Image Processing System for Automatic Exclusion of Unwanted Regions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in efficiently excluding unwanted portions, such as room interiors or family members' faces, from images captured during game play when delivering both game content and user images, requiring manual camera adjustments.
Innovation Solution
An image processing system that acquires game play content and user images, generates a user image from the captured image, and combines them to create a delivery image, allowing for automatic exclusion of unwanted regions without repositioning the camera.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user manually positions and orients the camera to exclude unwanted portions, then the unwanted image is excluded from the delivery image, but the user spends excessive time and effort on camera adjustment
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic image processing to identify and exclude unwanted portions without requiring manual user intervention. The image processing section automatically generates the delivery image by excluding specified regions, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring continuous user operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows users to pre-specify regions to be excluded in advance, and then automatically processes the images to exclude these regions. This preliminary specification eliminates the need for real-time manual adjustment during image capture or delivery.
2Ease of operation
If the user manually positions and orients the camera to exclude unwanted portions, then the unwanted image is excluded from the delivery image, but the operation process becomes complex and tedious
Solution Approach 1:
The image processing section automatically performs the exclusion of unwanted regions based on pre-specified parameters, eliminating the need for complex manual camera positioning and orientation operations. The system handles the entire process autonomously once initial settings are provided.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical camera adjustment with automated image processing. Instead of physically moving or repositioning the camera, the system uses software-based image processing to achieve the same effect of excluding unwanted portions from the delivery image.
3Productivity
If automatic image processing is implemented to exclude unwanted portions, then time and effort are saved, but the system requires sophisticated image processing capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The image processing is divided into distinct functional sections: a specification receiving section that accepts user input about regions to exclude, and an image processing section that executes the exclusion. This segmentation allows the system to handle complexity in a modular, manageable way while maintaining high productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The image processing section is designed to handle multiple types of image processing operations (exclusion of various unwanted regions) through a single unified system. This multi-functional approach achieves high productivity without proportionally increasing system complexity, as the same core processing capabilities serve multiple purposes.
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AI summary
An image processing system, an image processing method, a program, and an information storage medium for saving more time and effort than ever in excluding an unwanted image from an image to be delivered, the latter image being one in which is disposed an image captured of a user during play of a game, the captured image being disposed in a region occupying a portion of an image indicating the content of the game being played. A play image acquiring section acquires a play image indicative of game play content. A captured image acquiring section acquires a captured image captured by a camera during play of the game. A user image generating section generates a user image occupying in the captured image a region in which is disposed an image of the user as a delivery target. A delivery image to be delivered is generated on the basis of the play image and the user image.