PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16117543
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["375", "240070"]

Abstract:
This invention can control a code amount while suppressing image quality degradation of a virtual view-point image. An image processing apparatus comprises a reception unit which receives encoded image data from an image capturing device of interest among a plurality of image capturing devices, a determination unit which determines, based on an index value of an image quality represented by encoded image data received in the past from the image capturing device of interest and the index value of an image quality represented by encoded image data transmitted by another image capturing device, a permissible range of a target image quality of a captured image, and a setting unit which sets, in an encoding unit of the image capturing device of interest, an encoding parameter according to an image quality in the determined permissible range.

Claim (Index 12):
The system according to  claim 9 , wherein when an amount corresponding to a value obtained by dividing a band for the encoded image data in a communication band between the plurality of image capturing devices and the information processing apparatus by the number of plurality of image capturing devices is used as a basic code amount,\n the image capturing device of interest is the vth device in the plurality of image capturing devices, let a value Dc be a difference between a value (v\u22121) times the basic code amount, and a total code amount of encoded data generated by the first image capturing device to the (v\u22121)th image capturing device, and let 1d be a preset threshold, the setting unit includes a determination unit configured to determine whether to satisfy condition: |Dc|>1d, and a parameter setting unit configured to, in accordance with a determination of the determination unit, determine an encoding parameter to be set in an encoding unit of the image capturing device of interest and set the determined encoding parameter, and the parameter setting unit sets a parameter used to encode the previous captured image in the encoding unit to be used as a parameter for a current captured image if the condition is not satisfied, uses a value obtained by adding the value Dc to the basic code amount as a target code amount when the image capturing device of interest encodes the current captured image and sets an encoding parameter for using the obtained value as the target code amount in the encoding unit if the condition is satisfied, and the value obtained by adding the value Dc to the basic code amount falls within the permissible range, and uses a value which is close to the value obtained by adding the value Dc to the basic code amount and on a boundary of the permissible range as a target code amount when the image capturing device of interest encodes the current captured image, and sets an encoding parameter for using the obtained value as the target code amount in the encoding unit if the condition is satisfied, and the value obtained by adding the value Dc to the basic code amount falls outside the permissible range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34426
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15856327', '15810795', '14427931', '15414403', '14577792']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4774284273874407
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5005930889141869
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4797448935401153
- Mean Citation Score: 166.21371399999995
- Max Citation Score: 195.65297
- Similarity Product: 120.0182630660236

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test