IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20130202209A1
• Filed: 02/01/2013
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ariyama, Takaaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,141,857 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/190
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/993 Evaluation of the quality of the acquired pattern
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/00 Scenes; Scene-specific elements control of digital cameras H04N23/60

Abstract

There is provided an image processing device including an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality on a per-recognizable scene of an image basis according to an instruction from a user, an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for each scene, an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired, and an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image based on the image quality configured for the recognized scene by the image quality configuring part.

Claims

1. An image processing device comprising:

an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality on a per-recognizable scene of an image basis according to an instruction from a user;

an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for each scene;

an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired; and

an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image based on the image quality configured for the recognized scene by the image quality configuring part.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the image quality configuring part is configured to include

a constituent configuring part configured to configure at least one constituent of image quality for each recognizable scene, and

a configuration processing part configured to display a representative image for each scene in the configured image quality.

3. The image processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the configuration processing part is configured to display a plurality of changing candidate images obtained by changing a setting value for the constituent of image quality, and is configured to determine a setting value of a changing candidate image selected from the plurality of changing candidate images as a setting value for the constituent of image quality.

4. The image processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the configuration processing part is configured to arrange and display, into a matrix shape, a plurality of changing candidate images obtained by changing setting values for two constituents of image quality.

5. The image processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the configuration processing part is configured to update the representative image in real time based on a setting value configured by the constituent configuring part.

6. The image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image capturing part configured to capture an image,

wherein an image on which the image processing part is configured to perform image processing is the image captured by the image capturing part.

7. An image processing method comprising:

configuring image quality on a per-recognizable scene of an image basis according to an instruction from a user;

recognizing a scene of an image to be acquired; and

performing image processing on the image based on the image quality configured for the recognized scene.

8. A computer program causing a computer to function as an image processing device including

an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality on a per-recognizable scene of an image basis according to an instruction from a user, and configured to record the image quality in an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for each scene,

an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired, and

an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image based on the image quality configured for the recognized scene by the image quality configuring part.

9. A computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded therein, the program causing a computer to function as an image processing device including

an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality on a per-recognizable scene of an image basis according to an instruction from a user, and configured to record the image quality in an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for each scene,

an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired, and

an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image based on the image quality configured for the recognized scene by the image quality configuring part.