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IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DIGITAL CAMERA

  • US 20140085498A1
  • Filed: 11/25/2013
  • Published: 03/27/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image processor for use in an imaging system that generates at least one of a still image or a video image from an original image output from an imaging device and having pixels of a plurality of colors arranged in a color array with a periodicity and records the at least one of the still image or the video image, the image processor comprising:

  • a pretreatment section configured to generate a plurality of reduced-size images with respect to the original image;

    a memory section configured to hold the reduced-size images temporarily via a memory control section;

    a face information detector configured to detect face information via the memory control section with respect to one of the reduced-size images read out from the memory section; and

    a central processing unit configured to perform at least one of focus control or exposure control for a specific area based on the face information detected by the face information detector, whereinthe pretreatment section includesa first horizontal reduction resizing processor configured to reduce, in an input line direction, the original image to a reduced-size image of an arbitrary size, and to store the reduced-size image of the arbitrary size temporarily,a plurality of vertical reduction resizing processors each configured to read the reduced-size image reduced in the input line direction from the memory section by the first horizontal reduction resizing processor, and to reduce the reduced-size image to an image of an arbitrary size in a vertical direction orthogonal to the input line direction, anda plurality of second horizontal reduction resizing processors each configured to reduce reduced-size images reduced in size in the horizontal and vertical directions and obtained by the vertical reduction resizing processors again to images of an arbitrary size in the input line direction.

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