The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Nobuaki Izumi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 19/61 (2014.01); H04N 19/597 (2014.01); H04N 19/167 (2014.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 19/174 (2014.01); H04N 21/218 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 19/119 (2014.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/4402 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/61 (2014.11); G06T 9/001 (2013.01); H04N 19/119 (2014.11); H04N 19/167 (2014.11); H04N 19/174 (2014.11); H04N 19/597 (2014.11); H04N 21/21805 (2013.01); H04N 21/2343 (2013.01); H04N 21/234345 (2013.01); H04N 21/234363 (2013.01); H04N 21/4402 (2013.01); H04N 21/816 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing device and an image processing method for generating a celestial sphere image are provided such that the pixels near the poles of the sphere are kept from increasing in density when the image is mapped to the sphere surface. An encoder encodes, with respect to an omnidirectional image generated by equidistant cylindrical projection to include a top image, a middle image, and a bottom image in a vertical direction, the middle image into an encoded stream at a high resolution, and the top image and the bottom image into encoded streams at a resolution lower than the high resolution in systems including image display systems.