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US 2011/0298946 A1Published application
Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and computer program
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsHaike Guan, Tao Li, Xun Yuan
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus that performs individual optimum image processing on each of a portion of an image illuminated by a light source and a portion of the image shaded from the light source, an image pickup apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer program are provided.
Claims16
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a sunlit-area-and-shaded-area separating unit that receives an input of to-be-processed image data and separates the to-be-processed image data into a sunlit area and a shaded area based on a feature value of the to-be-processed image data;
- an information obtaining unit that obtains sunlit information that is information about image processing appropriate for the sunlit area and shaded information that is information about image processing appropriate for the shaded area;
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- an image processing unit that performs image processing on the sunlit area according to the sunlit information and/or image processing on the shaded area according to the shaded information.
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An image processing method comprising:
- a sunlit-area-and-shaded-area separating step of receiving an input of to-be-processed image data and separating the to-be-processed image data into a sunlit area and a shaded area based on a feature value of the to-be-processed image data;
- an information obtaining step of obtaining sunlit information that is information about image processing appropriate for the sunlit area and shaded information that is information about image processing appropriate for the shaded area;
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- an image processing step of performing image processing on the sunlit area according to the sunlit information and/or image processing on the shaded area according to the shaded information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.