SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING USING MOSAIC TECHNIQUES

• US 20130027562A1
• Filed: 07/26/2011
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lantis Co. Ltd. (BANDAI NAMCO Holdings Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Lantis Co. Ltd. (BANDAI NAMCO Holdings Inc.)
• Inventors: LEE, Boohee
• Application Number:
  US13/191,180
• Publication Number:
  US 20130027562A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/159
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

An image processing system and method using mosaic techniques are provided. The system includes a plurality of cameras, a mosaic image combiner combining multi-channel images from the cameras into a mosaic image, a mosaic image encoder encoding the mosaic image combined by the mosaic image combiner, a mosaic image storing unit storing therein encoded mosaic image encoded by the encoder, and a mosaic image decoder decoding the encoded mosaic image stored in the mosaic image storing unit.

Claims

1. An image processing system using mosaic techniques, the system comprising:

a plurality of cameras;

a mosaic image combiner combining multi-channel images from the cameras into a mosaic image;

a mosaic image encoder encoding the mosaic image combined by the mosaic image combiner;

a mosaic image storing unit storing therein encoded mosaic image encoded by the encoder; and

a mosaic image decoder decoding the encoded mosaic image stored in the mosaic image storing unit.

2. The image processing system of claim 1, further comprising an image encoder separately encoding the respective multi-channel images input from the cameras.

3. The image processing system of claim 1, wherein the mosaic image has the same size as that of any one of multi-channel images input from the cameras.

4. An image processing method using mosaic techniques, the method comprising:

(a) receiving multi-channel images at a plurality of cameras;

(b) combining the multi-channel images received in the step (a) into a mosaic image having the same size as that of one of the multi-channel images;

(c) encoding the mosaic image combined in the step (b);

(d) storing the encoded mosaic image encoded in the step (c), and

(e) decoding the encoded mosaic image stored in the step (d).

5. The image processing method of claim 4, wherein when the multi-channel images are needed to be transmitted, instead of the multi-channel images, the mosaic image is transmitted.