Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
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 |
20130084017 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a motion estimation processing section that detects a motion vector of block units which configure an image from a standard image and a reference image; a motion compensation processing section that produces a motion compensation image by performing motion compensation of the reference image using the motion vector; a difference calculation section that calculates a difference value between pixel values of a pixels of the standard image and pixel values of pixels of the motion compensation image; and a threshold value processing section that determines whether block noise is contained in the motion compensation image of a block unit or not by performing a threshold value processing on the difference value. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084024 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a local-motion-compensation-processing unit which generates a local-motion-compensation image by detecting a local motion vector, which is a motion vector for each block forming an image, from a standard image and a reference image, and performing motion compensation on the reference image using the local motion vector, a global-motion-compensation-processing unit which generates a global-motion-compensation image by calculating a global motion vector, which is a motion vector for an entire image between the standard image and the reference image, using the local motion vector, and performing motion compensation on the reference image using the global motion vector, and a blend processing unit which generates a blend-motion-compensation image by combining a pixel value of a pixel in the local-motion-compensation image and a pixel value of a pixel in the global-motion-compensation image based on a noise intensity for a luminance value of an image. | 04-04-2013 |
20140204228 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An amplification detection unit detects an amplification of a motion of an image in a motion correction with respect to the motion of the image generated by the motion, according to motion information which indicates a motion detection result and a frame rate of the image. An information suppressing unit suppresses the motion indicated by the motion information based on the detection result of the amplification detection unit such that the motion of the image is not amplified in the motion correction, and generates corrected motion information used in the motion correction. | 07-24-2014 |