Image Processing method

a processing method and image technology, applied in the field of image processing methods, can solve the problems of complex processing, difficult or impossible, and many kinds of image processing can be performed with a high degree of freedom, and achieve the effect of removing unnatural feeling, enhancing the amusement aspect of image forming media such as photographs, video and the lik

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-01-13
FUJIFILM CORP
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The present invention has been devised in view of the above drawbacks, and it is a second object of the present invention to provide an image processing method with which amusement aspect in image forming media such as a photograph, a video, a TV telephone and the like can be enhanced by visualizing a content that is desired to be emphasized according to a type of feeling of a person in a photographed image, particularly an image of the pe

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Thus, various kinds of image processing can be performed with a high degree of freedom, which is difficult or impossible with the conventional direct exposure, including correction of dropouts or blocked-ups of an image due to back-light, strobe photographing or the like, correction of a color failure or a density failure, correction of under exposure or over exposure, correction of insufficient marginal luminosity, sharpness processing, and compression/expansion processing of density dynamic range (giving a dodging effect by image data processing).
However, the conventional image processing method has a problem in that processing is complicated because an operator must input information on a customer.
In addition, there is also a problem in that image processing conditions to be set are fixed according to obtained information on a customer, or selection of conditions is limited only to whether the processing is performed or not, and there is no function of setting image processing conditions corresponding to preference of a customer or, more meticulously, of each subject person, thus, image reproduction to which preference of a customer or a subject person is truly reflected cannot be realized.
In addition, there is also a problem in that the conventional image for

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the second aspect of the present invention will now be described.

This embodiment also relates to an apparatus for performing image processing on a real time basis such as a TV telephone (or a cellular TV telephone). That is, this embodiment is to determine a type of feeling using expression recognition or gesture recognition instead of voice data as accompanying information for determining a type of feeling of a person.

For expression recognition, a table associating images of expressions of emotions such as pleasure, anger, sorrow and joy with modes corresponding to the expressions is registered for each individual in a cellular TV phone terminal of each person in advance. In addition, for gesture recognition, a table associating gestures determined by each person with modes, in such ways as raising one finger means this mode and raising two fingers means that mode, is registered in a cellular TV telephone terminal of each person in advance.

Then, during a call, a face is extrac...

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the second aspect of the present invention will now be described.

This embodiment is to perform image composition processing on a repeater station side of the TV telephone, although it also relates to a TV telephone or a cellular TV telephone. A cellular TV telephone system in this embodiment is schematically shown in FIG. 7. Face image data (an expression of each mode for determining a mode corresponding to a type of feeling) and voice data (a keyword for drawing each mode) for each user as well as image composition patterns in each mode are registered in a database 84 of a repeater station 80 of a communication provider through cellular TV telephone terminals 60 and 70.

During communication, a photographed image of A photographed by an image sensor 62 and voices of A and a photographed image of B photographed by an image sensor 72 and voices of B are transmitted to the repeater station 80 from the A's cellular TV telephone terminal 60 and the B's cellular TV telephone terminal 70...

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the second aspect of the present invention will now be described.

This embodiment is to correct a position of a composition pattern if a misregistration occurs when the image composition processing is performed on a real time basis.

Since most of misregistrations of a composition pattern are due to a failure in extracting a face, if a misregistration of a composition pattern is found on a display screen, a face in the photographed image is designated by an electronic pen or the like. At this point, the outline of the face may be circled using the electronic pen, or the eyes may be connected by a line. Moreover, a position of the mouth or the like may be designated. Alternatively, a position to which the composition pattern should be shifted in parallel, an adjustment amount of a size or the like may be designated by key operation.

Thereafter, based on the corrected position and size of the composition pattern, a face position candidate area is automatically corrected to coincide w...

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Abstract

The image processing method applies image processing to an inputted image data. The method registers predetermined image processing conditions for each specific person in advance, extracts a person in the inputted image data, identifies the extracted person to find if the extracted person is the specific person and selects image processing conditions corresponding to the identified specific person to perform the image processing based on the selected image processing conditions. Amusement aspect in photography and image representation can be enhanced, and even inexperienced or unskilled persons in personal computer or image processing software can correct images.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image processing method for converting input image data to output image data by applying image processing to the input image data. More specifically, the invention relates to an image processing method for preparing an output image meeting a request from an individual customer; an image processing method for additionally displaying information corresponding to a feeling of a person on an image displaying medium or the like on which an image of the person is displayed, or performing substitution, modification or adjustment to produce an image corresponding to the feeling; and an image processing method for changing an image of a person to a favorite image of the person or an image having no unnatural feeling. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, printing of an image photographed on a photographic film (hereinafter referred to as a film) such as a negative film or a reversal film...

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IPC IPC(8): G06K9/00
CPCG06K9/00221G06V40/175G06V40/16
Inventor KINJO, NAOTO
Owner FUJIFILM CORP
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