Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image pickup apparatus, and storage medium storing image processing program
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorNatsumi Yano
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus determines an importance of subject in an image. The image processing apparatus comprises an image input unit that inputs a series of multiple frames of images captured in temporal sequence, a determination target region extraction unit that extracts determination target regions to be subjected to an importance determination from the images on the multiple frames input into the image input unit, and a determination unit that determines an importance of the determination target regions on the basis of an appearance frequency of the determination target regions in the images on the multiple frames.
Claims10
An image processing apparatus that determines an importance of a subject in an image, comprising:
- an image input unit that inputs a series of multiple frames of images captured in temporal sequence;
- a determination target region extraction unit that extracts determination target regions to be subjected to an importance determination from the images on the multiple frames input into the image input unit;
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- a determination unit that determines the importance of the determination target regions on the basis of an appearance frequency of the determination target regions in the images on the multiple frames.
An image processing method for determining an importance of a subject in an image, comprising:
- an image inputting step for inputting a series of multiple frames of images captured in temporal sequence;
- a determination target region extracting step for extracting determination target regions to be subjected to an importance determination from the images on the multiple frames input in the image inputting step;
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- a determining step for determining the importance of the determination target regions on the basis of an appearance frequency of the determination target regions in the images on the multiple frames.
An image pickup apparatus having an imaging unit capable of subjecting an object image formed by an image pickup lens to photoelectric conversion and outputting a corresponding image signal, comprising:
- an image input unit that inputs a series of multiple frames of images captured in temporal sequence;
- a determination target region extraction unit that extracts determination target regions to be subjected to an importance determination from the images on the multiple frames input into the image input unit;
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- a determination unit that determines an importance of the determination target regions on the basis of an appearance frequency of the determination target regions in the images on the multiple frames.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program for causing a computer to execute processing for determining an importance of a subject in an image, comprising:
- an image inputting step for inputting a series of multiple frames of images captured in temporal sequence;
- a determination target region extracting step for extracting determination target regions to be subjected to an importance determination from the images on the multiple frames input in the image inputting step;
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- a determining step for determining the importance of the determination target regions on the basis of an appearance frequency of the determination target regions in the images on the multiple frames.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.