Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable recording device
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsMakoto Kitamura, Yamato Kanda, Takashi Kono, Masashi Hirota
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus to detect a bubble region included in image includes: a bubble candidate region setting unit which sets, from the image, a region as a bubble candidate region, the region having shape corresponding to a bubble region shape model stored in a storage unit; and a bubble region determination unit which determines, on the basis of information belonging to the bubble candidate region, whether the bubble candidate region is a bubble region.
Claims24
An image processing apparatus to detect a bubble region included in an image, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, implement:
- a bubble candidate region setting unit which sets, from the image, a region as a bubble candidate region, the region having a shape corresponding to a bubble region shape model stored in a storage unit;
- and
- a bubble region determination unit which determines, on the basis of information belonging to the bubble candidate region, whether the bubble candidate region is a bubble region;
- wherein the bubble candidate region setting unit comprises a circular region detecting unit which detects, from the image, a region having a circular or arc-like shape.
An image processing method for detecting a bubble region in an image, comprising:
- a bubble candidate region setting in which, from the image, a region having a shape corresponding to a bubble region shape model stored in a memory is set as a bubble candidate region;
- and
- a bubble candidate region determining in which whether the bubble candidate region is a bubble region is determined on the basis of information belonging to the bubble candidate region;
- wherein the bubble candidate region setting comprises a circular region detecting which detects, from the image, a region having a circular or arc-like shape.
A computer-readable recording device with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a processor to perform:
- a bubble candidate region setting in which, from the image, a region having a shape corresponding to a bubble region shape model stored in a memory is set as a bubble candidate region;
- and
- a bubble candidate region determining in which whether the bubble candidate region is a bubble region is determined on the basis of information belonging to the bubble candidate region;
- wherein the bubble candidate region setting comprises a circular region detecting which detects, from the image, a region having a circular or arc-like shape.
An image processing apparatus to detect a bubble region included in an image, comprising:
- a bubble candidate region setting unit which sets, from the image, a region as a bubble candidate region, the region having a shape corresponding to a bubble region shape model stored in a storage unit;
- and
- a bubble region determination unit which determines, on the basis of information belonging to the bubble candidate region, whether the bubble candidate region is a bubble region;
- wherein the bubble candidate region setting unit comprises a circular region detecting unit which detects, from the image, a region having a circular or arc-like shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.