摘要:
A moving picture encoder which is able to improve the encoding efficiency wherein a controller controls an inter/intra mode switch for generating intra and inter signals Y2 and Y4, these signals being stored in a memory. A combining unit generates a combination pattern from the intra and inter signals Y2 and Y4 stored in the memory. An information amount estimator estimates the information amounts concerning the signals Y2 and Y4 and combination pattern. A minimum information amount determining unit determines the minimum one of the estimated information amounts. The controller causes a selector to select the signal or combination pattern that corresponds to the minimum information amount for quantizing and transmitting the result to a succeeding stage.
摘要:
A quantizer designed by using human visual sensitivity is disclosed, in which when postprocessing is done after inverse quantization an optimum visual sensitivity function for a system involving the postprocessing is obtained for doing quantization by using that visual sensitivity function.Where the postprocessing that is executed after the inverse quantization consists of a filtering process with a characteristic L(.omega.) (.omega. being the frequency) and a 1:2 interpolation process, denoting the optimum visual sensitivity as the output result by W(.omega.) as shown in FIG. 2, the optimum equivalent sensitivity function W'(.omega.) is given asW'(.omega.)=1/2[L(.omega./2)W(.omega./2)+L(.omega./2+.pi.)W(.omega./2+.pi.)].By using this equivalent sensitivity function W'(.omega.) for the quantizer, it is possible to obtain a visually optimum quantizer designed by using human visual sensitivity.
摘要:
It is a purpose of the present invention to provide a video encoding apparatus, a video decoding apparatus, a video encoding method, a video decoding method, and a computer program, which allow adaptive filter coefficients to be used with a reduced amount of coding. A video encoding apparatus AA selects a suitable coefficient from among multiple kinds of interpolation filter coefficients determined beforehand by means of a component external to the video encoding apparatus AA. Subsequently, the video encoding apparatus AA records identification information uniquely defined for the selected interpolation filter coefficient in control information for each slice. Furthermore, the video encoding apparatus AA uses the interpolation filter coefficient thus selected to generate encoded data c including the identification information uniquely defined for the interpolation filter coefficient thus selected.
摘要:
A barcode-embedding area is obtained in a color image based on expression possibility by the juxtaposed additive color mixture and possibility of reading of pixels separately by a barcode reader (S11), a color image in the barcode-embedding area is expressed by the juxtaposed additive color mixture, and color images for the code area and the background area, which are readable by the barcode reader, are created (S12, S13), a color-image-superimposed barcode image is created by using the color images for the code area and the background area, and the same color-image-superimposed barcode image is embedded in the barcode-embedding area (S14), and the color-image-superimposed barcode image and the original color image are corrected if necessary (S15, S16).
摘要:
The present invention relates to color correction of video signals from a plurality of cameras. The apparatus has a correction order that defines a plurality of camera pairs and an order of the camera pairs, where each camera pair specifies a reference camera and a target camera. In the correction order, each camera is treated as a target camera at least one time, and the reference camera is treated as the target camera in a previous camera pair except for the first camera pair. The apparatus corrects a value of each pixel in a target image captured by the target camera based on a reference image captured by the reference camera, and replaces the target image by the corrected target image, for each camera pair in accordance with the order of the camera pairs.
摘要:
In the present invention, by performing a control so that the I-coding modes of the encoders of a plurality of respective channels do not overlap each other, the amount of generated encoded information for the total system can be reduced without reducing the allowed amount of information of each encoder. Further, the bit rate Ri (i=1, 2, 3, . . . ) which minimizes the mean square error (E) is determined, on condition that the total bit rate (R) is constant, and informed the encoder. The encoder encodes a video signal at the specified bit rate. This allows the total performance of the plurality of encoders to be increased under a predetermined total bit rate.
摘要:
It is a purpose of the present invention to provide a video encoding apparatus and a video decoding apparatus which are capable of providing real-time processing having improved coding performance. A video encoding apparatus AA includes an inter-encoding predicted value generating unit 2 configured to receive, as input signals, an input image a, a local decoded value d acquired from an encoded block, prediction direction information e acquired from the encoded block, and interpolation filter initial control information b. The inter-encoding predicted value generating unit 2 includes a filter control unit 21. The filter control unit 21 extracts the tap size N of the interpolation filter and the initial value c0(i,j) of the filter coefficient of the interpolation filter from the interpolation filter initial control information b, and uses the initial value c0(i,j) of the filter coefficient of the interpolation filter as the filter coefficient c(i,j) of the interpolation filter.
摘要:
The present invention relates to calibration of camera parameters for converting a world coordinate system, which indicates a position in the real space, to a coordinate used in an image and vice versa. The apparatus according to the invention has a detection unit, which determines corresponding pixel pairs from the captured image and the model image and outputs corresponding data indicating determined pixel pairs, and a selection unit, which selects pixel pairs to be left in the corresponding data and removes data related to an unselected pixel pair from the corresponding data for generating selected corresponding data. The apparatus further has a calculation unit, which calculates camera parameters based on the selected corresponding data.
摘要:
The present invention provides a scrambled compressed data distribution device that can perform a high-resistance scrambled compressed data distribution by selectively using a plurality of types of scramble information and a playback device thereof.A scrambling section scrambles compressed data by unique one of a plurality of scrambling methods. A hash value calculating section determines a hash value based on data b in a position where digital watermark data is not embedded, and an encrypting section encrypts the hash value with a secret key Sk(n) corresponding to the scrambling method and outputs an encrypted hash value c. A watermark data embedding section embeds the encrypted hash value in a watermark data embedding position of the data b and transmits the same as a compressed data stream d.
摘要:
As the encoding mode, a moving-picture encoding apparatus includes an encoding mode that relies only on inference based on encoding information of a previously encoded unit block so as to encode a picture of a unit block. The encoding information in this encoding mode is imparted with secondary encoding information for improving the prediction performance, e.g., MV information. The MV information is produced by an MV-information producing unit 21 to which an input picture and MV information in a previously encoded MB are input. A locally-decoded picture producing unit 22 produces a locally-decoded picture (pixel value) of the previously encoded MB. As the secondary encoding information, a DC component of an orthogonal transformation result relative to a prediction error or a value equivalent to an average value of prediction errors can also be used.