IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150063724A1
• Filed: 09/03/2014
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Tohru, Umeda, Kiyoshi, Hashii, Yusuke, Kunieda, Hiroyasu, Sakai, Hiroyuki, Sumi, Naoki
• Granted Patent: US 9,436,706 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/305
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5854 using shape and object relationship

Abstract

An image group including at least one image is acquired, a layout candidate is created, by laying out images included in an acquired image group, and the created layout candidate is evaluated. Evaluation of the layout candidate is performed based on evaluation of each image laid out within a layout, and a scaling factor based on image size of the image placed in the layout, and a size of the image.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image group including at least one image;

a creating unit configured to create a layout candidate, by laying out images included in an image group acquired by the acquisition unit; and

an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the layout candidate created by the creating unit, based on evaluation of each image laid out within a layout, and a scaling factor based on image size placed in the layout, and a size of the image.

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

a scaling factor identifying unit configured to identify a scaling factor of an image before placing in the layout, based on size of the image before placing in the layout, and output size of the layout candidate;

wherein the evaluation unit performs evaluation of layout candidates based on evaluation of the images placed within the layout, and the scaling factor identified by the scaling factor identifying unit.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein evaluation of the images includes a shaking amount of the image.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a face region identifying unit configured to identify a face region in an image placed in the layout;

wherein evaluation of the images includes evaluation of face regions identified by the face region identifying unit.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein evaluation of the images includes evaluation based on sensitivity information at a time of photography.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein evaluation of the images includes noise amount in the images.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a presenting unit configured to present at least one selected layout candidate of a plurality of layout candidates created by the creating unit, based on evaluation results from the evaluation unit.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the presenting unit presents layout candidates of which evaluation results from the evaluation unit are high.

9. A method comprising:

acquiring an image group including at least one image;

creating a layout candidate, by laying out images included in an image group acquired in the acquiring; and

evaluating the layout candidate created in the creating;

wherein evaluation of the layout candidates is performed in the evaluating based on evaluation of each image laid out within a layout, and a scaling factor based on image size placed in the layout, and a size of the image.

10. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a method comprising:

acquiring an image group including at least one image;

creating a layout candidate, by laying out images included in an image group acquired in the acquiring; and

evaluating the layout candidate created in the creating;

wherein evaluation of the layout candidates is performed in the evaluating based on evaluation of each image laid out within a layout, and a scaling factor based on image size placed in the layout, and a size of the image.