摘要:
The present invention relates to a control method of a photographing apparatus, the photographing apparatus and a control program, which are capable of automatically determining a photographing mode capable of generating a sharper image. If a first exposure time is equal to or shorter than a first threshold value, a control circuit 18 makes a decision to take an input image in a first mode. The first exposure time is an exposure time required for taking one input image on the assumption that a photographing operation is carried out in the first mode for generating one output image by taking one input image. If the first exposure time is neither equal to nor shorter than the first threshold value, on the other hand, the control circuit 18 makes a decision to take a plurality of input images in a second mode provided that a second exposure time is equal to or shorter than a second threshold value. The second exposure time is an exposure time required for taking each of the input images successively on the assumption that a photographing operation is carried out in the second mode for generating one output image by taking the input images successively. The present invention can be applied for example to a digital camera.
摘要:
A light source estimating device includes: a distribution holding section holding a spectral energy distribution of a specific light source as a specular reflection component; a set generating section generating a set determined by the specular reflection component and pixel data of the input image in a predetermined space, with respect to each pixel data of the input image; a detecting section detecting, with respect to each pixel data of the input image, another pixel data neighboring the pixel data and included in the set; and a determining section determining whether or not the specific light source corresponds to the light source used during capture, by setting a likelihood that the specific light source corresponds to the light source used during capture high if the other pixel data exists, and setting a likelihood that the specific light source corresponds to the light source used during capture low if the other pixel data does not exist.
摘要:
A display device including a camera is used by inserting it in the direction of a user's gaze. Alternatively, an image of the same area as that of a scene from a windshield of an automobile may be obtained and the image may be displayed by using an information providing apparatus installed in the automobile. A system provides information to the user by adding a two-dimensional or three-dimensional computer graphics object to an image taken by the camera. The information is directly added to a scene in the direction of the user's gaze and is displayed to the user. Thus the user can easily understand the relationship between the information and the position to which the information is added.
摘要:
In the case a two-dimensional image (FIG. 11A) displaying a house-shaped three-dimensional object is stored in a noted buffer, when shape information indicating that a check-patterned wall is rectangular and the four apexes of the wall as characteristic points are designated by a user, a spread image (FIG. 11B) obtained by spreading the check-patterned wall onto a two-dimensional plane is generated on the basis of the shape information and characteristic points and is stored into a paste buffer. Then, a two-dimensional image of a column (FIG. 11C) is stored into the noted buffer. When shape information indicating the lateral side of the column and a predetermined point on the lateral side as a characteristic point are designated by the user, the image (FIG. 11B) stored in the paste buffer is pasted to the lateral side of the column in the noted buffer (FIG. 11D) on the basis of the shape information and characteristic point. Thus, the user can easily perform three-dimensional editing or the like on a two-dimensional image.
摘要:
The invention provides an image connecting method, an image connecting apparatus, and a storage medium on which an image connecting program is stored, for connecting a first image and a second image such that particular connecting areas are determined for the first image and the second image and the first and second images in the connecting areas are combined together thereby connecting the first and second images into a single image including no unnatural parts. The first image and the second image are decomposed into frequency components. The connecting area is determined for each frequency component such that the connecting area becomes narrower with the increase in the frequency of the frequency component, and the first and second images are combined in the connecting area for each frequency component. After that, particular partial images in the first and second images are designated. The designated partial images are extracted from the first or second image, and extracted partial images are overwritten on the connecting part.
摘要:
A parallel processor comprises a data input register, a plurality of processor elements, a data output register, control means and instruction signal generating means. The data input register is for receiving a plurality of first data composed of serial data and outputting the first data as parallel data. The plurality of processor elements are for performing prescribed arithmetic operations on the first data as parallel data and outputting a plurality of arithmetically-processed second data. The data output register is provided with the plurality of second data as parallel, and outputs the second data as serial data. The control means jointly controls the operating states of the plurality of processor elements. The instruction signal generating means is for generating instruction signals instructing inhibiting of the prescribed arithmetic operations occurring at each of the processor elements on the basis of pre-defined arithmetic conditions for the prescribed arithmetic processes for the processor elements. Here, the prescribed arithmetic operations for the plurality of processor elements are inhibited in accordance with the instruction signals.
摘要:
A data processing circuit multiplies, by 2a, input data supplied in a time-division multiplexed manner over a plurality of lines. The data processing circuit includes first, second, and third data selectors each having first, second, and third input terminals and a single output terminal. The first input terminal of the first selector is supplied with an input signal of "0". A first input line is connected in common to the second input terminal of the first data selector and the first input terminal of the second data selector. A second input line is connected in common to the third input terminal of the first data selector and the second input terminal of the second data selector. A third input line is connected in common to the third input terminal of the second data selector and the second input terminal of the third data selector. The first, second, and third input lines are supplied input data in a time-division multiplexed manner. Each of the first, second, and third data selectors selects one of the input data supplied to the first, second, and third input terminals and outputs the selected data through the output terminal.
摘要:
An image data processing apparatus includes a calculating block 7 for calculating a vector from a vector which has 64 elements in a real space and which has been generated as a sequence of image data in 8 rows and 8 columns in the real space, a calculating block 8 for calculating a vector from the vector in the real space, and a calculating block 9 for adding and subtracting elements of the vector and elements of the vector , thereby producing a vector which has 64 elements in a space of spatial frequencies. The elements of the vector in the space of spatial frequencies are arranged into data in 8 rows and 8 columns in the space of spatial frequencies.
摘要:
A biological-information obtaining apparatus includes a light-emitting unit configured to emit light, an image-capturing unit configured to capture images, in time sequence, obtained by irradiating a living body with the light emitted and by causing the light to be transmitted through or reflected by the living body, the image-capturing unit being sensitive to at least two color components, an extreme generation unit configure to generate, for each of the captured images in the time sequence, a maximum value and a minimum value of each of the color components in a certain area of the captured image, and an oxygen-saturation calculation unit configured to calculate oxygen saturation on the basis of the maximum value and the minimum value of each of the color components in the certain area of the captured image.
摘要:
An apparatus and a method for efficiently executing correction of false color, such as purple fringe, caused by chromatic aberration and for generating and outputting high-quality image data are provided. A white-saturated pixel is detected from image data, a false-color-pixel detection area is set around the detected white-saturated pixel, and pixels having color corresponding to false color such as purple fringe are detected from the set area. The detected pixels are determined as false-color pixels and correction processing based on the values of the surrounding pixels is performed on the determined false-color pixels. With this configuration, an area of false color such as purple fringe generated in the neighborhood of a white-saturated pixel can be efficiently detected, pixel values can be partially corrected, and high-quality image data can be generated and output without affecting the entire image.