Abstract:
An image obtained as a result of an image-taking process carried out at a screen rate higher than a standard screen rate is stored in a recording medium in the contemporary video format. To put it more concretely, the image obtained as a result of an image-taking process is supplied at a first screen rate to first compression/coding means for carrying out a compression/coding process at the first screen rate and image data obtained as a result of the compression/coding process is temporarily stored in temporary storage means. After image data output by the first compression/coding means during a predetermined period of time is stored in the temporary storage means, decompression/decoding means reads out the image data from the temporary storage means at a second screen rate lower than the first screen rate, carries out a decompression/decoding process on the image data and stores a result of the decompression/decoding process in recording means.
Abstract:
A pixel defect detecting/correcting device which is not limited in the number of correctable defective pixels by the capacity of a recording unit and can detect/correct delayed defects, the device comprising a color difference and luminance calculating block (1-2) for calculating the color difference absolute value, color difference and luminance data of an adjacent pixel and a pixel subjected to defect judging, a block (1-3) for detecting the maximum value and minimum value of various kinds of data from values calculated from a color difference and a luminance, a color difference interpolation value calculating block (1-4) and a luminance interpolation value calculating block (1-5) for obtaining the color difference interpolation value and luminance interpolation value of a pixel subjected to defect judging, a defect judging and interpolating block (1-6) for concurrently judging for defects a pixel subjected to defect judging using a plurality of defect detecting methods and under respective defect detecting methods, and, if a defective pixel is found, conducting interpolation according to a relevant defect detecting method, and a using interpolation value selecting block (1-7) for selecting the final output value of a pixel judged to be defective.
Abstract:
An image processing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer program storage device cooperate to process successive images. Respective frames are created and positioned within the successive images, where each frame has a border. When changes between the frame borders are detected, a controller triggers the capturing of an image. This approach results in the capturing of interesting moments, even if the subject is not a human subject. The change in frame boundaries may be categorized in a variety of ways, including change in aspect ratio, shape, orientation, and position, for example. By detecting the changes in this way, an imaging device can capture images of interesting events automatically.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, and a program whereby a subject can be imaged in a simpler manner with a desired imaging range. A size ratio calculating unit 553 calculates a size ratio between a region of interest that is a region of a subject of interest, and a partial region that is the region of a portion of the subject included in the region of interest with an imaged image that has been imaged, and a lens driving control unit 556 controls the zoom power of an imaged image according to a zoom operation by a user so that the size ratio calculated by the size ratio calculating unit 553, and a predetermined value match or generally match. The present invention may be applied to an imaging apparatus.
Abstract:
In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed. In a reproducing state, raw data are read from the recording device 111 at a low screen rate according to a display performance of the display section 112 and the raw data that have been read are processed are processed by the pre-processing circuit 202 and the camera signal processing circuit 203 and a reproduced image is displayed by the display section 112.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing device for surely obtaining best shot images.SOLUTION: In a control unit 35 for controlling imaging in the image processing device which captures still images, an area shape determination unit 332 determines the change of the shape of a subject area which is an area of the subject of interest in the images of a plurality of consecutive frames, and an imaging control unit 333 instructs imaging by specifying the image of the frame for which the change of the shape of the subject area is determined by the area shape determination unit 332. This invention is applicable to a digital still camera for imaging a moving subject.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more stably track a subject. SOLUTION: A subject map generation unit 71 generates a subject map indicating region-likelihood of a subject in the current frame, based on a weighting factor for each feature quantity from a feature quantity map indicating the feature quantity in a predetermined region of the current frame of an input image, for each feature of the input image. A candidate rectangular subject region determining unit 72 determines a rectangular region including a candidate subject region in the subject map. The subject region selection unit 73 selects a rectangular subject region including a subject of interest, from the rectangular region, based on region information on the rectangular region. A weighting factor calculation unit 74 calculates a weighting factor for weighting the feature quantity map of the next frame corresponding to a relatively large feature quantity in feature quantities in a region corresponding to a subject region on the feature quantity map for each feature quantity of the current frame. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a camera signal processing circuit to perform signal processing at a normal screen rate by eliminating the need to perform the signal processing at a high screen rate during high-speed imaging. SOLUTION: In the high-speed imaging mode, RAW data of 240 fps from an image sensor 101 are recorded in a recording device 111 through a conversion processing unit 201 and a recording device control circuit 210. The RAW data having been thinned out and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202, and an image being picked up is displayed at a display unit 112 with the signal after camera signal processing. For reproduction, the RAW data are read out of the recording device 111 at a low screen rate according to the display capability of the display unit 112, the read-out RAW data are processed by the pre-processing circuit 202 and camera signal processing circuit 203, and the display unit 112 displays a reproduced image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT