摘要:
An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.
摘要:
There is provided a stereoscopic image forming apparatus which can reduce the image memory capacity and the time required for synthesizing a three-dimensional striped image. A three-dimensional image is synthesized such that pixels of the same coordinates in respective images of a multiple viewpoint image sequence of the subject viewed from a plurality of viewpoints are arranged as adjacent pixels in accordance with the arrangement of the viewpoints of the images based on the acquired subject image and an acquired parallax map corresponding thereto. Pixels values of the subject image corresponding to the respective pixels of the three-dimensional image are found according to a parallax deviation derived from the corresponding parallax map and are written into the respective pixels of the three-dimensional image. The synthesized three-dimensional image is outputted, whereby a stereoscopic image can be observed through an optical member having a cyclic structure superposed on the outputted image.
摘要:
An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.
摘要:
An object of this invention is to obtain an image of a proper brightness in various scenes in which it is difficult to appropriately determine the brightness of an image. To achieve this object, an image processing apparatus includes a luminance level extraction unit which extracts luminance components from image data, a scale conversion unit which obtains on a predetermined scale the distribution of the luminance components extracted by the luminance level extraction unit, a luminance level enhancement unit which sets a middle luminance value for the image data, corrects a luminance value larger than the middle luminance value in the luminance distribution converted by the scale conversion unit so as to decrease a luminance value before scale conversion that corresponds to the larger luminance value, and corrects a luminance value smaller than the middle luminance value so as to increase a luminance value before scale conversion that corresponds to the smaller luminance value, and an image reproduction unit which reproduces the image data by using the luminance distribution enhanced by the luminance level enhancement unit as a new image luminance distribution.
摘要:
An image processing apparatus comprises a luminance extraction means for extracting a luminance component from image data, a scale conversion means for obtaining a distribution of the luminance component on a relatively large scale, a luminance improvement means for improving the luminance distribution of the image data by using the luminance component and an output from the scale conversion means, and an image reproduction means for reproducing the image data by using an output from the luminance improvement means as a luminance distribution of a new image, wherein the luminance improvement means further comprises a parameter adjustment means for adjusting a degree of improvement by means of a parameter. Thus, a brightness distribution is optimally improved according to image quality of a digital image to be processed.
摘要:
There is disclosed an image combining apparatus for generating a single image by combining a plurality of sensed images. When the panoramic image sensing mode is set, the image sensing angle is detected, and is stored together with a plurality of sensed image obtained in the panoramic image sensing mode. Upon combining the plurality of sensed images, a combining method is adaptively selected on the basis of the angle information.
摘要:
An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the plurality of images that are input, and of determining whether or not an image in the partially overlapping image area of each of images that are indicated by the plurality of image data sets includes mainly characters an image processing step of performing, for the plurality of image data sets that are input, image processing in consonance with a result of a determination performed at the determination step and an image synthesization step of synthesizing images that are indicated by the resultant plurality of image data, for which the image processing has been performed at the image processing step. With this arrangement, a plurality of images can be easily and effectively synthesized.
摘要:
There is disclosed a binocular camera which can realize panoramic view and stereoscopic view during image sensing. There is also disclosed a binocular camera which has two image sensing optical systems, a circuit for synthesizing right and left sensed parallax image signals to a panoramic image or a three-dimensional image, and a display for displaying the synthesized image signal.
摘要:
There is disclosed a multi-lens image pickup apparatus provided with plural image pickup systems and an image display means and adapted to synthesize the plural images picked up respectively with the plural image pickup systems, into one, to store the synthesized image in image memory means and to display the stored image on the image display means. The camera further comprises horizontal compression means for comprising the plural picked-up images in the horizontal directions, selection means for compressing the plural images in the vertical direction by selecting the input of the plural image signals and outputting thus selected image signal to the image display means, and memory control means for storing the compressed plural images in said image memory means in such a manner that the plural images compressed in the horizontal and vertical directions are displayed in an arranged manner.
摘要:
A three-dimensional information processing apparatus for obtaining three-dimensional information from an object having a three-dimensional shape, and performing predetermined information processing, comprises: a camera for sensing images of the object from a plurality of coordinate positions using an image sensing system having one or a plurality of optical systems. A plurality of depth information are extracted from image sensing related information sensed by the camera at the plurality of coordinate positions, and the plurality of extracted depth information are converted and unified into depth information expressed by a unified coordinate system.