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Granted Patent B2
US 10,949,942 · App. 16/134,974 · Granted Mar 16, 2021

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program

Inventors: Kosei Takemoto (Kanagawa, JP); Kazuyuki Itagaki (Kanagawa, JP); Takashi Nagao (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignees: FUJIFILM CORPORATION; FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
G06T1/20G06T1/60G06T7/11G06T7/162G06T3/40G06T11/001G06T2207/20021G06T2207/20072G06T2210/52
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Patent No.
US 10,949,942
App. No.
16/134,974
Granted
Mar 16, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A computer that functions as an image processing apparatus that includes a plurality of processor cores extracts, from an object group in which a plurality of image processing modules for executing image processing are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form, a plurality of image processing modules that are serially connected to each other, and causes the same processor core among the plurality of processor cores to execute image processing in each of the plurality of extracted image processing modules.

Claims (25)

1. An image processing apparatus that includes a plurality of processor cores, the image processing apparatus comprising:

an extraction section that extracts, from an object group in which a plurality of objects for executing image processing are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form, a plurality of objects that are serially connected to each other;

a division section that divides an image, which is an execution target of the image processing in the plurality of objects extracted by the extraction section, into a plurality of divided regions, and that divides the image processing into a plurality of tasks corresponding to each of the divided regions, wherein the division section assigns a dependency relationship in accordance with a type of image processing between a task corresponding to an object connected at a front stage in the plurality of objects that are serially connected to each other, among the plurality of tasks, and a task corresponding to an object connected at a rear stage in the plurality of objects that are serially connected to each other, among the plurality of tasks; and

an execution section that causes each respective processor core, among the plurality of processor cores, to execute a different respective task, among the plurality of tasks into which the division section divides the image processing,

wherein one task corresponding to one divided region at the rear stage has dependency relationships with another task corresponding to the same divided region at the front stage and with at least one task corresponding to a different divided region at the front stage, and

the one task corresponding to the one divided region at the rear stage is executed, in a case in which all tasks at the front stage that have the dependency relationships are terminated.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the extraction section extracts, as the plurality of objects that are serially connected to each other, a plurality of objects for which a number of objects connected at the front stage is 0 or 1.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the execution section, in a unit of the divided region formed by dividing the image that is the execution target of the image processing in the plurality of objects extracted by the extraction section, causes the same processor core to execute image processing in each of the plurality of extracted objects, and causes a different processor core to execute image processing in each of the plurality of objects extracted for each divided region.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3 ,

wherein the division section divides the image that is the execution target of the image processing in the plurality of objects extracted by the extraction section into the plurality of divided regions, a number of the plurality of divided regions being equal to or less than a number of the processor cores.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3 ,

wherein the division section divides the image that is the execution target of the image processing in the plurality of objects extracted by the extraction section into the plurality of divided regions having a size that is equal to or smaller than a capacity of a cache memory included in a calculation section that executes the image processing.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the plurality of processor cores include a cache memory used for the image processing.

7. An image processing method using an image processing apparatus that includes a plurality of processor cores, the method comprising:

extracting, from an object group in which a plurality of objects for executing image processing are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form, a plurality of objects that are serially connected to each other;

dividing an image, which is an execution target of the image processing in the plurality of objects extracted, into a plurality of divided regions;

dividing the image processing into a plurality of tasks corresponding to each of the divided regions;

assigning a dependency relationship in accordance with a type of image processing between a task corresponding to an object connected at a front stage in the plurality of objects that are serially connected to each other, among the plurality of tasks, and a task corresponding to an object connected at a rear stage in the plurality of objects that are serially connected to each other, among the plurality of tasks; and

causing each respective processor core, among the plurality of processor cores, to execute a different respective task, among the plurality of tasks into which the image processing has been divided,

wherein one task corresponding to one divided region at the rear stage has dependency relationships with another task corresponding to the same divided region at the front stage and with at least one task corresponding to a different divided region at the front stage, and

the one task corresponding to the one divided region at the rear stage is executed, in a case in which all tasks at the front stage that have the dependency relationships are terminated.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program for causing a computer to function as the extraction section, the division section and the execution section of the image processing apparatus according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 12, 2021
From: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
To: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Reel/Frame 058287/0056 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 2, 2018
From: TAKEMOTO, KOSEI; ITAGAKI, KAZUYUKI; NAGAO, TAKASHI
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION; FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 047043/0125 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2016-060523 · Mar 24, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2017002573 · Jan 25, 2017
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