Apparatus for detecting a movement vector or an image by detecting a change amount of an image density value
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1. A movement vector detection apparatus comprising:
- means for forming a plurality of movement vector detection blocks in an input image by determining a dimension and/or a shape of each of the vector detection blocks in the input image;
controlling means for adaptively changing a dimension and/or shape of each of the blocks formed by said forming means in accordance with a spatial frequency of the input image; and
detection means for detecting a movement vector on the basis of a relation between the amount of change in an image density value in a predetermined time and a space gradient of an image signal of each of the plurality of blocks.
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Abstract
A movement vector detection apparatus includes a detecting circuit for detecting a movement vector of an image in accordance with the amount of change in an image density value over a determined time at an arbitrary position of an image and a space gradient of an image signal at the arbitrary position, and a setting circuit for suitably setting a dimension and a shape of a unit operation area to output the movement vector in response to a space frequency of the input image.
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1. A movement vector detection apparatus comprising:
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means for forming a plurality of movement vector detection blocks in an input image by determining a dimension and/or a shape of each of the vector detection blocks in the input image; controlling means for adaptively changing a dimension and/or shape of each of the blocks formed by said forming means in accordance with a spatial frequency of the input image; and detection means for detecting a movement vector on the basis of a relation between the amount of change in an image density value in a predetermined time and a space gradient of an image signal of each of the plurality of blocks. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An apparatus for detecting a movement vector for an image signal of an input image, comprising:
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means for defining a plurality of movement vector detection blocks in an input image, each of said plurality of blocks having a dimension and/or a shape; controlling means for adaptively changing a dimension and/or a shape of each of said plurality of areas on the basis of a spatial frequency of the input image; and movement vector detecting means for detecting the movement vector in each of said plurality of blocks by effecting a correlation function operation or a matching operation between time-serial sequential images in said blocks. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
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7. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
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image pickup means for photoelectrically converting an image focused on an image pickup plane, into an image pickup signal; movement vector detection area setting means for setting a plurality of movement vector detection areas on said image pickup plane, wherein a dimension of each of said plurality of movement vector detection areas can be variably set; control means for controlling said area setting means according to a spatial frequency of said image pickup signal output from said image pickup means so as to change and set the dimension of each of said plurality of movement vector detection areas according to said spatial frequency; movement vector processing means for providing a movement vector by extracting an image signal in each of said plurality of movement vector detection areas; and output means for outputting movement information representative of relative movement between said apparatus and said image, according to said movement vector provided by said movement vector processing means. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An image processing apparatus for processing image signals output from an image pickup device, comprising:
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area setting means for setting a plurality of movement vector detection areas on a picture, wherein a dimension and/or a shape of each of said plurality of movement vector detection areas can be variably set; control means for controlling said area setting means on the basis of a spatial frequency of image signals in each of said plurality of movement vector detection areas so as to change and set the dimension of each of said plurality of detection areas on the basis of said spatial frequency; movement vector processing means for providing a movement vector by processing the image signal in each of said plurality of movement vector detection areas; and movement correction means for correcting a movement of the picture on the basis of the movement vector provided by said movement vector operation means. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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