Image processing apparatus, method and program

• US 9,324,296 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2012
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fukazawa, Kentaro, Takagi, Yoshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Mark
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kaji, Sohum
• Application Number:
  US13/598,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20130063467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10024 Color image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/90 Determination of colour characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/02 characterised by the way in which colour is displayed details of colour display specific for CRTs G09G1/28; specific for flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607

Abstract

Provided is an image processing apparatus including a cursor position acquisition section which acquires a position of a cursor on a display screen where an image is displayed, and a representative color acquisition section for performing a color reduction process which acquires a region including the position of the cursor acquired by the cursor position acquisition section as a color reduction processing region, and acquires a prescribed number of colors as representative colors, from colors included in the color reduction processing region.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a cursor position acquisition section which acquires a position of a cursor on a display screen where an image is displayed; and

a representative color acquisition section which;

acquires a region including the position of the cursor acquired by the cursor position acquisition section as a color reduction processing region,

acquires a prescribed number of colors as representative colors from colors included in the color reduction processing region,

generate a new cluster, in a case where a first representative color of a first cluster and a second representative color of a second cluster are selected from the representative colors, by integration of the first cluster and the second cluster, and

integrate the new cluster and another cluster, which includes an unselected representative color, based on a first unit vector and a second unit vector,

wherein the first unit vector is a unit vector between the selected first representative color and the selected second representative color, and

wherein the second unit vector is a unit vector between the unselected representative color of the other cluster and either of the selected first representative color or the selected second representative color.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display control section which performs control for displaying, as selection candidates, the prescribed number of representative colors acquired by the representative color acquisition section.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the color reduction process is a process including k-means clustering.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the representative color acquisition section, in a case where the first representative color and the second representative color are selected from the selection candidates, generates the new cluster by integration of the first cluster and the second cluster.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the representative color acquisition section integrates the new cluster and the other cluster by integrating the other cluster within a certain range, from the first cluster and the second cluster to which the first representative color and the second representative color belong.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control section, in a case where a prescribed representative color is selected from among the selection candidates, displays as new selection candidates a plurality of colors included in a cluster to which the selected prescribed representative color belongs.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display control section displays the selection candidates by rearranging the selection candidates in an order RGB or HSL.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display control section displays the selection candidates by plotting the selection candidates on a hue circle.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display control section displays the color reduction processing region by color reduction using the selection candidates.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the representative color acquisition section acquires cluster ranges to which the representative colors belong.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

an acquisition section which acquires, in a case where a prescribed representative color is selected from among the selection candidates, a cluster range to which the prescribed representative color acquired by the representative color acquisition section belongs.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the integration of the new cluster and the other cluster is based on a magnitude of difference between the first unit vector and the second unit vector.

13. An image processing method of an image processing apparatus, comprising:

acquiring a position of a cursor on a display screen where an image is displayed; and

performing a color reduction process which;

acquires a region including the acquired position of the cursor as a color reduction processing region,

acquires a prescribed number of colors as representative colors, from colors included in the color reduction processing region,

generates a new cluster, in a case where a first representative color of a first cluster and a second representative color of a second cluster are selected from the representative colors, by integration of the first cluster and the second cluster, and

integrates the new cluster and another cluster, which includes an unselected representative color, based on a first unit vector and a second unit vector,

wherein the first unit vector is a unit vector between the selected first representative color and the selected second representative color, and

wherein the second unit vector is a unit vector between the unselected representative color of the other cluster and either of the selected first representative color or the selected second representative color.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon, a set of computer-executable instructions for causing an information processing apparatus to perform steps comprising:

acquiring a position of a cursor on a display screen where an image is displayed; and

performing a color reduction process which comprises;

acquiring a region including the position of the as a color reduction processing region, and

acquiring a prescribed number of colors as representative colors from colors included in the color reduction processing region,

generating a new cluster, in a case where a first representative color of a first cluster and a second representative color of a second cluster are selected from the representative colors, by integration of the first cluster and the second cluster, and

integrating the new cluster and another cluster, which includes an unselected representative color, based on a first unit vector and a second unit vector,

wherein the first unit vector is a unit vector between the selected first representative color and the selected second representative color, and

wherein the second unit vector is a unit vector between the unselected representative color of the other cluster and either of the selected first representative color or the selected second representative color.