Image shake-correcting system with selective image-shake correction

• US 6,049,354 A
• Filed: 02/06/1997
• Issued: 04/11/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kondo, Toshiaki, Sekine, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, Bryan
• Application Number:
  US08/796,681
• Time in Patent Office: 1,160 Days
• Field of Search: 348/208, 348/700, 348/701, 348/699
• US Class Current: 348/208.6
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/142 Detection of scene cut or scene change
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/179 the unit being a scene or a shot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/87 involving scene cut or scene change detection in combination with video compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6811 based on the image signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6815 by distinguishing pan or tilt from motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/683 performed by a processor, e.g. controlling the readout of an image memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/144 Movement detection for video coding H04N19/503; analysis of motion in general G06T7/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/145 Movement estimation for video coding H04N19/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/147 Scene change detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/937 by assembling picture element blocks in an intermediate store

Abstract

An image processing system comprises an image shifting circuit for shifting an image by processing an input video signal, a scene-change detecting circuit for detecting the presence or absence of a scene change in the input video signal, and a control circuit for controlling the amount in which the image is shifted by the image shifting circuit, according to the presence or absence of the scene change detected by the scene-change detecting circuit.

Claims

1. An image-shake correcting system, comprising:

image shifting means for processing an input image signal and shifting an image indicated by the input image signal;

scene-change detecting means for detecting a scene change in the image; and

control means for controlling an amount in which the image is shifted by said image shifting means according to an output of said scene-change detecting means, said control means resetting motion information, obtained accumulating an amount of past motion of the image, in response to a detection of the scene change by said scene-change detecting means.

2. An image-shake correcting system according to claim 1, wherein said control means resets a cumulative value obtained by accumulating an amount of past motion of the image.

3. An image-shake correcting system according to claim 1, wherein when said scene-change detecting means detects the scene change, said control means returns an image cut-out position to a center of the image.

4. An image-shake correcting system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said scene-change detecting detects the presence or absence of the scene change on the basis of a comparison result obtained by comparing a magnitude of a maximum correlation value between a previous image and a current image with a threshold and a comparison result obtained by comparing a magnitude of a temporal variation of the maximum correlation value with a threshold.

5. An image-shake correcting system according to claim 1, wherein the input video signal is a image signal outputted from a video reproducing apparatus.

6. An image-shake correcting system according to claim 1, wherein said image shifting means includes an image memory for storing the input image signal, motion-vector detecting means for detecting a motion vector from the input image signal, and memory controlling means for controlling an image reading position of said image memory on the basis of an output of said motion-vector detecting means.

7. An image-shake correcting apparatus comprising:

image shifting means for processing an input image signal and shifting an image indicated by the input image signal,

scene-change detecting means for detecting a scene change of the image in the input image signal; and

control means for controlling said image shifting means according to an output of said scene-change detecting means so as to stop an image shifting operation of said image shifting means and to reset a shifting position of said image shifting means, said control means resetting motion information, obtained a accumulating an amount of past motion of the image, in response to a detection of the scene change by said scene-change detecting means.

8. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said control means resets a cumulative value obtained by accumulating an amount of past motion of the image.

9. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein when said scene-changing detecting means detects the scene change, said control means resets an image cut-out position to a center of the image.

10. Apparatus according to anyone of claims 7 to 9, wherein said scene-change detecting means detects the presence or absence of the scene change on the basis of a comparison result obtained by comparing a magnitude of a maximum correlation value between a previous image and a current image with a threshold and a comparison result obtained by comparing a magnitude of a temporal variation of the maximum correlation value with a threshold.

11. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the input image signal comprises a video signal outputted from a video reproducing apparatus.

12. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said image shifting means includes an image memory for storing the input image signal, motion-vector detecting means for detecting a motion vector from the input image signal, and memory controlling means for controlling an image reading position of said image memory on the basis of an output of said motion-vector detecting means.

13. An image-shaped correcting method comprising the steps of:

and image shifting step for processing an input image signal and shifting an image indicated by the input image signal;

a scene-change detecting step for detecting a scene change of the image in the input image signal;

a control step for controlling said image shifting step according to an output of said scene-change detecting step so as to stop an image shifting operation of said image shifting step and to reset a shifting position of said image shifting step, said control step resetting motion information, obtained by accumulating an amount of past motion of the image, in response to a detection of the scene change by said scene-change detecting step.

14. A method according to claim 13, wherein said control step resets a cumulative value obtained by accumulating an amount of past motion of the image.

15. A method according to claim 13, wherein when said scene-changing detecting step detects the scene change, said control step resets an image cut-out position to a center of the image.

16. A method according to any one of claims 13 to 15, wherein said scene-changing step detects the presence or absence of the scene change on the basis of a comparison result obtained by comparing a magnitude of a maximum correlation value between the previous image and a current image with a threshold and a comparison result obtained by comparing a magnitude of a temporal variation of the maximum correlation value with a threshold.

17. A method according to claim 13, wherein the input image signal comprises a video signal outputted from a video reproducing apparatus.

18. A method according to claim 13, wherein said image shifting step includes the steps of:

storing the input image signal in an image memory;

a motion-vector detecting step for detecting a motion-vector from the input signal; and

a memory-controlling step for controlling an image reading position of said image memory on the basis of an output of the motion-vector detecting step.