Abstract:
A camera parameter set calculation apparatus calculates three-dimensional coordinate sets based on a first image obtained by a first camera mounted on a mobile apparatus, a second image obtained by a second camera arranged on or in an object different from the mobile apparatus, a camera parameter set of the first camera, and a camera parameter set of the second camera, determines first pixel coordinate pairs obtained by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate sets onto the first image based on the first camera parameter set and second pixel coordinate pairs obtained by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate sets onto the second image based on the second camera parameter set, calculates an evaluation value based on pixel values at the first pixel coordinate pairs and pixel values at the second pixel coordinate pairs, and updates the camera parameter set of the first camera based on the evaluation value.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes an optical imaging system that converges light from an object; an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels, receives the converged light, and converts the received light to an electric signal; a filter unit that is disposed between the optical imaging system and the imaging device and includes a plurality of color filters having different light transmission rate characteristics; and a transmission data compressing circuit that codes the electric signal. An overall light transmission rate characteristic of the filter unit differs randomly in different pixels of the imaging device, and the transmission data compressing circuit weights and codes the electric signal of each of the pixels by using a reciprocal of a proportion of the overall light transmission rate characteristic of the filter unit corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels of the imaging device relative to a wavelength characteristic common among the pixels.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes a photoelectric converter that converts light signals generated from light received by three or more pixels into electric charge signals, each of the electric charge signals corresponding to one of the three or more pixels; an electric charge holder that holds the electric charge signals; an analog selective adder that generates added electric charge signals by adding electric charge signals of certain pixels among the three or more pixels by using analog addition patterns which are rules of adding pieces of electric charge information corresponding to individual positions of the certain pixels; an analog-to-digital converter that converts the added electric charge signals into digital signals; and an addition data compressor that compresses the digital signals by using a total number of pixels for which pieces of electric charge information are added in the analog addition patterns and thereby generates compressed digital signals.
Abstract:
An imaging system includes an encoding apparatus that performs a multiple sampling process on charge signals in a plurality of wavelength bands and encodes image information and a decoding apparatus that decodes the image information. In the multiple sampling process, the charge signals of pixels in a pixel group having a predetermined arrangement pattern are analog-summed and the sum is converted into a new digital signal. The encoding apparatus performs the multiple sampling process on charge signals in at least two of the wavelength bands and outputs a digital image signal in each of the wavelength band. The at least two pixel groups have different arrangement patterns, and combinations of the arrangement patterns for all the wavelength bands differ from one another. The decoding apparatus generates a reconstructed image from the digital image signals in the wavelength bands using multiple sampling information and outputs the image.
Abstract:
An image generation apparatus includes a processing circuit and a memory storing at least one computational image. The at least one computational image is a light-field image, a compressive sensing image, or a coded image. The processing circuit (a1) identifies a position of an object in the at least one computational image using a classification device, (a2) generates, using the at least one computational image, a display image in which an indication for highlighting the position of the object is superimposed, and (a3) outputs the display image.
Abstract:
Three-dimensional point group data indicating three-dimensional coordinate sets of three-dimensional points included in a common imaging space of one or more cameras is received, one or more images captured by the one or more cameras are transmitted, the one or more transmitted images are received, initial camera parameters of each cameras are decided based on one or more mounting locations and one or more directions of the cameras, corresponding points in the one or more images are calculated for each of the three-dimensional points, based on the three-dimensional point group data and the initial camera parameters, and one or more camera parameters of the one or more cameras are calculated based on pixel values at the corresponding points in the one or more images.
Abstract:
A camera parameter set calculation method includes acquiring a first image from a first camera, a second image from a second camera, first and second camera parameter sets of the first camera and the second camera, calculating three-dimensional coordinate sets on the basis of the first image, the second image, the first camera parameter set, and the second camera parameter set, determining first pixel coordinate pairs obtained by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate sets onto the first image and second pixel coordinate pairs obtained by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate sets onto the second image, calculating an evaluation value on the basis of the pixel values at the first pixel coordinate pairs and the pixel values at the second pixel coordinate pairs, and updating the first camera parameter set and the second camera parameter set on a basis of the evaluation value.
Abstract:
A camera calibration method, which calculates camera parameters of two cameras using calibration points, includes: (a1) acquiring three-dimensional coordinate sets of the calibration points and image coordinate pairs of the calibration points in a camera image of each camera; (a2) acquiring multiple camera parameters of each camera; (a3) for each calibration point, calculating a view angle-corresponding length corresponding to a view angle of the two cameras viewing the calibration point; (a4) for each calibration point, calculating a three-dimensional position of a measurement point corresponding to a three-dimensional position of the calibration point using parallax of the calibration point between the two cameras; (a5) for each calibration point, weighting a difference between the three-dimensional coordinate set of the calibration point and the three-dimensional position of the measurement point corresponding to the calibration point using the view angle-corresponding length corresponding to the calibration point; and (a6) updating the camera parameters based on the weighted difference.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system that forms an optical signal, an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels and that converts the optical signal formed on the plurality of pixels into an electrical signal, a color filter that is arranged between the imaging optical system and the imaging device and that has a different optical transmittance for each of the plurality of pixels and each of a plurality of wavelength ranges, and a transmission data compression circuit that compresses the electrical signal obtained by the imaging device. The sum of products of an optical transmittance group relating to a plurality of optical transmittances of the color filter for each of the plurality of pixels in the plurality of wavelength ranges and coefficients common to the plurality of pixels is the same between the plurality of pixels.
Abstract:
An image generating apparatus generates an image to be displayed on a display and includes at least one memory and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a plurality of camera images captured by a plurality of cameras installed in a vehicle, calculates a distance between one of the cameras and a target to be projected in the camera images, detects a position of a light-transmissive object or a reflective object in the camera images, and generates an image from a point of view that is different from points of view of the plurality of camera images by using the plurality of camera images and the distance, the generated image including a predetermined image that is displayed at the position of the light-transmissive object or the reflective object.