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7634130 |
Moving image generating apparatus, moving image generating method and moving image generating program
A moving image generating apparatus for generating three-dimensional moving image to display a subject as a three-dimensional object, comprises a plurality of two-dimensional moving image...
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7612798 |
Photographing system for a moving apparatus
A photographing system having plural image pickup units for a moving apparatus with enhanced user's visibility of images for a driver of the apparatus. A system control part controls the image...
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7587747 |
Telepresence method and apparatus for simultaneous use by multiple active/passive users
A telepresence server is for connection to a telecommunications network for providing access to a reality engine for a plurality of passive users. The reality engine can be controlled by an active...
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7567271 |
Shared color sensors for high-resolution 3-D camera
In one embodiment, an apparatus for three-dimensional (3-D) image acquisition can include: (i) first and second lenses configured to receive light from a scene; (ii) first, second, third, and...
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7525567 |
Recording a stereoscopic image of a wide field of view
A scanning camera with a rotating drum has one or more sensors characterized by a non-radial optical axis. With two sensors on opposite sides of the drum and facing in substantially the same...
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7429997 |
System and method for spherical stereoscopic photographing
The present invention provides a novel imaging system for obtaining full stereoscopic spherical images of the visual environment surrounding a viewer, 360 degree both horizontally and vertically....
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7372642 |
Three-channel camera systems with non-collinear apertures
A three-dimensional imaging system uses a single primary optical lens along with three non-collinear apertures to obtain three offset optical channels each of which can be separately captured with...
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7319896 |
Capsule endoscope
A capsule endoscope is disclosed that includes a light source, an objective optical system that forms an image of an object that is illuminated by the light source, an image pickup device that...
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7293881 |
Video projector for dome screen
A video projector projects an image without reducing the resolution, onto the full dome surface by the use of a single-eye fisheye lens. The video projector has a single-eye fisheye lens for...
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7277118 |
Method and system for compensating for parallax in multiple camera systems
A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped...
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7272306 |
Bionic automatic vision and line of sight control system and method
The present invention presents a bionic automatic vision and line of sight control system and method, wherein the system comprises multiple camera sets, wherein each camera set comprises one or...
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7268781 |
Image display control method
In a game system, a player can displace direction of a view line disposed in a three-dimensional space coordinate system to change the corresponding perspective-projected image by changing the aim...
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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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7239345 |
Camera arrangements with backlighting detection and methods of using same
The present invention relates to camera arrangements with backlighting detection. The camera arrangements are capable of simultaneously capturing real scene data from various viewpoints. This data...
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7136415 |
Method and apparatus for multiplexing multi-view three-dimensional moving picture
An apparatus and method for multiplexing a multi-view three-dimensional moving picture according to a user's request is disclosed. The apparatus multiplexes a multi-view three-dimensional moving...
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7084904 |
Foveated wide-angle imaging system and method for capturing and viewing wide-angle images in real time
The present invention includes a foveated wide-angle imaging system and method for capturing a wide-angle image and for viewing the captured wide-angle image in real time. In general, the foveated...
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7012637 |
Capture structure for alignment of multi-camera capture systems
A multi-camera capture system is aligned using a capture system so that a subject remains in the field of view of a camera. In one embodiment of the present invention, the multi-camera system...
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6958746 |
Systems and methods for improved telepresence
The present invention provides a modular, flexible system for deploying multiple video perception technologies. The telepresence system of the present invention is capable of allowing an operator...
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6867750 |
Three dimensional display control apparatus and method, and storage medium
The value of a stereo vision parameter for an immediately preceding frame is subtracted from the value of the stereo vision parameter for a current frame to obtain a differential value d. If...
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6834163 |
Camera system having at least two first cameras and two second cameras
The invention relates to a camera system, especially for photogrammetric applications. The camera system contains at least two first cameras ( 1, 2 ), which are inclined towards each other so that...
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6816158 |
Three-dimensional display system
A system and method for generating and displaying three-dimensional images of a scene 6 on a screen 12 that provides multiple viewing positions for one or more viewers 16 . A stereoscopic...
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6809887 |
Apparatus and method for acquiring uniform-resolution panoramic images
A panoramic imaging system is constructed to acquire panoramic images of a very large field of view. The field of view ranges from being nearly hemispherical, to being omni directional with some...
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6788333 |
Panoramic video
A system and process for generating a panoramic video. Essentially, the panoramic video is created by first acquiring multiple videos of the scene being depicted. Preferably, these videos...
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6778207 |
Fast digital pan tilt zoom video
A virtual PTZ camera is described which forms a virtual image using multiple cameras whose fields of view overlap. Images from the cameras are merged by transforming to a common surface and...
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6724922 |
Verification of positions in camera images
The invention concerns a method for showing three-dimensionally defined fiducial points in a video camera image involving monitoring of a spatial region by at least two cameras which can map...
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6704460 |
Remote mosaic imaging system having high-resolution, wide field-of-view and low bandwidth
The Remote Mosaic Imaging System having High-Resolution, Wide Field-of-View and Low Bandwidth (“Remote Mosaic System”) uses image frame synchronization and multiplexing to reduce the bandwidth...
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6697100 |
SOLID-PICTORIAL VIDEO SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS, SOLID-PICTORIAL VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, SOLID-PICTORIAL VIDEO SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND SOLID-PICTORIAL VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SWITCHING APPARATUS
Left and right video cameras 18 L and 18 R are disposed on both sides of a front video camera 18 M. Solid-pictorial video signals used upon signal transmission are generated by using video...
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6674463 |
Technique for autostereoscopic image, film and television acquisition and display by multi-aperture multiplexing
The method involves using multiple aperture multiplexing, with display of image composite in fast sequences such that viewer does not detect changes. The method involves using a screen and an...
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6625667 |
System for improving efficiency of video encodes
An encoder receives a video input that includes initial video data and encodes the initial video data as encoded video data, such that the encoded video data comprises fewer bytes than the initial...
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6603503 |
Methods, systems and devices for displaying live 3-D, parallax and panoramic images
Live, three-dimensional (“3-D”) parallax and panoramic images are displayed using novel detection and processing devices, systems and methods. A spherical lens and spherical charge-coupled...
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6483949 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and medium therefor
In order to measure a distance with high accuracy, a corresponding pixel extraction section reads a projection transformation matrix from a storage section, determines a reference pixel...
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6392688 |
High accuracy stereo vision camera system
A stereo camera system suitable for use in high performance computer vision systems has two or more electronic cameras. Each camera has an assembly comprising a light sensing array and a lens...
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6348942 |
Enhanced underwater visibility
A system for enhancing underwater visibility is described that uses left and right alternately chopped laser illumination, filtered wide baseline stereo imaging and specular reflectors for...
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6320610 |
Compact imaging device incorporating rotatably mounted cameras
A compact image steering and focusing device has a generally rectangular frame containing at least one illuminator and at least one and preferably two cameras and a pan/tilt mirror on a tilting...
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6259470 |
Image capture system having virtual camera
An improved image capture system capable of combining the individual images from at least two image capture devices to produce a virtual camera for simulated line-of-sight image capture in such...
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6191809 |
Method and apparatus for aligning stereo images
A method and apparatus are provided for correcting for optical misalignment of the dual (left and right) images produced by a stereo electronic endoscope, or of the corresponding dual images...
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6175648 |
Process for producing cartographic data by stereo vision
The method produces three dimensional cartographic data of a scene from n two-dimensional images of the scene, n being an integer higher than 2. The images are delivered by n respective detectors...
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6160574 |
Stereoscopic image generation method and apparatus thereof
The transform arithmetic operations by spatial image transform matrixes and perspective transform matrixes to a screen surface thereon are executed on source video signal representing...
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6141034 |
Immersive imaging method and apparatus
Improvements in the production means for dodecahedral imaging are described, to define a simple, flexible and efficient strategy for the creation of extremely wide images. Improvements in...
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6118475 |
Multi-eye image pickup apparatus, and method and apparatus for measuring or recognizing three-dimensional shape
An apparatus is arranged to have two cameras set at a predetermined angle of convergence, image motion vector extracting portions each for extracting motion vectors between predetermined frames...
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6104425 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting television signals, method and apparatus for receiving television signals, and method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving television signals
A method of transmitting TV signals comprises transmitting three-dimensional information representing three-dimensional shapes of a stereoscopic object from a plurality of view points, and image...
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6084979 |
Method for creating virtual reality
A method of virtualizing reality, i.e., a method of creating virtual reality from images of a real event, is comprised of the steps of capturing a plurality of images of each time instant of a real...
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6055274 |
Method and apparatus for compressing multi-view video
The invention in one embodiment is an apparatus for compressing multi-view video data from a first view and a second view. The apparatus comprises a first encoder receiving a first set of video...
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6055012 |
Digital multi-view video compression with complexity and compatibility constraints
In a system and method for transmitting and displaying multiple different views of a scene, three or more simultaneous scene signals, representing multiple different views of a scene, are provided...
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6028624 |
Method and apparatus for increased visibility through fog and other aerosols
A system is described that uses chopped laser illumination, chopped and fered wide baseline stereo imaging, specular reflectors along the path to navigated, comparison of the two stereo images...
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5991461 |
Selection process for sequentially combining multiple sets of overlapping surface-profile interferometric data to produce a continuous composite map
The process of combining various sets of measured data is carried out by first selecting a section of the test surface and its data set as the starting point and comparing the regions of overlap...
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5937212 |
Image pickup apparatus
A compound eye image pickup apparatus with reduced parallax having two optical image pickup systems wherein the cross points between entrance pupils and optical axes of the two optical image pickup...
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5864360 |
Multi-eye image pick-up apparatus with immediate image pick-up
In a multi-eye image pick-up apparatus, an optical axis angle controller sets the optical axes of first and second video camera portions at predetermined optical axis angles when a power supply...
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5764809 |
Image processing apparatus using correlation among images
An image processing apparatus comprises a CPU, an information input unit, a main storage made up of a RAM, an image input interface, a display interface, and a ROM. These components are mutually...
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5714997 |
Virtual reality television system
A virtual reality television system includes a video capture and encoding system for capturing and encoding the surface geometries and colors of objects and their background as the objects interact...
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