IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM, IMAGE EDITING METHOD, IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20130028483A1
• Filed: 07/19/2012
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kanasashi, Takumi, Ohmatsu, Kanako
• Application Number:
  US13/552,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20130028483A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

Provided is an image editing program that causes an arithmetic processing unit to execute setting a recognition target image from an image included in image data as well as setting attribute information of the recognition target image, searching a frame image for the recognition target image by using the attribute information with respect to each of frames constituting the image data, and assigning image processing information regarding a processing target region determined in accordance with an image range, within a frame, of the recognition target image retrieved in the step of searching.

Claims

1. An image editing program that causes an arithmetic processing unit to execute:

setting a recognition target image from an image included in image data as well as setting attribute information of the recognition target image;

searching a frame image for the recognition target image by using the attribute information with respect to each of frames constituting the image data; and

assigning image processing information regarding a processing target region determined in accordance with an image range, within a frame, of the recognition target image retrieved in the step of searching.

2. The image editing program according to claim 1, wherein the processing target region determined in accordance with the image range of the retrieved recognition target image in the frame is a region of the image range of the recognition target image.

3. The image editing program according to claim 1, further causing the arithmetic processing unit to execute, in the step of assigning, correcting the processing target region or the image processing information in accordance with input after assigning the image processing information to the processing target region in each of the frames.

4. The image editing program according to claim 3,

wherein, in the steps of setting, searching, and assigning, each recognition target image which has been set is managed as a track distinguished from another track by the attribution information, and the processing target region and the image processing information are set for each track for each frame, and

wherein, in the step of correcting, the arithmetic processing unit is caused to perform, in accordance with input specifying a track, correction of the processing target region or the image processing information of the specified track.

5. The image editing program according to claim 3,

wherein, in the steps of setting, searching, and assigning, each recognition target image which has been set is managed as a track distinguished from another track by the attribution information, and the processing target region and the image processing information are set for each track for each frame, and

wherein, in the step of correcting, the arithmetic processing unit is caused to perform, in accordance with input specifying a track and one or a plurality of frames, correction of the processing target region or the image processing information in the specified one or plurality of frames of the specified track.

6. The image editing program according to claim 1, wherein, in the step of setting, the arithmetic processing unit is caused to execute automatically detecting a particular type of image from the image included in the image data, and setting the detected image as the recognition target image as well as setting the attribution information.

7. The image editing program according to claim 6, wherein the particular type of image is a face image of a person, and personal identification information and search auxiliary information are set as the attribution information.

8. The image editing program according to claim 7, wherein, in the step of searching, the arithmetic processing unit is caused to execute detecting the face image with respect to each of frames constituting the image data, and searching a frame image for the face image of a particular person that is the recognition target image by using the personal identification information and the search auxiliary information.

9. The image editing program according to claim 1, wherein, in the step of setting, the arithmetic processing unit is caused to execute setting an image included in a range specified by input for the image included in the image data as the recognition target image, and setting at least the search auxiliary information as the attribution information.

10. The image editing program according to claim 1, wherein input of a processing command supplied from an external device via a wired or wireless transmission channel is detected, and the arithmetic processing unit is caused to execute, in response to the input, processes of at least the step of setting, the step of searching, and the step of assigning.

11. An image editing method comprising:

setting a recognition target image from an image included in image data as well as setting attribute information of the recognition target image;

searching a frame image for the recognition target image by using the attribute information with respect to each of frames constituting the image data; and

assigning image processing information regarding a processing target region determined in accordance with an image range, within a frame, of the recognition target image retrieved in the step of searching.

12. An image editing apparatus comprising:

a setting processing part setting a recognition target image from an image included in image data as well as setting attribute information of the recognition target image;

a searching processing part searching a frame image for the recognition target image by using the attribute information with respect to each of frames constituting the image data; and

an image processing setting part assigning image processing information regarding a processing target region determined in accordance with an image range, within a frame, of the recognition target image retrieved by the searching processing part.

13. A storage medium storing an image editing program that causes an arithmetic processing unit to execute:

setting a recognition target image from an image included in image data as well as setting attribute information of the recognition target image;

searching a frame image for the recognition target image by using the attribute information with respect to each of frames constituting the image data; and

assigning image processing information regarding a processing target region determined in accordance with an image range, within a frame, of the recognition target image retrieved in the step of searching.