Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for performing frame rate up-conversion of video data including a sequence of image frames. The method may include determining a set of motion vectors of a target frame relative to a plurality of reference frames. The target frame is to be generated and interpolated into the sequence of image frames. The method may further include performing a motion vector classification on the set of motion vectors to generate a target object map for the target frame. The method may additionally include projecting the target object map onto the plurality of reference frames to generate a plurality of reference object maps based on the set of motion vectors. The method may additionally include detecting an occlusion area in the target frame based on the set of motion vectors, the target object map, and the plurality of reference object maps.

A motion information acquiring apparatus includes: a lighting device that illuminates an object at the same time with first intensity-modulated light, second intensity-modulated light, and constant illumination light, wherein the first and second intensity-modulated light are intensity modulated with reference signals having substantially same wavelength but different phase; an image generator that generates first to third images corresponding to the first intensity-modulated light, the second intensity-modulated light, and the constant illumination light; and a motion information acquirer that acquires motion information in the images on the basis of the first to third images.

A load driving apparatus for driving a plurality of loads is provided. The load driving apparatus includes an output stage module, a load driving module, and an output stage selection module. The output stage module includes a plurality of output stages. Each of the output stages is coupled to a corresponding one of the loads. The load driving module is coupled to the output stage module and outputs a driving signal to drive one of the loads through the output stage module. The output stage selection module is coupled between the output stage module and the load driving module and selects one of the output stages in the output stage module, so that the load driving module drives the load which is coupled to the selected output stage through the selected output stage. Furthermore, a grayscale voltage generating circuit including the foregoing load driving apparatus is also provided.

A method that receives a visual media item and determines an identity of at least one intended viewer of the visual media item is disclosed. The method may further identify a visual representation of an object that is comprised by the visual media item and determine a relevance of the object based, at least in part, on the identity. The method may further generate a modified visual media item such that the modified visual media item differs from the visual media item, at least, by visual emphasis of the visual representation of the object.

Noise is sufficiently reduced in a moving image. A determination section determines, each time an input image is input, whether a change amount of a pixel value distribution in the input image and an output image that is output is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. A mixing ratio supply section supplies a value that becomes larger as the number of times the change amount is sequentially determined to be smaller than the predetermined threshold value becomes larger, the value serving as a mixing ratio of the output image in mixing of the input image and the output image. A mixing section mixes, each time the input image is input, the input image and the output image based on the supplied mixing ratio and outputs the input image and the output image to serve as a new output image.

An object detection apparatus that detects an object in a vicinity of a vehicle includes: (a) an image processing circuit configured to: (i) derive vectors representing movement of feature points in captured images acquired periodically by a camera that captures images of the vicinity of the vehicle; and (ii) detect the object based on the vectors; and (b) a controller configured to (i) acquire a velocity of the vehicle; and (ii) set a parameter that affects a number of the feature points based on the velocity of the vehicle.

A noise removal device includes a noise remover, a data compressor, a data decompressor, a stillness detector, and an output selector. For a second frame succeeding a first frame, the noise remover performs noise removal on input image data of the second frame to generate noise removed data, based on the input image data of the second frame and decompressed data of the first frame. For the second frame, the output selector: selects the input image data as output image data, when the stillness detector detects that the input image data is data of a still image; and selects the noise removed data as the output image data, when the stillness detector detects that the input image data is not the data of the still image.

An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a look-up table having association information for associating at least one first image with at least one second image that is an image whose load on a brain has been adjusted, an image accepting unit that accepts at least one image, a mapping unit that acquires a whole or part of one or more second images associated with a whole or part of the at least one image accepted by the image accepting unit, using association information from among the one or more pieces of association information, and an image output unit that outputs at least one output image, which is the whole of the at least one second image acquired by the mapping unit or a group of part of the at least one second image acquired by the mapping unit.

There is provided a video signal noise elimination method for performing noise correction by digital processing. The video signal noise elimination method includes using, as an output video signal, a mixed video signal obtained by mixing an input video signal and a low-pass video signal at a predetermined mixing ratio corresponding to a contour signal. The method further includes subtracting an off-set, which grows larger as the low-pass video signal becomes greater, from the contour signal. The method further includes controlling the predetermined mixing ratio so that a ratio of the low-pass video signal contained in the mixed video signal increases in a portion where the contour signal is small and so that the ratio of the low-pass video signal contained in the mixed video signal decreases in a portion where the contour signal is large.

An image sequence includes consecutive video images each exhibiting at least one image region having a number of pixels, where each pixel includes at least one intensity value. For each image a motion measure value is determined indicative of temporal change of a video content of the image region and varying the intensity values of the pixels of the image region relative to the associated intensity values from video image to video image, a measure for the variation of the intensity values being dependent on the motion measure value determined and the change in the intensity values relative to the associated intensity values being greater the larger the motion represented by the motion measure value.