IP Library Granted Patent US 7,945,109
Granted Patent B2
US 7,945,109 · App. 12/456,491 · Granted May 17, 2011

Image processing based on object information

Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,945,109
App. No.
12/456,491
Granted
May 17, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A CPU divides an image into plural regions and for each of the regions, generates a histogram and calculates an average brightness Y ave. The CPU determines a focus location on the image by using focus location information, sets a region at the determined location as an emphasis region, and sets the average brightness Y ave of the emphasis region as a brightness criterion Y std. The CPU uses the brightness criterion Y std to determine non-usable regions. By using the regions not excluded as non-usable regions, the CPU calculates an image quality adjustment average brightness Y′ ave, i.e. the average brightness of the entire image, with a weighting W in accordance with the locations of the regions reflected thereto, and executes a bright value correction by using the calculated image quality adjustment average brightness Y′ ave.

Claims (12)

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a CPU, the CPU executing functions including

acquiring an image file, the image file including image data, shooting scene information, and location information of a person in the image data, and

increasing sharpness of an area in which the person is located and decreasing sharpness of an area in which the person is not located based on the acquired location information when the acquired shooting scene information indicates a portrait scene.

2. A method of image processing comprising:

acquiring an image file, the image file including image data, shooting scene information, and location information of a person in the image data; and

increasing sharpness of an area in which the person is located and decreasing sharpness of an area in which the person is not located based on the acquired location information when the acquired shooting scene information indicates a portrait scene,

wherein each of the operations of the method of image processing is executed by a CPU.

3. A computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which an image processing program is stored, wherein the image processing program includes

a computer program code for acquiring an image file, the image file including image data, shooting scene information, and location information of a person in the image data, and

a computer program code for increasing sharpness of an area in which the person is located and decreasing sharpness of an area in which the person is not located based on the acquired location information when the acquired shooting scene information indicates a portrait scene.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2019
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: 138 EAST LCD ADVANCEMENTS LIMITED
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Continuity (2)
Continuation 10486744 · Feb 13, 2004
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