Image processing apparatus and image processing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi Hirata
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Abstract
In an image processing apparatus, a shooting scene and shooting parameters for each image pickup apparatus that is to be used to pick up an image are set in accordance with a user input. A picked-up image is received from an image pickup apparatus. In accordance with the shooting scene that is set for the image pickup apparatus which has picked up the received image, a threshold of the likelihood of detecting a face region that is included in the shooting parameters for the shooting scene is obtained. A face region is detected from the picked-up image using the obtained threshold of the likelihood of detecting a face region. An image of the detected face region is highlighted and displayed on a display screen.
Claims8
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a setting unit configured to set, in accordance with a user input, a shooting scene and shooting parameters for each image pickup apparatus that is to be used to pick up an image;
- a receiving unit configured to receive a picked-up image from an image pickup apparatus;
- an obtaining unit configured to obtain an instruction from the user for updating a threshold of a likelihood of detecting a face region;
- an updating unit configured to update, in accordance with the shooting scene that is set by the setting unit for an image pickup apparatus which has picked up the image received by the receiving unit, a threshold of a likelihood of detecting a face region that is included in the shooting parameters for the shooting scene based on a current value of the threshold and the instruction obtained from the user;
- a detection unit configured to detect a face region from the received picked-up image using the updated threshold of the likelihood of detecting a face region;
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- a display unit configured to display an image of the face region which is detected by the detection unit so that the image of the face region is discriminated.
An image processing method comprising:
- setting, in accordance with a user input, a shooting scene and shooting parameters for each image pickup apparatus that is to be used to pick up an image;
- receiving a picked-up image from an image pickup apparatus;
- obtaining an instruction from the user for updating a threshold of a likelihood of detecting a face region;
- updating, in accordance with the shooting scene that is set for an image pickup apparatus which has picked up the image that is received, a threshold of a likelihood of detecting a face region that is included in the shooting parameters for the shooting scene based on a current value of the threshold and the instruction obtained from the user;
- detecting a face region from the received picked-up image using the updated threshold of the likelihood of detecting a face region;
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- displaying an image of the detected face region so that the image of the face region is discriminated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.