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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image display, etc., with excelling operability which can provide a proper display screen, even if an imaging apparatus is placed at an optional position and correctly reflect the position of an image picked-up spot (auxiliary light) in the display screen. SOLUTION: An image input part 2 which picks up the image of the display screen picks up an image of the display screen of a display part 3 and generates image data and supplies it to a data processing apparatus 1. Of an image represented by the image data, the data processor 1 extracts the position corresponding to a part in the display screen of the display part 3 that spot light emitted by a light-emitting part 4 impinges on and specifies which position in the display screen the position is through coordinate transformation. Then, the display part 3 displays the spot at a predetermined position. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately estimate the movement parameter of a moving body, and to appropriately detect the position of a ball as a result. SOLUTION: A digital camera 100 comprises: an imaging part 1 used according to the kind of sports for continuously picking up images including the ball moving at a high speed and outputting two or a plurality of image information; and a CPU 71 for calculating an evaluation value relating to the certainty of the presence of the ball at the prescribed position of the image on the basis of each image information outputted from the imaging part 1, estimating that the ball moves according to a prescribed movement parameter, integrating the plurality of evaluation values, calculating an integrated evaluation value, and estimating the moving parameter of the ball on the basis of the integrated evaluation value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the accuracy of positioning in the case of image composition by extracting feature points without bias from any part in an image. SOLUTION: This image processor (12) for detecting characteristic points in input images (10, 11) is provided with an optical flow detecting part (13), and the optical flow detecting part (13) functions as a full characteristic point detection means for detecting points where the change of pixel values is large even when it is moved to any direction along the pixel array face of the image as full characteristic points, and a half-characteristic point detection means for detecting points where the change of pixel values is hardly generated even when it is moved to a certain direction along the pixel array face of the image, and the change of pixel values is large when it is moved to another direction as half-characteristic points. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program capable of outputting a compressed image desired by user, independently of the state of a composite image. SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus 1 includes imaging means 11 to 15 for imaging a plurality of images with different exposures; a positional change extract means 20 for extracting a positional change in an image of an object from images imaged by the imaging means 11 to 15; an image composite means 20 for composing the images to generate a composite image; image storage means 25, 26 for storing the composite image composed by the image composite means 20; an initial compression means 20 for compressing the composite image composed by the image composite means 20 on the basis of a preset initial parameter; a display means 16 for displaying the compressed image compressed by the initial compression means 20; a parameter setting entry means 17 for applying setting entry to the setting parameter used for compressing the compressed image; and a setting compression means 20 for compressing the composite image stored in the image storage means 25, 26 on the basis of the setting parameter set and entered by the parameter setting entry means 17. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a spot selected on the basis of a touch operation by an object such as a finger to be easily recognized visually.SOLUTION: An information processing device 1 comprises: a line drawing unit 45; a scroll presence/absence determining unit 46; and a display controlling unit 41. The line drawing unit 45 draws a line on a processing object image displayed on a display unit 17. The scroll presence/absence determining unit 46 determines whether or not a prescribed condition is satisfied while the line is drawn by the line drawing unit 45. Then, the display controlling unit 41 scrolls and displays the processing object image by moving a position where the line is drawn by the line drawing unit 45 when the scroll presence/absence determining unit 46 determines that the prescribed condition is satisfied or immediately before that, to a prescribed position.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image capturing device preventing automatic photographing from being erroneously performed, and also to provide a program thereof. SOLUTION: When it is determined that a shutter key 8 is fully pressed down in a step S7, differential values between adjacent pixels included in an auto shutter area about each of five frame images to be later acquired are acquired (S10), and differences of the differential values of respective frame images are acquired as an evaluation value (S13). Then, it is determined whether the highest evaluation value among the acquired evaluation values is equal to or higher than a prescribed value (S17), a warning message is displayed when it is equal to or higher than the prescribed value (S18), and a threshold (allowable range) for an automatic photographing trigger corresponding to the highest evaluation value is set when it is less than the prescribed value (S19). COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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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 prevent image quality from deteriorating even if performing compression processing between frame images, and to increase compression efficiency. SOLUTION: A CPU 30 selects at least one image from a plurality of frame images photographed by an image sensor 22 continuously through an optical lens device 21 as a key frame image, generates differential information between the key frame image and other frame images, and stores the key frame image and the differential information into a memory 23. In this case, the quality of the plurality of frame images is evaluated for selecting the frame image evaluated as having the best quality as the key frame image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize high rate processing while enhancing the frame rate in encoding of motion picture data. SOLUTION: An integer search section 171 performs integer search and a best integer position deciding section 172 decides a best integer block where the difference of integer pixel precision from that of a current block is smallest. A peripheral integer position evaluating section 173 specifies such a block on the periphery of the best integer block as having a smallest difference from the current block as a second integer block. A 1/2 pel operating section 174 specifies a provisional fraction position based on the position of the best integer block and the position of the second integer block. A search center deciding section 175 compares the evaluation value of the best integer block with the evaluation value at the provisional fraction position and decides a position of smaller difference from the current block. The search center deciding section 175 specifies the position of smallest difference as the center of fraction search. A 1/4 pel operating section 176 searches the 1/4 pel based on a specified center of search, and a vector calculating section 177 calculates motion vector of fraction precision. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI