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8174561 |
Device, method and program for creating and displaying composite images generated from images related by capture position
A system for presenting recorded data includes an electronic device and a database connectable to the electronic device over a communications network, the electronic device including a recording...
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8154586 |
Projection system and method of curved film
The invention involves a sort of curved film projection system, including a rendering surface, a projection screen, a real scene rendering model of image system, a rendering model of projection...
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8145007 |
Image processing of regions in a wide angle video camera
A system and method for providing privacy regions in a picture or video. In one example embodiment, a camera is provided which has a lens system and detector, image processing circuitry,...
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8106939 |
Image processing method, image processing device and image display apparatus employing the image processing device
An image processing method is provided. The method includes a process carried out by a pair of imagers to extract a parallax caused by a distance to an object of photographing as a positional shift...
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8106967 |
Image pickup device
In this image pickup device, a system controller uses pattern matching to detect regions where patterns match between images based on multiple sets of image data. Subsequently, the system...
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8094183 |
Panoramic imaging device
A panoramic imaging device comprises: a photodetector array; a lens array having, on one plane, a center lens for receiving light in a front range of 36° to form a central unit image on the ...
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8072485 |
Image taking apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, image taking method and program
To prevent information required for reproducing of a 3D/multi-viewpoint image being lost even in a case in which editing or the like of the 3D/multi-viewpoint image is performed using a device or...
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8059150 |
Self contained compact and portable omni-directional monitoring and automatic alarm video device
The present invention is a self contained portable and compact omni-directional monitoring and automatic alarm video device. The device enables automatic omni-directional detection, directional...
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8044993 |
Image recording apparatus, image recording method and image recording program
There is provided an image recording apparatus including an image-capturing section that captures an image of the observed person, an observation result input section that inputs a result of the...
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8035681 |
Panoramic imaging device
A panoramic imaging device comprises: a photodetector array; a lens array having, on one plane, a center lens for receiving light in a front range of 36° to form a central unit image on the ...
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8035680 |
Panoramic viewing system especially in combat vehicles
Digital data acquired from individual cameras and images converted to digitized images are projected onto virtual 3D screens, which can be generated by a computer. This can be realized by way of...
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8009178 |
Augmenting images for panoramic display
Methods and systems are provided methods and systems for augmenting image data (e.g., still image data or video image data) utilizing image context data to generate panoramic images. In accordance...
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7924318 |
Monitoring system for a photography unit, monitoring method, computer program, and storage medium
A coverage area picture imaging a maximum area is displayed on a coverage area picture display. A camera is moved within a predetermined range and a plurality of frames obtained as a result form a...
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7848628 |
Camera system, camera control apparatus, panorama image making method and computer program product
A camera system includes a camera apparatus for shooting an object to output an image signal and a camera control apparatus for controlling the camera apparatus such that the camera apparatus...
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7823058 |
Methods and apparatus for interactive point-of-view authoring of digital video content
The present invention provides electronic methods and apparatus for interactively authoring, sharing and analyzing digital video content. Methods for authoring include displaying visual data,...
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7782389 |
System and method for varying exposure time for different parts of a field of view while acquiring an image
A system and method for exposing different parts of a single field of view for various and differing lengths of time while capturing an image is provided. For astrophotography, unwanted light...
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7768544 |
Embedding a panoramic image in a video stream
Techniques are described for embedding a panoramic image in standard resolution. A panoramic image is received from a panoramic camera and a location of a speaker is determined, either...
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7746376 |
Method and apparatus for accessing multi-dimensional mapping and information
A method and apparatus for providing an interactive mapping and panoramic imaging application for utilization by a computer user is provided. A plurality of panoramic images are stored on a...
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7746404 |
Digital camera with panoramic image capture
A method for generating a panoramic image that enables a user to obtain panoramic photographs with a digital camera without the aid of a computer system or specialized lenses. A digital camera...
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7746375 |
Digital camera with panorama or mosaic functionality
A digital camera has a memory and a scan-mode. In this mode, the camera takes a sequence of still pictures. A next one of the pictures in the sequence is selected for being stored in the memory...
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7714936 |
Omniview motionless camera orientation system
An apparatus and method is provided for converting digital images for use in an imaging system. The apparatus includes a data memory which stores digital data representing an image having a...
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7711262 |
Method of photographing panoramic image
Disclosed is a method of photographing a panoramic image, the method including the steps of: checking if a configuration of each scene constituting the panoramic image is arbitrarily set whenever...
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7695367 |
Storage medium having game program stored thereon and game apparatus
A predetermined action is performed between a player object and another object positioned in a first determination range when a player designates said another object by controlling a pointing...
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7672378 |
Spatio-temporal graph-segmentation encoding for multiple video streams
A multiple video stream capture and encoding apparatus produces compressed data that represents multiple video streams capturing a common scene. Images from multiple video streams are analyzed to...
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7643052 |
Self-contained panoramic or spherical imaging device
The present invention describes a self-contained omni-directional imaging device. The device is designed to contain within it all mechanic, electronic, optic and electro-optic components required...
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7593057 |
Multi-view integrated camera system with housing
A panoramic camera design that is lower cost, robust, stable and more user friendly than prior art designs. The camera design makes use of a unified molded structure of optical material to house a...
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7593042 |
Maintenance of panoramic camera orientation
Systems and methods for maintaining orientation of a non-cylindrical panorama is described wherein an initial magnetometer reading is obtained for a panoramic camera. If the panoramic camera is...
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7583293 |
Apparatus and method for generating multi-image scenes with a camera
An apparatus configured for use in a camera identifies appropriate times to capture optical images with the camera. The apparatus includes a motion detector for generating movement data based on...
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7561187 |
Image distributing apparatus
To provide a technology for easily distributing an image in a requested photograph direction. Photograph images, which are photographed by turning a photographing apparatus and continuously...
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7542073 |
Scene capturing and view rendering based on a longitudinally aligned camera array
In one embodiment, a longitudinal camera array is rotated through a capture cylinder, with each camera in the array capturing multiple images as the array rotates. These images can be looking...
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7542668 |
Photographic device
A photographic device equipped with a camera capable of photographing a 360-degree all-round image at a time includes a memory for recording the all-round image photographed by the camera, a...
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7542671 |
Omni directional photographing device
Provided is a specific configuration of an omnidirectional photographing device which includes one camera module equipped with a lens for directly taking a 360-degree annular image. More...
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7528864 |
Processing apparatus and computer program for adjusting gamma value
To provide a processing apparatus for performing synthesis of video data to which video data of optically overlapped (duplicated overlap) video images are imparted. An image processor includes...
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7483588 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an icosahedron panorama image
A method of and apparatus for efficient encoding and decoding by reconstructing an icosahedron panorama image are provided. The method includes: dividing patches forming a top part and a bottom...
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7477312 |
Photographing apparatus, photographing method, and method for measuring converted data representing a fiber-array image
A 360°-image is formed on the object-side surface (doughnut-shaped) 15 of an optical fiber array 13. The image is applied from the element-side surface 16 of the array, which is substantially ...
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7436429 |
Virtual pan/tilt camera system and method for vehicles
The present disclosure is directed to a virtual pan/tilt camera system and method for use with vehicles, and particularly ground vehicles (MGVs). The disclosure utilizes autonomous navigation...
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7436432 |
Sight line inducing information display device, sight line inducing information display program and sight line inducing information display method
Aspects of the invention can provide a sight line inducing information display device, a sight line inducing information display program and a sight line inducing information display method able to...
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7428006 |
Digital camera, mobile terminal, and method of displaying images for user controlled image connection
The digital camera includes a photographing unit which picks-up image data, a storage control unit which stores the image data, a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the stored image...
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7317473 |
Image-based method and system for building spherical panoramas
The invention relates to building spherical panoramas for image-based virtual reality systems. The image-based spherical panoramas can be navigated in any desired view direction (360-degrees) by...
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7312820 |
Method and apparatus for providing virtual processing effects for wide-angle video images
A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing special effects for wide-angle video images. The special effects include replacing a selected portion of a wide-angle video image with a...
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7301557 |
Composite camera system, zoom camera image display control method, zoom camera control method, control program, and computer readable recording medium
A composite camera system includes a control section for performing positional control and magnification ratio control of at least one zoom camera ratio for omnidirectional image data centered on a...
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7295229 |
Surround surveillance apparatus for mobile body
A surround surveillance system mounted on a mobile body for surveying surroundings around the mobile body includes an omniazimuth visual system, the omniazimuth visual system includes at least one...
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7262789 |
Method of creating a virtual window
The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, a technique for calibrating the outputs of multiple sensors, such as CCD devices, that have overlapping fields of view and...
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7253832 |
Shape extraction system and 3-D (three dimension) information acquisition system using the same
A background lighting module illuminates an object from behind by visible light with respect to a photographing module to identify an area including the boundary between the object and the...
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7231654 |
Remote monitoring method and monitor control server
A remote monitoring system which enables the owner and the custodian of a facility to recognize an intrusion from the outside and the owner himself to confirm the details of the intrusion, and...
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7227705 |
Wide-angle optical system
A wide-angle optical system (2, 40) having an objective (4, 42) and a mirror system, including a curved mirror (6, 46) for projecting a wide-angle image through the objective (4, 42) onto a...
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7206017 |
Image reproduction apparatus with panoramic mode based on aspect ratio
An image reproduction apparatus includes display-image discrimination unit for discriminating a display mode (normal display, at-a-glance display, panoramic display, etc.) in which selected image...
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7158180 |
System and method for varying exposure time for different parts of a field of view while acquiring an image
A system and method for exposing different parts of a single field of view for various and differing lengths of time while capturing an image is provided. For astrophotography, unwanted light...
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7145596 |
Method of and apparatus for composing a series of partial images into one image based upon a calculated amount of overlap
The image input apparatus comprises the image pickup unit which optically scans a subject and successively acquires partial images of the subject. The relative change detection unit detects an...
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7136096 |
Image processing method and apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium
This invention has as its object to provide a convenient image processing apparatus which does not limit image sensing purposes. To achieve this object, an image processing apparatus has a...
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