible to suppress an increase in a load of a decoding process. The present disclosure is provided with a decoding unit configured to generate decoded image data by decoding encoding data obtained by encoding image data for each coding unit (CU) that is recursively divided, and a filter processing unit configured to perform a filter process of the decoded image data generated by the decoding unit according to information set for each data unit corresponding to header information of the encoding data. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to an image decoding device and the like.

Image decoding device and method

There is provided an image encoding device and an image encoding method, and an image processing device and an image processing method that enable easier bitstream concatenation. A structure according to the present disclosure includes: a setting unit that sets header information related to a hypothetical reference decoder in accordance with information about a position and information about reference, the information about a position and the information about reference being of the current picture of image data to be processed; and an encoding unit that encodes the image data and generates a bitstream containing the encoded data of the image data and the header information set by the setting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices or image encoding devices, for example.

Image encoding device and method, and image processing device and method for enabling bitstream concatenation

The present technique relates to a decoding device, a decoding method, and a program which can decode an image in parallel for each of tiles of the image. A parallel decoding unit decodes the image encoded by for example an encoding method called high efficiency video coding (HEVC) in parallel for each tile used for example the encoding method called HEVC. The present technique can be applied to a decoding device for receiving and decoding an encoded stream encoded by for example the encoding method called HEVC, and generates an image.

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Yuichi Araki