Patent ID: 8744216
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An omnidirectional image processing apparatus that performs image processing on an omnidirectional image, the omnidirectional image processing apparatus comprising: a monitoring object specification section that specifies a monitoring object photographed in the omnidirectional image; an image rotating section that rotates the omnidirectional image so that a position of the specified monitoring object becomes upper-central, based on an angle formed by a line extending in an upper central direction from a center of the omnidirectional image and a line extending in a direction of the original position of the specified monitoring object from the center of the omnidirectional image; and a center position moving section that moves a center position of the omnidirectional image rotated by the image rotating section downward to an area above a bottom edge of the omnidirectional image by performing warping processing on the rotated omnidirectional image, the warping processing being processing that deforms an image by executing nonlinear geometric transformations on division areas into which the image is divided so that an adjacency relationship between the division areas is not destroyed.