Image processing device, image processing method, computer program and computer-readable recording medium

• US 9,141,857 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2013
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ariyama, Takaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): CHAWAN, SHEELA C
• Application Number:
  US13/756,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20130202209A1
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• Field of Search: 382/167, 382/181, 382/190, 382/254, 382/274, 382/275, 382/305, 382/312, 358/1.9
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/993 Evaluation of the quality of the acquired pattern
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/00 Scenes; Scene-specific elements control of digital cameras H04N23/60

Abstract

There is provided an image processing device including an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality on a per-recognizable scene of an image basis according to an instruction from a user, an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for each scene, an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired, and an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image based on the image quality configured for the recognized scene by the image quality configuring part.

Claims

1. An image processing device comprising:

an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality of a recognizable scene of an image according to an instruction from a user;

an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for the recognizable scene;

an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired; and

an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image to be acquired based on the image quality configured by the image quality configuring part for the scene recognized by the image recognition part, wherein the image quality comprises at least one constituent for the recognizable scene, and

wherein a setting value for the at least one constituent of the image quality is determined based on a setting value of a changing candidate image selected from a displayed plurality of changing candidate images.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the image quality configuring part comprises:

a configuration processing part configured to display a representative image for the recognizable scene in the configured image quality.

3. The image processing device according to claim 2, wherein the configuration processing part is configured to update the representative image in real time based on the setting value configured by the image quality configuring part.

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

an image capturing part configured to capture an image, wherein the image to be acquired on which the image processing part is configured to perform image processing is the image captured by the image capturing part.

5. An image processing device, comprising:

an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality of a recognizable scene of an image according to an instruction from a user;

an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for the recognizable scene;

an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired; and

an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image to be acquired based on the image quality configured by the image quality configuring part for the scene recognized by the image recognition part, wherein the image quality configuring part comprises;

a constituent configuring part configured to configure at least one constituent of the image quality for each the recognizable scene, and

a configuration processing part configured to display a representative image for the recognizable scene in the configured image quality, and

wherein the configuration processing part is configured to display a plurality of changing candidate images obtained by changing a setting value for the at least one constituent of the image quality, and is configured to determine a setting value of a changing candidate image selected from the plurality of changing candidate images as the setting value for the at least one constituent of the image quality.

6. The image processing device according to claim 5, wherein the configuration processing part is configured to arrange and display in a matrix shape, the plurality of changing candidate images obtained by changing the setting value for two constituents of image quality.

7. An image processing method comprising:

configuring image quality of a recognizable scene of an image according to an instruction from a user;

configuring at least one constituent of the image quality for the recognizable scene;

displaying a representative image for the recognizable scene in the configured image quality;

displaying a plurality of changing candidate images obtained by changing a setting value for the at least one constituent of image quality;

determining a setting value of a changing candidate image selected from the plurality of changing candidate images as a setting value for the at least one constituent of image quality;

recognizing a scene of an image to be acquired; and

performing image processing on the image based on the setting value of the at least one constituent of the image quality configured for the recognized scene.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having instructions recorded therein which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to function as an image processing device including:

an image quality configuring part configured to;

configure image quality of a recognizable scene of an image according to an instruction from a user, and

record the image quality in an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for the recognizable scene;

an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired; and

an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image to be acquired based on the image quality configured by the image quality configuring part for the scene recognized by the image recognition part, wherein the image quality comprises at least one constituent for the recognizable scene, and

wherein a setting value for the at least one constituent of the image quality is determined based on a setting value of a changing candidate image selected from a displayed plurality of changing candidate images.

9. The image processing method according to claim 8, further comprising:

arranging and displaying in a matrix shape, the plurality of changing candidate images obtained by changing setting values for two constituents of the image quality.

10. The image processing method according to claim 8, further comprising updating the representative image in real time based on the setting value for the at least one constituent of the image quality.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having instructions recorded therein which, when executed by a processor of an image processing device, cause the processor to cause the image processing device to perform an image processing method comprising:

configuring image quality of a recognizable scene of an image according to an instruction from a user;

configuring at least one constituent of the image quality for the recognizable scene;

displaying a representative image for the recognizable scene in the configured image quality;

displaying a plurality of changing candidate images obtained by changing a setting value for the at least one constituent of image quality;

determining a setting value of a changing candidate image selected from the plurality of changing candidate images as a setting value for the at least one constituent of image quality;

recognizing a scene of an image to be acquired; and

performing image processing on the image based on the setting value of the at least one constituent of the image quality configured for the recognized scene.

12. The computer-readable medium according to claim 11, wherein configuring image quality further comprises:

arranging and displaying, into a matrix shape, the plurality of changing candidate images obtained by changing setting values for two constituents of image quality.

13. The computer-readable medium according to claim 11, wherein configuring image quality further comprises:

updating the representative image in real time based on the setting value for the at least one constituent of image quality.