Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080247611 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FACE RECOGNITION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a face recognition apparatus for previously registering a face image of a person, receiving a moving image in which face identification is intended to be performed, and performing face recognition in the received moving image. The apparatus includes the following elements. A face registration unit registers the face of a person as an image. A face detection unit detects a face in a frame of an input moving image. A face tracking unit tracks the detected face in frames of the input moving image. A face identification unit compares the detected face, which is being tracked by the face tracking unit, with the registered face registered in the face registration unit to identify the face. A stabilization unit stabilizes the result of face identification by the face identification unit. | 10-09-2008 |
20090214121 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An edge map creation unit detects an edge intensity of an input image in units of three types of blocks having different sizes. An operation parameter adjustment unit sets initial values of an edge reference value and an extraction reference value on the basis of a dynamic range which is a difference between the maximum and minimum values of the edge intensity. An edge point extraction unit extracts an edge point from the input image on the basis of the edge reference value. Until an extraction amount determination unit determines that the edge point extraction amount is appropriate on the basis of the extraction reference value, the operation parameter adjustment unit repeatedly performs a processing of adjusting the edge reference value, and the edge point extraction unit repeatedly performs a processing of extracting the edge point from the input image on the basis of the adjusted edge reference value. | 08-27-2009 |
20100232685 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: an edge intensity detecting unit configured to detect the edge intensity of an image in increments of blocks having a predetermined size; a parameter setting unit configured to set an edge reference value used for extraction of an edge point that is a pixel used for detection of the blurred degree of the image based on a dynamic range that is difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the edge intensities; and an edge point extracting unit configured to extract a pixel as the edge point with the edge intensity being equal to or greater than the edge reference value, and also the pixel value of a pixel within a block being included in an edge block that is a block within a predetermined range. | 09-16-2010 |
20100246939 | Image Processing Apparatus and Method, Learning Apparatus and Method, and Program - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, a learning apparatus and method, and a program which allow reliable evaluation of whether or not the subject appears sharp. | 09-30-2010 |
20100259649 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A photographing apparatus is provided, which includes: a correction data acquiring section that acquires correction data for image correction; a recording section that records the correction data acquired by the correction data acquiring section; a photographing condition acquiring section that acquires image photographing conditions; a retrieving section that retrieves the correction data, corresponding to the photographing conditions acquired by the photographing condition acquiring section, from the correction data recorded in the recording section; and a photographing section that photographs an image on the basis of the correction data retrieved by the retrieving section. | 10-14-2010 |
20110013039 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus for improving the quality of a captured image may include a first computing unit, a second computing unit, and an advice generating unit. The first computing unit may be configured to compute a first value representing a first aspect of the quality of a first image. The second computing unit may be configured to compute a second value representing a second aspect of the quality of the first image. The advice generating unit may be configured to generate advice for capturing a second image based on at least one of the first and second computed values. | 01-20-2011 |
20110206282 | Device, Method, and Program for Image Processing - An image processing device includes a subject region detector that detects a subject region from an input image; a cutting unit that cuts an image of the subject region from the input image; a priority calculator that calculates a priority of each of predetermined regions on a boundary with respect to the subject region, for the input image; a retrieval unit that retrieves a region similar to an image of a predetermined region with a top priority from among the priorities, from the input image after the image of the subject region is cut; a recovery unit that recovers the subject region by copying an image of an adjacent region that is adjacent to the region similar to the predetermined region retrieved by the retrieval unit and includes a region corresponding to a region cut as the subject region, and by pasting the image obtained by copying onto the region that is adjacent to the predetermined region with the top priority and cut as the subject region; and a composition unit that combines the image of the subject region cut by the cutting unit with the image with the subject region recovered by the recovery unit. | 08-25-2011 |
20110206294 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus includes: an input image energy map generation unit generating an input image energy map from an input image; a reduced energy map generation unit generating a reduced energy map; a reduction seam search unit searching a reduction seam formed by binding pixels of a path along which a cumulative energy value of energies of pixels is minimum; a partial seam search unit searching a partial seam formed by binding pixels with a minimum cumulative value; an input image energy map update unit updating the input image energy map by inserting and replacing a maximum energy value into the energies corresponding to all of the pixels of the input image on the input image energy map; and a reduction expansion unit reducing or expanding the input image by deleting the pixels forming the partial seam from the input image. | 08-25-2011 |
20110206295 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a subject region detection unit detecting regions of subjects included in an input image; a cropped region setting unit setting a region including all of the regions of the detected subjects as a cropped region; an expansion region addition unit adding an expansion region to expand an end of the cropped region only by a predetermined width; a cutting unit cutting a cut image formed from a cut region including the cropped region and the expansion region from the input image; a subject adaptation size change unit changing a size of an image formed from the cut region by deleting a region where an influence on the subjects is small in the cut image; and an entire image size changing unit changing the size of the entire image changed in size by the subject adaptation size change unit at a predetermined ratio. | 08-25-2011 |
20120070102 | Image Processing Apparatus and Method, and Program - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of more appropriately evaluating the image-capture state of an image. | 03-22-2012 |
20120121173 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of more easily identifying an area of a subject in an image. | 05-17-2012 |
20120288835 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects behavior information and biological information of a user as a target; a biological information estimating unit that calculates estimated biological information by applying, to a metabolism model, the behavior information and the biological information detected by the detecting unit; and a suggesting unit that suggests, to the user, a recommended behavior calculated based on the estimated biological information calculated by the biological information estimating unit. | 11-15-2012 |
20130108129 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND PROGRAM | 05-02-2013 |
20130148872 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, and particularly to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of suppressing an increase in a load on a subject and obtaining a captured image of the subject with higher image quality. | 06-13-2013 |
20140232899 | SERVER DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - In some embodiments, methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting, via at least one network, a request to another apparatus for still image data generated from moving image data, the request comprising at least one criterion, and receiving still image data generated from moving image data matching the at least one criterion in the request. In further embodiments, methods and apparatus are provided for receiving the request via at least one network, using the at least one criterion in the request to obtain still image data generated from moving image data, and responding to the request by transmitting the obtained still image data. | 08-21-2014 |