Image processing device and image processing method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorYoko Fukata
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Abstract
An image processing device including a subject frame setting section which, by operating a subject detector which detects a subject captured in an image, sets a subject frame which surrounds a predetermined range of the subject detected from the image; an acceptance frame setting section which sets an acceptance frame with a range wider than the subject frame according to the context of the image; a position detecting section which detects a specified position on an image which is specified by a user; and a recognizing section which recognizes a subject which is a tracking target based on the acceptance frame set by the acceptance frame setting section and the specified position detected by the position detecting section.
Claims18
An electronic device comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- control displaying an image on a display;
- detect a subject in the image;
- control displaying, with the image, a subject area in which the subject detected from the image is included;
- set, but not display, an acceptance area which encompasses the subject area according to a position of the subject area;
- detect a specified position which is corresponding to a received user input position within the image displayed with the subject area;
- detect whether the specified position is within the acceptance area, and
- determine, in case the specified position is within the acceptance area, the subject within the subject area corresponding to the acceptance area as a tracking subject.
A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:
- controlling to display, by the circuity of the electronic device, an image on a display;
- detecting, by the circuity, a subject in the image;
- controlling, by the circuitry, with the image, to display a subject area in which the subject detected from the image is included;
- setting, but not display, by the circuitry, an acceptance area which encompasses the subject area according to a position of the subject area;
- detecting, by the circuitry, a specified position which is corresponding to a received user input position within the image displayed with the subject area;
- detect, by the circuitry, whether the specified position is within the acceptance area;
- and
- determine, in case the specified position is within the acceptance area, by the circuitry, the subject within the subject area corresponding to the acceptance area as a tracking subject.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which executed by an electronic device, cause the electronic device to:
- control to display an image on a display;
- detect a subject in the image;
- control to display, with the image, a subject area in which the subjected detected from the image included;
- set, but not display, an acceptance area which encompasses the subject area according to a position of the subject area;
- detect a specified position which is corresponding to a received user input position within the image displayed with the subject area;
- detect whether the specified position is within the acceptance area;
- and
- determine, in case the specified position is within the acceptance area, the subject within the subject area corresponding to the acceptance area as a tracking subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.