LIGHTING DEVICE, LIGHTING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM

• US 20170070712A1
• Filed: 08/26/2016
• Published: 03/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: SETOMOTO, Tatsumi, YAMAUCHI, Kentaro
• Granted Patent: US 10,110,865 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/128 Adjusting depth or disparity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/257 Colour aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/271 wherein the generated image signals comprise depth maps or disparity maps
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2226 Determination of depth image, e.g. for foreground/background separation determining depth by image analysis in general G06T7/50; segmentation by image analysis in general G06T7/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3182 Colour adjustment, e.g. white balance, shading or gamut white balance per se H04N9/73; control of amplitude of colour signals H04N9/68; colour control circuits for displays in general G09G5/02, G09G3/2003, G09G3/3607

Abstract

A lighting device includes: a receiving circuit which obtains a first image including a subject; a memory which obtains depth information indicating a depth of the subject in the first image; an image processor which converts the first image obtained, into a second image in which the subject in the first image is represented by gradation of a single color, the gradation being different according to the depth indicted by the depth information; a light source; a light modulator which modulates light emitted from the light source, according to the second image; and a light emitter which emits the modulated light.

Claims

1. A lighting device, comprising:

a receiving circuit which obtains a first image including a subject;

a memory which obtains depth information indicating a depth of the subject in the first image;

an image processor which converts the first image obtained, into a second image in which the subject in the first image is represented by gradation of a single color, the gradation being different according to the depth indicted by the depth information;

a light source;

a light modulator which modulates light emitted from the light source, according to the second image; and

a light emitter which emits the modulated light.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein

the image processor either one of increases and decreases color density of the single color of a portion of the subject in the first image as a depth of the portion indicated by the depth information increases.

3. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein

the image processor blurs the subject in the second image according to the depth indicated by the depth information.

4. The lighting device according to claim 3, wherein

the image processor either one of increases and decreases a degree of blurring of a portion of the subject in the first image as a depth of the portion indicated by the depth information increases.

5. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein

the subject in the second image is represented in gray scale.

6. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein

the image processor

divides the subject in the first image into hierarchical levels by a predetermined depth, based on the depth information, and

converts the first image into the second image in which the gradation of the single color of the subject in the first image differs according to the hierarchical levels.

7. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein

the image processor assigns a single color on a black body locus in chromaticity coordinates to a background that is a portion other than the subject in the second image.

8. The lighting device according to claim 7, further comprising

a clock which keeps time, wherein

the image processor varies the single color of the background on the black body locus in the chromaticity coordinates, according to the time kept by the clock.

9. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein

the image processor

calculates a proportion of the subject in an entirety of the second image, and

when the proportion calculated is greater than a predetermined value, removes a portion of the subject in the second image by assigning a color of a background that is a portion other than the subject in the second image to the portion of the subject in the second image.

10. The lighting device according to claim 1, further comprising

a clock which keeps time, wherein

the image processor changes a shape of at least a portion of the subject in the second image, according to the time kept by the clock.

11. A lighting system, comprising:

the lighting device according to claim 1; and

the imaging device.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for use in a computer, the recording medium having a computer program recorded thereon for causing the computer to execute processes performed by the image processor included in the lighting device according to claim 1.