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Title:
MULTIVIEW-IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, MULTIVIEW-IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, MULTIVIEW-IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND MULTIVIEW-IMAGE DECODING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/099108
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Provided is a multiview-image encoding apparatus that can inhibit increase in the amount of calculation necessary even when reliability of parallax values are low, by being provided with: a parallax-information generating unit that estimates parallax values between a first viewpoint image and a second viewpoint image for each of the pixels of the first viewpoint image, evaluates the reliability of the parallax values, and generates parallax information of the first viewpoint image that includes the parallax values and information indicating the reliability thereof; and a parallax-information encoding unit that encodes the parallax information.

Inventors:
UCHIUMI TADASHI
TANAKA SEIICHI
SHIMURA TOMOYA
WAKABAYASHI YASUTAKA
TOKUI KEI
SATOH SHUNICHI
Application Number:
PCT/JP2012/050823
Publication Date:
July 26, 2012
Filing Date:
January 17, 2012
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Assignee:
SHARP KK (JP)
UCHIUMI TADASHI
TANAKA SEIICHI
SHIMURA TOMOYA
WAKABAYASHI YASUTAKA
TOKUI KEI
SATOH SHUNICHI
International Classes:
H04N13/00; H04N7/26
Foreign References:
JP2005535203A2005-11-17
JP2003150937A2003-05-23
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
FUNAYAMA Takeshi et al. (JP)
Takeshi Funayama (JP)
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