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US 8,300,899 B2Granted
Image processing apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorTomonori Masuda
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Abstract
According to an image processing apparatus of an aspect of the present invention, when an image is transmitted, a face image of a person whose privacy is guarded is automatically masked, or information of an area to be masked is transferred to an external device with an image, so that an image in which the privacy is guarded without a user operation can be transmitted to an external device.
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An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an image inputting device which inputs an image;
- a face image detecting device which detects a face image of a person from the image inputted by the image inputting device;
- an automatic mask deciding device which decides whether or not each face image is to be masked based on a size of each of the face images in an identical image compared to a face image with a maximum area in the identical image, a direction of each of the faces in each of the face images detected by the face image detecting device, or a number of other images in which a face image of a same person in the image appears;
- a transferring device which transfers an image obtained by masking an area of a face image which is decided to be masked by the automatic masking deciding device for the image inputted by the image inputting device to an external device, or transfers the image inputted by the image inputting device and information indicating the area of the face image which is decided to be masked by the automatic mask deciding device to an external device.
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An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an image inputting device which inputs an image;
- a face image detecting device which detects a face image of a person from the image inputted by the image inputting device;
- a displaying device which displays an operation screen, which displays each area which is detected as a face image by the face image detecting device so as to be able to be identified, and in which a user inputs a decision whether or not each of the face images detected by the face image detecting device is to be masked;
- a manual mask dividing device which decides whether or not each the face images detected by the face image detecting device is to be masked depending on a user operation on the screen of the displaying device;
- a transferring device which transfers an image obtained by masking an area of a face image which is decided to be masked by the manual mask deciding device for the image inputted by the image inputting device to an external device, or transfers the image inputted by the image inputting device and information indicating the area of the face image which is decided to be masked by the manual mask deciding device to an external device;
- wherein when an image inputted by the image inputting device is a moving image including a plurality of frame images, the displaying device sequentially displays the operation screen for a frame image in which a face image of a new person in the frame images detected by the face image detecting device appears.
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An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an image inputting device which inputs an image;
- a face image detecting device which detects a face image of a person from the image inputted by the image inputting device;
- an automatic mask deciding device which automatically decides whether or not each of face images detected by the face image detecting device is to be masked;
- a displaying device which displays an operation screen for displaying each area detected as a face image by the face image detecting device so as to be able to be identified, and for displaying an area of a face image that is decided to be masked by the automatic mask deciding device, and an area of a face image that is decided not to be masked so as to be able to be identified, the operation screen through which a user inputs a decision whether or not each of face images detected by the face image detecting device is to be masked;
- a manual mask deciding device which corrects the decision result by the automatic mask deciding device whether or not each of face images detected by the face image detecting device is masked depending on a user operation on a screen of the displaying device, and decides whether or not each image detected by the face image detecting device is to be masked;
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- a transferring device which transfers an image obtained by masking an area of a face image which is decided to be masked by the manual mask deciding device for the image inputted by the image inputting device to an external device, or transfers the image inputted by the image inputting device, and information indicating the area of the face image which is decided to be masked by the manual mask deciding device to an external device.
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An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an image inputting device which inputs an image;
- a face image detecting device which detects a face image of a person from the image inputted by the image inputting device;
- a displaying device which displays an operation screen, which displays each area which is detected as a face image by the face image detecting device so as to be able to be identified, and in which a user inputs a decision whether or not each of the face images detected by the face image detecting device is to be masked;
- a manual mask deciding device which decides whether or not each of the face images detected by the face image detecting device is to be masked depending on a user operation on the screen of the displaying device;
- a transferring device which transfers an image obtained by masking an area of a face image which is decided to be masked by the manual mask deciding device for the image inputted by the image inputting device to an external device, or transfers the image inputted by the image inputting device and information indicating the area of the face image which is decided to be masked by the manual mask deciding device to an external device;
- wherein when an image inputted by the image inputting device is a moving image including a plurality of frame images, the displaying device displays each of the face images detected by the face image detecting device as the operation screen with the number of frame images in which a face image of the same person appears.
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