IP Library Granted Patent US 8,988,542
Granted Patent B2
US 8,988,542 · App. 13/067,543 · Granted Mar 24, 2015

Imaging device, with blur enhancement

Inventor: Ikuya Saito (Kawasaki, JP)
Assignee: Nikon Corporation
H04N5/232G06T7/0081H04N5/23212G06T5/002G06T5/008G06T2207/30201
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Patent No.
US 8,988,542
App. No.
13/067,543
Granted
Mar 24, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging device includes an imaging section, an image segmenting section, and a blur enhancement section. The imaging section images a field to generate photographic image data. The image segmenting section partitions an image of the photographic image data into a first region that is a main subject region and a second region where the main subject is not included. The blur detecting section detects degree of blur of an image of the second region of the image of the photographic image data. The blur enhancement section performs blur enhancement processing on the image of the second region to enlarge the degree of blur of the image after image processing in proportion to the magnitude of the detected degree of blur of the image.

Claims (5)

1. An imaging device comprising:

an imaging section imaging a field to generate data of a main photographic image at the time of releasing and generating moving image data at the time of waiting main shooting;

a region specifying section, based on a spatial frequency component of said moving image data imaging a range corresponding to said main photographic image and obtained before main shooting, specifying a main subject region containing a main subject and a background region other than said main subject region, of said main photographic image respectively; and

an image processing section performing image processing on said data of said main photographic image data different from each other between said main subject region and said background region.

2. The imaging device according to claim 1 , wherein said image processing section performs blurring process on said background region to enlarge degree of blur of an image.

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2005-315395 · Oct 28, 2005 · national
JP 2005-315396 · Oct 28, 2005 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 12084042
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