IP Library Granted Patent US 9,094,664
Granted Patent B2
US 9,094,664 · App. 13/345,010 · Granted Jul 28, 2015

Image processing device, image processing method, and program

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Patent No.
US 9,094,664
App. No.
13/345,010
Granted
Jul 28, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is an image processing device including a frame image generation unit for generating a frame image in which a first image and a second image are arranged next to each other, and a compression processing unit for compressing the frame image in units of macroblocks. The frame image generation unit arranges the first image and the second image such that a boundary between the first image and the second image coincides with boundaries of the macroblocks.

Claims (35)

1. An image processing device comprising:

a frame image generation device to generate a frame image in which a first image and a second image are arranged next to each other; and

a compression processing device to compress the frame image in units of macroblocks,

wherein each of the macroblocks has a same predetermined pixel area size, and

wherein the frame image generation device causes an image boundary between the first image and the second image to coincide with boundaries of a number of the macroblocks by inserting an amount of dummy data to both sides of the first image and the second image which are opposite the image boundary so as to have a whole number of macroblocks in the first image and in the second image along a direction of arrangement.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the frame image generation device

multiplies a double value of the number of macroblocks necessary to store the first image or the second image along the direction of arrangement by the number of pixels of the macroblock in the direction of arrangement, and

distributes as the dummy data, to both sides of the frame image in the direction of arrangement, a difference between a multiplication result and the number of effective pixels of the frame image in the direction of arrangement.

3. The image processing device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the frame image generation device

distributes, in a case the numbers of effective pixels of the first image and the second image along the direction of arrangement are same, the dummy data equally to both sides of the frame image in the direction of arrangement, and

distributes, in a case the numbers of effective pixels of the first image and the second image along the direction of arrangement are different, more dummy data to an arrangement side of an image with a fewer number of effective pixels than on another side.

4. The image processing device according to claim 3 , further comprising:

a wireless communication device for wirelessly transmitting the frame image which has been compressed by the compression processing device.

5. The image processing device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the number of effective pixels of the frame image in the direction of arrangement is different from an even multiple of the number of pixels of the macroblock in the direction of arrangement.

6. The image processing device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the first image is an image for a left eye and the second image is an image for a right eye.

7. An image processing method comprising:

generating a frame image in which a first image and a second image are arranged next to each other; and

compressing the frame image in units of macroblocks,

wherein each of the macroblocks has a same predetermined pixel area size, and

wherein the generating includes causing an image boundary between the first image and the second image to coincide with boundaries of a number of the macroblocks by inserting an amount of dummy data to both sides of the first image and the second image which are opposite the image boundary so as to have a whole number of macroblocks in the first image and in the second image along a direction of arrangement.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to function as an image processing device including:

a frame image generation unit for generating a frame image in which a first image and a second image are arranged next to each other; and

a compression processing unit for compressing the frame image in units of macroblocks,

wherein each of the macroblocks has a same predetermined pixel area size, and

wherein the frame image generation unit causes an image boundary between the first image and the second image to coincide with boundaries of a number of the macroblocks by inserting an amount of dummy data to both sides of the first image and the second image which are opposite the image boundary so as to have a whole number of macroblocks in the first image and in the second image along a direction of arrangement.

9. The image processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined pixel area size of each of the macroblocks is 16 pixels×16 pixels.

10. The image processing method according to claim 7 , wherein the predetermined pixel area size of each of the macroblocks is 16 pixels×16 pixels.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 8 , wherein the predetermined pixel area size of each of the macroblocks is 16 pixels×16 pixels.

12. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

in which the first image and the second image are arranged next to each other in a vertical direction, and

in which the first image and the second image are arranged such that the boundaries of the number of macroblocks coincide with both sides of the first image and the second image in the vertical direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2017
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: SATURN LICENSING LLC
Reel/Frame 043177/0794 →