Scene-Specific Image Quality Configuration for User Preference

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image capturing devices do not allow users to effectively configure image settings according to their preferences for different scenes, as the camera control and signal processing are predetermined and difficult to customize.

Innovation Solution

An image processing device with an image quality configuring part that allows users to set preferences for each scene, an image recognition part to identify the scene, and an image processing part to apply the configured settings, enabling personalized image capture based on user-defined settings for brightness, contrast, chroma, white balance, and other parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If camera control and signal processing are preset by manufacturers, then device complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but adaptability to user preferences and individual scenes deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of operationVSAvoidadaptability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments image quality settings by dividing them into scene-specific configurations. The image quality setting unit stores different image quality parameters for each recognizable scene type (e.g., landscape, portrait, night scene), allowing the system to apply appropriate settings automatically based on scene recognition results.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring image quality settings for various scenes before actual image capture. The system prepares multiple sets of image quality parameters in advance, corresponding to different scene types, so that when a scene is recognized, the appropriate pre-configured settings are immediately applied without requiring real-time user input.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Device complexity

If preset image processing is used for all scenes, then device complexity is reduced, but manufacturing precision of image quality configuration deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice complexityVSAvoidmanufacturing precision

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by configuring image quality parameters specifically for each scene type rather than using uniform settings for all scenes. The image quality setting unit stores differentiated settings for different scenes (e.g., different brightness, contrast, saturation parameters for landscape vs. portrait), and the image processing unit applies the appropriate local settings based on scene recognition, thereby achieving precise image quality control tailored to each scene's characteristics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9141857B2Image processing device, image processing method, computer program and computer-readable recording medium

Publication Date: 2015.09.22 SONY GROUP CORP

AI summary

There is provided an image processing device including an image quality configuring part configured to configure image quality on a per-recognizable scene of an image basis according to an instruction from a user, an image quality storage configured to store the image quality configured for each scene, an image recognition part configured to recognize a scene of an image to be acquired, and an image processing part configured to perform image processing on the image based on the image quality configured for the recognized scene by the image quality configuring part.