Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain captured image data at continuous shooting speed corresponding to a subject in motion which moves at various speeds.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus 1 comprises: an image data generating unit 21 for performing continuous shooting to generate captured image data; and a control unit 204 for causing the image data generating unit 21 to perform the continuous shooting corresponding to a plurality of continuous shooting speeds. Imaging is an imaging model of N>C when the upper limit number of sheets to be captured is defined as N, and the proper number of bodies in motion in a synthesized image obtained by the continuous shooting of the bodies in motion is defined as C. It is assumed that at the moment when a subject in motion is framed in, the first continuous shooting is started. Even though, in a normal case, the continuous shooting is repeated at the continuous shooting speed set in advance from the start up to the upper limit number of sheets to be shot, in this embodiment, the continuous shooting is performed while gradually reducing the continuous shooting speed (increasing continuous shooting intervals).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To playback an appropriate interpolation frame image in consideration of progress of a song.SOLUTION: A moving image playback apparatus 100 comprises: an image generation unit 4d to generate interpolation frame images to interpolate between two frame images adjacent to each other; a progress calculation unit 4a to successively calculate the progress of a predetermined song played between the two frame images adjacent to each other which is to be played in synchronization with a predetermined timing of the predetermined song played based on play information including tempo information; a determination unit 4b to determine whether there was a change, due to a tempo change, in a progress of the song corresponding to the timing to play the interpolation frame images; a progress correction unit 4c to generate progress corrected to make less change of the progress when there was a change in the progress; and a generation control unit 4e to control the image generation unit to generate the interpolation frame images according to the generated progress after the correction.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus, an image processing method and a program for improving accuracy of extracting a subject region.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus 100 includes: a lens unit 1, an electronic imaging unit 2 and an imaging control unit 3 as imaging means for capturing a subject-including image including a subject in the background and then capturing a background image including no subject under the same condition as when capturing the subject-including image; and an image processing unit 8 for positioning the subject-including image and the background image, then generating difference information of corresponding pixels between the positioned subject-including image and the background image, and extracting a subject region including the subject from the subject-including image on the basis of the difference information.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a probability of wrongly associating a feature-point. SOLUTION: An image pickup device 100 comprises a video signal processing part 13 including: extracting a plurality of feature-points from any one reference image out of a plurality of images under control of a CPU71; a processing of tracking the extracted feature-point within the object images; calculating a temporary-projective-conversion-matrix H' between the reference image and the object image by using the predetermined number of feature-points out of the plurality of extracted feature-points; and setting the temporary-corresponding-point within the object image with feature-points other than the predetermined number of feature-points coordinate-converted by use of calculated temporary-projective-conversion-matrix H' as an initial position for tracking the feature-point. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a composite image while reducing computational complexity required for image processing and keeping sufficient tracing accuracy. SOLUTION: Pyramid hierarchical layers are configured by stepwise reducing images being composite objects through the use of a prescribed reduction size of an original image for an uppermost layer. Then a feature point is traced sequentially from a lowermost layer toward the uppermost layer. In this case, the motion of the feature point is converged by multiplying a prescribed coefficient with a vector denoting the motion of the feature point. Thus, the computational complexity is reduced by eliminating the need for image processing at the original image size in tracing the feature point. Moreover, the convergence is improved by multiplying the prescribed coefficient with the motion vector of the feature point so as to generate the composite image while keeping sufficient tracing accuracy. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect an imaged object region properly even in an environment such as a backlight state and the like.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus comprises the steps of: detection determination means for determining based on a plurality of discriminators whether a subject region of an image sequentially obtained by an image obtaining means can be detected or not; correction means for conducting correction processing against data of the sequentially obtained image after the detection determination means determines that the subject region cannot be detected; first similarity calculation means for calculating first similarity between an image region for the image whose data has had the data correction processing by the correction means and the discriminators; second similarity calculation means for calculating similarity between an image region for an image whose data has not have correction processing by the correction means and the discriminators; similarity comparison means for comparing the first similarity and the second similarity; and cancellation determination means for determining whether the correction processing by the correction means is to be cancelled or not, based on a comparison result by the similarity comparison means.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply perform generation of a rear surface image.SOLUTION: An image generation device is a server 3 which includes: a first color specification part 306b for specifying color information of the contour of a subject corresponding region of a rear surface image on the basis of color information of a contour region of a subject image acquired by an image acquisition part 306a; second color specification part 306d for specifying color information of a region on the inner side of the contour of the subject corresponding region of the rear surface image on the basis of the color information of the contour of the subject corresponding region of the specified rear surface image; and a first drawing part 306c and a second drawing part 306e for generating the contour and the inside region of the subject corresponding region of the rear surface image, respectively, on the basis of color information of the contour and color information of the inside region of the subject corresponding region of the specified rear surface image.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correct a subject image even after extracting the subject image.SOLUTION: An imaging device 100 comprises: an image extraction unit 8c that, based on difference information of respective pixels corresponding between a subject existing image and a subject non-existing image, extracts a subject image including a subject from the subject existing image; a correction area specification unit 8g that specifies an area to be corrected in the extracted subject image according to a predetermined condition; and an image correction unit 8h that corrects the specified area to be corrected based on an area corresponding to the area to be corrected in the subject existing image.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus and method capable of applying required processing to an original image from which pixels with no information are eliminated without further modification and improving the operating speed by relieving the load on the image processing. SOLUTION: The image processing method includes: a capturing step (S1) of capturing an image produced by a single CCD color imaging device; a first coordinate transformation step (S2) of rotating the image captured by the capturing step by 45 degrees in a prescribed direction to produce a rotated image on a new coordinate system; a image processing step (S3) of applying image processing to the rotated image; and a second coordinate transformation step (S4) of rotating the image after being subjected to the image processing by 45 degrees reversely in the prescribed direction to reflect it on the image of the original coordinate system. The image processing apparatus can execute the required image processing without the need for applying interpolation processing to the pixels with no information included in the image produced by the single CCD color imaging device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To track an image accurately and more quickly even if a luminance change is caused by an illumination fluctuation between a plurality of images to be composited. SOLUTION: In an image processing device 100, a video signal processing part 13 executes a first image tracking process of tracking an image by global matching less influenced by a luminance change due to an illumination fluctuation between a plurality of images than a second stage image tracking process, according to image signals of a plurality of images, and the second image tracking process of tracking feature points in images by a gradient method faster than the tracking method by the first image tracking process, according to image signals of a plurality of images whose luminance has been adjusted according to luminance change information about a luminance change due to an illumination fluctuation, and the image tracking result of the first image tracking process. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT