IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20110199515A1
• Filed: 02/10/2011
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: SUKENORI, Atsushi
• Granted Patent: US 8,736,682 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/239
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/262 Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects ; Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2621 Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image pickup, e.g. digital cameras, camcorders, video cameras having integrated special effects capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 using transform coding

Abstract

There is provided an image processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a moving image data acquisition unit configured to acquire moving image data representing a moving image, a notable-region specification unit configured to specify, as a notable region, a motion region among a plurality of still images forming the moving image represented by the moving image data acquired by the moving image data acquisition unit, for each still image, and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing of changing a style of each still image, in which the notable region is specified by the notable-region specification unit, into a pictorial image, by using different processes between the notable region in the still image specified by the notable-region specification unit and the rest of the still image.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a moving image data acquisition unit configured to acquire moving image data representing a moving image;

a notable-region specification unit configured to specify, as a notable region, a motion region among a plurality of still images forming the moving image represented by the moving image data acquired by the moving image data acquisition unit, for each still image; and

an image processing unit configured to perform image processing of changing a style of each still image, in which the notable region is specified by the notable-region specification unit, into a pictorial image, by using different processes between the notable region in the still image specified by the notable-region specification unit and the rest of the still image.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processing unit performs the image processing by using different processing degrees between the notable region in the still image specified by the notable-region specification unit and the rest of the still image.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processing unit performs different kinds of image processing between the notable region in the still image specified by the notable-region specification unit and the rest of the still image.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the motion region includes a face image region, and

the notable-region specification unit specifies the face image region as the notable region.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the moving image is an image obtained by superposing a moving subject image on the still image,

the motion region contains the moving subject image, and

the notable-region specification unit specifies the moving subject image as the notable region.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the notable-region specification unit further specifies, for each notable region, a value which changes in accordance with one of a magnitude of the motion in the notable region between the still images, and a ratio occupied by the notable region in the still image, and

the image processing unit changes processes of the image processing in accordance with the value specified by the notable-region specification unit.

7. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program code to perform image processing in an image processing apparatus, the program code comprising:

acquiring moving image data representing a moving image;

specifying, as a notable region, a motion region between a plurality of still images forming the moving image represented by the moving image data acquired in the moving image data acquisition, for each still image; and

performing image processing of changing a style of each still image, in which the notable region is specified in the notable-region specification, into a pictorial image, by using different processes between the notable region in the still image specified in the notable-region specification and the rest of the still image.