Patent ID: 9076267
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image coding device comprising: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire one or more images; a disparity acquisition unit configured to acquire, with respect to each of the acquired images, one of disparity information for each pixel unit and distance information for each pixel unit; a blur value determination unit configured to determine a blur value of the image for each pixel unit based on the acquired one of the disparity information and the distance information; a blur processing unit configured to perform blur processing on the image with use of the determined blur value; a block size determination unit configured to determine, with respect to the image on which the blur processing has been performed, a block size of each of regions of the image that are to be divided into blocks for coding, from among a plurality of block sizes based on a blur value of the region; and a coding unit configured to code the image in units of blocks in accordance with the determined block sizes.