Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090060328 | TONE CORRECTING APPARATUS PROVIDING IMPROVED TONE CORRECTION ON IMAGE - A tone correcting apparatus includes: a first determination unit that determines which one of first brightness levels that are previously defined a focused region corresponds to, the focused region being selected from among a plurality of block regions that are set to cover an entire area of the image; a second determination unit that determines which one of second brightness levels that are previously defined an adjacent block region corresponds to, the adjacent block region being at least one of the block regions that is adjacent to the focused region; and a correction unit that corrects a brightness of pixels included in the focused region based on a combination of the first brightness level determined by the first determination unit and the second brightness level determined by the second determination unit. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060379 | TONE CORRECTING APPARATUS PROVIDING IMPROVED TONE CORRECTION ON IMAGE - A tone correcting apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit that acquires first brightness information indicating brightness of each of a plurality of block regions that are set to cover an entire area of an image; a face detecting unit that detects a face portion where a human face is positioned in the image; a second acquiring unit that acquires second brightness information indicating brightness of the face portion detected by the face detecting unit; and a correction unit that corrects brightness of the image based on the first brightness information and the second brightness information. | 03-05-2009 |
20100053384 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING GRADATION CORRECTION ON SUBJECT IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes: a gradation correction unit configured to perform gradation correction upon a subject image to be processed to generate a corrected image, the gradation correction including processing for lowering contrast in the subject image; a gradation information acquisition unit configured to acquire gradation information indicating relative balance of brightness in each portion of the subject image; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust brightness of the corrected image on a pixel basis based on the gradation information. | 03-04-2010 |
20100295977 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A digital camera | 11-25-2010 |
20110007188 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: a brightness information acquisition unit configured to acquire brightness information indicating brightness of each pixel in a target image, wherein high-frequency components are eliminated from the target image; a correction magnification setting unit configured to set, for each pixel of the target image, a correction magnification based on the brightness information, wherein the correction magnification is substantially inversely proportional to the brightness of the pixel; and a gradation correction unit configured to correct the brightness of each pixel based on the correction magnification. | 01-13-2011 |
20110170775 | TONE CORRECTING APPARATUS PROVIDING IMPROVED TONE CORRECTION ON IMAGE - A tone correcting apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit that acquires first brightness information indicating brightness of each of a plurality of block regions that are set to cover an entire area of an image; a face detecting unit that detects a face portion where a human face is positioned in the image; a second acquiring unit that acquires second brightness information indicating brightness of the face portion detected by the face detecting unit; and a correction unit that corrects brightness of the image based on the first brightness information and the second brightness information. | 07-14-2011 |
20120019686 | IMAGE SYNTHESIZING DEVICE, IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image synthesizing device. The device includes: an image capturing unit configured to capture a plurality of images that are temporally continuous; an image generator configured to generate a single synthesized image by adding pixels of the plurality of images; a first difference obtaining unit configured to obtain differences between the plurality of images on pixel-by-pixel basis for each of the plurality images; and a blending unit configured to employ the differences between the plurality of images as transparency information and blend the transparency information into the synthesized image. | 01-26-2012 |
20120020556 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processor for processing input image data having a luminance component and other components, which are defined in a prescribed color space. The image processor includes: a first emphasis processor configured to process first image data so as to emphasize the contrast of the first image data in accordance with a first emphasis amount, wherein the first image data correspond to the luminance component of the input image data; a second emphasis processor configured to process second image data so as to emphasize the chroma of the second image data in accordance with the first emphasis amount, wherein the second image data correspond to said other components of the input image data; and an image data generator configured to generate new image data by combining the contrast-emphasized first image data and the chroma-emphasized second image data. | 01-26-2012 |
20130120607 | IMAGE COMPOSITION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - An image composition apparatus | 05-16-2013 |
20140064632 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, including a first obtaining unit which obtains image data; a first generation unit which generates a plurality of levels of pixel values that are respectively smoothed in a plurality of levels of resolutions; a correction unit which corrects the pixel value of the obtained image data for each of the levels; and a control unit which controls so as to form image data in which the pixel value of the obtained image data is enhanced by utilizing a high frequency component in each of the levels of the image data having the pixel value corrected by the correction unit, the high frequency component corresponding to each of the levels of the resolutions. | 03-06-2014 |