Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Hiroto Tomita

Takashi Hashimoto

Phu Nguyen

Tadanori Tezuka

Ikuo Fuchigami

Akihiko Inoue

Masahiro Ohashi

Masatoshi Matsuo

Yoshiteru Tanaka

Koji Horiuchi

Takahiro Nishi

Tsuyoshi Nakamura

Masayasu Iguchi

Tomoo Kimura

Yuji Sugisawa

Hiroaki Toida

Youichi Nishida

Keisuke Hayata

Hidekatsu Ozeki

A virtual make-up apparatus and method: store cosmetic item information of cosmetic items of different colors; store a different texture component for each stored cosmetic item of a specific color; extract an object portion image of a virtual make-up from a facial image; extract color information from the object portion image; designate an item of the virtual make-up corresponding to a stored cosmetic item and output a color image by applying a color corresponding to the designated item on the object portion image; output a texture image, based on analyzed color information corresponding to a stored cosmetic item, by adding a texture component to a part of the object portion image; and display a virtual make-up image of virtual make-up using the designated item applied on the facial image, by using the color and texture images, and the object portion image of the virtual make-up of the facial image.

Virtual make-up apparatus and virtual make-up method

A skin diagnostic device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a skin image obtained by capturing skin, an image analyzer that calculates an index value indicating a darkness level of a color of a discolored region of the skin from the obtained skin image, a threshold determination unit that determines a threshold based on the calculated index value and a size of a contrast of the skin image, and a skin diagnostic unit that performs a diagnosis on the skin by comparing the determined threshold and normalized luminance value data obtained by normalizing luminance value data of the skin image with an average luminance value of the luminance value data.

Skin diagnostic device and skin diagnostic method

This virtual make-up apparatus extracts an object portion image of a virtual make-up from a facial image captured by a camera, applies, on the object portion image, a color corresponding to an item in accordance with designation of the item for the virtual make-up, and adds a texture component different for each item, to a part of the object portion image. The virtual make-up apparatus displays, on a display unit, a virtual make-up image in which a virtual make-up using an item is applied on the facial image, by using the object portion image to which color is applied, an image in which a texture component is added to the part of the object portion image, and the object portion image of the virtual make-up of the facial image.

A virtual makeup device includes a display controller that receives a makeup specifying operation for specifying a content of a virtual makeup on a face image imaged by a camera having an autofocus function in a state where the face image is displayed, and a camera controller that causes the camera to start an autofocus operation on condition that a predetermined makeup specifying operation is performed.

Virtual makeup device, and virtual makeup method

An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit that images a video; a display unit that displays the imaged video on a screen; a face-position acquirer that acquires a position of a face included in the video on the screen; an operation receiver that receives a touch operation on the screen; and a make-up-image composer that composes a make-up image with a part of the face in the video. The make-up-image composer changes a composition state of the make-up image on condition that a swipe operation is performed in a direction oriented to the position of the face. The image processing apparatus further includes a stylus detector that detects a portion of a predetermined marker color as a stylus from the video when the portion of the predetermined marker color is included in the video.

Image processing apparatus, stylus, and image processing method

An image processing method including: determining whether an operation mode of a system is a control mode for still image display or a view mode for video display; and performing processing in accordance with the operation mode. Processing in the control mode includes: specifying a specific video frame image including a suitable image of a subject of image processing, from among video frame images of a video constituted of a plurality of video frame images each including an image of the subject; displaying the specific video frame image as a still image; and receiving control related to image processing from a user. Processing in the view mode includes: performing image processing with respect to each video frame image that is input, one video frame image at a time; and displaying the result of image processing for the user to view.

Image processing method and image processing device

An image processing device generates a make-up image when a make-up coating material is applied to a part of a subject appearing in a source image by processing the source image. A color range of pixels forming a coating material application layer is obtained by expanding a color range of pixels composing the part of the subject by a ratio of a color representing pixels composing the subject to a color of the make-up coating material. Values of pixels of the coating material application layer are obtained by mapping values of pixels of the source image to the color range of the coating material application layer.

Image processing device, image processing method, and program, capable of virtual reproduction of makeup application state

A color correction parameter computation method includes: obtaining first color-signal values respectively corresponding to colors of color patches and obtained by photographing a color chart having the patches thereon, and reference color-signal values respectively defining the colors of the patches; computing, for each color of the patches, a color difference component between the first and the reference color-signal values; selecting at least one color of the patches by comparing the magnitude of the difference components; computing a color correction parameter using the first and the reference color-signal values corresponding to the selected color; computing an accuracy measure using the difference component between a second corrected color-signal value obtained by correcting a first color-signal value corresponding to a color other than the selected color and the reference color-signal value defining the color other than the selected color; and determining correction accuracy by comparing the accuracy measure to an accuracy criterion.

Color correction parameter computation method, color correction parameter computation device, and image output system

Playback of backside appearance of an image capture subject at an appropriate playback speed that is in accordance with a predetermined playback time length is achieved by: outputting one recording start point and one recording end point within a period in which a turn motion of the image capture subject is detected; storing a video recording of the turn motion; calculating a recorded time length of at least one specific section of the video; determining a playback speed of the specific section in accordance with the playback time length; and playing back the specific section at the playback speed, whereby the specific section is played back over the playback time length regardless of the recorded time length of the specific section.

Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program

The stability is improved with which focus control is performed by an image capture device that brings a face region image into focus according to the contrast method. A human detection circuitperforms a human image search by using a threshold value Thh. A face detection circuitperforms a face image search by using a threshold value Thf. When an entire body image region corresponding to an entire body of a person is detected and a face image region corresponding to a face of the same person is detected in the captured image through the human image search and the face image search, the face detection circuitperforms redetermination with respect to the face image region by using a threshold value Thf. The redetermination by using the threshold value Thfhas higher accuracy compared to the face image search by using the threshold value Thf

Image capture device, image capture device focus control method, and integrated circuit

The picture quality of captured images can be improved with the degradation of clearness of image-captured object boundaries suppressed. An image processing apparatus () comprises: an image/distance acquiring unit () that acquires corresponding pixel pairs between left-eye and right-eye images, its depth information and its matching scores; a weight information calculating unit () that determines, for each of the pixel pairs, a weight of each of the pixels in a certain area including, as pixels of interest, the pixel pair on the basis of the depth information and the matching scores; and a pixel value superimposing unit () that applies, for each of the pixel pairs, the weight to the pixel values in the aforementioned certain area, thereby performing a smoothing process in at least one of the two images and that superimposes the two images using the values obtained by the smoothing process.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An image judgment device stores element characteristic information for each element of a characteristic part of a sample object and first and second positional information defining a position of each element, selects the first or the second positional information, and acquires image characteristic information for a partial image in an image frame considered as an element specified by the first positional information based on a first axis. The image judgment device also extracts image characteristic information for a partial image in an image frame considered as an element specified by the second positional information based on a second axis (which is acquired by rotating the first axis), specifies element characteristic information for an element corresponding to a position of the partial image, and judges whether the characteristic part appears in the image frame with use of the specified element characteristic information and the extracted image characteristic information.

Image judgment device

This image processing apparatus, for photographed images taken at a predetermined time interval and input sequentially, specifies an image area as the target of predetermined processing. The apparatus (i) has processing capability to generate, in accordance with a particular input photographed image, reduced images at K (K&#x2267;1) ratios within the predetermined time interval, (ii) selects, for each photographed image that is input, M (M&#x2266;K) or fewer ratios from among L (L&#x3e;K) different ratios in accordance with ratios indicated for a photographed image input prior to the photographed image, (iii) compares each of the reduced images generated at the selected M or fewer ratios with template images, and (iv) in accordance with the comparison results, specifies the image area.

Image processing device, image processing method, and integrated circuit for processing images

A detector detects a specified image in an input image. The detector includes an area determination unit for determining, in the input image, a detection target area in which the specified image potentially exists, a setting unit for setting positions of a plurality of matching target ranges substantially in the detection target area, each of the matching target ranges being a predetermined size, so that the matching target ranges cover the detection target area, and each matching target range overlaps a neighboring matching target range by a predetermined overlap width, and a matching unit for detecting the specified image by matching a portion of the input image encompassed by each matching target range set by the setting unit and a template image for detecting the specified image.

Detector for detecting a predetermined image in an input image, and detection method and integrated circuit for performing the same

An image decoding device includes an error detecting unit that detects a decoding error in each unit area in one frame of an image; an error compensating determining unit that determines an error compensating area for which error compensation should be performed for the decoding error; and an error compensating unit that performs error compensation to the error compensating area. The error compensating area determining unit determines a unit area where the decoding error occurs, and a predetermined area adjacent to the unit area, as the error compensating area.

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Hiroto Tomita