Image processing device and method, image processing system, and image processing program

• US 9,886,770 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2017
• Issued: 02/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CCC Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Inaguma, Ritsuo, Ujisato, Takanobu
• Primary Examiner(s): SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI
• Application Number:
  US15/400,012
• Publication Number:
  US 20170124722A1
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 11/12 using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/7864 T.V. type tracking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10004 Still image; Photographic image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/246 using feature-based methods, e.g. the tracking of corners or segments
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1961 Movement detection not involving frame subtraction, e.g. motion detection on the basis of luminance changes in the image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/695 Control of camera direction for changing a field of view, e.g. pan, tilt or based on tracking of objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation

Abstract

An image processing device includes: an entire image display control portion that performs control to display an entire image of a predetermined region in an entire image display window; and a cutout image display control portion that performs control to enlarge a plurality of tracking subjects included in the entire image and display the tracking subjects in a cutout image display window. The cutout image display control portion performs the control in such a manner that one cutout image including the tracking subjects is displayed in the cutout image display window in a case where relative distances among the tracking subjects are equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and that two cutout images including the respective tracking subjects are displayed in the cutout image display window in a case where the relative distances among the tracking subjects are larger than the predetermined value.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprised of a processor and a memory storing instructions to configure the processor to implement modules comprising:

an object speed calculation portion that calculates a speed of a first object and a speed of a second object, the first and second objects being in a first image; and

an image setting portion that sets a position corresponding to a second image that includes at least one of the first and second objects in the first image, the second image being a part of the first image;

wherein the second image is displayed on a display, and

a position corresponding to the second image that is part of the first image is updated based on the speed of the first object and the speed of the second object.

2. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the second image is outputted from the image processing apparatus to other apparatus, to be displayed.

3. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the first image is displayed on the display which displays the second image.

4. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 3, wherein the displayed second image is larger than the corresponding part of the displayed first image.

5. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 1, further comprising a receiving portion receives the first image.

6. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 1, further comprising a receiving portion receives the first image via a network.

7. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the first object is specified by a user.

8. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the first object is a moving object.

9. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the first image is a captured image.

10. The image processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the first image is a panoramic image generated based on a plurality of images.

11. An image processing system comprised of a processor and a memory storing instructions to configure the processor to implement modules comprising:

an imaging portion;

an object speed calculation portion that calculates a speed of first object and a speed of a second object, the first and second objects being in a first image; and

an image setting portion that sets a position corresponding to a second image that includes at least one of the first and second object in the first image, the second image being a part of the first image;

wherein the second image is displayed on a display, and

a position corresponding to the second image that is part of the first image is updated based on the speed of the first object and the speed of the second object.

12. The image processing system according to the claim 11, further comprising the display.

13. An image processing method comprising:

calculating a speed of a first object and a speed of a second object, the first and second objects being in a first image;

setting a position corresponding to a second image that includes at least one of the first and second objects in the first image, the second image being a part of the first image;

causing the second image to be displayed; and

updating a position corresponding to the second image that is part of the first image based on the speed of the first object and the speed of the second object.

14. An image processing apparatus comprised of a processor and a memory storing instructions to configure the processor to implement modules comprising:

object speed calculation means for calculating a speed of a first object and a speed of a second object, the first and second objects being in a first image; and

image setting means for setting a position corresponding to a second image that includes at least one of the first and second objects in the first image, the second image being a part of the first image;

wherein the second image is displayed on a display, and

a position corresponding to the second image that is part of the first image is updated based on the speed of the first object and the speed of the second object.