Image processing device, image processing method, and program

• US 8,014,626 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Issued: 09/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Chiba, Takuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahmed; Samir
• Assistant Examiner(s): Li; Ruiping
• Application Number:
  US11/553,280
• Publication Number:
  US 20070103564A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,776 Days
• Field of Search: 382/274, 382/264, 382/284, 382/289, 382/224
• US Class Current: 382/274
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/71 Circuitry for evaluating the brightness variation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/76 by influencing the image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/611 Correction of chromatic aberration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/68 for controlling the amplitude of colour signals, e.g. automatic chroma control circuits H04N9/71, H04N9/73 take precedence; camera processing pipelines for controlling the colour saturation of colour signals H04N23/86

Abstract

An image processing device to correct chromatic aberration of image data is provided. The image processing device includes an overexposed pixel detecting unit configured to detect overexposed pixels by using a luminance signal of the image data; an overexposure distribution information generating unit configured to generate overexposure distribution information indicating distribution of the overexposed pixels detected by the overexposed pixel detecting unit; and a chromatic aberration amount calculating unit configured to calculate the amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by using the overexposure distribution information generated by the overexposure distribution information generating unit and chromatic aberration amount distribution information indicating distribution of the amount of chromatic aberration, which is the amount of correction regarding chromatic aberration of nearby pixels due to overexposure of a target pixel.

Claims

1. An image processing device to correct chromatic aberration of image data, the image processing device comprising:

overexposed pixel detecting means for detecting overexposed pixels by using a luminance signal of the image data;

overexposure distribution information generating means for generating overexposure distribution information indicating distribution of the overexposed pixels detected by the overexposed pixel detecting means; and

chromatic aberration amount calculating means for calculating an amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by using the overexposure distribution information generated by the overexposure distribution information generating means and chromatic aberration amount distribution information indicating the distribution of the amount of chromatic aberration, which is an amount of correction regarding chromatic aberration of nearby pixels due to overexposure of a target pixel, the chromatic aberration amount calculating means calculating the amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by adding a contribution value of chromatic aberration from each of a plurality of overexposed pixels within a correction range of the target pixel.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the overexposed pixel detecting means includes:

overexposed pixel threshold determining means for determining the overexposed pixel with respect to the target pixel by using a predetermined threshold; and

overexposed pixels determining means for determining whether an overexposed pixel exists near the target pixel that has been determined to be an overexposed pixel by the overexposed pixel threshold determining means, and

wherein the overexposed pixel detecting means detects the target pixel as an overexposed pixel only when the overexposed pixels determining means has determined that an overexposed pixel exists near the target pixel as an overexposed pixel.

3. The image processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the overexposure distribution information is information indicating distribution of the overexposed pixels in a predetermined range around the target pixel, and

wherein the overexposure distribution information generating means generates the overexposure distribution information for each pixel in the image data.

4. The image processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the chromatic aberration amount calculating means includes magnification chromatic aberration correcting means for correcting distribution of the chromatic aberration amount distribution information so as to correct magnification chromatic aberration in accordance with the position in a screen of a target pixel of which chromatic aberration is to be corrected.

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

chromatic aberration correcting means for correcting chromatic aberration of each pixel of the image data by using the amount of chromatic aberration calculated by the chromatic aberration amount calculating means.

6. The image processing device according to claim 5, further comprising:

chromaticity calculating means for calculating chromaticity, indicating a level of color, of each pixel on the basis of a chrominance signal of the image data,

wherein the chromatic aberration correcting means multiplies the amount of chromatic aberration calculated by the chromatic aberration amount calculating means by the chromaticity calculated by the chromaticity calculating means and corrects chromatic aberration of the image data by using the multiplication result.

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

mixing means for mixing the image data corrected by the chromatic aberration correcting means and the image data before correction at a ratio based on the multiplication result generated by the chromatic aberration correcting means.

11. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the chromatic aberration amount calculating means includes comparing means for comparing the chromatic aberration amount distribution information with the overexposure distribution information for each pixel of the image data upon matching coordinates of a target pixel in the overexposure distribution information with coordinates of the target pixel in the chromatic aberration amount distribution information, and

the chromatic aberration amount calculating means calculates the amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel based on a comparison result generated by the comparing means.

12. The image processing device according to claim 11,

wherein the comparing means calculates the amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel of the image data by obtaining the amount of chromatic aberration of another target pixel due to each overexposed pixel included in the overexposure distribution information by using the chromatic aberration amount distribution information for the respective pixels and by integrating the amounts.

8. An image processing method implemented by a computer programmed as an image processing device to correct chromatic aberration of image data, the image processing method comprising:

detecting, by the computer, overexposed pixels by using a luminance signal of the image data;

generating overexposure distribution information indicating distribution of the detected overexposed pixels; and

calculating an amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by using the generated overexposure distribution information and chromatic aberration amount distribution information indicating distribution of the amount of chromatic aberration, which is an amount of correction regarding chromatic aberration of nearby pixels due to overexposure of a target pixel, the calculating including calculating the amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by adding a contribution value of chromatic aberration from each of a plurality of overexposed pixels within a correction range of the target pixel.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute a process of correcting chromatic aberration of image data, the process comprising:

detecting overexposed pixels by using a luminance signal of the image data;

generating overexposure distribution information indicating distribution of the detected overexposed pixels; and

calculating an amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by using the generated overexposure distribution information and chromatic aberration amount distribution information indicating distribution of an amount of chromatic aberration, which is the amount of correction regarding chromatic aberration of nearby pixels due to overexposure of a target pixel, the calculating including calculating the amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by adding a contribution value of chromatic aberration from each of a plurality of overexposed pixels within a correction range of the target pixel.

10. An image processing device to correct chromatic aberration of image data, the image processing device comprising:

an overexposed pixel detecting unit configured to detect overexposed pixels by using a luminance signal of the image data;

an overexposure distribution information generating unit configured to generate overexposure distribution information indicating distribution of the overexposed pixels detected by the overexposed pixel detecting unit; and

a chromatic aberration amount calculating unit, including a processor, configured to calculate an amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by using the overexposure distribution information generated by the overexposure distribution information generating unit and chromatic aberration amount distribution information indicating distribution of the amount of chromatic aberration, which is an amount of correction regarding chromatic aberration of nearby pixels due to overexposure of a target pixel, the chromatic aberration amount calculating unit configured to calculate the amount of chromatic aberration of each pixel by adding a contribution value of chromatic aberration from each of a plurality of overexposed pixels within a correction range of the target pixel.