Index print producing method, image processing system, image processing method and image processing device

• US 6,954,284 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2003
• Issued: 10/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Enomoto, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Lamb, Twyler
• Application Number:
  US10/409,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20030189730A1
• Time in Patent Office: 916 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.18, 358/1.9, 358/448, 358/530, 358/501, 358/401, 358/444, 358/302, 396/311, 382/167, 348/263
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/80 Geometric correction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/387 Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3875 combined with enlarging or reducing enlarging or reducing per se H04N1/393

Abstract

An image, which is subjected to a non-standard image processing selectively performed in image units in addition to standard image processings performed when a main print is produced, is subject to an image processing equivalent to a processing performed when the main print is produced or characters indicating the contents of the non-standard image processing are added when an index print is produced. If distortion aberration correction processing is performed when the main print is produced, and an image processing equivalent to the distortion aberration correction processing is not performed when the index print is produced, a frame indicating an image range on the main print is superposed and recorded on an index image.

Claims

1. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

reading information on the characteristics of a photographic lens and an image recorded on a photographic photosensitive material;

extracting a main object from said read image;

reading aberration correction information corresponding to the information on the characteristics of said photographic lens;

determining whether or not said main object will be positioned in the image void region when an image aberration correction is performed on the basis of information on the position of the extracted said main object and said aberration correction information; and

performing said aberration correction if it is determined that said main object will not be positioned in the image void region.

2. An image processing method according to claim 1, wherein, if it is determined that said main object will be positioned in the image void region, said aberration correction is not performed.

3. An image processing method according to claim 1, wherein, if it is determined that said main object will be positioned in the image void region, said aberration correction is performed to the extent that said main object is not positioned in the image void region.

4. An image processing method according to claim 1, wherein the determination whether or not to perform said aberration correction is made on the basis of order information from a customer.

5. An image processing method according to claim 2, wherein the determination whether or not to perform said aberration correction is made on the basis of order information from a customer.

6. An image processing method according to claim 3, wherein the determination whether or not to perform said aberration correction is made on the basis of order information from a customer.

7. The image processing method of claim 1, wherein said reading information on the characteristics of a photographic lens, said extracting, said reading aberration correction information, said determining, and said performing, are controlled by a CPU.

8. The image processing device of claim 1, wherein said reading information on the characteristics of a photographic lens, said extracting, said reading aberration correction information, said determining, and said performing, are controlled by a CPU.

9. An image processing device comprising:

photographic lens characteristics information reading means for reading the information on the characteristics of a photographic lens;

image reading means for reading an image recorded on a photographic photosensitive material;

extraction means for extracting the main object from the read image using said image reading means;

storage means for sorting in advance aberration correction information corresponding to said photographic lens characteristics information;

aberration correction information reading means for reading said aberration correction information from said storage means; and

determining means for determining whether or not said main object will be positioned in the image void region if an image aberration correction is performed, on the basis of information on the position of said main object extracted by the extracting means and said aberration correction information.

10. An image processing device according to claim 9, wherein, if it is determined by said determining means that said main object will be positioned in the image void region, said aberration correction is not performed.

11. An image processing device according to claim 9, wherein, if it is determined by said determining means that said main object will be positioned in the image void region, said aberration correction is performed to the extent that said main object is not positioned in said image void region.

12. An image processing device according to claim 9, wherein the determination whether or not to perform said aberration correction is made on the basis of order information from a customer.

13. An image processing device according to claim 10, wherein the determination whether or not to perform said aberration correction is made on the basis of order information from a customer.

14. An image processing device according to claim 11, wherein the determination whether or not to perform said aberration correction is made on the basis of order information from a customer.

15. An image processing device comprising:

processing means for performing an image processing on image data in accordance with changes in the shape of the outline of an image represented by the image data;

display means for displaying an image;

specifying means for specifying a range cut from an image on the basis of an image displayed on said display means;

cutting means for cutting data corresponding to the range indicated by said specifying means from the image data; and

display control means for controlling so that a range of an image represented by the image data which excludes the range where an image cannot be cut created by an image processing using said processing means is displayed on said display means, or an image represented by the image data which is divided into ranges where the image can be cut and ranges where the image cannot be cut is displayed on said display means.

16. An image processing device according to claim 15, in which said image data is data representing art image projected via a lens, further comprising an acquiring means for acquiring information related to the characteristics of said lens, wherein, on the basis of information related to said lens characteristics acquired by said acquiring means, said processing means performs as said image processing at least one of:

distortion aberration correction processing to correct geometrical distortion in said image arising from distortion aberration in said lens; and

magnitude chromatic aberration correction processing to correct color misregistration in the image arising from chromatic aberration in the magnification of the lens.

17. An image processing device according to claim 16, wherein said display means determines the positions of the border between the image range where the image can be cut and the image range where the image cannot be cut on the basis of information related to the characteristics of said lens acquired by said acquiring means.

18. An image processing device according to claim 15, in which said image data is image data representing an image projected via a lens, further comprising an acquiring means for acquiring information related to the characteristics of said lens, wherein, on the basis of a central position of an image represented by image data, a central position of a range specified by the specifying means, and information related to said lens characteristics acquired by said acquiring means, said processing means performs at Least one of:

enlarging/reducing processing to enlarge or reduce an image represented by data cut out by said cutting means to a predetermined size;

peripheral darkening correction processing to correct reductions in the luminosity in the edge portions of an image caused by said lens; and

focal blurring correction processing to correct reductions in the sharpness of an image caused by said lens.

19. An image processing device according to claim 15, further comprising limiting means for limiting the range which can be instructed via said instructing means so as to exclude ranges where the image cannot be cut from a range instructed by said instructing means.

20. The image processing device of claim 15, wherein said cutting means further comprises cutting image data from pre-scan data on the basis of a determined image plane position.

21. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

correcting in image data representing an image projected via a lens at least one of geometrical distortion and color misregistration of said image arising from an aberration in said lens in a first predetermined direction;

extracting image data corresponding to an area inside an effective image region from which image voids at both ends in said first predetermined direction of the image represented by said image data have been excluded from the image data which has undergone the correction in the first predetermined direction;

correcting in the extracted image data at least one of geometrical distortion and color misregistration of an image represented by the image data in a second predetermined direction orthogonal to said first predetermined direction; and

extracting image data corresponding to an area inside an effective image region from which image voids at both ends in said second predetermined direction of the image represented by said image data have been excluded from the image data which has undergone the correction in the second predetermined direction.

22. An image processing device comprising:

a correcting section in which, in image data representing an image projected via a lens, at least one of geometrical distortion and color misregistration of said image arising from an aberration in said lens is corrected in a single direction;

extracting means for extracting image data corresponding to an area inside an effective image region from which image voids at both ends in a direction identical to the direction of the correction performed in said correcting section on the image represented by the image data have been excluded form the image data which has undergone said correction in said correcting section; and

controlling means for, in image data to be processed representing an image projected via a lens, correcting in said correcting section at least one of geometrical distortion and color misregistration of said image arising from an aberration in said lens in a first predetermined direction;

extracting by said extracting means image data corresponding to an area inside said effective image region from the corrected image data;

correcting by said correcting section at least one of geometrical distortion and color misregistration of an image represented by the extracted image data in a second predetermined direction orthogonal to said first predetermined direction; and

extracting by said extracting means image data corresponding to an area inside said effective image region from the corrected image data.

23. An image processing device according to claim 22, further comprising storage means for storing image data which has undergone said correction in said correcting section, wherein said extracting means controls the reading when image data stored in said storage means is read so that only image data corresponding to an area inside said effective image region is read.

24. An image processing device according to claim 22, further comprising storage means for storing image data which has undergone said correction in said correcting section, wherein said extracting means controls the storing when image data which has undergone correction by said correcting section is stored in said storage means so that only image data corresponding to an area inside said effective image region is stored in the storage means.

25. An image processing device according to claim 22, in which said correcting section corrects at least one of geometrical distortion and color misregistration in a single direction of an image in image data, and converts the image data so that the number of pixels in the same direction as the direction of the correction is set at a fixed value, and in which said control means controls said correcting section so that, when correction is being performed in said first predetermined direction, the number of pixels in the image data in said first predetermined direction is set at a first fixed value, and said control means controls said correcting section so that, when correction is being performed in said second predetermined direction, the number of pixels in the image data in said second predetermined direction is set at a second fixed value.