title: High-definition real-time depth-mapping TV camera: HDTV Axi-Vision Camera.
abstract: We have developed a field-worthy, high-definition, real-time depth-mapping television camera called the HDTV Axi-Vision Camera. The camera can simultaneously capture both an ordinary HDTV color image and a depth image of objects on more than 1280 x 720 pixels at a frame rate of 29.97 Hz, or on 853 x 480 pixels at a frame rate of 59.94 Hz. The number of detectable pixels per unit time was increased by about 5 times that of the prototype camera by improving the sensitivity and resolution of the depthmapping camera. Short video clips demonstrate how depth information from the camera can be used to create a virtual image in actual television program production.
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawakita
authors.forename: Keigo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iizuka
authors.forename: Haruhito
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Itaru
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.forename: Taiichirou
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurita
authors.forename: Tahito
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aida
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamanouchi
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mitsumine
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukaya
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: Fumio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sato