Abstract:
A modulation method has a high encoding rate for generating a pattern having a lower limit for the number of successive pixels in a spatial light modulator. An information recording device includes: an encoding unit that performs error correction encoding of input data; an interleaving unit that switches the output sequence of the error correction encoding unit; and an modulation unit that performs RLL modulation of the output of the interleaving unit on the basis of an RLL modulation trellis. A corresponding information reproducing device includes: a demodulation unit that uses a posteriori probability decoding based on the RLL modulation trellis, to perform RLL demodulation for reproducing recorded information; a deinterleaving unit that reverses the sequence switching; and a decoding unit that performs error correction code decoding using a posteriori probability decoding on the basis of the error correction encoding on the output of the deinterleaving unit.
Abstract:
The problem to be solved by the invention is to accurately detect a distant object while preventing an increase in cost. An object recognition device includes: an imaging unit configured to acquire a plurality of thermal images having an object captured therein; a stereo matching unit configured to perform stereo matching using the plurality of thermal images and calculate a distance to the object; a specific temperature region extracting unit configured to extract a specific temperature region from the thermal images; and an area ratio estimating unit configured to estimate, based on the distance to the object calculated by the stereo matching unit, a ratio of an area of the object included in a pixel for the specific temperature region.
Abstract:
An imaging device includes: a modulator with a first pattern, which is configured to modulate light intensity; an image sensor configured to convert light passing through the modulator to image data, and output the image data; and an image processing unit configured to restore an image on the basis of cross-correlation operation with the image data and pattern data that represents a second pattern.
Abstract:
An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and an optical information recording/reproducing method that record information using holography, wherein the optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a signal generation unit that generates two-dimensional data by a two-dimensional encoding method in which a lower-limit value of a number of continuous ON/OFF pixels in an array in one direction of pixels in a two-dimensional spatial light modulator is K(K≧2, K: natural number); and a pickup that records the two-dimensional data, generated by the signal generation unit, on a hologram disc.
Abstract:
To obtain an imaging device capable of achieving high functionality of the imaging device by facilitating detection of an incident angle of light transmitted through a grating substrate. There is provided an imaging device which includes an image sensor that converts an optical image captured by a plurality of pixels arranged in an array on an imaging surface into an image signal and outputs the image signal, a modulator that is provided on a light receiving surface of the image sensor and modulates light intensity, an image storing unit that temporarily stores the image signal output from the image sensor, and a signal processing unit that performs image processing of the image signal output from the image storing unit, and in which the modulator has a first grating pattern composed of a plurality of concentric circles, and the signal processing unit modulates the image signal output from the image storing unit with a virtual second grating pattern composed of a plurality of concentric circles so as to generate a moiré fringe image and changes a size of the concentric circle of the second grating pattern according to a focus position.
Abstract:
An imaging device includes: a modulator configured to modulate the intensity of light, based on a grating pattern; an image sensor configured to convert light passing through the modulator to electrical signals to generate a sensor image; a complex sensor image processing unit configured to generate, from the sensor image, a complex sensor image comprising a complex number; and a data transmission unit configured to transmit the complex sensor image.
Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide a technique of performing alignment with high accuracy between a plurality of sensors even when a visual field overlapping region at the time of installation of the sensors is small in a case of imaging a subject using the plurality of sensors. An integrated image generation apparatus according to the invention generates a first pseudo visual field image that is able to be acquired by a first sensor in a first pseudo visual field generated by moving a relative position between the subject and the first sensor, and performs the alignment between the first pseudo visual field image and a second sensor image.
Abstract:
An imaging device includes: a modulator configured to modulate the intensity of light, based on a real pattern; an image sensor configured to convert light passing through the modulator to electrical signals to generate a sensor image; a complex sensor image processing unit configured to generate a complex sensor image including a complex number, from an image obtained by executing predetermined positioning for the sensor image taken through the real pattern; and an image processing unit configured to restore an image, based on an operation with the complex sensor image and data of a pattern for reconstruction.
Abstract:
An imaging device includes: an image sensor including a plurality of light-receiving elements, configured to generate a sensor image by photoelectrically converting received light through the light-receiving elements; and a modulating unit configured to modulate the intensity of the light received by the image sensor, through a real pattern provided at a predetermined distance from a light-receiving surface of the image sensor, and the imaging device is characterized in that the width of an aperture of the real pattern provided for the modulating unit is determined, based on the predetermined distance and a two-dimensional size of the image sensor.
Abstract:
A distance measurement device is characterized in that the device includes: an image sensor configured to convert light to electrical signals to generate a sensor image; a modulator configured to modulate the intensity of light projected on the image sensor, based on a pattern for shooting; a complex information generating unit configured to generate, from the sensor image, complex information including a complex number; an evaluation index array generating unit configured to generate an evaluation index array, based on phase information of the complex information; and a distance information generating unit configured to generate distance information, based on the evaluation index array.