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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 17, 2015
Applicants:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroyuki Segawa, Tokyo, JP;

Akio Ohba, Tokyo, JP;

Tetsugo Inada, Tokyo, JP;

Hirofumi Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Atsushi Kimura, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Kohashi, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Itou, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/03 (2006.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); H04N 13/00 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/0239 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/0304 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01); H04N 2013/0081 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information processor includes: a similarity data generation portion generating similarity data that represents the calculated similarity to the image in the reference block in association with a position within the search range; a result evaluation portion detecting a position with a maximum similarity value for each piece of the similarity data and screening the detection result by making a given evaluation of the similarity; a depth image generation portion finding a parallax for each of the reference blocks using the detection result validated as a result of screening, calculating a position of a subject in a depth direction on a basis of the parallax, and generating a depth image by associating the position of the subject in the depth direction with an image plane; and an output information generation section performing given information processing on a basis of the subject position in a three-dimensional space using the depth image and outputting the result of information processing.


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